What Was Your First Championship Winning Team?

As the title suggests…

What was your first Pokémon Championship winning team?

(Can be from any gen just the first time you won the game basically)

For me the first games I ever got were Pokémon Gold and Silver. I never knew these were sort of sequels to Red and Blue but I had some extensive knowledge of Pokémon thanks to the Pokédex Handbooks and novels/anime/cards etc.

I was indecisive about my starter for a long time constantly redoing both games whenever I felt I wanted to try the other one. I loved Cyndaquil though but eventually I settled on testing with Chikorita and Gold keeping Silver (I loved Lugia from the 2000 movie) as an open choice depending on how the Gold trial went.

Eventually I got really deep into it. At first like any kid only using my starter except for Whitney’s gym where unlike most people, I sweeped her and the gym thanks to the Machop I traded a Drowzee for in the Goldenrod Mart.

I remember getting stuck for a long time because I couldn’t figure out how to pass the odd looking tree until finally getting the squirt bottle and catching a Sudowoodo.

Eventually I started using more of my team and managed to beat the next 4 gyms and Team Rocket before getting stuck at the Ice Cave for nearly a decade!

Why?

Because I didn’t realize that I needed to use Strength to push boulders into gaps to block the paths on the ice floors to get out of the cave. So until then I just caught and leveled up more finally adding Piloswine permanently to the team.

By the time I got out I had already managed to catch Ho-oh, find a lot of battles I’d skipped, discover how eggs are made and actually build and develop a whole Pidgey evolution line team for fun.

I even figured out that there’s a Tohjo falls behind my house and possibly Kanto beyond that or at least the league (by then I’d finally played the OG games and even a Japanese Green)

I also got Meganium to a Lv. 70+ such that by the time I got out, I trounced Clair. Eventually I carried my six Pokemon to the league and held my own.

The only difficulty I ended up having was against Red but discovering Kanto was magical. Even Red was an interesting battle because by then I knew of the Gen 2 games cloning glitch and had gotten the three starters for my silver.

Still I was determined to win the game first with Gold and barely beat Red. I still remember his Snorlax being damn tough but using Ho-oh and losing all my PP and discovering struggle as a Hail Mary 😂

My final team was:

Meganium (whom I’d taught Strength and Cut to and still won lol)

Pidgeot (That I only started leveling after the third gym)

Machoke (That I kept leveling up wondering why I wasn’t getting a Machamp)

Sudowoodo (That I just kept cause it seemed rare. It was.)

Ho-oh (Was the cover legendary which I used the Master Ball on. Not knowing a higher powered Lugia was available)

Piloswine (A remembrance of Ice Cave struggles)

Post game I also found Larvitar and managed to get it till Pupitar to fight Red. I also rematched the E4 to do that. I love Tyranitar.

So ya that’s my story.

TLDR: What was your first championship winning team?