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No. 403600

The milk is coming from inside the farm edition

Pokemon is a japanese media franchise consisting of video games, animated series and films, a trading card game, and other related media. The franchise takes place in a shared universe in which humans co-exist with creatures known as Pokemon, a large variety of species endowed with special powers.

Pokemon Day List of Updates: https://serebii.net/

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No. 403601

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#Neverforget(bait)

No. 403616

Cute threadpic!

No. 403619

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>>403601
let's try not to ruin the thread with this this time though okay?

No. 403621

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azumarill wnba egg

No. 403626

>>403621
Super cute buoy fanart

No. 403637

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>>403619
yeah us pokéautists must stand together. we're all friends here

No. 403680

>>403637
Personally I think we should find a new infight topic! Anyone got any spicy opinion? Is diglett based on a sausage? Is shelgon a pencil sharpener??

No. 403685

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Post your least favorite human designs from pokemon!
I'll go first, this ugly mf… Burgh was designed to appeal to the female gaze, yet he is one of the ugliest males in the entire series.

I think what happened is that this male designer took all the points the women gave him "tall and slim, longer hair, scarves are fashionable" and through his maleness implemented it in a terrible way because he fundamentally didn't understand what about those things were appealing to women.

No. 403686

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>>403685
samefagging, I'm pretty sure the women were describing something more like picrel (idk where it's from, just a visual example)

No. 403687

>>403685
this is a caricature, it feels offensive to even call it a fag, also, what the fuck kind of name is "Burgh"

No. 403689

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>>403685
hes absolutely fucking hideous. i just imagine his hair is a big stinky rats nest of dreadlocks.

No. 403690

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>>403685
and this is just retarded

No. 403691

>>403690
At least the only bad thing about her is her hair. I like the cape.

No. 403695

>>403680
>Is diglett based on a sausage?
You say that as a joke but when I was little I actually thought that lmao I called them "The little sausage" (…it sounds cute on my native language)

No. 403720

>>403695
Who's to say sausages weren't the inspiration for diglett? It's at the very least equally likely as marill being an easter egg

No. 403721

>>403689
I wish he wasn't anachan skinny, but I like that there's a punk gym leader… making him visibly emaciated when anime people are generally already skinny is a weird choice. Imagine if they had drawn female characters (who are equally skinny tbh) to look like that

No. 403723

>>403687
>what the fuck kind of name is "Burgh"
Given his brown, red and green color palette I can only conclude it's short for "burger toppings"

No. 403789

>>403685
Every fat, old, ugly, roided men in Pokemon. I'm tired of seeing them in every gen, video games or other media in general. Too many ugly men nowadays.

No. 403799

>>403720
Do you have to keep doing this? It's so tiring kek

No. 403807

>>403799
I'm just memeing nona, chill kek

No. 403816

>>403799
it's funny

No. 403897

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I love mimikyu's new outfit. not gonna buy it bc overpriced but it's so cute

No. 403938

>>403799
It’s so forced and unfunny.

No. 403940

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>>403938
>t. eggchan mad she became a meme
you still haven't learned how to sage either…(infighting)

No. 403941

>>403940
omg eggastly is so cute. they should make him a regional variant

No. 403942

>>403941
a haunted egg sounds very yokai watch-pilled, I miss yokai watch…

No. 403945

>>403940
You don't have to sage in /m/ minimod-chan

No. 403974

>>403940
Eggstly is pretty funny tho kek
>>403897
I love playing unite, but fuck are the holowears expensive for no justifiable reason. I don't get why companies do that with microtransactions, I know for a fact I would have ended up spending a lot more in total if they were cheaper. I only ever bought 1 holowear near the start, so about 3 years ago. I would have gotten my friends into it and we'd all have bought matching outfits. But no, gotta make it so expensive I end up actively telling my friends not to give them money out of spite. I guess that's chinese companies for you, they're so used to a neverending supply of humans that they have no care for how they come across to the audience

No. 403989

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>>403685
I think Penny has a good design overall, but I can’t stand the colour scheme especially the blue/red for her hair. Just looks stupid as fuck. Only other thing I’d change is to remove the sheer skirt

No. 404000

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>>403945
its just common courteousy to not bump the thread with whiny self defense posts, not doing do makes her/you look even more unintegrated(minimodding)

No. 404010

>>403989
Penny is the embodiment of autism and I think they nailed it.

No. 404047

>>403989
I hate her design because she looks like every autist gendie pokemon fan and it's boring to me. I saw billions of her on tumblr every day for a decade already.
>too kool for skool, just wants to hack the system to make the grades look good
>short hair dyed unnatural colors
>mismatched outfit of black hoodie over sheer skirt
>autistic obsession with only having eeveelutions
>wears a socially unacceptable plushie bag (that she probably never washes)
>hates her family
>was bullied at school (for being a tard probably), had a big school revenge porn fantasy that she executed by forming team star
>her room is a mess
>thinks people can't tell she's her secret online alter ego (everyone can tell)
>computer nerd, even when she has friends she refuses to meet them irl so she can stay online
>too autist to tell "clive" is mr Clavell
She also has the same weird eye-shape as Melli from legends, makes me think they're related. Melli was also a smug asshole, and his purple hair is a mix of her red and blue hair…

No. 404130

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>>403974
right, most of the holowears are mega expensive. they're doing discounts atm for the anniversary but that's a once-a-year thing. i splurged once on punk azu but can't really justify doing it too often. it's a shame bc some of theese holowears are so cute, only the battle pass ones are somewhat more affordable (still sad i missed chinese opera gardevoir ngl)

No. 404221

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>>404130
How would you nonas feel about it if they brought similar holowear/clothes into the main pokemon games? Do you think it should be for all pokemon, or just a special few like the starters? Would it be on at all times, or just at a specific location like at contests?

No. 404223

>>403989
she looks like a they/them

No. 404243

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>>404223
Penny is either an insufferable TRA or the biggest anonymous terf you've ever seen who runs a troon hate account, there is no inbetween. She's anti-social enough even towards her own friends that I'm actually leaning terf. I think she would have been a they/them herself for a little while before quickly turning when she saw how mtfs act online.

No. 404250

>>404243
def desisted TERF

No. 404251

>>404243
radfems can't into computer, look at the state of lolcow, if she's into IT she's a they in a discord full of transians.(bait)

No. 404258

>>404251
Penny is not a truradfem terf, she is a turboautist terf

No. 404261

>>404258
exact same thing, look at the state of lolcow.

No. 404301

>>404243
She's absolutely a radtif fujo and I love her for it
>>404251
I literally know multiple terves who work in IT and can code

No. 404302

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Does anyone here play competitive/pokemon showdown? I've wanted to get into it but it's really intimidating

No. 404364

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>>403989 I think her design is something funny when compared to her implied family.

No. 404369

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>>404221
i loooooove holowear in unite and especially the way they've embraced the really out there designs but i feel it'd look weird in mainstream games. besides putting outfits on your pokes could be fun but they'd have to code a gazilion different ones.

No. 404384

>>404302
i want to get into competitive pokemon but sadly i am too busy with life. would love to compete in a vgc event. i also feel too much shame to really get into competitive pokemon so i never bother…

No. 404394

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>>404302
I used to be really into it during the 3DS/gen 7 era but the national dex cuts made it lose its appeal to me and I haven't really been invested in it since. I liked the Random, Ubers, and Anything Goes tiers on Showdown and did a lot of RNG manipulation and egg hatching for good mons on 3DS and did some online battles on there too. The Random battles on PS are the easiest to get into and are a fun time waster. There was always the occasional bitter and retarded moid/moidlet on there back when I still played but grey-rocking and trolling them was funny especially since I pretty much always won against them. I never really got into playing the VGC/doubles format though. Smogon is your best friend and False Swipe Gaming does a lot of interesting videos you might want to watch about the competitive history of many different pokes.

No. 404403

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>>404302
uh.. yeah
don't be intimidated, just jump in and mess around, you'll get the hang of it eventually

No. 404412

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>>404364
The theory is that they're sisters right? Peonia dyes her hair half pink, so it kinda makes sense that Penny would dye half-and-half of her hair too. I'm guessing if they make a design for the mom they'll retcon her into having blue or red hair and pretend the blonde woman in the card is an aunt or something.

No. 404415

>>404302
I feel I'm too dumb for it. I've been playing pokémon my whole life but I still forget that certain type combos or abilities make certain attacks useless… and honestly because I know most players are sweaty moids I know they'd judge me not just for being bad at competitive, but they'd say it's because I'm female and I'd give all female players a bad rep that way.

If there was an all female battle league where everyone is just chill I'd be so into it. But I also know if anyone attempted to make a league like that troons would demand access, so the options are then to play with degenerate male troons or be shunned by the rest of the fandom as part of the evil transphobe league. There is no winning.

No. 404439

>>404243
Penny is 100% a terf and the most based character. Love her.

No. 404443

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I don't play the TCG myself, but I just love looking at the cards. There's so much really great art out there. Post your favourite TCG art if you have some!

No. 404462

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>>404443
I quite like this one.

No. 404463

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>>404443
And this one of my lil mushroom alien.

No. 404464

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No. 404465

>>404443
shaymin vs terf azumarill battle

No. 404466

>>404415
>>404384
Honestly women being scared to be bullied by autistic scrotes when they try to get into something that takes some learning reminds me of when top female chess players battled top male chess players anonymously they were beating them 50/50 but when they were told the gender they were battlig they did worse. I swear it's from psychological abuse from years of being told we are less than that makes it harder for us to have the blind retarded confidence that scrotes have.

No. 404473

>>404466
Pokemon and the TCG could be a women's esport if they only had the confidence for it I'm sure.

No. 404476

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>>404443
i love togekiss so much

No. 404477

>>404473
I'm 100% sure there would be a bunch of nlogs saying we don't need it because it's not a physical sport. Just like they do with chess that >>404466 mentioned. And in current day troons would abuse it because "beating girls is easier" and there are fewer females playing overall. Pokémon already banned a CHILD for laughing nervously when asked about pronouns and the troon judge reported him for transphobia.

No. 404478

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>>404443
mimikyu has so many great ones

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No. 404499

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>>404443
Samefag but I really wanted to show this one too, I think it's very pretty and cute.

No. 404503

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No. 404504

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>>404443
This is my favorite full art card that I own, I want to eat all the treats in it!

No. 404556

>>404499
Yea this one is so cute! I have this one slabbed! Any other nonnas collect pokemon cards?

No. 404558

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>>404443
I love all of ikegami yoriyuki's cards. So warm and lush

No. 404564

>>404556
I buy packs sometimes, I still like the thrill of opening them

No. 404607

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>>404443
all of tomokazu komiya's art

No. 404608

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>>404443
>>404607
the way this art got so much hate from tasteless philistines

No. 404650

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>>404503
>>404558
these are soooo adorable
>>404608
this art slaps, it's really unqiue and cool. i guess the haters prefer generic animu shit
i love art that shows people in their everyday life interacting with the pokémon. the tcg has some lovely examples

No. 404652

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No. 404669

>>404652
First time seeing that art omg cat in sink!!!

No. 404702

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>>404443
i really love atsuko nishida's artwork but this one is my favourite.

No. 404705

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>>404556
I've started collecting recently, actually! I don't want to get too many so I think I'm just going to get cards of my fave mons and ones I really love the art of. Picrel fits both criteria, it's so comfy. I might try to get a card I really love the art of for each pokemon but…. we'll see.

>>404479
I love this card so much it's so sweet! Mimikyu is so sweet.

No. 404706

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>>404705
Samefag but Cubone cards are some of my faves too they make me want to give him a big hug

No. 404743

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>>404650
>i guess the haters prefer generic animu shit
they are the people ai art appeals to. not the people harmlessly playing around with prompts, but people who actually genuinely think ai art looks good and jerk off to it
>>404702
you reminded me of another fave, kagemaru himeno

No. 404744

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just so cute!

No. 404758

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No. 404761

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>>404702
>atsuko nishida
She's been my favorite since childhood! Slight blog but I had no idea how Japanese names worked back then and I was so overjoyed when I like a deacade later grew up to find out not only was she female, she was also the actual designer behind a ton of the most iconic pokémon! At that point I thought Ken Sugimori had designed every early gen pokémon (as did all the other kids around me) so to find out a woman did it made me so happy. Bear in mind this is also after me being told "pokémon is for BOYS" a lot as a kid. Charizard was made by a woman suckers! Go play with sticks and stones boys, pokémon is for GIRLS!

No. 404763

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Do you think they took inspiration from disney's robin hood?

No. 404776

>>404763
Nah, looks more like Zorro

No. 404785

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Was looking for a specific card and found this one from the same artist.
I always forget this pokemon exists, but the art made it look pretty cute!

No. 404934

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How do you card collecting anons go about collecting? Do you buy singles of the cards you like or just take what you get from booster packs? Do you deal with trading/selling? How often do you purchase new cards and do you have a budget for it at all?

And how do you organize your collections? I've been putting mine in a binder in order of pokedex number but keeping evolution lines together but it's a pain in the ass when adding new cards so I don't think this is the best system so I'm curious what other anons do.

No. 404965

>>404934
I have bulk sorted in piles in a box and only put my favorites into binders. I sort them by pokemon and sometimes group them in ways that make sense to me, for example I like to collect all starters and eeveelutions. I also have collections that are like "pretty grass types" or "cards (I personally think are) related to team rocket". So I'll put both actual team Rocket cards and zubats and poochyena there. I do not care about dex order at all.

I also put all legendaries and full arts in a binder since they're more rare.

I generally do not buy singles, however I make an exception around my birthday every year and buy up to 20 cards of my absolute favorite pokemon that I can't pull in packs anymore anyway. Luckily my faves aren't super popular pokemon so the cards are cheap kek

No. 405047

>>404466
>>404415
its not only the annoying moids but the shame for liking something as childish as pokemon. its hard to imagine me playing the vgc or tcg in my late 20's - 30's and i feel jealous of women who are into nerd shit shame free. i only collect the cards now(sometimes), draw, and replay the older games to get my pokemon fix.
>>404934
i only buy singles to prevent having a pile of unwanted cards. i like to organize my collection with different binders; so for example, my personal favourites would be in one binder, then the 'weird' art ones that i like in another binder, and ex's in another… etc etc.

No. 405053

>>405047
>i feel jealous of women who are into nerd shit shame free
nerd shit is cool now, it's not decades ago where you got shoved in a locker for playing dnd, get with the times.

No. 405058

>>404466
I can relate to that. I played Pokémon showdown for a while, but I quit after I made a dumb mistake costing me the game and the person I was playing against called me an idiot for it lol. I like the fun of competing but I really don’t enjoy competitive game culture at all. Moids will belittle you and call you thin skinned if you say you don’t like the way you treat them, which makes me avoid getting too into Showdown even though I do think it’s fun.

No. 405066

>>405058
just make the window small so you can't see the chat and disallow PMs. that's what i do. i love battling but have no interest in interacting with anyone to talk about it on the site.

No. 405072

I find SV ok, I just beat the main game and I started the DLC. It would have been a lot better if not for all these annoying technical issues that made me not even try to play online. But unlike gen 6, 7 and 8 I don't feel like trying to complete the pokedex. It's not because I lack free time or find it difficult and annoying, I just didn't like the game enough to feel like it's worth it. Did anyone manage to complete the pokedex, at least for the main region and not for the pokedex from the DLC? How long did it take?

>>403989
I'd find her character design so much better if it weren't for her bicolor hair. I really dislike how a lot of characters have bicolor hair in SV in general, it looks dumb or ugly. Except for Larry because it just looks like some older guy who's starting to have white hair little by little.

No. 405122

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>>405072
I did the dex for the main region, it was pretty easy since it was only 400 pokes. way easier than in older gens where you had to trawl the gts and shit.
it took 80 or so hours which is not that much comapred to older games. i havent tried the dlc or picked it back up at all since i finished the dex bc it's a pretty boring game overall. i usually clock 300-400 hours in pokémon games easily, it's the first timd i get bored this fast with a main series game.

No. 405468

>>404934
Late but I organize mine by artist, and then by type. If I get enough that are drawn by a particular artist, I add them to my binder. Otherwise they're just in a big tin. I rarely purchase any anymore, especially because the store I frequent is always sold out, so I'd have to go to a specialty gaming store that's out of my walk routine. However my best friend collects them far more often than me and she usually gives me some doubles and sometimes cool full arts of my fave pokes. Since I'm more into the art, it's easy for me to get ones that I like!

No. 405709

>>405072
>Did anyone manage to complete the pokedex, at least for the main region and not for the pokedex from the DLC? How long did it take?
Idk how long it took but I found it WAY easier than in pretty much all previous games. You don't have to go out of your way to look for pokemon in the same way since you can see them in the overworld, and there are now high level wild pokemon and fully evolved ones that used to be hard to get walking around or in easy raids.
>>405122
>i usually clock 300-400 hours in pokémon games easily, it's the first timd i get bored this fast with a main series game.
Same! The DLC made the game a lot better tho in my opinion, but SV still has a glaring lack of "dailies". There's no reason to check in every day like older games had with timed or daily events for ribbons, berries or a lottery and so on. I don't like plain battles that much, so I don't like doing raids which is the only thing in daily rotation and I find outbreak shiny hunting boring… I wish there was a game corner, battle frontier or contests… or something new and fun. Absolutely insane that they don't have a racing minigame in some capacity when your mount is a bike and the outfits are all biker outfits. The only main series game I played less of is LGPE.

No. 406310

Do you think there will be any big news at worlds this year? By big I mean anything not seen from a new/upcoming game. Last year they showed the DLC part 2 trailer, the year before they revealed a new SV pokemon.

If they show anything my bet would be they show one or two old mega pokemon to fully confirm they're really in the game, only to then reveal a mega-less pokemon that then also mega evolves into a new design.

No. 406324

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No. 406499

>>406324
Is this manga even official? TPC never even attempt to acknowledge that it exists.

No. 406509

>>406499
TPC only acknowledges the anime (kid's money) and phone games (gatcha addict's money). The manga is just made for another aducience, and considering for how long it has been running for, it seems TPC still sees it as profitable even if they don't rehash it.
I think its better that way to be honest, doing its own thing and being free of having to appeal to the mainstream demographic (though sadly the pace Gamefreak has been releasing games is getting to the manga as well, as it progressed the main characters had less original changes when it came to their personality/backstory because it's hard to catch up with the games so they got less time to make up stuff)

No. 406532

>>403723
Late but iirc correctly it was because of him being in a big city and basing it on the word “burg”

No. 406584

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No. 406596

>>406532
i'll give ya another hint, Burgh's a bug type gym leader

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No. 406768

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i love diglett

No. 406926

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No. 406930

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No. 406932

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No. 406941

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No. 407093

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No. 407098

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No. 407107

Spicy question time, what's the WORST pokemon design in your opinion?

No. 407143

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>>407107
I feel like we do this q multiple times every thread LOL and I will always say the same one!

No. 407145

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>>407107
I know it's far from the worst, but I can't stand looking at this fat fuck

No. 407146

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>>407107
Samefag, also this pos

No. 407149

>>407143
What about the cutest ugliest pokemon? A pokemon you think is ugly, but you still really like.

No. 407150

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>>407107
I don't know if it's objectively bad, but I hate this thing.

No. 407152

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No. 407153

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>>404443
late, but yuka morii cards are my favourites

No. 407154

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No. 407192

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No. 407207

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>>407150
i love him, but the chest "strings" are kinda gross

No. 407210

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No. 407212

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No. 407214

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No. 407215

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No. 407216

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No. 407231

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>>407149
I hate Diggersby's design just because it's Lopunny's counterpart. I wouldn't care otherwise.

No. 407276

>>407231
Is it though? I get both are rabbits with strong ears and a 1-step evolution line, but they're 2 generations appart and their pokedex entries don't mention the other nor are version exclusives.
What a way of running Bunnelby though, I love rabbits and you can imagine my disappointment when I saw that cutesy critters evolved into a middle-aged man with pot belly.

No. 407324

File: 1722785091840.gif (1.93 MB, 540x486, 1699311170728.gif)

>>407276
Their relationship is like that of many Gen 1 and 5 Pokemon. Like Electrode and Amongus, or Grimer and Trubbish.
kind of like convergent pokemon but more creative

No. 407329

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>>407149
the ugliest

No. 407341

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>>407149
Conkeldurr. Absolutely hideous but I love this buff grandpa

No. 407360

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i really like diggersby tbh
the face is funny and i love the ear "arms"

No. 407361

File: 1722801299456.gif (1.18 MB, 406x338, 660.gif)

fantastic shiny too

No. 407462

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Had to do it

No. 407473

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>>407149
It's not the "cutest", but I absolutely love crabominable and find its design combinations so clever. I'm not the biggest fan of goofy pokemon as they frustrate me for being deliberately "worse" in design than they could(/should) be, but I don't mind it in crabominable because I can't see how a "cool" face would fix a big weird fluffy crab.
>>407145
I don't know how they managed to make it look so punchable when it's literally just a squirrel

No. 407476

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>>407473
they could have made it cute instead of hideous with the weird buck teeth and blonde bowl cut.

No. 407494

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>>407473
>>407476
I could be totally wrong, but I think the "hair" is supposed to mimic an asian straw hat because it's partly based on a yeti, and they're from himalaya/asia. The same himalayan region has weird looking masks, similar to hawaiian tiki masks, so the ugly face may be from that.

No. 407531

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No. 407532

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>>407149
I am an apologist for this and the Garbador line. Imagine hating such a goofy yet distinguished little guy.

No. 407548

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>>407149
I will NEVER understand why people hate this adorable pink blob so much, especially when compared to its preëvolutinon.

No. 407558

>>407531
God I loved them when I was a kid.

No. 407560

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>>407149
I never expected to like this guy but he's really grown on me. He seems like such a mischievous little guy!!

>>405468
>>404965
>>405047
AYRT (sorry for the late response….) and it's so interesting to see how differently people collect. Your input really helped me realize organizing by dex number was a mistake kek I spent all afternoon a couple days ago reorganizing my collection. I'm waiting on a couple more binders and I'm going to have a mini one for full arts/ex/v cards and the others for my favorite types. Maybe someday if I end up with a card of each pokemon I'll try putting them in dex order but I doubt that will ever happen

>>407548
you take that back about lickitung, he has been one of my faves since I was a child kek I think he's actually so cute

No. 407574

>>407560
Pretty sure nona meant that she didn't understand why Lickilicky gets hate when Lickitung is generally liked

No. 407578

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>>407574
Yeah! Even when someone says that they hate Lickitung's design, they say that they hate Lickilicky's even more. It's the same story with Magmortar, Electivire, Tangrowth, and Rhyperior. Magnezone is the only sinnoh evolution of kanto pokemon that people generally like.

No. 407613

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one of these pokemon is not like the others

No. 407661

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>>407548
I used to not mind likitung until I found out they gave it the blow job dex number and I'm still so grossed out I can't see it the same

No. 407739

>>407574
>>407578
oops sorry, I assumed you meant it as a dig at him. I was being facetious myself anon, no worries!

No. 407843

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>>407578
I love the sinnoh evolutions, I think they're so underrated. My favourites are Licilicky, Electivire, and Porygon Z.

No. 407936

File: 1723032075182.jpg (4.16 MB, 4000x4000, GECQkZ8aMAA8fz7.jpg)

it's already been three years since they announced legends z-a and we still haven't seen any gameplay footage…

No. 407937

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>>407936
>three years since they announced legends z-a
silly anon, that game came out 8 years ago, the same day as Delta Emerald

No. 407944

>>407936
>three years
Where did you get a Time Machine?

No. 408032

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Beautiful fanart! I hope the artist doesn't mind me posting it here.

No. 408034

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>>407661
i hate this banned grimer card too. even worse when you realize that those types of socks are considered "slutty" in japan. so grimer is looking up the skirt of a schoolgirl who is also "dressed sexy". barf

No. 408035

>>408032
I love namie! Her art is such a throwback.

No. 408210

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>>408034
makes me think of the jp pokemon anime op

No. 408259

>>408210
Harassing girls have always been portrayed as a funny joke because loser nerd men made the shows and cartoons. I'm glad it's changed a bit nowadays, but on the other hand at least Brock regularly got physically harmed for doing it and there's at least some value in teaching girls that the say he hits on them is not acceptable and worthy of violence kek

No. 408341

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Look at this adorable slime dragon!

No. 408348

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>>408210
so stupid. still, i loved how girls were portrayed in the pokemon world, being just as competent (or sometimes stupid and untalented) as the boys. felt really equalizing in childhood.

No. 408353

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>>408348
Same, I loved the more GNC characters like Zoey as well. Even though I wasn't particularly tomboyish as a kid it still felt really nice to see.

No. 408488

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>>408348
I miss those times when girls were competent trainers and not just all insecure and anxious… Give me the bratty confident girls back!

No. 408527

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don't hate liko she's trying her best

No. 408535

>>408341
Nice to see some of this evolutionary line that isn't ridiculous furry coomer nonsense!

No. 408710

>>408527
Liko is so boring I can't even hate her, I'm so indifferent to her. They could cut her out of the show and virtually nothing would change. I would say she's the worst protagonist we've ever had, but technically it's only been her and Ash so that don't tell us much kek but still she's bottom tier when it comes to female protag-adjacent girl characters. Chloe was worse, but she wasn't ever considered part of the main duo her seasons so she doesn't really count, leaving Liko at the bottom.

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No. 408813

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Pretty fun to make trainer cards, here's one for my Emerald team from my recent playthrough.

No. 408853

>>408259
At least with Brock he was never a perv or rude. He was always daydreaming that he would marry them and have a family. Probably cause his Dad abandoned his family and he had to take care of his siblings. I don't think Brock is that bad for that.

No. 408854

>>408034
Kek how are socks slutty. I hate moids. Sad cause on first glance it didn't seem weird to me.

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No. 408991

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No. 408993

>>408853
Brock being unable to talk to any girls without heart eyes and drooling isn't a good thing imo. He's not terrible, but it's a gag based in sexism and he sees all the girls as dateable objects based on looks alone. The fact that he gets shot down or punished every time is the only thing redeeming it, imagine if he had actually been two-timing (more like 100 timing) all those girls and they had their hearts broken because they actually liked him

No. 409260

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>>408710
related to this, who do you nonas think is the worst female protag we've had and why?

No. 409261

>>409260
>Games
May, she's ugly.
>Anime
I don't think I really care for any of them from what I've seen.
>Manga
Also have only read a couple of arcs but I really didn't care for Hilda who's just the stereotypical shounen protag's love interest character.

No. 409273

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>>409260
dawn solely for her retarded fucking outfits. she looks terminally stupid wearing a knit beanie and a scarf with a tanktop and skirt and then a big winter jacket and also a skirt. like a special needs person who can't dress themselves.

