I thought about this after looking at my oldest Pokemon from a previous thread. Some of my Pokemon have unique stories and thought people might enjoy sharing their stories. Here are mine.
Larry-Larry was my first Dragonite. She was named before genders were a thing in Pogo. Unfortunately, she had SW/HB. When TMs came about, I turned her into a DT/H Dragonite, and powered her up. Never changed her name.
NightRunner-Rapidash. When I first started playing PoGo, I was on a military TDY. I hatched this girl on a military base, from a pokestop on a military base. Pokemon don't spawn on military bases, so I ran at night to hatch eggs. This low kick/fire blast Rapidash was my first Snorlax counter.
Muk-level 40 caught it at the Mall of America. Walked 220 km with it during an event to get the candy to power him up...before they were raid bosses.
Hitmonchen-I have an 88cp Chen that I caught at Cox Pavilion in Las Vegas going to an MMA fight. I also got a Primeape in LV.
Heracross, Hitmonlee, and Corsola-2 regionals and 2 fighters I was able to grab while helping the hurricane relief effort in Puerto Rico. I have fighting Pokemon from all over!
WildBush-my first wild caught Tangela, my favorite grass Pokemon. Also caught her in PR, with great IVs.
Yesterday I drove 45 minutes to a public lake with a 6 mile walking track circling it. I walked the entire perimeter of the lake...in the rain! Seems like the perfect Magikarp environment right? Wrong! I only caught one but I did catch lots of Lotads, Wailmers and a few Feebases and I walked enough for about 10 karp candies.
Then when I get home this was sitting in my yard!
Some of my oldest ones have a story.
There's Dona the Murkrow. A 100% I've found the second day after I've started playing. I looked up appraisals and found out I had a pretty rare Murkrow so I kept her since then.
Crabcakes the Kingler. He has HP as his highest IV, originally was intended as a dex filler until I found out that his Bubble / Water Pulse moveset somehow did the most damage to the old gyms. So he remained as part of my battle party and I've been leveling him up ever since. I haven't found a better krabby so far.
Rhyna the Rhydon. Another 100% I've caught while I was hoarding Rhyhorn candy at a nest in the Circus Park in Bucharest. That was my first 100% that was relevant in the meta back then. Nowadays I rarely use her, but if there's anything that has steel or electric type, I'm using her.
Kokonutz the Exeggutor. Yet another 100%, but I got her from a raid. I ran to that raid during a scorching hot July day, and was glad I actually bothered to get out of the house to catch her then.
Sparkly my first ever shiny Raichu. Caught her at a Pikachu nest after the Pikachu festival that happened in Japan or wherever, but before the community day Pikachu event.
Nea Marin the Farfetch'd. Caught him during the 5 billion pokemon rewards, named him after a character in the Romanian movie Uncle Marin, the Billionaire.
