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No. 186496

Since the threads are still not back in /m/, I wanted to make a new Pokémon thread for the time being. Especially with the latest news that has come out.

Spoilers for Generation 9 will be in this thread so you have been warned.

Pokémon Presents 2022: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoiwcdqMlCA

Pokemon Day List of Updates: https://serebii.net/news/2022/27-February-2022.shtml

No. 186497

I CANT FEEL MY LEGS AFTER THIS LAS TPOKEGO TRIP MY FRIEND GTOLD ME THERE ARE DRAGORTISE IN CENTRAL PAWRK I GO I LOSE MY LIFE MY LEG MY LOEDS MTY POHONE FELL IN THE SWEER I BET IT'S IN SINAGORPE NOW NO NO NO(retard)

No. 186498

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More info has been updated on the official website. They look like fan made Pokémon tbh but I don't know if it's just because they are so new. They just look off.

No. 186499

>>186498
i love how goofy fuecoco looks. the cat looks like it was designed by a furfag tho

No. 186500

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More from the website

No. 186501

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Last image, it looks like the new region is either Spain or Portugal. Most likely Spain, imo.

No. 186502

>>186500
Why are they wearing gym shorts on a preppy goodboy outfit, it looks stupid

No. 186503

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>>186500
>>186502
They lowkey look like these catholic scout kids. Kind of like pic related.

>>186501
>region based on Spain
>looks like dogshit
Spain needs to sue Game Freak.

No. 186504

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This is definitely Spain + Portugal

No. 186505

>>186498
I agree. Fanmade was my first thought. I told myself after SwSh that I’m never buying another Pokémon game again. We’ll see if I can hold myself to it.

No. 186506

I mean I'm glad they're using the Arceus engine but it still feels too soon and the human characters look ugly to me. The starters also look like fakemons, the grass one is just a green fennekin.

No. 186507

>>186505
Just pirate if you can nonna. I pirated swsh and I'm enjoying it, but I'm sure if I paid actual money I would have felt like it was a waste.

No. 186509

>>186501
i like the looks of it
>>186502
i like that for once, the protags have a unisex ouftit instead of the girls always having impractical skimpy ones

No. 186510

The fire starter should have been an ox/bull if they still wanted to tie it into the Chinese zodiac theory with fire starters. And it would have been perfect because it was Spain. What a waste.

No. 186511

>>186507
nta but I bought Shield with the DLCs directly in the cartridge for the price of the og game and I don't regret it only because I liked the DLC more than the main game. I don't have hope for this new game at all, I'm not gonna buy it and if I ever get a better computer I'll pirate it.

No. 186512

>Scarlet
but there are already several Pokémon versions that are red-colored… Red, Ruby, Y, Omega Ruby. Couldn't they pick a more original color?
>Violet
FUCK YOU I was working on a fan game where the protagonist is called "Violet". Couldn't they have picked "Purple" instead?
BTW this new gen is gonna be shit. (Though if it turns out that it isn't that'd be cool but I would never not pirate it.)

Also, is it just me or is the art style for the protagonists' official art kind of familiar despite being different to old Pokémon art? I feel like I've seen those faces elsewhere.

>>186506
>it still feels too soon
It always feels too soon but they never learn. Or rather, they don't give a shit because they care more about selling some new pile of shit ASAP than they care about quality.

>>186509
>the protags have a unisex ouftit instead of the girls always having impractical skimpy ones
You can bet your ass that "certain people" are seething because of that. I like it too tbh

>>186510
Maybe one of the cover legendaries is gonna be a bull, who knows.

No. 186515

>>186512
Speaking of which, Japanese people on twitter called the versions "aka" and "murasaki", as in "red" and "purple/violet", but wasn't the red version of gen 1 games called "aka" too? I should look it up because this is super weird.

No. 186517

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The designs aren't nearly as unique and cute as they used to be. I get they want to make them simpler in design since there just base models for character customization but this is still really lackluster without reason. The newest characters stick out like a sore thumb. And I don't understand what other nonnies mean by older protags having skimpy clothes. Gym leaders and trainers, sure, because a lot of them are gross and revealing for literally no reason. Its an all ages game, why do they do that? But the playable characters have always looked appropriate to me.

No. 186518

>>186517
The new protagonists don't even look like they're from the same series. They even look like shit. I'll never complain over the male MC in BW2 and his stupid hair ever again.

No. 186520

>>186517
Meh, the design looks boring but inoffensive to me. Looks like it would be a trainer model for like a random npc, like schoolgirl Clara or something. I wish they would for once have the mc wear a longer skirt or dress, though the hat is very Spanish inspired to me at least

No. 186521

>>186520
The hat is less Spanish and more "grandma is going on a hike with her nursing home friends" but whatever.

No. 186522

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>>186521
It's a sun hat anon. I know it's not exclusive to Spain but people of all ages can wear sun hats, not just grannies lol

No. 186523

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>>186522
The hat you posted looks cuter though. I like how Spanish fans are reacting to the announcement btw.

No. 186524

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I thought the cat was a fake waifumon at first, learning the name doesn’t help either…
She’s still cute tho.

No. 186526

I can't bring myself to like any of the starter pokemon. They just look fake to me, I said that about gen 8 but I could at least tolerate Sobble and Grokey. The designs are getting so round and simple, I guess to make toys easier? If this is the direction the new pokemon go in I don't want part in it

No. 186527

>>186524
Well, duh… it's a sprig pussycat and it's called sprig pussycat

No. 186528

>>186517
I don't think they are skimpy but it's a bit strange how the female characters always wear either very short skirts or shorts. I actually think the designs are pretty cute for the new trainers.

No. 186529

my friends say they like the starters, but i dislike the water and grass designs. And now reading the grass type's name, it's so unwieldy! fire type is cute but makes me think of an apple.

No. 186530

>>186524
Anon…
It's "gatito" as in "kitten".

>>186515
>"aka"
Yes, Red is called that in Japanese. You'd think they'd use the actual word for "scarlet".

>>186517
lol Serena was the last one with distinguishable knees
>And I don't understand what other nonnies mean by older protags having skimpy clothes
You don't see the tiny-ass skirts and shorts?

No. 186531

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CHOO CHOO HERE COMES THE TRAIN

No. 186532

>>186529
its a chili pepper not an apple

No. 186535

>>186529
>>186526
>>186506
>>186498
There was an anon in, I think, the awful character design thread, who posted an image comparing new and old pokémon designs, and swapping artstyles. That pic explained why the new designs are so un-pokemon looking pretty well.

No. 186537

>>186528
It's stupid but I always associated shorts with kids so I don't think that's weird. I'm from a very strict and sexist family and I could wear shorts and skirts as much as I wanted as a kid but was strictly forbidden from wearing them as a pre-teen because I was considered too old for that and that would have been "vulgar". So when I see the female MCs in Pokemon wearing this kind of clothes I just thing "oh, they're just kids", I don't know if that's a normal thought process or not.

>>186530
>Yes, Red is called that in Japanese. You'd think they'd use the actual word for "scarlet".
So I checked online and Pokemon Red and Blue are respectively "aka" and "ao". The green version is named "midori". So that means that there are now two unrelated Pokemon games with the exact same version name? What the fuck were they smoking at Game Freak?

>>186531
I remember when everyone wanted to fuck them back in 2010. Good times.

No. 186538

>>186535
samefagging but are you talking about that sort of chart that showed that first gens had more monster like designs with more angles and with some of the details omitted in the actual games because of technical limitations from the GB and GBA, and today's designs are more cutesy mascot like and more rounds and simplified just for the sake of it? Or is it another one?

No. 186539

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>>186498
I'm slowly warming up to the designs. I think the crocodile looks the cutest but I'm afraid that they'll all evolve into being furry bait

No. 186541

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>>186538
I've seen at least 2 different pics like that but this is the one I was referring to

>>186539
The starters look better here than in official art kek

No. 186542

>>186539
made choke on my drink. The buff kitty looks high, it's fitting considering.
Tinfoil the water hat on top of the duck is controlling him.

No. 186543

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>>186542
dropped pic

No. 186544

Nevermind, almost all the Japanese fans called the new game "aka" and "murasaki" on twitter for some reason (I guess it's the character limit idk) but the official trailer uses the words "scarlet" and "violet" in katakana. I was a bit worried for nothing there.

No. 186545

>>186537
>It's stupid but I always associated shorts with kids so I don't think that's weird. I'm from a very strict and sexist family and I could wear shorts and skirts as much as I wanted as a kid but was strictly forbidden from wearing them as a pre-teen because I was considered too old for that and that would have been "vulgar". So when I see the female MCs in Pokemon wearing this kind of clothes I just thing "oh, they're just kids", I don't know if that's a normal thought process or not.
That in itself isn't that bad, but when you compare the girls to the boys, it becomes creepy. The boys always wore longer and wider shorts or pants, whereas the girls, for some reason, always had to show a lot of skin, and if they wore shorts they had to be tighter than the ones the boys would wear.

No. 186546

>>186545
tbh that's exactly how it is irl too if you look at what's sold at stores for kids. At least for the shorts, the skirts can sometimes be too short, and when you combined that with the exaggerated anime proportions of all the characters it's even more obviously short.

No. 186549

>>186537
>>186517
>>186528
showing legs in japan is not considered "skimpy" or "lewd" even if internet cumbrains think it is

No. 186550

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>>186537
people still want to fuck them, all their merch sells out instantly and they were shilled hard in masters + ingo coming back in legends kek

No. 186552

>>186550
Why are these dudes popular again? I skipped B/W

No. 186553

>>186512
The art style reminds me of New Pokemon Snap's human characters. I wish they kept with the old style.

No. 186554

>>186535
Could you link it?

No. 186555

>>186552
They were always loved in Japan but the black clothed one, Ingo, got some more lore in Arceus so they're gaining more popularity again. He's hot so I like it.

No. 186557

>>186542
I think it's a hat but I can't stop seeing it as his hair and it bothers the fuck out of me!!

No. 186559

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>>186557
It looked like news-caster hair to me at first glance and I can't unsee it. Image found on google to try to show what I mean.

No. 186561

>>186554
already posted it >>186541

>>186550
I could never get into them tbh
Their outfits are too goofy for me, they look like clowns

No. 186562

>>186555
>>186561
i didn't get it at first either but i want to fuck them now. idk why. i just do.

No. 186563

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FUECOCOFRIENDS REPORT

No. 186564

>>186563
No nonnie don't do it, don't get attached to a starter before their evolutions are leaked. I did that with Litten and I was heartbroken

No. 186565

>>186564
well that's why i'm avoiding enjoying the grass cat, i know they're gonna incineroar its ass

No. 186566

>>186563
no latter what its evos end up looking like i will always love it. goofy lil fucker

No. 186567

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>>186564
I did this with Sobble then I saw the leaked evolution. Then I looked at mine and told him he will never grow up

No. 186568

>>186552
Because of train autism and because they look like Raidou Kuzunoha.

No. 186569

>>186564
I always choose a starter after I see the final evos. No exceptions.

No. 186573

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i can't fix him.

No. 186581

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>>186498
because the grass type starters have all been based on extinct animals so far, i’m willing to bet the cat will evolve into a sabertooth or similar. hopefully gamefreak will contain their furry-pandering and keep it on four legs.

someone on twitter mentioned the fire starter’s final evo may be fire/ghost as it may be inspired by the mythical monster coco that can take the form of an alligator or dragon (pic related is an excerpt from the coco wikipedia article).

i love the kitten so much idc if the evolution is hideous like incineroar, i’ll just give her an everstone and keep her small and cute forever

No. 186589

>>186581
>the grass type starters have all been based on extinct animals so far
No?
>the fire starter’s final evo may be fire/ghost as it may be inspired by the mythical monster coco that can take the form of an alligator or dragon (pic related is an excerpt from the coco wikipedia article).
If it's not a thing in Spain, and not just Latin America, I doubt it. Unless Game Freak really mixed some Latin American stuff with Iberian culture…

No. 186591

>>186589
Samefag but I just realized that it's called "Fuecoco" because crocodile in Spanish is "cocodrilo". So that makes it even more unlikely that its evolutionary line is based on the coco myth, imo.

No. 186593

>>186581
I didn’t realize owls were extinct.

No. 186599

>>186593
Anon is wrong about the grass type starters as a whole, but the one from gen 7 is based on a specific breed of owls that's extinct. That's why it's last evolution is ghost type.

No. 186610

>>186599
NTA but that's pretty cool, I didn't know that.
I've been reading about the Grass starters = extinct animals theory, which I hadn't heard about until now, and it seems that there's not a lot of evidence for it (you could make similar connections between any other group of Pokemon and extinct relatives of the animals they're actually based on). But the Decidueye = extinct Hawaiian owl thing seems to be true at least.

No. 186616

>>186591
wouldnt be the first time a pokemons name was like 2 or 3 different meanings

No. 186627

>>186610
Actually, the gen 1 and 2 grass starters are based on dinosaurs, right? Besides that and the gen 7 one (sorry but I'm not gonna try to learn their English names) I can't think of any other that are based on extinct species, unless they're also based on specific breeds.

No. 186628

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so unless the fire crocodile becomes an ox, snake, ram, or horse, gamefreak broke their chinese zodiac firestarter streak

No. 186629

>>186628
I wouldn't be surprised if it turned into a dragon. It's a reptile, it's more than enough, even if Charizard already exists. Keep in mind that the Alolan version of the coconut tree pokemon is dragon type because it's referencing a very specific species of tree that has the term dragon in it and it makes perfect sense imo, so nothing is impossible.

No. 186642

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I hope they won't be as ugly as picrl and >>186539 I think Quaxly is the cutest of the three reminds me of donald duck

No. 186643

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>>186642
He gives me vintage Donald Duck vibes too!!

No. 186646

>>186552
Japan likes trains and cute twins

No. 186647

When will double battles come back in the main campaigns like in Emerald and Colosseum? Please, Game Freak…

No. 186667

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quack

No. 186687

>>186581
ngl, i love the pokemon starter theories including this one even if i don't fully agree with them. the designers have hinted at and revealed that a lot goes into making a starter trio so having a hidden theme isn't really out of the question imo. for example the gen5 final evolution trio represents the west, china and japan to tie in with the human racial diversity of the region (representing the US). they've also explicitly said that a dog can't really be a grass type because it doesn't seem right, and that reptiles make good grass types.

No. 186693

>>186687
Dogs play in grass and like to fetch sticks, they could easily make a dog grass type

No. 186737

I played that Legends game and it reinvigorated my interest in Pokemon. Guess it was a bench warmer for gen 9. Hopefully it's "open" like Legends and not theme park-esque like every other generation after the DS.

No. 186741

>>186737
Gen 9 is confirmed open world! Maybe even more so than Arceus. Crossing fingers that it'll be good.

No. 186768

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No. 186774

>>186768
omg new leak confirmed?????

No. 186784

>>186768
>garfield evolves into cat in the hat

No. 186790

Starter autism

Grass type:
> Gen 1: frog/toad
> Gen 2: dinosaur
> Gen 3: gecko/dinosaur
> Gen 4: tortoise/dinosaur
> Gen 5: snake
> Gen 6: armadillo/pangolin/hedgehog
> Gen 7: extinct owl
> Gen 8: gorilla
> Gen 9: some kind of cat

Fire type:
> Gen 1: lizard/dragon
> Gen 2: weasel/porcupine
> Gen 3: chicken
> Gen 4: ape
> Gen 5: boar
> Gen 6: fox
> Gen 7: tiger
> Gen 8: rabbit
> Gen 9: some kind of reptile

Water type:
> Gen 1: turtle/tortoise
> Gen 2: alligator/crocodile
> Gen 3: mudskipper/axolotl
> Gen 4: penguin
> Gen 5: otter
> Gen 6: frog
> Gen 7: sea lion
> Gen 8: chameleon
> Gen 9: some kind of duck

>>186687
> dogs can't be grass type
Shaymin sky form is a grass/flying dog.

No. 186806

>>186790
Girl that’s a deer. It has antlers

No. 186812

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>>186806
it's a fairy dog

No. 186819

>>186790
lmao cyndaquil's pokedex entry LITERALLY says fire mouse

No. 186822

>>186693
>>186790
i agree that they could but THEY, as the literal pokemon creators and designers, said a grass dog doesn't make sense. although they might have meant specifically for a starter, or for some concept they had in mind at that time.
shaymin is kinda a dog isn't it kek

>>186741
definitely more so than legends! they never claimed legends was open world (because it isn't really)

No. 186823

>>186819
In french it's called héricendre so it references hedgehogs, I wonder if there are other animals referenced in other languages.

No. 186824

>>186823
I looked it up now and cyndaquil is indeed a "fire mouse" in Japanese so the English name is a direct translation. Never knew that, but I sort of see it I guess? It's name references porcupines too, so it's a mouse with porcupine-like "spikes" made of fire. Considering it only has the fire up for battle I suppose it does technically look more like a "mouse" most of the time.

No. 186825

>>186824
Yeah I always saw the fire as spikes because of its French name. And the Japanese word for hedgehog is "haranezumi" and each kanji for that word mean "needle" and "mouse" separately so I guess it's still close enough. btw I always thought pikachu looks more like a bunny than like a mouse because of its long ears.

No. 186829

>>186825
agree about the Pikachu thing, always thought the Japanese were mental in that regard

No. 186839

>>186819
I based the list off of the final evolutions. Typhlosion is some kind of weasel/porcupine

No. 186840

>>186819
You can't really trust the "mouse" thing since they seem to call every tiny mammal a mouse lol. Cyndaquil doesn't even have mouse ears or a tail.

> Cyndaquil's appearance is based on the echidna, but it also has traits of shrews, anteaters, and tenrecs, such as its long snout, and having little to no tail. Its closed eyes may be a reference to baby honey badgers, as its final evolved form is based on one. When its fire is lit, the fire resembles the quills of the porcupine.

No. 186841

>>186824
it's japanese name is hinoarashi which means "fire porcupine".

No. 186869

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>>186532
look i wasn't the only one confused!

No. 186870

>>186509
YES I thought this too but no one else cared LOL

No. 186875

>>186517
It’s just in comparison to the guys - the outfits tend to (well, universally) show more skin or look plain stupid. The posing is always uwu by comparison too.

At any rate we’ll probably get to customize them like we have been.

>>186512

Kek I have embarrassing Pokémon OCs from back in the day named Scarlet and Violet.

>>186546
Yeah but this isn’t real life, it’s just fantasy.

>>186549
No, but arms are - hence why the prim girls in anime always wear sweaters over their uniforms even if their skirt barely covers their ass. So either way, kind of applies (not that I think any of it is ‘sexy’, just that it’s suspect the girls are designed this way while the boys aren’t).

http://www.rigelatin.net/staircase/pokemon-playercharacters.php

I don’t agree with all of what she wrote but damn, the pageant outfits in G3; yikes.

>>186581
I did that with Braxien

>>186768
lmao I s2g

No. 186890

>>186875
> http://www.rigelatin.net/staircase/pokemon-playercharacters.php

This made me realize I'd rather play a game that has 1 male MC, rather than choose between a moid character and a skimpy wimpy looking girl.

No. 186984

>>186829
The root of this issue is that old school Japanese as a language didn’t differentiate the words “mouse”, “rat”, or “rodent” that way. Traditionally, there’s one word that encompasses all rodents, but modern language has had to differentiate because of scientific classification.
So actually, what’s probably happening is a general word for “rodent” is getting generalized through localization into “mouse” because in a lot of places, a “mouse” is more marketable than a “rat” or “rodent”.

No. 187015

>>186890
>We appreciate this change because it's more inclusive for players outside the gender binary.
Entire article writers opinion discarded.

No. 187052

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I picked up Pokémon Unite again after not playing it since launch kek but fuck I am so obsessed with they outfits that they've added, I'm grinding for picrel it's too cute

No. 187087

>>186890
>In the HeartGold/SoulSilver chapter of the manga, Crystal is forced by her mother to wear an outfit that she hates and she thinks looks really unfashionable: Lyra's clothes. She's right. Who would wear that willingly?
Kek, maybe I should read Adventures after all.
>We don't hate Lyra
Too bad, I do.

No. 187089

Which gen do you think is the worst?

I'm playing through swsh right now and honestly, I'm enjoying it more than sun and moon. Lillie could be a great character for all I know, but all of the cutscenes which are unskippable being shoved in my face just makes me hate playing through sun and moon. I don't like any of the starter's final evos, the story was a big focus yet it didn't engage me like Gen 5's did, Alola is just 'meh'. I never liked gen 4 either, but I only had access to Pearl as a child and not Platinum, which I'll play one day.

No. 187090

>>187087
I hate Lyra too. Worst main character design in all of Pokémon idc

No. 187091

>>186875
>Yeah but this isn’t real life, it’s just fantasy.
You're right, but it's very heavily based on reality, the mainline games' universe is basically our world if animal had superpowers. All the regions are based on real places for example, and fashion wasn't all that weird until like gen 5. But now I feel like this isn't a problem anymore thanks to customization, and the male and female playable character in gen 9 wear the exact same outfit or uniform.

No. 187093

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>>187089
samefag but mine would be gen 7 or gen 8 but I'm kind of answering by default:
>gen 1 will always have a special place in my heart because Blue was my first game ever, it plays like a traditional retro JRPG so you have world building and a minimalist story so you're free to do whatever you want whenever you want
>same deal with gen 2, it added a shit ton of content compared to gen 1 and Johto is a great region, I lost my shit when I unlocked Kanto. Only real problem is the levels of trainers compared to wild pokemon
>gen 3 was fun because it was its own thing, I loved Emerald and the contests, the battle frontier, and being able to redo battles against a lot of trainers with improved teams
>gen 4 was mostly OK, I played Platinum a bit late compared to its release date. Making the physical and special stats more coherent was really great, but I didn't like that so many pokemon introduced in previous games gained new evolutions that involved trading, it was annoying
>I found gen 5 a bit boring in BW but BW2 was a vast improvement imo, I couldn't even tell you why, that's just how I feel about it. I didn't mind the brand new pokemon in BW unlike some people, but changing how you get berries and small things like that was a bit annoying.
>I loved gen 6, I didn't care if it was full of Kanto fanservice at all. The added content was very fun, like customization, mini-games, pokemon amie, etc. The last gen to have proper dungeons and routes, rip. To bad the gym leaders and the league were easy as fuck
>gen 7 doesn't have proper dungeons and proper labyrinthic routes, the game is full of unskippable long tutorials and cutscenes that nobody cares about and its starters look obnoxious as fuck, but the challenges that replaced the gym leaders were a great idea. Too bad my 3DS nearly shat itself to death during double battles and totem battles. You can't surf between each island so that's an automatic 0/10 anyway.
>gen 8 is a complete joke unless you get the DLC and focus more on completing the pokedex for each section of the map and doing raids online. At least Raihan and Leon look fuckable

Basically it gets worse and worse, and I'm not even gonna bother with gen 9. It doesn't even look like a Pokemon game. I think someday I'll replay all the Pokemon games I have in order just for the nostalgia, I'm biased but I don't care at all.

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>>187089
I refuse to play any Pokemon Game after Gen 4.
I played White until the 5th Badge and lost interest because I rushed the game with one Pokemon and I got an lucky egg for free. I disliked how most of the New Pokemon looked like, half of the new ones in Gen 4 were also ugly.
I remember how happy I was when I finally caught a Chansey with an Lucky Egg after 8 hours of hunting in Pearl.
Like >>187093 said I only play Pokemon Games for the nostalgia.

No. 187096

>>186768
I bet my ass these meme evos are gonna look good in retrospect when the actual ones are revealed.

No. 187107

>>187089
whichever game introduced that fully party exp share garbage

No. 187109

>>187093
I really, really miss Pokémon amie. The toys and curry in swsh are cute to me, but sometimes I just want to pet my mons again, feed them berries etc. It felt like I was really bonding with them.
>>187107
I think gen 6?

No. 187114

>>187107
>>187109
It was a thing in gen one but you had to make specific efforts to unlock the exp share item. And then you could easily never learn about its existence if you didn't read a walkthrough or didn't backtrack enough. In gen 6 you can turn it on and off at will, same thing in gen 7. Gen 8 made it an automatic feature but didn't adjust the exp you receive on top of that so your pokemon gain level way too fast and the game is even easier than gen 6.

No. 187149

>>187089
as far as what?
gen 5 probably has my least favorite spread of pokemon.
gen 8 has the worst storyline and general gameplay. i'm actually shocked you prefer swsh's story over sumo's personally

No. 187151

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>>187089
i too hated gen 7 the most. i loved gen 6 so i was super disappointed in the next one; the unskippable cutscenes made the game such a bore, the characters wwere insufferable (both uwu helpless babby lillie and obnoxious litle spastic hau) and the world was so repetitive.
even the 'mons weren't that great for the most part, like the ultra beasts and the island deities all suck.
the only good thing is that it gave us mimikyu and marshadow.

my fave is still gen 6 but i found swsh and arceus legends very ejoyable. then again my focus is alway on filling the dex so the game difficulty doesn't bother me.

No. 187165

>>187149
I prefer swsh's story because it's easier to ignore. I couldn't care less about Leon or Hop and they are pushed onto you, but I feel like I have more freedom in swsh than sumo. Nobody plays Pokémon for the cutscenes. If I want a good story I'll pick up a VN. I don't care about Lillie or her mother or Hau or the ultra beasts

No. 187167

>>187151
>both uwu helpless babby lillie and obnoxious litle spastic hau
honestly if they're gonna force us to interact with hateable rivals, they should at least make them smug assholes that we will love to hate, like Blue.

No. 187171

>>187089
kinda hard to say… I loved hgss but hated diamond and pearl, also liked oras but hated x and y. maybe it's a tie between those two and 8?

ngl sumo was my favorite main series pokemon game and it's not close

No. 187179

Do you guys do Nuzlocke challenges?

I did one in Gen 4, only use/level your starter for the whole game, I chose Turtwig. By the time it evolved to Torterra, it wasn't much of a challenge though. One-shot KO the whole elite four, it was kind of lame.

No. 187181

>>187179
That's how 5 years old me beat Pokemon Blue kek. But I never do these sorts of challenges because I get too attached to my pokemon and I don't want to lose them. What I've done for a while though, before I started playing other jrpgs, was using mostly "normal" pokemon and not the ones given to you by NPCs, legendaries or the very rare and powerful ones I managed to catch during my runs because it felt like I was cheating. I've only done this in gen1 and gen2 as a kids trying to understand everything about the games. I know it's really dumb but now I kinda want to replay all the games and change my strategies because I SMT taught me to use high-tier demons as much as possible.

No. 187183

>>187089
Gen 7 was the worst, I barely got to the third island before quitting. I had Moon. I was so fucking bored. I adore Pokémon even at it's worse because it's my escapism for sure but that one? Couldn't get through those cutscenes if my life depended on it. So long and drawn out. I've heard the story is really good (for a Pokémon game anyway) but I'll never find out.

Gen 4 holds a special place for me because it was my first gen. I had to buy it myself and had wanted previous gens but my mother refused to spend the money. I got Pearl. I was proud of myself for saving as a kid and then loved the game. Then some kids stole it before I got to the end plus my DS. And my mom beat me for it kek miserable time but I really loved the game while I had it.

>>187107
I love having exp share because I'm not into grinding, I like exploration and bonding with my Pokémon. Grinding bores me. But I don't understand why they won't just… add an option to turn it off for those who don't want it. I may like having it but why is it forced? It'd be as easy as adding an option under text speed in the menu. It makes no sense for Gamefreak not to add it other than not giving a shit what fans want.

No. 187185

>>187183
I don't have an issue with exp share as an item, just when they changed the mechanics where it shared exp with all the pokemon in your party. before it was just to the pokemon holding the item. that felt really lame to me and ruined some of the experience.

No. 187187

>>187185
Didn't you unlock the exp share in gen 1? Because that one was also working for your whole team. If anything gen 6's exp share was basically the same as the one in gen 1.

No. 187190

>>187187
Yea I think it was Exp Share and Exp All. I hated having to go hunt for them. Should be things you get right away at the start of the game. Then you have the option to use or not. It would make the games so much better if players could scale their own difficulty with options like that but god forbid GF do that.

No. 187206

>>187190
The only time they tried to offer difficulty settings was in BW2 and the way you could unlock them was so needlessly complicated I don't think most people even knew about it. Yeah, I feel like letting you choose if you can turn on and off the exp share, if you can have access to a computer only in a pokemon center or everywhere and maybe other small features could easily help players create their own difficulty settings, kind of like how in Bravely Default you an choose the encounter rate and the amount of exp you gain. This can also make replaying one game very different during each run.

No. 187258

>>187165
idk seems like a bit of a weak argument if we're talking about story. swsh's is horrendous, every task is essentially done for you, rose is a terrible villain, the "villain team" is ugly and forgettable.

No. 188962

To all the nonnies nostalgic for the old Pokémon, check out these recent animation collab done. I don't really like the newer animation style of Pokémon but maybe I just sound like a grumpy old person drinking nostalgia juice. But the old style looks so pleasing here, nice colors and animation.

No. 188963

>>188962
Pokémon's Japanese YouTube channel posts so many nice little things.

No. 188966

>>187258
>the "villain team" is ugly and forgettable.
And Team Skull isn't? Team Yell imo is supposed to be based off of chavvy football fans, incredibly obnoxious in who they support, fat and ugly etc, which makes them slightly more memorable to me as a Brit. The story isn't good but it's still better than SuMo's which is just ugly ultra beasts and poor little Lillie and her mummy issues or whatever I don't remember it that well

No. 188967

>>188966
lol agreed team skull was shit
teaml yell at least was consisent with the seting

No. 188969

>>188963
AYRT agreed! I love their Pokémon baking series, I wish they would post an English translation of the recipes. I'm a pastry chef irl and want to make nerdy little Pokémon treats lol The fact that the English channel lacks the charm and cute videos is so disappointing, a lot of companies make the worst localization for America. Even though young people tend to prefer the original Japanese media 9 times out of 10. Why do they not get that.

No. 188972

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>>188969
>I love their Pokémon baking series
Me too nonna. I also love their asmr series, not for the actual asmr itself but for how well animated, cute and lively the Pokémon are in them. It's one of the great things about Pokémon being as popular as it is, we get a lot of little nice side things like these.
>I wish they would post an English translation of the recipes.
Have you searched around online?
>I'm a pastry chef irl and want to make nerdy little Pokémon treats lol
That's adorable nonnie! Now I want to make some too. I always get the urge to bake things whenever I look at Alcremie.

No. 188977

>>187094
A bit late but gen 6 gave me the same vibe as gen 1 to 4 than gen 5 did. Gen 5 really feels like it's its own thing, esp BW.

No. 188978

>>188972
I also love Alcremie! If she's not in the Gen 9 games, I'm going to fucking riot. They said once again that we won't have the full pokedex. It sucks when Pokémon you really like aren't included in newer games.

No. 188980

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>>188978
>It sucks when Pokémon you really like aren't included in newer games.
It does, but I also find it fun having a fresh new team every game. I think that's one thing looking back I actually liked about BW. Every Pokémon you saw was new and it definitely made it feel fresh. But I've never dabbled into transferring Pokémon from old games or Pokémon home or anything like that. We also don't know yet how many new Pokémon gen 9 will have, I'm going to try my hardest to avoid leaks for them all aside from the starter evos!
Here's a cute lil pastry Pikachu for you nonna, he made them for u

No. 189005

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>>188966
>>188967
team skull is cute and made for bullying

No. 189006

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>>188978
>>188978
I love Pachirisu ever since I was in elementary school and it sucks that Pachi is only in the remake that I don't want to buy because…it's just a remake.

No. 189017

>>189006
That sucks, I'm sorry, anon. Pachirisu is so cute, one of the cutest of the Pikachu clones imo. But the Pikachu clones likely aren't intended to be in the other regions since they are just a checkbox for Gamefreak to chuck into each gen, sadly. I hope eventually they'll make main line games with all Pokémon available to trade in and use at some point in time. It's not like it's not technically possible with the current number, it would just take a lot of effort. But The Pokémon Company has more than enough money to invest heavier into their games so it's totally doable. If only they were willing to.

>>188980
This is so cute, ily anon

No. 189025

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>>189005

i love team skull. you wanna talk about shit villain teams, then team flare wins that trophy lmao

No. 189030

>>187258
I found SwSh so hideous and empty. I can't believe it's supposed to be PokeEngland lmao.

No. 189032

>>189030
I can't believe they did Poke-Britain and made it all about fucking soccer. Long history of queens and kings, wars, mythology, victorian era shit, etc. and all they cared about was sport. Still seething.

No. 189037

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>>188966
>>188967
get out of here

No. 189038

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any other gen 5 fags? i really think bw1&2 have the best stories in all of the series

No. 189047

>>189032
All the things you've mentioned are there but they only footnotes. I think it vaguely implies the war mentioned in XY was Kalos vs Galar, just like real life I guess.

No. 189054

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No. 189055

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>>189038
I thought BW was a bit boring despite being a fun game, I don't know why I found it kind of linear? But I loved BW2. Maybe it's because by then I got used to Unova. I'm seriously thinking about transferring all my pokemon from until gen 6 to the pokebank so I can replay gen 1 to gen 6 one after the other. Maybe I'll have different opinions, it's been a while since I played some of them.