No. 409274

>>409260
>games
Juliana, ugly ass school uniform and retarded hair with literal stitches on her forehead
>anime
Liko, there is nothing cool or fun about her

No. 409297

>>409260
In order of worst to "best"
> Liko because she's boring
> Serena, I don't hate her but she feels like a basic waifu pandering rehash of May and Dawn
> Manga Hilda, very disappointing because I liked her design and storyline in BW
> Juliana (although tbf I think the reason she's so plain/ugly is to encourage you to customise her)

No. 409304

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>>409297
>Juliana (although tbf I think the reason she's so plain/ugly is to encourage you to customise her)
I think that's true but it's a retarded mindset on game freaks part. You still want your characters to stand on their own, you don't get customized version of the merch. I know plenty of girls who happily get Dawn or Serena figurines and posters because they love them as "characters" or just the design but I can't imagine anyone feels that way for Juliana. I frankly haven't seen a single person who loves her design, at best I get "aw it's not that bad, I kinda like it" as a reaction.
It's also ridiculous that we don't even get the option to look like a main character when npcs like Brassius gets to have thorns in his hair and Iono gets split hair colors. There's not even a long hair option in the game! There's no option not to look plain!

No. 409322

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>>409304
The way game freak is prioritizing character customization is horrible to me as someone who doesn't like pretending to be the player character. I even name the player characters by their official names. It's like how you get to name the characters that you play in Final Fantasy games, but that doesn't make them generic avatars.

No. 409349

>>409260
Lyra. Ugly ass bitch with a pedo-baiting fit. And she stole Kris' game. After that probably Juliana and Liko because they're ugly.

No. 409355

>>409349
>a pedo-baiting fit
How is it pedo-baiting?
>And she stole Kris' game
Nah gamefreak just literally forgot that Kris existed

No. 409378

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>>409349
>pedo-baiting
lmao what? are you the anon who keeps saying all anime is pedo-bait?

I'm honestly surprised people are mad that Lyra followed after Kris meaning we get an extra female character (which is fair because gen 1 didn't have one), but no one is talking about how Red was replaced by Chase and in the latest canon Red was never even champion nor did he stop team Rocket or contribute to the Kanto plot

No. 409439

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>>409349
this fit?

No. 409451

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>>409439
No, this fit.
Funny how that anon is seething on Lyra being a supposed pedobait, back when she was revealed moids got so mad at Game Freak because she was wearing overalls instead of a mini skirt like all the previous femalw MCs kek

No. 409454

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>>409451
the outfit is really ugly tbh but i like her appearance

No. 409455

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>>409304
i hate that for all the stupid facial options you couldn't even change your clothing in sv.
part of the pokémon experience for me is blowing all my pokédollars on a new outfit in every town

No. 409456

>>409273
She's giving late 2000s, give her a break. It was cool at that time to wear scarves with everything even in the winter. To be fair, everything was also supposed to be getting colder in the Sinnoh region in her game as well.

No. 409472

>>409349
? I don't see how it's baiting, it's just some overalls

No. 409474

>>407324
My tinfoil is that they made the gen vi bunny evolution ugly so he can be the ugly bastard counterpart to lopunny

No. 409481

>>409474
My tinfoil is that you're severely mentally ill

No. 409482

>>409474
You say this but I've seen ugly bastard fanart of greedent and cinccino multiple times

No. 409485

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>>409474
Ugh I try to not think of them as picrel. Though good thing Cinderace exists and is the complete opposite of a fat ugly bastard.

No. 409489

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>>409485
Posting some cute fanart to cleanse out nasty thoughts even after seeing some nasty furry coomshit

No. 409490

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No. 409491

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No. 409493

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No. 409494

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No. 409495

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No. 409496

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No. 409498

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Though female Diggersby x male Lopunny is pretty cute too

No. 409499

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No. 409500

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No. 409507

>>409496
I love this so much. Thank you for posting.

No. 409573

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>>409474
>>409485
you guys are being so weird over magical cartoon rabbits. all of them are cute. it's fine.

No. 409575

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No. 409577

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No. 409578

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No. 409580

>>409454
Lyra has one of my favorite female protag outfits kek I instead think Kris has the worst one

No. 409581

>>409455
>part of the pokémon experience for me is blowing all my pokédollars on a new outfit in every town
So real. And the outfits are SO slow to load it's insane!

No. 409582

File: 1723533788449.jpg (596.42 KB, 1280x1622, tumblr_0af5304f3ba4f3cc084a3d0…)

Question to nonnas, feel free to shit on me. Which of the new teachers do you like the most? For me it's Raifort, 'cause she is muterious and evil, probably beung the most interesting from all of the instructors.

No. 409583

>>409474
I think you're right in a way. They made lopunny to be a female stereotype and diggersby to be a male stereotype, I don't think there's much more to it than that.

Honestly I wish the "bait" pokemon these were as subtle as lopunny. Tsareena has a massive ass and shiny boots, meowscarada is literally a human in a cat costume. At least lopunny is "just" a cute bunny

No. 409586

>>409582
Raifort for sure, tho Hassel is funny. I frankly think Tyme looks like a racist caricature so I can't like her (or her sister)

No. 409589

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>>409580
Lyra is my favorite too but Kris has grown on me, her design is pretty dated yeah but I still think it's got cute aspects like her jacket and hair color. I like how they're basically written as best friends now.

No. 409590

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No. 409592

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>>409580
i just really hate that shade of blue and red together. it gives mario. here's some edits i like

No. 409594

I'm still playing SV and I should be near the end of the DLC. I'm going to force myself to complete it because I'm close to the end but that shit is so boring and glitchy I'm not touching the game anymore after that. I can't believe I'm saying this but I liked SWSH a lot more despite all its many flaws. I'm waiting for info on Pokemon Legends AZ but I'm expecting it to be boring too, I don't want to keep my hopes up, and after that I don't see myself getting more consoles anyway so I'll replay the first games from time to time.

No. 409597

>>409592
Sorry but I hate that ugly brown and think the blue and red is cute, it reminds me of hello kitty and it works because red and blue are iconic in the pokemon world for obvious reasons
>>409589
While I don't like her outfit (too messy) I will always love Kris for having unnatural hair and looking like an actual anime protag unlike every other character

No. 409598

>>409594
That's too bad, I love the DLC a lot. I think ZA will be more similar to the other legends game so it depends on if you liked that one or not

No. 409600

>>409500
eww ugly tumblr art syle

No. 409605

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>>408813
I could never have enough patience to look for a Ralts, let alone find and evolve a Feebas.

No. 409606

>>409605
damn nona you must have extreme adhd if you don't even have patience for a video game, no offense

No. 409607

>>409583
Yeah the reason of why I like Lopunny so much is because she hits a nice mid between humanoid and animal designs. Stuff like Gardevoir, while pretty, is too human for my taste (petting one in Pokemon Amie feels so wrong) and Tsareena is too obviously coom.
At least Lopunny still looks like a rabbit.

No. 409609

>>409598
I liked Legends Arceus but being able to catch pokemon outside of battles made a huge different compared to SV. I think I'm getting sick of open world games in general though. There are other games like that that I enjoyed before but I can't see myself replaying them for the same reason. Except maybe Xenoblade 2.

No. 409612

>>409605
Feebas didn't actually take me that long to find, granted I was playing on an emulator so I could speed up the process but even then I didn't have to look that long.
Evolving it is incredibly easy though, just blend a bunch of purple berries.

No. 409641

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la creatura

No. 409642

>>409612
I play on my old console and I found one quite easily, and then you just breed the rest if you want more

No. 409658

>>409609
I feel like I'm usually in a minority for saying I don't really care for open world games. I prefer limited open world, the way legends did it was better. That way you can write a better story and not worry about someone going straight to the boss areas

No. 409665

>>409658
I liked it too. Having an empty map that's filled little by little as you explore feels more rewarding as well and helps me not run around in the same area or miss places and items. I've seen people saying it's not completely an open world since the 4 areas are separate, and it's much more similar to how Monster Hunter works, but I've never played these games so I don't know how accurate the comparison is. Either way if Legends AZ will be like Legends Arceus I'll enjoy more than SV, where the maps feels a bit confusing and the gym leaders and other bosses' levels aren't adjusted according to your progression so it feels like you're still forced to follow a specific path despite all the freedom your given. Gen 1 and 2 did the whole "you can beat the evil team and gym leaders in whatever order you want" better imo.

No. 409676

>>409600
Still cute though and not exaggerated

No. 409702

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Since nobody mentioned it yet, Rachel Lillis, the voice actress of Jessie, Misty, and Jigglypuff, just passed away.

No. 409708

>>409702
shit, that's sad to hear

No. 409757

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No. 409759

>>409702
Rest in peace

No. 409929

>>409702
Rest In Pokémon, queen

No. 409944

>>409702
she died so young, rest in peace to a legend

No. 409948

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RIP
Pokemon owes its popularity in America to the 4kids dub. It won't be where it is today if not for Rachael.

No. 410624

>>409948
An icon. And I'm not saying it lightly.

No. 410626

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>>409702
>>409948
Let's make Jessie, Misty, or Jigglypuff (or all three) the next thread pic to honor her legacy

No. 410638

>>410626
great idea

No. 410742

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No. 410747

>>409948
Too young at 46. It's so heart breaking. I agree with you whole heartedly. RIP Rachel.

No. 410840

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No. 410845

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finally got my shiny togekiss in pogo. i have a shiny togepi too, all i need is a togetic. i wanna have the whole family, they're one of my favourite lines. i love togekiss to pieces

No. 410965

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what is your favorite pikachu clone?
togedemaru is just so stupidly cute

No. 410972

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>>410965
Pachirisu! They're absolutely adorable, has a cute pink shiny and are good in battle.

No. 410988

>>410965
I like Mimikyu and Marill but I don’t think they count…

No. 410991

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>>410965
Shinx. Cute lil electric Lion baby that is weirdly powerful if you put in the effort. Plus, their final form is cool.

No. 411020

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>>410965
DEDENNE

No. 411021

>>411020
I love chubby pika so much

No. 411022

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>>411021
fat pikachu or bust. FUCK necked pikachu.

No. 411023

>>410991
Does Shinx count? I feel like Pikachu clones have to be rodents.
>>411020
>>410972
I love both of these so much.
>>409948
RIP legend

No. 411025

>>411022
This Pikachu is so much cuter than fugly bone rattler Pikachu. It looks like it feels amazing to hug.

No. 411026

File: 1723943202781.png (1.31 MB, 1356x763, ENiDZHiUcAADSRm.png)

>>411025
nishida erasure

No. 411031

>>411023
Does it? I always considered Shinx one of the pikachu ripoff because it just had to be a cute electric type that is more cute than useful?

No. 411038

>>411031
the pikachu clones are all
>electric
>mouse-like
>have beady black eyes
>have cheek markings
some consider mimikyu and marill to be pikachu clones, though they don't follow those rules

No. 411088

>>410991
>>411031
I'm legit impressed you've made it this far into the franchise and you still don't know what a pikachu clone is

No. 411089

>>411026
I like both versions of pikachu tbh

No. 411174

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>>411038
The only reason I don't consider mimikyu a pikachu clone is that there's already a clear one in its gen. Did not know that about marill.
I like every pikachu clone except for picrel

No. 411175

>>411025
Both are good, I feel like modern pikachu has a lot more charming dynamism in motion while fatchu is the cuter static sprite

No. 411176

>>411038
Got it. Sorry for retarded nonsense. I guess I like any Pikachu clone. Except Emolga.

No. 411184

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praying for legends z-a gameplay trailer after the world championship finals

No. 411215

>>411174
Aw I haven't played SV yet, but Pawmi was what restored my love for regional Pikachus. The line is redundant (they should've removed the middle evo) but they look super cute imo

No. 411311

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>>407149
is metagross considered ugly? it's one of my favorites. this specific picture made me love it.

No. 411313

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i just want to ride around on one

No. 411315

>>411215
What's wrong with the middle evo looking similar tho? It's not like it's taking a dex spot away, the only thing that would have happened if it wasn't there is that the gen would have 1 less pokemon. If you're fine with gen 1 pokemon like the pidgey line or the poliwhirl line there shouldn't be an issue with this line either imo
>>411311
>is metagross considered ugly?
No, it's literally a fan favorite for being cool and powerful

No. 411316

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>>411315
ok, i looked up an "ugliest pokemon list" and i have to say i love mandibuzz a lot too. she gets a lot of undeserved hate. vultures are cool, and i like an all-female species that isn't coomer coded. she's a bad bitch

No. 411323

>>411315
Not wrong per se, the design just feels redundant as I said. At least the Pidgey line look different enough to each other.

No. 411329

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>>411323
>Not wrong per se, the design just feels redundant as I said. At least the Pidgey line look different enough to each other.
pidgeot is a pidgeotto with a highlights in its hair
poliwrath is an angry poliwhirl
primape is a mankey with bracelets
clefable is clefairy biggger wings
dewgong is a seel without a yellow mouth
muk is a larger grimer
kingler is just a bigger krabby
I bet if you were a kid you'd just be happy to have that extra pokemon! Personally I find all the gen 1 throwbacks and twists in sv to be a nice detail! It's pretty funny that they literally made a joke of it by making dudunsparce kek

I think pawmo is cuter than pawmot, the lighter orange shade is nicer and the hair is a cute fluffy swoop rather than the anime spike hair it then gets when it evolves.

No. 411331

>>411316
speaking of ugly pokemon, the more people hate on jynx the more i like her. but i am from a culture when black face "doesn't exist" in the public mind (as in if i asked people what they thought about it it's 90% chance they've never even heard the term) and i'm young enough that i only ever really saw purple jynx

i just like that she's an unapologetically female stereotype that still isn't coomer bait and is instead hated by moids, you go girl

No. 411355

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>>410972
Same! Not sure about the "good in battle" part, though.

No. 411382

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>>411331
The reason why people "hate" Jynx is that it is difficult to imagine that it is not literally wearing a dress, same with Hitmonchan. Pokemon like Gardevoir and Gothitelle get away with it because it feels like it's part of their bodies.
don't ask about machoke and machamp

No. 411383

>>411315
>>411215
I wouldn't have an issue with pawmi line being repetitive (I actually think it's funny they did that) if I liked pawmi to begin with, but the issue is that I think pawmi looks retarded. It shares the same issue with multiple others in its gen where it's just an amorphos blob of color with no strong sense of design to it.

No. 411407

>>411382
nona the reason people don't like jynx is not the "dress" lol it's because it looked like a racist caricature, got a bad rep because of it and it's portrayed as flirty and kissing

No. 411447

>>411355
Do you know about the 2014 Pokemon World Championship battle with Se Jun Park's Pachirisu?

No. 411450

>>411447
everyone knows and everyone knows it's still a shitpoke. winning with a shitpoke was what made that moment so iconic.

No. 411623

>>411447
The element of surprise is stronger than people realize! His opponents didn't know what the plan was or how to deal with pachirisu because nobody else would think to use it at that high level, which led to this amazing moment. I wonder if it's still possible to do that today or if the hyper nerds are so into battling they do it for hours each day, watch videos of their opponents and calculate every possible outcome and come over-prepared.

No. 411727

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Make Pikachu Fat Again!

No. 411743

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>>411727
I favorite is the mid era, platinum is my fave pose and i love how half the ear is black lol

I like fit pika more than fat pikachu, the only problem is i hate the massive arms it's had since the switch to 3D. But most of all… bring back the red cheeks! Stop making them pale!
"b-but it's just the saturation of 3D engine that is bad" no fuck off look at the red in Ash's hat, there was NO reason not to give pikachu red cheeks

No. 411765

>>411623
>>411450
NTA but Pachirisu had actually been used in previous seasons before the year in the vod that anon shared. It just fitted his team very well as a niche, because it can learn follow me and nuzzle which always paralyses. It was also surprisingly tanky.

No. 411775

>>411743
Thanks you nona, I thought I was psychotic over Pikachu's cheeks because no one seemed to have a problem with them lol I don't know they're so pale now,

No. 411780

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>>411743
>mid era
The era when Pikachu still hadn't grown a chin yet lol.
>i hate the massive arms it's had since the switch to 3D
somehow I have literally never noticed them before and now I can't unsee them. thanks nonne…
>>411775
It's not just Pikachu, all Pokemon became pale in XY for some reason.

No. 411801

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>>411780
>somehow I have literally never noticed them before and now I can't unsee them. thanks nonne…
you're welcome kek i assume it has to do with animation so it can go down on it's front paws an look "balanced", but imo they should just make the arms longer if needed when it's on all 4 paws. It's a fantasy creature, it doesn't need to be fully "realistic"
>>411775
It's not only pikachu that got washed out, every time I see white-with-a-purple-tint starmie I cry. In my mind it's a dark purple!

No. 411839

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>>411801
at least it still looks purple in pogo i guess

No. 411862

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>>411765
this has no bearing on how good it is lol, that's not how tier lists work. pachirisu is so bad it's not even ranked as a NU. people can also use that rattata gimmick with endeavor. that doesn't mean rattata is actually good.
>>411801
can't stand this. i also hate how so many pink pokemon went from this lovely pale pastel color to nasty chewed-bubblegum pink.

No. 411863

>>411862
ham pink

No. 411885

File: 1724192270846.jpg (1.2 MB, 1267x1169, you get a 2x1 on pics since lo…)

>>411862
I wonder how many of these were actually supposed to be pastel pink. Looks like the gen 1-2 art we got is deep-fried due to incorrect scans back then by official sources and so have wrong colors (RIP to all the artists who spent years trying to mimic the "original" pokemon style). You can read more about it here https://x.com/Lewchube/status/1648072834164432902.

Something I miss is Mew having darker tail/paw points though. Mew is still pastel in most promo artwork as well, but for whatever reason the games insists on bubblegum pink…

No. 411891

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>>411885
they were supposed to be pastel, they were pastel in the old anime/movies before they became gross pink.

No. 412003

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>>411862
>>411885
I was about to comment the same! He actually posted mew though, the shade was a "colder" pink than in your image but the body is still pale
>>411743
>>411891
My personal headcanon is that it's a regional difference (though remakes kinda ruin it lol). So in my head kanto pikachu is often chubbier/fluffier or a brighter yellow, chansey is paler… and in a more modern region like Kalos their chansey just happens to have a darker coat of fur and pikachu there has pinker cheeks etc

No. 412005

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>>411885
Do you prefer one? I can't choose, somehow they both feel "normal" to me

No. 412014

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>>411176
>Except Emolga
explain yourself

No. 412035

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>>412014
I blame her. Her two Emolgas with volt switch were a nightmare when I was a dumbass teen.
>>412005
I mean I like the right more than the left, but both color schemes are pleasing.

No. 412052

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>>412035
I also had a difficult time beating her. And honestly, being annoying like that is what makes Elesa one of the most memorable Gym Leaders in Pokemon (aside from her Gym music in BW2). She's like the Whitney of Unova, but more impressive since Unova is full of memorable Gym Leaders.

No. 412093

speaking of difficulty, I noticed that normal type gym leaders tend to be the ones that I struggle against most often. even cheren, the literal tutorial gym leader, can easily sweep your team if you don't defeat his lillipup before it's done using work up.

No. 412097

File: 1724264709139.gif (2.02 MB, 275x226, IMG_5042.gif)

>>412093
i like to use ghost types against those. what are you gonna do, punch a gengar?

No. 412154

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Somebody just made this in the art request thread, next thread pic?

No. 412160

>>403789
I honestly agree, so many of the women are absolute knockouts but with men it’s such a mixed bag.

No. 412164

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>>403685

I hate so many in SV; the art style makes them look like cheap Pixar characters


the series needs to get weeby again QUICK

No. 412194

>>412154
it better be

No. 412211

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No. 412221

>>412154
Next time. Gotta pay respects and honor for Rachel >>409948

No. 412336

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>>412164
Humans in Paldea are so ugly, it's shocking. Most characters have something "wrong" with them, like they have a massive forehead, massive chin, oddly beady eyes etc it objectively doesn't look appealing. They have zero appeal. At least in older gens the fat hiker was seen as comical and had the whole hiker look going. It feels like they don't know who they're designing for.

It's funny how they made such a big thing out of the students being mostly fugly adults of mixed ages, yet every TCG card of students have a collection of cute normal looking anime kids. They know they fucked up and that nobody wants cards of the actual trainers in the games

No. 412338

>>412336
>>412336
It's so weird for me seeing the paldea npcs, I tried to get into the game but the lack of character customization (taking away clothes and being completely stuck as androgynous) really really turned me off from the game. Idk I just enjoy looking cute with my Pokemon but it was pretty much impossible to make a cute looking character in game, none of the clothing items available looked good and the stuff in the stores didn't match the ugly outfits you're forced to wear. Which ruined the whole picture taking aspect of the game. Design wise of the humans in the game was retarded all around

No. 412342

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>>412336
I haven't played SV yet and it seems like there's only a handful of characters in this generation that the fandom gives a shit about kek

No. 412400

I will give credit where credit is due that SV finally moved away from the "rival-who-is-super-confident-but-is-lowkey-easy-to-beat" like Hapu and what's his name from SWSH at least the rival already had a strong team and started over to do the challenge with the pc.

No. 412434

>>412097
I envy you for having the opportunity to own a trade evolution pokemon

No. 412481

>>412336
I know she’s running that McDonald’s like it’s the navy

No. 412551

>>412434
my bff and i always buy the two versions of a given game so we trade all the time

No. 412644

>>412434
I'm able to trade pokes with my fiancé, but isn't it pretty easy to get those pokes from the online trading thing?

No. 412646

>>412481
LMAOOOOO

No. 412647


No. 412665

>>412434
At least in the modern games it's a lot easier to catch fully evolved pokemon

No. 413079

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Post your secret base (any game they’re in applies)

No. 413099

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This scrote annoys me so fucking much. I hate to admit I do watch him sometimes but I can't stand when he makes coom thumbnails.

No. 413101

>>413099
He's a smug dickhead who made fun of a small female artist in public so I don't watch him. Half of what he says isn't true but he pretends to be an intellectual and people don't bother to fact check so he gets away with it.

Also any man who uses coomer thumbnails do not respect females, so I always unfollow and click "don't recommend this channel" whenever they do. Ain't got time for that shit. The bar is on the floor and he couldn't get over it.

No. 413102

>>413101
Samefagging, but Whitney is a fucking CHILD character as well.

No. 413147

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>>413099
Wtf ew. I just unsubscribed to him after seeing that. Disgusting. Just because Whitney has a Miltank doesn't mean she has big boobs. Her tits aren't even that big to begin with. Cow/milk = big boobs is fucking retarded and same goes to moids who coom to Hex Maniac. No wonder I hardly watch his video nowadays since I always thought he was cringe and annoying. I will not support any moid coomers. Any other Pokemon channels you nonnies recommend? Especially female Pokemon YouTubers?
So far,
>CandyEvie
>partyarlie
>Shiny Catherine
>Tama Hero

>TyranitarTube

I just think his playthroughs and randomizer nuzlockes are fun to watch though mostly I watch for Pokemon news and speculations and I like that he goes in detail about them and making interesting points.

No. 413173

>>413099
the main guy talks like a low test faggot
>>413147
i like pikasprey solely for the retarded softlock videos he makes, they make me laugh

No. 413257

>>413102
>but Whitney is a fucking CHILD character as well
Who gives a shit, better that then people drawing porn of the actual mons.
This is a franchise where almost every protagonist is under 15 and gets shipped with characters over 20 anyway.

No. 413317

>>413102
>She’s a 40 year old CHILD you sick fuck
Can we just stick to coomer clickbait thumbnails being bad?

No. 413324

>>413147
I like n0Rtist's videos

No. 413325

>>413324
>>413147
or here's this female poketuber who makes videos about the regions of pokemon

No. 413432


No. 413457

>>413257
>>413317
Get real kek

No. 413491

>>413257
>"who cares, child porn is better than pokemon porn"
ok pedo

No. 413527

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>>413432
>buzzwords
>>413457
>buzzwords
>>413491
>buzzwords
Nothing is more autistic than getting mad at others online for not agreeing with your baseless headcanons. To me, Whitney is 40 years old and you can't convince me otherwise.

No. 413535

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>>413527
>baseless headcanons
>To me, Whitney is 40 years old and you can't convince me otherwise
At most she looks and acts like a teenager. No 40 year-old would whine and cry after losing a battle and refusing to give her gym badge. That's really immature.

>autistic

>for bashing moid coomshit and pedoshit
Dunno why your defending this hard to make Whitney legal and acceptable to be sexualized. If not any underaged female character or mon for moids to coom to. It's sickening and doing so doesn't make you a cool girl. Like idc if you headcanon her as adult but for coom purposes to please the moid gaze, just no. Gross. Remeber what site you're on. I bet you collect Sonico or Nekopara figures and think they're totally based and valid to own.

No. 413547

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>>413535
>At most she looks and acts like a teenager.
That's your headcanon. There are countless characters in adult characters in anime that act exactly like her. Even Clair acts like a whiney loser once you defeat her.

>Dunno why your defending this hard to make Whitney legal and acceptable to be sexualized.

I called you autistic for pulling out the "she's a child" card out of nowhere even though she has no confirmed age and doesn't even look like a child.

>but for coom purposes to please the moid gaze, just no. Gross.

That's literally what I said here >>413317. We all agree that Lockstin's thumbnail
is shit, let's just focus on that.

No. 413558

>>413535
I'm not following the convo, but to be honest she doesn't look like a child to me. Definetly no a 40yo, but she acts like a 20-25yo who had too much mommy/daddy money growing up and ended up being a spoiled princess kek.
Maybe it's because I don't follow the anime, but aside from the player and their friends most characters don't look like kids. When I first played Sun/Moon I thought the plant and water leaders where young adults as well, but apparently they're kids according to the anime…?
Anime art can make it difficult to distinguish between ages since it aims to make everyone pretty, so I can see why some people will think they look like kids and/or adults to their point of view, unless they're very obvious.

No. 413568

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shut the fuck up with the infighting already
anyway can't wait to see psyduck in UNITE, they even gave him a migraine ultimate attack and everything. full retard power

No. 413586

>>413535
>t. marrill eggfag(infight bait)

No. 413605

>>413147
alyo. Dunno why her latest Pokemon videos don't garner much views but her content is nice and she draws too.

No. 413630

>>413535
>Remeber what site you're on
Clearly you summerfags don't remember since no active user on /m/ would give a shit.

No. 413643

>>413527
Ironic to see you liberally abusing "buzzword" like a buzzword itself lol. It's not a handwavey eraser for "basic complaints you disagree with"

No. 413645

File: 1724699154262.jpg (206.97 KB, 2048x1536, 20240723_234722.jpg)

I really think eggchan is unironically autistic(do not encourage personailtyfags)

No. 413649

Aged up or not, the whole point that it's still disgusting to sexualize female characters in the eyes of coomer moids. As for Whitney being a child/teen thing is usually because Japan likes to have characters around that age in their media like you see in most animanga and vidya. Just stop with the infighting. It's retarded.

