I thought it would be interesting to see how people's tastes have changed from when they first played pokemon to now

>Raichu

Yellow was my first pokemon game as a kid, and I loved it. My only problem was that the Pikachu of course refused to evolve, so I traded it to my buddy's blue version and used a Thunderstone. I remember feeling so overpowered in game and thinking "Fuck yeah Ash get on my level"

>Sableye

The phrase "no weaknesses" instantly drew me to this guy in Ruby. Even though by mid game he wasn't really dishing out much damage and couldn't take many hits, I still kept him as a shouldermon in my young headcanon alongside my team of fully evolved mons, even taking him to the Hall of Fame. Prankster was a godsend years later