No. 189076

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>>189038
gen 5 games were good,not my faves but still great.
but most of all gen 5 gave us some great pokes

No. 189083

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What's your favorite pokemon from your least favorite game? I played through Sw/Sh and didn't rlly care for it but it added one of my favorite pokes of all time

No. 189094

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>>189083
swsh was also my least favorite but it had some amazing pokemon. i adore eiscue, idk why it got hate

No. 189099

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>>189083
least fave was sun/moon but marshadow is my favourite poke after genar

No. 189115

>>189099
It's a shame because Marshaddow is so cute, but so easy to forget. It had no impact on the story in the games at all, just a random mythical added in. Was there even an event for it?

No. 189118

>>189115
It had a major role in one of the movies but not in game, standard stuff for mythicals. Got the usual gamestop code release while the movie was still being promoted. If you mean events like Darkrai's in game one or something, they haven't done those since gen 4.

No. 189138

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>>189115
ayrt, i really dgaf about the story, i just use marshadow for battling and it's fantastic. ghost/fighting is a god tier type combination.
it's incredibly cute too

No. 189177

>>188962
This is such a good style, honestly, and I don't even like the Pokemon anime.

No. 189211

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>>189083
Least fave is SuMo but Mimikyu is one of the best designs and concepts in all of Pokémon. How can I not love them?
I'm also surprised you like that Pokémon nonna I hate it. Togepi did the whole baby shtick better.

No. 189214

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>>189083
bdsp was whatever but they brought my spirit animal back

No. 189241

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i hate humanity, but actually i just hate men, because only men would be drawing porn of a kitten en masse and putting it on the internet.

i genuinely wish all pokemonfuckers would fall off a cliff and break every bone in their body. i get pedophile/animal abuser vibes from this shit. i dont find it funny, even when someone says "its just a joke" it severely creeps me out to see talk of fucking pokemon in general fan spaces. it feels sinister.

No. 189247

>>189241
It's funny how male fans draw porn of the cutesy animal-like mascots and ten years old female characters while the female fans just draw the male characters holding hands or the adult male characters buttfucking each other consensually and they tag their posts online. Thank god I almost always manage to avoid male fans.

No. 189392

>>189241
Oh god, after the trailer dropped, I went online to see what was being discussed by the community. I don't go on Twitter much but Pokémon was trending and I wanted to see the reactions / cute fanart. There were so many wholesome posts but immediately there was furry fetish shit about Sprigatito within 30 minutes of the trailer dropping. I was disgusted and just thought "Really? Immediately this??". I hate men. She's so cute but I knew it would be furry bait - Pokémon better not make it become a bipedal furfag like previous starters, everyone has voiced how ugly it is but they keep pandering to furries these days.

No. 189396

>>189392
doesn't matter if it's bipedal or not, there's porn of baby pokemon and every four-legged first evolution. fucking serial killer shit.

No. 189635

I have so many friends on pg that i added from internet codes, i dont really know them and you can’t communicate ig, so i try to match the pokestop postcards they send me, like if they send me a church I’ll send them a church, if they send me street art I’ll send street art, etc. I think only one has caught on and we’re in a streak of graffiti cards

No. 189637

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>>189211
I love him because he looks like such a punk-ass kid, togepi is just cute but not really much else to me and the evolutions are meh. Mimikyu is another fav of mine though

No. 190613

I hope Gen 9 brings back Pokémon Amie. The boosts you get from bonding with your Pokémon are a little OP but I just find it really cute petting and feeding my favourites.

No. 192304

I wish there were a series or more shorts with Pokemon only

No. 192377

Have you noticed how the Japanese Pokemon channel heavily features piplup? I guess because of the Sinnoh games releasing again but so much of the content in the past few months has Piplup in it. I don't remember seeing them do this as much with other starters besides Charizard is piplup just that popular in Japan?

No. 193165

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>>189083
Gen 6 is probably my least fave but Goomy is perfection

No. 196851

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i hate that trannies latched onto sylveon. it’s such a beautiful pokemon and it was designed by a woman. trannies trying to dig their claws into things meant for girls once again.

No. 196895

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I was reading Cacturne's pokedex entry and it says it stalks it's prey through the dessert during the day and exhaust it then strikes at night when they're too tired to move. That sounds metal as fuck and nobody talks about it. That's all

No. 196896

>>196895
Awesome, a pokedex entry I like is that feebas is so ugly that no trainers want to train it, yet it's so hardy and can survive anywhere, that scientists are starting to study it. Go feebas

No. 196897

>>196895
Cacturne is super ignored, but its typing and general aesthetic of being a creepy living desert scarecrow is so cool!

>>196896
Feebas reminds me of tilapia. Ugly, hardy garbage fish

Also, a lesser-known Pokédex entry I like is that Klefki will furiously jingle its keys at people as a threat display

No. 196898

>>196896
Kek, I think one of the entries for Magikarp says its the most useless and pathetic pokemon in the world, but then there's one that say it can jump over a mountain? Idk what they are on when writing some of these

No. 196899

>>196898
You know what, that sounds like Magikarp is very powerful, and just doesn't want to show people its power or let humans benefit from it, good for them.

No. 196902

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>>196899
Kinda harsh of the devs tbh, though I guess the joke is that it becomes a very strong pokemon. Though it ticks me off that people still believe the strongest=survival, survival in nature means the fittest for its environment survive, of course if take a fish out of the water it'll fucking die dumbass

No. 196929

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>>196895
i love cacturne!


my favorite entry

No. 196944

>>196851
Just ignore them

No. 196952

>>196929
Based. We all need this pokemon in our lives

No. 205255

Anyone want to be pogo friends ?

No. 207003

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>>192377
late but search up project piplup, its a social media campaign that theyve been doing since last year although i feel like theyve only really been doing it in japan and not really anywhere else a whole lot

No. 207072

>>207003
OT but GOD how do I draw and paint like this?

No. 207111

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I hate how we haven't gotten any more news, images, videos, or anything about Gen 9 when it's supposedly slated for release late THIS YEAR. Where's the hype train build up? We're already half way through May. I remember many years ago they would sprinkle a little at a time over a longer time span but this feels like it'll all be crammed for the few months just before release which is lame.

No. 207113

>>207111
Ah the fire type starter and the shota are so cute!!! I hope we get more news soon too

No. 207118

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>>207113
You sound like a pornsick scrote when they say "the loli there" instead of just referring normally to kids

No. 207124

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>>207118
Me no care

No. 207125

>>207113
>>207124
This is either a scrote or a fujo, ew

No. 207127

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>>207125
>>207118
Fine, antifujo-kun. I'll give you one last (You) before bed.

No. 207128

>>207127
I'm not anti fujo, the ew was in reference to liking "shota". Even other fujos shame the pedo fujos because that shit is gross.

No. 207137

>>207128
Yeah, I'm a fujo but shota is just demented. The brainrot is strong there

No. 207139

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>>207137
I just think they're cute, dude. I don't get off to them. you're pressed over a word and a fanfic you wrote in your head about someone who used it on an anonymous imageboard.

If it makes you feel better, if I ever one day find myself pregnant with a male embryo I promise to abort it as soon as humanly possible.(derailing)

No. 207140

>>207139
Then don't use hentai terminology.

No. 207142


No. 207165

>>207139
I hate all you scrotes in the Pokémon fandom. Disgusting. You are not welcome here.

No. 207170

>>207140
When the terms pertain to males, I'll use them however I see fit

No. 207371

>>207072
Practice! Copy artists you like (no shame in that) a bunch until you think you you've established a style you like, then turn it into your own thing.t Referencing and tracing are both good practices.

No. 210605

>>210558
I am so excited. What do nonnies think will be revealed? They have to reveal at least the region name right? Probably the legendaries? Hopefully we see the early route rodent and bird Pokémon, too.

No. 210682

New trailer dropped. Showcased new professors, some locations, few new pokemon, and the box legendaries

No. 210683

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>>210682
Beat me to it, was about to post lol here's the legendaries. All the new Pokémon shown feel so fakemon-like to me but idk if it's just the newness of them right now.

No. 210684

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And two new professors, that's interesting. Professor Sada for Scarlet and Professor Turo for Violet. The future versus past theme reminds me of Gen 5, like with Opelucid City.

No. 210685

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>>210682
I'm not sure how I feel about version-exclusive professors, or their outfits lol. The theme being about old vs new seems interesting at least

No. 210686

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Trainer Nemona, our rival for the games it seems. I like the cool persona she has, was kind of sick of losers like Hau and Hop. She's supposed to be skilled, too. I'd like an actual challenging rival, like back in the day.

No. 210688

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>>210683
they remind me of spectrobes

No. 210690

>>210685
I can already feel twitter lewding her, I mean they would've even if she dressed modestly, but this outfit…

No. 210692

>>210683
>>210684
This looks like shit. Especially the legendaries.

No. 210693

>>210684
The male professor looks fucking retarded. I hate that fuckboi hair cut so much.

No. 210694

>>210685
Why is EVERY female scientist in a game ever like 'omg gotta put a labcoat over my bikini so they know I'm smart.' wtf. it's like every single time I see one.

No. 210695

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All the new Scarlet and Violet Pokémon so far

No. 210697

>>210694
Uh.. in what world are professor Magnolia and Juniper wearing bikinis anon

No. 210699

>>210695
I hate that someone on the localization team obviously uses internet lingo, with shit like 'smol' and 'le chonk' in the names…

No. 210701

>>210699
In fairness, the localizing of Pokémon names has always had weird pop culture references that weren't in the original Japanese. Especially for the first few Gens. I do wish they had more direct translations.

No. 210703

>>210695
The legendaries are generic to me

No. 210704

>>210694
It's to compensate for Kukui being half naked all the fucking time.

No. 210706

>>210695
kek even the names are half-assed. They just called the legendaries "ancient" and "future" in Japanese and added the -don suffix to remind you that these abominations are anime dinosaurs.

No. 210708

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I do like the textures we've been seeing, at least.

No. 210710

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No. 210711

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No. 210712

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>>210710
All of twitter has been comparing him to that weird chad photo lol here's just one of the countless memes I saw posted. Both professors look weird to me.

No. 210713

>>210708
That use those awesome textures in the trailer, don't expect them to be in-game

No. 210714

>>210713
We see the textures on the actual Pokémon models throughout the trailer, though, during actual gameplay footage. And on trainers clothes. They clearly are making the models with more detailed textures than ever before. Still not as good as they could be with the kind of money The Pokémon Company has, though, I wish they would invest more and get a bigger team but they are dead set in their ways.

No. 210721

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>>In leaving Game Freak, Masuda will presumably no longer be hands-on with development of future Pokémon games, and will instead oversee the production of Pokémon products in general in his new role at The Pokémon Company.
>>According to The Pokémon Company, Masuda “will utilise his deep understanding of the Pokémon brand to develop new services and products […] tapping into his years of experience and creative thinking”.

No. 210722


No. 210724

>>210714
Yeah, great, textures and more details on an artstyle that's barely related to what we're used to in the entire series, so amazing… Honestly I'm not looking forward to this at all. To me gen1 to 4 are the real, most basic and iconic Pokemon games, gen 5 and 6 are very close but also seem to want to try new stuff and be creative in ways that make them a bit apart from the previous games, and then the next gens are just regression in terms of quality and creativity. I feel ok with giving up on this franchise now.

No. 210733

>>210724
Same. Actually, I was done after I played even a little bit of SwSh. It was terrible. So, I’ll absolutely be skipping this game, and likely all future games.

No. 210738

>>210710
>>210685
>>210684
I hate his hair, why are they giving them those ugly ass haircuts lately?
Her design is fine though

No. 210746

>>210686
A cool, challenging female rival? Now that's new (excluding the player characters that also act as rivals such as May in Gen 3). I really like this! I'm still not gonna buy the game but at least this decision they took was a pleasant surprise. Her design could be so much better though.
And speaking of pleasant surprises, I can't wait to see how >>210721 will affect the quality of the games.

>>210695
I like Lechonk's (haha get it? Lechón + chonk) design even though it looks like it belongs in another franchise, and Smoliv, whose design is pretty simple but solid, and cute and pokemon-like; its face reminds me of a couple other pokemon. The rodent looks weird and bland like so many pokemon in recent generations, but maybe it's just the artwork that looks flat (I haven't seen the trailer so idk if its model is shown there). Or maybe it's the generic "cute fluffy pokemon" eyes, I'm not sure.

>>210697
I didn't play SwSh but Magnolia truly was a god-tier professor design. Juniper was obviously the first "hot" professor though (coincidentally also the first female one).

No. 210770

>>210685
Her outfit is abominable. They really gave her a fucking caveman costume to wear under her lab coat. Jfc
Dude looks boring
I really want Lechonk
Still hate how the protags look like very young kids
That’s all

No. 210772

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the trees again…

No. 210773

>>210685
If the rumors are true and the legendaries are Dragon/Fighting and Dragon/Electric, then I think the outfits make sense. I like her design. It's cooler than the guys, that's for sure. Her outfit represents the past and his the future. Hers is like a MMA fighter, shows off her abs, and his lights up and looks Tron-like. It's cool. I think people just like to hate everything right out the gate when it comes to Pokémon.

No. 210785

>>210738
>>210710
He looks like Drake.

No. 210788

>>210697
I didnt mean pokemon games specifically, but pretty much every Japanese game I've played has a woman in a labcoat with either her tits showing or wearing the shortest skirt known to mankind.

No. 210790

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>>210772
Iconic, they are really sticking to what works.
I also like the complete lack of anti aliasing that makes every edge look like a saw blade and in the coalossal scene we even get to see the return of the excessively shiny rocks.
Honestly these games are starting to feel like cheap movie tie ins. The designs are seemingly the only thing where they put in real effort.

No. 210834

>>210785
no that's Davey Havok

No. 210895

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i dont understand what im missing here. everyone keeps calling them hot

No. 210898

>>210895
I think giving the professors this look was completely unnecessary. Maybe they're the League champions.

No. 210900

>>210895
She's really pretty! The man looks like my 2nd grade teacher

No. 210905

>>210895
Idgi either. I think she’s kind of hot (hate her outfit though) and he looks generic as hell.

No. 210908

>>210772
Why do these games look like such shit? Its embarrassing. Legends Arceus was fine but graphically so fucking ugly.

No. 210910

>>210900
she's okay. but like >>210905 i cannot stand her clown-ass flintstones outfit under the lab coat it looks horrible

No. 210922

>>210910
Should've just kept it a normal pants and lab coat outfit with the feather collar, tooth necklace, and hair weirdness for the past design parts of the outfit. Then she wouldn't look as retarded, while still evoking the theme she is designed to represent. It's mostly the jagged flinstone looking shirt and shorts that are the problem.

No. 210923

>>210922
+ the dumbass leg warmers, just have her wear sandals (though it would be against the rules to wear open toed shoes in a lab).

No. 210957

>>210690
Professor Sada already has over 212 images of smut artwork on rule34.

No. 210964

>>210957
It's a bleak future Pokefags. At least it's not the pokemon…

No. 210979

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Turo is "hot" because his head looked like gigachad and fanartists started drawing with an extremely muscular body because of that.
Does any of you find this kind of body type attractive or is it just the gays who are into hairy gorillas? I personally don't like it.

No. 210982

>>210979
kek I love it but only in 2d

No. 210983

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No. 210984

>>210895
Kek im glad im not the only one who doesn’t get this. I think its part of the marketing packet tbh, like to journalists and content creators, “we’ve gone with a hot, trendy new style for the professors!” But yeah to me they just look quite generic and normal?

No. 210987

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No. 210990

>>210987
pretty much… this is why I stick to anything pre Gen 5.

No. 210999

Does anyone here play on Showdown! AKA competitively? I used to despise the elitism of a certain community, but now I'm considering learning new generation mechanics and new pokemon movesets just to play and kick ass with my favorite pokemon in their respective tiers. I'm still stuck in ORAS doubles official rules, but last time I tried playing with those rules on Showdown! I couldn't even find an opponent, kek

>>210984
>I think its part of the marketing packet tbh
It definitely is a marketing strategy and I strongly suspect that the game news sites talking about it are being paid for it. Game Freak is deliberately designing the professors (along many other characters, obviously, including some pokemon) to be attractive so people will talk more about it. They admitted to making them hot on purpose in Gen 6 or 7, I forgot (it was probably about Kukui but they also referenced Sycamore). It's pretty obvious that they're resorting to making sexualized character designs to compensate for the (relatively) abysmal quality of the recent games and controversies. And now that Pokemon games are more popular than ever (I think?) it seems to me they're also trying to appeal to mainstream tastes which is why so many of these "sexy" characters look so out of place in some way (like the fuckboy haircut/face).
Why do the professors have to look like they're part of some weird fashion show instead, like, you know, a professor? lol
Hell, it wouldn't surprise me if they actually made this guy look like Gigachad on purpose considering what I've just said and the fact that they're referencing popular memes/internet slang.

>>210987
>the fucking Digimon
KEK it's so true… They could've also drawn a Yo-kai and it would've still been true

>>210979
This fanart is fine, it could be much worse. It's sexy but I'm not particularly into it. Maybe if the head was another character's

No. 211003

>>210923
>though it would be against the rules to wear open toed shoes in a lab
That's not a problem, Birch wears flip-flops because he does field research so he spends a lot of time outdoors. She could do something like that, too. But the shoes are not the problem, it's her whole outfit that makes her look like a total hobo

No. 211010

>>210895
Fuck them. Sycamore and Kukui are actually hot. These new profs look boring at best.

No. 211015

>>210895
The male professor looks as if he has an alpha male podcast and probably plays boring video games like fifa

No. 211018

So they just take a random country and make pokemon games for them now?

No. 211022

>>211018
>random
No, only first world countries that are popular with tourists
Game Freak visits the country in question to do research for their new Pokémon game

No. 211087

>>211022
Here's how I like to imagine the thought process behind it:
>game freak is filthy rich thanks to gen 1 to gen 4 games
>the higher ups can afford to travel on the clock thanks with the company's money instead of their own and nobody can do anything about it
>they go to NY just because
>shareholders ask them wtf they're doing
>"we're, uuuh…. doing research? for games? uh, yeah, that's it we're doing research, remember when Sega visited Mayan temples for Sonic Adventure? yeah, that's convincing!"
>they have to prove they were doing actual research instead of fooling around, BW takes place in not!New York
>suddenly, they want to go on holidays in Paris
>and so on and so forth

But let's be real, the reason why is probably because they thought they couldn't do anything else based on Japan after basing regions on Kanto (the real Kanto I mean), Kansai, Kyushu and Hokkaido and they want to appeal even more than usual to the international audience instead of making other markets an afterthought and releasing games in Europe a year after they've been released in Japan as one example.

No. 211134

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I'm excited for the game and I love the duck

No. 211163

Probably an overdone criticism at this point but the trailer reinforced my hatred of how young the main character designs are, made even worse that we see the youngster design which genuinely looks like they're an age they shouldn't be unsupervised.

Also, I'm convinced size is gonna be some weird trait or something because every pokemon shown (all made out of circles it looks like) were absolutely tiny. Also motorcycle legendaries, I'm such a gamefreak simp but I don't know about this one.

I like the female professor I kinda hope the profs are the bad guys somehow

No. 211165

>>211163
>spoiler
That's my theory after them being the champion.

No. 211166

>>211163
What if they both show up in both games, but one is the other's antagonist for the other's game? Like they both have opposing ideals fir the advancement of Pokemon study. I wish Gamefreak would be cool enough to pull something like that off, but let's be real they were too chickenshit to make Leon the true villain in Sw/Sh

No. 211171

>>211134
im so mad we dont have the rest of their evos yet god dammit im dying to know

No. 211516

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>>211368
>but the fandom around the newer games can be painful
Pretty much, maybe it's because I got older but the coomerism wasn't as overbearing in the older generations as it is today.
These things always were part of the fandom but less prevalent in the early to late 00s.
I blame social media and that the world as a whole got more interconnected.

No. 211517

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>>210895
Sorry for double posting but they look like from a Fan game or Fakemon Game, they don't really have the Pokemonish look.

No. 211521

>>211517
What even is 'the pokemonish look' nowadays? Those characters and pokemon look the same as in Sword and Shield and other recent(ish) crap.
I have to say I hate how Sprigatito looks like at least 2 other Pokemon. Lame as fuck and generic.
>>210721
Could someone patient please explain to me why is this a good thing?

No. 211525

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>>211521
>What even is 'the pokemonish look' nowadays?
I prefer the non cutesey look from Gen 1 but that is just my opinion.
But it's definitely not the style that is prevalent since Gen 6.

No. 211528

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Unrelated but I am still mad at gamefreak for ruining Brendan's design in the remakes and making him goofy.

No. 211529

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No. 211530

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No. 211531

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>>211530
>girl in pic
me

No. 211532

>>211516
No it was just as bad, but the weird hentai and furry shit was in its own corner of the internet because social media wasn't mainstream just yet, so you had less chance of being bombarded with porn online unless you were looking for it or mistook weird NSFW sites and forums for normal websites.

No. 211533

>>211525
>>211521
Pokemon looked like cute and simplified monsters or fantastical animals because of the hardwares of the time, now they look more like cutesy mascots to sell plushies and figurines.

No. 211534

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>>211532
>the weird hentai and furry shit was in its own corner of the internet
That's pretty much my point Nonita.
>>211528
>>211531
>>211529
>>211530
Haven't played any remakes after HG/SS but they all look goofy to me, almost like a parody of the game itself.
Except LGP/LGE which I consider a non-canon spin off.

No. 211538

>>211534
You're telling me LGP and LGE aren't spinoffs?

No. 211540

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>>211538
Non-canon.
I said non-canon spin offs, at least to me personally.

No. 211542

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>Green (female) finally included as an NPC
>she's half-arsed with no real purpose
>in a game that makes no sense in the timeline
what for?

No. 211544

>>211534
Do you mean character from remakes after HGSS or all main characters or what?

No. 211628

>>211525
ponyta is the one that gets me. it went from looking like an animal/monster to just a toy. the new designs are so rounded and simplified in order to make merch easier imo.

No. 211631

>>211542
It's because Leaf is superior.

No. 211646

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thinking about her

No. 211649

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>>211631
nah. the OG design was simple, stylish and cute. also bucket hats look stupid.

No. 211666

>>211525
Yeah I love gen 1 style, it's just that it's no longer The Pokemon Style sadly. It's hard for me to say 'this doesn't look like Pokemon' because Pokemon hasn't looked like Pokemon for years by now. IDC if it makes me a genwunner or whatever, I miss Pokemon looking more like animals (yes I know about Electrode or whatever, but at least the original style was great).

No. 211683

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meet my new son, smoliv
hes very cute
be nice to smoliv

No. 211684

>>211646
I'm still offended she's not in HGSS. It's a crime.

No. 211687

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No. 211688

>>211516
>maybe it's because I got older but the coomerism wasn't as overbearing in the older generations as it is today.
No, you're definitely right, it's not nostalgia, both the games themselves and the fandom have become more coomerish. With the games pandering to coomers on purpose it was bound to happen but also, as you said, because of the internet which has led to "rule 34" being normalized even among kids.
>>211530
>>211531
I love Hoenn but it always pissed me off how they had green in their Emerald outfits but they were all red in Sapphire. I guess the manga did it right
>>211521
AFAIK he was kind of the one who pushed for the games to be made easier because people spend more time on their smartphones and lack the patience to beat a slightly challenging game. Or something like that. I forgot lol
>>211525
Yeah I think most of the new designs would look better if they had a slightly more realistic feel and some thought put into how their bodies work in a 3D space. They not only look more round and simplified, but this causes them to look flatter. Their bodies often seem like they don't really make sense, or wouldn't work in another angle.
And it's funny how, like >>211533 said, when the hardware was more limited, pokémon had more detailed and three-dimensional dsegins, but now that they have the ability to put all those details on a 3D model they're making them more two-dimensional and smoother than ever.

No. 211691

>>211544
Anon probably meant the character designs in ORAS (which is entirely true, although they ended up growing on me)
Human character designs in Pokemon used to be more "normal" but at some point they decided that they needed to give them all really stupid and bizarre clothes (and body proportions) instead of like, just one funny accessory or two. It's like that flanderization pic kek
>>211684
Same, I will never accept Lyra as the Johto protagonist.

No. 211704

>>211693
Prof. Juniper too, imo

No. 211729

>>211653
I never played them and I never cared enough about them to read interviews from the developers, but since the gameplay is different from the other mainline games and it's a Kanto game I assumed it was a spin-off.

No. 211733

>>211691
>Human character designs in Pokemon used to be more "normal"
I don't think people realize it because the change was gradual. Gen 1 and 2 have mostly normal people in a urban fantasy version of Kanto and Kansai where the characters with the weirdest looks wear capes and they're made fun of for this, and two ninja. Compare Misty, a young girl wearing normal swimsuits you could buy at any sports equipment store because she's a swimmer with a pool in her gym, to Marlon whose swimsuit looks fucking weird and flashy and who has an atrocious tan line that makes no sense. I suspect it has to do with the hardware again and with the character designers adding more details to match the power of each new console, to make all the new character impossible to confuse with previous ones since there are so many of them. There are more and more character designers working on the games at the same time, probably to avoid repetitive designs.

No. 211761

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>>211733
it hurts. they get progressively more retarded, not just with overdesigned outfits but buttfuck stupid-looking hair, i hate it so much.

No. 211771

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>>211764
this is all i see. just matted white guy dreds. hate it

No. 211772

>>211764
He had the potential to have a solid design but they ruined it with the crazy clothes are proportions that make him look a little bit too… malnourished? for my taste. IDK it feels like they're making them more cartoony now while at the same time trying to make them sexually appealing to it just creeps me out.
And of course the elephant in the room: his stupid fucking Sonic the Hedgehog hair. How the fuck does that even work?

No. 211783

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>>211772
ive heard people say its supposed to look like teased 80s punk-style hair but it… doesnt. at all. it really just looks like big unkempt stinky dreadlocks

No. 211797

>>211783
I'd love to see a Piers redesign with hair that actually looks like hair

No. 211810

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>>211764
This is my personal least favourite.

No. 211823

>>211810
God I hate him too kek

No. 211824

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>>211687
nooo my son!!!

No. 211827

>>211810
At least he was kind of funny in the DLC. Piers is hideous, useless, overhyped and the first time you see him his cutscene looks ridiculous.

No. 211831

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No. 211841

>>211810
Yessssss. He looks so fucking tacky.

No. 211842

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>>211831
Wow this image made me just now get what this pokemon was supposed to be, for some reason I thought it was a generic Budew knockoff. This is going to be this gen's 'cute' plant that evolves into a feminine plant humanoid, huh.

No. 211846

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>>211842
I like the smol cute plant pokemon

No. 211847

>>211842
NTA but personally I think it looks more like some other pokemon that I can't remember.
>This is going to be this gen's 'cute' plant that evolves into a feminine plant humanoid, huh.
Thanks now already hate the evo before it has even been revealed

No. 211849

>>211683
Gamefreak isn't even trying anymore.

No. 211850

>>211849
I think it's unironically the best pokemon design in this gen so far.

No. 211852

>>211015
He looks like he hates women

No. 211854

>>211850
The only other design I've seen is the afroduck and even that didn't raise my hopes.

No. 211862

>>211015
This is the exact same thing I thought about when I saw him. Kek

No. 211864

>>211863
>Apparently, the scene between Lillie and Kukui during the anniversary gala opened with a quote that turned out to be from a hentai doujin featuring them.
WHAT the fuck

No. 211865

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>>211863
>Apparently, the scene between Lillie and Kukui during the anniversary gala opened with a quote that turned out to be from a hentai doujin featuring them.
jfc source on that info?
isn't masters not made by the pkmn company officially?

>>211854
i love lechonk. i dont care that people hate the name. i fucking love little piggies i love it i love it

No. 211867

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>>211764
>>211764
anons you better put some respect on his goddamn name for hard carrying the nightmare that was swsh postgame. also kisho taniyama is terrific as a seiyuu

No. 211872

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>>211868
name one thing roxie did that helps the player plot-wise outside of her gym, quickly. it was nice that she had some vocals in her battle theme, though
but nah, i like her too, i'm glad they even had a interaction or two in masters.

No. 211877

>>211867
NTA but I just wish he had non-stupid hair that's all

No. 211883

>>211871
im hesitant to believe that was on purpose since the dialogue is extremely generic

>>211867
hes ugly and the scene of him silently singing gave me physical pain from embarrassment

No. 211885

>smoliv will evolve into waifumon
GOD no. The -extra virgin- "jokes" from scrotes will be fucking insufferable.

No. 211890

>>211847
Probably the cotton pokemon from gen2? I don't know it's English name.

No. 211897

>>211883
>im hesitant to believe that was on purpose since the dialogue is extremely generic
This, I wonder if it's supposed to be in the English version or in the Japanese version too
>the scene of him silently singing gave me physical pain from embarrassment
same and I didn't even play the game
>>211890
Yeah I was thinking it was Jumpluff too, but apart from the cute round plant thing it has going on, but that's not the one I was thinking about.
Perhaps it reminds me of Whismur, I think that's it.

No. 211994

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>>211941
sounds more like useless coomers showing off how pathetic they are by trying to relate literally the most banal dialogue to some porn they read. it's like when men know the names of pornstars. how sad is that.
anyway have some fanart of the girl looking older because i'm still sad we have to play as little kids. i think the design is super cute otherwise

No. 212008

>>211994
softcore coomer pose kind of ruins it

No. 212024

>>212008
anon…………..

No. 212069

>>212008
I mean the autist shoves her ass in our face, but in a way in which you can also see a bit of titty. Typical Escher girl shit. Sorry that I trigger liberals.

No. 212118

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>>211890
skiploom?
I see the similarities but I love both equally, I just love cute grass pokemon so much. I would definetely be a grass trainer if I could

No. 212174

>>210979
I mean I like both of them a lot and am enjoying a little of the hype when I don't play these games anymore and never will, I can't believe people are getting upset over dumb names, porn art, and call this >>211994 'softcore coomer'? Fandoms have been like this since the dawn of time and people are letting themselves get so angry over smaller and smaller things when it's not gonna stop rule34.
My opinion is the same as >>210982 give or take how impossibly muscular he's drawn. Tho I kinda hate how Turo's made me like that haircut a little when I fucking hate it on 99.9% of irl men.

No. 212177

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i didn't know people cared so much about the human characters in pokémon. i'm just an autist who likes to collect critters so i only care about the pokes

No. 212200

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I love agencyshipping so much it's so cute

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No. 212285

>>211516
As someone who got to experience the "Pokemania" craze of the late 90s and early 2000s, this really does stick out to me because I thought it was just me. There were a shit ton of Pokemon fans back in the day, of course we were all kids but it was normal and exciting. And when social media because more of a thing, you still really had to go out of your way if you wanted to see the porn-side of the Pokemon fandom. It was always there like you said but it wasn't as hyper-focused back in the 2000s.

>>211532
This. I acknowledge that the hentai/porn side of the fandom was always there and probably exploded with gen 3 as there was more time for gen 1 and gen 2 to settle but you had to go out of your way to find it.

Honestly I chalk this up to the Twitter effect. Everyone and there mother are on Twitter and the lines of the clean side of the fandom and NSFW side of the fandom collide a lot more because of the algorithm and how insanely popular pokeporn is.

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So I just watched the last trailer for Scarlet/Violet and I'm sorry but I'm just not digging these legendaries. They don't look like "pokemon" to me, they look like rejected Digimon and/or modern-day Yu-Gi-Oh! monsters.

No. 212319

>>212286
kyogore and groudons autistic lil bros

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>>212286
I totally get the themes they have going on, but also they don't look like pokemon.
The future dragon looks like they recycled some elements from Lunala's design or something. Funnily enough I did like the SuMo cover legendaries.

>>212177
>i'm just an autist who likes to collect critters
That's literally why Pokemon was created lmao (even the creator is a literal autist)

No. 212386

I hope we get a Explorers of Sky remake soon, I doubt we will because Rescue Team wasn't that long ago but I really think they did a great job remaking the first one and Explorers is one of my favorite pokemon games period.

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No. 212389

>>212367
The thing about him being autistic is an unfounded rumor apparently? If anyone has official sources for that though I'd like to read them, like interviews. I think people thought catching bugs as a hobby was autistic in itself and it's what inspired the games, not realising that the vast majority of kids does that every summer so it's a normal kids' hobby there.

No. 212392

>>212389
I can't believe you're right. Damn I've been lied to my whole life

No. 212393

>>212389
It's a myth, he has never said he is autistic ever. Tbf I wouldn't be surprised if he really was but as far as anyone knows, it's never been proven true.

No. 212443


No. 212449

>>212286
pokemon have started looking like shitty digimon since gen 3. that being said i like the red one way more than the blue

No. 212459

>>212449
Not really, I'd say it started more with gen 5. Gen 3 and 4 had some pokemon that looked a bit different than the rest but it felt like it was more of a gradual evolution of the original character designers' art styles and the fact that the GBA is more powerful than the GB and GBC so they could make more detailed and colorful sprites. But I miss the designs that were minimalist yet iconic from the first gens.

No. 212537

>>212449
I mean you're not wrong necessarily about gen 3, there were some questionable designs in that gen but they seemed to have gotten worse and worse as the years gone on. Like to me, the only game post gen 3 that I think had a majority strong cast of new designs was Gen 6 even though that game has the worst story. I found myself liking a lot of the newer designs in that gen compared to Gen 4 and Gen 5.

No. 212577

>>188969
Hopefully some kids and their parents are enjoying cooking together somewhere.

No. 212583

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>>212459
yes really and it all started with this cunt

No. 212605

>>212449
I hate this take. I still love pokemon even in the later gens. Some more than others. There's good designs in later games too.

No. 212606

>>212583
Oi Rayquaza lol I see what you mean anon. I used to be indifferent to it when I was a kid but looking at it now with maturer eyes, this definitely was a WTF type design that really began the beginning of the end. Like the legendaries before Gen 3, they didn't look like Digimon, they had an organic feel to them, even Mewtwo.

