Lets just talk about Grass Types!

Lonestar85 · April 6

I'm not exactly fond of Grass types. Sorry I just don't because in more cases than not, Electric > Grass(with a few distinct cases where Grass obviously wins: cough Water/Ground, unless its Freeze Dry… wherein Ice > all muwhaha cough). However, for the topic at hand, I'll simply say that from a starter perspective, I'm quite fond of Snivy. Just something about Slytherin… I mean Snakes, appeals to me. My favorite overall Grass type is going to date me a bit but its surprisingly Parasect. It's Spore attack, until Amoonguss came around, was basically the go-to move for putting hard to catch Pokémon to sleep. Yeah, Parasect is slow as bleep and has horrible typing being part Bug(getting two x4 vulnerabilities), but in terms of countering Psychic, Dark, Ground and Water types(Rock is a bit iffy given its vulnerable to it), it's really underrated. Particularly in the Kanto region where going into Diglett Cave can be quite the eye opening experience when you got level 29/31 Dugtrio breaking out strong Dig attacks wherein Parasect can shrug it off with x1/4 resistance(although a Flying type is even better with outright immunity but if you don't have one, then Parasect is the next best thing). Parasect would be even better if it had the upgraded Leech Life in its learnset(as opposed to having to get it via TM when it may have little to no value in a playthrough… getting it at level 20 in RBY is pretty nice, even if its 20 base power).

Don't really have a favorite shiny(suppose Bulbasaur isn't too bad). Honorable mention to Turtwig though. Best example of Nature if there was one.