No. 413699

>>413645
>>413586
This is so forced

No. 413702

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No. 413703

>>413699
Her tism, way of justifying it, childishness, and reaction pictures are very recognizable tbf(trying to bait a personalityfag)

No. 413705

>>413568
Me too, tho it annoys me when gamefreak refuses to show love to evolutions of popular pokemon like psyduck. I like golduck more than i like psyduck

No. 413721

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>>413705
yeah i get you. i like psyduck better than golduck but in general, it's annoying when they hold off evo. that leads to stupid shit like eevees that can't evolve. also raichu was robbed

No. 413793

>>413721
True. I always liked Raichu's design better as a kid. Big fluffy chunky bod, cute kangaroo mouse feet, lightning bolt whip tail, etc. But they rarely made merch for raichu so I settled for pikachu merch.

No. 413819

>>413721
I didn't even like pikachu as a kid but i loved raichu, so them never giving it attention still pisses me off. They even gave eevee and pikachu gigantamax forms instead of their evos…
I think game freak doesn't really get that the vast majority of people who like eevee like it because of the evolutions, not because of eevee itself.

No. 413820

File: 1724739753903.jpg (76.75 KB, 686x386, spacebun.jpg)

Our girl is going to space! I wish they'd make it easier to match an entire team in the same outfits instead of making the holowear sporadically like this. I know gengar had a space outfit years ago already when the game was brand new.

No. 413822

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>>413721
raich is one of my favorite pokemon. thoughts on gorochu?

No. 413828

>>413822
If we had known what real gorochu looked like it would have been easier to have an opinion. I think it would have been fun to have another evolution, but they'd just pretend it didn't exist like with raichu anyway

No. 413903

File: 1724755805926.png (2.29 MB, 2124x2124, 85486151_p0.png)

>>413819
I don't think they would want to show favoritism to any one specific eeveelotion. It's logical to give Eevee more attention.

No. 413905

>>413903
>I don't think they would want to show favoritism to any one specific eeveelotion. It's logical to give Eevee more attention.
When they do merch they make one of each because then they sell more and earn more money. Focusing on just eevee is boring and financially the worse decision. It's illogical.

No. 414012

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No. 414023

>>413820
Wow, a woman in STEM…

No. 414025

>>413905
nah it's easy and lazy to do eevee so all the eeveelutionfags can be happy with it

No. 414211

>>414025
I'm an eeveelutionfag and I'm not happy with it, I'd throw my money at a mega espeon and every merch item of it but I can't be arsed to get any eevee stuff as eevee is just brown and boring

No. 414212

File: 1724861279306.jpg (88.98 KB, 600x396, 1274922428952.jpg)

I just want fucking Poison and Dragon eeveelutions already. Sick of Sylveon.

No. 414527

File: 1724951905709.jpg (47.92 KB, 500x441, efca4b099176cad16790ab462af986…)

Tell me some minor detail about pokemon you like but never get the opportunity to talk about

I'll go first:
>they often have nice paintings/art in houses, I always stop to enjoy them
>bikes. the games made biking seem cool to me as a kid so it encouraged me to be more independent and active
>names being translated, both pokemon and humans. maybe a bit controversial but people have gotten pretentious about names being translated recently, I think it comes from some woke anti-racism sentiment about names but as if using the name Huuro for a "american" character from Unova somehow makes the game more authentic? it's just more fun when the names change so it makes sense for everyone who plays them regardless of what language they speak

No. 414729

File: 1726073987250.jpeg (51.8 KB, 564x564, 2909728f329afc20b6ba7dae1de4e1…)

kalos sitting cuties are coming out today nonnies, who are you getting?
>sylveon
>braixen
i am getting them 100% might add more mons.

>>414527
i really like the sinnoh myths or just myths and culture each region has in general. makes the region feel more "lived in".

No. 414734

>>414729
I'm a eurofag so no pokemon store for me to buy in (only for the britbongs). Actually insane that they don't open webstores in Europe, it's like printing free money, they'd sell out within minutes but they just refuse to sell here for some reason

No. 415011

File: 1726163426969.jpg (113.32 KB, 736x981, b6112eebf66c2ae6bb7cd42721aeee…)

Someone in one of my discord groups now has a marill pfp and I have the faintest of hope that she's a secret terf farmer like me

No. 415337

File: 1726265073693.png (329.65 KB, 800x800, 113398384_p9.png)

YAAAAY we're back!

No. 415698

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No. 415726

>>414734
I still can't wrap my head around it, even Square Enix has a EU store. The few pop-up Pokemon Center they did on a few countries around the years were insanely popular, and if Britain has access to the online store then that means they have no problems shipping/storing things near here.

That said, the US store has worse quality than the JP one (for example I remember the halloween plushes were missing the hanging pieces, or if they have them, they're made of felt) and many collections are exclusive to JP since they're collabs with japanese brands/stores, so I prefer getting stuff off Sugura-ya/Mercari JP.

No. 415776

does anyone go to irl events? like for the tcg or vgc? i was thinking on learning how to play the tcg since i dont really care for new pokemon games that much.
how is it? are the moids tame enough? is there other women attending these events?

No. 415801

>>415726
>That said, the US store has worse quality than the JP one
That has been the case before but it seems it has gotten better lately from what I've heard? I still think there might be manufacturing differences but that they've closed the gap so they look more accurate now while before the US version could be a mess

No. 415802

File: 1726473898957.jpg (347.03 KB, 500x1010, 256557_original.jpg)

Found some comparison pics of pokédolls, hope nonas don't mind a bit of spam. As you can see from the tags Japanese version is on the left and US on the right. The Japanese one of these 2 are superior unless you happen to love the pastel orange shade more

No. 415803

File: 1726474063378.jpg (501.79 KB, 500x1339, 256823_original.jpg)

US left, Japan right. For this one I think the face is cuter on JP, but some details like the tail and ears look better on US.

No. 415804

File: 1726474351294.jpg (388.98 KB, 500x1068, 260309_original.jpg)

US version looks like it's been in the washer for too long lol

No. 415806

File: 1726474607351.jpg (304.55 KB, 500x872, 257714_original.jpg)

Reminder that these are all from 2015, nearly a decade ago now but it's still interesting to see the comparison of what used to be standard. Here's a link to way more of them https://pkmncollectors.livejournal.com/19506412.html

As a eurofag nearly all my imports have been from Japan so I'm glad I generally got the better deal.

No. 415807

>>414527
> fully agreed with the biking, that shit was fun
> Pokémon just casually wandering around in the overworld
> most cities at least TRY to do something cool/fun. I used to love Hearthrome City as a kid because it felt like there was so much to do in it
> the BGM
> the older generations had a pretty good variety of rivals and story-relevant NPCs with different personalities, I know people complained about the "mean" ones but personally I just thought it was funny when you beat them
> the ranger games!! they were so fun and had so much work put into making them feel different from the mainline series
> same with the mystery dungeon games, bonus points for legitimately awesome stories

No. 415847

>>415807
>I know people complained about the "mean" ones but personally I just thought it was funny when you beat them
Who even complained? All I ever see is people begging for them to come back only for game freak to keep giving you boring friendly rivals

No. 415849

File: 1726488143810.webp (33.28 KB, 350x443, kellyn_kate.webp)

>>415807
I'm so sad the ranger games are probably gone forever now because they were so tied to the touch screen. To bring them back they'd have to completely rethink the entire game play system and at that point is it even a ranger game? Even though the switch does have a touch screen I don't think any of the pokemon games use it, and it's still not the same as a DS screen with a pen.

I love the ranger outfits because they feel so "pokemon" to me, more so than modern pokemon protagonists

No. 415854

File: 1726489189255.jpg (83.47 KB, 588x331, 1000008015.jpg)

>>415849
Shadows of Almia was so good. On a related note I love these two and their gravity defying hair kek

No. 415855

>>415854
Female pokemon hair has always been a bit weird tbh, it's giving male designer who has never had hair longer than to his ears

No. 415856

>>415855
I think it's also a weird way of ensuring they pass the silhouette test.

No. 415879

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No. 415964

>>415849
>>415854
gosh do i miss the pokemon ranger games, i regret selling the games years ago…

No. 416102

>>415854
I remember i accidentally etched loops into my ds screen playing this game because of an imperfection in my stylus tip kek

No. 416523

File: 1726735576320.png (1.48 MB, 638x2398, u78yYAh.png)


No. 416607

File: 1726760317874.jpg (985.88 KB, 735x1024, MilceryStellarCrown152.jpg)

Bought a Stellar Crown booster bundle and pulled this cute card. I love it
Kind of wish I had local collectors near me to trade bulk cards with though

No. 417906

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No. 418431

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No. 418811

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>>414527
>spooky, dark and mysterious bits in the games like ghost people, the Old Chateau, Lavender Town, Dittos are failed clones of Mew, etc. It's just so intriguing and I like that people make theories and discussions about them. Even some connecting to real life like the Ruins of Alph being inspired by the archaeological sites in Asuka or the controversial theory of the Regi trio being connected to the WWII bombing.
>also people mentioning about scrapped content or inaccessible areas in the games the like the locked power plant doors, Kalos mythicals, scrapped Rhyhorn race in XY, scrapped golf course in SUMO, etc. Just imagine what they could've been like if Game Freak gave more time in fleshing out the games. Maybe they were orginally supposed to have more exploration, future mythical events or more minigames. It's more of a disappointment but it's interesting to talk about.
>Legends Arceus has some really nice areas like the Cottonsedge Prairie or the Fabled Spring but I don't see much people complimenting them besides towns and cities in other main line games even though I like them too. Sometimes I'd like to take neat pics of my Pokemon and just hang around. Also I like to go at high places and fly from there too.
>diving is such a cool mechanic and it adds so much to the exploration. Wished they bring it back and also the ability to sit in certain areas like in XY. It's a nice touch.
>secret bases are super cool too and they're fun to decorate. Love to be in my cozy space. BDSP is such a disappointment though.
>food in Pokemon looks really delicious even though they're based off of real life food. Poffins, pokepuffs, curries, I wanna try them all.

No. 418887

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Any nonnas want to be friends in GO? I just recently got into it and it's been pretty decent fun. I'm eight years late and pretty new, but I'd love to trade gifts!

No. 418899

>>415776
i’ve been to a few regionals and go to local events for tcg pretty often. i’ve met a handful of women who play but overall there are definitely way more men (esp in the local events)

No. 418903

>>418899
samefagging because i didn’t address everything, the tcg community is in general okay, the moids are pretty tame compared to other card games (yugioh moids usually have coomer playmats/sleeves) and the card game is really fun. you can start by playing online to get a feel for if you like it

No. 421133

File: 1728187881023.jpg (1.09 MB, 1000x2000, __duskull_dusknoir_and_dusclop…)

Post your favourite ghost types for October

No. 421215

File: 1728219030115.jpeg (585.59 KB, 828x708, IMG_0779.jpeg)

these are pretty cute!

No. 421333

File: 1728256833607.png (779.58 KB, 1122x2833, IMG_4363.png)

>>421133
Marshy!

No. 421519

File: 1728298579300.jpeg (205.46 KB, 751x1050, lgCsMLh.jpeg)

i wish i had the money to buy boxes upon boxes of tcg cards, just for the pretty art

No. 421551

>>421519
OMG this card is beautiful! Too bad I don't keep up with the TCG that much anymore, I'm sure it's full of new beautifully illustrated cards like these.

No. 421876

File: 1728379252383.jpg (652.44 KB, 2656x1308, 3c961389a5c60b7adb8d465697c6c0…)

Are you on Team Red or Team Blue?

No. 421877

>>421876
This made me realize I'm pretty much 50/50 on both sides, but my first few games were "blue" so I see myself as a blue sider kek

No. 421893

>>421876
I still don't get why people prefer Miraidon over Koraidon (at least when the game was new, I don't know if it has changed now)
Miraidon is a motorized dick and balls, at least Koraidon looks like an actual animal.

No. 421905

>>421893
violet players got the short end of the stick, koraidon is so cute and expressive and miraidon is a boring stiff robot

No. 421918

>>421905
The uniforms in Scarlet look awful so it's not a big loss. I found Miraidon a lot more expressive than I expected when playing Violet but both legendaries look mostly terrible imo.

No. 421919

>>421905
at least violet gets slightly less terrible uniforms. I picked it over scarlet just so i wouldn't have to run around in some naruto ass outfit
>>421876
don't really care about most of these except ho-oh and my boy yveltal so red i guess

No. 421921

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>>421876
Blue because it's the girl's side

No. 421922

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No. 421988

File: 1728426113792.jpg (696.67 KB, 2630x1308, Untitled.jpg)

>>421876
i'm pretty evenly split but if it were just blue vs red i go red. it's the entire reason i picked team valor lol

No. 422009

>>407145
looks like that horse fucking streamer guy a bit to me.

No. 422064

>>421876
Team Red aside from the last three gens (I like Lunala more and both suck for the switch legendaries).

No. 422148

File: 1728481387865.png (1.65 MB, 1434x1542, poketoon.png)

this is the ugliest fucking anime nose I've ever seen, what in the racism is pokemon doing

No. 422149

>>421918
After the DLC released it's no longer an issue though, i haven't worn the school uniform since. And imo the violet uniform is only like 10% better, they're both shit.

No. 422150

File: 1728482161889.png (2.58 MB, 2324x1400, poketoon_.png)

>>422148
he has the disney dog-human nose while other characters look like normal anime

if this is the art direction pokemon goes in i will legit quit the series after having been a lifelong fan, it is too ugly and stupid

No. 422155

>>422148
>>422150
>be Game Freak
>make a Japanese video game that takes place in a specific region in Japan, all the characters are Japanese except one American guy who suspiciously looks like Guile from Street Fighters
>typical anime art style for the late 90s for both the game and anime
>the game and entire franchise become massively popular all over the planet for decades
>suddenly, Game Freak decides to specifically cater to the West as if the West isn't completely obsessed with Pokemon already
>everyone in Pokemon SV is hideous and looks like Pixar characters
>recent anime series have racist caricature looking characters
What's their goal here? This is a very serious question because they don't need to make extra efforts to cater to Western markets.

No. 422157

>>422064
lunala's design is so beautiful, one of the coolest legendaries ever. too bad her typing sucks

No. 422193

>>422155
I enjoy how they expanded and regions aren't limited to Japan anymore (it's fun to see the variety in towns/pokemom inspo) but god the 3D model art style is so ugl it's keeping me away from buying SV.
Been a bit trying to come up with a reason of why everyone looks so bad, but I really can't. Either the tinfoil anon from some time ago about Japan/GF being racist is right or they think since the anime, manga and merch fix character design they feel they can get away with pandering those people on the games

No. 422221

>>422155
I think it's just typical Japanese racism, I mean it's kinda telling that the regions based America, England and France have characters that are mostly attractive but the one based on Spain suddenly has a dog nose.

No. 422229

>>422155
>What's their goal here? This is a very serious question because they don't need to make extra efforts to cater to Western markets.
I really do not fucking get it at all. The west LOVES stereotypical anime too. The only people who don't like it are 60+ year olds art teachers who think it's not "real" art, and guess what, pokemon GO now have their wallet in a death grip anyway. People who are in their 30s now more often than not literally grew up watching anime in their childhood, and the younger they are the more anime they've grown up with.
>>422193
>Either the tinfoil anon from some time ago about Japan/GF being racist is right
I legit can't tell if game freak/japan is casually racist as fuck (they are), or if they're now partly run by westaboos who're desperately trying to emulate the tumblr troon art style and they're convinced that's what the "progressive west" loves.

No. 422241

>>422221
>the regions based America, England and France have characters that are mostly attractive but the one based on Spain suddenly has a dog nose.
The screenshot in >>422148 is set in Lumiose city, it's Kalos/French. But it's specifically only the black/dark skin guy so we know it's racially motivated. His nose looks like it's from animal crossing.

The ugly faces really started to creep up with 3D models being used in game, I remember thinking just a few characters in Alola looked a little bit too cartoony. Then in Galar, even more of them looked ugly and very noticeably potato-nosed. Paldea comes around and 90% of them look fucking disfigured. So over all I'm inclined to think it's just a bad style change and not racism. Well that is until I remember legends arceus exists which is again set in Japan and they all look normal and not western cartoony at all.

No. 422256

>>422150
Kek jap racism is so funny because it's unintentional but super racist at the same time.

No. 422257

>>422229
>People who are in their 30s now more often than not literally grew up watching anime in their childhood, and the younger they are the more anime they've grown up with.
In Europe depending on the country it's usually people in their 40s and lower, and I even talked to several women in their 50s telling me about old anime they enjoyed watching on TV.

No. 422261

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>>422193
It's pretty common for anime to draw any non-Asian characters as looking really weird or more realistic than the rest of the cast kek. Picrel is an example.
>>422148
I can't believe they went through all this trouble to make him look like a racist caricature and still gave him blue eyes.

No. 422274

>>422148
>>422150
>>422221
These takes are such an overreaction kek, you’re just being mad for the sake of being mad.

No. 422292

File: 1728503347474.png (1.06 MB, 3000x3000, IMG_4573.png)

i'm sad they never gave mimikyu alternate forms

No. 422293

File: 1728503383336.jpg (36.2 KB, 620x465, accidentally-racist-pictures-7…)

>>422256
japan really is behind in that way, reminds me of picrel kek

No. 422295

>>422274
damn nona calm down this is a gossip board, maybe you'd prefer to talk about the weather in a calm manner?

No. 422297

>>422274
Average day on lolcow farm

No. 422318

>>422292
It's never too late. Though to be honest I think because fans have already drawn every possible variation of mimikyu gamefreak will never do a real one, the market is already over-saturated and it's no longer a new idea. Gamefreak hates being too predictable so I think it's more likely they'd give mimikyu an evolution or g-max/mega

No. 422369

>>422241
>Then in Galar, even more of them looked ugly and very noticeably potato-nosed.
At least SWSH has a reason for the weird art style change, James Turner was the art director for that gen and his personal art is very cartoony.
It is kind of weird though since he's clearly capable of designing cooler things (Shadow Lugia) but maybe his tastes changed

On that note the only explanation I have for is that someone else was calling the shots because I don't want to believe Mana Ibe's human art is ugly (only see drawing pokemon)

No. 422515

>>422369
Even though they're the art director it doesn't seem like they're responsible for all the human designs. In swsh Take designed all the gym leaders and imo they look nice and like regular anime, except for Opal and her giant witch nose but at least the witchy intentions were clear then. So I wonder how many humans in general were James design/direction, or if he just trusted a certain artist to do the job. And that artist in turn happened to have a certain style. Also James Turner actually designed the 2 professors in SV, and imo they're some of the very few good designs in those games. So I don't think it was really his fault either…?

So Mana Ibe could have trusted the designs to some artist with shitty taste, even if she herself wouldn't have drawn it like that. She would still have to sign off on it though.
Honestly if I was the art director of the region with the ugliest characters (by a lot too) I'd be so embarrassed.

No. 423026

File: 1728658015902.jpg (49.47 KB, 640x333, mismagius'syummyhalloween.jpg)

café remix has the cutest designs but i haven't played the game in years, i just enjoy it through pictures posted lol

No. 423246

File: 1728736249888.png (159.92 KB, 484x484, 0905Enamorus.png)

What do you honestly think about this Pokemon?

No. 423250

File: 1728738290970.jpg (406.83 KB, 1080x2340, 1000000180.jpg)

>>423246
She is based, but I've always loved the genies.

No. 423295

File: 1728746343152.png (153.16 KB, 410x303, trugreen7-ron.png)

I like watching poketubers now and then but I hate moids like trugreen7 who use sexualized thumbnails

No. 423298

>>423246
I still can't get over how fugly it sorry

No. 423302

>>423246
It's ugly, I hate all the genies. Though when it was new I heard from a friend that his troon friends were seething over it being transphobic which made me like it a little bit at least.

No. 423304

File: 1728747339400.png (178.17 KB, 506x506, 0905Enamorus-Therian.png)

>>423246
Therian form is better, but that goes for all the genies

No. 423306

>>421921
>>421922
i don't see what makes them "girly"
>>423250
>vaguely feminine monster in a group of 3 other monsters that look like muscular men (all canonically genderless)
>is themed around emotions and love unlike stuff like natural phenomena (earthquakes, lightning, storms)
>"she"
so tired of this bullshit

No. 423310

>>423306
It's species is 100% female in game though…

No. 423313

>>423306
> Vaguely feminine
Nona I get what you're saying but come on lmao

No. 423319

File: 1728748764575.png (166.48 KB, 303x408, asdaswed.png)

>>423295
He's been doing a lot of clickbaity shit lately. That ugly over the top reaction kills me lool

No. 423331

>>423310
Sorry I didn't know that. The design was so hideous I couldn't be bothered to read about it. It still kinda proves my point though, it's the only female in the group and her powers and design are based on emotions and love, what the fuck lmao
>>423319
I just went through his older videos and it's like a completely different person kek
>>423295
It's tiring seeing so many youtubers start to show sexual pictures and their soyface in the thumbnails to try and manipulate you into watching clickbait for views

No. 423546

>>423319
The second youtubers unironically do "algorithm faces" is when you know they're creatively bankrupt and have started to hate their youtube jobs. Ron is always kinda sexist and has been giving me the ick for years
>>423331
>to try and manipulate you into watching clickbait for views
Not us though, they're trying to get little sexist boys too watch it "because sexy woman boobs lol" and he gives zero shit that it in turn alienates most female viewers. It's then extra funny when you see him simp for some woman online, like yeah no wonder you're single buddy

No. 423636

File: 1728792778065.jpg (79.95 KB, 694x894, Enamorus fixed.jpg)

>>423313
Retarded design. Unlike the other three who all have highly defined masculine bodies, Enamorus ended up with a stupid stick figure tree trunk body. Literally why?

No. 423638

>>423306
sun lunala pokedex entry
>It is said to be a female evolution of Cosmog. When its third eye activates, away it flies to another world.
shield zacian pokedex entry
>This Pokémon has slumbered for many years. Some say it's Zamazenta's elder sister—others say the two Pokémon are rivals.

No. 423642

File: 1728794302737.jpg (7.76 KB, 128x128, GZvOLgrW0AIuCma.jpg)

btw there is a huge Pokemon beta leak on 4chan

No. 423651

File: 1728794843675.png (737 B, 128x128, 1728787436174142.png)

>>423642
Blazekias is real!

No. 423715

>>423642
Leaks are gross, hope the leakers have their lives ruined.

No. 423719

>>423636
>Literally why?
because the others are based on idealized male bodies while enamorus is based on a female one? They're all fugly an there's no saving them. I actually think if they had made a female pink one that matched the rest (aka looking like a man) troons would have been thrilled and used it as their poster-troon mon everywhere. And I do not want to see more troon propaganda in pokemon circles.

No. 423727

>>423715
Nah finding unreleased stuff like this that was gonna be kept on a vault forever is cool, as long as they don't reveal new games and such it's fine.
I wish Game Freak released actual artbooks with concept art of actual and beta pokemon, they know we go crazy about them (remember when they showed bits of a few gen-1 beta and people lost their minds?), I don't know why they're so secretive about them.

No. 423736

File: 1728810891670.jpg (275.52 KB, 2000x2000, GZurd2iWMA8vXys.jpg)

This Lickylicky looks better than the real one

No. 423737

File: 1728811388967.png (12.02 KB, 910x120, Screens.png)

If this is the reason of why we got the leaks, then the dude deserved it kek

No. 423738

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No. 423739

>>423738
I love this one. It looks like an improved version of the fire Unova monkey.

No. 423740

File: 1728811904170.png (347.3 KB, 1297x917, 1728807914025246.png)

Here are the animation concept art for every pokemon and trainer! Just downloaded it and its legit, every sheet is in PDF format
https://gofile.io/d/Lem9Zp

No. 423751

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As someone whose very first starter (and favorite Pokemon) is Mudkip, I really love this bunny.

No. 423757

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Really curious about what goes behind the scenes when it comes to Pokemon creation. Seems like they design usual monsters and then pokemon-ify them along the road?
The Cacturine and waterdog guy is working on the wrong franchise kek Their would would shine more elsewhere

No. 423759

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>>423246
i hate all the genies but actually like her. the design is so retardedly over-the-top and weird that i'm endeared to it, and i like the color scheme. she's great in competitive too.

No. 423760

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silly cloud snake turtle

No. 423761

>>423757
I wonder if they recycle some of these concepts in other games. They should if they don't.

No. 423771

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oh my god

No. 423773

>>423727
How do you know it was gonna be kept in a vault forever? One day they might have made a behind the scenes documentary or book. But more likely is that they've simply ruined the designs by doing this. We've seen that game freak redesigns old pokemon or take old concepts they weren't happy with at the time. Now that these designs have been exposed, they're forever unusable to game freak as they're no longer new to the public. It's like someone came in a licked all the cupcakes, on the surface they look the same but you can't ever sell those now.

I fully believe this is the main reason they don't do those cool concept art books, because to them all the designs and ideas still have potential so they don't want to give them up. But now they've all been made useless. So if you see a cool leak, congratulations, you just ruined the chances of it ever becoming real.

No. 423774

Are y'all posting leaks or fanart, please specify
>>423751
this looks awful though lmao

No. 423775

>>423757
You let the creature designers design in the style they feel comfortable in, then have the team work on pokéfying it. Forcing them all to draw in a wanna-be ken sugimori style from the start would hinder their ability to design. This is a normal process, it's why you have art directors to pull it all together in the end
>>423761
>I wonder if they recycle some of these concepts in other games.
They won't now that they've leaked

No. 423776

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>>423774
Those are fanart of leaked designs

No. 423777

>>423771
>>423776
thanks, and what the fuck are these

No. 423778

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>>423777
Scrapped text that possibly was meant to appear in Canalave Library (or maybe GF were just fuckin around I hope).

No. 423779

>>423777
Official Pokephilia smut

No. 423782

>>423778
are these fully made up or pokemon versions of some real weird folklore? they sound oddly familiar

No. 423784

>>423782
No clue. I did notice how the Typhlosion story kind of resembles the story of Persephone and Hades.

No. 423785

>>423778
>"They are my husbands. If you need, you may hunt them."
>"He is male. He has no children, so if you need, you may hunt him."
We love a stacy girlboss kek

No. 423786

>>423771
>>423776
>>423778
The fact that they are in english rather than japanese makes me doubt they're real

No. 423788

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>>423786
They were translated by AI like all the leaks

No. 423789

>>423777
From what I know these were found in the "Have fun" folder, I guess Game Freak just lets its employees do wild things on their own and take stuff here and there from whatever they write/draw.