No. 212608

>>212577
AYRT and while I'm happy they translated the recipes, why tf did it have to be put on the kids channel. Now I can't save it to my recipes playlist or see any comments. And they used comic sans kek what is up with the American localizers, they make the oddest decisions.

No. 212642

>>212606
I disagree, a lot of the early pokemon look more like digimon because of their more "realistic" details, which is typical for digimon. Newer pokemon look cartoonier and rounder.

No. 212654

>>212606
No, Mewtwo looked like it could have been a DBZ villain

No. 212681

Pokémon designs peaked in Gens 2 and 3

No. 212723

>>212681
I hope you meant HGSS

No. 212749

>>212723
Do you mean HGSS specifically or gen 4 in general? imo gen 4 is the last gen where all the pokemon's designs seemed coherent when put next to each other.

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>>212723
it took me more than an hour to realize that you were talking about the designs only and not the games as a whole

No. 212778

>>212774
kek nona, HGSS was excellent, possibly the last true Pokémon games tbh (Gen 5 games were super good too but stopped feeling like classic Pokémon)

No. 212787

>>212778
XY felt like the usual pokemon game but in 3D, gen 5 felt like some sort of weird break in the series, then starting from gen 7 everything went to shit.

No. 212909

Please stop inventing new pokemon. They all look like shit and no one cares about it. Pokemon died after HGSS.

No. 212913

>>212909
You know… Now I kind of want to replay all the games one after another just to compare all the games an pinpoint where everything went wrong. I should probably stream it for friends or something, I have a friend irl who's streaming games on twitch and we're shit talking her everytime she loses kek.

No. 213037

>>212913
If you've got the time, why not? I'm sure it'll be fun going down memory lane with the games and could be a good experiment to see where you think the quality started to slip since everyone's thoughts on that topic seem to differ.

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Heavy rumors going around that there will be a 2nd trailer revealed during the Nintendo Direct on June 29th. I don't know if they'd release another trailer so soon, though, but on the other hand, they still haven't even revealed the region name yet and there are only 5 months until release. The hype train needs to get going, I feel so impatient kek

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Literally

No. 214821

>>214806
I feel like the only one who's not at all into this new "hot" professor. He just looks like an average guy with an ugly haircut.

No. 214824

>>212909
Shit take. Pokemon is earning more money than ever before, SWSH is about to outsell GSC despite the price point being massively high and basically a luxury item, all while free games are an abundance these days. Thanks to pokemon GO even my local pensioners are massive pokemon fans. More people care than ever.

But even ignoring that, you're literally defending geodude, muk and exeggute as the best designs. They're ugly, boring and uninspired. The new designs are better.

No. 214844

>>214824
Anon was talking about quality, not quantity. And SWSH being the best selling game isn't shocking at all, it's because of the Switch selling very well and being the only Nintendo console of its generation, unlike the previous generations when a home console and a handheld were available at the same time, Pokemon already being a well established brand compared to when RBY were released, the whole 90s nostalgia trend targeting people who were here during the 90s and people who weren't even born yet, etc. Doesn't change the fact that SWSH doesn't even have dungeons and big routes, and the open world area often makes my Switch shit itself, you need to get the DLCs to actually see how interesting the open world thing can be.

No. 214848

>>214821
He doesn't even look 'hot'.

No. 214850

>>214844
The point stands. The first 2 generations have some of the worst quality pokemon. Every pink pokemon in kanto is a round blob jigglypuff, wigglytuff, chansey, cleafairy, clefable, and exeggcute which is a bunch of pink blobs all in one. All the "dungeons", caves i assume? have little to nothing except zubat and geodude. All the routes are just flat grass or water.
Gen 5 was amazing for routes, probably the biggest one so far.

No. 214855

>>214850
Do you know what a dungeon is in a JRPG? There weren't just caves, when was the last time you played gen 1 and 2? There was the ghost tower with possessed trainers, the various team rocket hideouts including the radio tower and the big company with teleporters, the half destroyed manor on cinnabar island (idk what the English names are but whatever, correct me if I'm wrong), the lighthouse, the power plant, the safari park, even the small forest at the beginning of RBY before you get the first badge counts, etc. And the routes at least tried to give you obstacles and things to explore the second time you went there and had more items and HMs, and some of them looked like labyrinths the more you approached the leagues. SHSW's routes were just short, straight lines with only trainers and wild pokemon, and it didn't even have a victory road, aka a dungeon. They stopped caring past gen 6 about that because they focus more on the battles by adding gimmicks instead of, idk, adding more double battles to mainline games in the actual main quest.

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>>214855
Reminds me of the fact that you in R/S/E actually had to use the instruction manual to read Braille insignia on the Rocks of the Regi Trio.
So if you didn't read the instruction manual and didn't had internet in the early 00s, you didn't knew how to unlock them.
Casuals got filtered in an already average Game.

No. 214866

>>214863
It's juste a side quest designed to sell guidebooks (very common practice before the internet became widespread and made them obsolete), and I bought an Emerald cartridge second hand and knew it was braille because a teacher in primary school tried and failled to teach us how to read braille. There are way worse 90s and early 2000s JRPGs than that when it comes to side quests. Braille wasn't even the worst part, it was knowing you needed to have that one specific rare, ancient nearly fossilized fish in your party in the first place, because that's actually really random. I'd rather have some similar bonus content than nothing at all or lzgendaries stuck behind a DLC or limited time event.

No. 214870

>>214855
I've played pokemon for 20 years and I've never seen anyone refer to those places as dungeons before, but it makes sense if you aren't a native English speaker. None of those places were very exciting to me personally, knocking out 20 team rocket grunts with the same pokemon wasn't very fun. Gen 5 did it way better, but I did miss some more interactable locations in swsh. For years I've seen a lot of pokemon fans say that "just adding more npc battles isn't fun" so they're just catering to what most fans wanted I guess. The most active and visible pokemon fans are the ones taking part in vgc, a lot of them just want to rush through the game to be able to battle others.

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>>214850
completely subjective. i remember next to nothing from gen 5 but i've replayed the first two gen games countless times. why are we arguing about this?

i also preferred when pokemon were "pocket monsters".

No. 214895

>>214870
>but it makes sense if you aren't a native English speaker
No it's unrelated, they're dungeons from a game design point of view, that's just how they're called. Have you played other JRPGs from the 80s, 90s and 2000s? Like, I don't know, Final Fantasy games from the 1st one to the 10th one have dungeons you access from an overworld map, but they don't look like literal dungeons. Even more relevant with SMT since both Pokemon and SMT are urban fantasies taking place in worlds based on ours with monsters you can catch and put in computers, and SMT games have a shit ton of dungeons based on different environments and some dungeons are things like giant stores.

>None of those places were very exciting to me personally, knocking out 20 team rocket grunts with the same pokemon wasn't very fun.

That's subjective, I've seen a lot of people with your opinion too. I personally like exploring places where I have to be careful with my resources because I don't want to have to leave and go back there every 5 seconds just to heal my party. And especially in early games you had puzzles to solve and you had to find your way out despite many weird obstacles (like the teleporters in the office building in RBY or the rocks you have to move around in the ice cave in GSC). Now that I have played a lot of other JRPGs I can appreciate that you can use repel early in these games and you can see most of the trainers ahead of time because some games have crazy random encounter rates. I wish the trainers were a bit stronger and had more pokemon though, idk why they were weaker than the wild pokemon in their respective roads in SWSH

Also yeah a lot of hardcore fans care way more about battles online but I hated beating people online, them disconnecting their 3DS or Switch and my victory not even being taken into account in my stats, and that happened all the time. I liked playing with rl friends as a kid with the cable way more. I'd rather trade online than do battles online nowadays.

No. 214902

>>214895
It's not about what they are from a design point what I'm saying is that they're just not commonly referred to as dungeons, which you wouldn't know if you didn't frequently talk to native English speaking fans. In general dungeons in pokemon belong to the mystery dungeon series.

I like the exploring, I just don't think the early regions are even fun to explore because everything looks the same. Gen 3 started to have more variation though. I agree about the puzzle parts, the games have become a bit too hand-holdy. Well, the teleporters weren't fun to me tbh. But the other stuff was cool.

>>214893
>why are we arguing about this?
we're on lolcow babe

No. 214926

>>214902
I don't care about what other fans calls them, they're dungeons. Too many pokemon fans are beyond retarded and love mediocrity at best, and are degenerate lolicon and furries at worst, which is why we're getting mainline games with less and less content so I stopped caring about whatever other fans say online.

>I just don't think the early regions are even fun to explore because everything looks the same

To be fair, it's due to the technology not being very developed for handhelds. RBY cartridges were already shitting themselves if you did the wrong thing. I remember trying to trigger a glitch that made a level 7 Mew catchable near lavender town in a Yellow cartridge and ever since I did that everytime you save your progress, turn off and then turn on you GB your save file was corrupted and you had to start the game all over again. And implementing Kanto in GSC was very hard iirc so the devs had to remove a lot of parts to make everything work properly. I don't know if you played on a GB or a GBC but on the GBC each town has a different color palette, that helped make things look a bit more varied.

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>>211764
>>211783
I always thought it was supposed to be inspired by a deathhawk?

No. 215215

>>214821
I feel like a lot of the hype is fake. Like people are only excited for the sake of being hyped, not because they genuinely find the new info exciting. Of course, as long as it results in sales, it doesn't matter to Game Freak.

No. 215509

>>215215
Nah, I have a lot of nerdy friends and everyone is genuinely excited that pokemon is doing an open world game for the first time ever. People online don't fake hype(unless they're a paid off influencer), there is nothing people love to do more than to complain about any tiny mistake they can find lol

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anons if you could have one pokemon irl, what would you choose?

for me it's a matter of ease… i'm sure if i lived in the pokemon world i would dedicate myself to being a trainer and traveling around when i was young, then settling down. what team would you want to have if you lived in the pkmn world, and who would you want if you could just pick one?

for me if i was a trainer, i think i would focus on a team of 3 or so strong pokemon, then when i settled into a more domestic life i would have pokemon to help me raise plants and stuff. but if i could just choose one right now, i think it would have to be raichu! free electric power when i need it, and it's one of my favorite pokemon, it's so adorable.

No. 216964

>>215215
im honestly hyped about the game because legends arceus was amazing, but idgaf about the stupid professors

No. 216967

>>216962
If I could have a Pokémon irl I would have an owlet, my brother got me an owlet plushie once and I love it, I think my owlet would get along with my dog, the three of us could play and traveling together would be neat.
In Pokémon world I would have a cute but strong team, with a litwick, poochyena, owlet, gulpin, slugma and a yamask, I would explore many regions and pick somewhere like sootopolis or fortree city for my retirement.

No. 216970

>>216962
I love swimming and traveling, so I'd get mostly water type and flying type pokemon. I'd definitely want a big water type like lapras because it's cute and I'd love to ride on its back in the sea or lakes.

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>>216962
It's cute pokemon for me. They don't have to do anything useful, I just need the serotonin boost in my daily life. I'll take a combination of any of these.

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No. 217208

>>217196
i hate pokefuckers but buzzwole hits something uncomfortable for me

No. 217380

Do any of you have some good pokemon fan games recommendation? I'm currently playing xenoverse and you can really tell that they put a lot of effort into it. The only other pokemon fan game i have played before was insurgence but that was a long time ago and its a bit older.

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>>217042
Based Pumpkaboo lover

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>>216962
Chandelure all the way, no other reason than I love him

No. 219614

>>216962
if it's irl then something super intelligent like an alakazam

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Will you be getting these, nonnies? If they would've made a Slowpoke one then I think I would've finally given in to buying a Squishmallow for the first time, but I think I'll pass. I wonder if they'll be cute.

No. 223477

>>223476
Samefagging
>"These will all be in 14” sizes, and 20” versions of Snorlax and Togepi will also be available. These will likely be available through Target later this year."

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>>223476
The thing about squishmillows I don't like is that they cut off/simplify a lot of the features of whatever it's supposed to be to make them a bland egg shape, though I guess they chose some already round pokemon to do it to. I thought they already had this pikachu squishmellow? If you like slowpoke there is already a sleeping slowpoke plush that's very cute

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>>223482
Wow i just realized I spelled Squishmallow two different ways in my post, ignore that

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>>223483
He's beautiful. 10x better than a Squish imho.
>>223482
But it seems they made some of their own in plush and plushie clips form: https://www.pokemoncenter.com/search/microbead
I guess now they decided to finally collaborate. Vidrel is a sneak peek.

No. 223489

>>223476
I am so incredibly sick of gen 1 pokemon.

No. 223493

>>223489
Understandable, nonnie.

No. 223494

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>>223489
Rowlet and Swirlix would make perfectly cute Squishmallows, but no, we need MORE merch of ugly ass Snorlax.

No. 223503

>>223494
Oh, these would be just too cute.

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>>223476
Here's what two of them look like.

No. 223526

>>223521
oh no i want the gengar

No. 223609

>>223489
shut up zoomer

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>>223521
The back.

No. 223623

>>223619
Gengar is actually cute, I love pikachu as well though.

No. 223624

>>223489
Which pokemon would you rather see?

No. 223628

>>223624
NTA but Gen 3 and 2

No. 223652

>>223624
There's about 800+ more to choose from, plenty of vaguely round shaped, cute ones like Pumpkaboo and Goomy. Swirlix and Rowlet, as pointed out before. They could cash in on the Bidoof meme, even. There's too goddamn many Pokemon to keep making the same 3 plushies over and over and over and over… I'm not complaining about Pikachu, just all these other gen 1 Pokemon that should not have as much merch as they do.

No. 223759

>>223652
Ngl, Pumpkaboo one would be adorable. It would be nice to see pokemon merch of other characters besides the very popular ones. There's a lot of pokemon to choose from like you wrote. I think the response would be favorable.
>>223628
Lots of good candidates.

No. 223784

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Nonnies!!

No. 223793

>>223784
Snubbull looks adorable.

No. 223812

>>223784
I will die for chubby umbreon

No. 226475

Thoughts? The new gimmick is pretty shit, but I like the more open story. I still think the legendaries look strange…

No. 226476

Where the fuck are the starter evos

No. 226479

>>226475
Looks like shit, I think I'm done with the franchise. Maybe the open world thing could be interesting, I think it was fun in the DLCs in SwSh, but the rest seems so awful I can't bring myself to give a shit.

No. 226486

>>226475
it looks fun. my excitement has gone up!

No. 226506

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>>226475
This is apparently a male.

No. 226507

>>226506
Samefag to say I’m fine with it being a man I just don’t look forward to the amount of tranny bs and porn that’s going to come with it.

No. 226520

>>226507
Just don't interact with the crazy part of the fandom and you're good to go.

No. 226521

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>>226507
I love Penny's design but i am worried for her too kek

No. 226526

>>226521
God same you know she’s gonna get they/them’d to oblivion.

No. 226538

>>226475
I hate it, but we all know I’m going to play it anyway. Fuecoco superiority.

No. 226554

>>226475
I'd love to see them push exploration / catching pokemon more, but maaaan does that world look dead. Can the open world meme fucking die already?

No. 226561

>>226475
I'm excited, but I'm easy to please. I understand where people come from when they get upset at the new games, but I don't really give a fuck kek. The legendaries look so much better at the end of the video, when they don't have the wheels. The blue one look so sleek and cute. I hope you can toggle the wheels on/off, that's really my only gripe atm. I'm pumped for regional wooper!

No. 226609

>>226475
The legendaries look stupid as fuck. If they wanted to include a motorcycle, why not just give you one instead of designing two pokemon with wheels? One of them doesn't even use its wheels kek. Either a bike or a pokemon without bike parts.
The Terra-whatever phenomenon is dumb. Just bring back megas, for fucks sake.
Most of the human character designs are stupid or just, I don't know, weird.
I like Cetitan. I'd like the dough dog more if it had more original colors and I can't unsee the wonky art (probably the same artist who did Sprigatito's art kek)
The world looks kind of empty.

No. 226620

>>226609
Remember when we used to get a bicycle in the previous games, which made sense because kids in a shit ton of countries ride a bicycle if they want to go somewhere a bit far away but don't have public transport? Now you get to ride an ugly ass pokemon that's conveniently the same one for flying as well! God, maybe HMs weren't so bad after all.

No. 226622

And samefagging just to say that we can all kiss goodbye to dungeons now. Maybe they'll stop pretending there will be a proper victory road this time.

No. 226633

The gimmicks are so retarded. They last for one game, then get dropped, and literally no one ever cares.

No one gives a fuck about Z-evolutions or mega-evolutions or ultrabeasts or dynamax or gigantamax or any of that shit. I just want to go on adventures with my cute animal friends. Give me a camp where I can interact with them, let them follow me around, that's all I fucking need.

But no, they have to turn into fucking living crystal this time for no adequately explained reason.

No. 226634

>>226620
This.

I maintain that they should've kept TMs as one use rare items, that you had to really think about who you were going to give them to, like in the good old days.

No. 226635

>>226521
She has short hair, anon, that means she's OBVIOUSLY non-binary. I swear to Christ, zoomers are so fucking retarded.

No. 226641

>>226521
I really don't like her hair color combination. It's so random.
And the art looks kinda lazy. It's a shame, because otherwise she'd be perfect.

No. 226647

>>226633
But I care about megas…
Maybe because it was the first gimmick of its kind, I really liked them. And it had the potential to make weak or average pokemon a bit stronger, with the temporary stat boosts and ability and type changes, and make them look cooler, but not to the point of being ridiculous like gigantamax or this crystal shit, most megas looked like "natural" transformations.

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>>226641
The colors initially reminded me of Feraligators coloring but looking at her tights it might supposed to represent plusle and minuns. Maybe those will be some of the pokemon she uses? I at least hope it will tie into her design, I feel like Gamefreak is just designing characters with crazy hair and outfits for no apparent reason anymore

No. 226673

>>226633
>I just want to go on adventures with my cute animal friends.
exactly! I want to bond with my pokemon, I want them to feel special and unique even though there's tons of the same one out in the wild! I have no idea how they would accomplish this, but my dream pokemon game involves actually bonding with your individual mon, not just its cute design or battle adequacy.

No. 226712

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No. 226718

>>226658
>Don't we already have characters based on them?
NTA but I forgot who those characters were. I just remember that Plusle and Minun were the starters/partner pokémon in the first Pokémon Ranger.

No. 227065

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>>226475
Bread puppy is so cute!!

No. 227072

>>226712
>transmasc
FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU

No. 227091

I wonder who did they hire to be in charge of the character designs, because they all look worse than anything you could find on deviantart.

No. 227131

>>226712
This just in, girls with short haircuts are all transmasc whether they want to be or not.

No. 227133

>>226648
It’s scarlet and violet…

No. 227289

>>227133
NTA but her design has light blue, not violet in it. Violet is more purple. That doesn't make any sense. I think anon may be right that it'll have something to do with what pokemon she has.

No. 231540

>>231537
What? Most anons are agreeing with the moid. Stop trying to farm more (you)s.

No. 231566

>>231537
Yawn look at the inferior sex seething. Still no gf though.

No. 231576

>>231537
What the fuck does a seething incel spergout have to do with Pokemon

No. 231578

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Water type best type, don't even argue with me, you can't.

No. 231595

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>>231578
I'm going to fucking poison you

No. 231604

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>>231595
kek good luck with that, poison type was shit until fairy type was introduced to compensate for their mediocrity.

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>>231578
as much as i love water pokes the only truth is that ghost type best type

No. 231678

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>>231578
imagine getting ohko'd by ferro-chan's power whip

No. 231680

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>>231678
imagine having a 4x fire weakness

No. 231697

>>231678
I forgot that pokemon existed wtf

No. 231715

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>>231680
and all the fire types AND their moves stuck in doodoo tier where they belong hehe, the ferroGOD has no fear

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No. 231872

>>231678
Ferrothorn is cute! CUTE!

No. 231873

>>231869
Weak ass Pikachu can't do anything with its low defense and HP, try again.

No. 231902

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I love paldaen wooper so much already (people calling it pooper kek) It isn't going to convince me to get the game but I still appreciate it as someone's who's favorite pokemon are poison types and Quagsire. I think the evolution will (hopefully) look sick and have a lot of bones in it as they are based on Iberian ribbed newts which can break their bones to protrude out and use them as weapons. I'll probably get a plush of it when those come out

No. 231913

>>231902
I love pooper

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No. 231923

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>>231663
This and fairy type

No. 231936

>>231923
the only acceptable pikachu bootleg

No. 232204

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>>231936
not true

No. 232218

>>232204
Loved the Pikablu days. It was the first time I had ever experienced "theories" and rumors about media.

No. 232229

>>232204
I remember hoping they'd release a fire equivalent of pikachu after marill. Ah well. Unless there is by now, I haven't paid attention since X&Y

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>>231578
Objectively? Steel. Subjectively? Also steel.

No. 232263

>>226673
XY did that with Pokémon Amie, technically. And I fucking loved it.

No. 232276

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>>226673
>>232263
TBH, this is why I enjoy GO. I really don't care what anyone says, especially this late in its lifespan (which is long, for a mobile game). GO is basically AR Amie, and you literally can battle with your favorites in the majority of the GO leagues save for Masters and some of the themed cups.

No. 232277

>>232276
pokemon died a long time ago by becoming a pay2win but I'm glad you are enjoying it regardless, nonnie.

No. 232281

>>232277
A few people keep saying this, but I don't really understand the pay2win part. I know with the console crowd, people would spend hours upon hours trying to grind good IVs or whatever to be competitive.
I'm even saying this as a rural GO player. I don't think I've spent more than $70 (mostly GOFest tickets) over the course of 6+ years playing with lots of breaks in between. The only league that comes close to being Pay2Win is Master's, and even then, it's just boring.

No. 232282

>>232281
Adding onto my post, I think I 'm getting this from people who got into Pokémon as children, and are surprised, as adults, that the franchise is showing its hand. I love Pokémon, but they've always set out to make this into a cash cow franchise.

No. 232283

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so the pokedex leaked. thoughts?

be aware that the drawings are all fanart aside from the stuff we already saw

No. 232303

I recently watched this series of videos and it was very informative. When I got into Megami Tensei I couldn't help but feel like there were more similarities than differences between this franchise and mainline Pokemon games, what's with the stories being about people in our world and era recruiting enemies based on animals, mythologies and legends, putting them in computers and electronics, etc. Now I kind of wish the games after gen 1 played into that more and straight up called Unova NY, Alola Hawaii, Kalos France, etc. Once I learned a lot more about Japan I noticed which cities corresponded to which in-game towns when replaying, but as a French anon I felt like Kalos was portrayed more like some kind of tourist place and not like a "normal" region, and Alola was even more like this. I wish Lyon and Marseille had their equivalent in XY instead of the half assed, small postgame city, what a waste.

>>232283
I'm curious as to how the regional variants will look like for previous gen pokemon. I don't have high hopes for the starters' evolutions tbh, Game Freak keeps making them look anthropomorphic or like mascots instead of making them look like actual monsters. At this point, barely any new games interest me and I have almost 300€ worth of vouchers from selling second hand games to my favorite game store, so I'm actually considering getting either one version. But not at release. I'll wait until they announce either a third version or some version that includes potential DLCs in a cartridge, like what I did with Pokemon Shield. Either way, it's not going to feel like a loss unless the game turns out to be extra shit instead of mediocre and full of wasted potential.

No. 232310

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>>232303
>Game Freak keeps making them look anthropomorphic or like mascots instead of making them look like actual monsters.
yeah, i hate this. idc if i get called autistic but it perfectly summarizes why i hate the newer starters. they are no longer "pocket monsters", they are pre-made "characters" that won't differ at all unlike the original ideas for starters. picrel example for anyone who isn't aware of this

pokemon starters these days remind me of digimon. another reason i preferred pokemon over digimon. i don't hate the bipedalism, i hate that they are "characters". all incineroar must be wrestling heels. all cinderace must be sassy soccer players. whereas before a charizard could have any sort of personality or interests, thus more like a super-powered pet; these new starters are absolutely "mascots". just like digimon. like they should have a pre-set personality and be talking to you. it's so weird and i hate it. i actually shoved my starter into the computer for the first time in galar and never used it.

No. 232315

>>232310
>i actually shoved my starter into the computer for the first time in galar and never used it.
I picked the grass starter in Galar because it was the least terrible on when it came to design. It's just a big gorilla that plays the drum, that's way less strange than a soccer playing bunny or a elite sniper lizard when you know how intelligent and social primates are irl. If I picked one of the other starters I also would have shoved it in the computer. And the pic your posted is exactly what I was thinking about when I made that description. They're the best examples imo, I don't know why fire type starters are the most blatant cases these days.

No. 232349

>>232310
They don't even seem like animals/beasts anymore. They are way too anthropomorphized now, like typical furries, the only thing they're lacking is human speech. What kind of beast species is has evolved around a human activity like soccer or wrestling? The fuck? So many pokemon concepts suck now. Just base them on animals, for fucks sake, not on human sports.

No. 232361

>>232349
yeah, the way someone explained it to me was "a pokemon should feel like it could exist in the wild". because they do! starters are rare, but they are still wild pokemon. there's absolutely nothing interesting about a bunch of wild rabbit-people who play soccer. that makes no sense. whereas like, typhlosion are based off weasels so you can see them existing running around doing weasel stuff.

No. 232381

>>232361
I really wanted to like Inteleon because of its slick design and it being a blue reptile, but why the fuck is it a humanlike sniper? Also "haha British spy get it?? James Bond??" That was so cliche it just made me cringe. So not only are Pokemon being based on things from human culture when there's no reason for them to be, but also on real-life popular culture characters.

No. 232509

New trailer

No. 232526

>>232509
I like the music, it's very different to what we're used to, hopefully it'll be in the game (not that I'll ever buy it). I see they're really trying to do something different this generation, but I don't think a few superficial changes will be enough.
Also, that lizard is so obviously the basic stage of the legendaries.

No. 232527

>>232509
dumb crowns

No. 232529

>>232509
im most confused about cyclizar… so, everyone gets one? and they can just use it in battle and it evolves into the box legendary? not much of a "legendary" pokemon if it's just a thing everyone has… i am super not into the idea of this thing and want to use a regular bike. oh well.

i hated the crowns at first but now i think they're kind of cute and silly. definitely pretty to look at. i think having a big hat is the easiest way to tell what the type was changed to, honestly. they could have used some sort of particle effects but it might get confusing as opposed to specific shapes.

No. 232533

They also released a trailer for the SV series for the PTCG (not sure if anyone else here is into the cards, I enjoy collecting them myself).

No. 235079

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baddie

No. 235134

>>232529
Pretty sure cyclizar isn't going to evolve into the legendaries. I think it's more like carbink and diancie, they're just related through implication and lore. Even sword and shield had a regular horse/unicorn in ponyta and rapidash and still threw in two new legendary horses as well.

No. 235167

>>235079
wish pokemon unite wasn't so rage-inducing bc the outfits are so cute

No. 235384

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>>235167 agreed, I absolutely hate mmo games but I love all the cute and silly outfits a lot of mons have been getting

No. 235390

>>235079
>>235384
I wish contests were back and we could make our pokemon wear these cute outfits during the contests.

No. 235465

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I love the ugly monkey!

No. 235475

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>>235465 Im glad Smeargle isn't a lone artist anymore

No. 235534

>>235465
If a graffiti-covered alley was a Pokémon.

No. 235596

>>235465
adorable, he looks like an anime pet sidekick thing

No. 235802

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I fucking hate the Vaporeon coomer meme. I can't fucking stand it, it's so overused and every fucking piece of vaporeon media has annoying braindead zoomer cuck-faced faggot coomers talking about Vaporeon sexually. I can't fucking stand it. He isn't even a fucking furry pokemon like Lopunny, he literally just looks like a fucking cat. I fucking hate coomers so much. I don't give a fuck if it's "just a meme" it's fucking overused and tiring to have all the content of one of your favorite pokemon now filled with disgusting coombait comments. Vaporeon is a sweet little creature who just wants to fucking swim and make silly faces. Fuck off. I attached a cute wholesome photo of him since no one can properly appreciate those anymore. He's so sweet and strong and deserves to be treated with respect.
Anyways sorry for sperg kek. Does anyone here collect sitting cuties/pokemon fit? I got one in the mail today and they're realy high quality.

No. 235803


No. 235804

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>>235802
I feel the same, anon. The meme should've died long ago, but there will always be a new batch of young coomers who will discover the meme and repeat it until they die. I think anyone who confesses they lust after him genuinely need to be put on a list that prevents them from owning cats and dogs.

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>>235802
the meme is reposted every. fucking. time vaporeon is mentioned on the internet. its all men. men apparently want to fuck their pets. men ruin everything. its actually banned on the pokemon subreddit but it manages to be said on every single post mentioning vaporeon. beautiful fanart is shat all over by fucking virgin losers because they are obsessed with it.

ppl who want to fuck pokemon give me the most sinister vibes. i suppose i can understand the stupid furry-looking ones, even if i also hate furries, but at least they are probably imagining them as sentient. the people who want to just fuck a nonfurry pokemon scare me. i remember a bunch of youtubers did the "smash or pass" for pokemon and it actually disturbed me. i guess im also autistic. its just really, really fucking gross to think about pkmn in this way. theyre literally superpowered pets animals.

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>>235817
This. Literally every Vaporeon post I see now has the meme reposted in it or people referencing it. I don't think it makes you an autist to be disturbed by it, as most of them have the mentality, and looks of normal animals and just have superpowers. I hate how innocent media can get so easily twisted and ruined by disgusting coomers. They have so much fucking shit for themselves yet they still want to insert themselves into innocent media.

>>235817
I don't even get the """""sex appeal"""" about vaporeon. There's nothing, he is literally just a water cat/dog. Admitting attraction to him is just admitting you're a zoophile.

No. 235832

>>235821
like it’s on par with ranking disney animals (including the babies) for fuckability. it isn’t funny. it’s fucking vile

No. 235914

>>235802
I agree with you on both things nonna. I love the sitting cuties line for making sure plushies of literally every Pokémon, I can’t wait for gen 5 to come out so I can finally nab merch of one of my unpopular favs. I have an anorith from the line and he’s adorable.

No. 235934

>>223521
Eh they're kinda cute but I'd rather just get a full plush instead because I'm not really digging the gumdrop shape. I do see the appeal though lol.

No. 235939

>>226475
I really hate to be a downer but it didn't really wow or impress me. The game just feels so… Generic? Mundane? Somewhat lifeless?
Like I'm sorry but I've felt this way since Sword & Shield and I think the biggest thing that makes me feel this way is this move to consoles as opposed to handhelds. It's funny because for years I was hoping that one day we'd see the games move over to consoles and now that we have that, I've found them to be so underwhelming.

Context though, I'm an oldfag, I was around when Pokemon first came out and I've been playing the games religiously until gen 5 and came back with gen 6-7. So I'm a bit older than some of you here and it might be the reason why I'm so stuck in my ways with preferring the handheld experience.
I just feel like as soon as the games went console, the world designs became a lot more lifeless. Like nothing greatly stands out anymore and the color palettes seem to look slightly desaturated which only adds more to the dullness. Also the worlds feel so lifeless because of the lack of NPCs, let alone them doing anything. This is why the portable handheld style was better because you could fit more chibi-style NPCs to help populate the towns more.

The new Pokemon… I only like bread dog, it's kinda cute. The character designs are very meh. I'm fine >>226506 being a guy, so long as they don't pull canonical tranny shit with Pokemon, I'm fine with designs like these existing but yep, prepare for the "OMG he's totally trans uwu" bullshit. Same with Penny, I think her hair looks ugly color-wise but aside from that, cute design but she's already "Non-binary" BS bait so not looking forward to seeing more of that.

It doesn't seem like you'll be able to customize your trainer and are stuck with that ugly school uniform so that's a bummer.

The new gimmick is stupid and I agree with another non, just bring back mega-evolution or even better, continue giving proper evolutions to older Pokemon that haven't gotten any yet.

Overall I'm not hyped for the game. I might play it sometime down the line but as of right now, I'm highly unmotivated to get it day or month long release.

No. 235944

>>235939
They won't push trans shit in the games and ever since the FE Fates fiasco with the localization rewriting a shit ton of characters and lines and removing 1/3 of the dialogs, Nintendo of Japan is careful that similar shit won't happen again. And they try to accomodate the global market, which is why there are no casino minigames since gen 4 so they won't put trans characters in the games unless it's something very easy to miss the karate man being turned into a beauty like in XY.

No. 235949

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>>235939
pokemon has always had gnc characters who don't have special pronouns or are trans. the closest thing we ever got was some random female trainer who says she used to be a blackbelt and it's implied she transitioned but it's not made clear. the only difference is that twitter users decided to tack their stupid zoomer neopronouns on everything.

No. 235971

I've been playing all the ds pokemon games lately and im currently playing pokemon y! It's still surprisingly active. Does anybody want to share 3ds friend codes for friend safari before they shut down 3ds internet?

No. 235978

>>235971
I'll do if you want, I'm away from home so maybe I'll be able to do it not next Monday but the Monday after. I want to replay all the mainline games too in order actually, maybe someday I'll find the time.

No. 236033

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>>235802
Vaporeon used to be my favorite evelution as a kid (until leafeon came in) and I'm just flabbergasted on why they would turn this pokemon into something sexual. I don't fucking get it.

No. 236162

>>235465
I really hate it and think it's so fucking ugly kek hate those long fingers - but, honestly, I'm glad GameFreak is willing to make ugly Pokémon, It'd be boring if they all looked the same.

