okAY gosh uh the favourite pokemon question is always the *hardest* bc i have a lot of favs and then ofc the main/favourite teAM but uhm i can get the second part of the question down and out easy as pie bc my favourite type is definitely electric! idk what is or why but my electric kiddos have just always been so badass n good at taking down fools (which is coincidentally also why a chunk of my favourite pokes are electric) buT i wouldn't be surprised to say that my first pokemon game being pokemon yellow might've had smthn to do with it because,,,, pikachu. also! pikachu's electric moves always looked amazing in the cartoon/anime!

on to the actual,, bias tIME tho!

    -> my first fav, the cyndaquil evolutionary line. while i say that yellow was the first game i played, silver was definitely the one i played the *most*, even with the dead cartridge that meant i couldn't save and had to either keep restarting or leave the gameboy colour plugged in and running mad. as much as i loved chikorita in the series, cyndaquil was my Son. starts off as such a good tiny lil boy doing him best and evolves into the most badass angry mfer rdy to help his ma rek it all up.

    -> okay so one of my biggest favs still to this day!! is ampharos. now this love obviously stemmed from how hecking cute mareep is while also being literally amazing in a fight and just, ,,, idk jsadbfkafb a big obvious shoutout bc they're electric type but these guys are my ultimate longstanding favourites. i'm still kinda iffy about the mega though, largely just bc of the... wig. bc the whole evolutionary line is the kiddos losing their wool bc the electric current is too much for them and iDK it looks weird but everyone has different opinions abt megas so i wont step too far into that!

    -> okay so after yellow and silver i scooted on up to diamond and platinum, and here i met yet another star player, luxray (n not just bc his beautiful fur forms a star i promise) and yes another electric!!! which honestly made my life so hard playing soulsilver bc trying to decide what electrokiddos to keep??? (spoiler, i ended up having both ampharos and luxray on my team bc i am Weak) i think the animation was another big thing that sold me on this loveable kiddo bc just the loyalty n solidarity and them weird amazing aura eyes or whatever were wicked cool. 


    -> for some reason i didn't rly love lucario at first and thought he was kinda weird for some reason iDK but one play through with that whole,, beating that trainer with the lucarios and one of em coming to join you bc you seem cool enough for em just rly stuck with me and made me emotional and i love them very much ok. like,,, this kid thought i was worth ditching his ma for like... god hecking bLESS weep

    -> i've been using gen accurate images for all of these but i feel like i gotta be honest that i didnt rly idk come to love this kiddo until v recently. it mightve even been moon tbh, but the sprites site only has up to x so shh. i dont think i rly noticed misdreavus all that much before that but... i have phases where bc i suck at thinking of names i use names from anime i've recently been watching and i love shinsou from bnha and i ended up getting rly attached to shinsou!misdreavus especially with the cute lil poke-ami or whatever it is where u can see him !!! smile and giggle and pls my heart.

    -> honourable mentions: staraptor, staple wonderful bird friend in the best squad; the aerial ace queen. salandit, such a good son who is probably as frustrated by the sex-specific salazzle evolution that i didn't realise was,, well restricted like that until my boy was well past the level and i had to google it bc baffled and i initially caught salandit w salazzle in mind from the spoilers but ended up loving my evo-less son all the more for it. fearow and pidgeot, good pals. gyarados, everyone's solid ace in the hole. noibat/noivern though i haven't rly gotten to use them tbh, same with old faithfuls like arcanine, rapidash and vulpix. similarly some old favourites that im just rly attached to for the nostalgia n style of the early era: girafarig and miltank.

    -> and finally my sort of,,, joker card favourite. rattata. i've always lowkey liked this wiley lil kid even though im rly not a fan of rats in general (especially dislike raticate bc of this) and just.. had a whole re-falling in love recently when i caught one in my early team and was reminded how badass hyper fang is. i eventually wanted one for my re-play through of diamond (platinum? one of them) ofc tho and,,, rattata has to be traded for that bc there's just only... bidoof. so i ended up with an armful of a bratty rattata that listens to only every third word bc of the trainer/traded pokemon clause thing and honestly i ended up loving them even more bc of that bc,,,, this tiny lil brat?? ? ended up becoming a whole evolved character in my mind as a result.

    -> legendary honourable mention bc i cant believe i forgot my kids but anubis' post reminded mE,, lugia and zapdos r the best kids. i also rly like rayquaza's aesthetic tho i have never met them personally. additionally, latios and latias seem like they'd b awesome if somewhat bratty siblings to have.

and hi this is my second post on this whole dang site n i embarrassed myself by rambling for days abt good kiddos but,, worth it.