
I recently finished playing through Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen on Nintendo Switch 2, and it managed to pull me back to a series that I’d neglected for some time. I adored travelling back to the Game Boy Advance (GBA) era, having a few genuinely challenging battles, and filling out my Pokédex — it was a great time.
But perhaps the thing I most enjoyed about my playthrough was constructing a well-rounded team of six Pokémon. Towards the back-end of my journey, I realized that I only had five ‘mons in my party. I’d trained my Squirtle into a bulky Blastoise, I’d used evolutionary stones to get Raichu, Ninetales, and Victreebel, and I’d grinded it out at the Game Corner to get Dratini, which eventually became a Dragonite.