>>235939
>>It doesn't seem like you'll be able to customize your trainer and are stuck with that ugly school uniform so that's a bummer.
I mean yea you have to wear a uniform but they make it customizable still. I like it, it's a cute function. I did like the full customization in SwSh but it's cool to change it up with a uniform.

No. 236569

>>236162 IMO nothing even comes close to the customization in X and Y, the clothes were so damn cute and SwSh had really cute options but they just don't hold a candle to X and Y. Sun and Moons was kinda ass and for Scarlet and Violet, I'll hold my breath until the game comes out but damn. Still waiting for something even better than X and Ys cute shit

No. 236681

>>235465
I like the design but I feel like it doesn't belong in Pokemon. Which is a problem I've had with many pokemon ever since gen 7.
>>235390
I agree, they could've done so much more with contests in ORAS but they fucked it up. Cosplay Pikachu was kinda similar to that concept but not nearly the same. That game was really rushed.

No. 237410

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this shit in a 2022 game lol

No. 237414

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>>236162
it is based on the aye-aye which has long creepy fingers.

>>236681
agree about liking the design but they tend to miss the mark and overshoot a little too much. i made a super quick recolor and tried to tone it down to a level i liked more.

No. 237477

>>237410
Between this and the ugly as fuck NPCs I'm absolutely not getting this game. This trailer settles it for me. It looks like a parody of a pokemon game, everyone who shat on XY at release need to apologize right now.

No. 237482

>>237410
>>237477
I don't get it, what's so bad about that crab in particular? I haven't watched the trailer

No. 237486

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These guys are pretty cool

No. 237489

>>237486
I kinda hate them, also why does the first one have Magmar/Magmortar design elements?

No. 237496

>>237482
Look at its eyes, they don't look spherical at all, you just know the devs half assed the 3D model so now the result is that it looks unpolished as fuck in a way that's very distracting. I usually don't care about graphics in games that much, but this is the first thing I noticed when watching the trailer. Its model isn't polished enough for a Switch game from the highest grossing franchise of all time.

No. 237511

>>237486
Second one is pretty cool, but they could've put more effort into the first one.

No. 237548

>>237496
>>237410
I don't really play Pokemon anymore but I am shocked at how bad the graphics can be. The water in Arceus was so bad, specially from far away. I thought it was gonna be a Botw like open world game but it looks so shitty, I don't wanna try it anymore.
They really need to stop thinking their sole audience is literal children with no standards.

No. 237554

>>237486
>>237511
ha, i'm the opposite and like armarogue much more, ceruledge is meh to me but i like the chunky armor on armarogue. it's cute

No. 237576

>>237486
This game is single-handedly making me hate wide cuff boots.

No. 237630

>>237548
And when the first games were broken or had shit graphics they had good excuses like hardware limitations or having very small teams for big projects. Now they don't have that excuse anymore.

No. 237683

>>237548
Their audience is children with no standards and adults who would play with a brick if it had the word “POKEMON” painted on it.

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No. 237705

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I love Marnie design and I find her really cute. It sucks how much twitter pokemon hates her. Its just a character, especially that she is a kid…? I never thought too deep about pokemon, after all its E rated game. I did enjoyed Lillias backstory in Pokemon Sun a lot, same with the main heroine is XY, but eh…

No. 237711

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>>237576
What are those?!

No. 237713

>>237711
Remember when trainers looked fucking normal except for the unrealistic hair colors and for Lance having a cape, which everyone made fun of in gen 2? Because the games were supposed to take place in an alternate version of our world and was supposed to have mostly normal characters in its version of our world? Those were the good old days, I miss that.

No. 237715

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>>237486
What Pokemon need is more husbandomons

No. 237724

>>237711
Jesus christ what the fuck are these designs

No. 237735

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>>237713
it gets worse and worse. especially gym leaders. they used to look normal now they look like clowns. weird eyes, absolute nonsense hair, floating clothes, all kinds of other stupid shit and yet none of them are memorable. probably my favorite gym leaders in the recent games have been nanu and kabu because they look fucking normal (opal is pretty based too i just like old people i guess.) enough of the neon hair sticking 5 feet up in the air and ugly overdesigned clothes please

No. 237740

>>237735
Gen 5 and Gen 8 gym leaders weren't that bad and were pretty memorable.

No. 237829

>>237711
Kek goddamn, current time pokemon designers should have someone telling them to stop designing halfway through, this looks like someone pressed a randomizer button on a character generator.

>>232310
Late to this but this is probably the best description of why pokemons past around gen 5-6 irk me so much to the point I stopped playing. I loved pokemon because they looked like animals and humanoid bipedals with a set personality like Hitmonlee and Hitmonchan were a rarity, now there's so many of them you'd think a furry is pushing them out. It's almost as if they're wearing clothes or costumes.

No. 237837

>>237829
I'd say gen 6 is the last gen where this issue wasn't that prevalent. Only the fire starter's looked like a mascot or character more than a monster/animal in that one imo, and the character designs for the humans wasn't too over the top except for some specific ones. Humans in gen 7 looked good for the most part as well but the pokemon really had that "we HAVE to sell toys to consoomers" vibe overall.

No. 237862

>>237711
The work of someone who apparently never heard "less is more" or "keep it simple, stupid," in their life.

No. 237873

>>237862
It's like the designers made something over the top to test the Switch's capacities but instead of doing something iconic and stylish like Lulu in FFX (who has a shit ton of belts to show how powerful the PS2 was) they made an ugly piece of shit.

No. 237887

>>237873
all final fantasy outfits look like shit

No. 237890

>>237887
Depends on the games and character designers, if we still talk about FFX Tidus looks weird as fuck and unappealing but Yuna and Lulu are fashion icons.

No. 237894

>>237890
maybe to weebs. they're all the same overdesigned crap as the new pokemon characters

No. 237899

>>237894
The designs are way too different to be comparable in the first place. My comparison was more about the 3D models for their respective consoles.

No. 237905

>>237477
Agreed. XY was charming compared to what they’ve done since then.

No. 237906

>>237548
I would sell my soul for a pokemon game in the style of botw. Is the lack of effort just because GF is forced to crunch and turn out new games so often?

No. 237912

>>237906
Yeah I think that's why. They have to release spinoffs all the time, create games JUST to have new designs to sell toys and anime DVDs, it's a mess.

No. 237922

>>237906
Game Freak just isn't particularly talented or driven to do better. Their non-Pokemon games aren't exactly amazing. Little Town Hero was a bad game. Bland story, exhaustingly slow and tedious battle system, boring visuals.

No. 238434

>>236569
I'm actually currently playing X as I didn't have a 3DS during it's release and I'm only like 4 badges in but there is so little customization so far. Barely any clothes in shops and they are mostly ugly. Are all the cute clothes and accessories later in the game? I hate how my character looks so far lol I liked the clothes in SwSh, there was nice variety. Still limited by other games standards, tbf.

>>237414
I'm aware that Aye-aye have long fingers, I still hate it kek but the colors you changed it to are far more pleasant, I gotta say.
>>236681
This anon has it right, it just doesn't look like a real Pokémon and thats like the core problem.

No. 240051

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God bless emulation and piracy! With a combination of these two things, I can play Pokémon Red, Yellow, Silver, Crystal, Ruby, Leaf Green, Emerald, Pearl, Platinum, Heart Gold, Black, X, Alpha Sapphire, Moon and Ultra Sun on my 3DS without needing to take out my White 2 from the cartridge slot!

No. 240053

>>238434
The customization in XY isn't even remotely comparable to SM, just wait. I don't think you have full access to the store in the city that looks like Paris yet? Or enough style points? iirc if you don't have enough style points the saleswoman in that store doesn't even let you go inside.

No. 240086

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>>238434
This is what this anon >>240053 means
honestly I had forgotten about this style points system

No. 243366

They have introduced convergent evolution to the Pokémon world, this is Wiglett. They ae not a new form of Diglett but instead an entirely different Pokémon that just happens to look similar. The design is very meh to me, they could have done something better for this concept.

No. 243369

>>243366
Fuck you Wiglett.

No. 243464

>>237735
I realize I'm a bit late to the conversation kek but to me it's the opposite, the old ones look boring, soulless and flat and the new ones are fun and have personality. If you look at them as individulas they're not that strange looking and more often than not have quite normal clothes, apart from the Galarian ones having sport uniforms. But some look like shit like Burgh. I'm saying all this as an oldfag who's played since the Kanto games.

No. 243465

>>243366
cute but boring, i never liked diglett and they keep shoving it down our throat for some reason. alola had alolan diglett and dugtrio, galar had giant statues of diglett, bdsp had digletts as a special feature all over the underground, and the galar dlc also had that quest where you have to find all the hidden digletts on isle of armor. now wiglett.
at least this should make all the genwunners saying old pokemon designs were better happy

No. 243506

>>243465
>i never liked diglett
You should be ashamed of yourself. But agree with everything else you said.

No. 243577

File: 1664495421633.gif (1.45 MB, 320x240, diglett.gif)

>>243465
because diglett is adorable you dumb fucking zoomer

No. 243645

>>243577
>zoomer
I've been playing since gen 1 I'm probably older than you. I just don't have shit taste, not my fault you like a phallos shaped sausage worm whose evolution is to have its flesh fuse into its friends and becoming a triple dick head mutant

No. 243653

>>243645
>been playing since gen1 and unironically using the term "genwunner"
the kids don't think you're cool

No. 243720

>>243653
ma'am you're on lolcow, no one here is cool. even genwunnes call themselves genwunners, do you even pokemon

No. 243840

>>243720
ma'am the fellow kids are not buying it

No. 244247

>>243720
>ma’am
Fuck off schizotranny

No. 245277

New trailer dropped. Tl;dw: You can send Pokémon to fight on their own without doing anything. They made it so you craft your own TMs. Girafarig got a new evolution. They showed off some of the character customization. Picnics seem to be the new campsites from Sword, where you can have all your pokemon out and play. Instead of making curry, though, they showed a trainer making a sandwich? And the food causes effects like raising the chance of certain types showing up. You can also find random eggs here in your picnic basket.

No. 245279

>>245277
I find so funny how you can get pokemon eggs on the picnic thing… your pokemon fucked while you were making them a bocata.

No. 245287

File: 1665078380384.png (1.27 MB, 1157x1080, pokemonsneakpeek.png)

>>245277
Grabbed from people analyzing this trailer. New Pokémon that happened been revealed yet. These appeared briefly in the corner of the screen in the minimap.

No. 245291

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>>245277 I'm glad Girafarig finally got an evo, generally its not a mon I care much for but it's definitely one that needed an evo

No. 245292

>>245287
>>245287
Some of these pokemon look like they're taken straight out of some Mario game.

No. 245295

This might sound retarded, but how the fuck I get into Pokemon? I never owned a Nintendo console in my life, cause this shit is very unpopular where I live unlike PS and PC. But I liked Pokémon anime back in the day and recently really wanted to try out the games. I figure that I should start with older games cause people keep saying that they are better? I tried running Citra (3DS emulator) but it runs pokegames like dogshit to the point that they are unplayable because of the glitches and lugging. So maybe I should buy a Switch? But I don't want to get it only for one or two games (I checked out other Switch games and IMHO it is not my cup of tea). The price is pretty reasonable though, but I still need to save some money. So, maybe 3DS? I figure this shit should way cheaper and there is some very cool games out there.
Ah, also, newer Pokémon games look fucking retarded. I'm not a grumpy oldfag at all, but nonnas here are right. All the human characters look like fucking retards straight out of looney bin. And pokemons look like low-key furry bait or generic Japanese moeblobs.

No. 245296

>>245295
I think that you should play the older games, just try using the myboy emulator so you can play games like the crystal version, ruby/sapphire/emerald, definitely try the yellow version as well.
Maybe play with the DS/3DS games like the absolute masterpiece that's Pokémon mystery dungeon.
Also, if you just also want more Pokémon media, there's some really interesting short episodes on the Pokémon YouTube channel, I think they're pretty cool.

No. 245302

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>>245287
Brassius has to be my favorite thing about the games so far, he really grew on me since his design was first revealed

No. 245303

>>245287
Are those new mouse pokemon? They look so cute & I love rodents so I'm so excited for them (they look pretty plain, but maybe that'a their charm…)
Also nice to see how looks one of the 7394 leaked birds for this gen, did they even reveal the regional bird for this game?
The girafarig evo was leaked ages ago, I'm glad it's real, it looks so silly.

No. 245304

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>>245287
The bird looks like it's inspired by the monk parakeet. I love these little guys, I hope the actual mon ends up looking cute!

No. 245310

>>245295
You can play any game, they arent connected with eachother in the slightest. I would start with the mainline DS games (Platinum, Heart gold/Soul silver, Black/White), but if you prefer to plsy a GBA one (easier to emulate on anything), I would go for Emerald. And for 3DS, Sun/Moon (not the ultra ones) are the best ones imo.
The older games (red/green/yellow, silver/gold/crystal) are good, but since they barely have any story going on I found them more boring.
My favourite ones are BW+SuMo in terms of story and HG/SS when it comes to gameplay (there's so much to explore on it)

No. 245336

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>>245302
i am weak for tired old men

anyway anons, idk what game to pick. exclusives dont matter much since i can trade with my friends. i am mostly thinking about these dumb mons. if they are going to force us to use them to bike/fly then im having a hard time choosing. i like the design of the red one more overall except for that STUPID gray tire sticking out of it. the violet one looks much better when it bikes/flies but i dont really like anything about the design itself. blah

No. 245347

>>245310
>but since they barely have any story going on I found them more boring.
Maybe I'm just being an old fart here but to me having a story in a pokemon story is a huge flaw. Like no offense to the writers but the whole appeal is that you're dropped in a region that looks like an irl region or country and as soon as the tutorial is over I should be able to do whatever the fuck I want without being interrupted every 5 steps. If I wanted to play for a story I'd play other JRPGs like FF or Megaten spinoffs or whatever.

No. 245363

>>245310
>>245296
Thank you for your advice, I gonna check out a few games from each platform, mess around with the emulator and see how they run. Nintendo emulators are surprisingly good, DS emulator (I guess it was Citra…) is especially great, I played Ocarina of Time on my phone and it runs perfectly. So, gonna start with DS games then.

Another question, cause I noticed that it Getz brought up sometimes. Is it better to play with few mons but level up them like crazy or make a bigger and more varied team but with less powerful pokemons? Also, what the difference with being overleveled and underleveled? Is there a scaling system in the games?

No. 245368

>>245363
> Is it better to play with few mons but level up them like crazy or make a bigger and more varied team but with less powerful pokemons?
Pokemon isn't very difficult most of the time, unless you're playing with deliberate restrictions (like a nuzlocke) you probably won't have too much difficulty no matter whach team style you choose. I think the best way to play is to go in blind and choose whichever mons you like the best and work best for you. You shouldn't have issues with underlevelling unless you deliberately avoid battles
>Also, what the difference with being overleveled and underleveled? Is there a scaling system in the games?
People dislike overlevelling cause some later games make it too easy to level up, and make the game too easy, and underlevelling is when you don't level up enough and the game becomes harder. There is no scaling system for opponent pokemon levels. In BW and later games they use a system to prevent you from overleveling and make it easier to raise your pokemon to the same level as opponent pokemon, but previous games (DPPt, HGSS) have no such system.
Basically just play however you wanna play, and you'll probably have a decent time. The DS games are decently balanced

No. 245430

>>245347
Kek I think it's just we got different tastes. I have been playing since Crystal, but in general I usually don't enjoy games much unless they got a story or lots of text (but depending on the story, that can be it's downfall too…). The gameplay is fun, but I want something else outside "go to town -> beat gym leader -> repeat".
It says lots that I like Mystery Dugneon WAY more than the actual main pokemon games despite not enjoying much the gameplay itself. When I was little & didn't know they were made by separate companies, I was so upset at Game Freak never put as much effort in the story of mainline as in PMD.
Funny that you mention SMT, I started to play it last year and found myself prefering the spin-offs over mainline as you said, even though overall I find mainline's gameplay more fun to play.

No. 245564

>>245336
>i am weak for tired old men
i am glad game freak have realized a lot of female players like that and started pandering to us a little

No. 245986

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thinking about him

No. 246002

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Bump

No. 246005

>>245986
i do not like the way this fanart makes him look

No. 246062

>>246005
Fair but it’s the best I found out of a bunch of scribbly Ayden pieces

No. 246588

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No. 246590

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possible gym leader face leaks here

usually i dont trust leaks but this is from the same source that predicted farigiraf

No. 246592

>>246588
much better!

No. 246593

>>246590
normal gym leader looks like Norman 2.0. Looking forward to it

No. 246785

Ne trailer revealing the Electric gym leader. I hate that she has pink and blue in her design, the trannies are going to head canon her as a tranny and it makes me sick to think about. Fuck.

No. 246786

>>246785
I think she's cute! But her mouth is really strange looking. I get they were going for fangs, but she looks like she has major meth mouth kek

No. 246789

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>>246785 oh yeah twitters already squealing over "shes trans" just cause of the pink/blue color scheme lol. Sorry those colors generally look good it doesnt mean transgender every fuckin time

Personally though I really like her! I think shes super adorable, I maybe bias cause I am a vtuber fan and she definitely radiates that type of energy lol

No. 246796

>>246785
Part of me likes the design but this is the most obnoxious video Pokemon has ever made. Obnoxious screaming autistic vtuber ass design.

No. 246797

>>246785
don't let the troons win and get triggered every time you see pink and blue in a design. they chose those colors because they're sexist weirdos who decided to dig their heels into associating pink with girls and blue for boys. her design is ugly, they should have given her a pastel pink jacket or more bold hair colors.

No. 246818

>>246785
She turned to be way cuter than what I though after seeing the blurry leaked pic. I love how annoying she is, but I can't stand her clothes. She seems to have a simple dress under the yellow square thing, I wish they could've left her with a funky dress instead of that jacket.

No. 246847

>>246797
Agreed. Pink and blue is one of my fave combos. No one actually says anything about it if I wear pink and blue or show off my pink and blue deco but if they said “omg trans!” I would simply respond with a “no.”

No. 246871

I am seeing the vtuber comparison and ew. I think almost every vtuber is ugly, overdesigned, and talentless kek so I really hope they aren't trying to cater to that audience. She is cute but I hate her jacket. It feels so stiff. If someone were to wear an oversized coat like that, it wouldn't hold it's boxy shape. I know it's cartoon logic but it just looks uncomfortable and weird so it's very distracting. And the oversized sleeves are dumb, too. I hope she takes off her jacket for battle and she's wearing a cool dress.

No. 246950

>>246785
I hate the design

No. 246968

>>246590
i guess that confirms this pic is legit
in that case im curious about normal and ghost leaders. i hope normal guy really is another dilf like >>246593 mentioned

No. 247105

>>246871
>I am seeing the vtuber comparison and ew. I think almost every vtuber is ugly, overdesigned, and talentless
That's why the troons are trying to claim her, they can relate kek

No. 247352

>>246785
Follow up video revealing a new Pokémon

No. 247353

>>247352
And gameplay trailer

No. 247359

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>>247353
I dont know how that thing works nor it looks like a pokemon imo, but it looks so stupid I can't help but love it, definitely going to my team.
Reminds me of a lovechild between these 2

No. 247362

>>247353
i hate it

No. 247387

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>>246588
HANDSOME

No. 247531

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didnt like iono at all til i saw fanart about her in a rivalry with raihan, pretty cute tbh. i am warming up to her

No. 247532

>>247353
i feel like i should love bellibolt, since i love fat stupid-looking pokemon, but i really dont like this one. the false eyes kinda gross me out and the real eyes are kind of bizarre. they're so flat and lifeless.

>>247387
what is he gonna do with that big whip?

No. 247536

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something about bellibolt is bothering the fuck out of me so i tried fixing it. i would have preferred smth like the left

No. 247548

>>247387
It's like Nintendo saw how some girls wanted to fuck Hubert from FE3H and told Gamefreak to add a similar looking guy to attract the Hubert-fuckers.

No. 247556

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Bump, don’t scroll

No. 247594

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>>246785
Not to racebait, but holy shit how do people tolerate this voice acting? It is God fucking awful and so grating. Everything looks dated and not well put together. I think even in their older style the design would still not be appealing. I think it's how weird the shape of her jacket is.

No. 247626

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>>246785
The inspiration to Iono?

No. 247787

>>247352
Thank fuck the games don’t have voice acting, she sounds so irritating.

No. 248264

>>247536
Both of these are better than what we got, but i fundamentally am just not into the design. However I do actually find it has a sort of gen 1 vibe and I think that is fun in theory. It has the sort of disfigured look that you can't really place, yet they claim it's supposed to be a specific animal. Pikachu is kind of like that, they call it a mouse but few would would have guessed it just by looking at it. I think if you put it next to the "odd" looking ones like mr mime, licktung, jynx and chansey it kind of fits right in.

No. 248579

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I just bought Switch Online today and got this in wonder trade. People should be ashamed to use wonder trade to advertise their dumb websites as if there isnt enough of that in real life. Very scummy and sad, I felt compelled to release him and did after taking this picture. I've never released a shiny before.

No. 249020

Kind of a retarded question, but do you think the new pokemon games will have troon pandering in them? I know Japan is typically more rigid with gender roles in general, but they're also the country of lolicon catgirls and crossdressing femboys… and there's already an enby character in GO. Every time a new character is announced the genderspecials try to claim them in one way or another: "Grusha has eyelashes so must be trans, Iono has pink and blue hair so must be trans, Penny has short hair so must be an enby" etc. It's making me paranoid

No. 249022

>>249020
I doubt it. If anything I can see American localizers trying to force that shit on one or two characters to be nb or trans or ambiguous and failing. They tried that shit with ACNH but because of how other languages work it didn't work outside of English. And given how Fire Emblem Fates' localization was so bad it affected the game's reputation all by itself, Nintendo of Japan fired a bunch of Treehouse localizers and they're way more careful now. Pokemon is too big to fail anyway but they're especially careful with their biggest series.

No. 249030

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>>249022
Yeah the Mario Mandate exists for a reason. Wouldn’t be surprised if they made a Pokémon Mandate too.

No. 249041

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>>249020
it's about as likely as them animating a cutscene kiss between two dudes. the closest we've gotten in 25 years to anything even slightly mentioning trans shit is this. and the english version censored it anyway.

pokemon is extremely lacking in anything relating to sex; the older games were fine with being violent (literal dialogue explaining that team rocket would "kill" pokemon, mentions of war casualties, gambling, soul-stealing, etc) but nothing sexual. there have been little jokes such as a "couple" type trainer using an onix and cloyster, but of course, all you can say is "omg lol penis and vagina" and GF could just be like "uh, no" so there's nothing at all officially alluding to it.

No. 249071

>>249041
Yeah, they even just say that eggs come out of nowhere when it comes to breeding pokemon, they keep as vague as possible for their kid audience except for a few dirty jokes that don't seem obvious like the old guy who gives you gold nuggets in each game and it's a pun in Japanese with the word of testicles.

No. 249088

>>249041
I see this touted a lot, but I don't think it's even a woke thing. Troons are too stupid to understand that okama jokes are a thing, and that "Surprise! This hottie actually had a dick!" is usually considered a gag as an unpleasant revelation.

No. 249089

>>249022
Oh damn, did people actually get fired over Fates' localization? Good move, the wokeoid shit destroyed that game in the West. I'll never forgive what they did to Zero.

No. 249093

>>249089
Me too. They tried to ruin Zero so hard, he's my husbando, he didn't deserve this. Marx was the most butchered one though, changing him from a depressed man who blindly obeys his father because of daddy issues to making him a more heroic, rebelious guy ruined like half of the story all by itself.

No. 249095

>>249093
Honestly, Nohr just got screwed over so hard and I'm forever mad about it. It was a good story with actual nuance and they turned it into… something even worse that whatever they found "problematic" about it, honestly.

I'll always be glad that I read all of the desperate direct translations when the game first released in JP, before all that was available to read in English for a good while was the shitty localization.

No. 249105

>>249095
I'm also glad I know what the original story and characters are like from the JP release. I don't know why they wanted to make the game more family friendly despite its rating being higher than for other FE games. It's like trying to make Drakengard family friendly, it's absurd and contradicts the theme and story of the game. They weren't actually trying to be woke on top of that, they tried to make the few gay couples less gay (and did this for Three Houses too but to a lesser extent) and they made the spicy straight girl Soleil so gay they had to rewrite a lot of dialogs for it to make sense. All because of some Swedish tranny lying online about her support with male!Kamui, you know, someone whi bragged about not being into this series and not planning to buy the game at all in the first place. So yeah, Treshouse still exists but they're way more monitored than before after this fiasco and there's no way Nintendo of Japan would even let translators ruin a big series like Pokemon now. Especially now that Game Freak is trying so hard (and failing to) add bigger stories in the games since gen 5.

No. 249149

File: 1666294011889.jpg (1.96 MB, 2427x2268, koga.jpg)

I battled Koga on Pokemon Red today.
He used X Attack on his Weezing, his last Pokemon, and it Self-Destructed immediately? It fainted my Clefable but at what cost!
His strategy is beyond me… sorry for no better photo.
I've heard people have the hots for Koga but after this I don't think he's smart enough to be husbando material.

No. 249154

>>249149
Gen 1 is really funny, the AI is bullshit and some of the moves are so much better than others yet bosses will use the shit ones.

No. 249164

>>249105
LOL I'd pay actual money to see the clowns that bastardized Fates take a crack at relocalizing Drakengard.

I'm truly mad every time I see people touting Soleil as good gay rep, the girl comes off as predatory if anything but people can't read. I think that a lot of the Western game journalism surrounding Fates prior to its release did have a hand in some of the more extreme localization choices, now that you mention it. A lot of pearl clutching.

No. 249173

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>>249164
I just watched a playthrough online for this one long ago, but imagine Drakengard 3 with all mentions of sex removed and replaced with outdated 2000s internet memes, with all the sisters' relationship changed to make them look like they get along, make Zero the opposite of herself (so a nice, cutesy girl for example) and change everyone's name to make them more Americanized. Remove half of the violent scenes. For the few serious and emotional scenes happening, replace the dialogs with even more American outdated memes. If there are DLCs, make sure half of them are never localized. Imagine that shit. Sage for off-topic.

No. 249180

>>249149
Kek. Every trainer in the franchise that has a self-destruct Pokemon in their team automatically loses 50 IQ points.

No. 249198

>>249173
Sounds wretched. I actually never understood a lot of the localized name changes for Hoshido. By the time we got that game, we were already at a point where people wouldn't have had an issue grasping Japanese names.

Now… Let's see them take a stab at D1's pedophile/baby eater/immortal child party members.

No. 249231

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>>249149
why care about koga when surge is right there

No. 249232

>>249231
Those muscles are fucked up

No. 249233

>>249232
who cares

No. 249290

>>249041
>>249088
I keep hearing woke pokemon fans bring this up and I'm amazed they don't get it's literally making fun of them and they weren't trying to be inclusive at all kek
>>249022
>If anything I can see American localizers trying to force that shit on one or two characters to be nb or trans or ambiguous and failing.
Even that bothers me, I don't want a cute girly girl who uses boku like Iono to be canonically a they/them/he or some shit for all eternity just because some troon or TRA wanted woke points. Luckily they ended up using she/her for Iono so at least they didn't do it to her.

No. 249291

>>249173
>>249198
Not to ruin y'alls fun but this is the pokemon thread, please stay on topic

No. 249292

>>249231
Based opinion, although >>249232 is right too lmao

No. 249296

>>249291
Don't worry, that's why we saged our posts. If anon is interested we can take it to the localization thread.

No. 249300

>>249030
I remember them being really strict on people not being allowed to put pokemon in clothes because then they wouldn't be recognizable to little kids or something similar. That was only in the beginning though, but they still seem pretty strict in what they allow pokemon to wear. Even pokemon GO is super minimal with what they put pokemon in, it's typically a hat or bow at most.

No. 249309

>>249290
>I keep hearing woke pokemon fans bring this up and I'm amazed they don't get it's literally making fun of them and they weren't trying to be inclusive at all kek
how exactly is it making fun of them? is it some japanese thing?

No. 249311

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>>249300
the UNITE game has shitloads of pokémon in clothes tho so i'm sure that flew out the window

No. 249313

>>249311
I think it doesn't matter in UNITE because pokemon you choose is pretty much your in-game avatar, after all you play as a pokemon there.

No. 249317

>>249022
>>249089
Where can I check out the localization issues on FE fates? I looked it up and only gut some articles/videos about it, not comparisons of the actual content that was localizes

No. 249319

>>249317
https://tcrf.net/Fire_Emblem_Fates/Regional_Differences

I don't know anything about FE or modern Nintendo stuff in general but I found this and hope it helps.

No. 249335

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>>249319
>>249317
stop derailing this is the pokemon thread
>>249313
ackshually you play as a trainer in unite, they have silly costumes for both you and the pokes

No. 249358

>>249317
Shut the fuck up about fate already

No. 250398

>>249311
The "no clothes on pokemon" rule was just in the early generations as far as I understand it. Unite only came out about a year ago

No. 250399

>>249309 see >>249088
It's essentially "homophobic"

No. 250427

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>>249296
sage just means "not new content", not "irrelevant to the thread"

>>249311
speaking of unite, do you have any favorite outfits? I love the pokebuki styles because I'm a weeb at heart

No. 250521

New ghost type Pokémon revealed. "Greavard has such a friendly and affectionate personality that paying it even the slightest bit of attention will make it so overjoyed that it will follow you wherever you go. Of all the Pokémon residing in the Paldea region, it is known to be especially easy to befriend. However, Greavard will slowly and inadvertently absorb the life-force of those around it, so it’s best not to play with it too much."

No. 250531

>>250521
I think it's cute but not in a pokemon way? It reminds me more of the dog from Luigi's mansion. This is something I feel about a lot of new designs, they seem out of place or like from another franchise

No. 250648

>>250531
It reminds me more of Yokai Watch but I can see what you're saying as well.

No. 250666

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>>250427
I'm a gengar main but punk azumarill has a special place in my heart. Especially since a based anon used her in a terf manifesto

No. 250684

>>250666
I'd main azumarill becuase of this meme alone

No. 250694

>>250531
>This is something I feel about a lot of new designs, they seem out of place or like from another franchise
I very strongly felt this way about gen 5 when it was new, and personally I loved gen 8 but I've seen people say they didn't feel like pokemon either. Heck, I know people even said gen 2 didn't look like pokemon when they were new! Now I see that every generation has its own style/vibe so to speak, so in the end they are cohesive to each other within the generation. I still feel very "meh" about what we've seen of gen 9 so far, but I think they all fit together and I'm sure there will be a few gems (sprigatito is a cutie).

No. 251109

>>250521
I love him so much because he looks exactly like my childhood family dog. In a morbid way, it fits even better because he's a ghost type Pokémon. Feels like I can meet him again after all these years.
I do agree with this >>250531 but I'll still train one and keep him in my team. Fingers crossed his evolution doesn't look too retarded…

No. 251320

>>251109
You could call it morbid but I just think it's cute because ghosts are the only ones that could come back. I think I'll keep one on my team because I'm usually a ghost main

No. 251349

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>>249020
I hate the female hiker design, it looks super troony to me with the wide shoulders, no curves but has bolt on boobs…

No. 251353

>>251349
what an horrible design, the body has detailled clothes and a cartoon face

No. 251359

>>251349
Terrifying.

No. 251391

>>251349
is this real? It looks like a mod made by a coomer. The fabric around the boobs is weirdly detailed…

No. 251397

>>251349
This has to be fake.

No. 251398

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No. 251434

>>251391
>>251397
I literally took a screenshot of trailer footage, it's real

No. 251442

>>251434
Post vid

No. 251443

>>251349
Why is Game Freak trying to make gen 9 more, idk, Pixar like? It's ugly as fuck to begin with AND the designs look awful in 3D since the devs are overworked and have crazy deadlines.

No. 251444

>>251442
It's in the new demo trailer all game reporters got, there's a clip at around 3:05 in this one

No. 251455

>>251443
Yeah I'm not crazy about the shitty 3D artstyle in this generation. It looks nothing like Pokémon, both in terms of character design and just the way the 3D models look.

No. 251457

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I hate that when I look up some pokemon I always come across nsfw pokemon art. I can´t even find a decent Audino fanart with the copious amount of porn there is.
pic semi related

No. 251466

>>251444
It's so bad, like a cardboard cutout wearing clothing

No. 251475

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>>251443
It's specially a shame because lots of the human character designs actually look nice, but the models destroy almost all charm they got, I disliked most characters until I saw their 2D art. At the end, the games are about the pokemon themselves, not the humans, so as long as the creatures look great I'm fine with it, but sucks having to see these ugly humans from time to time.
The new 3D art style kind of reminds me of the Virtue's Last Reward's models lmao, knew they felt familiar somehow

No. 251499

>>251349
Her face is like a blow up doll

No. 251547

>>251475
Same, the humans are worse than the pokemon for me and I didn't like any of them until I saw the 2D art. For me it's not even the models themselves because I feel like they COULD be good, but the designs just don't seem to translate well to 3D somehow. Geetas 2D art is cute but her face just looks weird in 3D

No. 251619

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>>251457
i hate it too. you literally cannot look up any pokemon without seeing obese fetish art, vore fetish art, or the pokemon laying down seductively with the genitals clearly just erased by the artist (so many of them do that)

except for like magnemite i guess

anyway it fucking sucks and it's disgusting and i hate men

No. 251736

>>251619
>except for like magnemite i guess
I have seen it, and I am now blind from the bleach I had to use to cleanse my eyes

No. 251737

>>251457
Men ruin everything

No. 253609

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why does a treasure-hoarding ghost look like a bug?

anyway im so offended that they still havent shown the starter mon evolutions

No. 253632

>>253609
Do we know its full typing? I've only heard that it's ghost type. Definitely looks bug/ghost which would be a first in Pokemon.

