Dark type. 100% just because I play by the rule of cool and my favourite Pokémon belong to that type. Not sure about the entire team, but Houndoom, Mightyena, and Umbreon would be there for sure.

I would go with fairy types. My team would be Sylveon, Tinkaton, Gardevoir, Galarian Rapidash and Flutter Mane.

My reason for the team is that I really like the design of them and I just like them overall. They can also receive and deal a huge amounts of damage. Sylveon have almost exclusively managed to carry me through the games.

I used to do that, I really like the idea of a Pokémon game where the player is a gym leader

Steel type; Metagross, Agron, Empoleon, Bronzong, Magnezone, Skarmory

I think I sticked to only using Fire type when I played one of the recent games, if only because a lot of my favorite pokemon (Ninetales, Arcanine, Houndoom, Salazzle) were that type.

Getting the TM for Flamethrower late in the game was a massive power spike. Type coverage isn’t really an issue as well, because of sunny day + solarbeam.

Hmmm, I’ll try a real challenge for me:

• Snorlax
• Raticate
• Pidgeot
• Oranguru
• Lickilicky
• Smeargle

I’d have to go either normal or water types. Idk who exactly for either, that’d be a tough choice. So many good ones!

Hmm, it’s hard to pick a single type. I do love my steel types (channeling my inner Steven), but I also adore water types. Let’s just pick steel.

• Lucario is a super easy pick. He’s a beast and fan favorite.
• Metagross is one of my favorites ever since I first got one in Sapphire. Plus pseudolegendary, so he’s essential.
• I really love Aegislash. The design and typing are both fantastic.
• Tinkaton was a favourite in Violet and it’s design is so cool. It’s honestly not very strong, but I’d bring it along for fun.
• Violet’s brutal raids also made me fall in love with Kingambit. I only used him for raids, but damn was he cool.
• Because I also love water types, gotta have that Empoleon. It’s a classic design, anyway.

Possible replacements:

• Gholdengo could be swapped for Aegislash. Give me some more balance for physical vs special and his ability is top tier. I don’t care for his design though.
• Ground is my nemesis. I probably should have a flier or levitator. I’d probably opt for swapping tink with corviknight. I love the design of corviknight and the lore makes it a hilarious pick to swap.

I like grass types, I’d go

• Meowscarada for special coverage (protean is still really good)
• Gogoat for physical coverage (thing gets a few ground/rock moves)
• Leavanny for X-Scissor crits and Sticky Web
• Leafeon for Leaf Blade + Swords Dance sweeps (best eeveelution)
• Cradily for some serious bulk
• Lurantis for contrary shenanigans