Who is the pokemon you hated but now love?
Bonus points:who is the pokemon you loved but now hate
During my first play through of silver when I was like 12 I caught a Wooper. He was slow and weak. His back sprite looked aweful. Plus he was everywhere and for some reason my mareep's thunder shock couldn't hurt it. Well later I started to warm up to wooper. He is like a kid with down's syndrome that is always happy and just wants a hug. Him and his evolution are extremely charming and have are some of the few pokemon with a real clear personality.
I really liked the sceptile line when I first played ruby. He was fast with a good special for his grass signature move leaf blade. Playing alpha sapphire I realize that sceptile is over designed. Grovyle is a better design. The mega is ridiculous and makes it a dragon with lightning rod? Really? Now that leaf blade is physical, its just not as impressive in sceptiles hands. He is a pokemon that looks like it should be physical based but is stronger with special. He also lacks the personality the other grass starters like bulbasaur, turtwig and smugleaf have. Only plus side about him is he is better than chikorita (But who isn't.)
Wooper thread?
>>25808712
Thats fine too.
>>25808880
Radical, it's been a while
I hated Sylveon when I was 16 but now I love it.
>>25809003
>X and Y were 2013
Huh
>>25808637
you sound like a little bitch to be honest senpai.
most likely have become indoctrinated by /vp/ to be even more honest here.
>>25808637
>he hated wooper
At least you came around eventually
>>25808637
ironically, I used to hate chikorita, but recently the line has grown on me for some reason. Meganium still isn't very impressive though.
>>25808637
>Sceptile
>no personality
Good one. At least we both agree Quagsire and Wooper are based
Helped me out in W2. He's the superior magnetism themed pokemon in my eyes now.
can't say i really hated it but i never gave it a second look until the night i caught a shiny one and won a Master Ball, all within the same hour
>>25808637
I used to hate Zorua and Zoroark, since it was an attempt to cash in on Lucario's popularity. After using one in a random nuzlocke and having seen all these cute animations, I can't help but like them.
Used to love Gyarados but every time I have it on my team I feel like it's just for nostalgia and it doesn't really have a place there.
There isn't really any Pokemon that I didn't care for at first but grew to like.
>>25808637
>Sceptile is overdesigned
Woah, it has a red line in the belly what a outrage!
> He also lacks the personality
I know that the anime is shit, but Ash's Sceptile is one of the pokémon with most personality in the entire anime, I also really like how its portrayed in the ORAS trailer with Brendan, he is full of personality there, this is the last thing that someone should think as fault for Sceptile.
But hey, it's all a question of perspective.
>>25809657
>playing Meme Sapphire
>Oh neat, a Venipede
>I'm gonna train the fuck out of this thing! It's so cool!
>it gets to around level 30 and, even after maxing its EVs, it lags behind all my other mons
>take a closer look at its stats, use an IV calculator too
>shit IVs, awful nature, it has Swarm as its ability when it could've had Poison Point or Speed Boost
This is an individual case but fuck that now-Whirlipede. I released its stupid spinny ass.
Something that isn't fucking wooper
>>25809861
I don't think that's a good idea
>>25809861
>doesn't say why he started to like emboar
>>25808637
Only one I truly ever hated is Manectric. And I still do.
Please stop posting wooper images. Thank you.
>>25810027
never mentioned quagsire
>>25810041
>>25810061
wooper's got arms now
>>25810130
DELETE THIS
i can only answer the bonus, Mewtwo used to be cool then he became mega-cancer, (note i do not hate megas)
I've never had an instance with any pokemon where I went from hating it to loving it, or vice versa. I have had times when I went from not caring about a mon to liking it though. One such case is Magnemite/Magneton. Used one in BW2 when I decided to keep it on the team after it solo'd Roxies whole gym and it became a staple team member. After evolving into Magneton, nothing could hurt it or take the beating that monstrous magnet dished out. However after evolving into Magnezone it felt weaker both offensively and defensively. I regretted evolving it.
Anyone have that Quagsire gif of its battle animation?
Caught darumaka and thought it was ugly. Used it because I was nuzlocking and needed a fire type. Went from hating it to loving it as it destroyed anything I pointed it at. The motherfucker carried me through B&W
>>25810737
Oh, we're doing Trained-Expected-Got now? I have some of those.
Liked sable eye. Till my online battles started turning into 10 more minutes
Hypno and Mr. Mime. Did some Leafgreen randomizer runs and they turned out to be total bros.
>>25809562
Goddamn it anon, you're making me wish I picked mudkipI literally just restarted OR with treecko today
>>25808637
He's the main reason I don't use Totodile since you can get him so early and he stays solid the whole run through the game.
>>25812455
thisWater starters as a whole feel like a wasted choice, mainly because every game they're more or less forced ot be running 2+ HM's
>>25812947
Not to mention every gen has pretty good water mons but some gens lack grass and fire mons
He's a cutie
>>25808637
I'm going to blame Mystery Dungeon for this. I used to be very cool towards Chikorita. She wasn't bad, but I never gave her much thought and she would ever be my last choice for a Johto starter. Until I got her as a partner. Good lord did Blue Rescue Team make her seem adorable. She's now one my absolute favorite Pokemon.
In a similar vein, I used to hate Chimchar. With a passion. I never particularly cared for any of the Sinnoh starters but he certainly wasn't somebody I wanted to end up with. I'm much more neutral to him now. I'd still probably pick Piplup over him, but I can see his charm now.
However, the biggest one might be Gastrodon. Coming out in my least favorite generation, I never cared for it. It was just an item on a checklist, catch it and stash it. But when creating a Pokemon OC, I found out she's one of the best HM slaves and built a backstory of her ever feeling unloved because every other Pokemon got love and attention while she was only on the team to move boulders and cross the sea. It made me warm up to it. I think it's the three eyes and the mouth, it's got like a sad frown to it 9 times out of 10. I'd probably now go out of my way to find one. I mean, just look at that face!
Sableye
He always looked awkward to me, and he wasn't particularly strong back in Emerald, I always preferred Bannete and Dusclops.
This changed after I played Explorers of the Sky and warmed up to the evil Sableye, who are mere tools of Dusknoir. I kinda felt bad for the little guys, and even started to think of them as cute.
He's one of my favemons ever since.
Like a lot of people I had a negative reaction to the design when it came out.
Over time though, I've reconsidered. There's something wonderfullysweetabout this pokemon, and even just seeing one in a battle makes me happier.
>>25809295
Dave?
>>25808637
I used to really hate the Unova starters but they've kinda grown on me
I hated Tepig because "muh 3rd fire/fightan" but I'm using one in White and he kicks so much ass and has such a great movepool I can't complain
Oshawott wasn't my favorite either because of how Samurott looked but it's design has grown on me and he was such a bro in my recent W2 run I like him a lot
I still am not overly fond of snivy but it's ok I guess