No. 253637

>>253632
either way i hate the design. im so tired of these flat, featureless pokemon.

No. 253639

>>253609
why does it look like the reddit mascot

No. 253643

>>253632
Shedinja would like a word

No. 253647

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>>253609
Bootleg Mothman.

No. 253650

>>253609
I really hate the way it looks. It looks like it should be from a partly educational children's PC adventure game, not Pokemon.

No. 253656

>>253609
I've had lukewarm feelings about the new mon we've been seeing, but I absolutely hate this thing. I think it's hideous and doesn't look like a pokemon at all.

No. 253661

>>253656
Was going to say the same thing reminds me of a Funbrain creature.

Though the gimmick of collecting coins to track it down is different, I like that there are pokemon you just can't chuck a ball at and grab. I like the concept but the design doesn't make it seem worth it.

No. 253671

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>>253650
>>253656
me too. polteageist is an example of a rather bland design done well. this is just beyond boring. i don't understand how ditto, of all things, has more life and personality than this ugly little mascot

No. 253686

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>>253671
don't diss my man ditto like that
ditto is based as fuck

No. 253762

>>253686
Wasn’t an insult just making an example that a blob with a smiley face is somehow more interesting than most new mons

No. 253764

>>253609
Man, that model is so bad.
I hate that this sealed it for me, but I just don't care about Pokemon anymore.
I'm not a "genwunner" even though I've played since gen 1 was the most recent. Sad to feel like this finally, but the quality is just abysmal.

No. 253767

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>>247353
>>251349
>>253609
Why do they keep shooting themselves? End it already.

No. 253775

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I'm actually super excited for scarlet/violet, i love the idea of being able to explore together with other ppl online bc i'll be able to play with my bff even though we live in different countries
(we've been playing together since gen 1)

No. 253776

>>253764
It's not even a matter of being a genwunner, that shit looks out of place in a pokemon game when you've made your own idea of what pokemon is based on the first gens, it's really obvious that the devs and designers are different. It was already obvious in gen 5 too except the pokemon who looked out of place looked good or ok anyway, the difference was more subtle and BW was some sort of soft reboot and the entire pokedex was made of new mons so it wasn't necessarily a bad thing to begin with. I'm not getting this game, I got SWSH because I got it for cheap because it included the DLC in the cartridge, aka the best part of the game but that's my last game. Spain doesn't deserve this shit representation, I'm offended on behalf of Spanish pokemon fans.

No. 253777

>>253776
They started doing shit mons as soon as they started doing foreign countries and it pisses me off, blew english/UK lore on SPORT and not the fucking wealth of cool mythology, France on fashion, and now same with Spain. Absolutely wasting the countries and making shit poke rep.

No. 253780

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We got a japanese and spanish leakers taking pics of new pokemon rn, there are some in twitter

No. 253781

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>>253609
I think it looks better now that I've seen the artwork of it, somehow the models all look lifeless. It honestly looks very gen 1 to me, but not in a good way. I don't hate it though.

>>253777
But gen 6 had so many bangers like sylveon and espurr!
>blew english/UK lore on SPORT and not the fucking wealth of cool mythology
Galar was actually supposed to be more "medieval" looking but James Turner, the British employee who was art director for swsh (he has since quit) was the one who made them make it modern instead because he thought the old lore was too outdated or something…

No. 253782

>>253777
Making Kalos all about fashion isn't that weird. But not including the south of France, as in the best part of the country is criminal. And pretending that French cinema is an actual thing is funny as fuck. Idk these regions outside of Japan feel kind of gimmicky compared to gen 1 to 4. In gen 8 the city based on London is empty as fuck too instead of having a much content as the Paris equivalent in gen 6. It's dumb.

No. 253783

>>253781
I thought James Turner was American because he was shit talked for years for that reason. Or rather, for not being Japanese.

No. 253787

>>253783
He was known as the one employee who was "white/westerner" among fans so people just assumed he was american but he is british. He was quite popular around the last 2 gens, probably partly because he was one of the few people fans could interact with as most people don't speak japanese

No. 253788

>>253782
>these regions outside of Japan feel kind of gimmicky compared to gen 1 to 4. In gen 8 the city based on London is empty as fuck too instead of having a much content as the Paris equivalent in gen 6. It's dumb.

I think them being gimmicky is a direction they took on purpose to make every region feel really unique. To this days fans are very vocal about how much they hated Lumiose city ("Too big, too messy, you get lost all the time") which makes me sad because I personally loved it, would love to have more urban areas to roam in

No. 253790

>>253782
>>253788
lumiose city was so great, it felt really new and different compared to other cities and the plaza was perfect for cycling around while hatching eggs

No. 253806

>>253788
>Too big, too messy, you get lost all the time
No wonder they stopped giving a shit and refuse to put decent dungeons in their JRPG series now if people can't handle a city with no random encounters. The bar is in hell.

No. 253810

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>>253781
This does not look gen1 in the slightest.

No. 253811

>>253780
Fuecoco becomes fire/DRAGON? Jesus Christ

No. 253813

>>253810
they learned how to make more appealing designs, they've come such a long way

No. 253815

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>>253780
is that… evil jigglypuff?

No. 253817

>>253815
It's supposed to be the past version of jigglypuff iirc. Maybe she will look like a caveman? With a bone on her hair tuff or something, with the little fangs it would look cute.

No. 253820

>>253813
i know you're trolling but it's more like they figured out how to make designs that were easy to make into merch

No. 253825

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>>253820
I once read that starter pokemon are more round lately because they wanted children to be able to draw them easily, so that could be another reason.
But yeah considering the crunch, simpler designs are also way easier to translate into 3D, just look at picrel, the head is just a sphere without any modification.
I like most newer designs but I have noticed in this gen and the last one lots of pokemon suffer from "good concept, bad execution". I saw someone on Tubmlr tweaking a few gen 8 designs and it was amazing how very a few small changes to make the design more cohesive changed the whole pokemon.

No. 253826

>>253820
the new pokemon have way more appeal and stand out more, i really think they're better at designing for their market now

No. 253859

>>253815
If they make my daughter ugly I'll go to the game freaks office myself.

No. 253868

I enjoy the Pokemon art style from the beginning up to now, it's changed but it's all still appealing.
This art is cute even though I don't like the design >>253781
The models are just so horrible and lazy.

No. 254141

The hardest thing for me with the 3D games is how horrible they look visually. The colors they choose just look so bland and lifeless and confusingly enough it also continues to look low budget or like a game that came out a decade ago. They look like a low budget amateur fan project. I don't understand how the franchise can be so wealthy but is producing content like this….it's honestly mind boggling to me…like they straight up look like 10 years behind graphically. The colors are so effin bland in the over worlds too. The grass looks horrible, and then there's the trees. Fuck the trees, they have to be joking with that model. The trees are like a slap in the face to the consumer imo. I do like the mons still but the graphics and gameplay have suffered so much I wasn't able to enjoy SwSh at all, really. I'd never dropped a pokemon game before and especially not only like 3 or 4 gyms in.
I just wish they'd make good quality games again, as someone who's been playing since Gen 1 it really really makes me sad.

No. 254152

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so basically the whole dex has been leaked

thoughts?

No. 254154

>>254152
all of them expect the gator look ugly and scrotes will make pornographic drawing of them especially of the cat. Why do the have to make them humanoid.

No. 254156

>>254152
I am so tired of humanoid starters. I don't know why they have to design them to be 'characters' rather than just monsters. Are the humanoid starters more popular or something? Or does game freak just like to pander to the furries

No. 254164

>>254152
I haven't kept up with pokemon since X/Y and I swear every generation after that is ugly. Sword shield had a few that kept the same feeling as pokemon but there's way too many buff dude and hourglass women looking pokemon. it made me happy pokemon go was behind because the ugly designs were not in it.

No. 254167

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Love how they just doodled a mouse and put in in the game kek Unironically it's one of my favorite pokemon of this gen.
This generation is gonna take some time to get used to… Maybe it's the weird models or how most of the designs are either Circle or Square, but they feel… plastic-ish? I like how they're back at simpler designs, but they look like creatures from another game. A shame because I loved gen 6-7.

No. 254186

>>254152
i love the duck's final evo. Deffo getting him

No. 254192

>>254164
I think it went downhill after SuMo. I’m an oldfag and have loved Pokémon for years, always keeping up with new gens and loving it even with so many genwunners coming out of the woodwork to shit all over it. Sword and Shield was the biggest disappointment to me. The world felt so empty.

No. 254196

>>254152
This gen is hideous and lazy and poorly designed overall. It makes the ShSw designs look great by comparison.

No. 254198

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>>254154
i don't like the gator. i hate how we went from a cute round ghost-pepper thing to… this. like jesus where's the theme? everyone suspected "ghost pepper" because it looks like one, why not just stick with that? why does it have to go ghost pepper -> sombrero ghost pepper -> uhhhhhh a crocodile that's also an instrument and there's a bird on it that plays it like a musical instrument because it's based on this one spanish instrument and also based on the relationship of plovers and crocodiles irl!!!

like man shut up. simple is always better

anyway i love clodsire

No. 254201

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>>254152
tbh I like the cat. It has the most clear design. Though I don't know why nowadays each starter pokemon has to have a theme or concept beyond an animal that gets bigger with every evolution.

Also why are so many starter evolutions so skinny now? It was standard for the final evos to be somewhat chunky and powerful looking, up until gen 5 with the snake pokemon and gen 6 with Greninja

No. 254205

>>254201
Meganium clears, they reached peak starter design with her.

No. 254206

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I feel like I’m looking at a racist caricature

No. 254208

i would like cat if it wasnt bipedal. also im struggling to figure out why im ok with sceptile and blaziken, but the other unnaturally bipedal pokemon weird me out (empoleon and decidueye dont count since they are just birds.)

No. 254210

>>254208
Blaziken is also a bird and its theme isn't random, it's based on a specific breed of roosters known for fighting, just like in the case of dog fighting. Hence its types. Just like how the types and design of the fire type starter in gen 4 isn't random, it's because it's based on Sun Goku (don't remember the chinese spelling) and the water type pokemon being a ninja isn't random either in gen 6, it's based on Japanese culture and mythology. You could argue that the water type starter looks way less like a mascot and it's gimmick isn't random, otters are known for using tools like rocks and seashells after all, so the pokemon turning into a samurai looking animal is just an exaggerated version of the truth. Meanwhile now we have a a magician cat and football playing rabbit with fur that look like clothes.

No. 254214

>>254201
Grass starter superiority tbh

No. 254234

>>254206
This is so bad, like egregiously bad

No. 254267

>>254198
clodsire supremacy. i love him

>>253780
bisharp's getting a third evo? fuck yeah

No. 254272

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>>254234
Her makeup needs to be fixed. The beige is not working!! I wonder if she’s inspired by Missy? If so then perhaps they should take more inspiration from a different iconic fit.

No. 254274

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>>254206
I hope this is a joke. Bring my girl back!

No. 254333

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I actually like a lot of the new mons, but then they come out with something so ugly and stupid I ask “who the fuck would even want to use this”

No. 254335

>>254333
I almost wonder if it's a requirement at this point. Like the designers got together and decided that each new generation had to have a few hideous ones, just for shits and grins.

No. 254336

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Bro what's the point of giving evolutions to the electric rodent if it's just gonna look exactly the same??

No. 254338

>>254336
It’s like it’s so difficult for them to make something that’s not too samey but also not too inexplicable for the design anymore

No. 254343

>>254152
I'm so fucking tired of GameFreak making furbait starter evos. They totally do it on purpose

>>254156
It's so obvious they want to repeat the success they had with Gardevoir and Lucario. Like Gardevoir must've been the first humanoid pokemon to have gotten that popular with the coomers. Mewtwo was popular too, but that pokemon was special at the time, and most of its audience didn't talk about wanting to fuck it, they just thought it was cool and badass. Then Lucario came out in Gen 4 and it attracted a bunch of furfags and autists of the same type as Sonic autists. That was also the generation when Lopunny was made, and it's possible that Game Freak made it in response to Gardevoir's degenerate fanbase. Every generation afterwards had their Gardevoir/Lucario clones, each more obvious than the ones before it.

No. 254390

There's some cuties in this game like those lil mice things but I don't fucking understand why they have to make the starters final evolutions ugly as fuck. I'M TIRED OF IT

No. 254400

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>>254390
i boxed the starter in swsh and will probably do it again. they just aren't cute.
i also like the mice a lot, and some of the basic bird mons. this thing is freakin cute too.

No. 254402

>>254198
Made to be a pillow

No. 254591

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these starters were the first since gen 2 where i genuinely loved them all and couldn't decide who to pick. then they let us down with the final evos yet again. idk why i expected different.

i guess skeledirge is a pocket monster but the design is so uninteresting i dont even care about it

No. 254619

>>254591
A good chunk of the pokemon in the fursona category still look like monsters/animals imo
The most furfag ones are the tiger, rabbit, water lizard and the 2 new ones. Maybe delphox too, but the pre-evo was worse than it. The other designs are fine, it's just coomers who ruin them.

No. 254625

>>254591
>>254619
I agree. And imo the grass type gorilla looks enough like a gorilla to just in the pocket monsters category too, it doesn't have a weird human like theme like the other gen 8 starters either, gorillas are smart animals so it's not like a cartoon gorilla hitting wood to play music with tree branches is as out of place as a bipedal bunny playing soccer and having fur that suspiciously looks like soccer shorts.

No. 254631

This is the first Pokémon game in 30 years I will be skipping out on entirely. Damn. Feels bad.

No. 254637

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>>254591
Pokefags are goofballs. Terrible Pokémon have been around since the start.

No. 254638

>>254637
Mr Mime is a wonderful character and loving husband, how dare you

No. 254642

>>254637
This doesn’t look like a fursona, retard

No. 254652

>>254631
Same and it makes me sad, I was looking through the pokemon list (since it's all leaked) and I just don't like anything. I just like the mafia mice and that's it. Makes me sad but also eh.

No. 254653

>>254631
same nonna, it doesn't look unique or even 'japanese' at all to me. It looks like some western rip-off game. The npcs remind me of these models from the cursed ads

No. 254654

>>254201
I saw someone say that modern starters all have jobs now and like yeah true, they can't just be pokemon, you've gotta have the magician, the figure skater, the banker, the mcdonalds cashier..

No. 254656

>>254652
i will probably be boring and just use a lot of older gen mons that i like since i tend to do that anyway lol. same pokemon but in a new adventure

No. 254671

>>254652
This is exactly how I feel. When I play a new Pokémon game, I want to play with the mons from the new gen. But none of these are redeemable.

No. 254674

>>254625
>the grass type gorilla looks enough like a gorilla to just in the pocket monsters category too
I would agree if the drum wasn't part of it's design, that's what makes it more of a character with a set role instead of just a grass monke

>>254631
I want to like it, I don't regret skipping the utterly empty babby game that was sw/sh, I'm still on the fence whether this is worth spending 70 dollars

>>254637
There were actually a lot of bipedal/humanoid pokemon in gen 1 now that I think of it(pic rel, electabuzz, jynx, magmar, alakazam, machamp etc.), but all of them were more like fantasy creatures and I don't remember any of them being blatant furry/porn bait.

No. 254679

>>254674
>There were actually a lot of bipedal/humanoid pokemon in gen 1 now that I think of it(pic rel, electabuzz, jynx, magmar, alakazam, machamp etc.), but all of them were more like fantasy creatures and I don't remember any of them being blatant furry/porn bait.
this is it. they didn't seem designed to appeal to furries. that's because they were more based on kaiju. monstrous animals with many elements put into them. now the standard bipedal pokemon is just "a fox with a stick" or "a lizard with gloves on".

No. 254693

>>254674
I think the drum looks natural enough. Many animals use tools after all. It'd be weird if the musical thing was more blatant like with the electric/poison type pokemon in gen 8 that can do electric guitar noises.

No. 254746

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I saw this on 4chan and had to share. Spoilered for actual spoilers of Penny’s room.

No. 254753

>>254591
I think a lot of of the "furry" ones are fine. The gen 9/8 starters, inineroar, and delphox are the ones that push it imo.
I don't have a problem with stuff like Blaziken cause cockfighting is a thing, so it makes sense the chicken turns into a wierd bird man martial artist. Stuff like greninja is so weird looking it hardly registers as anything "furry" to me.
Designs like Cinderace and Intelleon are just too humanoid though. Their proportions are too human-like. they don't have weird builds like emboar or scary faces like sceptile. They're just really uncreative and lame.

No. 254851

I emulated SV for a few hours, and had a lot of fun so I'm probably buying it at release. I've been around since the beginning and there are soo many pokemon now that I don't mind shitty designs, I'll just forget about the ones I hate and there are still too many favorites to enjoy all the same. Maybe I'm desensitised to strange designs from also being a digimon fan.
Speaking for myself, I can be really casual and superficial when I play games and discussions about min-max/meta/strategies mosty put me to sleep, just give me easy mode. I really loved the picnic mechanic and seeing cute pokemon roaming about. There was a little lake at the start with psyducks waddling about, swimming, napping and I just hung out there for a long time looking at all the pokemon.
Pretty lame of me, but I haven't finished a main storyline since XY/ORAS and often just start a new game to enjoy the beginnings of a fresh adventure. I'll probably spend a lot of time in SV just building different teams and looking at them and saving screencaps and videos - and forget about the storylines. Everyone is complaining about character customization, understandably. I actually like that it's just the school uniform, but I really wish you could change your tie or something like rolled up sleeves at least. Also miffed that there are so many hair colors but the ones named pink are more burgundy/wine and rose gold than pink.
Hopefully there will be DLC with more customization, there are logos for top and bottom categories in the shops but they are not accessible - why even include those if there aren't any tops or bottoms in game??

No. 254951

>>254746
I don't know much about Penny other than she's a shy nerdy girl which I assumed but wtf is going on in that bottom pic? Who is that tied to the bed? Why is Mela under there? Why is there scroteshit and tranny/pride stuff around for a female character? Shouldn't it be filled with female media or 2D/fictional boy stuff with mountains of plushies? Nothing irks me more than moids putting their interests and hobbies onto a female character.

No. 255360

>>189392
>Pokémon better not make it become a bipedal furfag like previous starters
man this comment aged badly

No. 255362

>>254951
troons (both male and female) are calling her a tranny, some say she's a TIF and others say she's a TIM. It looks like that pic is depicting her as the latter (bc only maleoids are capable of being into computers and nerdy shit obviously!!1).

>>254851
>I emulated SV for a few hours
what the fuck I was not aware that it had already come out kek

No. 255571

File: 1668637552113.jpg (Spoiler Image, 1.07 MB, 3640x2140, alice.jpg)

>>254951
>>255362
that image isn't pro-tranny, the original intent was to depict them as disgusting coomers. editing Penny into it is a joke about how her dark messy room looks the same though it obviously doesn't

No. 256022

so the game is getting universally bad reviews, are any of you actually buying it?

No. 256023

>>256022
No, I knew it was going to be shit when I saw how ugly the character’s 3d models are. I’m going to pirate it if I NEED to play.

No. 256024

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i hate this thing so much this is one of the most vile designs they have ever made

No. 256026

>>256024
How is it vile, it's just a pepper. It doesn't feel like a pokemon though, the faces look off…

>>256022
I will buy it in a year or so. Every game sells millions of copies so they bin super hard afterwards and you can get them for $15. My local gamestop has no idea of what to do with so many 2nd hand pokemon games. Aside for being cheap, I don't want to support them either, I dont know if its TPC, GF or Nintendo the one with the upper hand, but I wish they gave the developers time to actually make a decent game, the problems with SV are insane. But isnt like we can boycott because children + hardcore fans keep buying the games.

No. 256035

>>254851
How did you find a rom for it this fast?

No. 256064

>>256035
It leaked a week ago, anon.

No. 256068

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Fuck this scrote. there’s glitches left and right.
https://vocaroo.com/1l9nzQQjFQll

No. 256071

>>256022
I did and im enjoying it so far. graphics range from bad to mediocre but it's still an entertaining game

No. 256074

>>256068
People have been showing clipping issues, horrible framerate, and all sorts of graphical bugs and problems. The game has some potential but it was released so far from done it's insane.

No. 256102

>>256068
I don't understand the pokemon fanbase. You can enjoy something while still admitting it has tons of issues. But instead they deny reality.

No. 256124

>>256074
These arent errors, Spain actually works and looks like that, we clip thru our house walls every day when we wake up. Its amazing how Game Freak did lots of research!

No. 256143

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>>256102
I really don't get it. Just saw this one

No. 256148

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Bumping for porn

No. 256157

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>>256102
yeah no i was hyped for this game after playing PLA and really looking forward to it, but this looks like utter fucking shit

No. 256164

>>256026
My strategy as well. There's no way I'm paying what they're asking for this game and I don't want to directly give GF my money either.

No. 256166

Seems like a well-designed game, but that doesn't change the fact that they're ripping people off releasing it this underbaked. Wish people would have some self-respect.

No. 256182

>>186496
Damn, I don't think BRY had that many obvious glitches, and at least in that one they had good excuses like trying to shove a fairly big JRPG with actual dungeons in a tiny little GB cartridge. What's amazing is that it'll be eventually patched in SV and a lot of people will forget and defend this as if Pokemon isn't a super profitable video game series.

No. 256192

>>256182
I wonder… It's seeming like a memory leak and those are notoriously hard to patch. If anything, it'll take a while.

No. 256194

Are there any fujobait characters in this one?

No. 256197

Are shinies easier to find at the very beginning? Both my friend and I found a shiny Psyduck within the first hour (we were playing at her place together and found them within 10min of eachother.) The game is janky as hell and holy fuck do I wish there was more customization. I'm having a good time but I'm glad someone else bought this for me kek.

>>256026
Pokemon games never go on sale where I live. Digital sales are minimal, even seconhand games are rarely cheaper than $15 off even after after years.

No. 256204

>>256194
No they're all ugly as fuck from what I've seen. Just stick to lusting over Raihan and Leon's "rivalry".

No. 256214

>>256022
My bf did. Was pretty fun laughing at the bad graphics and weird models together, but I feel like if I was playing by myself, it would all sink in and I would be bummed.

No. 256253

>>256064
All the links and codes that contain it got 404'd by now, fuck. Does anyone have one?

No. 256281

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I'm having fun playing it and I like most of the new pokemon designs. I'm one of the easy to please pokemon fans so I don't really give a shit about the graphics. I haven't encountered any glitches (yet). The models of people/pokes in the bg are janky though. I love picrel!

No. 256308

The more I see bugs posted online, the more this new release reminds me of when Final Fantasy 16 got released and everybody was posting the craziest glitches in recent years, that shit is hilarious.

No. 256421

>>237486
Late, but this is it. These are the Pokemon that make me think "they don't look like Pokemon". I don't care about the franchise much, never had a favorite generation, not even the one I grew up with (Diamond and Pearl), but this gens designs are so hit and miss. Sure, I was there for Bisharp and Gallade who you could say are similar, but something about these two look like Megaman and Sonic fucked and had babies. It's like Gamefreak are trying so hard to appeal to kids that they've ramped up the designs to a screaming 11, throwing everything at the wall to see what sticks, overloading all the people and Pokemon with bright colors and details.

My problem with all the new gen designs is that some of them don't look like creatures I could catch, bond with and raise. They (not just these two) look like rejected JRPG mobs, I can't imagine petting or taking care of some of the ones that look like abstract cartoons. They look like the creature-equivilent of somebody shaking a keychain in front of a toddler's face.

No. 256423

>>256421
Oh yeah samefag to add that what I mean isn't that GF is just dumbing everything down for kids but they're trying to hit every kind of appeal out so they end up with things that look like they belong in other franchises like Sonic/Digimon/other better JRPGs.

No. 256696

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>>256197
Let's goooo also found a shiny Lokix I didn't even know was a shiny until I entered a battle. Maybe my most exciting pokemon moment.

No. 256779

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The game's a mess but I like Arven. I'm a sucker for people who would do anything for their dog.

No. 256781

>>256779
I think him and Nemona are great I really like them both.

No. 257002

There are so many troon looking people in these games… I'm all for gnc characters but I feel like they're purposely troony because someone at gamefreak drank the trans coolaid and they're trying to be woke. 99% of them look like shit like >>251349
Human character design is at an all time low for pokemon, I've never disliked so many designs both plot important ones and regular npc trainers, and the clothes options are shit too so you can't even make yourself look nice. Sorry to all Spanish and Portuguese nonas, apparently gamefreak think you all look like troons, you deserved better.

No. 257013

>>257002
Spain should sue Gamefreak, Gamefreak called them unfashionable ugly bitches in the form of video games.

No. 257044

>>253767
Hex maniac is so cute. I hate how coomers ruined her. It’s so hard to find art where she doesn’t have huge inflated breasts or engaging in some kind of sexual fetish material. Her source material looks nothing like the way most people draw her.

No. 257065

>>257044
I love her too, nonny. They're so monkey brained I can't imagine living like that.

No. 257080

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>>257002
I was just laughing at how these npcs looked like the troon vs black woman meme

No. 257133

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No. 257158

>>257080
Fucking kek.

No. 257428

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i love clodsire and cetoddle. they're precious

No. 257536

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They will keep releasing pure shit and never improve

No. 257539

>>257536
it's not that they don't improve it's that the higher ups make them release unfinished games, because money

No. 257592

>>257080
What is with these linebackers in the game? They're so much larger than the other female NPCs and don't even look like convincing muscular women. It's so weird.

No. 257606

>>257536
I continue to be fascinated by the pokemon fandom's low standards. I just want to know for how long the pokemon company can keep banking off of pure shit.

No. 257628

>>257592
trans woman representation

No. 257778

>>257592
I'm fully convinced it is troon representation for real. You have the pudgy fat short haired blobby females that look male, and skinny 110% flat chested adult female twink - and then the lia thomas shoulders, bolt on boobs and no hips troons. They're just all conveniently exactly the most common troon types. And that male gym leader everyone thought was a girl at first because he has long hair and eyelashes… It's also the first gen where all clothes are gender neutral (which means there are no skirts/dresses because fuck women, only male is neutral ig) Wouldn't have been a problem if it wasn't lobbying the extremist cult that wants to drug and cut up healthy children, in a game mainly aimed at children. Pokemon is my jam but if they keep going down this route I'm finally gonna quit playing it after 20 years of playing.

No. 258358

>>256148
Well? Where is the porn?

No. 258361

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>>257536
>>257606
I'm glad I quiet this fandom in 2013

No. 258423

I feel conflicted and angry over the new games. Obviously they have major performance issues, but they’re actually quite fun and there’s a lot to do. It makes me so sad to think of what could have been, I really hate how this franchise has become.

No. 258770

>>258423
I wish they could have gotten another 6 months or so to actually finish the game, it's so nearly done but not quite

No. 259039

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>>258770
same, it would have been so much better if not for the graphics. I like he rival and the legendary and a lot of the new pokes. Clodsire and Pawmot are fixtures on my team now. But the graphics are so bad i don't see myself playing it for too long. It takes all the pleasure out of just roaming around to fill the 'dex and hunt for shinies

clodsire 4 lyf tho

No. 259419

I've been playing Pokémon Masters for a couple of weeks now and it's really making me grow fond of characters that I used to ignore or outright dislike.

Also, Pryce is such a cute old man. Curse you, Pokémon Masters!

No. 259673

I love Wallace I want to marry him

No. 259732

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>>254336
tbh i'm glad the final evo is still cute and not hideous. especially since pawmot is a really useful pokemon unlike most electric rodents.
it's so annoying when the cute pokemon have shitty stats and you have to evolve them except the evo is ugly

No. 259811

>>257778
I haven't played the game and don't see myself doing so because I'm just not feeling much of any of the new Pokemon this time around, this is so fucking terrifying and people may think you're being a conspiracy nutjob but you really aren't. At this point in the time, Game FReak has to be aware that a ton of troons play their games and they want to pander to them in some way to make them spend money on the games. They're more than likely trying to be subtle with this "representation" because they now they can't outright say the character is a troon or not so instead, just give a nod to the certain stereotypical look that a troon looks like (or thinks they look like in the case of the A-Cup skinny women).

No. 259817

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>>259811
this tinfoil is retarded. roons don't see themselves as women with a hulking male frame they see themsleves as bimbos or cute anime girls. if anything they'd probably be offended by this "representation"
why is this thread so full of ppl moaning about how they won't play the games and don't care about the franchise anymore? you don't have to announce it, no one's making you buy the games
i jsut wanna talk about battles and cute pokes like our terf queen azumarill

No. 259872

>>259817
>roons don't see themselves as women with a hulking male frame they see themsleves as bimbos or cute anime girls
Troons aren't the ones designing them, the people pandering to them see them as the men they are and don't get that these men think they are smol uwu beans kek
Pokemon GO already has a canon non-binary they/them character and it had to be approved by the pokemon company in japan and got a shit ton of positive attention from the west… they know what they're doing

No. 259873

>>254336
This is so gen 1 and I love it

No. 262104

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I'm in love with Rika

No. 262121

>>262104
Not to derail the thread with more troon talk, but we finally have a cute masculine but soft looking tomboy and the TRAs are screeching for her to be a they/them. It boggles my mind how regressive they are that they can't accept a woman would ever dress gnc and not be in a frilly dress.

No. 262136

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>>262121
I think the last time they made a female character like this was Anabel way back in Emerald but later loses her androgynous look in SM/USUM. So happy that they gave us Rika who's a very handsome and cool tomboy or a reverse trap. TRAs can fuck off and latch onto traps/femboys instead.

No. 262256

>>256281
Looks like a Temtem but still cute. Reminds me of Amy. Hate that she's labeled as "loli with a hammer".

No. 262259

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arven is so cute and they definitely got me with his story, i haven't loved a main cast pokeboy this much since sun&moon

No. 262372

>>262104
She's so hot. The only good thing about those garbage games.

No. 262381

>>262104
holy shit i'm in love

No. 262536

>>262121
Every time I tell my woke friends I like her design they sperg about her being a thembie, leave my lesbian queen alone

No. 262919

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>>262259
>handsome
>long hair
>cooks
>saving his dog
>poor boy loses his mom/dad
I love him and deserve all the happiness he can get.

No. 264067

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Ash will no longer be Pokémon's main character. His last episode will air on Jan 13th, 2023. The first episode with the new main character will air around April 2023.
https://twitter.com/IGN/status/1603697968598732800?t=rNXr4ajlAlVYTTzrnVIX8w&s=19

No. 264069

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>>264067
I worded the information wrong. Jan 13th's episode is just the last in the SwSh part of the anime.
"A special 11-episode series called "Pocket Monsters: Aim to be a Pokemon Master" will start airing from January 13, 2023. All the friends that Ash has met during his travels such as Misty and Brock will also appear.
Will be the last chapter in Ash's journey."
https://twitter.com/AnipokeFandom/status/1603700332655448065?t=HJXgZj_T1VOD25L64mPPMQ&s=19

No. 264074

>>264067
>>264069
I wonder what made them decide to finally move on from Ash.

No. 264086

>>264067
the male character looks so ugly and the girl looks cuteish but kind of bland. she reminds me of dawn too much. i hope they actually make her more than another "cutesy female who wants to win contests"
the character designs seem so ugly now. i can't get into newer games at all because it all feels so bland and uninspired. very "uncool". like old characters looked cool and badass. maybe i'm getting too old nonnies

No. 264122

>>264067
>>264069
fucking finally

No. 264128

>>264067
Finally!!

No. 264428

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i'm weak for unite's stupid outfits. can't wait to give terf queen azumarill the cute xmas drip she deserves

No. 264518

>>264086
>>cutesy female who wants to win contests
But I love that about Dawn,, she's one of my favourites. But I also loved contests. I'm still mad they ruined them in BDSP. Contests were so cute and fun in Gen 3 and 4, I was so disappointed in the remakes.

No. 264598

>>264518
The issue isn't that they never should have done that character, it's that they've done that character over and over again to death like they genuinely can't think of any other way for a girl to be a relatable main character.

No. 264599

No offense to Paldea, but I don't want to spend an entire season in Paldea the same way I didn't want to spend a full season in Galar (and thank goodness we didn't have to). Not very happy that this is the direction they're taking, although I admit it'll be good to change things up from Ash being the main character.

No. 264600

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>>264428
i had to stop playing unite bc it pissed me off but i agree the outfits are amazing

No. 264601

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No. 264649

>>264067
And of course the girl has to wear skirt-shaped shorts that show her thighs while the boy gets to wear regular shorts

No. 264655

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No. 264680

>>264086
>i hope they actually make her more than another "cutesy female who wants to win contests"
There are no contests or anything similar in Paldea so I doubt it. I do agree with other anon that I love girly characters tho kek

No. 264681

>>264599
I'm the opposite, I'm beyond happy they're going back to adventuring instead of slice of life. Alola and Journey seasons bored me to death.

