Jeeze, Lord Kyuubi, you sound exactly like me.
My signiture Pokemon are Hiei, my Arcanine and Voltekker, my Jolteon. When I was ten or eleven when the first games came out, Arcanine was the first Pokemon I ever identified as my favorite. He's just so cool-looking! I've never gotten over that boyish "whoa, so cool" love for Arcanine, even as he's become more and more competitively useless with each successive generation.
Now, though, I say he's four-way-tied for utter favorite alongside Jolteon, who was always my favorite Eevee, Cubone, who I feel represents me - if I had a Pokemon spirit-animal, it'd be Cubone - and Bulbasaur, my first-ever Pokemon and emblem of my favorite type, Grass.
I also always really, really liked Tangela for the way he looks in the anime and art, even though I don't like him mechanically and prior to Gen VI his in-game sprites were always pretty dumb-looking. And Farfetch'd, too, I like him a lot.
My Bulbasaur is named Bud (after a little spider, actually, that lived on my front porch one spring), my Cubone Sammy (from Japanese "samishii" or "lonliness"), my Tangela Snap and my Farfetch'd Oscar. Though in-game I prefer all-caps names. Influence of the prior generations, heh.
I originally thought he was kinda dumb-looking, but because he was so useful, I've grown fond of my Zigzagoon, Bolt, from Emerald, too. I got him 'cause I read he was an excellent HM slave and I love Pickup. I started out feeling like I had uglied-up my team with this joker, but I guess 'cause I caught him so early in the game and had him all the way through (to take advantage of Pickup) he grew on me.
Haven't uploaded any of mine yet. Mostly 'cause I've never actually beaten any Gen IV or Gen V game, heh.
My signiture Pokemon are Hiei, my Arcanine and Voltekker, my Jolteon. When I was ten or eleven when the first games came out, Arcanine was the first Pokemon I ever identified as my favorite. He's just so cool-looking! I've never gotten over that boyish "whoa, so cool" love for Arcanine, even as he's become more and more competitively useless with each successive generation.
Now, though, I say he's four-way-tied for utter favorite alongside Jolteon, who was always my favorite Eevee, Cubone, who I feel represents me - if I had a Pokemon spirit-animal, it'd be Cubone - and Bulbasaur, my first-ever Pokemon and emblem of my favorite type, Grass.
I also always really, really liked Tangela for the way he looks in the anime and art, even though I don't like him mechanically and prior to Gen VI his in-game sprites were always pretty dumb-looking. And Farfetch'd, too, I like him a lot.
My Bulbasaur is named Bud (after a little spider, actually, that lived on my front porch one spring), my Cubone Sammy (from Japanese "samishii" or "lonliness"), my Tangela Snap and my Farfetch'd Oscar. Though in-game I prefer all-caps names. Influence of the prior generations, heh.
I originally thought he was kinda dumb-looking, but because he was so useful, I've grown fond of my Zigzagoon, Bolt, from Emerald, too. I got him 'cause I read he was an excellent HM slave and I love Pickup. I started out feeling like I had uglied-up my team with this joker, but I guess 'cause I caught him so early in the game and had him all the way through (to take advantage of Pickup) he grew on me.
Haven't uploaded any of mine yet. Mostly 'cause I've never actually beaten any Gen IV or Gen V game, heh.