How many pokemon do/should you have in your party?

Shyphonics

Shyphonics

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    As I've replayed the pokemon games over and over again, I've found myself dwindling in terms of amount of pokemon I use.

    When I first started playing, I would always have a team of 6, but one really strong pokemon. Generally a starter or something caught at the beginning, I always found myself with 5 weak pokemon but one insanely strong pokemon.

    As I've gotten older, I've started getting less pokemon but doing better at the game itself. It started with Emerald, when I had 5 pokemon instead of 6. In Platinum, I had 4 instead of 5. Now I find myself in Pokemon Y with only 3 Really strong pokemon, but I don't feel I really need much more.

    My question is, should you have 6 pokemon? Do you find yourself with 6? Or do you take the way I do, and only have a few very strong pokemon?

    For the record, my team on Y at the moment is Metagross, Delphox, and Lucario. I'm not very diverse in type, but I haven't run into any problems yet.
     
    I always use six. Typically with one or two big guys and one or two HM slaves, plus Shedinja. The main series typically does a bad job justifying not pouring all the EXP into one Pokemon (though the Gen 6 EXP share helps with that a little)
     
    I usually have 6 Pokemon,
    1 sort of the leader - almost 15 levels higher than all others
    1 "back up to leader" - about 10 levels higher than the others, but about 10 lower than the leader
    4 other Pokemon I'm training, about the same level as the gym leader I'm about to challenge

    Unless I'm playing a specific challenge where one or two of my favorites aren't part of the team, my leader in most teams is usually Watchog or Mienshao [the other usually is my back-up], my favorites have to be the strongest.

    for the questions:
    My question is, should you have 6 pokemon? - I like training 6 of them, but I don't think it's necessary to have 6
    Do you find yourself with 6? Or do you take the way I do, and only have a few very strong pokemon? I always find myself having 6 Pokemon, one usually much higher than all others
     
    Usually the 6. I have about 2 Pokemon that can take out anything and everything in sight, 2 that I'm in the middle of training, and 2 that are just HM slaves.
    Should you have 6 Pokemon? Yes, just in case you get flat out massacred by some hyper strong trainer.
     
    I typically have a seven Pokemon rotation. Six of them have zero overlapping types and form my main team, then I have one HM slave that I travel with to do the dirty work. My single highest level Pokemon usually has to take the seat for my slave, while the rest of the team gets to play catch-up.
     
    I usually have 6 + 1 or 2 HM Slaves :B I can't really bother training more than 6 pokémon properly, unless I change my mind after half a playthrough and switch a party pokémon out for some new one.

    Also, since this is about the games, I'm just gonna ship it over to PGC.
     
    Playing new games I usualy go for 5 + 1 slave. I hate running frequently to the PC in order to put the slave into my team, so 5 team Pokémon must do.
    If I just play older games again, I almost never have more thant 3 Pokémon in my team. It is kind of annoying trying to have more than 3 on the same level all the time. Anyway, I actually do like monoruns, so it's not that rate that I'm doing one of these.
     
    I always end up using 6 Pokemon in my team, i dont see why i should use less.
    There is also 1 or maybe 2 HM slaves in the PC which i pick up when needed.

    I dont think you have to use 6 pokemon, i just prefer to play that way (:
     
    I usually go with 6 since I usually battle every trainer that I can - and if I had less than 6 poekmon I'd get kinda overleveled so I tend to use 6 just so I can go against elite 4 with underleveled team.
     
    Usually two slaves, and everyone else is a complete boss, EV trained, great items, power trained to the max, I used to not have any slaves at all, before I usually had only four bosses in my party and nothing else, even way before that I literally only had one pokemon which I used all throughout the game, even up until the elite four, impossible? Nope, I was a very stubborn child, it was being determined or anything like that, stubbornness, stubbornness is the way to success.
     
    I always use 6. I make sure that between them they have all the needed field moves, so none are actually an HM slave, I use them all. I don't want to keep going back to the PC so that's what I do. I also make sure my team is pretty balanced.

    I don't think you need 6 pokemon it's just the way I prefer to play :).
     
    I have five strong pokemon with one HM slave. Though do I need 5? No, but I like to use the new pokemon from each generation :)
     
    I usually have 4 or 5 Pokemon that I keep on the same level. Having 6 would take too much time, since I tend to keep their level at least 10 levels above the Gym Leader I'm about to challenge. I also can't have 6 "main" Pokemon because the 6th is usually the HM slave.
     
    I like to have as many as I can, so I always use six unless I can't (like a duo or trio challenge).
     
    When first doing the storyline, I always have 6 Pokémon on me. One of them may or may not be an HM slave. It depends on what my team is exactly (or if doing a challenge). I find it more fun to have more pokes instead of seeing the same 2 or 3 all the time. More pokes also means greater battle strength.


    After the main story and the bulk of the post-game content, my number of pokes on my team tends to dwindle. Nowadays on my Y I just roll with a few Pokémon (Zekrom, my Fly+breeding Talonflame, and whatever it is I'm leveling/breeding/Ev training), unless I'm doing the Battle Maison or Battle Spot.
     
    I always have 6 in a full team for me. With 6 you get more varieties of types and therefore stand a greater chance at victory imo. I train all 6 of them to equal levels; no one gets left behind. Before I get my full 6, there'll be a HM slave with me for convenience. When I reach 6 Pokemon, I'll box my slave and only take him out when I need him.
     
    When playing through the story, my team usually consists of three Pokémon only; one is my starter, which I use for almost all my battles, and the other two are there for HM related purposes. When storyline's finished, though, I'd begin shifting my focus to other Pokémon and try building up a proper team. :] While playing Y, however, my starter wasn't the only Pokémon I was mainly training; this time around, I decided to do things a little differently, and train two or three others alongside. Thanks to the new EXP. Share, it worked out pretty well for me.
     
    I always use Six, you can balance your team the best with 6 of them with u.
     
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