No. 264683

>>264428
I love your dedication to making azumarill a terf icon, very based nona

No. 264815

>>264683
it wasn't actually my idea to begun with, another anon made a very based "terf is the new punk" post with her. wish i had a link to it. since then i've accepted azumarill as my reigning terf queen

No. 264948

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>>264601
Haven't played all the games, and some of them like Black/White I played them ages ago so my memories of those gens are a bit blurry.
Also, sorry for the retarded tier names, but letters are so ambiguous to me, I always create my own tiers so I can sort charas in peace.
>>264655
>Guzma
>D Tier
Oh, why do you dislike him so much? He is such a fan favourite…

No. 264985

>>264948
nta but guzma is obnoxious and he's a bug type trainer to boot. worst taste

No. 265309

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>>264683
>>264815
samefag, found the post in question

No. 265424

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>>264601
only did the ones I remember. I also really didn't like ORAS Archie compared to RSE Archie so I had to knock him down a tier. Can't believe it came to this.

Also goddamn I used to have such a crush on Brawly and Brock when I was a kid. Probably would have liked HGSS Morty and Falkner a lot if I was younger when those games came out.
I've also come to appreciate Blaine a lot more but based on more of a Cool! factor. I didn't really rank these on pure husbando credentials.

No. 265425

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>>264601
>>265424
Here's my pokegirls ranking. I think Flannery, Whitney, and Winona is probably my all time favorite. But I really like all of the older woman trainers/leaders/e4 whatever. I have a really big soft spot for them.

I did NOT like SMUSUM at all it seems.

No. 268328

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>>256194
Not really. Bunch of average or middle-aged looking men.

>>256204
I think Arven and Jacq are pretty cute when first seeing them. Also Larry after playing the game. The courier npc is pretty hot too.

No. 268696

Just caught my 4th shiny in Pokemon Go, a 3* Murkrow! My other ones are Marshtomp, Hoppip, and Alolan Sandshrew. I don't plan on evolving my Sandshrew, and I'm not sure about Hoppip, but the pinkies are fair game.

No. 275207

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>>264948
I like your tier names so I took some inspiration

No. 275209

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No. 279333

Thoughts on the upcoming dlc for SV?

No. 279350

>>279333
I like the new pokemon except for the monkey

No. 279485

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Didn't expect Paradox Suicune to look so raptor-like. Wish there's some lore to it and Paradox Virizion rather than just a raid battle.

No. 279524

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>>279333
I wish they gave those poor devs a break instead of churning another game at breakneck speed

No. 279636

>>279485
They both look like 1/3 of the book legendaries of each game so I'm sure there will be a bit more lore for when the other 4 come around. I bet it will be on the same level as the galarian birds trio though, so not that central to the story.

>>279524
The fact that they made dlc fully summer festival themed (part 1) but are releasing it in fall points towards them actually delaying it a few months this time.

No. 284198

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Anons, just a reminder that the nintendo eshop for the 3DS will be closed soon and if you plan on transferring your pokemon from one generation to a more recent one you'll eventually need to have Pokemon Bank and Pokemon Transport downloaded BEFORE they become free in a few weeks. So be careful with that!

I personally have all the mainline games except SV and don't plan on getting that one until they release patches to correct most issues. I'm still going to transfer the pokemon I have from older games, I think I'll start now for my GBA and DS games, and then once the Pokemon Bank app will be free I'll transfer all my pokemon to gen 6 games and beyond. Then I'll start new games out of nostalgia and because I have played a lot more JRPGs since the last time I've played the older games so I'm going to have a very different approach to it. For some reason I felt like using strong pokemon in older games was the equivalent of cheating so I only used shitmons on purpose and made things much harder for myself. There's also the issue that all my favorite pokemon in GSC and its remake are water type for some reason.

No. 284300

>>284198
>For some reason I felt like using strong pokemon in older games was the equivalent of cheating so I only used shitmons on purpose
the games are more fun this way, especially as an older fan who knows how the type match ups work. just spamming A gets a bit boring, it's more fun when you can beat a fire gym with a grass type

No. 284303

>>284300
Yeah I get it, that's how I felt when beating the final bosses with my first route shitmons but I also did dumb shit like making my pokemon have these horrible HM instead of having a HM slave so I was just spamming the same strong moves. I think now I should try new ways of playing.

No. 284311

>>284303
I think mono type runs are quite fun, more so in the newer games because you get access to more pokemon to choose from. As a kid I'd copy the anime characters teams so I could be like them kek

No. 284315

>>284311
I did that too kek, I just HAD to have a butterfree in RBY just because Ash had one too.

No. 284353

>>284198
I have never noticed Diantha'sfucked up legs kek

No. 285781

I'm going to transfer my pokemon from GBA games to DS games to prepare for Pokemon Bank being free in a few days, I forgot I gave some of them some stupid nicknames, should I keep these nicknames or not? I kind of want to remove them.

>>284353
To be fair she only has one fucked up leg.

No. 285792

File: 1679843434100.png (205.58 KB, 997x248, Untitled.png)

>>264601
here's the fucked up and evil version of my list. most hated characters only!!!

No. 285849

File: 1679852550246.png (78.85 KB, 962x821, Dianta2.png)

>>285781
I find both legs weird, the left one seems to have her knee pointing at the right while its foot is pointing forwards, and her right leg has its knee pointing forwards/left but the foot pointing at the right. I think if you swap them, it looks a bit more natural.

About nicknames, it depends on how dumb they are and/or if you plan to use the pokemon. I usually like to leave them as if for sentimental value to remember when I used to play when I was little, but I also changed a few that were too stupid.

No. 285970

File: 1679915018157.jpg (73.12 KB, 460x691, street_fashion_japan.jpg)

>>285849
Having bow legs is common in Japan and is more visible on skinny people, I think that's the cause of why a lot of Japan-made designs have similar legs. Diantha is just one example of how normalized it is in anime art.

No. 287112

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Watching the GO community blow up feels surreal to me. Niantic keeps sabotaging its most profitable feature, remote raiding, to force the game to be played as intended.
Aside from using GO to ambassador people who wouldn't otherwise play the games, watch the anime, or pick up the TGC into the franchise and collaborate with businesses to bring tourists in, here's probably some truth to picrel. If so, it would make the Tiktok ban extra ironic.

No. 287120

>>287112
People still play this game? I dropped it once they released PvP and lootboxes. Irc they havent fixed its bugs even a year after. Whats happening?

No. 287129

>>287120
People still play like crazy. It's a normie game, so the base stands out a lot less compared to the 2016 era and even the 2020 lockdown boost. Niantic upped the price on Remote Raid Passes and stated it wasn't a feature they wanted to keep. Their focus is on population dense areas, and remote passes are (on the surface) meant for circumstances like extreme weather and lockdowns.
There's apparently also some internal pushback to keep it. Rumor has it that TPCi also likes it, too. That's likely why they've been experimenting with integrating something like a remote raid finder within their Campground app, which people normally use Reddit, Discord, or a third party app for.
If you ever see a meme about Singaporean Grandmothers (who they see as the typical player, which isn't exactly a lie; most of the whales in my community are retirees) playing Pokemon GO pop up within the fandom, it pertains to that. People are planning boycotts or quitting. You know that pattern. They'll probably be back in time for GOFest, good or bad.
Shame the game is handled so weirdly. Not badly; weirdly. I actually like the little character arcs between the GO leaders and their rivals.

No. 289535

File: 1681510051670.png (1.86 KB, 288x288, 352.121.png)

'Sup, for anyone who plays Pokemon Fusion Infinite, I made some sprite edits because the originals sucked ass. I only made 3 so I'll post 'em separately. First is Roserade/Starmie, 352.121.

No. 289536

File: 1681510123857.png (2.08 KB, 288x288, 148.34.png)

Next is Dragonair/Nidoking.

No. 289538

File: 1681510183324.png (1.4 KB, 288x288, 181.53.png)

And last is Ampharos/Persian. I'll do more in the future because there are some great combos that have shitty sprites, and I don't wanna look at them.

No. 289540

>>289535
Is that the game with the gross coomer fusions? Great job btw, this sprite is beautiful and I also like this one >>289538
But I feel this one >>289536 could use a bit more polishing though the overall design is great

No. 289547

>>289540
>Is that the game with the gross coomer fusions?
Kek yes. Idk about other anons but I plan on replacing that gross shit too. Especially all the Miltank fusions. Blegh. And thank you! Yeh eventually I'll return to Dragoking 'cause I did it in a bit of a rush.

No. 291737

File: 1682303515275.png (749.56 KB, 971x1364, 1682212925433303.png)

any nonnies here collect or play tcg?

No. 291789

>>291737
I only collect without playing and have been since I was a kid. My friends play and let me have their extra pulls for free

No. 291790

>>289535
>>289536
>>289538
these are great nona!

No. 291884

>>291789
ooh nice!! got back into collecting again after a long break. I only collect the cards but I have been thinking on learning how to play, seems fun. have one co-worker who likes collecting and thankfully she is a woman.

No. 291988

File: 1682412233080.png (138.88 KB, 245x342, SWSH2_EN_87.png)

>>291884
The way I structure my tcg collection is by theme, so I have collections of my absolute favorite pokemon, including trainer and support cards if they feature it in the art. Then I have my own created themes, one of such is "flowers" where I put all cards (that I deem pretty enough) that heavily feature flowers. Another is sweets/baking, so there I keep pokemon like alcremie, vanillite and slurpuff and again other cards I think fit.

No. 292607

File: 1682635857393.jpg (25.75 KB, 750x421, FtHF6tjX0AEmoSR.jpg)

I love her

No. 292624

>>292607
Looks like an OC someone made out of May’s character model. Sorry, I’m sure she’s cool.

No. 292628

>>292624
NTA but to be fair, her design is tame compared to modern anime character design standards kek

No. 293926

File: 1683105692403.png (80.91 KB, 330x948, liko.png)

>>292607
Liko is an ok character but there are a few things I dislike, so sperging incoming.

Firstly her name is stupid in English. Her actual name is the Japanese female name Riko, changing the R to an L is iffy because of the whole thing of people making fun of Asians not being able to distinguish R/L. You technically can romanize it with L but that's highly unusual (which is probably why they did it, so if you google it she's the only character that shows up rather than 500 other Rikos).

Pokemon doesn't have a tradition of keeping the Japanese names and typically give English names, why do it now? Liko is from Paldea (Spain) so unlike a lot of the other characters such as Ash, Brock, May, Dawn, Chloe who all could have had Japanese names to reflect their regions real life Japanese inspiration Liko is one of the few for whom it doesn't make sense for. Even more annoying that the new boy IS from a Japanese region, yet his name is Roy. In the same vein, none of the other Paldean characters have Japanese names either, not does the Kantonian people have Japanese names. Like ok.

But if you insist on actually keeping her Japanese name, then at least keep it Japanese and pronounce it right. I don't think they've officially said it yet but I bet they'll mispronounce it as "Leekow" the way English-speaking fans are already calling her without anyone batting an eyelid.

Secondly I hate fanny bags worn across your chest (it usually looks quite awkward and weird in real life too) it draws attention to her chest in that it looks like she has a big mono-boob. The fashion trend is already dying out as well so unless they change it, it will age terribly and quickly.

No. 297851

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To all TCG nonnies who have a Pokémon Trading Card Game Online account: they're going to release a new game called Pokémon Trading Card Game Live, and until June 5 (which is when they're shutting down the old game's servers) you can migrate your account to the new game.
I just found out about this and to migrate (I really wanna keep my old cards) I'm resetting my TCGO password since I forgot it, along with my username, because I hadn't played this since Gen 7. Make sure to reset your username and password too if you're in the same situation! Requesting your username and resetting your password can't be done immediately after one another, there's a cooldown time to send these requests.

Announcement
https://www.pokemon.com/us/pokemon-news/pokemon-trading-card-game-online-will-sunset-on-june-5
TCGO Sunset FAQ
https://support.pokemon.com/hc/en-us/articles/4406895467668
Account migration FAQ
https://support.pokemon.com/hc/en-us/articles/6489934466708-Pok%C3%A9mon-TCG-Live-Migration-FAQ-from-the-Pok%C3%A9mon-TCG-Online-

No. 297908

>>291737
I've only been collecting.

No. 303993

File: 1687424851301.png (100.48 KB, 380x1245, 380px-Scarlet_Violet_Lacey.png)

New official art of Lacey from the upcoming DLC. I'm so deprived of good designs in SV that I think she looks acceptable. I'd thin out her eyebrows though.

No. 307945

File: 1689097832638.gif (2.17 MB, 743x480, 9458e00071760de825d7acc1a3d66e…)

>tfw you realize you will never relive the magical moments of childhood going through a new region for the first time, discovering new pokemon through the game and not the internet, enjoying the mystery absent in all pokemon games before and since.

No. 307963

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>>303993
gives me anya forger vibes mixed with thick eyebrow zelda from botw/totk. the outfit reminds me of the sports uniform from mha.

>>307945
i remember how my life changed and the entire world seemed to open up when i found out about roms and got all the pokemon games i missed out on. i had no gaming consoles as a kid and only managed to buy a silver nintendo ds lite for christmas when i was 16, a few months after diamond and pearl had been released. before that i only ever played the earlier pokemon games on my friend's consoles. i feel like the new graphics completely lack the charm that the gif you posted has. the last game i played was sword/shield and that was a chore. i think x/y was the last generation that i enjoyed and then i just lost interest.

No. 307966

File: 1689104145837.jpg (136.86 KB, 1550x802, 1644476726033.jpg)

>>307945
The Internet?
Nah Nonnie, the game itself is spoilering you with what you can encounter at any route which is much worse.

No. 308039

>>307966
Remember when we learned Red and Blue were in Sun/Moon because of an official trailer of all things? I wish I didn't see that trailer and just played the game blind.

No. 308141

>>303993
she looks stupid but incredibly restrained and normal for a typical pokemon design. good for them. they seriously need to reign it in more.

No. 308162

File: 1689178666655.gif (1.37 MB, 400x240, 1688577757084881.gif)

>>307963
on the same boat nonnie, xy were the last pokemon games i enjoyed playing, games after that felt like a chore. never got sword/shield or lets go!pikachu/eevee, bought violet but still havent beaten it yet. pokemon games now feel so soulless…i still replay older 2D games tho!

nowadays i just collect/play tcg, look at fanart/gifs and replay the older games.

No. 308163

>>308039
I really do miss pre-main stream internet days. Sun and Moon trailers pretty much revealed 90% of the game. I miss the discovering aspect in the old pokemon games.

>>307966
Personal take, I miss the random encounters.

No. 308185

>>308039
>Remember when we learned Red and Blue were in Sun/Moon because of an official trailer of all things?
it's because the new games can't stand on their own legs and Game Freaks has to pander to the older audience that grew up with the originals.

No. 308196

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poke foods!

No. 308197

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>>308196
poke drinks!

No. 308238

File: 1689212379433.png (1.39 MB, 1600x900, 97784197_p0.png)

>>307945
I feel this too though surprisingly the last Pokemon game I enjoyed was Legends Arceus. I even had dreams about it too. Still, the current games nowadays felt unfinished, less explorable and soulless. Game Freak has always been in a tight situation since making the main lines more open world but doesn't meet the quality and expectation like BoTW and Xenoblade, especially for having over 900 Pokemon to work on and polish. Kinda missed the classic rpg style where things are much simpler, aesthetically pleasing and everything around you to fill in your imagination. Unfortunately for that matter, BDSP are huge disappointments and it pains me since Pearl was my first and I fear if they ever make Gen 5 remakes. Also Game Freak shouldn't reveal too much in their trailers to try and hype up the fans. It'll most likely ruin the experience in discovering new things in the games and it becomes less engaging. There's even people and riddlers who sometimes leave predictions and tid bits of information of the upcoming games.

No. 308242

File: 1689215860506.jpg (300.59 KB, 1168x1500, 1688607463685956.jpg)

>>308238
i actually really enjoyed legends arceus, however it pisses me off how much potential this game had. should have gotten a DLC to fix the many issues it had, but nope! gamefreak pretty much abandons it and doesn't use any of its mechanics in violet/scarlet. wish there was more trainers who aren't afraid of pokemon to battle, as well as villages and more interesting places to explore. oh well!

i think gamefreak should just stick to 2D and improved on the rpg aspect of it. the 3D games just look so empty and soulless.

No. 308247

Honestly, I haven't really enjoyed a Pokémon game since Crystal. It just felt… immersive. Like there was so much to discover and that the world was going on even without you playing. The Pokémon designs were also very good and consistent with R/B, felt like a natural sequel.
I guess what I'm saying is that Poķémon + Animal Crossing would be my jam.

No. 308252

Where is my pan-regional Pokémon game, Game Freak? Stop it with the new tryhard shit games

No. 308261

I remember playing Pokemon Diamond and finding someone to trade with online for the first time. My brother and I were huddled around our DS and before the end of the trade we hear "thank you!" in an accent I can't remember. lmaooo we had no idea there was mic feature like that and it scared the shit out of us.

No. 308262

>>308252
It would have to be made by someone other than Gamefreak. Gamefreak doesn't do cool stuff like that anymore, they limp two generations behind.

No. 308264

>>308261
It was known for the mic though lol, I remember struggling with it when playing Nintendogs long ago. I never managed to play online with the DS though because of a bunch of error messages, but I could play and trade online on the 3DS just fine.

No. 308273

>>308264
We got Diamond at the same time we got real internet, we didn't know!

No. 308274

>>308261
You could record your voice with chatter move from chatot

No. 308295

This is kind of cute, I don’t really mind letting the Pokémon company know how I sleep.

No. 308425

>>308163
>Personal take, I miss the random encounters
Me too nona, me too! I liked how it was a bit like a lottery ticket, the slight excitement of "what will it be" was enough for me to spend hours just running into pokemon. Occasionally it would be a shiny and it felt great.

No. 308426

>>308185
I kind of disagree, I think adding old characters back in makes the pokemon world feel bigger and more connected. I love it when they give you throwbacks and cameos, I wish they did more of it.

No. 308437

File: 1689344687390.jpeg (509.72 KB, 1583x2048, 5264EB0D-8E68-4182-AF14-B413B5…)

Latias and Latios are very special to me, sure they aren’t my favourite Pokémon but I still hold them closely to my heart. I remember watching Pokémon Heroes for the first time when I was a child and I was obsessed with it. It was my favourite movie as a kid, haven’t rewatched it since then but I am thinking on it for nostalgia.

>>308295
Honestly it’s a cute idea but kind of creepy? Also, I don’t like the thought of consuming Pokémon in everything I do, the cards and the occasional replay of the older games are enough for me.

No. 308467

>>308426
Gen 1 to 4 felt connected in an organic way. Everything after gen 5 feels more like mindless fanservice though, except for Looker because he's an interpol agent. Which is super weird because the interpol HQ is in Lyon yet there's no equivalent of Lyon in Kalos for some reason.

No. 308529

File: 1689382859124.png (245.76 KB, 537x404, bingus.png)

sprigatito bab nonnies!!! she has her lil jammies too!!

No. 308573

>>308467
Alola did a really good job with Looker and Anabel coming back. Especially Anabel, she was previously just stuck in battle frontier in gen 3 and few people even knew she existed, but they took her and expanded her character and story. I loved that and wish they did it for more old characters.

I frankly don't mind if they put in a bit of mindless fanservice, I'd rather have that than nothing. Paldea currently feels so fucking empty and disconnected from the rest of the pokemon world. I wouldn't mind seeing Red on top of a mountain again just to have something.

No. 308594

I just got an Ultra rare Gyardos card in my pokemon booster and I'm autistically flapping my hands from happiness! This shit is going to be worth a lot of money in a few years (unless our society collapses ofc). A new one in a good state costs around 100 bucks on ebay right now. It made my day so much better YAAAAAAY

No. 308601

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Cp bump dont scroll

No. 308810

File: 1689564742164.png (1.23 MB, 2276x1571, download.png)

post your favorite Pokémon! https://cajunavenger.github.io/

No. 308852

>>308810
Happy to see another person who likes Lopunny, Pearl was my first Pokemon game at 13yo and she has been my favorite pokemon ever since. I love how both Buneary and Lopunny look very soft but hate being touched and will kick anyone who does so, plus Lopunny's eyes look kinda creppy and I like that, they act and look similar to actual real-life rabbits rather than the cuddly image people tend to have about them. Suck all the "fans" are coomers.

No. 308858

>>308810
Based, I love ninetales

No. 308889

File: 1689606060528.jpeg (710.56 KB, 779x1400, 45CCC147-CF2B-443D-B3C3-7DEF9C…)

>>308852
Yes!! I love buneary and lopunny! I love feminine Pokémon, sucks they get sexualized by coomer fans ugh.

>>308858
Thanks nona, ninetales is my absolute favourite!!

No. 308983

File: 1689642012170.png (1.24 MB, 2276x1571, download.png)

>>308810
(I didn't play sword/shield or scarlet/violet)
Making this made me realize I'm not particularly crazy about gen5 or gen6 mons. Funny because those were the gens that got me back into playing pokémon.

No. 308984

>>308983
sorry, gen7* not gen5, kek, i'm retarded

No. 308987

File: 1689644443334.png (1.25 MB, 2276x1571, download.png)

No uggos allowed, cutie only crew

No. 309011

File: 1689653945480.png (1.28 MB, 2276x1571, pokeyman.png)

>>308810
I haven't played the last two gens so I just guessed, I'm a bit of a genwunner so I'm not gonna whine about the new designs

No. 309036

File: 1689669383635.png (1.28 MB, 2276x1571, download (1).png)

>>308810
I dont want to bitch but especially gen 8 and on have really ugly pokemon. Like ofcourse every gen has a few but it was difficult for me to even choose a fave type for the later gens because they are all so ugly to me. I really wished they would just take there time with the next pokemon game already, the last ones have been just really ugly and buggy.

>>308852
Pokemon pearl was also my first pokemon game! I really love Buneary, i'm not going to lie i really dislike humanoid pokemon so lopunny is def not my fave but since gen 4 was my first game and i had a lopunny on my team i do have a soft spot for them. I'm also really salty about the shitty gen 4 remake we got.

No. 309105

File: 1689699913521.jpeg (28.83 KB, 300x225, 1E335154-DED2-469E-86DE-C4F29B…)

I miss this so much, why would gamefreak remove it from gen 7? I know gamefreak is known for not carrying over mechanics from past games, but seriously gamefreak was so stupid for replacing it with the dumb plaza shit.

No. 309143

>>309036
>I dont want to bitch but especially gen 8 and on have really ugly pokemon.
Gen 8 was pretty okay to me. Wooloo, snom, hetterene and alcremie are some i think are super great! Gen 9 on the other hand is oof… even the best ones are still only slightly above average imo. I hope they go a completely different direction for gen 10.

No. 309149

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>>309105
I think I'm the only person who prefers plaza lol
I loved running around there and collecting all the extra clothes from the other version, doing my daily lotteries and type matchup mini game!

No. 309190

File: 1689723992049.jpg (177.01 KB, 1134x1134, sleep_espeon.jpg)

not a fan of pokemon sleep but this online quiz is cute! pic for me result.

https://www.pokemonsleep.net/en/diagnosis/question/

No. 309191

File: 1689724833641.jpg (178.64 KB, 1134x1134, result_img_vigoroth.jpg)

>>309190
I got Vigoroth

No. 309195

>>309105
A weeaboo tried to flirt with me using this shit.

No. 309196

File: 1689726619318.jpg (173.95 KB, 1134x1134, result_img_bulbasaur.jpg)

>>309190
Bulbasaur is so cute

No. 309406

File: 1689798842394.jpeg (376.63 KB, 1050x785, 83740C52-9DAB-4BD0-A418-B006B7…)

Favourite evolution line? Picrel!

No. 309419

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>>309406
Ralts line! They're all so cute and precious. It's like a happy family.

No. 309420

>>309419
This! Gallade is my favorite pokemon. I went to the Pokemon center in Tokyo and I was really sad to see no Gallade stuff at all and they even excluded him from the wall art that had all the Pokemon evolution lines

No. 309431

File: 1689805680649.png (1.02 MB, 2276x1571, download.png)

>>308810
I played Gen 5 but never continued beyond the 7th badge.

No. 309434

File: 1689806884788.png (131.51 KB, 1019x774, download1.png)

>>309190
We are the opposite!

No. 309439

>>309419
based taste nona. I love the ralts line!

No. 309622

File: 1689871035868.jpg (109.87 KB, 800x533, sewaddle.jpg)

>>309406
It's not actually my no.1 fave line but I adore all of them and think they are underrated so my pick is the sewaddle line!

No. 309627

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>>309419
I love the Magnemite line… I'm neutral on Magneton TBH, but I find Magnemite and Magnezone adorable in a goofy way.

No. 309672

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No. 309944

File: 1690003641111.png (1.21 MB, 2276x1571, download.png)

>>308810
Lots of tough picks here especially for others I also like under the same type. For the team, I don't want to put it as competitive but rather go on an adventure with them. I had some trouble choosing Pachirisu or Ribombee since I love them so much.

No. 310751

File: 1690308465126.png (53.88 KB, 1128x400, 1709.png)

Are the official mangas worth buying or nah? I saw this comment while listening to Ghetsis theme and now I'm curious about how they handled other gens.

No. 310763

>>310751
the official manga is absolutely amazing. the arcs for the first games (kanto and johto) are a bit boring but starting the hoenn chapters it really takes off and becomes insanely enjoyable. 10/10 will always recommend the manga.

No. 310779

>>310751
The Pokémon manga is pretty good and I would totally recommend it! It’s not as dark as non-readers make it out to be, but it’s still enjoyable for adults.

No. 310795

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>>310763
>>310779
nice, thank you nonitas!!

No. 311952

File: 1690816517368.png (2.97 MB, 1877x737, why.png)

Old news, but why did they not just use the type colors for the rotom bike colors in SwSh? I get dark going for the dark type gym color, red. But why is poison grass green? Who thought the purple of poison should be psychic instead? The outfit's already bad enough, but I just wanted to rock poison purple without needing to know I needed to use psychic for the poison color.

No. 312586

>>311952
never played SwSh but jfc that bike outfit is ugly as fucking shit.

No. 312625

>>312586
it was. i ran everywhere, even though the bike was way faster, just so my girl could wear her own outfit and not this abomination

No. 312871

>>312625
Valid. I hate the bike outfits. Even more annoying is that scarlet and violet are somewhat bike themed with you riding the bike legendaries, but in those games we don't get any biker outfits (other than dumb ass ugly helmets that automatically makes your hair ugly short)

No. 312880

File: 1691188516112.png (2.75 MB, 1000x2736, scarletviolet_vs_tumblrart.png)

scarlet and violet trainers are fugly tbh

No. 312927

>>312880
Isn't the whole game ugly, and not just the trainers? The more important NPCs/bosses all have fucked up bicolor hair and ugly clothes except like 2 of them and the school uniform is bland and ugly.

No. 312938

File: 1691233368112.jpg (1.13 MB, 4096x1691, paldealeaders.jpg)

>>312927
I don't mind the bicolor hair, I even like that part for some of them. It makes sense for Larry because his hair is turning gray from stress, Iono is a young streamer so it makes sense that she has wacky hair colors. Kofu is terrible and I hate him, his whole design is disgusting.

Maybe they were trying to hard to subvert expertations, but I feel like most of them miss the mark on what makes the profession/theme appealing. For example they made the rapper so old (and it's bortherline racist to make the one single black person a rapper kek) when most people think old people rapping is cringe. A snowboarder is cool because the sleek snowboarding action, instead they made Grusha girly, fluffy and grumpy in soft colors, and the baker lady has a frumpy brown uniform rather than a cute cafe uniform. They only nailed Larry because they were actually trying to make a boring design with that one. I used the 2D art because it's where they look their best, the 3D models make all of them look significantly worse.

No. 313117

New 30 min pokemon presents in 2 days, any predictions or hopes nonas?
Realistically I think there will be a long portion on the upcoming DLC, a chunk of time spent on the new detective pikachu, and a portion talking about the new routes and raids in pokemon GO. Cafe mix also typically gets some event or update. Probably also a bit about the pokemon sleep app since that's finally out. Oh and the worlds championships naturally must have a section given that it's in like a week. And that's the 30 min for you kek

But I expect 1 new game to be announced, no clue what but I doubt a main series game will be announced when the DLC for the last one isn't even out yet.
I'd like another legends game announced. It could tie in with the new SV DLC since Kitakami is very old japanese themed, so legends lugia and ho-oh or something. Legends celebi maybe, since it can time travel and you can have that be part of pulling the modern protagnoist into the old time world.

If/when they announced a new main series I think it would be like the initial video for SV, a teaser where they just hint about the regions inspiration and show a new pokemon or two (they showed the starters for SV).

No. 313120

>>312880
Kek my first thought about "goofy stoner dude" was that he looked like a pedo sex tourist that's somehow a begpacker at the same time

>>312938
>the baker lady has a frumpy brown uniform rather than a cute cafe uniform
I personally appreciate that she clearly looks like a baker/pastry chef rather than a maid.

No. 313131

>>312938
3d pokémon was a mistake

No. 313132

>>313131
The characters in gen 6 and 7 looked ok for the most part though.

No. 313137

>>313132
Gen 6 had the perfect balance, 3D pokemon models but trainer portraits in battles were 2D art. I think I'd even accept the ugly 3D models if they flashed the 2D art as a VS screen. At least then it would feel like the 3D wasn't the "official" look.

No. 313140

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>>313120
I just find it so frumpy and boring! It wouldn't have to be a maid dress to be cute. I imagine something like Siebold who's a chef (close enough) who looks somewhat regal to tie in with the theme of the region while it has the pokemon "whimsical" touch but I can still buy it's a chef outfit. It also feels like a missed opportunity to not make the colors either more fun dessert themed or bug themed. Both pretty desserts and bugs are known for a touch of bright colors, a cherry on top so to speak.
All she got was a very washed out brown, with another washed out brown. I mean sure it's the color of chocolate I guess? Also keep in mind the 2D image isn't what we got in the game, she looks better there than in the 3D we actually got.

No. 313161

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>>312880
>>313120
The goofy stoner dude is just Charlie / Penguinz0 / MoistCr1TiKaL

No. 313245

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going to be replaying leafgreen/firered(pick one nonas!) and here is my team I am planning to use. any suggestions or changes I should make?

>>313117
personally i am 50/50 on pokemon presents. i dont really want any new games because they will just be rushed/half-assed, buuut i would like a new pokemon mystery dungeon game, or a legends game for johto or unova.

No. 313283

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>>313161
lmao it does look like him
>>312880
one thing that bothers me in SV is that they gave trainers different faces (mostly ugly) but still the EXACT same bodies, animations and poses. They all already have the godforsaken ugly school uniform, we didn't need them to be even more boring and identical. Even BDSP which is highly criticized did copy the old sprites to give them all unique and fun poses. All trainers are static and standing still quietly in empty fields, they don't interact with you or the world unless you talk to them first. npcs haven't been this bad since gen 1, at least in gen 1 they had a presence because you had to beat them. It's like they hate npcs and want to get rid of them all, like in legends arceus. It's heading towards the story being 99% pokemon GO/let's go style of just catching wild pokemon, and then the people who want to do competitive battling do it afterwards separately from the rest.

No. 313284

>>313245
>i dont really want any new games because they will just be rushed/half-assed
despite me loving to roast and criticize pokemon games I still think SV in particular were greatly affected by the pandemic + the then upcoming extremely major change in the anime making so they couldn't delay anything. So i think that the following main series games will be better and less "unfinished". But SV came out in november 2022, gen 9 hasn't even been out for a year yet so there is no way there's any news on a new region yet. Weirdly I've never felt so "done" with a pokemon game/region in this short amount of time before. Maybe the DLC will fix that though.

No. 313287

>>313245
Omg nona if you swap Hypno for a Clefable that's the exact team I had back when I played Leaf Green for the first time!

No. 313289

>>313245
I would get a Gyarados or Cloyster, Lapras, Tentacruel, Staross, Golduck instead of the Poliwrath, get a Growlithe on Route 7 if you play FireRed or a Vulpix on the same Route if you play LeafGreen because you get a Ponita only in the late game but this is just my personal opinion. Jolteon's Moveset is not so good in Generation 3 I would get a Pikachu instead.

No. 313290

>>313289
Also I wouldn't evolve the Pikachu until Lv 26, if you get a Growlithe don't evolve it until Lv 31 and if you get a Vulpix until lv29.

No. 313371

>>313289
>>313290
Thanks for the suggestions nona! I mainly wanted to try out mons I never used before, such as the poliwrath, nidoking, and hypno. Never used a gyarados or tentacruel before so maybe I’ll give one of them a try instead! Forgot about ponyta being a late game mon, always used ninetales or arcanine so I wanted to change it up a little. I’ll probably play fire red and use arcanine.
>>313287
Oh wow, what a coincidence lol!

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Pokémon presents tomorrow nonas! You all excited?

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>>313403
lmao. i still ship him and kukui

No. 313427

>>313403
I fully admit to be a guzmafag

No. 313469

>>313420
based, I loved them

No. 313471

>>313427
me too, team skull and Guzma are by far my favorite villainous team

Hyped for those pokemon news today! Although I'm sure 90% will be boring side game updates lol

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>>313415
Yeah, only 1h 30m left. I dread the announcements (not like I play Pokémon anymore, anyway), but maybe this time they'll give us some good news. I've heard rumors that they're probably bringing back Megas, that would actually be pretty hype.
And I play PoMa so I am in fact waiting for that too.

No. 313561

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I like this little guy. ♥

No. 313571

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Can't lie, I hate all the new pokemon shown in todays presents.

I don't like cobalion and I don't care much for the violet robots so it's automatically uninteresting to me. Raikou long neck was atrocious, I'm so mad they did that. Going for a goofy look for a legendary is so fucking stupid, doing it to an old beloved cool one is retarded.

At first I thought dipplin was a new form of applin that would have fun new evolutions, but when hearing it IS the evolution of applin I got disappointed. It's just another applin.