No. 423790

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>>423757
>waterdog guy
Looks like electricity to me, not water. It reminds me of pic related if we're talking about gen 3.

No. 423791

>>423789
This is on the same level of the official secret Disney porn that exists because of how job contracts between Disney and its animators work.

No. 423792

>>423789
It's so odd though ken, it's barely even smut it's like legitimately written mythology

No. 423795

>>423792
Yeah another person said the porpouse of these is written at the top of the document (I haven't seen pics of the original files, can't confirm), about them being writting exercises or something. Makes sense as there are similar text on the games.

There's a bunch of men calling the rape based and making fun of the stories though I'm not going back to the hellzone that is 4chan to find more about it, I just grabbed all the links I could and ran away.

No. 423800

>>423246
ugly

>>423771
I really hope this is fake, but having seen leaks of other game companies this is probably real.

>>423773
I know you are speaking about only the concept art, but imagine if they would actually reuse some of these leaked writing in there games kek. Maybe its good that this was all leaked

No. 423802

>>423751
I like this one even though it looks a bit Neopets-ish

No. 423863

>They won't now that they've leaked
It doesn't work like that, there has been stances where illegally leaked content ended up being released/reworked officially later on, like the unreleased english translation of the original Mother/Earthbound game.

No. 423920

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Not like we didn't know but the leaks explicitly confirming that they do keep coomer appeal in mind when designing characters disappointed me.

No. 423929

>>423863
What other companies do is irrelevant, game freak in particular hates being "predictable" specifically with pokemon and aims to be unique. They know making eeveelutions would sell and make them a shit ton of money, but they refuse to do it simply because it's predictable. 15-20 years ago sure, but today it's something they will avoid as much as they can. They really don't want fans to know the design process.

No. 423930

>>423920
>age 18
Jesus fucking christ the ONLY part of the leak I've seen on my timeline was someone saying "see Skyla is an ADULT character!!!". She's literally still a teenager ffs, can coomers die already

No. 423932

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>>421133
Banette! screencap from the animation sheet leak

No. 423933

>>423920
>165cm tall, around 53kg
My fat ass was going "damn why do they always make the female characters underweight" only to check to see her BMI is actually in the healthy range and she'd not even be considered underweight, coping as a fatty is hard kek

No. 423934

>>423920
This is why I can't take the female Pokemon trainers seriously,no wonder they all wear either mini skirts or short shorts.

No. 423938

>>423933
Yeah 60kg would be the normal/healthy weight for that height over here, but considering Japan is generally lighter it makes sense she's a bit below that.

Don't lose faith nona though, I have always been a fatty as well but managed to lose weight throughout some years by balancing my meals better and walking to places rather than using a car (when posible), you can do it!

No. 423986

>>423715
Why? There is no downside to this, the Pokemon company will survive.

No. 423991

I hope we get any concept leaks about Ingo and Emmet soon

No. 424025

>>423920
I'm really not going to be able to look at the designs the same way after this. The nonnas who always insist that xyz characters are made for xyz fetishes have a leg to stand on now.

No. 424062

>>423986
They leaked personal data of a lot of employees, tf you're talking about? I wouldn't want my address, name and phone number out there on the internet and I doubt you'd want yours as well.

No. 424072

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I don't care what anyone says, I will always love Typhlosion.

No. 424074

>>423986
female employees having personal data leaked is not a good thing nona

No. 424075

>>424025
It only says "slim, but chest is large" which isn't that bad? I'm more annoyed they have real ethnicities listed, that's going to make woke people attack everyone who dares cosplay or draw a character they're not the same race as

Though I'd be interested to see if the notes on that Paldea toddler mentions the word loli…

No. 424077

>>424075
no actually it's weird as fuck

No. 424084

>>424072
Based.

No. 424085

>>424075
Listing the ethnicities makes sense, Unova is based is the US and Game Freak said they wanted to take a multi-racial/diverse (not exactly the word, I'm ESL) approach when it comes to trainers and NPCs.
And even if that wasn't the case, being as specific as you can towards artists is useful to get a design close to what you have on mind as fast andclose as posible, even if the specifications might sound weird out of context.

No. 424087

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>>423991
oh yes

No. 424091

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>>423920
This has been evident since at least Gen 5. Personally, I think that's the exact gen the coomer pandering started to get obvious. This is from an interview with Sugimori and Ohmura.
Source: https://lavacutcontent.com/ken-sugimori-nintendo-dream-4/
Even without reading these interviews, the evidence has always been there, starting with the designs for all the female protagonists. Anyone who didn't want to accept it before this leak had to be in denial.
>ethnic temperament
Oh, I gotta love how Japanese moids stereotype us Latinas.

>>423736
Squirtle face lol

>>423740
I don't hate the monkeys but this one I like a lot.

>>423740
Would download but don't wanna risk getting malware. I hope someone dumps all the pics so we don't have to download a PDF.

>>423757
OMG… Is this early Gen 3 concept art?! Holy shit, just how big was that leak?

No. 424097

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>>423934
To be fair, there have always been some female trainers that aren't designed like this. Agatha in Gen 1, and Bertha and Cynthia in Gen 4, for example.
Although Pokémon Masters is really shitting on what little dignity the younger characters had, like giving Cynthia this retarded fantasy RPG hooker outfit and having her show her shoulders and armpits as much as possible in typical gashit game fashion, even though her original outfit has her all covered up. Predictably, male characters are rarely given revealing outfits, the only good example was probably Leon's Sygna Suit. The Arc Suit recolors for Steven and Lance have them all covered up, from neck to toe, as in their original designs, while Cynthia's design was modified to, of course, show her shoulders and armpits for no reason other than she's female. It's a lot of subtle differences bewteen the way male and female characters are treated, I'm so sick of it.
One thing that really pissed me off, as a meganefag, was that nobody gave a fuck about the Scientist class until female Scientists became a thing in Gen 5. Male scientists = old, ugly, obscured eyes… Female scientists = young, cute, visible eyes. Give me a break.

>>424075
I don't mind the ethnicities being listed and examples of celebrities given to give artists an idea of what the character should look like (it makes sense and it's kinda cool tbh), but stereotyping groups of people like Latina women does bother me a little. I understand why they do it, though. It's just easy.

>>423991
Holy shit, I'd love to see more concept art and notes of my husbando too, now that you mention it. But I'm conflicted because it's really fucked up that they leaked employee info. Why the fuck would someone do that?

No. 424098

>>424077
It's a design aspect though, idk it just seems fairly kind of normal to me. A flat chested design has a different silhouette.

No. 424101

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>>421876
I'm usually Team whatever the fuck the pokémon on the box cover of the first game of a set is, because I'm used to playing the first of the two games. But when grouped like this, I must say, I like most of the blue ones better, and blue is my favorite color, so I guess blue wins.

This might be a nitpick, but Reshiram and Zekrom are red and blue, respectively. Reshiram is a fire type and its tail turns red when using its signature move, while Zekrom's tail turns blue since it's an electrinc type.

No. 424102

>>424098
NTA, but I think the weird part is calling her design "sexy pilot"

No. 424110

>>424091
I downloaded it and it's safe, that's why I shared. If it makes you more at ease, here's a MF mirror so you can check al its content without downloading.
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/4mc98mswe497i/

No. 424116

>>424110
OMG Thank you so much nonny!!

No. 424118

>>424097
>but stereotyping groups of people like Latina women does bother me a little
Now my morbid curiosity makes me wonder which ideas the devs had when designing the characters from Kalos that look like they could be north african. On one hand there's the female rival whose name I forgot (Shana or Shauna?) who doesn't fit any particular stereotype so I'm not too worried and it can't be as offensive as 99.9999% of what France shits out about us anyway, but on the other hand who knows which unused ideas they had.

No. 424134

>>424102
Jessie constantly calls herself sexy in the japanese anime that is aimed at young kids, the word doesn't have the same connotation as in the west

No. 424158

>>424101
But the tails aren't "turned on" in the box art. Reshiram has blue eyes and Zekrom has red eyes.

No. 424166

>>424158
I agree with the other anon, blue is Zekroms colour and red is Reshirams, their eyes aren't as impactful as their types and power (electric and fire, blue and red).

No. 424168

>>424118
I do not think it is possible to depict characters of Muslim background without Muslims getting offended for whatever reason.
Just trying to imagine a Pokemon game based on Morocco I can easily imagine Moroccans seeing the player character without a hijab (as are a lot of girls in Morocco) and then screaming "this doesn't represent us" or "this is promoting darwinism and secularism and separatism and…" and then start blaming France and Algeria and Israel and Spain because they can't get laid. god what a country of sheep I live in
Diversity and representation are a mistake, Pokemon should just pretend that all their characters are Japanese.

No. 424185

>>424168
>Pokemon should just pretend that all their characters are Japanese
I think they should just not mention ethnicity whatsoever and just do varied skin tones for fun, don't even take it into account when designing tbh. Like you said, people from religious countries would be upset at being represented in sinful ways and it's too easy to accidentally break some taboos in a culture you don't know much about.

No. 424187

>>423938
Thank you nona that's very sweet of you!

No. 424188

>>424168
I said north africans specifically, not muslims. The average young 3rd gen north african in France is muslim but good luck finding women under the age of 40 who wears the hijab, so that's why the rival girl can wear shorts and sandals and not look out of place compared to other characters. In the context of pokemon it wouldn't make sense for islam to exist, witchcraft is haram but there are a shit ton of creatures every where with super powers in that setting. Same for other abrahamic religions. And even from a strictly marketing point of view it's better to not aknowledge these religions, if you remember the pokemania era there were a shit ton of christians, jews and muslims who thought the series were satanic. It's obvious Game Freak was inspired by minorities you can often find in French cities to create NPCs for Kalos so that's why I talked about it, just like there are a lot of latinos in the US.

>I can easily imagine Moroccans seeing the player character without a hijab (as are a lot of girls in Morocco) and then screaming "this doesn't represent us" or "this is promoting darwinism and secularism and separatism and…" and then start blaming France and Algeria and Israel and Spain because they can't get laid.

Didn't kids in Morocco like Pokemon a lot back when the first season was airing? Whenever my mom would drag me to Morocco to visit relative it was the only thing on TV that I could understand, except for the news, no clue why they aired the French dub on TV for little kids, so I'm only assuming. I wonder if now some of them grew up to not mind it as long as they can play a fun video game.

>Diversity and representation are a mistake, Pokemon should just pretend that all their characters are Japanese.

I don't mind the way they did it for gen 5 and 6 but I felt they treated Hawaii like a cutesy theme park for gen 7
never went there obviously, I want Hawaiian anons' opinionsand then it kept getting worse with making the UK look like British people are even more addicted to football than they already are irl. They should keep each character ambiguous and let us guess with the game's settings.But then you have the nerdy girl from SV who's related to Rose and Peony and I refuse to believe it to this day kek##

No. 424191

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>>424097
>Although Pokémon Masters is really shitting on what little dignity the younger characters had, like giving Cynthia this retarded fantasy RPG hooker outfit and having her show her shoulders and armpits as much as possible in typical gashit game fashion
To be fair, pokemon is honestly one of the least sexualized games/anime overall from Japan. Sure there are miniskirts but it's never been as coomery as other franchises even though I'm sure they could sell a lot to coomers putting them all in tiny bikinis. And Skyla being depicted as having a "large chest" still visually ended up meaning a pretty normal sized chest rather than the balloon sized boobs you get in regular anime. Nami from One Piece actually looks retarded and coomery for example.

No. 424193

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>>424188
>But then you have the nerdy girl from SV who's related to Rose and Peony and I refuse to believe it to this day kek
Stole picrel just to have them all together, it's kinda retarded Penny ended up paler than their full white mom while being mixed race. But then again Marlon is literally so tan people think he's black when he's actually super pale, game freak just isn't very good at dealing with race kek

No. 424196

>>424193
Tbf it is possible for mixed race siblings to look wildly different. I think it's a mixture of gamefreak being bad at dealing with race like you said, plus wanting the connection to be more of a "surprise twist."

No. 424197

>>424193
Her sister stole all her melanin in the womb I can't see any other explanation but it looks dumb as hell.

No. 424203

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>>424097 anon she has multiple alts in masters, two of which are just as conservative as her original outfits. moids actually keep whining they don't put her in more revealing outfits and some male characters get more alts than her.

No. 424220

>>424191
Why are you defending such a bad design such as Skylas?

No. 424249

>>423929
>game freak in particular hates being "predictable" specifically with pokemon and aims to be unique
lol
lmao

No. 424271

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>>424249
tell me how many people predicted this ugly freak

No. 424320

>>424062
When I posted that I didn’t know that they leaked personal data of employees. Also that anon didn’t care about the personal data leak, she was just butthurt about the beta designs being leaked because she thinks that it’ll make gamefreak not use them in the future.

No. 424333

>>423991
Sadly BW leaks are already complete, I wish we got character concept notes for every character of every gen.

No. 424357

>>424320
I'm annoyed because of incels stealing shit and getting praise for it, I hate leaker culture and how incels worship their big incel-leaker king. There are many people who have social media channels dedicated to worshipping every word any supposed leaker says and I just find it so fucking stupid it's even a thing.

No. 424419

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Nessa was supposed to be Japanese
>>424220
>why are you expressing your opinion

No. 424421

>>424419
The amount of art twitter wars that have been fought over this character only for them to realize she isn't even black is actually sending me rn.

No. 424422

>>424419
This isn't going to change my mental perception of her but kek

No. 424453

>>424419
i don't think this is real nona. so far the leaker is still dumping XY content, anything related to the switch hasn't been uploaded yet.

No. 424455

>>424419
I assume she isn't supposed to be Japanese anymore because Kabu in the final product is the one who's from Hoenn and provides the "fanservice" for nostalgic Japanese players?

No. 424460

>>424419
>designed to evoke memories of the previous game as part of fan service, being a rare japanese person in the Galar region
>from Alola
Well they sure failed that hard, not even japanese people thought she was japanese or a reference to any older games and I've not seen anyone ever mention Alola when talking about her.
>>424421
>The amount of art twitter wars that have been fought over this character only for them to realize she isn't even black is actually sending me rn.
same nona kek though I'm still cautious and not buying anything, with so many leaks there are going to be a million people trying to make fake leaks for fun

No. 424522

File: 1729014551071.png (1.55 MB, 1406x645, 1729008992171095.png)

Is this real?

No. 424524

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this is the map of kalos from the anime for comparison

No. 424557

>>424522
>>424524
I looked it up and allegedly Game Freak considered releasing a XY sequel in the southern part of Kalos. If that's true we were fucking robbed. The south of France is the best part of the country, I wish we had the côte d'azur and the alps at the very least in the actual game.

No. 424580

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>>424419
This is fake, the leakers are still going through the 3DS and even some of the DS games. They haven't even touched Let's Go Pee.
It's all done to stir shit.
>>423777
Since early development, Gen 4/DPP was made with the relationship between humans and nature in mind, so the devs wrote a bunch of myths akin to old japanese myths to explore these themes. There is also a good chunk of "beginning of the world" types of mythos in these text files and they're all similar to japanese folktales which had plenty of animals turning into humans or even zoophilia to explain things they couldn't comprehend.

You can see a remnant of this pokémon×human love myth idea in the japanese verison of DPP where a book about legends in the game mentioned that humans and pokémon used to marry in ancient times.

No. 424591

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Those first gen 3 designs are so weird yet fascinating, they wanted to make something more "mature looking" and ended up with some nightmare fuel looking creatures

No. 424592

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>>424591
This one is cool, like out of a sci-fi manga

No. 424593

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>>424592
And this one gives me "pokemon but creepy realistic zombie romhack" vibes

No. 424594

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>>424593
And some type of DNA digital dog? Kind of reminds me of zygarde

No. 424595

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Beta gen 3 pokemon with back sprites! These are super interesting and would love to see everyone's opinions and theories

No. 424596

>>424595
>Stump

No. 424597

>>424595
>Spank

No. 424599

>>424595
I would've caught like 50 tochins, it looks so cute.

No. 424626

>>424595
Absol is supposed to look like the yin yang symbol? I feel dumb for not noticing until now but I never used one in any of my runs.

No. 424629

>>424595
For every pokemon I recognize I think the version we got in the end is better, skitty is way better than charm

No. 424648

>>424595
I find it really interesting that the blaziken x lati hybrid existed at the same time as the actual lati twins. Do you think they were meant to be a trio? Or perhaps the reason they scrapped it and reworked it into Blaziken was because it was too similar to them.

No. 424683

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Fuck zoomers
Fuck coomers
Fuck grifters
Fuck journalists
Fuck the leakers
Fuck the internet

No. 424698

>>424683
Amen to that sister

No. 424701

>>424648
It could quite simply be that they made blaziken, thought it looked cool and had the idea to make it into a legendary duo before then going on to redesign blaziken. Given that there is also a blue and yellow grovyle paired with a pokemon that looks nothing like treecko it could also be that they go "but what if it was used for this instead" a lot and put less though into evolution lines than we give them credit for.

I'm interested in other possibly implied things here, such as trapinch not being designed for the flygon line but later getting shoehorned in there as they are separate and the flyon line already has 3 pokemon in it. But we don't know the design process, it's possible they had the flygon line, didn't vibe with it and asked someone else to try their hand at the smallest evolution and they then created trapinch. Shuppet and banette are also separate.

also kek at gyarubi being another gyaru mamba inspired pokemon with brown skin that would have get them cancelled for racism like jynx nearly did

No. 424702

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>>424683
Agreed nona, and i'm adding "fuck troons" to the list for good measure

No. 424715

>>424683
>Fuck the leakers
Especially them, they ruin everything they touch, as if avoiding spoilers online weren't hard enough.

No. 424716

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>>424702
i love this pic of queen azumarill so much. the shades block out the haters

No. 424861

>>424683
I don't hate the leakers because I love looking at beta pokemon designs, but this leak is making people on the internet do very gross shit so I wish those stories were never found nor revealed

No. 424863

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I want to focus on the better parts of the leaks so I would like to share this: apparently there was a detective pikachu 3D animated short or episode that was planned back then but sadly never came to fruition. These are so freaking cute, I love detective pikachu so much

>>424595
Looking at this scratches an itch in me to go on and analyze all the possibilities of these beta pokemon but I'm not sure if anyone here would like to hear such pokemon spergery because it truly would be a lot to say

No. 424868

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>>407145
I used to hate this one too, until I played as it in Pokemon Unite, then I started to really like it actually. I'd slide all over the place not doing tons of damage or anything but being nearly invincible, as it ate berries it threw out and healed up to full health. It was always so funny to me. but now I think I'd place Greedent as one of my >>407149 "cutest ugliest Pokemon"

No. 424872

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>>424868
Cute ugly pokemon are some of my favorite lol

No. 424891

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>>424595
went full autist and rated them all compared to their obvious final versions

No. 424894

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No. 424899

>>424863
There is a detective pikachu 3D short though, Tim looks stupid in it

No. 424900

>>424595
Thanks for posting this! I was actually making something similar for the thread when the sprites dropped, but got tired midway thru. There are some I hadn't seen though, I thought we had uncovered everything.
I'm surprised at how hit or miss gen 3 is (the gen 2 leaks where amazing for the most part).
That beta Nicada is adorable, I wish they had kept the design. Also the proto Sharpedo reminds me a lot of the shark pokemon from gen1/2 (the one with an anchor as tail)

>>424894
My favorite pokemon is Lopunny/Buneary, I'm inmune.

No. 424912

>>424894
please stop bringing this up nonna I beg. it's already hard enough

No. 424928

>>424891
I've seen some pokétuber draw opossum inspired pokemon with babies on their backs acting like that was a super unique idea, so seeing that game freak already had a design like that before gen 3 is funny to me. You were 20 years too late buddy, and you're not as special as you think

No. 424930

>>424595
I love Evolot so much, it's just a tiny confused little creature.

No. 424951

File: 1729179519073.png (179.58 KB, 837x566, 21o.png)

It never ocurried to me that Marril could use her tail like this kek Our girl is prepared

No. 424973

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Nonas I'm so mad, I have been waiting for a flamingo pokemon forever and looks like gen 6 had the perfect one, based on flamenco dancers.
I can't believe gen 9, the region based on the flamenco country, finally gave us a flamingo but chose the rubber duck one instead of this queen.

No. 424975

>>424973
I love the idea of the castanet beak.

No. 424978

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>>424973
I'm legit upset

No. 424980

>>424978
Wow, I never hated this design but it seems like such a downgrade now compared to >>424973

No. 424989

>>424978
Holy shit this one its ugly its literally just a flamingo with a goatse neck

No. 425002

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>>424989
I get they were going for a balloon animal theme, but I wish they had made it more inspired at the very least. Flamingo looks super easy to make as a 3D model though, so I wonder if that's a partial reason of why they picked it, to be able to meet deadlines and all.

I have also remembered Oricorio, a flamenco-themed bird released the generation after >>424973. With that in mind, I guess Oricorio "replaced" her and they really won't add the proto flamingo to not be redundant but it's such a shame, her design is different enough in my opinion and her color palette is super pleasant.

No. 425007

>>424978
>>424973
ngl the goofy lawn decoration flamingo is a better design than whatever the fuck that trashed design is, yuck

No. 425012

>>425002
Could've made for a nice duo.

No. 425013

File: 1729193466160.gif (397.47 KB, 500x309, IMG_4622.gif)

>>424951
It happened in the anime lmao. we stan a legend

No. 425014

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>>425013
samefag but i couldn't resist posting the azu version from the tcg

No. 425021

>>425014
Ooh thanks you nonnie, when I saw that animation sheet I ran to look for Azumarill's to see of she could do that as well

No. 425037

>>424973
>>424978
I don't think the new one "replaced" the old one, they're just different takes on the same animal. Sucks that we didn't get the pretty version tho

No. 425046

>>425007
Why 'yuck'? The old flamingo is pretty and looks like a ballerina

No. 425047

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Pretty and interesting!

No. 425048

File: 1729206504222.jpg (57.5 KB, 1289x913, GaEWTJOXIAApVqe.jpg)

Look at this cutie

No. 425050

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>>425048
Evolution!

No. 425053

File: 1729206995164.gif (1.45 MB, 636x319, IMG_3701.gif)

>>425021
you're welcome anon, love to post about our blue queens

No. 425058

>>425053
banner potential but needs something else to go with it

No. 425146

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>>423295
And here he is on twitter simping for some random woman yet again. He's alienating females by always being sexist and he doesn't give a shit, honestly I think Ron's genuinely so stupid he doesn't get why admitting he clicks on sexy bait thumbnails isn't a good look for him.

No. 425147

>>425050
>>425048
They're so ugly, I don't get the hype. I really hate the peanut parts

No. 425152

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>>425046
i don't like the "bedroom eyes with lashes" look they give a bunch of random pokemon. it's weird. espathra is a cute feminine bird design without looking like it's trying to be "sexy".

No. 425155

File: 1729235736475.mp4 (231.48 KB, 362x182, azumarill vs trannies.mp4)

>>425053
>>425058
i made this
for some reason the site thinks it's a duplicate file, so here's the imgur link to save it as a gif: https://i.imgur.com/Ivb4iWi.gif

No. 425159

>>425152
i don't get what "bedroom eyes" mean? is it just squinting?

No. 425160

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>>425159
lowered lids + lashes

No. 425164

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>>425160
I guess you must really hate Florges and Tsareena lol

No. 425169

File: 1729250134380.png (1.41 MB, 2000x1080, 123346087_p0.png)

>>425164
Wait I just noticed that these two are possibly redesigns of this scrapped Gen 3 Pokemon.

No. 425171

>>425164
Nyart but while I find make-up eyes on some pokémon cute it's both funny and depressing to see coomers think they look sexy.
>>425169
>Gardevoir with boobs and thighs
Why are moids like this

No. 425180

>>425171
>Gardevoir with boobs and thighs
>Why are moids like this
As retarded as this sounds I think I prefer it when moids add features like boobs to make the creature sexy to them, over them finding a normal plain version of the creature sexy. It implies they don't actually find regular gardevoir sexy without those features and I find some comfort in that

No. 425189

File: 1729256375926.jpeg (1.02 MB, 633x1023, cb42886a7b0d803dfdd38252188398…)

Once again I forget that Florges is not part Grass

No. 425198

>>425180
Same, and I'd much rather they stick to humanoid, clearly female inspired pokemon than the actual animals. It's all disgusting, but the latter in particular deserves nothing short of a bullet.

No. 425240

>>425164
i sure do. nothing funny about it, it's actually sad to me that gamefreak made designs like that.

No. 425261

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>>425147
you're mean, he's my son and I love him

No. 425262

>>423736
I hate him, he looks like a harasser and I don't want to think about moids making him evil

No. 425264

>>425152
I just don't see it because I don't like thinking about pokemon that way, she looks smug to me and that's it. But I do agree that new bird pokemon is a cooler design because of the eyes.

No. 425265

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>>425169
I like the orchid gardevoir design a lot because of how weird she looks, reminds me of a neopet a little

No. 425280

>>425261
Sorry but it's like a less good version of breloom
>>425240
Honestly I think some of them are are cute and there's nothing sexy about them at all. "Eyelids are sexy" is just bonkers to me, it feels like a super forced meme, like how men back in the day thought showing ankles was scandalously sexy even though they really aren't

No. 425285

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Bug Meloetta…

No. 425297

>>425285
Super cute!
>>425280
I love breloom too so I've got no problem with that, both are great to me

No. 425342

>>425152
Huh i've never read espathra as female before. I just interpreted as middle eastern clothing

No. 425367

>>425280
i think you're being willfully ignorant if you think designs like tsareena aren't bait for coomers, because otherwise we'd get more "sexy masculine" pokemon.

No. 425393

File: 1729329378412.jpg (48.13 KB, 576x700, madoka-cosplay.jpg)

>>425367
Tsareena does look like bait, though I don't personally see it as sexy at all. To me it's like "oh cool she has a puffy skirt" like picrel. I think I just lack the coomer eyes, pokemon like gothitelle don't even look like bait to me it just looks like a cool goth girlie creature

No. 425404

>>425367
It is not

No. 425415

>>425367
you need a full lolcow detox

No. 425417

>>425367
Sorry nonas are beating you up for telling the truth kek.
Like >>425393 said, not all of them are coomer bait, but for Tsareena in specific she's based on queens and dominatrix.
Still, even if she's partiale made to appeal to adult men, it doesn't make it wrong of bad design. She's one of my favorite pokemon in gen 7 and think she's super cute, honestly you can look at the desings both ways.

No. 425419

>>425367
>there NEED to be more pokémon i can goon to!!!
yeah you need to log off lolcow for a year or two

No. 425426

>>423246
One of the worst designs in the series.

