(assuming I don't get ninja'd by three people before posting this)
Whismur is a level 9 male, IGN is Eoin :)
My most recent "special" pokemon, besides all the ones I breed because they're all special to me (having bothered to breed them), would have been my AS's runs Gogoat. When I heard about the ORAS remakes, I knew I wouldn't want to do a regular playthrough - for remakes, no matter what kind of remake (although I think HGSS was the exception) I always do something different with my team, so that the playthroughs end up being very different. For Platinum, I EV trained some Pokemon and steamrolled through the game with a Starmie/Scizor/Aerodactyl and a few others. For BW2, I did the same but with only two randomly selected pokemon that I'd never normally consider using, Sharpedo and Arcanine - man, that game was a disaster. They ended up being ridiculously overleveled (due to being traded) and despite Sharpedo's fearsome Atk and Speed, it was still super frail. It turned into an Arcanine + Friend solo run.
But anyway! In Alpha Sapphire, I'd set out a plan: Besides my starter, I would collect eggs from random people, shuffle them, get them traded over when I started the game, and play through with exactly those six pokemon, though I reserved the right to veto Pokemon if they had redundant typings. In the end, played the game with a Swampert, an Ampharos, a Spiritomb, and a Gogoat, which I recognised as being an egg from my oldest Poke-friend (who has a thing for quadrupeds. Hiya Jack!).
Most of the game was spent in relative balance - Ampharos ("Cash") and Gogoat ("Harley") played similarly, though on different spectrums and typing. Nothing I had was particularly good against Grass types, so Gogoat ended up being my primary Grass type check purely because he could resist grass hits and hit them neutrally. But its moveset was the best part - between EQ, Milk Drink, Return and Horn Leech, it was the most "competitive" of my Pokemon and any battle involving Gogoat tended to become a ridiculously overplayed match. It peaked during the Champion battle - I didn't want to muscle my way through with Mega Swampert, and I wasn't sure if it would work anyway. And my other two weren't gonna be particularly useful against his Pokemon - enter Gogoat, sporting his new move, Bulk Up! I planned to set up Bulk Up on his Cradily, heal, and then hit everything else on the way for boosted Neutral damage. And it would have worked, too... only his Cradily had Toxic :|
At that point, my strategy had collapsed, and so had my need to play as though I was in a competitive match. So I spammed Full Restores and eventually broke through Cradily, giving me the game. But it was a lot of fun, easily the most fun I've had since Cynthia in DP, and Gogoat really endeared himself to me afterwards. Now he and his buddies sit in my first box, reminding me of the simpler times :D
Thanks for the giveaway!
tl;dr guy tries to set up on Steven with Gogoat, fails, and throws items instead, funtimes were had by all
