Favorites Thread: GAME MECHANICS

[Hammerheart]

1. What’s your favorite TYPE?
Water

2. What's your favorite STAT?
Sp. Attack

3. What’s your favorite ATTACK?
Surf

4. What’s your favorite SPECIAL ABILITY?
Serene Grace

5. What’s your favorite POKEBALL?
Dusk Ball, masterball's are no fun

6. What’s your favorite BERRY?
Lum Berry

7. What's your favorite ITEM?
Exp Share

8. What's your favorite STATUS AILMENT?
Toxic Poison

9. What's your favorite piece of GAME MUSIC?
Vermillion City

[Del Mundo]

1. What’s your favorite TYPE?
Poison- I love purple!

2. What's your favorite STAT?
Speed- I feel like the game goes by faster when I go first!

3. What’s your favorite ATTACK?
Sweet Scent- It's almost as useless as splash!

4. What’s your favorite SPECIAL ABILITY?
Shadow Tag- Mwaah haahaa

5. What’s your favorite POKEBALL?
Premiere Ball- Looks cool right?

6. What’s your favorite BERRY?
Kelspy berry- It looks funny

7. What's your favorite ITEM?
Focus Sash- What now!?!?

8. What's your favorite STATUS AILMENT?
ZZZZ

9. What's your favorite piece of GAME MUSIC?
Ooooh, have too many favorites!

HGSS Safari Zone
Cinnabar Island
route 201
route 207
route 101
Come with me
and of course, the pokemon center

[Kiruria]

Oh my gosh, so many good questions...

1. What’s your favorite TYPE?
As someone who is very interested in paranormal occurrences and magical workings, I would say Psychic. Ghost and Dark come in a close second.

2. What's your favorite STAT?
Special Attack! A lot of my favourite Pokemon are special sweepers.

3. What’s your favorite ATTACK?
I have quite a few:

Confuse Ray--A confusion move with 100% accuracy! I have it on almost every Pokemon that can learn it.
Leech Seed--Also my favourite status ailment. Without it training Cherubi would be a pain in the ****.
Curse (Ghost Version)--Since curses in general interest me.
Perish Song--I love using this on a trainer's last Pokemon.
Draco Meteor--LOVE the animation.
Metronome--Yay randomness!

Least favourite is Feint, which is practically useless.

4. What’s your favorite SPECIAL ABILITY?
Serene Grace--imagine all those Ice attacks having a higher chance of freezing!
Also Technician--the reason why my Persian's Pay Day is so deadly
I also like the abilities that have useful field effects--like Compoundeyes, Intimidate, Cute Charm, Synchronize, and Frisk.

5. What’s your favorite POKEBALL?

Dusk Ball--Makes it easier to catch legendaries by waiting until nighttime
Quick Ball--Very useful for catching wandering legendaries like Mesprit
Heavy Ball--The reason why catching Groudon in SS was laughably easy; also Snorlax, Steelix, and Lapras
Timer Ball--Love the timer that shows when it opens
Luxury Ball--OOOO SPARKLY!!!

6. What’s your favorite BERRY?
Lum and Leppa--really useful hold items. Also Mago for the taste. ^_^

7. What's your favorite ITEM?

The Plates--It's almost like giving an extra STAB to a Pokemon
Smoke Ball--Without it I would never be able to walk through Victory Road with a baby first in my party
Lucky Egg--Very useful for training
VS Recorder--though I wish it would record gym battles as well
Dowsing MCHN--A lot easier to use than the Itemfinder
D/P/Pt Bicycle--I like how it has two different speeds.

8. What's your favorite STATUS AILMENT?
If you don't count the ones inflicted only by one attack, then confusion. Some Pokemon really hurt themselves a lot when confused (like Medicham and Sharpedo).