No. 425435

File: 1729354192518.gif (1.96 MB, 552x640, 1559794298833.gif)

Behold!

No. 425436

>>425435
I can't see this without thinking of degenerate shit because the internet ruined cute creatures

No. 425437

>>425436
I think you and a lot of others need to log off, porn has rotted your mind in a different way

No. 425438


No. 425441

>oh, a cute dog! I can't look at dogs anymore without thinking about furries and the zoosadism leaks because the internet ruined dogs, just thought you'd all like to know. we should all be hyper conscious of the fact that someone is jacking off to this innocent animal.
what the fuck is wrong with you people. you're as braindamaged as those furfags who can't look at animals without wanting to fuck them.(infight bait)

No. 425442

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>>425417
I also think tsaarena is cute, I have a soft spot for all plant based or plant mimicking pokemon as they tend to be the cutest for me

No. 425444

>>425436
The artist draws kinda sus kemono but they're clean and they mostly draw very normal pokémon doing silly animal poses…
>>425441
Hyperbole. I can get why that nona found it sus because kemono artstyle is very easy to associate with NSFW (also thanks to shit like Made in Abyss becoming mainstream).

No. 425447

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quit talking about coomshit i beg it of you

No. 425448

>>425441
It's not a dog it's a pokemon and the most sexualized one at that

No. 425449

>>425367
Kek I feel bad for people dogpiling you when it's true pokémon like Tsareena and the sex pheromones lizard are based off dominatrixes.

No. 425452

>>425448
autistic retard. stop obsessing over porn and furries and coomers and the vaporeon meme in a thread about a deteriorating childrens video game series.(infighting)

No. 425461

File: 1729360933552.png (142.81 KB, 512x512, HOME0763_s.png)

Coom discusion aside, why the fuck they thought making her skin green for the shiny was ok!?
She would've been perfect if they had only changed the leaves' colors, I shiny hunted her back when the game was new and didn't know how any of the shinies looked & I felt so scammed when my Bounsweet evolved and I was greet by hulk

No. 425464

>>425461
That looks yellow to me on this picture.

No. 425466

>>425461
are you colorblind

No. 425468

>>425461
>hulk
Anon you should probably go to an eye doctor, her skin is a pale yellow.

No. 425469

File: 1729363201623.jpg (243.41 KB, 800x700, __flygon_and_trapinch_pokemon_…)

Nonnies, what pokemon evolution lines do you think are the cutest together? I really love the Trapinch line, but I also think Frosslass and Snorunt are cute.

No. 425472

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>>425468
Just color picked and yeah it's yellow kek
But in-game it does look green-ish to me, probably the darker shadows and the purple surrounding it makes it look different to me. Color theory and all.

No. 425474

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>>425469
Mareep

No. 425477

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>>425469
Cute pink blob aliens

No. 425479

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>>425469
porygon line! i love the way it "upgrades"

No. 425481

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No. 425482

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>>425435
>>425444
sinister aura

No. 425486

>>425482
this does genuinely look like it was drawn by a pedophile

No. 425487

>>425486
no anon you're clearly a dogfucker who needs to get off the internet if you think this cute innocent picture is gross(infight bait)

No. 425491

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No. 425492

>>425491
You missed one

No. 425495

>>425492
One what?

No. 425496

>>425477
Best line ever for best pokémon ever (clefable)

No. 425505

File: 1729369939376.gif (2.75 MB, 500x500, IMG_2680.GIF)

>>425469
i'll always love the gastly line. so cute and silly

No. 425524

>>425505
Love those silly spooky mons

No. 425550

File: 1729386867371.gif (816.53 KB, 300x100, ok.gif)

>>425155
I assembled it for you but you'll have to upload it yourself to the /meta/ thread since you're the author of the idea nonna

No. 425600

>>425550
lmao thanks anon!

No. 425602

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>>425469
So fluffy!

No. 425603

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>>425469
i know a lot of people hate dragonite, and i also wish it resembled dragonair a bit more, but i really love how this line looks together and i understand it was based on a myth.

No. 425607

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>>425469
can't go wrong with the toges

No. 425656

>>425603
I don't know how people can hate dragonite at all, I love the entire line
>>425607
>>425602
also good picks! very cute pokemon

No. 425700

>>425603
I love Dragonite, I wanted to have a Dragonite friend as a kid.

No. 425779

File: 1729470536091.png (39.36 KB, 2048x1024, beta Zekrom & Reshiram.png)

I really like these beta Zekrom and Reshiram designs, though I also like the uniformity in their final designs. Whatever the version, I think these two pokémon are very well-designed and they feel like an improvement over Dialga and Palkia.

>>425146
I almost want to publicly shame this moid on Twitter. I used to watch him many years ago when his videos were actually interesting and not just clickbait. He also didn't use to show his face.

>>425417
NTA, I don't like her design for those reasons, but I respect your guys' opinion. I just think it's so tiring when people can't tell that a very specific design has coomer origins because it's too subtle for them, or they just can't identify the influences so they call you paranoid or a coomer for noticing. I like most "feminine" pokémon designs, like Florges, which I adore, it's just that Tsareena is one that has that clear fetish influence (dominatrix) so she's an exception. Plus, I don't like her long-ass legs and tiny body, it just doesn't look good to me, kek.
Moids are fucking insane, though. Coming back from /vp/ is like a night and day difference. Those scrotes see hentai everywhere, it was mentally draining reading the threads when every second post was cooming to whatever was being found in the leaks.

>>425189
OMG she's not?? I also thought Gardevoir was part Grass when I was little, because it's partially green and looks like an onion. kek

No. 425784

Tsareena's only good for Z-Splash, without it I don't care for it (coomer design or not)
Steenee is cuter anyway.

No. 425801

File: 1729473407121.jpg (19.95 KB, 360x202, beta Kyurem.jpg)

>>425779
Here's beta Kyurem, too.
I'll be honest, I don't like it. I prefer the color palette and dinosaur-like shape of the final design.

>>424594
I have seen the files containing these pictures, and the blue dog monster is actually called "サイコ犬", or "psycho-dog". So it was probably meant to be Psychic-type. There was actually going to be a sprite for it, too. I've seen a pic of an unfinished psychodog sprite but I didn't save it, sorry.

No. 425804

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>>425801
Here's the dog, it's lumped with Ralts scratchpad sprite for some reason. These were found with the ORAS leaks.

No. 425806

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>>425804
Oh right, thanks. I didn't see it in the RSE folder and forgot about the old material found in the ORAS folder (that shit is huge).
Speaking of ORAS, we will probably never get to see these but for the more important characters. These were in the ORAS leaks because they were sent as reference to a third party for the outsourced overworld models. The bigger characters (except for Zinnia) weren't outsourced, so there were no model sheets of them there. The officially released concept art is all we're ever getting. I'm sad, because these are so fucking cute.

No. 425807

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No. 425811

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>>425807
This might be my favorite thing from these reference sheets… Somebody said "this is how Diamond Dogs is run" kek

No. 425847

>>425811
Is this pic from a leak?

No. 425856

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No. 425866

>>425779
>I almost want to publicly shame this moid on Twitter.
God nona I wish you (or someone) would! Me and my pokemon fan friends always screenshot his shit and send to each other to these days to roll our eyes at him. It's gone so far even my male friends have joined in to make fun of his down bad incel ways kek

No. 425868

>>425779
>or they just can't identify the influences so they call you paranoid or a coomer for noticing. I like most "feminine" pokémon designs, like Florges, which I adore, it's just that Tsareena is one that has that clear fetish influence (dominatrix) so she's an exception.
I'm >>425393 and I just wanted to say I didn't mean me lacking the "coomer eyes" meant that I think you nonas have that and are coomers. I'm glad someone can tell me when something is sus (at least potentially so) because while I can't see it I know it could still be there! But I can for example see that Poppy is obvious pedo/loli bait because I've seen what lolicons are into and that she is exactly it, but I know there are still other anons here who argue against that and says she's just a child character. If I was still a child I would have thought she's just another child character too, I had to learn about lolis to find out. I like to think most people aren't terminally online to know about lolis and that most people really do see her innocently, same with potential coomer pokemon.

I never thought of tsareena as having dominatrix traits, but maybe you're right. I don't mind the design but I think steenee is 100 times better so I never evolved mine anyway.

No. 425870

>>425868
>Poppy is obvious pedo/loli bait because I've seen what lolicons are into and that she is exactly it
She looks like a BABY! What other “loli” characters do you know of that looks like a baby too?
Anya does not count.

No. 425875

File: 1729499586321.jpg (13.86 KB, 318x184, Matt desc.jpg)

>>425856
Also, Matt might be a foreigner (Brazilian?), which would explain his massive stature.

>>425868
Yeah don't worry, I wasn't saying that because of you.
>Poppy
Honestly, I'm not sure about that one, I only know her a little from Pokémon Masters and I think she might have a certain vibe, but I couldn't say for sure, she does remind me of Tezuka-style characters, though. I think I'm just weirded out by child characters that act too old for their age in general, especially "genius"-type little girls, but I don't think this necessarily means they're bait. Ultimately, in cases like those, we won't know until we see actual behind-the-scenes proof, otherwise it's hard to believe, since the implications would be so fucked up that it seems unlikely.
But Tsareena was always obvious to me because of the legs that resemble those boots dominatrixes wear, and her signature move being Trop Kick. And I just found out that she evolves when Steenee (which btw is definitely cuter) levels up while knowing Stomp, kek. There's too much emphasis on it stomping and kicking with its massive legs that resemble BDSM boots for it to not be a direct reference.
>its moveset includes moves such as Punishment and Power Whip
Uhh yeah. WTF Game Freak.

No. 425878

File: 1729500732182.jpg (64.02 KB, 564x564, pika.jpg)

>>425469
The pikachu line is honestly perfection, they're all cute designs! I get a little upset when alolan raichu isn't included in the family, it should always be there too!
>>425870
damn i wish i was this innocent, must be nice

No. 425880

>>425875
I can't stress enough how much I hate that pokemon characters have "canon" nationalities because it doesn't fucking make sense when the countries don't exist (there is no France there is only Kalos etc) and all it does is limit the character and create more racial friction irl. Imagine being thrilled you as a dark skinned person of african origins get to cosplay someone as cool and pretty as Nessa accurately only for them to go "she's actually Indian, you racist". You can have a region inspired by a country without treating it as a real country!

No. 425882

>>425880
I get what you're saying, but that's more the fault of people in western fandom caring way too much about "racial accuracy" when people just want to cosplay characters they like. This didn't use to be such a huge issue in the past, people could cosplay any character of any race without the whole fandom trying to bully them off the internet, for the most part.
I don't think they use real nationality names in a literal sense. It's more like "this character probably comes from a Pokémon region that's the equivalent of this real-life country", and they leave it ambiguous so the character isn't locked into a specific real nationality. I remember how people used to think Brock from the anime was black because he had darker skin, lol. The nationalities are only there as reference for the character's design, I think, and shouldn't be taken at face value because whatever cultural traits they have will be Pokémonified, anyway.

No. 425889

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>>425880
Raihan is black and idgaf what anyone says

No. 425892

File: 1729504021515.png (1.73 MB, 1353x1348, __gardevoir_kirlia_gallade_and…)

>>425469
The Ralts line is super cute like a little family with mom, pops and their kids. I love them so much.

No. 425893

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>>425882
Brock is also black and idgaf what anyone says

No. 425899

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>>407149
My favorite pokémon is Hydreigon because it's Dark-type (my favorite) and I love its color scheme. It's such a cool and badass pokémon, but also ugly and scary. It's not designed to be cute, but I can't help finding its face, short legs and lack of teeth adorable.

>>407145
I don't think it's ugly because it's fat, I mean, it's just an animal. I love this color palette because it reminds me of chocolate and makes me wanna eat it.

>>425893
Lmao nonna

No. 425907

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>>425889
>>425893
>Trans women are real women and idgaf what anyone says

No. 425911

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I wish Game Freak could release an artbook, I have been saving all the concept art I'm finding over Twitter (went to /vp/ the first day of leaks nd never again) and it's all so pretty. A shame they don't want the public to see them for whatever reason.

>>425907
What else you want people to call black characters, if they have black skin they're black. Skin and nationality are different, though I'm not from the US so I might see it differently.

No. 425912

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No. 425913

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>>425911
Last one to not spam the thread, I just wanted to share my favorites.

No. 425916

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>>425911
Not sure why they won't release art like what you posted, but for character/pokémon concepts, the answer is that they might reuse unused concepts, even really old ones, in newer games, so they can't go around showing people that. It's actually a shame that these pokémon designs were leaked, because I would've loved seeing them recycled later.
>went to /vp/ the first day of leaks nd never again
Kek, same. I do admit that I missed the stupid (non-coomer) memes, though.
>What else you want people to call black characters, if they have black skin they're black.
NTAYRT, but no one has literal black skin, we have different shades of brown, from dark to light. "Black" refers specifically to people of African descent that have certain physical features, on top of being dark-skinned, such as kinky hair, so having dark skin doesn't automatically make you a black person. But yeah, you can be any nationality. However, Brock lives in a Pokémon equivalent of Japan, so he's very unlikely to be black, and more likely to just be a darker-skinned pseudo-Asian person.

Not that I'm telling you to kill your headcanons, kek. It's not a big deal, don't let me stop you.

No. 425917

File: 1729512932944.png (3.54 MB, 4008x2480, 美しいピカチュウ色変更削除.png)

Here's a reference sheet for Pikachu Belle.

No. 425918

File: 1729513309237.jpg (2.24 MB, 5358x3682, めざめのほこらさいしんぶver.S.jpg)

>>425913
Groudon's version of this concept art has a far grander scale than Kyogre's.

No. 425920

>>425916
Oh it isn't a headcanon or anything, it just confused me. If someone has darker skin they're black and that's all, we don't put much thought on it.

No. 425936

>>425918
Yeah, I like Kyogre's art a lot as well, but the textures and pinks on Groudon's are like Cocomelon for my eyes kek

No. 425937

File: 1729522621596.jpg (291.62 KB, 1603x2048, 10636b34ff8995022349f119d950b9…)

>>425917
So cute!
wrong tail color though

No. 425938

>>425913
You can share more later nonna

No. 425941

File: 1729523758444.jpg (40.14 KB, 554x554, images-1.jpg)

>>425878
I love the pikachu line and all the pikaclones sorry for the incomplete picture

No. 425944

File: 1729524066255.gif (296.84 KB, 244x214, shocking-beyonce.gif)

My sincere reaction when I learnt that Lenora was supposed to be based off Beyonce

No. 425955

File: 1729529253556.jpg (1.08 MB, 1750x1226, __lenora_watchog_and_herdier_p…)

>>425944
I love Lenora tbh

No. 425990

File: 1729538284448.png (503.58 KB, 1400x700, Brock-Pokemon-Series.png)

>>425907
You're retarded

No. 426011

File: 1729543559767.png (243.38 KB, 269x539, RB_Brock.png)


No. 426012

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>>425990
You're smart

No. 426013

>>425916
>However, Brock lives in a Pokémon equivalent of Japan, so he's very unlikely to be black, and more likely to just be a darker-skinned pseudo-Asian person.
Brock is as pale as everyone else in the games and the more recent adaptations, he's only tan in the first anime and everyone forgets that until someone else tells them. And I'm including myself in here, how he looks in the anime is so famous I think we all managed to convince ourselves that he looks like a mix of both his designs for the anime and his designs from the games.

No. 426021

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No. 426022

>>426021
I wish more games like illbleed was a thing

No. 426088

File: 1729554778252.jpg (55.99 KB, 640x359, mmkj.jpg)

>>425941
i know mimikyu's status as a pikaclone is debated but i love when she gets included

No. 426098

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>>426088
same, mimikyu and marill are some of the cutest pikaclones even if they're not always included

No. 426108

>>426088
this picture is so goddamn funy

No. 426129

>>426088
It looks like she's taking the pikachus somewhere to die lol

No. 426130

File: 1729570445112.jpg (133.91 KB, 600x900, tumblr_09b46ba54e9e42bb61dade1…)

Who is your favorite pokemon fanartist? Mine is manuhamu… there are many like them but their art really calls to mind the first time I got online and swept away by all the fanart I saw. Their work has such an immersive feel to it.

No. 426143

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>>425469
Them. They're so adorable! You got cute little bee fly and cute autumn bee fairy.

No. 426146

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>>426130
Wow, this artist sure knows how to create an immersive atmosphere with colors and lighting, even though this piece looks unfinished upon closer inspection. I feel like I'm on Route 119 when I look at it.
>Who is your favorite pokemon fanartist?
It's gotta be jaho/_mmmauu. I discovered her(?) art when I was the most actively playing Pokémon, during the ORAS era. I like her flat coloring, the simple artstyle that vaguely resembles official art, and that kinda three-dimensional look. She draws a lot of funny scenes and cute things, but sometimes she goes for something more serious and detailed.
This pic in particular is one of my favorite pieces of Pokémon fanart ever.

>>426013
>Brock is as pale as everyone else in the games and the more recent adaptations,
I was going to mention that he's got a lighter skin tone in the games (not exactly as pale as everyone else, he's a bit tan), but felt it was unnecessary to say something so obvious, lol.

No. 426154

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>>426130
There are tons of Pokemon artists I like though bluekomadori comes into mind. I love their colors, vibes and how expressive the Pokemon are.

No. 426162

File: 1729587537172.jpg (1.71 MB, 4168x3140, ヒョウタ・ラフ.jpg)

I was about to post this with the word "hot", but then I found his age in the character settings document for DP, and it says he's 15. No fucking way, there's no goddamn way he's 15. Kek, there are so many characters that I thought were young adults but in reality are supposed to be super young. Roxanne is another example, I thought she was supposed to be a teacher since she acts like one, I can't believe she's meant to be 14. I think Phoebe's 14, too.

No. 426163

File: 1729587568648.png (873.2 KB, 1663x1237, shirona rafu.png)

Also, in case any Cynthia fans here were curious, she's 28.

No. 426170

>>426162
I also thought he was like, a young adult kek he was my one and only poke husbando back when I was a teen. Where are the appropriate child labor laws in the Sinnoh region when you need them, this guy keeps working at a mine all day everyday and I'm concerned

No. 426173

>>426170
I might be a hypocrite but I refuse to accept that age, at least in my mind. So I'll keep pretending he's in his 20s while treating other character's descriptions as gospel, kek.

Anyway, I'm reading Pokémon Masters documents, it's interesting how much attention they pay to the players' online trends, there's screenshots of various Japanese fanartists sharing their art on Twitter. Looking at these confidential files feels so blasphemous, especially with the "CONFIDENTIAL" label in red letters.

No. 426175

>>426162
kek I still think he looks too much like silver
same hair even but with shorter bangs and no ahoge

No. 426198

Can anyone suggest which 3ds pokemon game I should start with? I really want to get into the games, but I’m not sure which one I should put onto my 3ds

No. 426206

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>>426198
XY if you care about character customization.

ORAS or Sun/Moon if you want to play the standard pokemon game. Sun/Moon has the better difficulty because there's tricks they do during totem pokemon. But be warned that Sun/Moon has a long ass tutorial.

But if you homebrewed your 3ds, you can always do the hardmode mods they have.

No. 426214

>>426173
>I'm reading Pokémon Masters documents, it's interesting how much attention they pay to the players' online trends, there's screenshots of various Japanese fanartists sharing their art on Twitter.
Oh please share a few or a link if you have one! I'm super interested in this
>Looking at these confidential files feels so blasphemous, especially with the "CONFIDENTIAL" label in red letters.
Kek, same. Whenever I see it I feel bad for them somehow. "Confidential? Welp not anymore".

No. 426215

>>426206
I second ORAS and sun/moon since they feel more interesting to me than xy

No. 426232

File: 1729616980609.jpg (5.78 MB, 6429x6429, 1b1ad062c086e11d98335fd01f4997…)

>>426198
Play Pokémon Super Mystery Dungeon. I never played this one but I did play Explorers of Sky and it was better than the main games in every single way it's not even close.

No. 426246

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Anyone else think Zelda Echoes could had been a great Pokemon Ranger game?

No. 426266

File: 1729623222846.mp4 (1.15 MB, 674x1000, __wooloo_cutiefly_growlithe_ma…)

>>426130
@oshiruko_s2
Their animated art is beautiful and comfy

No. 426286

>>426266
She looks so much like Elsie…

No. 426313

File: 1729626697071.png (507.42 KB, 800x1569, 800px-HeartGold_SoulSilver_Mor…)

>>426162
picrel is the correct pokemon husbando choice

No. 426316

>>426266
this should be a banner

No. 426332

>>426232
Super has a kinda boring/slow start of game, but back when I played it I enjoyed the story lots overall. It's childish but not in a bad way, I find Rescue/explorers better, but Super is a good choice as well.

No. 426432

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>>421133
Mimicute!

No. 426434

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>>426432
shes such a cutie

No. 426444

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>>426313
Morty is so fine

No. 426471

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>>426175
Even more sus is that they have the same hair in the same generation. Ariana, and even Sabrina, also got a similar hairstyle change in HGSS. Clearly, someone in the character design department back then took a liking to that kind of hairstyle, kek.
And speaking of which, I've always loved this meme chart.

>>426214
>Oh please share a few or a link if you have one! I'm super interested in this
Sure, gimme a sec.
>"Confidential? Welp not anymore".
Yes, not only do I feel bad, but I'm not even sure if it's legal for me to be looking at them, so it makes me uneasy.

No. 426473

File: 1729675644035.png (952.38 KB, 1080x644, poma slide translated.png)

>>426214
Here's a slide about player's reactions on different forums. This presentation is from October 2019.

Shittily translated by Google Translate OCR.

No. 426474

File: 1729675694678.png (1.04 MB, 1080x644, poma slide.png)

>>426473
Original

No. 426475

File: 1729675957904.png (1.07 MB, 1223x723, poma slide 2 translated.png)

>>426474
Another slide from the same presentation. I tried to find the Siebold & Clauncher tweet but no luck, the artist is gone from Twitter.

No. 426476

File: 1729675996581.png (1.02 MB, 1223x723, poma slide 2.png)

>>426475
The translation on this one was pretty bad, kek.

No. 426478

>>426473
They check imageboards too? Oh lord…

No. 426480

File: 1729676495574.png (1.07 MB, 1207x695, poma slide 3 translated.png)

>>426476
This slide goes before the one I named "2". I didn't screenshot them in order, so apologies for that.

>>426478
Kek I know, I wonder if they also visit 4chan or if it's deemed "too niche in the west".

No. 426481

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No. 426482

File: 1729677391067.png (354.47 KB, 1078x681, poma slide 4 translated.png)

>>426481
This slide goes after the ones I've posted. Although I started playing in late 2022, it always seemed to me like multiplayer was initially the focus, but it failed to interest players, so they stopped bothering with those features, lmao. I guess my suspicions have been confirmed, but I didn't expect multiplayer to have failed so early on.
What's weird to me is that, even at this point, there are still some newly added characters (namely Lenora, and maybe some others) that have co-op-focused abilities and moves. I like the idea of co-op, it just wasn't executed well, so I hope they're planning to improve it and make it more engaging.

No. 426483

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No. 426529

>>426473
Interesting how they use 5ch but not 4chan for their research, but it's pretty understandable as to why they would pick reddit instead since that's way more reachable and has less junk than your average 4chan thread

No. 426550

>>426162
>Roxanne is another example, I thought she was supposed to be a teacher since she acts like one, I can't believe she's meant to be 14. I think Phoebe's 14, too.
what the fucking fuck

No. 426557

>>426550
Japanese media is so retarded when chosing an age for their characters. I'm now wondering if characters like Roark was supposed to be 15 in the original description but later on they changed it, because he still looks like a young adult to me in his design

No. 426558

>>426557
as a culture they fetishize youth even more than america. if you're 20+ you're ancient. then again, i guess they think the children playing the game need to see their "peers" instead of people with normal ages for their professions. i miss when the gym leaders/important people were all obviously adults.

No. 426559

>>426558
>i miss when the gym leaders/important people were all obviously adults.
I agree, or at least I always assumed they were older than 18

No. 426570

>>426557
>>426558
You two are forgetting that Pokemon is for kids first and that many Japanese companies assume that kids and teenagers don't like adult characters all that much in the first place and prefer teenage characters. But this isn't unique to Japan, it's related to the target audience's age first. It's not deeper than that.

No. 426571

>>426570
i am not forgetting that. i literally wrote it in my post that you replied to.

No. 426576

>>426570
i agree but why make 12-15 year old teenagers and young adults look similar kek that's why people get so confused. Maybe sugimori and the others are just shit artists

No. 426582

File: 1729724520411.gif (169 KB, 220x180, IMG_4625.gif)

i just want pokemon-amie back

No. 426590

>>426559
Wasn't Misty 12?

No. 426601

File: 1729732283844.png (58.09 KB, 183x249, 183px-Lets_Go_Pikachu_Eevee_Ag…)

The only acceptable age for a pokemon gym leader or elite four is 60+

No. 426610

File: 1729738605236.png (61.82 KB, 162x389, Diamond_Pearl_Bertha.png)

>>426601
This

>>426582
Amie-like features are gone? I haven't played Gens 8 or 9. I don't get why more Switch games don't make full use of its touch capabilities.

No. 426611

>>426610
there's some features where you can cook for your pokes but you can't really pet and groom the like you did in amie. i miss it, it made me rly feel like the pokes in my team were my companions

No. 426656

File: 1729758564893.png (41.55 KB, 250x152, 250px-Grondogue-EV.png)

Why on earth did they give this pkm such a sad, miserable face and a crooked neck? It looks like a poor stray dog that got hit by a car and is barely clinging to life. I want to cry every time I see it

No. 426682

>>426198
Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon, they’re my favourite of the 3d games.

No. 426684

>>426656
it's fugly and I hte it but it captures what they wanted to; a cartoon dog trying to look scary but failing because it looks funny instead

No. 426685

>>426557
>Japanese media is so retarded when chosing an age for their characters.
They really are. They should just never decide on ages and let the players imagine it instead, that's the smart way to do it. That way an 8 year old can see them as big 12 year olds, a 15 year old can see them as mature 18 year olds and adults can still see them as young adults. That's frankly how it's always been judging from people's reactions to seeing the ages so they should just scrap having exact ages

No. 426735

>>426685
Seeing they don't really mention characters' ages in any material outside these sheets, I think it's safe to assume they will continue "letting" the player choose the ages. These exact numbers might just be for reference/inspo the same way those descriptors for characters' designs are.

