In modern Pokemon games I personally don't bother making a traditional team of 6. We can access the PC at anytime, so it's possible to just cycle through 6-15 favorite Pokemon during the adventure. This keeps you from overleveling the story mode too and makes it so that some of the bosses require a little caution.Half the team is simple for me: I always use my Starter and the Regional Bird, with the bird traditionally being named "Bob" or "Barbra Anne". As for the third member, well after seeing that we are getting a Bread Dog I knew I had to use it and name it "Sanallite".
If you know then you'll understand.
As for the rest of the team... good question. I'll wing it.
By the end of the adventure, you'll have figured out who your best/favorites are, and you can put them all together in one team to tackle the Elite Four with and enter them all into the Hall of Fame. Or you can use them as your aces during gym battles. etc.
The post-game is just PvP and the future DLC packs (which we know are coming via Virizion and Suicune).I think he means you could cut them and your playthrough wouldn't be any different lol.
Its not like NPCs are worth fighting with them, they're too strong for just dex completion use, there's no battle facility to make teams with them for, and the story is practically concluded so you can't do a playthrough with them. Basically their only 'use' on cartridge is batte spot and raids.. and even then you can create their sets in like... minutes they're even leveled high. They dont add much replayability and they don't have any playability before post game... and post game is nonexistent.
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