9. What's your favorite piece of GAME MUSIC?

Red/Blue/Yellow:
- Route 1
- Gym leader battle
- Champion battle (I also like the FR/LG remake of it)

Gold/Silver/Crystal:
- S.S. Aqua theme
- Dragon's Den theme
- Team Rocket theme
- Bicycle music

Ruby/Sapphire/Emerald:
- Petalburg City theme
- Verdanturf Town theme
- Underwater theme
- The music that plays when Rayquaza descends from the sky in Emerald

Diamond/Pearl/Platinum
- Game Corner music
- Lake Trio battle
- Champion battle (and the piano piece beforehand)
- The music that plays in the room where the Lake Trio is held captive (despite its creepiness)

Heart Gold/Soul Silver
- Johto Gym Leader battle
- Bell Tower theme
- Burned Tower theme
- Safari Zone/Pal Park music
- Kyogre/Groudon battle
- Suicune battle
- Battle Arcade music

[Aeral]

1. What’s your favorite TYPE?
Water. I really like most of its Pokemon and attacks.

2. What's your favorite STAT?
Special Attack. I really like magical-themed or unnatural attacks.

3. What’s your favorite ATTACK?
Ice Beam. It's beautiful and very strong.

4. What’s your favorite SPECIAL ABILITY?
Pressure. It is really useful against foes who have very tough, but "expensive" attacks.

5. What’s your favorite POKEBALL?
Safari Ball. I like its design.

6. What’s your favorite BERRY?
Watmel. I really like its look.

7. What's your favorite ITEM?
Rugged Helmet. I really like the effect it gives.

8. What's your favorite STATUS AILMENT?
Bad poison. I always love using it at foe and wait until it faints.

9. What's your favorite piece of GAME MUSIC?
Rival battle in BW.

[Budynko]

What’s your favorite TYPE? - Psychic
What's your favorite STAT? - Obviously Sp. Attack
What’s your favorite ATTACK? - Aeroblast and Spacial Rend
What’s your favorite SPECIAL ABILITY? - Synchronize
What’s your favorite POKEBALL? - Level Ball from GSC
What’s your favorite BERRY? - Mystery Berry from GSC
What's your favorite ITEM? - Sacred Ash
What's your favorite STATUS AILMENT? - Poison
What's your favorite piece of GAME MUSIC? - Ruins of Alph from GSC and Ecruteak Town from GSC

[Pelipper69]

1. What’s your favorite TYPE?
I really started to like Dark type in generation 4.

2. What's your favorite STAT?
Sp. Attack and Defense

3. What’s your favorite ATTACK?
Psychic, Earthquake, and Dark Pulse are always a favorite =]

4. What’s your favorite SPECIAL ABILITY?
Cute Charm is such a ***** when used against you, but it's really helpful if you have it,

5. What’s your favorite POKEBALL?
Ultra Ball duhhhh

6. What’s your favorite BERRY?


7. What's your favorite ITEM?
MAX REPEL. Keep all those Rattata away =p

8. What's your favorite STATUS AILMENT?
Poison!

9. What's your favorite piece of GAME MUSIC?
I LOVE the music in PLatinum when you battle Mesprit.

[Ya ok]

1. What’s your favorite TYPE?
Ghost

2. What's your favorite STAT?
Speed

3. What’s your favorite ATTACK?
Perish Song

4. What’s your favorite SPECIAL ABILITY?
Wonder Guard

5. What’s your favorite POKEBALL?
Dusk Ball

6. What’s your favorite BERRY?
Kasib Berry

7. What's your favorite ITEM?
Silph Scope

8. What's your favorite STATUS AILMENT?
Paralysis

9. What's your favorite piece of GAME MUSIC?
G/R/B/Y- Lavender Town
G/S/C- Dark Cave
R/S/E- Mt. Pyre/Shoal Cave/New Mauville
FR/LG- Pokemon Tower
D/P/Pt- Old Chateau/Turnback Cave
HG/SS- Sprout Tower

[AndyBananny]

1. What’s your favorite TYPE?

Grass

2. What's your favorite STAT?

Defense

3. What’s your favorite ATTACK?

Fake Out

4. What’s your favorite SPECIAL ABILITY?

Technician

5. What’s your favorite POKEBALL?

Poké Ball

6. What’s your favorite BERRY?

Leppa

7. What's your favorite ITEM?

Leftovers

8. What's your favorite STATUS AILMENT?

Confused

9. What's your favorite piece of GAME MUSIC?

Pokémon March

[level99love]

