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Question of the Week: Pokémon FireRed or LeafGreen? And are you already planning your team?

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With the Nintendo Switch re-releases coming later this week, have you decided which you'll be playing (or at least playing first) between Pokémon FireRed and Pokémon LeafGreen? And is it because of the version exclusive Pokémon or do you have other reasons for your choice?

And... have you started planning what team of Pokémon you'll be using?

I bought LeafGreen originally and I'll be playing LeafGreen again on the Switch! As for my team, I'm kind of leaning towards trying a Grass and Bug-type only run for Twitch 👀

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Neither :P

For the original, I want to say I went with Fire Red (though, I went with Blue initially despite picking Charmander as my starter). No real reason beyond because I was going to pick Charmander again. One thing I always do when playing a remake or third version is I pick the same starter, so I just picked the one that matched along with it being the one familiar to me in a way due to it being Leaf Green and not like... Water Blue :P Regardless of the reasons it is that way.

Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon pretty much killed my interest in remasters, remakes, and third versions for Pokemon for a whole slew of reasons so it'd take me a lot to ever consider one again. I think the only way I would is if it was a whole new story with all returning Pokemon.

If I did play, I'd probably either try to get something close to my very first Pokemon team (Charizard, Articuno, Clefable, Snorlax, Mew, and Pikachu) or go with my six top Kanto favorites (which do have some overlap with that list). But at least for now, I don't really have any interest in replaying a game I already have essentially played through twice ^^;

I'll be going with FireRed. My girlfriend wants to play these games together and I feel it's a different type of experience this go around compared to my usual solo play. As for teams, I'm thinking of using Pokemon I've never used before in any Pokemon games. Pokemon like Nidoqueen, Dodrio, Hypno, etc.

48 minutes ago, Zachery said:

Here is my dream team (rate for me?)

Butterfree
Vileplum
Magmar / Porygon
Slowbro
Nidoqueen
Venusaur

Fire types love to see me coming LOL

I loved using Porygon in RBY. I think that is a spicy choice and will come up clutch.

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