[Meta Thread] Pokerole Mystery Dungeon: Primal Shadows

[Dragonstrike]

You know, I'm suddenly feeling nostlagic for the Skull Ruins campaign, so fo curiousity's sake and just for fun to ask everyone: what were your favorite Pokemon in it? Specifically:

1. Your personal favorite among the many Pokemon your PCs owned
2. Your favorite from each PC
3. Your favorite Pokemon from an Encounter
4. Your favorite Plot Deviced Pokemon

I already have a few answer, but I need some time to think them over, so in the meanwhile you guys can fill the gap.

1. Favorite mon of Nathan

Easily Calam.  He was quite possibly the most important of our regular pokemon in terms of the overall plot thanks to several different traits and circumstances, and it was all brilliantly implemented.

Honorable mention to Princess and Zippy, showing that even small bugs can aspire to achieving big things, becoming respectable rulers in their own right by the end of the campaign.  This is our land, Deoxys, not yours!

2. Favorite mon of everyone else

Shiva: This is a tough one, but if I had to pick one, I'd probably say it's Azu.  Seeing them go from a depressed Azurill to a confident and strong Azumarill was easily a highlight.

Terra/Ventus: As loathe as I am to admit it, Aspis was probably my favorite of Windos's mons over the course of the campaign.  I'm still not really a fan of how they technically displaced Raphael as Ventus's primary pokemon, but seeing Aspis begin to mellow out a little was good development.  I still kinda wish that Ventus could have stuck around and he and his pokemon could have seen more meaningful development, because there was a lot of potential there.

Heart: definitely Koa, the little dragon that could.  Not much more to say here.

Spira: honestly, I don't remember Spira's party all that well, but I do remember one moment in particular that stood out: how Spira's Magcargo evolved from Slugma.  Pokerole 1.0's evolution requirements were wild.  A little too wild, even.

Valder: absolutely his Keenglaive.  While we never did get to see what it could do because Pawniard evolved right before Valder vanished, the species is an important part of Creshire's history, and actually learning about it was really cool.

3. Favorite encounter

I think my favorite encounter was the Safari Cup (slightly cheating cuz it was a series of encounters, but eh).  It gave us a good look at how competent trainers get scoped out by the League and its gym leaders, a look into the more conservationist side of the plot and region, and I even got a few rare mons out of it to boot.

I'm still slightly upset I didn't reach the finals though.  We never got to see that one trainer who was making waves competitively because we never reached the finals in any tournament.

4. Favorite Plot Deviced mon

Oh boy, there's a lot to list here as options.  Deoxys and Celebi, Seikamater, Landorus, Mesprit, Arcanine and Moltres, the Southern Wind, Aegislash, Latias and Latios, Genesect, Lurantis and Kingdra...

But I think Kazesidhe easily takes the cake.  While he wasn't particularly plot relevant, the fact that we kept running into Sid as we went further west and he always had something weird going on with his techniques was intriguing enough by itself.  Finding out that he was a modern incarnation of an old, completely custom member of the Legendary Beasts known as the East Wind though?  Mind blowing.