No. 426741

>>426685
Japanese media never gets weight, age or height right. Characters that look and behave like young adults are always somewhere between 10-17, it really doesn't make sense when you see a very muscular guy with a job and it turns out he's a high schooler or something. Then again they also take a very young looking character and turn them into an immortal vampire over 100 years old, so retarded.

No. 426742

>>426735
Sometimes they'll reference ages found in the docs (Thorton saying he's a teenager in Masters) and other times they'll change it (Caitlin being described as looking 14 in an interview with Sugimori instead of 17) so I just kind of take it as cautiously canon until staff or games change that information
That goes for other minor details too
idk I never quite got the backlash for some characters ages in the documents either way, having lots of teens in higher career positions than the characters make sense since the player NPC is usually younger (XY being the exception) and it's a kids game so it's still kinda weird to be drawing porn of them regardless

No. 426789

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>>426685
also, idk about the anime nowadays but nobody sounded like a child in the original dub except for ash. jesse and james are supposed to be like, 15? i thought they were at least in their late 20s as a kid.

No. 426823

Interesting video, specially the "most disliked" ones

No. 426827

File: 1729804877771.jpg (828.24 KB, 1200x1000, 118987997_p14.jpg)

cutie hedgehog

No. 426835

File: 1729805679034.png (197.25 KB, 708x1432, poke.png)

>>426823
Here's the full list
http://thomasgamedocs.com/pokemon/
How did your favorite rank?

No. 426837

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No. 426840

>>426835
Espeon and Chandelure scored high which is great, but ngl I'm sad about Purugly's placement kek. I have a soft spot for her.

No. 426899

File: 1729823979115.png (10.83 KB, 1127x120, praying.png)

>>426835
Stay strong Corsola

No. 426901

File: 1729824528579.png (16.65 KB, 710x141, jirachi.png)

>>426835
not so bad

No. 426903

>>426835
>Underrated favorite in top 100
Bless

No. 426904

File: 1729825436359.jpeg (66.96 KB, 828x324, IMG_5832.jpeg)

>>426835
uncultured swine putting our girls in 180th position smh

No. 426914

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>>426903
which one
>>426827
cute

No. 426915

>>426835
Most of my favorites are in the top 200, the lowest is in the 800s.

>>426835
The only one here I'm disappointed about is Smoochum.

No. 426916

File: 1729830640734.jpeg (48.75 KB, 1125x245, 8BC4E77E-5730-4D25-A6BA-FB0849…)

>>426835
Ranked the lowest of its evolutionary line

No. 426957

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>>426835
this shocks me and makes me think the list is fairly biased. charizard is consistently among the most popular and that's why it gets so much damn fanservice in the games and anime. i don't particularly care about charizard, but the fact that it was beaten out by the other two starters is weird. charizard being beaten by fucking primarina is straight up bizarre.

idk, it seems more like a list of "most popular pokemon among my particular viewership"

No. 426959

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>>426835
shenanigans

No. 426984

>>426904
Considering there are over 1k Pokemon, I would say top 10% is a pretty good position!

>>426957
>most popular pokemon among my particular viewership
Unless Gamefreak makes an official poll (which they do, but only in Japan and with retarded entry methods, so they always get so little participants) that will always be the case unafortunely. He says he got 1.6 million votes though, so I guess the list might be accurate for a handful of pokemon at least.

No. 427036

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No. 427039

>>426957
Tbh it makes sense why Umbreon and Lucario are higher than Charizard, Charizard feels like a pokemon normies like while Lucario and Umbreon are seen everywhere on the internet

No. 427041

>>427036
From all the cute sprigatito art out there you chose a very ugly one

No. 427046

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No. 427049

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>>426835
Didn't expect it that high

No. 427123

>>427046
why are you okay with this torture

No. 427127

File: 1729884938668.gif (3.43 MB, 400x290, IMG_5834.gif)

i love mimikyu's new jiangshi costume

No. 427130

>>427039
yeah i guess it's the "popular among the terminally online" pokemon list rather than a general popularity poll

No. 427183

>>426789
they are not supposed to be 15, they are supposed to be 25 kek.

No. 427185

>>426471
kek I have this stupid schizo au in my head that Ariana is the mother of Roark (one night stand with Byron) Mars (she bailed out the kid on her father that's why she rebeled and joined team galactic) and Silver (babytrapped Giovanni in order to guarantee her high rank in Team Rocket)

No. 427204

File: 1729916157052.jpg (32.33 KB, 959x244, whyareyoufriendswithafatguy.jp…)

>>427185
LMAOO anon, thanks for making my night, kek
Have a funny pic in return

No. 427227

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>>427183
i just googled this wondering why i and so many other people thought they were 15. i think this is not only the fault of popular tumblr posts of yore but also the fact that most people are shocked to learn usagi is 15 when we thought the sailor scouts were at least 18 as kids, and most people watched pokemon AND sailor moon at that age

No. 427267

>>427227
If everyone in the pokemon games, manga and anime actually acted their ages the show would suck so hard. None of them come across as realistic for their supposed age. I think that just like how previously pokemon sizes meant that some pokemon like charizard were actually way too small for a human to ride on, they retconned it so that in the anime and now the games the pokemon have a lot of different sizes (and alphas) making it possible to ride it "officially".
The ages don't matter, even if they write an age on paper they instead are what they act since they aren't real people. Same with those 100 year old loli characters; that's a kid. Liking it for coom makes you a pedo and not an old person fetishizer. If Roxanne looks like an adult, and runs a school as her adult job, and all the kids at the school look younger than her… then she's an adult character.

And idk if this is controversial, but if it's just on a paper and not in the games it's not official to begin with, just like how the beta mons aren't official pokemon.

No. 427281

File: 1729942915865.jpg (164.13 KB, 1280x676, scaleworld.jpg)

>>427204
KEKKK. this was funny, this person is all of us in lolcow. Glad I could make you laugh anon! Do you have any schizo aus in your head relating to characters? I also have this one that Surge is the father of Elesa and Volkner. I like imagining them as an electric family. And I love how in picrel shows how they are the only ones (other than Raihan) above 1,85m (6'1) so I'm like… validated kek

>>427267
I don't think ages matter when talking about fictional characters at all, unless the character is obivoulsy a child. Literally there's no difference in apperance between a 16yo Roxanne and a 19yo Roxanne, so people shouldn't feel bad for feeling attracted to a character who would be a minor according to some documents that shouldn't have been leaked. It's stupid that this even needs to be said, but I guess it's the fandom times we are living now oh well. You can pry my ship of Flannery and Winona out of my cold dead hands.

No. 427285

>>427227
>>427183
>>427281
>>427267
I questioned everything as a kid when I learned this, and also when I discovered that N was supposed to be in his twenties kek. It feels like he and Team Rocket should switch ages.

No. 427287

>>427281
I love schizo fan theories kek. I like the one where Sinnoh's grass type gym leader either poisoned her family in the haunted chateau, or is the only one who survived.

No. 427305

>>427285
N is 20 and the rockets are 25 wdym anon

No. 427354

>>427267
To be fair, many of the ages in the ORAS document had already been established since RSE. IDK about other games.
But I don't wanna believe Wallace is 32, tbh.

No. 427395

File: 1729979877629.png (568.73 KB, 944x1280, latest-2665893592.png)

>>427354
No way this guy isn't older than 28 max

No. 427396

>>427395
God that outfit is hot

No. 427397

>>427396
NTA but I've always thought they ruined him with this design. It's so retarded.

No. 427401

>>427396
shit taste

No. 427403


No. 427421

>>427395
i agree with nonny this is hot

No. 427424

File: 1729983932044.png (7.76 KB, 200x200, cowgirl-gen4png.png)

If you were in the Pokémon world, which trainer class would you be?
Pic-rel doesn't count, be more creative.

No. 427435

File: 1729986533561.png (25.88 KB, 256x256, IMG_5855.png)

>>427424
hex maniac bc ghost type best type

No. 427436

File: 1729986936897.png (243.18 KB, 412x232, Aroma_Lady_anime.png)

>>427424
if i could be whatever i wanted i'd pick an aroma lady! i'd love to have my own flower / herb shop in the pokemon world

No. 427444

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>>427424
Whenever I play Pokémon Showdown, I set my trainer to picrel. I just love the idea of kooky old ladies collecting ghost Pokémon. Apparently they're based off of a particular trope in Japan of blind old ladies being mediums.

No. 427454

>>427424
I'd be a psychic, because they get to have actual psychic powers as humans too kek

No. 427456

>>427354
Wallace is 32?! How old is Winona then, iirc it's canon that they used to date

No. 427486

>>427456
Winona is 16 in the documents regarding the anime. They dated in The manga. Different versions of The charcaters.

No. 427487

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>>427424
Either a hex maniac or an ace trainer.

No. 427668

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>>427424
Furisode girl because fairy type. Or maybe a Smasher.

No. 427688

>>427486
The manga is incorrect. I refuse to believe that Wallace is straight.

No. 427695

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>>427424
I'd be a wannabe Delinquent. My fav type is Dark and I like badass ladies so I wanna be cool like them. That, or a female Super Nerd. I wish there was a creepy female nerd trainer class other than Hex Maniac.

>>427403
After some consideration, I now see what other nonnies find hot about that Wallace. I hadn't noticed the hip area.

>>427456
I think the other anons were right, the documents probably aren't meant to be followed to the T. Archie's concept art says he's 1.75m tall, but the doc says 1.76. It's not very precise.

No. 427735

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>>427424
I always loved the R/S hex maniac

No. 427785

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>>427424
I would be a swimmer! Specifically in Alola where the water would be warmer.

No. 428024

We just keep winning, kek

No. 428029

>>428024
I'm happy for the fans kek even though I don't understand the appeal and would like to understand what people see in them

No. 428035

>>428029
I don't like them that much but I'd totally pull Emmet because I love Eelektross…

No. 428036

>>428024
Literally Raidou and Raido as kawaii tumblr sexymen

No. 428038

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>>427424
gen 3 hex maniac, cute design.

No. 428039

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This is gonna sound retarded but is anyone else struggling with seemingly being the only one "just" liking characters? I love pokemon characters a lot but never have any of them been a husbando/waifu or coom material for me.
It just feels so awkward when I go "I really love N" and someone goes "me too!" and I think we're going to bond but what she meant was "N is my husbando and I regularly commission self-insert porn of us together as a couple" or "he's my favorite uke, I enjoy him being fucked by Alder the most". It feels like I'm the only one stuck in a child's brain unable to see pokemon as a source of coom (not that I want to, I just feel left out) idk it just feels weird and alienating

No. 428042

>>428039
I get what you mean, I don't get it with Pokémon in particular but I have many characters I feel that way for.

No. 428048

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>>428029
two of them

No. 428049

>>428039
I think many think a character is hot but don't like them as a character at least, enough to talk about them on that alone. Maybe being specific like that might help.

No. 428051

>>428039
You're part of the majority, it's just that huge fans of specific characters will obviously talk or post about them a lot more than the average pokemon fan who just enjoy seeing these characters on screen. If you have a casual conversation irl or online with other pokemon fans they're more likely to just tell you "I love N too, he's my favorite character in the games, I like his design/battles against him/development in the story/etc." but how likely is it that this topic will even come up in the first place? Compared to when a huge fangirl will create fan accounts online just for him, will cosplay him during anime conventions, tag her posts about him, and will be easier to find.

This is making me think about how popular the franchise is, and how that makes finding normal fans a lot easier than with other video games I like. All I do online is like cute pictures of girls putting their pokemon plushies next to their food and drinks and fanart the humans and pokemon doing normal things on social media. I don't even play online anymore because SV is a broken piece of shit and Game Freak can't code to save their life.

No. 428054

>>428051
no, the majority of pokemon fans are not so attached to the human characters that they husbando/waifu them. the majority just want to catch and battle with creatures.

No. 428055

>>428054
Yes, that's what I said, or at least what I meant. People do get attached to some of the human characters though, just not as much as they get attached to the pokemon.

No. 428090

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>>428054
That is so obviously not true and GF knows that, they even said in the leaks that they focus more on the human characters. Why else do you think Mastersex exists?

No. 428093

>>428090
pokemon go has more active players in 2024, almost 10 years past release, than pokemon masters ex has total downloads in its first month

No. 428117

>>428090
masters ex is one spinoff game… most of the games incl. spinoffs focus on the critters, sometimes exclusively (like the snap or mystery dungeon series). humans don't play much of a role in UNITE or pogo and they're way more popular than masters EX

No. 428148

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>>428051
>You're part of the majority
I hope that's true, it would make me feel better. I still just can't seem to find any normal fan who cares about the characters without it being for their coom. I have friends who think they care, but every time I bring something up it just goes back to their favorite yaoi ship and it's clear nothing else matters to them. It's so pathetic that the most engaging conversation I've had about it in years was with an 11 year old girl who hadn't hit puberty yet and just thought the characters were fun the same way I do. She was a cool kid though kek

No. 428206

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>>386579
>>386626
[Sad News] Balding Ingo concept was real

No. 428248

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>>428206
how…how tf

No. 428251

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we

No. 428253

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were

No. 428256

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ROBBED!!

No. 428257

>>427227
In the manga maybe I could believe but in the show I really don't care what anyone says, they are adults and drawn like adults kek and that joke was obviously there to imply they really shouldn't be driving heavy machinery

No. 428264

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No. 428266

>>428256
My honest opinion is that 90% of fakemons are better than the beta pokemon so I don't feel like we missed out

No. 428267

>>428264
Literally just keep it purple and it wouldn't be a problem

No. 428275

>>428264
I don't have the pic at hand, but the design was posted awhile back and it was pretty bad, so isn't like we missed out much. I hope they give her another form pr evolution someday though.

No. 428282

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>>428275
Found it again and I don't really see it honestly, she just looks like an opera singer with rocker glasses. Maybe toning down her lip size would've helped, but I still find it a stretch.

No. 428291

>>428282
She’s giving Jennifer Coolidge.
Makes me want an ice cream real bad…

No. 428296

>>428282
That's boring as fuck. There's so much you could do with jynx to expand on the concept, and all they did is give her a new dress and sunglasses. No wonder it was cut.

No. 428305

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>>428296
Not all megas were heavy-hitters, let's be honest.

No. 428307

>>428206
Holy shit, where was this found?? I missed it.

>>428039
Although I do find some of them hot, I like a lot of characters that aren't my husbando, he's the only exception in a normal way. I don't even ship anyone, I'm incapable of imagining ships between them for some reason. Maybe they're just so paper-thin as characters that there's nothing to work with. They were never the main focus of the main games.
I also like the pokémon themselves.
You'd probably have more luck finding normal non-coomer non-husbandofag fans if you looked for people who talk about the games in general and not just the character.
Also, the internet now is incredibly pornsick, so older fans are more prone to talk about coom than anything else.

>>428090
What other nonas said, Masters is just one of the many spin-offs, and it's not the most popular by a long shot.

No. 428308

>>428282
Fat Elsa

No. 428337

>>428305
fuck off, mega manectric is so cute

No. 428344

>>428282
Love this fatty

No. 428358

>>428251
>>428253
>>428256
very cute fanart nonna

No. 428359

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Depressing really

No. 428361

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The original gym leaders based on the description that Gamefreak previously gave them

No. 428362

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Mimikyu without her costume i love her

No. 428365

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I've spent years not getting the SubMas insanity but I kinda get it now…
It helps they have a lot of sexy fanart though kek

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No. 428368

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>>428365
YOU are not safe from TRAIN AUTISM

No. 428369

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>>428206
good thing fanartists don't care

No. 428372

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>>428362
omggg she looks so sad poor bb

No. 428375

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>>428206
I think their big forehead is very cute though! Reminds me of Taisho era haircuts…

No. 428376

>>428372
I feel sad for her, she just needs a hug

No. 428387

>>428361
The elemental monkey gym leaders are so much cuter as little kids running a restaurant.

No. 428405

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Who's your favorite?
Mine is Emmet ♥

No. 428406

>>428359
I wonder why the peanut one was removed. I had assumed it was because it's similar to Breelom, but the text (not on yours, the original) say it's because ot looks like a character from another franchise, but unlike the trex they didn't mention which one.
I want to see the little peanut dinosaur lookalike…

No. 428415

>>428305
>Not all megas were heavy-hitters, let's be honest.
If anything I think most megas are ugly. Only a few are ok.

No. 428416

>>428307
>Also, the internet now is incredibly pornsick, so older fans are more prone to talk about coom than anything else
I find it's the opposite. Talking to women my age in their late 20s they're a little bit more mature, but go down to teens or early 20s and they're all "step on me milky mommy". I told a kid who casually said that to me that it's not normal behavior and the reply was "oh everyone has their kink!" like no they really fucking don't

No. 428417

>>428361
thoughts:
>this is the least disgusting version i've seen of Burgh
>why is Clay a midget though lmao
>Iris looks like she's 6, ew
>the triplets are cuter but a restaurant run by smol 10 year olds sounds like shit
>Skylas propeller hair could kill a man, and it would be on purpose
>Lenora looks less like a stereotype

No. 428418

>>428362
Finally seeing what mimikyu looks like sure takes the mystery away, kind of makes me like it less tbh
>>428368
kek
>>428406
>looks like a character from another franchise
I wonder what pokemon are obvious "rip-offs" that we just don't get because we're not japanese. Like how gholdengo is straight up just the silly string cheese guy. Though I also wonder if game freak had no idea James Turner "stole" the design and that it wasn't his own original idea. Maybe they only found out after western fans pointed it out… kinda scummy of him if that's the case.

No. 428429

>>428418
>I wonder what pokemon are obvious "rip-offs" that we just don't get because we're not japanese.
Mostly they rip off famous japanese cartoon animals and monsters that are part of their pop cultural osmosys.
Only one comes at the top of my head atm: Shinx looks a lot like Jungle Emperor Leo/Kimba.

There's also Tyranitar and Jynx but I'm less sure which kaiju monster suit they're referencing.

No. 428437

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I wish Tropius had gotten a mega evolution or something. It's so cute but not particularly usable competitively, because it's slow for a flying type and double-weak to ice attacks.

No. 428441

>>428437
what type should its mega be? I'm picturing it as a giant long-necked dinosaur with a rainforest jungle theme, so maybe grass/dragon?

No. 428446

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>>428418
Doronjo and Meowscarada is the one that always comes to mind for me, along with the numerous tokusatsu references scattered through the generations (Staryu line and Lokix line being the most obvious there).
I feel like looking too much like another franchise's design would only matter to TPC if the other franchise was a competitor of Pokemon like Yo-Kai Watch or Digimon.

No. 428450

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>>428418
it makes me like her more lol, it's just a little shadow. i still think she is one of the best pokes in terms of character design

No. 428462

>>428362
I like her. I want to put tiny hats on her.

No. 428469

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>>428405
i like them equally

No. 428473

>>428441
Probably grass/dragon, yeah. Or maybe even grass/fairy.

No. 428509

>>428446
>tokusatsu
I don't know about these, please share!
>>428450
>i still think she is one of the best pokes in terms of character design
I'm glad you think that nona! For me though the second I realized mimikyu wasn't "ghost pikachu" but that the cute part is just a lumpy costume it made me super disappointed. I always wanted a ghost type pika-clone and now I feel like I'll never get it because mimikyu stole the spot.

No. 428579

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>>425461
Girls my color blindness was kinda right kek. While in-game the lighter parts are pale yellow, the base color for it is green.
Most importantly, she was gonna be pink but then the british asked for a color change because "It's too similar to skin color, so her skirt looks like multiple butts" what the fuck. She could've been PERFECT.

No. 428582

>>428579
I hate how she still looks like she has a BBL

No. 428583

>>428446
Staryu is a tokutsatsu reference?

No. 428603

>>428579
I agree with the brits, the coomers are already having a field day, making it a skin color would have been 10 times worse

No. 428612

>>428579
Brits are right - pink is too human and she's already very humanoid, green is evocative of plants which helps balance plant monster element.

No. 428623

>>428583
Staryu is an Ultraman reference, the colored light comes from Ultraman's color timer and its cry in the JP anime (one of the notable exceptions of not saying its own name as its cry) is a reference to the martial arts grunts and shouts Ultraman makes.

No. 428625

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>>428509
I think the most well-known tokusatsu reference is that Tyranitar is based on Godzilla. Duraludon and Hydreigon in turn reference MechaGodzilla and King Ghidorah. Nidoran line is based on Baragon. Gigantomax Butterfree is Mothra.
Staryu line = Ultraman is covered in the post above.
The Lokix line references the Kamen Rider franchise, particularly Kamen Rider Black RX, which is why it has a robot-grasshopper appearance while performing martial arts. I believe its Pokedex entry number also calls back to Kamen Rider, although I can't recall how off the top of my head.
There are more tenuous connections that could be made elsewhere, but those are the concrete and generally agreed upon as specificially referential ones.

An additional fun fact for you is that the original concept for Pokemon was called Capumon (short for capsule monsters), which was scrapped for trademarking reasons. The trademarking issue in question here is actually that Ultraseven (an early season of Ultraman) already had capsule monsters, and the name was therefore unlikely to fly with TsubuPro.

No. 428664

>>428625
What is that pikachu looking creature?

No. 428672

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>>428206
>>428369
Kek nonas, they're not balding, they just have really short hair… The big forehead is probably just due to the artist's style.

No. 428673

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>>428361
>>428362
Nonner, post the source, I beg you.

No. 428696

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>>428579
>>428603
see: penis head

No. 428702

>>428361
Lenora looks so much better here it's unreal.

No. 428708

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>>428664
that seems to be a pikachu-likr rendition of eleking from ultraman. as for the brown one, it's micras from ultraman

No. 428713

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>>428672
Big foreheads are cute anyway.

No. 428715

>>428713
I agree

No. 428723

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>>428405
Grimsley

No. 428737

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what happened?

No. 428750

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>>425021
Found another one!

No. 428755

>>428737
What do you mean with 'what happened' exactly? Because the leaks revealed some juicy drama between the voice actor of Satoshi and Pikachu, so all animated products featuring them together are pretty much done at this point. The anime is focusing on a new character and I doubt we'll get any more Ash & Pikachu together any time soon, maybe never again.

No. 428756

>>428696
I've never seen cradily as a penis and I've never seen cloyster as a vagina. I just don't see pokemon that way, it grosses me out. No offense to you nonna it's not your fault.

No. 428765

>>428755
>What do you mean with 'what happened' exactly?
No more movies. Also Post those leaks I want to see them.

No. 428774

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>>428756
i agree, i's a weird way of seeing pokémon. cloyster's just a big ol' bivalve, i always liked its look

No. 428784

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>>428672
>they're not balding, they just have really short hair… The big forehead is probably just due to the artist's style.
he bald tho

No. 428788

>>428755
>Because the leaks revealed some juicy drama between the voice actor of Satoshi and Pikachu, so all animated products featuring them together are pretty much done at this point.
what
you're saying after 20+ years of working together they had a childish fight that was so bad they refuse to work with each other and that coincidentally happened at the same time the anime had already planned to move on from ash and also that game freak keeps this juicy gossip on their files and every other person in the world managed to miss this?

No. 428792

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>>428756
Me too and I like both those pokemon but can't mention them or even their pre-evos in front of others or they go "huehuehue you like penis and vagina pokemon you dirty freak". I hate how sex-obsessed the world is, it ruins everything for me. Shellder is so cute, it's basically water type gastly

No. 428807

>>428756
cradily isn't a penis, it had dicks coming out of its head. settle down

No. 428828

>>428756
I feel like the whole "dickhead" thing with Cradily was because of this video

No. 428833

>>428784
He's just a little shaken up from the time portal kek

No. 428837

>>428788
Yes kek. I'll try looking around but Rika Matsumoto already said "it's fake" on her twitter even though it came from official documents. I've heard she's kind of a diva and a harsh voice acting teacher too

No. 428839

>>428807
I just don't see it

No. 428874

>>428839
ok. a lot of people do, and it was related to the convo about how tsareena looks better with non-flesh colored parts because people thought it looked like a butt. cradily would also look better if the petals weren't flesh colors. it's not about seeing pokemon as a vagina or whatever.

No. 428879

>>428874
Ok angry

No. 428881

>>428879
ok outraged nerd ranting about stuff that isn't relevant to the convo(infighting)

No. 428882

>>428881
But I'm not even angry? Calm down please(infighting)

No. 428883

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>>428784
The only thing that ruins him is that ugly goatee

No. 428886

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>>428882
seething for some reason
>>428883
old man ingo is cute, but i feel so bad for him.

No. 428927

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>>428886
I have no idea what they want to do with that plotline but it's sad to see the cute twins separated…

No. 428941

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>>428792
i love shellder and cloyster too, i love pokemon whose design has eyes peeking out of the dark (also tangela). i kever thought of cloyster as a vag either, to me he looks more like a battle ship or tank

No. 428964

>>428886
I wasn't aggro like the other anon at all but ok

No. 429069

>>428964
Nona you have to remember you're in the pokemon thread. 80% of the posters here are most likely autistic, you gotta be paitient with them kek any negativity reads as combative to them.

No. 429113

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Dude these Gamefreak leaks are fucking wild (just now catching up on them). Wtf is wrong with Gamefreak's employees that they think this shit is even remotely okay

No. 429114

>>428266
Agreed, and Gamefreak should fucking hire some of them. Scarlet and Violet were such a goddamn disappointment.

No. 429119

>>429113
are you talking about things posted here or not, if not post screenshots

No. 429131

>>429113
If you're talking about the pokemon sex stories, then those were just writting exercises that mimic actual japanese folklore (they replaced the characters for pokemon and added some details about them).

What bugs me about those leaks is how they kept all the amazing concept art locked away on their offices instead of releasing an artwork.
Oh also how whiny TPC international is, some pokemon/artwork changes are so funny kek

No. 429133

>>428756
Cradily, no, but Palkia is a total dickmon. Especially the old battle sprite on the DS

No. 429141

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>>428964
>>429069
weirdly mad to the point of samefagging about cradily having dicks coming out of its head
>>429131
i'm annoyed at how the internet is taken over by "LOL TYPHLOSION IS P. DIDDY" jokes instead of questioning why the female child characters have notes about how they should look "sexy" tbh(samefag-foiling)

No. 429155

>>429141
I wonder why Typlosion was the one who took the cake, aside from making the girl forget (?) her family it was mostly normal (though I might be misremembering). The Slaking one was way nore disturbing with the rape ape.

No. 429174

>>429141
what kind of spaces are y'all in? i've not seen any joke like that and i'm in several pokemon fan circles

No. 429185

>>429113
>Wtf is wrong with Gamefreak's employees that they think this shit is even remotely okay
I don't understand people that say shit like this, all those stories were never ever meant to see the light of day in the first place.

No. 429188


No. 429191

>>428837
Would love to see these documents if true.
Was kinda sad when they transitioned away from Ash but I've been enjoying her in my other main children's show (she's in this year's season of sentai as the main mascot/robot chara) so it's not too bad.

