
Later on the game will introduce a mechanic where certain pokemon who join you will be “enthusiastic” to go on an adventure and you get pretty nice bonuses for using them.You can make pretty much any starter pair work, whether or not you survive dungeons is more down to how careful you are at exploring than team comp. As I mentioned, you can eventually just buy TMs for good ranged attacks, but I think Bulbasaur gets Bullet Seed (both long-range and multi-hit, which is the topmost of top-tier skills in PMD games, short of attacks that hit the entire room and boost your stats) so it’s not like that’ll be much of a problem.


You can’t buy TMs for ranged attacks until much later in the game, so be careful… but you can get them just so you know ahead of time, you don’t need to build your party around pokemon that inherently learn long-range attacks. Psybeam is a pretty low-level skill for Fennekins, so if you or your partner is a Fennekin, you’ll have a nice sniper in your party. Bring the more important stuff made to keep your enemies in check and your party from wiping. PSMD has pretty short floors, so don’t worry too much about filling your inventory with apples and shit.


