>>29822147Pleb-tier answer coming through, but I really like Gyarados, mostly because it's the first shiny I ever caught, and it's the only one I own that isn't complete garbage.
I'm also kind of partial to Politoed. Back in 2000 or so, a friend of mine and I were on the school bus together, and he caught it on his Gold version. We've always sort of seen it as OUR Politoed (he nearly ran away from it because he wasn't paying attention and shiny Poliwag on the GBC wasn't that different to the regular one, and I made him catch it).
Eventually he cloned it for me and we both had a shiny Politoed after that.
My Silver's internal battery died last year or maybe the year before, and I lost my save data, but it's still registered on my Stadium 2 cartridge. It's really too bad there's no way to extract it from an N64 cart and send it to the Virtual Console GSC games we all know are coming. I'd love to get the old team back together.