Archaludon is just as ugly as duraludon, which is one of my least favorite pokemon to ever exist.

Apparently the art director for SV is Mana Ibe, that's her with the two-colored hair, I think we may have found why so many characters have two hair colors kek

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so you have one constantly burrowed into the others butt, what in the fujoshi is this creature someone on gamefreak needs to be outed for their yaoi habits

No. 313575

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>>313571
>Apparently the art director for SV is Mana Ibe, that's her with the two-colored hair, I think we may have found why so many characters have two hair colors kek
FIRE HER! NOW!

No. 313611

>>313571
Im on the same boat as you, I hate 90% of the new gen 9 mons. Super pissed about dipplin being an evolution instead of a new form of applin. Like imagine a candy apple appletun, we lost.

No. 313613

>>313611
These days fanmade pokemon are better. I think the problem is that game freak REALLY wants to make unique and unpredictable creatures but in doing so they've instead started making pokemon no one really wanted. They want to hit "didn't see that coming" but instead we get "didn't want that coming". No one expected applin to evolve into 2 applin in the same apple, because we didn't want something so boring. Didn't expect raikou to turn into a dinosaur giraffe, because no one wanted it to be fucking giraffe. They forget they also have to meet expectations and not just shock people with bad choices. It's like they're in a clickbait era, if they can get crazy enough that people talk about them it doesn't matter if it's bad.

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>>313571
>mfw
I woke up early for this. And PoMa news wasn't even news, it's shit we already knew from the current datamine. Hopefully they'll show some trailers or something at the Pokémon World Championships.

I actually like Cobalion though and that robot version is very cool, but that alone isn't enough to get me to play SV. I agree Raikou was just goofy but not in a good way. They're trying to get the same reaction out of people as with Alolan Exeggutor (even though one's meant to be cool and the other funny), it's just sad. I mean it's already a goddamn sabertooth-like beast, could've made it even cooler leaning into that concept. But I guess any baffling design choice could be justifed by saying "they're not really ancestors, they just resemble modern pokemon".

>I think we may have found why so many characters have two hair colors kek

C'mon nona, it's not like she has red and blue hair.

No. 313647

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>>313561
he looks especially cute next to these extremely retarded designs

No. 313650

>>313647
KEK. What the fuck did they do to raikou?

No. 313684

>>313644
>C'mon nona, it's not like she has red and blue hair.
nona pls it was clearly a joke
>>313647
>he looks especially cute next to these extremely retarded designs
it's not "he" it's "they/them" because that's 2 worms 1 apple. please respect their pronouns kek
i agree that on their own dipplin looks cute enough, the problem is that the design is not visually in any way an improvement on applin because it is just applin with a long stick in its head, which imo looks worse than without the stick
it's the cheerleader effect, it looks good only because in this group the other ones are so ugly

No. 313719

>>313650
idk, i hated walking wake at first and it's grown on me now, but i really doubt i'll ever like brachiosaurus raikou

No. 313722

>>313647
Raikou is starting to grow on me..

No. 313723

>>313719
I love walking wake but think raikou is fugly. I think maybe if it didn't have the massive retarded purple fleshy cloud on it's head I'd accept it, but even in the screenshots where it's pulled back I still think it's ugly.
I can't wait for this gen to be over, I really hate these new designs.

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>>313722
but nona he looks like a cartoon character swallowing a boogie board… where is his mouth anyways

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>>312880
>>313283
I thought the hiker gal was fine, I think it becomes a problem when the body types makes up 1/2 of the demographic. But its just more of Gamefreak being super lazy rather than woke.

Also seeing old people wear school uniforms peeved me too. Can't they just be teachers or school staff and wear things teachers typically wear? It's the same uncanny reaction I get when I see abdl and shit.

No. 313783

>>313738
i like how stupid it looks tbh. plus the fanart makes it look better.

No. 313785

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post your favorite pokemon ships anons
picrel is mine forever

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No. 313793

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>>313785
Lyra x Silver, very nostalgic to me.

When I was a child(keyword here: CHILD),I used to ship Cynthia x Dawn together. To be fair I was mostly self projecting myself onto Dawn.

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>>313785
you stole my favorite but this, silver x ethan, and those train autists are cute too

No. 313855

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>>313785
I'm not a shipper but I always thought Jessie and James should end up together.

No. 313856

>>313785
Speaking of shipping, I have an adult friend who strongly thinks adults shipping any child characters is gross and pedo-adjacent. Basically saying "Ash and Serena is a cute couple" will send her on a ragefit about how it's immoral and gross

No. 313860

>>313785
I don't ship anyone on Pokemon anymore being honest, mostly because I'm pretty detached to the series now and just keep up with whatever cute monsters they come up with in each gen, but when I was like 10 and reading Pokespe I liked Silver/Blue (the girl) and I have to live with that stain on my record forever kek

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>>313785
You just posted them though I also like N x Hilda or Hilbert. Pretty much attractive guys paired with the female protagonist like Volo x Akari, Arven x Juliana, etc.

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>>313785
red/blue and roark/volkner

No. 314059

how do we feel about the DLC nonas?

I think it looks fun and interesting, I'm curious about the story of the festival legendaries and I like the teal mask pokemon. Some characters are fugly, but so is the rest of these games characters so no surprise there. I love the japanese theme of the festival

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>>314059
I'm looking forward to this, it doesn't have to be Animal Crossing levels of room customization but it sounds nice enough, and I'm really curious about the new character interactions.

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>>314128
I've missed the silly feature of being able to decorate your own room with plushies and having a secret base that existed back in gen 3, so I'm super excited about getting to choose the look of the club room. I only expect it to be like "do you want green or pink" and that you'll maybe unlock a handful more, but I'll still take it lmao

Imo it's been such a missed opportunity to not have those decorating features because it gives us casual player something to do that's not just fucking battling for once. Even when you won points in the battle frontier to buy the plushies at least then you didn't ONLY get prizes that furthered battling like held items and so on. And the battles weren't just plain old boring battles, you had the weird frontier challenges that made it more fun. God, they've made casual player battling SO boring these days. We haven't even gotten double battles in the story since gen 6, you can pretty much only do double battles against other real people now. The only thing you get is VS other players, and I do NOT want to compete against real and competitive people, I only want to fuck around with my silly monsters for fun with no pressure of other people judging me.
I do expect the DLC (especially the second one) to have SOME more battle features but from what little they've shown it's "you get to rebattle gym leaders" which is neat I guess but… that's DLC you have to buy, a year after the base game and it's only a basic rebattle of a character you have battled before.

I think gamefreak doesn't get that 90% of their player base don't care about competitive battling, but that it doesn't mean "they fucking hate all things battling so we have to remove all battles instead of trying to make it fun for their casual solo play". (sorry I'm fucking sperging and don't know if my points came across lol)

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>>313803
>>313929
fellow palletfags… i went insane when we saw them in alola. like tears in my eyes it reignited this ship i've loved since i was a child. my first m/m ship that i couldn't really conceptualize as a "ship" even bc i was so young. i feel like i've grown up next to them. also, that little bit of muscle that red has even in the highly stylized chibi-ish official art??? deceased.

No. 314374

>>314059
i lost interest in scarlet and violet, so i am not gonna buy or play the DLC. Might watch some streamers play it tho.

>>314142
i miss secret bases so much. also, agree very much on the battling stuff, causal battles are so boring and i dont want to get into competitive since its pretty shit all full of cheaters. i wish gamefreak focused on making battles more fun or something.

No. 314446

>>314230
I wish they didn't reveal this in one of the trailers, I would have lost my mind even more if I found that out while playing the game and not before it got released.

No. 314454

>>314374
>i wish gamefreak focused on making battles more fun or something.
They used to have more options, like triple battles, rotation battles, sky battles, battle royal… then gen 8 which was heavily focused on battles being popular honed in ONLY on dynamax and removed everything else. Seemed very backwards to me. I also miss the pokeathlon, a useless pokemon (for battles) like hoppip could be great there so your favorites all got to shine. Same with contests. It gave us options to use weak pokemon we like and still win, and it still and an element of competing and winning. I wish they had developed it further instead of making it a one off neglected mini game (I will never forgive ILCA for what they did to BDSP contests, they fucking ruined it so bad).

I think the battle royal thing was a direct respons to the youtubers/pokemon "influencers" making free for all battles using double battles at the time, so I wish more people would try to make their own game versions and have game freak see there's a demand for it.

No. 314461

>>314446
Alola in particular was SO bad with showing fucking everything beforehand. Out of 90 or so new pokemon, there were at most 10 I hadn't seen before the games came out. I only looked at official posts and no leaks. Made the games really boring as I like to discover things myself.

Funnily enough that was a direct reaction to people being severely underwhelmed with the reveal of the previous games, the gen 3 remakes. In the initial ORAS trailer they showed JUST primal groudon and kyogre and people were all saying "oh really you're saying groudon and kyogre will be in the games, fucking shocker, yawn" and they over-corrected for their next games, sun and moon.

I do think they finally learned to find a middle ground for reveals, both gen 8 and 9 have done that part better. I still think they could reveal a little bit less for each game as just 1 or 2 pokemon are enough for the internet to lose its mind and even if they give us 10 at a time most of them will be ignored in favor of the most meme-able one.

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>>313785
N and the bad bitch he pulled by being autistic

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No. 314479

>>314477
Who's the most autistic pokemon character?

I'll go first: Red because he's non-verbal even as an adult, he lacks social skills and he keeps to himself and his special interest (battling) in which he excels far beyond expectations.

Marnie too, she has to literally practice smiling because she doesn't know how to express emotions like a normal person.

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>>313929
>Volo x Akari
Based

No. 314481

>>314478
I love these, almost all male choices are so valid kek
I'd pick Blue over Lance and leave Johto blank. Sycamore is also kinda meh but can't think of a better male from Kalos so he'll do.

No. 314482

>>314479
The sun and moon protagonists

No. 314483

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>>314479
>Who's the most autistic pokemon character?
Not most autistic but Steven’s pretty autistic
And probably a pedophile

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>>314481
>I'd pick Blue over Lance and leave Johto blank. Sycamore is also kinda meh but can't think of a better male from Kalos so he'll do.
Agreed with Blue but you don’t like Morty? He’s so cute though!
I sometimes also see Serena with Lysandre so I guess he could also work (I don’t think he’s attractive personally though)
My main critique is they should have had Rosa with either Colress (if it’s only older guys) or the idol boy you can date

No. 314487

>>314482
Elio just overthinks and Chicken is stupid

No. 314490

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>>314486
>you don’t like Morty?
His original design wasn't appealing to me at all. Ghost is my favorite type and he's just the worst at being a gym leader by only having the gastly line and not the single ghost type from his own region, misdreavous. That was his one job!!! It made me so mad as a kid that I haven't been able to let it go lmao

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>>314490
>His original design wasn't appealing to me at all.
That’s true for pretty much everyone, he didn’t become the most popular Johto NPC till HGSS
His team still isn’t great though, aside from rematches and such.
But most of his popularity just comes from him being a blonde goth boy with a nice design (in HGSS)

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>>314479
>>314483
good list. they're adorably autistic

>>314487
god i love "chicken"

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>>314478
Just trade Volkner for Riley and Piers for Raihan and we have my list of favorite husbando for each generation. Gen 9 would be Larry if I actually played the game. I wish Lance were real…

No. 314521

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I never fully got into pokemon as I didn't have consoles as a kid. Been thinking about playing Soul Silver and then Black.
Any other recommendations for mainline games?

No. 314524

>>314521
Not an expert on black and white 1, but the sequels are really fun. Despite the contest nerf (pokemon musicals), they added pokestar studios which is a fun pastime and the world tournament was added.

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>>314490
>>314514
the glowup is insane

No. 314538

>>314534
I've liked Morty since I played Crystal as a child, I'm not the same as >>314490 at all. But yes his design in gen 4 is a huge upgrade.

No. 314591

Anons, what'd you think of the trailers they showed at the World Championships? It starts around 8:20:22, they revealed stuff for Unite, the TCG and SV.

>>314454
>Same with contests. It gave us options to use weak pokemon we like and still win, and it still and an element of competing and winning. I wish they had developed it further instead of making it a one off neglected mini game
I miss contests so bad. Imagine if they had made contests more complex so there was a competitive community for it, kek. That would've been awesome. But I really really hate how they'll add some battle gimmick and gimmick minigame and then drop it entirely in the next generation. Megas and contests, especially.

>>314461
>people were all saying "oh really you're saying groudon and kyogre will be in the games, fucking shocker, yawn"
That's so stupid, it's a remake, were they expecting entirely new pokémon? Personally, I adored Primal Groudon and Kyogre and the new megas. ORAS was a bit underwhelming to me, and I expected more three-dimensional maps like in XY, but as a huge Hoennfag and Gen3fag I still loved it and the trailers were super hype. I'm glad they handled reveals like that for ORAS.

No. 314606

>>314591
>made contests more complex
There was so much potential for a pokemon contests spin off games where you grow berries and become the best contest star or something.

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>>314591
they're adding mimikyu for unite? fuck yeah
i downloaded unite when it came out and i had low expectations but i love it so much. hugely entertaining. plus you can dress your pokes in silly little outfits

No. 314631

thinking on getting into full odds shiny hunting again. missing the autism.

>>314606
tbh i would love online pokemon contests, like you play against other players.

No. 314674

>>314521
I always recommend the latest game because it allows you to follow current fan topics, art and memes, and usually has the best graphics etc. You get more than just the game experience then

No. 314675

>>314591
>Imagine if they had made contests more complex so there was a competitive community for it, kek.
I know I'm being a girly girl stereotype but I want it SO badly, I want to live my coordinator dreams with frilly dresses and pretty performances with my partner sylveon

No. 314676

>>314623
Is that terf azumarill I see? We love her

No. 314862

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>>314675
so real nona. i loved the Pokémon contests episodes with dawn and may when i was a little girl. i wanted to be a coordinator so badly(still do) and gamefreak still hasn't made child me dreams come true, shame on them.

No. 314898

>>314591
>That's so stupid, it's a remake, were they expecting entirely new pokémon?
No, people were disappointed because they only showed the new forms for the box legendaries and nothing else about the game.

No. 314904

Test

No. 314917

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Speaking of Pokémon husbando’s…
I really like silver fox Grimsley, handsome old man.

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>>314917
pokemon human designs are generally shit these days but all their old men are reliably hot

No. 314931

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>>314676
indeed it is our terf icon. and you can even wear matching outfits with her

No. 315014

I like watching Pokemon challenges on youtube. Been watching a lot of the 'Professor Oak Challenge.' Thinking of trying it myself.

No. 315036

>>314931
Is it specifically the Azumarill in the leather jacket who is a terf? Or do we deem Azumarill a general TERF icon?

No. 315132

>>314483
>And probably a pedophile
nah don't do steven like that, he isnt a irl moid so he should have morals.

No. 315142

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just downloaded Pokémon sleep, don’t know if you nonas play but I need some sleeper friends.

No. 315146

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>>315036
azumarill's iconic punk outfit seems to have inspired the original post (not mine, picrel) but i think she should generally be considered a terf icon

No. 315166

>>315146
we won't stop until azumarill is the new terf dog whistle that makes pokemon troons seethe

No. 315171

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>>315166
amen sister

No. 316232

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The big detailed models in Pokemon XY/ORAS were peak. They're not chibi but still retain the pokemon style, like the old gamecube games

No. 316253

>>316232
XY was peak imo. The change from previous games was huge but it was still very much recognisably pkkémon. the character customisation was great and the outfit were way better than what we got after. And being able to pet and feed your pokes was so cool

No. 316260

>>316232
>>316253
Gen 6 really had peak models, I miss it. I think sun/moon was decent too, but they swapped out the dynamic 2D art in VS pictures to the stale 3D models which downgraded the look a lot.

No. 316467

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nonas give me some anti-genwunner opinions, what's a Kanto pokemon you hate or think is overrated?

I'll go first: the whole geodude line is boring and ugly as fuck

No. 316507

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>>316467
Charizard is just an orange dragon, I don't get the hype.
I also don't understand why Dragonair evolves into Dragonite, which looks almost identical to Charizard, if not uglier.

No. 316509

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I've always thought jolteon and flareon had the ugliest designs.

No. 316523

>>316507
Gen 1 is full of "identical" pokemon that would make fans scream in rage over "lazy designs" if they were released today.
Dragonite and charizard looking the same is SO weird. At least change the colors! Jigglypuff, clefairy and chansey are all practically the same. Poliwhirl and poliwrath aren't much different. Krabby, kingler too. Rock/ground pokemon are literally just rocks, geodude, graveler, onix, rhyhorn.
If gen 1 had released today it would have flopped so bad.

No. 316529

>>316509
When I was a kid I liked jolteon the best because it was the spikey "tomboy" one kek

No. 316532

>>316523
>At least change the colors!
Are you color blind? Genuine question. And they're both bipedal dragons but one looks kind of edgy and the other looks cutesy but that's more of a detail. About your point, I don't disagree but designs had to be simplified because of the hardware. If pokemon didn't exist and was being invented right now it would be a very different series imo. There are a lot of other video games released in the 80s and 90s that were supposed to have more content but were limited by their consoles, that's why you see a bunch of enemies with different stats and skills that are just color swaps of each other in old JRPGs.

No. 316557

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>>316467
This ugly mf and I hate that coomers make it as some pedo rapist with hypnosis/mind control fetish

No. 316561

>>316557
on the second half same because hypno has been in my top 3 pokemon for a really long time and i didn't know it had a reputation as being creepy, i just liked it. i feel like this happens to all my favorite pokemon…

No. 316573

>>316523
Right, every gen has both ugly and lazy designs as well as peak ones. look at muk and drimer they're literally just blobs

No. 316574

>>316573
At least in gen 1 it was really obvious that Pokemon was a JRPG like any other. There are enemies that are slimes in Megaten, Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest yet they look different from each other. I see people sometimes saying that voltorb is a lazy design but it's meant to be the equivalent in other JRPGs of these treasure chests or items that attack you or trigger a battle against random enemies or a boss. In that context it makes perfect sense.

No. 316647

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>>316532
>Are you color blind? Genuine question.
Back at you anon. What part of them both being orange with greenish/teal wings and a beige belly is that you disagree with? Is it that the shades are not exact matches?

No. 316648

>>316561
I don't really like hypno due to personal taste, but it's a good basic goblin/troll pokemon

No. 316649

>>316573
>every gen has both ugly and lazy designs as well as peak ones.
Exactly! I don't think it's fair of older fans to always complain about the newer gens without being able to look critically at the earlier ones too.

Although even I will admit I struggle to find "peak" designs in gen 9 specifically lmao
chien-pao was the only pokemon in the whole game that took my breath away, and I've seen multiple people who all usually have different tastes in pokemon say the exact same thing

No. 316687

>>316647
>Is it that the shades are not exact matches?
Unironically yes. And draconite has a way cuter face too. Unrelated to that, if draconite looked more similar to its previous forms it most likely would have looked too similar to gyarados. Or like something between gyarados and milotic. I wonder what the devs' thought process was here.

No. 316790

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>>316687
>Unironically yes.
ntayrt but sorry about your autism, they both have the same colors. It's ok though, we're in the pokemon thread so we're all autists here kek
Genuine question though, does it bother you when their colors change from game to game, or in artworks (TCG for example)?

Another thing that just hit me about charizard and dragonite is that they kind of fit perfectly into those "memes" that are like "pokemon then VS now" where they make the newer ones rounder and cuter like picrel

>>316557
>I hate that coomers make it as some pedo rapist with hypnosis/mind control fetish
I hate this so much too. I actually think the creepy part of hypno is cool, I just hate the coomer/pedo parts of it. I haven't seen much of it lately though, those memes were more in the "pedo bear rawr xD" era of the internet.

No. 316796

I don't know where some people got the ridiculous idea that only the male player characters are "canon". As far as I'm aware, only Red has appeared in a main line game other than his own as an NPC, and that's probably because there was no female protagonist choice in the first generation.

No. 316814

>>316796
i've never heard this but it probably comes from the fact that female npcs show romantic interest in the player character and male npcs never have. or maybe that's just because it's creepy when a man does it, since the player char is usually like 11

No. 316834

>>316467
The whole charizard line is overrated as shit and I am so sick of seeing it.

No. 316847

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>>316467
I think Machamp is pretty ugly and a downgrade from Machoke because of its mouth and conjoined toes.

No. 316852

>>316796
Weird, cause most people consider it the opposite. Especially after Masters "confirmed" Dawn and I think May. And the anime helps because only the girls appeared with Ash.

No. 316863

>>316852
This is so retarded because Masters doesn't confirm shit. There's different Pokemon media where different player characters are the protagonist, obviously there is no single canon protagonist (except maybe Red as opposed to Leaf/Green) because you're meant to imagine whoever you picked in the games is the main character. Official art often depicts both girl and boy in the same role, so it's left deliberately ambiguous. I thought this was common knowledge
>May
No she's depicted as Birch's daughter in that game. I was so disappointed kek

No. 316869

>>316814
uh, N was pretty fucking creepy to the protag especially the ferris wheel thing

No. 316870

>>316847
As a kid playing FireRed, it always annoyed me how ugly machop got as it evolved. It starts out so cute, tf. I wish I'd known about everstones back then. We didn't get a cute pure fighting type until Hitmontop.

No. 316871

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>>316507
i truly dont mind the goofy look of dragonite. its cute and cool to me. i enjoy the japanese myth of "salamanders turning into dragons" that it's based on. however, i will forever wish that dragonite was blue and retained some of the "feathery wing" quality. it's such a beautiful nostalgic aesthetic.

No. 316872

>>316871
Holy shit, that design is awesome. I hope some day, there's a regional variant or something that looks like that.

No. 316873

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>>316467
Generation 3 had the best character designs imo. I think the franchise peaked in the mid 2000s with generations 3, 4, and 5. HeartGold/SoulSilver are the best mainline Pokemon games, period.

No. 316910

>>316796
It honestly bugs me to hear males talk about the game plots because they'll always list the (older) playable female characters as rivals only.
Ummm no May and Serena aren't the "rivals", they're the players. Brendan and Calem are just as much the rivals! Then on the other hand I have a strong aversion to males who choose to play as the female character…

No. 316913

>>316847
>conjoined toes.
I can never unsee it now, thanks I hate it

>>316852
>And the anime helps because only the girls appeared with Ash.
Most teens/adults don't watch the anime, unless they're pokemon "superfans". And people identify with Ash since he's the main character and see the girl as "the friend/rival on the side" while the male player still gets to be his own character. So they still end up thinking the male (them) is canon and the female character is just a side npc.

No. 316914

>>316869
>uh, N was pretty fucking creepy to the protag especially the ferris wheel thing
speak for yourself, us N-fags had a great time lmao

No. 316918

>>316873
I love most gen 3 pokemon, I know it's heavily affected by my nostalgia but I don't let that stop me

No. 317020

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I know I'm a baby who can't handle change but I hate that pokemon has started doing so many things with a more "western" cartoon style. I just hate how it looks. I'm fine watching it the same as I'm ok with watching any cartoon but I just don't find it visually appealing and would never buy any merch featuring this style (talking about the humans, not pokemon). I don't know why they suddenly hate the more classic "anime" look and go for blobbo instead… they already had great appeal to the whole world with their more anime stuff and it didn't feel dated

No. 317022

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>>317020
This blondie is supposed to be the most super intimidating opponent, I'm just not feeling it

No. 317024

>>317020
I don't care about pokemon but is this a toddlers cartoon? Cause it looks like a toddlers cartoon.

No. 317050

>>317024
>I don't care about pokemon
the fuck are you doing bumping the pokemon thread then?
but no it's not a for toddlers, it's for kids/young teens to get them into the TCG

No. 317052

>>317020
These designs clash so hard with the pokemon's designs it's insane that they thought it would be a good idea. I don't think it's just Pokemon trying hard to appeal to Western audiences' tastes and failing imo but in that case it seems even more unnecessary than usual because of how obviously Japanese the franchise was and how the very first game and the very first season of the anime kickstarted the pokemania thing going on in the late 90s and early 2000s. It's like Gamefreak forgot that completely.

No. 317091

>>317052
It's a super confusing direction for them to go in, it makes me wonder if they're secretly ameriboos the same way people here are weebs and make "bad anime"

No. 317095

>>317091
No I doubt it or it would have been more obvious in previous games. I've seen a bunch of Americans saying that gen 5's depiction of Unova felt more like a theme park than like the previous gens being based on Japanese regions, and I felt that way too with Kalos compared to France. I think it's just that instead of making the games they want, the devs are making games based on weird ideas they have of the target market. I don't remember if it was Masuda who was saying that they made the games way easier than before because they worry that kids are so obsessed with dumb phone games they'll get sick of having a little tiny bit of challenge in a simplistic JRPG for kids. I wonder what their marketing team even do on a daily basis for him to think something like that.

No. 317113

>>317050
NTA but the style does have strong Cocomelon vibes

No. 317117

>>317020
>>317022
im sorry but that art style is just so fucking ugly. i refuse to watch it.

No. 317159

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>>308810
I tried to pick different pokémon for each type, sometimes I can't just pick one.
I haven't played anything past Gen 6 but I've probably seen enough to have an opinion on newer pokémon.

>>316467
I think Eevee is overrated like Pikachu. Gen 1 had a lot of bland, stupid or "just ok" designs, so the good ones are easily going to stand out. The original 151 are overrated in general and people forget how boring a lot of them were because they only remember the great ones or their favorites, instead of all the shit or so-so ones. And even the good ones aren't that much better than pokes from other generations, whoever says they are just has a heavy preference for the early designs. It's the same as any other gen, it's nothing special.
And obviously, >>316834 Charizard is super overrated. Venusaur supremacy.

>>316873
>I think the franchise peaked in the mid 2000s with generations 3, 4, and 5.
Yeah, it's hard for me to choose favorites from Kanto, even though I generally like those pokes. I've liked the franchise since the original anime came out, but my faves are mostly from Gens 3, 5 and 6. 6 also had a pretty decent good vs. bad design ratio, but so far it's the generation to introduce the least new pokémon.

No. 317160

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>>316574
>At least in gen 1 it was really obvious that Pokemon was a JRPG like any other.
kek I was about to say the same thing. It's so obvious that a lot of the Gen 1 monster designs were just Game Freak's take on generic JRPG enemies. Tangela for example is just a thing with googly eyes, simple oval-shaped feet and covered in vines. Charizard is just a generic dragon, probably one of the first pokémon ever conceived. The very first one was Rhydon, a generic dino-like kaiju, as well as Nidoqueen and Nidoking… I'm sure there are people who like Hitmonlee but that's one of the creepiest pokémon ever made and you can't help but wonder what the hell it's supposed to be.
After Gen 1-2 you can tell that they started to really think of pokémon as analogous to animals in the real world. And I think that's part of why the most outrageous designs in newer generations don't work so well as before, because we're way past that 8-bit RPG monster era.

>>316507
I think Dragonite is cute but it always pissed me off that the beautiful Dragonair evolved into something that doesn't resemble it at all except for the head shape kek.

No. 317336

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>>317095
>No I doubt it or it would have been more obvious in previous games
they've been slowly getting cartoonier over the generations imo and the gen 9 designs are suspiciously woke and westernized, gendered clothes don't even exist anymore. Although they might just be really really shit at making appealing 3D models

>>317117
>im sorry but that art style is just so fucking ugly. i refuse to watch it.
It's fine enough when you watch it, but I still respect your choice because it is ugly.

No. 317572

>>317336
>The gen 9 designs are suspiciously woke and westernized, gendered clothes don't even exist anymore. Although they might just be really really shit at making appealing 3D models
I don't really understand what you mean, I just see them as girls with pants tbh.

No. 317759

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I WANT THIS EEVEE BAG AHHH

No. 317764

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>>316467
well, i genuinely love all the gen 1 designs (except jynx and mr. mime because ew.) as >>317160 said, many are tropey, but they are monsters. pocket monsters. i genuinely am more interested in having a ball with angry eyes as a pet monster than a someone's peacock birdsona with a huge ass.

my complaints about gen 1 would stem from gameplay mechanics. like the fact that psychic basically had no weakness because it wasn't weak to ghost, only bug type– and there were like 2 damaging bug-type moves. leech life was incredibly weak, and twineedle was only learned by beedrill, so unless you were carting a beedrill around (which was also weak to psychic anyway) good luck. the fact that there were no real "dragon type" moves because there was only "dragon rage", which did a set 40 damage and could not be used to STAB attack other dragons. etc etc. if you want a big and funny list of a lot of mechanic issues then google "the problem with gen 1".

i forgive them though since they tried to cram as much as possible on that tiny cartridge. really impressive work considering they had no idea if the game would fail, and 10000% more effort and passion put into g/r/b than recent releases, which always feel like they're coasting. legends arceus was cool, though. felt like the soul returned.

No. 317773

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he is a little silly

No. 317845

>>317764
>someone's peacock birdsona with a huge ass.
lmao nona perfect description, I hate that big butt bird with a passion, shit tier pokemon

No. 317855

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>>317572
>I just see them as girls with pants tbh.
Both sides are wearing pants so I'm not sure what you mean by that. Gendered clothes don't exist for the player is what I meant if that's what you're getting at. Or rather female clothes don't exist, they removed all female clothes so they can pretend it's gender neutral while still preventing boys from wearing girls clothes. It's not like Spain/Portugal doesn't have skirts for their school uniforms, they clearly just didn't want any feminine clothes in the game. Japan is still super gender segregated so this is definitely motivated by new woke american trends to make it gender neutral imo. Japan LOVES their kawaii girly stuff, to exclude it is a choice.

The faces of the new models all look deformed to me. The older ones didn't have potato blob noses or cross eyed fish faces. They now favor a fatter/"more realistic" body and cartoony faces with odd 2D features forced onto 3D models (in regions that aren't based on Japan/Asia anyway…) so rather than "pretty cute background npc" we get "oof that's an unfortunate yet boring looking npc". Ironically they're making the clothes look more realistic (boring) and the faces more cartoony (ugly). It's an odd combo.

No. 318119

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What Pokémon design gets so much hate that you disagree with? picrel, I know it's mostly men that hate it, but still.

No. 318126

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>>318119
Grimer and Muk? I'm not really aware of which Pokémon get a lot of hate, but I think Muk is very unpopular. I also like Garbodor and Trubbish!
I thought Primarina was popular though?

No. 318131

>>317855
The style for the 3D models in SV reminds me of some bootleg Pixar designs. I think you're right that they want to attract and please the Western audienc but it's silly because the Western audience have loved the games and anime since gen 1 when it was literally about one of the most 90s anime looking protagonists exploring Kanto as in the region with Tokyo, Yokohama, etc. to catch a bunch of mosters based on mythological creatures from Asia and typical JRPG monsters on top of animals. Don't get me started on the concept of trading pokemon and looking for the rare ones. It seemed weird and innovative for kids back then in the West yet that shit was always normal for trading cards, gachapon and I recently went to Japan, went to event cafes and women there would rush to me and use google translate to ask me to trade randomly distributed items. If anything, Pokemon being a Japanese franchise has always contributed to its popularity overseas. A randol Japanese kid playing gen 1 in the 90s would have been like "oh this town in the game is like Tokyo that's so cool I've been there before/I live there" while we found it fun and exotic because of the things represented in the games being sometimes far removed from our reality. It's the exact same thing as Megaten where the Japanesd fans like it because most games happen where they live or in cities inspired by where they live so the settings are relatable, and fans outside of Japan who never went there will find the games taking place in Tokyo or other cities exotic and fun. Anyway that weird shit they're doing of making the recent Pokemon media more Americanized (because let's be real it's America they're targeting) makes them feel inauthentic. Sorry for sperging.

No. 318134

>>318126
Call me a Genwunner but I always liked the design of Muk and Grimer and I hate any other "Trash"mon released after them.

No. 318140

Caught a shiny Komala in a dream ball and a shiny female Heracross in a love ball today. Both full odds, I am beaming lol

No. 318182

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>>318119
>I know it's mostly men that hate it, but still.
I'm female (obviously) and I still hate primarina (sorry). I hate gendered starter pokemon and the combo of primarina being "the girl one" while they're 87,5% male just reminds me of troons. I hate macho male incineroar even more though, maybe if they hadn't been in the same gen I wouldn't have hated them both as much. I wish starters in particular would go back to being more basic cool monsters/animals rather than "human furry cosplayer". I hate how

For my own choice, luvdisc. I think it fills the gimmick of being a cute little heart that represent love. I get why people don't like it though, it's very plain lol

No. 318186

>>318131
>I think you're right that they want to attract and please the Western audienc but it's silly because the Western audience have loved the games and anime
Yeah "jelly filled donuts" is a meme because of how stupid people now find it to assume american/western kids don't know what a onigiri/riceball is. People love and know more about japanese culture and anime than ever, it's a huge mistake to throw it away for a western cartoon style instead.
I love the sperging nona kek keep it coming
>that weird shit they're doing of making the recent Pokemon media more Americanized (because let's be real it's America they're targeting) makes them feel inauthentic.
Absolutely is, as a non-american I can only seethe and cope lmao but I don't think american fans like it either, if they did they'd be fans of american games/cartoons instead of pokemon

Weird thought I had… would they even be able to make a game set in a region based on for example South Korea? (A less diverse country). They hammered down on having a mix of skin and hair colors, and I'm sure there would be outrage (among Koreans especially) if half of the region had dark skin, were fat and had ugly big noses ("white people noses" as they would call it). And the opposite too, if they choose a place where dark skin is the norm and make half the characters white, would people be offended over the "white(/japanese)washing"?

