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I find it fun to create a team name with the Pokemon team that you beat the elite 4 with. For example if you take Twitch Plays Pokemon Red's final team(see here http://twitchplayspokemon.org/red/) I would name the team "Our Saviors" as each Pokemon is a savior in it's own way. I think many...
In my first playthrough of Pokemon Platinum at age 8 I overleveled my Infernape (I thought I had to) and the second best Pokemon in my party was at level34 at the time of fighting Giratina. I failed to catch Giratina my first time, but hadn't saved since the beginning of the dungeon so I had to...