1. What’s your favorite TYPE?
Psychic

2. What's your favorite STAT?
Speed, I guess.

3. What’s your favorite ATTACK?
Luster Purge and Perish Song.

4. What’s your favorite SPECIAL ABILITY?
Adaptability.

5. What’s your favorite POKEBALL?
Luxury Ball for my Luxury Pokemon.

6. What’s your favorite BERRY?
Enigma Berry because its sprite looks cool I guess.

7. What's your favorite ITEM?
Light Orb and Life Orb, Light for Pikachu and Life for Porygon Z.

8. What's your favorite STATUS AILMENT?
Pokerus if that counts lol.

9. What's your favorite piece of GAME MUSIC?
Mount Silver and Mount Silver rival battle from G/S/C

[ASB]

1. What’s your favorite TYPE?
Dragon, just because they're all really really strong (with the exception of that blasted Druddigon, of course)

2. What's your favorite STAT?
Speed, but it really depends on the pokemon and what I'm using it for. Speed is generally the most useful on sweepers and subseeders though.

3. What’s your favorite ATTACK?
Sky Attack. It's not actually that good as it gives your opponent a turn to switch in something like Skarm, but it's cool nonetheless.

4. What’s your favorite SPECIAL ABILITY?
Mischievous Heart. Didn't seem like much until I thought about it for a while.

5. What’s your favorite POKEBALL?
Dusk Ball. Most legendaries are found in caves, so it has a 4x chance to catch them (and I usually do my pokemon playing at night).

6. What’s your favorite BERRY?
I lurv the Babiri Berry. It's pretty much useless, but it's just so fun to say. Babiri berry. Babiri berry, babiri berry, babiri berry! Babiriberrybabiriberrybabiriberrybabiriber... yeah, you get the point.

7. What's your favorite ITEM?
I love to ride my bicycle. Mach pwns Acro, btw.

8. What's your favorite STATUS AILMENT?
Unless you count pokerus, this is a tough one. I like to cripple sweepers with either paralysis or burn. Paralysis ruins all sweepers whereas burn only destroys physical ones, so paralysis.

9. What's your favorite piece of GAME MUSIC?
DPPt Pokemon League theme. Mellowest piano ever, makes you fall asleep. I've arranged it and mastered it on the keys, too
In a close second is the Kanto Gym Leader theme from GSC/HGSS. It's partially in 7/4 time, it has to be awesome. I hate how remixes never get it right, though. Way to ruin the only thing that makes it so cool.

[XXD17]

What’s your favorite TYPE?
Dragon of course

2. What's your favorite STAT?
Attack all the way

3. What’s your favorite ATTACK?
Hard to choose...Tie between leaf blade, night slash, and dragon claw

4. What’s your favorite SPECIAL ABILITY?
speed boost or cursed body

5. What’s your favorite POKEBALL?
Dusk ball

6. What’s your favorite BERRY?
Haban or Yache...

7. What's your favorite ITEM?
leftovers, balloon or focus sash

8. What's your favorite STATUS AILMENT?
Burn

9. What's your favorite piece of GAME MUSIC?
The new surf music for black and white tied with the new gym leader theme and the plasma theme...

10: What's your favorite ingame LOCATION?
The battle facility in nimbassa

[pokeaussie37]

Favourite TYPE: Bug (Scolipede and Volcarona are my two faves from Gen 5) but I like Fire Types as well

Favourite STAT: Attack or Special Attack. Guess who's a fan of offence?

Favourite ATTACK: The Dance. Fire Dance, Butterfly Dance, Petal Dance, Dragon Dance. I can't remember any more XD but I love them.

Favourite ABILITY: Mold Breaker (and other's like it). I love hitting Levitators with Earthquake.

Favourite POKeBALL: Dusk Balls

Favourite BERRY: The pinch berries. Liechi, Petaya etc.

Favourite ITEM: The bicycle, or in battle use, Life Orb.

Favourite STATUS: Poison. Specifically 'badly poisoned' i.e. Toxic

FAVOURITE MUSIC: Game Corner. And Sunyshore City.