No. 429192

>>429174
it's crazy that you were able to avoid any headlines or clickbait titles about typhlosion being a child kidnapper and being "sus" and all that. unbelievable even

No. 429206

>>429141
>instead of questioning why the female child characters have notes about how they should look "sexy" tbh
You mean Skyla? That was referring to this version >>428361, we don't have any final documents on them. I don't remember seeing anything particularly suspicious in them, it's just something for character designer to go off.

No. 429210

>>429141
>instead of questioning why the female child characters have notes about how they should look "sexy" tbh
None of the child characters had notes about being sexy. Neither Elesa who was planned as a teenager did. The only one who had notes about being sexy was Skyla who also got confirmed as a legal adult and is based off Jennifer Lopez or something.
I still find it iffy but let's not act like they wrote nasty shit about Iris now.

No. 429245

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>>429174
I don't use Twitter a lot but I check CentroLeaks for quick news about the leaks, so I accidentally end up seeing Typhlosion jokes every now and then. Fucking mainstream news sites have written articles about Typhlosion rape. Even this CentroLeaks fucker won't stop referencing it because he loves the attention he's getting thanks to these leaks.

>>403685
Doesn't he have a shitton of female fans in Japan?

>>403689
Looks good in fanart, the problem is that whoever designed him exaggerated his skinny body too much, the head looks huge in comparison, and the eyes are also huge. He looks like a starved child, not even like an anorexic man. Not to mention the non-sensical Sonic the Hedgehog hair, of course.

No. 429250

>>429131
>writting exercises that mimic actual japanese folklore (they replaced the characters for pokemon and added some details about them).
I thought that one was based on a Native American myth. Anyway, with these stories and the Arceus creation myths drafts, it's clear they wanted to write edgy and mysterious things to put in DP and make pokélore deeper and more realistic, mimicking real-life mythology from a vareity of cultures. In the end, they kept a lot of the lore vague, they didn't even distribute the Azure Flute, and the only reference to human-pokémon relationships in the final games is an old story that said "humans and pokémon used to be so similar that they got married sometimes", or something along those lines, suggesting that people evolved from pokémon.

>>429133
Funny because it seems that Palkia was going to be a feminine deity in the original concepts. But yeah, I've also noticed its vague similarity to a penis, but that might be because I saw people only making the comparison and joking about it when I was little.

>>428756
I think it's a bit funny that cloyster's "horn" is located where the clitoris would be, but I just see it as a funny silly coincidence I sometimes joke about.
I've always thought Cradily's appendages looked kinda weird because of the pink (bad design choice tbh), but it never occured to me that they looked like dicks until now. I still absolutely love it, though. Maybe they realized their mistake with Cradily and wanted to avoid the same thing with Tsareena? lol

No. 429259

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>>403685
Reminder he got MOGGED by three autists. Never seen anyome gaf about Burgh aside from how he supossedly was drawn for the women.

No. 429269

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>>429259
sobbing at the trainschizos entering top 3

No. 429274

>>429259
>Never seen anyome gaf about Burgh
I thought he was popular in Japan specifically, though, of course, not as popular as those three.
I actually have a friend on Pokémon Masters that's a Burgh husbandofag. Her yume photos are very creative and cute, kek.

No. 429290

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>>429192
some of us have been able to escape that thankfully
honestly im tired of all the coomer talk. it's a cute kids game ffs

No. 429343

>>429245
Centro leaks can choke on a dick for all I care, I hate how trashy leakers have ruined the pokemon community
>Doesn't he have a shitton of female fans in Japan?
Based on fanart, I would say no? I've seen a ton of japanese fanart of other characters like the train twins despite them not being popular in the west, but I've never seen burgh fanart in the wild

No. 429345

>>429290
>kids game
I disagree, I think pokemon is an all ages game

No. 429348

>>429343
>>429245
I hate /vp/ but their hatred of Centro will forever be based.

No. 429356

>>429343
>Based on fanart, I would say no?
I see, for some reason I was under the impression that he was popular in Japan. I mean, he did get an Easter alt in Masters along with May.

>>429348
Kek I made a post shitting on him for blatantly overhyping some really boring not-leak, and someone (probably him) replied to me angrily for no reason.

No. 429374

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No. 429375

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No. 429377

>>403689
Don't really care about attractiveness, I think his design was cool.

No. 429393

File: 1730664809105.gif (730.88 KB, 500x281, IMG_5923.gif)

i love the lamps

No. 429430

>>429377
kek me too nona, I like that he's an alt fashion punk/metal head who then aids you in stopping the bad corporate guy at the end. I still agree that he's drawn a bit too anorexic skinny, but it's japan so what can you expect, and I can see past it when it's a cartoon

No. 430232

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>>427397 (me)
I think he looks infinitely better here, for some reason.

No. 430233

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Cheren beta design.

No. 430235

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>>430233
Bianca beta design, she didn't change as much.

No. 430236

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Serena beta design?

No. 430237

File: 1730954216346.jpg (1.6 MB, 3508x2480, 1729200801765.jpg)

Beta Valerie?

No. 430238

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It looks like they might've been planning to add Cheren's cuter BW version to Masters.

No. 430239

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No. 430240

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>>424522
>>424524
>>424557
Super ultra mega late, but yes, it's real. The map with South Kalos in it is in one of the early builds.

No. 430241

File: 1730955237986.png (633.69 KB, 687x790, media_GZ5C8fGX0AA8dCr.png)

They could've released Z with the addition of South Kalos after ORAS, but nooooooo, they had to rush the next generation. I was so fucking furious that they were abandoning Gen 6 so soon that I dropped the series altogether.
Pic unrelated.

No. 430245

>>430236
Those pants are so freakishly low…

No. 430253

>>406324
Sorry for how late this is. what is the name of this manga? i remember reading some of it as a kid and liked it a lot

No. 430255

>>430253
Pokémon Adventures, or Pokémon Special in Japan

No. 430268

>>430255
thank you!

No. 430286

File: 1730969616638.jpg (401.14 KB, 2160x1600, November pulls yay.jpg)

Apologies for the gachasperg.

Last week (update week) I pulled Zerena on my first x11 scout, so I knew I'd be able to pull for Ingo/Emmet! Well, guess what? I got Ingo on the third x11 scout. And then Emmet on the second x11 lmaoooo, this may be my luckiest pull streak ever, it almost makes up for the fact that I wasn't able to get SSA Cynthia last time because I fell short of the 400 points for pity by ONE point at the last fucking second, worst fucking experience I've had with this game and I still seethe hard just thinking about it. But I'm so happy that I'll be able to get Irida at the end of the month! With a bit of luck, and if no new December units interest me, I might even be able to get Adaman as well.

By the way, Ingo and Emmet are cute as fuck. I don't mean that in a husbandofag way, but just their personality and voice and autism are very endearing. I was never a huge fan of them, personally, but this game is making me love them, although that could be said of 99% of the characters in Masters. I'm also happy that I got Eelektross, one of my favorite pokémon, even if I already have more than enough powerful Electric-types. In fact, just a year ago I also pulled both Sygna Suit Roxie and Piers, it's rare for me to pull both Poké Fair units debuting in an event. And not only do I need more powerful Dragon-types, but Zygarde is also a favorite of mine, so I'm double happy with having pulled Zerena.

No. 430293

>>430286
they are so fucking autistic i love them

No. 430297

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No. 430298

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That Colressfag on /vp/ must have cried tears of joy when all this concept art dropped. She won, kek

No. 430300

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No. 430302

File: 1730975854555.jpg (153.88 KB, 1200x848, nijiギーマ1.jpg)

Oh yeah, that's right, there's a Grimsleyfag on here, isn't there?

No. 430304

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No. 430305

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No. 430398

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>>430298
>Colressfag on /vp/
i love you fellow vpveteran

No. 430434

>>430398
This is a sfw board you shouldn't post such fucking sexy pictures on here oh lord…………………………..

No. 430435

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>>430434
sorry let me re-read the rules here

No. 430443

>>430300
Calem looks better in the red suit than the Flare grunts themselves

No. 430456

>>430435
HUBBA BUBBA

No. 430491

File: 1731039869958.jpeg (95.11 KB, 735x452, IMG_5851.jpeg)

has anyone tried the new tcg mobile game? i never played the tcg but i'm tempted to try it just bc i love the art on cards

No. 430518

>>430491
I really like it! I still prefer cards irl, but it's a nice little app and I like the shorter TCG battles it offers. I especially like that there are single player options as I don't like playing against real people. Though I wish they had even more rewards for those battles and they weren't just "for fun" after the initial reward.

No. 430523

>region based on NY
>you get attacked by everyone as soon as you take the train or subway
American anons, is this an accurate, realistic depiction of NY?

No. 430524

>>430523
No because you aren't required to take a tetanus shot before getting on the subway

No. 430525

>>430523
What’s more likely is a mentally ill person screaming and you hoping they don’t make eye contact

No. 430526

>>430525
>you hoping they don’t make eye contact
>pokemon battle starts when trainers see you or when you talk to them
The plot thickens.

No. 430540

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>>430525
They might not scream but they're definitely mentally ill…

No. 430570

Submas is cute but I'm more for the Kaworu expy.(do not post images from a shota doujin )

No. 430573

>>430570
paedophile

No. 430577

>>430570
Isn’t kowaru being gay just a fujo headcanon?
Also N belongs to Hilda

No. 430584

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No. 430622

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No. 430745

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>>430584
This fanart KEK

>>430577
>Isn’t kowaru being gay just a fujo headcanon?
NTA, but no. It's pretty clearly meant to be gay. I'm not even a fujo but facts are facts. Not that it affects N's sexuality.

No. 430748

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>>430491
I'm still not sure whether it's supposed to be separate from the already existing PTCG Live (I have old cards there that I transferred from PTCGO, and I would hate to have to collect them again), but I can't get any more Pokémon autism on my phone because all my mobage budget is already dedicated Masters, lmao. I'd go broke.

>>430443
I mean, he's a fashionable guy.

>>430398
I don't know if the Colressfag is an oldfag or not, I don't know anyone over there anymore since I left many years ago. Only reason I went back to /vp/ this one time was for the leaks, and I saw her begging for B2W2 leaks. Also, another husbandofag who loves my husbando tried to fight me over him, but I think in the end we became friends? Kek.

No. 430784

>>430577
>>430745
literally what the fuck are you guys on about

No. 430787

>>430748
>I'm still not sure whether it's supposed to be separate from the already existing PTCG Live
They're not related and won't ever be. PTCG live is american/western only, it doesn't even exist in Japan. The code cards you get from real TCG packs don't exist in Japan either.

No. 430790

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>>430784
I don't know what part of the posts you're talking about, kek.

>>430787
Well shit, I had no idea. OK fine, I'll download it. You happy, TPC?

No. 430798

>>430790
what the fuck is kowaru and why are y'all sperging about it in the pokemon thread

No. 430799

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>>430798
>>430784
>highlight "kowaru"
>right-click
>click "Search [search engine] for "kowaru"
Also I'm seeing anybody here sperging. At least not the ones you replied to.

No. 430805

>>430798
a character those pedophile fujo discordfags are obsessed with don't worry about it(baiting)

No. 430914

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>>430798
i've never heard of "kowaru" either. is it the japanese name of a character?

No. 430916

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>>430914
She probably mistyped Kaworu from Evangelion. I've seen N compared to him sometimes.

No. 430934

>>430916
Why the fuck did I think they were making out at first? I've seen too much JustinRPG crap.

No. 430952

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>>430914
uoaaaughf twins sexoooooooooAaaaa(integrate)

No. 430956

>>407143
this thing is so fucking ugly that it retroactively makes all of pokemon worse just by existing. pokemon will never not have this bootleg cereal mascot in it. there's probably just at least one ugly fat snot-nosed 10 year old moidling who has the brain chemistry required to find this thing endearing in all of japan and he claps his little sausage fingers together whenever he sees it show up on tv. congratulations, i guess. you got your target audience, you ugly fuck. ugh.

No. 430957

>>430956
you made me feel bad for the ugly fat ten year old kek

No. 430964

>>430956
>one ugly fat snot-nosed 10 year old moidling
That would legitimately be better than the actual audience. The only people I've seen who like Gholdengo want to fuck it.

No. 430970

File: 1731213015496.png (1.52 MB, 1200x857, IMG_6027.png)

>>430964
nah peoole have posted about liking it just bc it looks silly in the previous thread. no furfaggotry involved.
personally it's not my fave design but i dont find it that horrible either. i like how silly it looks, like a goofy 90s mascot.

No. 430972

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>>430952
in your pic… their dicks are touching…

No. 430975

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>>430972
Kek I didn't think about that… I want to be between them

No. 431049

>>430798
Kaworu is the white haired guy in Evangelion who acts gay towards the protagonist Shinji, and people call N a Kaworu expy.

No. 431072

>>431049
how is N a kaworu expy? kaworu is just the undercurrent of gay, N is an autistic pokemon nazi

No. 431077

>>430956
I'm with you nona, it's an ugly unoriginal rip-off, and it's a rip-off of an ugly mascot that wasn't ever good to begin with. Just by existing it cheapens pokemon design and integrity, and also they pull shit like this and then have the nerve to complain about palworld designs being copies of pokemon? OH really? Now copying designs is bad huh??? Fuck off.

The only people who like it are people who talk like "it's just a silly willy gold goober boy" and who hate anime for not being "inclusive" enough. Every person in the world who likes the golden turd is currently crying that Trump won the US election, regardless of if they're even American or not.

No. 431081

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The superior pokemon twins. As a kid who started with RSE it was empowering to see kids I perceived to be my own age as gym leaders, so I always saw them as my friends.

No. 431082

>>431072
It became a bit of a meme since a lot of series had "mysterious white/light hair colored slightly smug guy that acts weirdly close/gay to the mc" so people started reaching to make a list for the archetype.
The white haired guy from danger ronpa is another example.

No. 431083

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>>431082
well that's stupid

No. 431087

>>431081
They team up with Ingo and Emmet in Masters and it's the cutest thing. I always loved them since I played Ruby because their gimmick is double battles. As far as I know, they're the only gym leaders to do that. And I liked them because they were like child geniuses.

>>431072
Yeah it's not meant to be serious, nona, it's just a nerdy joke.

No. 431088

>>431083
Noooo why would they fight? This pic doesn't feel right.

No. 431089

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>>431088
they got over it

No. 431090

>>431087
Raihan and the ghost type trainer in SV also have double battles as their gimmicks but it's still rare enough. Anyway I found Emerald easy but the twins would always kick my ass a few times before I could beat them. But I always picked torchic as my starter so maybe that's why.

No. 431100

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>>431072
Unova only produces autists

No. 431297

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Original Sun/Moon polot concept!

No. 431298

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>>431297
>polot
Kek, I meant plot.

Also, beta Team Flare grunts. I grabbed this from Centro but I can't find it in the GFdocs folder, does anyone know which file this is from? I'm desperate to know, lol.

No. 431304

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i can't wait for my man psyduck to arrive in UNITE i wanna dress him up in stupid outfits

No. 431331

>>431304
I'd throw so much money at unite if the holowear was cheaper, now it's so expensive I don't even buy it for my main. I refuse to believe they earn more money this way. Plus their stupid ass 5 billion slow as hell menus that you can't escape don't make it better either.
I've thrown money at nearly every pokemon game/app ever made but not unite even though I love the actual game play.

No. 431334

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>>431331
ayrt and honestly unite's one of the very few games i've thrown money at because i consistently find it very fun, even though i've been playing for years now (basically since it launched). i get the battle pass if the holowear is for a poke i play, since i tend to cycle through different ones rather than stick to one main. terf queen azumarill is still my #1 but i like playing different roles so i don't get bored. I also play with a friend most of the time so it's more fun that way.
i agree the menus kinda suck especially since there's a bunch of different events hoing in at any guven rime. but overall i still like the game enough to splurge on holowear ince in a while. i just mimikyu's battle pass outfit bc she's one of my faves and her jiangshi outfit is just too cute, especially since you can match your trainer outfit with hers.
snorlax also has some incredibly stupid outfits and i love them. picrel is my fave

No. 431336

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>>430975
who would you want in the front and who would you want in the back?

No. 431363

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>>431336
I just saw that I ate a ban for my previous hornyposting (for not integrating so I'm guessing it counts as too low quality /g/ adjacent sperging) so I'll just say I like Emmet the most kek. Autism moe.

No. 431366

File: 1731327185817.jpg (1.15 MB, 1626x1007, 1000067177.jpg)

>>431336
I love Emmett he's so cute it's a shame he's overshadowed by Ingo after PLA

No. 431372

File: 1731328331618.jpg (52.16 KB, 563x799, 1000067181.jpg)

Why did BW have the best Pokemoids? ITT we already can see so much love for the Submas twins, and N mogged every male out of oblivion in character polls. Personally I also like Cheren because I'm a meganefag who loves majime characters and he was my crush as a kid. Also he's low-key the funniest Pokemon rival for calling Team Plasma wastes of oxygen, other rivals tend to be absolute pussies who don't say anything about evil teams while Cheren just straight up wanted Team Plasma to die.

No. 431373

>>430577
>Isn’t kowaru being gay just a fujo headcanon?
No.
>Also N belongs to Hilda
She's hideous and Hilbert is the canon protagonist in pokemas which gets the most shipbait. Fujos win yet again.

No. 431377

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>>431072
>Gay for protagonist
>Morally grey zone
>Mysterious
>Got voiced by Akira Ishida one time
>Autism spectrum
>etc etc

No. 431379

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>>431372
Lately I've been thinking gen 3 has the best pokeboys not gonna lie gen 5 is a strong second place though.

No. 431384

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>>431372
Gen 5 was peak in terms of husbandos. I've always been crazy for Marlon even if he's not super popular, he's a really lovable merman lol.
Currently I'm playing Mastersex and it's just the nth (heh) proof of that, it makes me want to pull all the Unova cuties and get them all to EX level…
The story is nice too so far: as minor Cherenfag I love how he is characterized as a mature teacher in it… it feels like the writers of the game totally get Pokémon and its characters. I love/hate how much this game panders to my current woes and gives me so much cute content with all these husbandos I loved years ago.
>>431373
>She's hideous and Hilbert is the canon protagonist in pokemas which gets the most shipbait. Fujos win yet again.
Who cares, in the original game they're effectively the same character anyway.

I never liked Hilda until recently… somehow I'm taking a liking to all the self-insert shippy art she gets with all the sexy and cute guys of Gen 5. So yeah I can't hate her anymore, she's a Stacey in my eyes now KEK.
Plus personally I prefer her ship art with N because she looks more mature than Hilbert. Hilbert is a cool design but he looks either like a tomboy or too young for my taste.

No. 431386

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>>431384
>because she looks more mature than Hilbert
It's the booty shorts isn't it
I should specify though that I don't hate her (she's a silent protagonist character/shows up once in the battle subway so I don't know how I would kek) I just find her design very ugly.

No. 431388

>>431386
>It's the booty shorts isn't it
I dunno, I'd think the same if she wore full jeans (and she'd look much better without the damn booty shorts).
She does look more kiddy in Mastersex though.

No. 431390

>>431386
Tbf Misty is also drawn like the left side for some reason

No. 431423

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>>431386
Hilda's design is brilliant because her outfit seems to have been made to complement N's and vice-versa. Both of them wear black and white shirts while Hilbert alone wears a blue jacket.

No. 431427

>>431423
>Hilda is dressed like a slutty trucker
>N isn’t
uh, sure you can have that one.

No. 431429

>>431427
>a slutty trucker
what kind of truckers are you watching anon..

No. 431434

File: 1731347813195.jpg (115.11 KB, 810x1050, CdFv2slW4AEq2eX.jpg)

>>431427
What? Do you honestly think this looks slutty?

No. 431435

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>>431429
The girl who rides shot gun in the front seat of her boyfriend's car.
>>431434
The shorts on the actual character are shorter.

No. 431485

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i like hilda's design but it's pretty weird to see next to hilbert who is as covered as possible

No. 431487

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No. 431512

>>431487
Obvious sexist design discrepancy aside, it's strange how even the boys who are wearing shorts that are short enough that you could normally see their knees are wearing something under their shorts to cover their knees and upper calves. For some reason seeing a boy's knees is so completely forbidden that they're hidden on every single design.

No. 431515

>>431366
they both look the same and have the same personality nona

No. 431518

>>431423
N is an adult and the protags are 14 year old kids, y'all are gross no matter which hebephile shipping you like(derailing)

No. 431520

>>431487
>>431485
The female characters' designs are totally fine in a vacuum, it's only when you compare them to the males that you see the obvious bias. They're not "slutty" by any means but it's still obvious that they're being made with certain feminine "quotas" and waifu appeals in mind, which is a shame and really weird to think about.

No. 431521

>>431485
Legs aren't considered sexy or slutty in Japan/east Asia the way they are in the west. Women there wouldn't dare wear an open back or low cut shirt because that's indecent and to risqué, but wearing short shorts is a-ok.

No. 431523

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are you people incpable of not talking about coom for five fucking minutes.

No. 431524

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>>431512
>For some reason seeing a boy's knees is so completely forbidden that they're hidden on every single design.
I've been told by a Japanese woman that they see shorts that are shorter than the knees as too "womanly" so males showing their knees are essentially seen as gay, I think that may be the reason. But we do have a male protag showing his knees now though.

No. 431525

>>431521
That's also why characters in Japanese media freak out at the slightest hint of cleavage kek, it's a parody of this very real attitude. Obviously the idea of "sexy legs" is still a thing but it's kind of an afterthought if that makes sense. That's also why a lot of anime designs tend to be relatively top-heavy in terms of detail.

No. 431526

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>>431487
>>431520
Girls wear short shorts and miniskirts, guys don't. That's how things are IRL unless you're from Pakistan or something.
It's not like the girls are wearing bikinis.
>>431521
>Legs aren't considered sexy or slutty in Japan/east Asia the way they are in the west.
They're not slutty anywhere unless you're from a muslim majority country.

No. 431527

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>>431523
oh thank god I'm not the only one here who finds the fujosperging to be an eyesore kek

No. 431528

>>431526
>>431487
>>431485
>>431435
Why are the Pokemon designers allergic to giving their female characters pants???

No. 431529

>>431528
Pants are ugly

No. 431531

>>431526
>Girls wear short shorts and miniskirts, guys don't. That's how things are IRL
Right, this. I legit don't think any of the female protags are overly sexualized in official art, they're only drawn like sexy adults/teens in fanart. And since it's from Japan we have a billion other animes/games to compare to and pokemon is extremely safe and child-friendly compared to most.
Like yeah the world IS sexist, pokemon just isn't the best example of it. I frannkly think at least half of them are dressed like lame nerds lol

No. 431533

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>>431528
here you go nona

No. 431534

File: 1731367980121.jpg (115.68 KB, 588x331, 1000028956.jpg)

>>431524
Behold the Shadows of Almia protagonists. I like them a lot, they both look great, but I think it's legitimately funny how the shorts just HAVE to be slightly different lengths kek. Overall though I appreciate that they're essentially wearing the same thing and it's equally functional to work in.

No. 431538

SV protagonists ended up being ugly carbon copies of each other because GF didn’t want to offend nonnas.

No. 431543

>>431528
>Why are the Pokemon designers allergic to giving their female characters pants???
Good news nona! They removed ALL female specific options in SV, so now girls can't express themselves with any female fashion at all and the "neutral" male is seen as the default!

No. 431544

>>431534
Ranger outfits are peak pokemon fashion to me, it looks so unmistakably pokemon kek

No. 431553

>>431487
Honestly I love Kris and the old May! They look great and fitting for the role of trainers. I personally don't mind they have shorts either. They're the ideal heroine designs for me.
>>431518
But most people who ship N with the female protagonist think she is a young adult and draw/write her acting like one, and also it feels like disingenuous to completely ignore the fact most people use Hilda to self insert and write her as their OC.

No. 431560

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>>431518
I can't believe the retards have infected lolcow too kek. Where are you people even coming from? Ferriswheelshipping is a staple

No. 431563

File: 1731377938796.png (1.79 MB, 4450x2409, ch0014_01_cheren.png)

>>431372
>ITT we already can see so much love for the Submas twins
That's like a couple of autists spamming fanart, to be fair.
>N mogged every male out of oblivion in character polls.
Good for him, but I never cared about N that much.
>Cheren
I also liked him because of his personality and glasses, but I always thought his haircut was kinda ugly. Still, it's a cuter design (>>430238) than his B2W2 look. I was browsing through the early pages in BW character tags for N, Hilda and Cheren the other day on Danbooru, and it seems that Cheren x Hilda was a popular ship when the games came out, as well as the N x Hilda x Cheren triangle. But it appears that his (or the ship's) popularity waned after B2W2. I attribute this to his friendship with Bianca becoming more important and his uglier design, lol.
Speaking of which, I hate that he's clearly shown with a perpetual blush in his Masters model sheet (pic related), the same as in his official B2W2 artwork, but in the final game, he never blushes, while Rosa and Skyla do it constantly. Fuck DeNA, bunch of cowards. I wish I could find the docs where they explain why they pussied out of giving boys blushing expressions.
>other rivals tend to be absolute pussies who don't say anything about evil teams
I think that's because most rivals are not that personally involved with the villain team. Also, BW had a bigger focus on story. Remember how the gym leaders show up in the final act to stop Team Plasma? That never happened before.
IIRC, Silver (my childhood crush) hates Team Rocket and calls them weak, since he's Giovanni's son.

No. 431565

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>>431384
>it feels like the writers of the game totally get Pokémon and its characters.
(NTA) For the most part, yes, but there are inconsistencies that I really don't like, as if the writers picked random bits of info to elaborate on, or as if they didn't care about having a consistent timeline, and I don't fully agree with the way they characterized some of the player characters (both male and female). Not to mention how most of the PCs who are currently in the Lodge roster are female, while the only male PC so far is Calem. I hate that they see our (basically) self-inserts as waifus, and they don't make the most minimal effort to portray the boys in a similar way. And… maybe I'm just being nitpicky, but in the English version at least, there are some characters whose dialogue doesn't match their original version from the actual games. It's very subtle, but if you're autistically obsessed with said characters in their original games, you'll notice it.
Aside from that, I do appreciate how fun and charming everyone is in Masters, this game has made me like characters I never thought I'd give a fuck about (even ones I hated). Although the way most trainers keep repeating their catchphrases again and again in any context because they didn't have a lot of dialogue originally is kind of obnoxious, kek.
Anyway, Pokémon Masters is a clusterfuck that only exists for the sake of dumb fanservice.
>in the original game they're effectively the same character anyway.
This. Maybe the yaoi ship wouldn't have been so popular if Hilbert hadn't been accidentally given cute hair. I see a lot of the fanart is focused on him instead of N.