No. 318187

>>318134
are there even any other "trash" mons than trubbish and grimer + evos?

No. 318207

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>>318187
The koffing line is technically like air trash, and gloom is stinky.

No. 318209

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>>318182
>I hate gendered starter pokemon and the combo of primarina being "the girl one"
Nonny me too! That's definitely one of the reasons, but the other rather dumb reason I hated the Primarina reveal was that I had grown so attached to the fake leak evo, Ballio/Pinnister.
>I hate macho male incineroar even more though
I also hate it, but mostly because its design is so dumb, it has comical proportions, and it suffers from the same thing the gen 8/9 starters do as >>254625 and >>254591 put it, of being more like furries with human personalities and jobs.

>>317855
I hate the new art style so much, even SwSh looked more 'Pokemon' than this shit.

No. 318214

>>318209
but nona that clown is terrifying lmao
Out of those the fake torracat is what I wish incineroar would have been, but the artist dropped the ball on the actual fake incineroar by making it too sleek and realistic, the progression just doesn't feel natural and it reminds me of Tarzan lol. Fake dartrix also looks better than real dartrix but I HATE how human fake decidueye looks. Starters looking human is the worst thing to ever happen.

I'm rambling like the sperg I am, but I think gen 1 had 2 evolution concepts:
>itself, but bigger and stronger
Like the starters, poliwag, geodude, machop, oddish, seel, paras…
>"real" evolution of the concept/idea
Exeggcute (seeds to tree), vulpix (6 tailed to 9 tailed fox legend), bug types (literally caterpillar to butterfly), magikarp (fish to dragon legend)

And I miss those simpler ones that were kind of just "what if this pokemon became stronger" rather than deep convoluted ideas about how it's personality changes from a crybaby lizard to an emo teen to a sneaky spy… all done with disjointed designs.

No. 318226

>>318186
>Weird thought I had…
That's a good question. They kind of already did that with Alola having tond of white characters despite taking place in not!Hawaii but then again I never went there or to the US so I can only assume that it has a decent number of white Americans going there as tourists or to live there. idk. As for Korea I know it has a complicated relationship with Japan and Game Freak will most likely try to avoid controversies as much as possible. I'm French and I can tell you that the human characters being diverse POC or whatever was pretty accurate. I legit got more respectful ethnic representation in Pokemon XY than in anything that French pop culture always shits out. I'm not even joking kek. I honestly think the devs do their research to make it seem like each region outside of Japan (so since gen 5) feels like the real deal in some aspects aside frol the urban fantasy side of the game, and I wouldn't be surprised if they used that as a pretext to go ln holidays abroad as vacations with the company's money and used these researches as a pretext kek. This reminds me of the Sonic Adventure devs traveling to Mexico or to a South American country for research because they wanted to see the local culture and incorporate it in the game for some stages and characters' backstories.

No. 318227

>>318209
>even SwSh looked more 'Pokemon' than this shit.
The humans in SWSH always looked like Pokemon characters for the most part, the real issue is that the graphics look half assed. In SV they're doing it on purpose.

No. 318268

>>318226
Hawaii is part of the US and regarded as a super mixed place so I don't think it would have been an issue there. I know they have a few Korean employees at game freak so they might be put in charge of the Korean region game, much like the British James Turner was the art director for SWSH. As a side note I'm super upset James talked them out of basically making Galar medieval themed, he wanted it to be modern but I would have loved an old fairy tale vibes medieval region so much!
I expect a Korean version at some point because they seem to be making regions for all the official languages and Korean is one of them. So far they've never made a region that doesn't correspond to the official languages

No. 318270

>>318227
Some SWSH npcs were ugly af, like the crazy murder-stare artist and the policeman. It's like they snuck some uglies in to see just how ugly they can make them, and in SV they pushed it even further.

>>318226
>I honestly think the devs do their research to make it seem like each region outside of Japan (so since gen 5) feels like the real deal in some aspects
I think so too, and that's why it's even more offensive that they made half of Paldea obese ugly women with short hair, I feel like they actually see Spanish/Portuguese women as ugly, fat and kind of unfeminine (compared to Japan where the ideal is feminine, petite and "kawaii" culture is encouraged). They didn't see/know the ideal like for their own country so they see a bunch of average people and think that's "all they've got", if that makes sense.

No. 318271

>>318268
>much like the British James Turner was the art director for SWSH
Wasn't he the one who pushed for all the football references and comparisons with pokemon gyms? Because I respect him for that kek they perfectly captured the obnoxiousness of British football fans.

>he wanted it to be modern but I would have loved an old fairy tale vibes medieval region so much!

It would have worked pretty well, especially with all the mentions of knights protecting the region against the alien from outer space and its proximity with Kalos which has a big ancient war against another unnamed region and magical nuke as a backstory. You know what? We need an equivalent of Pokemon Legend Arceus but for these two regions at the same time. It would just work.

>>318270
>I feel like they actually see Spanish/Portuguese women as ugly, fat and kind of unfeminine (compared to Japan where the ideal is feminine, petite and "kawaii" culture is encouraged)
It's crazy because that's not the case for gen 5 to gen 8 so the character designs in gen 9 are even more noticeable for making them look like that.

>the policeman

I forgot that guy, you're correct he's ugly af

No. 318341

>>318271
>Wasn't he the one who pushed for all the football references and comparisons with pokemon gyms? Because I respect him for that kek they perfectly captured the obnoxiousness of British football fans
I think it's the coolest gym battle experience they've created so far, but I'd also love it even more if instead of a modern sports reference it was like an old roman battle arena. I also HATE that I'm forced to wear the ugly gym uniform including after becoming the champion. Would have been cool if they let you customize your champion outfit at least

No. 318343

>>318271
>It's crazy because that's not the case for gen 5 to gen 8 so the character designs in gen 9 are even more noticeable for making them look like that
I don't know if it's controversial or generally agreed upon in the pokemon community, but at least I personally feel that the humans are fine being somewhat generic anime looking, rather than cartoony or overdeisgned. There are now over 1000 pokemon that all look wacky and weird and cool and cute. We don't need that from the humans too, the humans should be a more neutral representation of "us" I think. The same way a smile emoji is seen by people as being any kind of face on any kind of human, having neutral anime faces let's you project anything into the trainer. Having the odd cartoony faces solidifies them into just exactly that face. Weirdly it just limits them more.

No. 318370

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>>318119
all the rage over this line is funny to me. they're so cute and silly-looking

No. 318380

>>318186
Some NPCs from the Japanese regions had darker skin because not everyone always has the same skin tone even when they belong to the same ethnicity. Also in Japan there are places where people are just darker skinned, but you rarely see that being talked about, everybody thinks all Japanese people are super pale, with straight hair, and the same facial features, and are racially the same when that couldn't be further from the truth.
Well my point is that there can and has been some variety in skin tones and features in previous pokemon games. I mean just look at Brock in the anime.
>>318268
>I'm super upset James talked them out of basically making Galar medieval themed, he wanted it to be modern but I would have loved an old fairy tale vibes medieval region so much!
That would've been cool but all the main pokemon games have taken place in regions that are based on modern real life places. It wouldn't have made much sense to make an entire region medieval unless it took place in the past like in Legends Arceus. One city having that aesthetic would've been fine though, like Ecruteak in Johto.
>>318271
>Wasn't he the one who pushed for all the football references and comparisons with pokemon gyms
As much as I hate gen 8 that's one thing I actually found charming kek
>>318343
Me too, now it just feels like they're trying to make the characters as 'unique' and colorful as possible or follow current anime trends (those dreaded hairstyles and bicolored hair), and blatantly appeal to waifufags and horny people more and more

No. 318381

>>318209
I wish that fire starter's middle had been its final form. the skinny one would be its 2nd evolution. i really hate how humanish that clown seals fake final evo is though.

No. 318383

>>318370
based, an ice-type ice cream pokemon is a pretty natural concept too

No. 318389

>>315142
I sent you a friend request nona! If any other Pokemon Sleep players are reading this my ID is 1673-8840-8643

No. 318403

File: 1693327068107.png (325.15 KB, 578x673, team aqua.png)

>>318380
>Some NPCs from the Japanese regions had darker skin
Until gen 5 I don't think that's true. I looked through all the sprites up until then and at best there are maybe 5 in total from all games you could justify as tan. Not until the ORAS remakes did they retcon a handful of characters into having darker skin
>are racially the same when that couldn't be further from the truth.
Anon their monoethnicity is at 98,5%. They're not racially diverse, they just have more diverse features than people expect.

No. 318508

>>318403
nta but I met a bunch of Japanese people in Japan with skin as dark or or a bit darker than me and I'm not white. They all assumed I was Latina, Indian or Middle Eastern because I look racially ambiguous for context. They're still 100% Japanese and not mixed but many of them are a bit darker than average or tan a lot really fast just from going outside, which happened to me too when I stayed there several months. I'm not too surprised they made characters coming from not!Kyushu and not!Okinawa look darker in ORAS than in RSE.

No. 318779

>>186539
I saw this while scrolling and I'm sad that 2/3 is what we really got

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No. 319262

File: 1693722193622.png (2.44 MB, 1140x1674, ultimate tier list.png)

I spent way too much time on this but feel free to rate and judge

No. 319267

>>319262
seems reasonable, but im curious why volo is in ss tier while melli is in c

No. 319268

File: 1693725568947.png (288.45 KB, 574x850, 110890424_p126.png)

>>319267
Volo is arguably the most attractive character in pokemon (also he's evil, which is a giant bonus)
Melli's kinda cute, but nothing is really attractive to me about him, he looks a lot better without the hat though.

No. 319270

>>319262
>Piers and Guzma in kimochi warui
Good luck anon you're going to be yelled at.

No. 319271

>>319262
this looks fun, could you link to the template you used?

No. 319273

>>319270
I stand by my principals, and I don't like ugly stinky old music guys.
>>319271
https://tiermaker.com/create/basic-template-693853
Here you go!

No. 319290

>>319262
>>319270
I like both Guzma and Piers a lot, I'm more grossed out about the thought of the old professors like Elm and Oak having sugar babies and someone actively wanting that role lmao
That's also assuming the kid characters are inteded as aged up versions, if not then ew

No. 319351

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>>319273
Thanks nona!!
I'm not super familiar with all the pokemon characters/trainers so I tried to weed out all the guys and kids from the tierlist.
A not insignificant number of these started on "swipe right just to see what her deal is" to "would fuck"…

No. 319380

>>319351
>the two guys in there

No. 319392

>>319273
>ugly stinky old music guys
They're not old you dumbass

No. 319420

>>319380
Lol there's actually three from the looks of it.

No. 319425

>>319380
>>319420
rip lmao. which ones are they? i genuinely cant tell

No. 319428

>>319425
NTA but just from the thumbnail I see B2W2 Cheren and Grusha from SV
I think you also missed a few female character kek
Sadly I think Skyla is supposed to be a teenager because Sugimori or whoever designed her wanted to make a "sexy bishoujo" or something like that

No. 319480

>>319351
>Opal in worst tier
oh go get spirited away loser

>>319425
Grusha (SV), Atticus (SV), and Cheren (BW2).
Half of the internet thought Grusha was female at first, as dicussed in the thread they like gnc/woke designs in Paldea (that mostly fall flat but his is alright even though it doesn't match his personality at all). The gendies tried to claim him because to them "male looking feminine = can't be a real guy"

No. 319483

>>319351
Not making the list myself but mine would basically be all SWSH gym leaders at the top because I adore how they all had a consistet theme yet were individual. I got a similar feel for the Alola trial captains/kahunas, they all feel more coherent as a group and fit the region. Maybe I just don't "get" the theme behind the Paldea gym leaders + elite 4, but they feel so disjointed to me. Like why is there a business man and a literal toddler in the elite 4?

No. 319537

>>319483
I haven't played SV yet but isn't the salaryman there just because he's a basic bitch so he's specialized in basic bitch types (normal and flying)? And his boss is the champion and wants to overwork him for some reason? He's wouldn't look out of place in the previous gens imo.

No. 319538

File: 1693842956136.jpg (191.3 KB, 900x1200, psychic.jpg)

Opinion on the official Hatusune Miku X pokemnon collab? This is the pshysic type version, they're doing all 18 types.
I think it's cute but a little bit too casual for my personal taste, I hope some of the others are a bit more… stylish I guess?
The artist is Take and he generally does designs I like includding the aether foundation members, gym leaders in Galar, Irida and Adaman from PLA.

No. 319539

File: 1693843015536.jpg (320.11 KB, 1920x1080, psychic2.jpg)

>>319538
And the character sheet was posted too

No. 319547

>>319537
It seems in the game that all the gym leaders sort of dislike Geeta, the league chairwoman, and hint at her overworking them. They all have jobs other than being a gym leader, which I heard someone speculate is because they aren't getting paid enough to just be gym leaders. Or that none of them whant to be gym leaders but are forced to do it on the side.
I'm not entierly sure that was the intended message but Larry in particular does seem to hate his job and he just does what he's told for the paycheck. I know his situation is "realistic" but it's so sad that in this magical fantasy world of pokemon you have a top trainer who just hates his job - it's kind of depressing, and like… just get a new job dude. What dirt does Geeta have on you for you to stay??? Oh dear lord arceus don't let it be related to the toddler- surely they're not THAT depraved, but then again why did they make a literal loli character ugh

No. 319549

>>319537
>He's wouldn't look out of place in the previous gens imo.
In the older games sure, he's "just a guy" so he could be anywhere. But in the examples used, nah he's stick out like a sore thumb. He doesn't have a sports uniform like every other Galarian gym leader, nor does he fit in with the casual and beachy Alolan designs.

No. 319628

>>319549
Gen 7 and 8 are too recent imo and that's when his character designer started working on Pokemon so I wasn't thinking about these ones. I was more thinking about gen 1 to 4 where most characters looked kind of normal because of hardware limitations.

No. 319640

File: 1693855412166.gif (630.28 KB, 505x382, castelia.gif)

>>319628
>hardware limitations
That's only true for gen 1, maybe 2 at a stretch, and has very little to do with the actual designs. But yeah we seem to agree, he'd fit into the old gens when the designs were more boring/normal (although I think that's not really fair to say to the old gens lmao they had some fun designs too). I actually think he'd fit the best into gen 5 though, they had big cities with stressed businessmen running up and down the street where he'd fit in perfectly.

No. 319642

>>319628
Btw who is his designer and where did you find that out?

No. 319651

>>319642
It's Take isn't it? He or she also did the designs that >>319538 talked about.

>>319640
>I actually think he'd fit the best into gen 5 though, they had big cities with stressed businessmen running up and down the street where he'd fit in perfectly.
You're right, they're just regular trainers so I kind of forgot them. I'm not saying the first gens had boring designs, just that they were very simple and straight forward. Compare Erika's kimono to the fairy type gym leader's and the furisode girls in XY, you can see at some point that the character designers are getting more creative.

No. 319717

>>319651
tbf Valerie is a fashion designer and she's kinda loony

No. 319753

>>319651
>It's Take isn't it?
Could be, but I haven't seen any confirmation of it yet? Aren't you just conflating the conversations by assuming it's the same designer? There are like 15 people credited as character designers for SV (Take being one of them).

I know James Turner confirmed he designed the 2 professors but I'm not sure if any other character's designers have been revealed.

>>319717
I love Valerie, her design is perfect for what she is - a Japanese (she's from Johto) inspired fashion designer. She fits in perfectly with Japan's contemporary street fashion that mix in traditional elements (in fact if you look at what real Japanese people are doing her outfit is really tame lmao)

No. 319754

>>319651
>I'm not saying the first gens had boring designs, just that they were very simple and straight forward.
I agree, although that simplicity does actually make them boring sometimes. And on the flip side the later games sometimes over-complicates the designs instead! There's a happy medium somewhere

No. 319792

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Second collab dropped, grass type. The artist of this one is Megumi Mizutani. Cool that they're making different artists do it, but this one doesn't look Miku enough to me. I'd assume it was just another pokemon trainer. Thoughts nonas?

No. 319793

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>>319792
And the character sheet

No. 319794

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>>319792
>Megumi Mizutani
She also designed Lisia in ORAS who ironically looks more like Miku to me!

No. 319799

>>319753
I'm guessing it's Take because of the art style in his promo art. It's impossible to guess just based on his 3d model obviously.

No. 319814

>>319792
it's the hair color. weird that the straps are her trademark teal but her trademark pigtails aren't
then again miku has so much art with varied hair colors and you can usually just kinda tell so maybe it's the bangs

No. 319847

>>319814
It's everything at once. The style isn't the typical Miku style, the colors aren't the typical colors, the hairstyle, the clothes…
By all accounts it just looks like any other pokemon character. Which is fine, but as someone who used to enjoy vocaloid it's a bit disappointing to see them remove all the mikuness from Miku.

I know we've just seen 2/18 so far but I don't like the direction it seems to be going. It's far too casual amd juvenile for my taste. I don't hate it, but Miku has iconic outfits and these are a bit boring compared to that. Maybe it's from seeing Lisia here too but she's closer to what I expected to see. She's fun, cute and flashy and still a pokemon trainer. But maybe the rest are all good, can't be too judgey yet!

No. 319855

>>319793
I kinda like this one but green is my favorite color so I know I'm biased.

No. 319985

File: 1694018766002.jpg (204.75 KB, 1200x900, fire.jpg)

Fire type Miku, Megumi Mizutani again. I'm assuming she's made the water one too, which is a shame because I prefer Take's style out of the two.

No. 319986

File: 1694018898644.jpg (314.04 KB, 1920x1080, fire2.jpg)

>>319985
Huh, didn't even realize she's got a cool jacket but then she's throwing it off in the official artwork so it looks like she's wearing a plain boring top. Odd choice.

No. 320013

>>319793
>>319986
honestly i think they would both look great as designs for gym leaders, especially the grass one. the vines as pigtails is clever and she matches well with rillaboom, plus they look recignisably like pokémon npc designs.
but they just don't look anything like miku. the only thing they have in common with her is the twintails

No. 320018

>>320013
I agree, they look like pokemon designs (imo they look specifically like the anime designs that tend to be slightly more childish because it's for kids) but they do not look or feel like Miku at all which is a huge bummer.

No. 320117

I've seen multiple nonas say they're autists and that pokemon is their special interest, so where you all at? Why aren't you in the pokemon thread? It's almost always so dead in here

No. 320119

File: 1694095477867.jpg (172.65 KB, 1200x900, 20230907_120107.jpg)

>>320117
Meant to post the latest Miku too since it hadn't been poster yet, but forgot to attach the image oops lol

No. 320141

>>320119
water gym leader miku has primarina yayyyy!!

No. 320150

Does anyone have a gym leadersona/trainersona? I think I'd be a fairly regular person but with a budew to grow and a joltik to train to eat other small bugs in my apartment. I love sneasels but I wouldn't be able to care for one, so I'd make friends with someone who is so I can spoil one a bit.

No. 320163

>>320117
Here loud and proud. Recently fell back into the Pokémon hole, and now I'm trying to collect a proper living dex, but with an autistic flair ofc: any signature moves, items or abilities I need on the relevant pokes, I want to code pokeballs to stages (so pokeballs for all bases, greatballs for first evos and ultras for second), plus I want any Pokémon that evolves by level to be at the level it evolved. So, no small task…I'm a long way off completing this at the moment, think I'm just going to start with the SV pokedex and work backwards through the games

No. 320175

>>320117
I'm here, I just don't normally comment because the thread is so slow kek

Very much looking forward to the SV DLC coming out next week though! I just know I'm gonna get sucked back in for tens of hours on end again exploring and shiny hunting. Really want to see what the shiny for Poltchageist looks like, it's so cute.

No. 320186

>>319985
>>319792
Yuck, why'd they have to give her such shitty starters? Why not use some starters people actually like? Are they just using Miku to make teenage/adult fans hate the newer generations less?

No. 320188

File: 1694123098941.png (109.96 KB, 475x475, 604.png)

>>318119
I don't know if it gets hate, but it seems like no one gives a shit about Eelectross. I like it a lot, though. It's a windsock eel with big paws. I love.

No. 320192

>>320188
I think they don't care because it's hard to get one.

No. 320193

>>320186
Primarina is my favorite starter kek I don't know why people hate it so much (outside of men who hate anything girly)
That gorilla is so ugly though

No. 320194

>>320193
The gorilla doesn't look as gimmicky as the other gen 8 starters, I respect it.

No. 320215

>>320186
because they're all pokemon with musical themes

No. 320228

>>320150
>Does anyone have a gym leadersona/trainersona?
I have several, I love making ocs and I end up making most of them some sort of self-insert kek my main one is a ghost type gym leader/expert because I love spooky things

No. 320230

>>320163
>I'm trying to collect a proper living dex, but with an autistic flair ofc: any signature moves, items or abilities I need on the relevant pokes, I want to code pokeballs to stages
I love that!
I had so much fun building my living dex (just a general one) but sadly I hate pokemon home with a passion, that app is so garbage that I don't even care to update it to the latest gen. Now I try to keep the living dex locally in my games to hopefully one day be able to move them all to the same place. Letting ILCA make anything pokemon related was a massive mistake, they can't make anything good. I hope they remake it one day using another company.

No. 320231

>>320175
>I'm here, I just don't normally comment because the thread is so slow kek
But that's why it's so slow, because nonas just keep lurking without adding anything to the discussion, please join us!

No. 320236

>>320186
All the Miku pokemon are music themed. The choices so far has made me realize there aren't a lot of music-themed pokemon, and sadly some of the ones that are aren't that good (for a matchup with Miku). There's no other music fire type than skeledirge so it was their only choice. I hate the ugly balding clown head it's got and would rather have seen fire oricorio which is at least a dancer. I like that they're staying on theme though.
I really wonder what they're gonna pick for the types that don't have music pokemon in them, like rock and ground. I honestly don't want pikachu to be the electric type one but I suspect they'll use cosplay pikachu since it has a pop star and a rocker outfit.
>>320188
>I don't know if it gets hate, but it seems like no one gives a shit about Eelectross.
I love the whole line! I think they're so funny/cute.
>>320193
>Primarina is my favorite starter kek I don't know why people hate it so much
It being "womanly" makes it automatic coomer material which turns a lot of women off too. It's like being forced to wear a skimpy outfit in a game, you just roll your eyes over the sexism you know comes with it. And then on the other hand if you love girly things it's disappointing that it's male in like 90% of cases lol

No. 320247

>>320236
I think Primarina is femenine in a respectful way, it's just a cute mermaid. I find Pokemon like Lopunny and Tsarenaa way worse when it comes to coom designs, maybe I just have been lucky since I barely have seen any sexual drawing of Primarina.
By that logic, every female character would turn women off since men always jack off to them regarless on how they look.

No. 320303

File: 1694200799750.png (1.06 MB, 625x867, Screenshot 2023-09-08 at 3.23.…)

I haven't bought any of the cards since I was a kid but lately I've been thinking about collecting again after pulling out my old binders. Some of these newer cards are so stunning! The full artwork ones look amazing, I'd be happy to pull any of them out of a pack.

Really love this Grusha in particular. It's so cozy and comfy looking. What are some of your favourite cards?

No. 320304

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>>320303
samefag here, this Fletchinder is also so lovely! I think another nice thing about these full art cards is that not as popular Pokemon also get a good looking card. Growing up the fancy cards were usually reserved for legendaries, starters, or other popular Pokemon.

No. 320305

File: 1694201529083.jpg (148.99 KB, 900x1200, Pokemon-feat.-Hatsune-Miku-Pro…)

>>320236
Miku got Rotom rather than Pikachu, otherwise known as one of the most overused electric Pokemon alongside Pikachu.
Honestly not sure how I feel about it. It's definitely inspired more by designs like Clemont more than Elesa or Iono, but it feels too cowboy somehow. It's probably just the hat but a cowboy theme feels weird for an electric type trainer.

No. 320307

>>320305
this one really bears no resemblance to her, flop

No. 320308

>>320307
samefag, and rotom looks like boring sticker pasted on at the last minute

No. 320309

>>320304
Wow love that art, stunning
>>320305
Half her hair is still teal but you can't really tell from this artwork. I don't hate it, but I don't love it either. Definitely not the worst of the bunch so far! I do agree that rotom is a slightly boring choice, on the other hand I think it's possibly supposed to be a ghost buster outfit? Which adds comedic value for me lol

No. 320329

File: 1694214286580.png (2.05 MB, 1398x891, she cozy.png)

>>320303
Man a lot of the full art cards are so gorgeous.

No. 320344

>be artist
>get once in a lifetime chance to illustrate an iconic miku + pokemon collab
>utterly fuck it up
they must've been nervous or something because all of these are so shitty

No. 320351

File: 1694230152650.jpeg (339.41 KB, 1920x1080, IMG_1075.jpeg)

>>320305
I think she’s supposed to be some sort of performer?

No. 320356

>>320351
>>320344
seriously the fuck is this? doesn't seem like "miku" at all

No. 320374

>>320356
I think it's the hair color what fucks up with the design, she does look a bit Miku in the lineart-only drawings. I wish they had given Miku her blue color since Rotom has blue details as well.

No. 320377

>>320344
At this point I'm convinced their task was explicitly to create pokemon trainers who have a vague resemblance to Miku, rather than what they sold it as "Miku as a trainer". Because they're all weirdly not-Miku at all. Maybe they were told to make rework it to be less like Miku because they don't want "just another Miku" but instead rather "another pokemon thing that can use mikus name for free advertising" and thus end up with these kinds of designs

No. 320505

How short would you say PLA is? I'm not even 10h into the game just yet and I've beaten the big lilligant that went crazy.

No. 320508

>>320505
it really depends on what your goal is, if you just power through the main story and level up just 1 or a few pokemon you can probably do it quite fast. I think maybe 20h or so of casual playing is normal?

No. 320510

>>320508
Then I should be almost halfway through the game I assume? I'm also doing a few sidequests here and there to get more useful items so it could depend on the what the next sidequests are like.

No. 320533

Do you think there’s ever going to be a Pokémon Pink? Or do you have any speculations about future names and concepts? I would definitely buy a Pokémon Pink in a heartbeat.

No. 320536

>>320150
I've been planning on making a trainersona, thought I'm still debating about the type of pokemon I want her theme to be.
>>320377
I don't know, personally, even if some don't look like the classical Miku I'm glad there's variety. Not too fond of all of them but it's nice to see her being adapted to more styles.
>>320533
A Pokemon Pink would be lovely indeed, makes me think on a european setting.

No. 320537

>>320344
I liked the first one with Meloetta, I don't like any of the others.

No. 320541

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>>320344
tbh i like psychic and water miku, cute designs.

No. 320542

>>320536
I used this quiz to get what type my team would be. Ground ftw!!!
https://uquiz.com/quiz/r0lGkB/what-type-gym-leader-are-you

No. 320545

Most of the Miku designs are pretty meh. Hope they don't fuck up with fairy and ghost.

No. 320571

>>314490
>>314492
Is it bad that I'm one of the rare few who liked his original design? kek. Don't get me wrong, his redesign was a good improvement giving him that mysterious vibe that matches the ghost-type theme for him but his original design just made me think of a hippie and I thought it was kinda cool.

No. 320580

>>320571
I don't think it's bad (it's all up to personal opinion after all) but I personally don't like his OG design at all…I think the hippie vibe would work well for anyone who isn't the ghost type gym leader haha.

No. 320582

File: 1694333584090.png (448.68 KB, 1140x583, pokedads.png)

Kinda obsessed with all the tier lists people have been making on /vp/ husbando threads lately.

No. 320586

>>320582
Looker should be in the "never comes back" tier, for obvious reasons kek

No. 320594

File: 1694342748962.jpg (2.93 MB, 3223x2415, F5hPo2zaMAEtlaE.jpg)

Some fan Miku designs have been poping up on my timeline, I actually prefer them to the official ones lmao

No. 320597

>>320594
MUCH better. my first problem with the rotom in the art was rotom is known for posessing electronic devices i. e. all his other forms and the rotomdex, so why not make him into rotom speakers or rotom turntables or something for miku? nah, let's just have a boring basic rotom there chilling with essentially no pose or proper interaction with miku. what a missed opportunity in the original.

No. 320609

>>320594
I've seen a few on my timeline as well and every single one has been leagues better than the official ones so far. I'm a huge pokemon shill and long time fan, but it's kind of embarrassing how bad designs are this generation. Even just the last gen was way better, what happened? Maybe the current art director/whoever is in charge atm just has bad taste?
But to be fair we still have a lot of Mikus left to see and they mix the artists up so there could be great ones left.

No. 320734

File: 1694427634433.jpg (173.5 KB, 900x1200, 1694426843297330.jpg)

More shitty Miku designs…
I'll give them this, the design actually does look like her
It's just not a good design.

No. 320735

File: 1694427673865.jpg (270.95 KB, 1920x1080, 1694426866537206.jpg)


No. 320738

>>320734
This is fucking hideous idg everyone praising it just because it's quirky and Miku.

No. 320741

>>320734
It's so ugly it somehow feels endearing kek Looks fun

No. 320760

>>320734
It's an eyesore, but I actually kind of love this. I'm biased though because I love chatot, so seeing it used at all makes me happy kek.

No. 320762

>>320734
Every Megumi Mizutani design of Miku has been hideous, I wish they'd let the other artists design the types she got too instead. I'll give the water one a pass but the other Mikus by her are so bad.
I mean I'm sorry but who the fuck is this meant to be appealing to? 5 year olds? It's just straight up ugly.
And it doesn't fit the normal type, are they doing primary types only? Because chatot should clearly have been the flying type choice. If so then they didn't do jigglypuff for normal type which is a huge shock and makes me mad. I assume noibat will be the flying type rather than dragon type then which will feel odd… unless the farfetch'd they showed off before is the flying type one.
She's wearing the alolan muk color combo, it looks like a rejected poison type design.

I can't believe I'm disappointed in a Miku x pokemon collab, it should be a dream come true for me instead they're just hideous and look nothing like Miku. I hope Japanese fans are as disappointed as the west and are letting them know how bad these are.

No. 320774

inb4 they find a way to throw with the ghost and dark mikus too because there are already so many popular edgy miku designs out there that would fit the theme perfectly with a gothitelle or something tacked on but the poke artists want to be as hashtag different as possible

No. 320778

>>320734
I actually really like this one kek, it's cute and still feels like Miku. My only complaint is that nothing about this says "normal type", it would probably work better for psychic or electric tbh

No. 320783

>>320778
damn nona your taste is shit lmao ok sorry but it's so so ugly and mismatched

it looks like disney channel teens to me, not in a good way but in that "how do you do fellow kids" way

No. 320812

>>320778
Agree, it looks very cute and unique, but it's true it doesn't look like "normal type". I guess they wanted to match her clothes with Chatot's color palette, but I feel like maybe creating a more preppy/classy look would have been better. Maybe something like a long skirt with a cute beret or smth, idk.

No. 320846

>>320735
I'm surprised anons like this one. To me it's not even top 100 of pokemon trainer designs, nor is it in the top 100 of Miku designs I've seen. (Heck it's not the best "Miku" design I've seen by this artist as >>319794 is way better imo). So far the whole collab is a massive flop to me.

But I reserve my right to change my mind when the music/videos come out. If anything I'm scared the designs are an indication of what the music will be, and normal type Miku looks like she'd do a terrible freestyle rap at a kids show, and if you've heard the japanese pokemon animes music you'll know that's right up their alley. Like actual "yo yo yo are you readyyy?!" level stuff.

To nonas who like it (or other Mikus posted) do you just "kinda like" it, or would you go out your way to pick these over other official Miku designs (if you're a fan of her) or pokemon trainers?

No. 320847

File: 1694508608444.png (2.63 MB, 1200x2000, mikumon.png)

feel free to disagree but I think what they did wrong is they let pokemon designers create Miku designs, they should have let Miku designers create pokemon designs

No. 320849

>>320847
samefag, making this made me like the psychic one more. Its simplicity is suddenly not so bad compare to the other eyesores kek

No. 320861

>>320847
Idk I think the designs properly represent the pokemon they paired her up with. The issue is that the pokemon designs are not very good in the first place.

No. 320865

>>320861
>Idk I think the designs properly represent the pokemon they paired her up with.
I have to disagree there. For example meloetta is a fancy operetta singer and Miku has a casual school girl outfit. Rotom Miku is a… cowboy electrician? I think fanart like >>320594 represents rotom a million times better.
>The issue is that the pokemon designs are not very good in the first place.
Which of the pokemon don't you like? I personally don't like skeledirge at all, but meloetta is cute and chatot is a nice basic parrot.

No. 320913

File: 1694536744210.jpg (567.44 KB, 1626x1312, 8c07a711d82a0bf21426937191b0da…)

water and psychic miku looks good. you all are haters

No. 320914

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No. 320921

File: 1694539071098.png (90.29 KB, 1530x2016, F5y7R8UbAAAE_IS.png)

>>320846
>To nonas who like it (or other Mikus posted) do you just "kinda like" it, or would you go out your way to pick these over other official Miku designs (if you're a fan of her) or pokemon trainers?
I wouldn't pick any other Miku variation over the original one, but I still appreciate each one individually, that's still my take with a lot of Mikus, there are a few official Miku designs I dislike more, but for a Pokemon collab I think they are cute and unique on their own ways. I would had been more disappointed if they just made a regular Miku who just resembled Ash or Red. I love Pikachu like any other person does but I'm glad they are giving spotlight to other mons

New thread before this one gets locked >>>/m/320917

No. 321891

File: 1694909458893.png (135.6 KB, 512x512, HOME1017C.png)

thanks i hate it



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