[eatingleg4peanut]

1. What’s your favorite TYPE?
Water

2. What's your favorite STAT?
Attack

3. What’s your favorite ATTACK?
Dragon Dance

4. What’s your favorite SPECIAL ABILITY?
Moxie

5. What’s your favorite POKEBALL?
Quick Ball

6. What’s your favorite BERRY?
Don't use them

7. What's your favorite ITEM?
Exp Share/Lucky Egg/Macho Brace

8. What's your favorite STATUS AILMENT?
Paralysis

9. What's your favorite piece of GAME MUSIC?
none, I play with no sound.

[Roll]

1. What’s your favorite TYPE?

Grass. (Just because Bellossom just so happened to be in my smiley list)

2. What's your favorite STAT?

HP. I like trying to get the HP bar to go down as slowly as possible.

3. What’s your favorite ATTACK?

Wish. Perfect HP restorer.

4. What’s your favorite SPECIAL ABILITY?

Those that grant immunities : Flash Fire, Water Absorb, Volt Absorb, Levitate, Sap Sipper, etc.

5. What’s your favorite POKEBALL?

Luxury Ball. It's fancy.

6. What’s your favorite BERRY?

Pecha. I love peaches!

7. What's your favorite ITEM?

Heart Scale. They're useful and valuable!

8. What's your favorite STATUS AILMENT?

Burn. The halved attack stat comes in handy.

9. What's your favorite piece of GAME MUSIC?

Slateport City of R/S/E. There's a rendition of it with lyrics by Hiroko Takano!

[Bguy7]

1. What’s your favorite TYPE?
The most powerful type of all, Dragon (duh)

2. What's your favorite STAT?
Defense, but only if I also have a good attack

3. What’s your favorite ATTACK?
Draco Meteor. Not the best move but it is just awsome.

4. What’s your favorite SPECIAL ABILITY?
Wonder Guard. (I like it even more when paired with spiritomb)

5. What’s your favorite POKEBALL?
Masterball, What else?

6. What’s your favorite BERRY?
I dont use berries

7. What's your favorite ITEM?
Leftovers

8. What's your favorite STATUS AILMENT?
Hate them all.

9. What's your favorite piece of GAME MUSIC?
Without a doubt the music that plays against Lance/Red in HG/SS that music is awsome.

[OMG potatoes]

1. What’s your favorite TYPE?
Fire, probably a common one

2. What's your favorite STAT?
Defense, Isn't staying alive great?

3. What’s your favorite ATTACK?
Hmm.. I would say Dark Void or maybe tackle or struggle lol

4. What’s your favorite SPECIAL ABILITY?
Sandstream

5. What’s your favorite POKEBALL?
The nest ball, maybe

6. What’s your favorite BERRY?
Sitrius? the one that heals 30hp

7. What's your favorite ITEM?
Leftovers, the best item ever

8. What's your favorite STATUS AILMENT?
Sleep, but only on the enemy

9. What's your favorite piece of GAME MUSIC?
I always play the music off because the beeping that happens when your pokemons in red hp drives me crazy + I think it makes the battery last longer?

[Viscera]

Rather than cluttering up the forum with three dozen "What's your favorite ____?" threads, we've set up these Favorites Stickies to contain all possible topics in a compact, easy-to-use format!

This is the FAVORITE MECHANICS thread!

Topics include:

1. What’s your favorite TYPE?
(Bug, Dark, Dragon, Electric, Fighting, Fire, Flying, Ghost, Grass, Ground, Ice, Normal, Poison, Psychic, Rock, Steel, Water)

2. What's your favorite STAT?
(HP, Attack, Defense, Sp. Attack, Sp. Defense, Speed)

3. What’s your favorite ATTACK?
(Absorb to Zen Headbutt! Which one do you like?)

4. What’s your favorite SPECIAL ABILITY?
(Every Pokemon has one. Maybe you're a fan of Pressure or Intimidate? Perhaps Cute Charm or Water Absorb?)

5. What’s your favorite POKEBALL?
(From Pokeball to Master Ball, and every ball between!)

6. What’s your favorite BERRY?
(Pecha, Kelpsy, Pamtre, Starf! Mmm! Tasty!)

7. What's your favorite ITEM?
(Including Key items! Maybe you like the Silph Slope? The Full Restore? The Bicycle?)

8. What's your favorite STATUS AILMENT?
(Do you like letting your Pokemon sleep? Do you prefer to inflict Poison on your opponent?)

