I beat Falkner but uh, I can’t remember his team? oops.
I started with Chikabra, a combo of Chikorita and Abra. Grass type seems pretty powerful, at least at first, because there are a lot of water types early on. So that’s good. I just got my first Psychic power after it evolved into Bayldabra, but I literally have not used it yet.
I’m also using a Pidgilava (a combo of Pidgeot and Quilava) for the fire type. I also found this little baby:
And I love him so much even though I haven’t really levelled him up at all.
So far, things have been pretty easy but it’s been really wonderful having no idea what kind of pokemon I’m going to encounter in any given area. Makes me have to improvise RE: type matchups.
The other funny thing is that, since most of the combos have two types, and most of them aren’t Normal types, type matchups become extremely important.
Here are a few of my favorites (I’ve taken screenshots of every pokemon so far but I won’t spoil too much)
This feels a lot like playing a Pokemon game for the first time, except I’m having to dredge the bottom of the lake that is my memories to figure out what the combos mean and what type they are. I’m surprised how many I remember! I’m having a great time.
Headed for, uh, the 2nd gym. We’ll see how that goes.