9. What's your favorite piece of GAME MUSIC?
(Have you heard the piano play in Platinum version's Resort Villa?)

... And more!
(If you can think of a game mechanic not included in this list, post it here anyway! Don't make your own thread for it.)


Your answers can be from any section of the Pokemon franchise, not just the video games. And don't worry - you don't have to answer every single question at once when you post. Just feel free to give a little explanation of your choices when you can. These threads are subject to updates.


Thanks to SapphireL for original thread format.

Steel.
Defense/Sp. Defense
Dream Eater
Mold Breaker
Premier
Only in terms of appearance.. Figy, Liechi, and Watmel.
No idea.
Sleep.
The Gold/Silver Music for the battle versus Red.

Legendary?
Lugia

Starter?
Treeko

Elite Four Member or Generation?
Johto for Generation.

[AquaMilotic]

1. What’s your favorite TYPE?
Water, thanks to my fave Pokemon Milotic.

2. What's your favorite STAT?
Speed, but also SAtk is important to me. All, but speed is very important to me, being a competitive player.

3. What’s your favorite ATTACK?
A lot of attacks. But Recover is my choice, awesome in competitive battling and in the battle tower/frontier.

4. What’s your favorite SPECIAL ABILITY?
Marvel Scale. My avatar is the explanation.

5. What’s your favorite POKEBALL?
Master Ball never fails!

6. What’s your favorite BERRY?
Salac Berry, I use it often when playing competitive.

7. What's your favorite ITEM?
Leftovers, recovery for defensive Pokémon. Good second is the Choice Scarf, to have fast attackers in my team.

8. What's your favorite STATUS AILMENT?
Sleep, with Milotics Hypnosis.

9. What's your favorite piece of GAME MUSIC?
I don't have a favourite game music piece, sorry.

[Vermehlo_Steele]

1. What’s your favorite TYPE?
Fire, Steel, Ice, Ghost, Dark

2. What's your favorite STAT?
All are good.

3. What’s your favorite ATTACK?
The 90 damage, 15 PP, 100% accuracy range (Flamethrower, Ice Beam etc)
Recover, Toxic, Will-o-Wisp and Giga Drain are pretty nice too.

4. What’s your favorite SPECIAL ABILITY?
Anything too prevent enemies fleeing or anything involving stat reduction.

5. What’s your favorite POKEBALL?
Dusk Ball, Ultra Ball and Timer Ball.

6. What’s your favorite BERRY?
Liechi

7. What's your favorite ITEM?
Exp Share, Leftover, Max. Repel, Rocky Helmet, Amulet Coin and Eviolite.

8. What's your favorite STATUS AILMENT?
Toxicity, confusion, burn, paralysis.

9. What's your favorite piece of GAME MUSIC?
Veilstone Game Corner music, Gen 1 Gym leader music, Champion music.

[Grovyl]

1. What’s your favorite TYPE?
Fighting, 'cause they can like KO anyone 'cause they're cool.

2. What's your favorite STAT?
Attack/Speed.
I always make sure I have a strong offense and want to hit first.

3. What’s your favorite ATTACK?
Hi Jump Kick, in Gen V. Psycho Cut in earlier Generations.

4. What’s your favorite SPECIAL ABILITY?
Magic Bounce or Infiltrator.

5. What’s your favorite POKEBALL?
Masterball FTW! My second favorite is Quick Ball, I caught half my Pokémon in Black with a Quick Ball!

6. What’s your favorite BERRY?
Pecha Berry, I hate Poison. Especially in PMD.

7. What's your favorite ITEM?
Bike, Full Restore, or Max Repel. Give me them all!

8. What's your favorite STATUS AILMENT?
Burn. I like giving Pokémon burns, and don't really mind if my Pokémon are burned. I just tell my Samurott to use Water Gum on my Sawsbuck and he heals.

9. What's your favorite piece of GAME MUSIC?
I usually have my volume off because it annoys my family.
So, none.