>>431434
OMG this cosplay is so cute! I always wanted to cosplay Hilda when I was a teenager. I love love love Hilda because of her big brown ponytail, the hat, the black vest, and especially her boots and the pose she has in her official artwork where she looks so ready to kick ass, I always thought she was the single coolest of all the female player characters. Although to be fair, her design is kinda coomer. AFAIK she and Hilbert are supposed to be older than previous protagonists, but still… She'd be so perfect if they hadn't given her those goddamn booty shorts. It feels perverted, pic related (an actual leaked pic).
I'm so sick of the girl character always having to wear either booty shorts or a miniskirt while the boy always wears long, wide shorts or baggy pants, even in regions that are not based in Japan (so this >>431526 is not always an excuse). This is why I don't care that they gave the SV protagonists the same unsexualized uniform, despite complaints that it's "not cute enough" or even "ugly" (??). I do think they should've balanced that out with more customization options, though.

No. 431567

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God I hate this thread lately. Anyway, how are your TCG pocket pulls? I'm playing casually so I haven't even gotten any of the 4 rare art cards yet, I heard they all got special music tracks too which is a neat detail. Does the app make you want to buy real TCG cards?

No. 431569

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>>431567
Haven't played the game but my friend got me a bunch of OOYAMA cards lately! I love his art.

No. 431572

>>431569
I love it when cards have simple art like that, makes me feel like I could get the job too kek

No. 431573

File: 1731382034851.png (122.03 KB, 490x683, original.png)

>>431567
With the constant infighting and weird posting itt, it makes you not want to post in this thread as often, or at all, and I have the sneaking suspicion it's one or two anons going at it over and over again. So best to ignore. I want this card btw

No. 431574

>>431544
It's not just peak Pokémon, but also peak late 90s - early 00s. I miss it!

No. 431594

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>>431573
>>431573
Neat, they redid the classic slowpoke art?

Thinking about the TGC just unlocked a painful memory - I spent months building my dream deck around this Jumpluff's ability. I cherished it so much I'd sleep with it on my bedside table.

… And I ended up knocking a glass of juice onto it. Maybe I ought to try rebuilding it as an adult

No. 431595

>>431515
nta but no they don't

No. 431598

File: 1731400024582.jpeg (185.68 KB, 726x1024, IMG_6089.jpeg)

i suck at the game itself but i fucking love tcg art. So many bangers

No. 431610

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>>431567
it's not much different from how it normally is, and at least we aren't the fucking BL thread with its constant infighting. just ignore the stuff you don't like
also i miss this kinda ugly dated 3D style of card art

No. 431611

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No. 431613

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No. 431633

File: 1731414137501.jpg (277 KB, 1873x1177, You look lonely.jpg)

>>431379
>spoiler
you ship maxie and archie, or steven and wallace, don't you?
I think the early Gens would be at the bottom of the human characters tier list imo
>>431595
Isn't the reason why people like them is because they have no personality so you can easily make up whatever headcanon about them that you want?

No. 431635

>>431633
NTA but they both have set personalities, they arent stand ins for anything.

No. 431667

>>431633
>you ship maxie and archie, or steven and wallace, don't you?
No I ship Steven and Brendan

No. 431669


No. 431677

>>431573
I just pulled this card in pocket! Not quite as impressive as having it irl, though still fun.
>>431574
Now this I can agree with! I know it's likely just nostalgia but this is so much more fun than the modern pokemon clothes. These have just enough whimsicality to it while still looking kinda cool.
>>431598
I just hate that art like that are special collabs that become impossible to get hold of. I would have loved to own the scream psyduck and other cards because I truly love art, but I'm not willing to pay hundreds for them… I wish they were regular cards you could pull in packs.
>>431610
>also i miss this kinda ugly dated 3D style of card art
Oof I sure don't! But they're really fun to look back on now that we have 3D games! It's like they were a portal to the future without even knowing it!

No. 431693

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>>431633
>Isn't the reason why people like them is because they have no personality so you can easily make up whatever headcanon about them that you want?
no, if you read their dialogues they are basically contrasts of each other while remaining twins, it's part of the appeal. ingo is more reserved and somewhat more socially aware, emmet is more cheerful but highly awkward

No. 431696

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No. 431697

File: 1731441876813.jpg (230.18 KB, 934x1920, autism.jpg)

(avatarfagging)

No. 431732

File: 1731457720725.jpeg (263.54 KB, 1080x756, IMG_3668.jpeg)

another halloween come and gone and they STILL haven't added mimikyu to pokemon go

No. 431789

File: 1731471807708.jpg (1.01 MB, 3000x2120, ダイビングイメージ.jpg)

Don't know if this was in the art book, but it's cute as hell.

>>431697
This wasn't avatarfagging, she was just dumping thread-relevant pictures. Possibly trying to explain the difference between the twins, as well.

No. 431790

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>>431693
BTW, the lighting in this is fucking amazing, thanks for posting it.

No. 431791

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No. 431792

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This one makes for a great three-monitor desktop wallpaper.

No. 431795

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No. 431803

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>>431789
>This wasn't avatarfagging, she was just dumping thread-relevant pictures. Possibly trying to explain the difference between the twins, as well.
I think someone is reporting nonnies who post SubMas and she is using pathetic excuses to do so. It's clear the screenshots are being used to explain Ingo is just a guy and Emmet is extra autismo who won't shut up about Double Battles.

No. 431807

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>>431803
Yeah, and it's not like she's the only one posting submas. There are at least three of their fangirls here. "Weird posts" my ass.

No. 431822

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>>431697
hope whoever reported me enjoys lots of extra submas posting!(personalityfagging)

No. 431827

>>431807
Nice to see Hau in fanart, he's one of my favorites of the friendly rivals. Alola is such a banger region

No. 431834

>>431827
>Nice to see Hau in fanart, he's one of my favorites of the friendly rivals.
I'm sorry anon but wtf, he is the worst rival gamefreak have ever spat out, genuinely think his character is retarded.

No. 431837

>>431834
You misspelled Tierno.

No. 431845

File: 1731495518563.jpeg (57.13 KB, 600x444, IMG_8206.jpeg)

Wow, the mods are more autistic than Ingo and Emmett combined.

No. 431847

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>>431822
>(personalityfagging)
Is farmhand okay?
>>431837
At least Tierno is not a cheap imitation of another character like Trace is.

No. 431851

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>>431834
Why? Hau is a perfect easy-going islander, while still bearing the burden of his grandfather being a Kahuna and feeling frustrated when he loses. His easy-going personality is also explained by Hala once scaring him as a child (being a raging moid) and going too soft on him since. He's the kind of person who is just floating by until the main character comes along and gives him the motivation to try harder and be serious. It's a realistic friendly rivalship, which I feel pokemon had failed at portraying until that point. Hau also serves as a direct contrast to the strictly raised but now rebelling against his mom Gladion (who I also love kek). They both clash with each other which makes it fun to watch.
Hau singlehandedly made me want to try malasadas too kek I'm actually super happy Hau isn't that popular because it means there's very little coom made of him.

Like >>431837 said Tierno is literally just an ugly fatty who wants to dance. The orange hair boy just wants to fill the dex, yet somehow he's shit at it and always behind you. Shauna is just there to have a crush on the male protagonist and she ain't even cute. When I played BW I frankly thought Bianca was a bit too pathetic and annoying, though in hindsight I'm sure it was partly due to me at the time being a little tomboy who got upset that once again the girl character was the weak lame one.

No. 431854

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>>431847
>cheap imitation of another character like Trace is.
Is anyone else still kinda shocked they canonically erased the Kanto story of Red and Blue to replace them with Chase/Elaine and Trace? Red and Blue are in the games still, they just never did anything cool of value and that's the new canon, like what the fuck???
Literally the only reason I'd be ok with yet another Kanto remake is for them to set the story back to normal.

No. 431856

File: 1731498063033.jpg (1.58 MB, 1111x2048, 1000067209.jpg)

>>431822
Do the mods have some personal vendetta against this anon?

No. 431859

>>431851
>Why?
Because he's too overbearing in-game and very boring. Tierno is garbage too but he is a secondary rival.

No. 431862

>>431859
I'm pretty sure they're all considered "main" rivals in canon. There are no secondary rivals, just rivals.

No. 431863

File: 1731499390354.jpg (1.33 MB, 1674x2048, illust_98473759_20241103_01404…)

>>431822
Ignore her, she is trying to rile you up. We can all post a little SubMas once in a while (as long as we don't take too much attention away from the Pokémon) without giving in to someone clearly baiting us to infight.

No. 431865

>>431862
I count rivals with an opposing starter pokemon as 'main rivals'.

No. 431866

>>431865
Is Kukui a rival?

No. 431868

>>431866
He's a significantly better rival than Hau kek

No. 431894

>>431847
>>431697
See I also don't see it as personality fagging, but I was once banned for posting too many pictures of a character as well. I think farmhands must have a rule about this because I wasn't attaching myself or my personality to those posts, but they dislike when you post too many things of a specific subject in a row I guess.
>>431807
>"Weird posts" my ass.
If you're referring to this post >>431573 none of submas posting or whatever is happening here is what I meant with "weird posts". I don't want to have to explain further because no1currs. I didn't report that anon.

No. 431909

File: 1731516317048.png (1.28 MB, 1300x813, __elio_gladion_hau_luvdisc_pyu…)

>>431894
>If you're referring to this post >>431573 none of submas posting or whatever is happening here is what I meant with "weird posts".
Oops, sorry, nonny.

>>431827
Here's another. I just saved these because I love fanart where people are riding pokémon on water.

No. 431911

>>431909
No problem nonny lol. I like when anons post pictures, it's fun no matter if it's some ship or a character or a pokemon. I hope that fun never stops.

No. 431992

Can someone please explain why Japan still thinks super lame tiktok-level dances is THE way to go viral? They keep making them and they're all lame as fuck. Are they still really popular in Japan or what?

No. 432003

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>>431894
>I was once banned for posting too many pictures of a character as well.
sorry about that because that's fucking stupid. it's not avatarfagging, or personalityfagging, or tripfagging, or namefagging to contribute photos to a thread. whoever thinks this is the case has never been on an imageboard and has never seen such things in action. you're not going around the site using the images in question as a sort of unofficial nametag. it should be bannable to spam reports to the farmhands for bullshit like "people are posting pictures of a character i don't like" but lc quality control has gone so far downhill i suspect farmhands just oblige whatever report comes in and don't read anything around it to get context. why should they? that's the reason there's an entire thread now devoted to retarded bans. embarrassing. maybe the goal is to try and hemorrhage users from every board except /pt/ and /snow/ so they can bring site focus back to cows.
anyway! submas are cute. does anyone here actually play PME? i installed it and got rid of it pretty quickly because i was trying to avoid gacha games for awhile. is it worth getting into?

No. 432024

>>432003
>anyway! submas are cute. does anyone here actually play PME? i installed it and got rid of it pretty quickly because i was trying to avoid gacha games for awhile. is it worth getting into?
I downloaded it months ago to collect my husbandos, liked the battle system more than I expected, but didn't get into it all that much because I'm sick of gacha games in general. I think it's because of how I was way too into FEH for a while, I think I reached my limit. I had to deinstall the app anyway because there wasn't a lot of space left in my phone but if I ever decide to download it again later I should be able to get all my progress saved. I wouldn't mind having a similar battle system in the main games, triple battles and rotation battles are close enough but they're more of a postgame thing outside of gen 5.

No. 432035

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>>432003
Being permanently banned for posting the train autists and triggering a farmhand would be hilarious though. As far as PME, it’s the same old gacha tricks where you only care about maybe 5 of the roster of 100, they prey on your FOMO, and at some point you’re only playing to get costumes for your faves.

No. 432036

>>431992
Afaik doing dance covers has been trendy in Japan since forever, a lot of people have gone viral on niconico and youtube just on dances alone, I'm guessing it's something unique to their online culture (and may have something to do with idols and anime?). I remember some haruhi and lucky star dance covers from back in the day, but since I'm not interested in that type of stuff I have no real idea as to why that is.

No. 432039

>>432003
>it should be bannable to spam reports to the farmhands for bullshit like "people are posting pictures of a character i don't like"
Kek I agree. But oh well. Don't stop posting nonna, if you get banned again please appeal it because this is the correct thread to post pokemon things and you didn't break any rule in my opinion.

No. 432055

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>>432039
Maybe the reporter is butthurt that their husbando never makes any top ten lists. They hate the trainfags enough to complain about them in the character design thread even.

No. 432063

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>>432055
I'm surprised the Subway Bros are hated at all. They're just inconsequential cute autists, what's there to hate? That they're popular?
I find it adorable that they get so much fanart with their pokémon, it's the type of fanart I like the most for this franchise ♥

No. 432123

File: 1731566795742.jpg (1.12 MB, 1080x2400, Pokémon Masters EX_2024-11-14-…)

432003
>does anyone here actually play PME?
Yes, I posted my pulls earlier and you even replied to it. I'm having a lot of trouble beating these stages in Ingo & Emmet's Extreme Battle Event, especially with the required sync pairs (Johto, Alola and Paldea for Part 3, which is a Fighting/Ghost stage). I guess they really want us to roll for Eri, who's the newest Fighting-type and Paldea unit. I could get her, but I'm saving up for Adaman and Irida in the next update.
But honestly, at this point, I only keep playing this crap because I have hope that my husbando is going to get an alt and get added to the Trainer Lodge one day, and I don't wanna miss that. I already missed his introduction to the game because my phone wasn't supported. Pokémon Masters is the one gacha game I focus on the most and I don't want to play any more, that's why I don't get into that new TCG game or other Pokémon mobage.
>is it worth getting into?
Only if you're a trainerfag. So, yes.
Jokes aside, the gameplay is fun enough to keep one invested, it's an extremely simplified version of battles in the main series, and instead of being fully turn-based, it's real-time turn-based, but if you played mainline Pokémon you'll get the gist of the gameplay here pretty quickly. I love the concept of 3 vs. 3, in a way it's like a mix between multi battles and triple battles.
I've seen people say that Masters is one of the most generous gacha games, and even though I've only ever played two such games, I think I agree, even with the shitty anniversary we got this year. Although it sounds like it used to be way better 3 years ago. The key is to only go for the one unit you want each month, completely ignore FOMO (you'll get better chances to get those units in reruns), and save up for next month, as well as looking at the datamines to plan accordingly. If you're going to spend any money on this game, get the Daily Gem Bundle(s). Gem sales during the Anniversary and mid-Anniversary are also very good value. Support units are perhaps the most crucial, so you'll want good supports and to invest resources in them, preferably Master Fairs like Neo Champion Blue or Sygna Suit Aura Cynthia (regular Ingo is a Ground-type support). Depending on what your goal in the game is, you can either focus more on pulling your faves or pulling the strongest units. Now that I've got my faves, I'm collecting the Master sync pairs that rerun every month. And if you want, you can hatch pokémon eggs and form sync pairs with them.
The devs' focus clearly shifted from their original vision in the first year to a waifu/husbando popularity contest, though. So you'll see a lot more love for Cynthia/Steven/Paldea, etc. than for more obscure characters in more recent content. For example, Malva had been a story-relevant NPC in the game for at least a year but she didn't get introduced as a playable character until this year. And despite all my complaining about subtle gender bias in the fanservice (there are more missing male characters than female, the blushing thing, etc.), I think Pokémon Masters is one of the best mixed waifu/husbando gacha games in terms of pandering to both male and female players.

No. 432132

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my boy is finally in UNITE! love his dumb little outfit

No. 432138

>>432132
is this game still infuriating? i enjoyed it at first but found myself getting extremely tilted with dumbass teammates the more i played

No. 432148

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>>432138
it can be. i usually play with a friend or two so we coordinate pretty well but there's still the inevitable dumbass teammate cropping up on occasion, even in ranked. on the whole find it rather fun but yeah there's no way to compeltely escape retards. just the other day i had some fucking magikarp that played like a complete retard and kept spamming quick chat notifications, i could have strangled him.
still love my critters in silly costumes tho. i'm so happy they added psyduck, he was my very first fave when i was a little kid.

No. 432175

>>432063
>I'm surprised they are hated
>autists
Well idk what else to tell you kek

No. 432177

>>432138
You really just have to see it as a fun game and not life or death of you win or not. I had to take a break and after coming back that rage I got when someone on my team was a noob had disappeared

No. 432186

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It's over

No. 432189

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No. 432221

>>432186
Well I guess saying Khu and Centro are fake is the only good thing the leaker ever did. Still, pot calling the kettle moment kek

No. 432222

>>432221
Who is khu?

No. 432226

>>432222
"Leaker" known as "riddler_khu" on twitter who keeps dropping "riddle" clues about the new games that stupid gullible people obsess over. He's treated as a trusted source by many leakbros for no reason other than like guessing something obvious once in a while. He is straight up wrong most of the time and the leakbros still think he's right, it's borderline a religion at this point

No. 432243

>>432039
I'm not the anon who reported her, but the issue isn't that she's posting the characters, it's that she's spamming them, and borderline avatarfagging. It's annoying that she's constantly trying to steer the conversation back to these Literal Who characters from one of the worst mainline games in the franchise.

No. 432245

>>431856
Get asshurt about a ban and trying to start an infight with whoever reported you is retard behavior and 100% grounds for a redtext. A redtext is the farmhands telling you to stop doing whatever you're doing, so of course you're going to catch a ban if you resume that behavior after your ban expires.

No. 432251

>>432243
I understand your annoyance but just try and contribute with any other pokemon related thing you want to talk about instead and ignore the other pokemon posts you don't like or agree with, I know this isn't common on lolcow but plenty of imageboards can have like 2-3 simultaneous conversations at the same time in the same thread, it's no big deal. It may be more than one anon posting submas, these characters have always been popular, so of course some people will want to talk about them. Or maybe someone can make a submas thread, I think it could be fun. But for now, posting pokemon things in the pokemon thread is more than okay, I'm not someone who ships characters and yet I'm not annoyed, I simply scroll down and try to reply to other things that are more my taste.

No. 432254

>>432189
>>432186
What were the last things they leaked? Which gen/games? Did they run out of material already? Or are they waiting for gen 10 and legends arceus to drop so they can leak more? And I'm guessing they won't be present through 2025 right?

Also, does any nonna know where all the real leaked material can be viewed? Please no discord servers or 4chan, I would like to see a solid archival website with this content on it but I guess that's too much to ask

No. 432289

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>>432243
you realize there's like 4 anons in here who were happily talking about submas right? are you going to report the people posting N a lot too? or do you just report when it's a character you don't like? and no i don't believe that you aren't the reporter because who else would get this pissy, lmao. even /vp/ didn't hate the train autists and there were plenty of threads about them. no one was spamming them anyway, anon was answering a question about their personalities.
and i'm sorry but they're not literal whos they won 2nd and 3rd place in a popularity contest. sorry your husbando didn't.

No. 432290

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>>432243
Nah I can guarantee you there was more than one SubMas poster these weeks.
I just like a lot Unova's trainers and Emmet is definitely husbando material among them (unlike Burgh, who I will bully forever due to that whole "I tried drawing a man by taking inspiration from what female staff likes" kek).
That said, imo making a separate thread for posting about trainers/SubMas is a waste… this thread is enough for all sorts of Poképosting.

No. 432291

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>>432290
yeah, i don't like some of the characters being posted here, and i act like a fucking adult and let other people play in the sandbox instead of reporting them. reporter and farmhand should feel embarrassed.

No. 432295

>>432291
You can also just not act like an obsessed autist and have some self awareness.

No. 432296

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No. 432298

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i want newfags to leave
>>432226
he's annoying as fuck. redditor tier contributor

No. 432299

>>432243
>Literal Who characters from one of the worst mainline games in the franchise
I don't even disagree with the second part but how can you call them literal whos when they're some of the most popular characters of their gen? Popular enough for one of them to be in Legends Arceus? Is it because you didn't do any of the side content and just rushed to the ending of BW and called it a day? The subway battles aren't a mandatory thing to beat the main part of the game but still.

No. 432300

why isn't farmhand banning the retard who keeps sperging over submas being posted? they're derailing the thread more than anyone has in the past year over this shit(complaints go in /meta/)

No. 432310

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>>432295
Drink some water

No. 432311

>>432243
>worst mainline games
Retard opinion, BW are some of the best if not the best in the franchise

No. 432416

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>>432243
>one of the worst mainline games in the franchise
Not a submasfag but you're wrong. So this is all the seething is really about? Dumbass gen wars?
>she's constantly trying to steer the conversation back to
Kek, what? Legit if you don't like the thing those 3 anons keep talking about (yes, it's not just one anon), you are completely free to start another conversation that other people are probably gonna want to contribute to. You know how imageboards work, right? There can be multiple topics being discussed simultaneously, and you don't have to participate in a convo you have no interest in. This thread is for all things Pokémon, including topics you don't like.

>>432186
Thankfully, I got all I wanted from the leaks. It had to end at some point. I'm glad it's over, tbh. Let's not forget that the leaker "forgot" to delete all those employees' personal info in one of the folders. Honestly, I would've been fine if none of this had happened in the first place.

>>432254
>What were the last things they leaked? Which gen/games?
I think the last file leaked was GFDocs.7z, at least according to the Rentry and the /vp/ general. It contains various documents related to many projects (main games, spin-offs, anime, TCG, websites, PWC promo art, etc.), I think up to Gen 7. There's a lot of concept art in that one that wasn't in any of the previous leaked folders.
>Did they run out of material already?
Last I heard, the leaker was going to release some source code (either XY or SV, I forgot).
>are they waiting for gen 10 and legends *Z-A
The guy played a beta build of Legends Z-A, but doesn't want to release anything related to it, since it hasn't come out yet. He only gave his general opinion on the game, that it's fun despite the build being unfinished. I don't know if he's going to release anything else. His Discord friends are going to finish posting his remaining leaks in the future.
>does any nonna know where all the real leaked material can be viewed?
I got the link from 4chan. Dunno if it'd be ok to post it here. You have to download the files, though. AFAIK there isn't a single website to view all the leaked stuff online.

No. 432450

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new gold & silver 25 year commemorative plushes. they're very pretty

No. 432457

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>>432299
>Popular enough for one of them to be in Legends Arceus?
Speaking of, it makes me depressed knowing he has lost his memory and probably will never go back to his world, why did they do that to him

No. 432459

>>432416
Thank you for answering all my questions nona!
>I got the link from 4chan. Dunno if it'd be ok to post it here. You have to download the files, though. AFAIK there isn't a single website to view all the leaked stuff online.
I guess it's ok, but it's such a bummer that nowadays there's no real archival website for this type of thing anymore, you know? It's always discord or some random link.
>Let's not forget that the leaker "forgot" to delete all those employees' personal info
I feel bad for the employees that got their info leaked too. Not deleting that from the leaks feels evil to me. If they never released anything new about those leaks I would also be satisfied to be frank.

No. 432462

>>432290
I'm not opposed to a poketrainer thread (could be very cute) but I agree that this thread for now suffices for all kinds of pokeposting.
As a contribution, I watched this video recently and I was surprised to learn that Leaf the character and Green are not really the same person? If anyone else watches this let me know what you thought!

No. 432465

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>>432457
maybe we'll get time traveler emmet in the next legends game and they'll reunite in the third? lol

No. 432466

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are there any genderbends you have seen that you like anons?

No. 432468

>>432466
I don't like Pokémon genderbends but to be fair, I haven't seen many. I like their hair in this pic.

No. 432481

>>432466
Ohhh they cute kek I like them
>>432465
I hope so nona because thinking about him being stuck in the past makes me so depressed, a fate worse than death

No. 432486

>>432450
I NEED THEM

No. 432494

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No. 432495

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No. 432496

File: 1731671114172.jpg (61.07 KB, 1500x1500, 1000067234.jpg)

i love mimikyu, post your favorite Pokémon

No. 432498

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>>432496
so cute!
I love mimikyu (and gengar) but my fave will always be marshadow ngl. he's my buddy in pogo!

No. 432504

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No. 432505

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>>432466
I don't get the appeal
>>432504
Pretty unicorn! I wish Galarian Rapidash was an actual unique Pokemon rather than a regional variant.

No. 432516

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>>432496
Oddish for as long as I remember

No. 432526

File: 1731682879377.jpg (840 KB, 2048x1786, 1000067257.jpg)

>>432516
Oddish is so cute, I love Pokémon with derpy expressions

No. 432531

>>432516
my favorite pokemon is the frog featured in that card

No. 432535

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>>432496
I love Clefable so much!

No. 432538

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>>432516
i love this little guy. such a simple and adorable design

No. 432541

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>>432496
I know this is basic but Espeon has a special place in my heart.

No. 432544

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>>432541
Samefag, Shiinotic is a close second. I love this creepy little bastard.

No. 432551

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>>432496
Ghosties are good

No. 432554

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>>432551
chandelure's design is so cool, it looks perfectly halloween-y and yet so cute. i love lampent too

No. 432570

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>>432466
Genderswap Elesa and Skyla are pure sexo
>>>/m/430985
>>>/m/430986

No. 432578

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So detransitioners have adopted the salamander as their symbol (because they can regrow limbs) so now I'm wondering which pokemon would fill that role best? Charmander isn't very salamandery despite the name

No. 432579

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>>432496
Squirtle was my first starter and still my fav.

No. 432580

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>>432578
What about Quagsire?

No. 432583

>>432526
This made me really happy… It's so wholesome

No. 432584

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>>432579
thoughts on wartortle?
i think many middle evos are underrated tbh

No. 432585

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>>432584
I'm not really a fan. His side hair/ear things reminds me of a balding man. I think middles are in a rough position design wise. They're the halfway between cute and strong. The only ones I really think are better than either side a Blaxien and Torracat. Torracat mostly because I really hate Incineroar kek.
Sorry for low quality pic

No. 432588

>>432585
I'll always prefer Grovyle to Sceptile (even though I like them both) because of Mystery Dungeon.

No. 432589

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>>432496
Cyndaquil will always be my favorite.

No. 432594

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>>432516
>>432526
>>432531
Same
>>432580
Please don't turn quagsire into a trans symbol, she doesn't deserve that…
>>432584
>>432585
Ivysaur, bayleef, croconaw, dewott and wartortle are peak middle stages to me

No. 432595

>>432580
Cute but it's so derpy it kind of seems like an insult kek

No. 432598

>>432594
>Please don't turn quagsire into a trans symbol, she doesn't deserve that…
Detrans is quite literally the opposite of trans nona

No. 432608

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>>432578
>>432580
i think quagsire is perfect because it looks nice next to azumarill.
terf queen azumarill and her bestie quagsire who has seen the truth.

No. 432617

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No. 432619

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>>432598
Oh okay sorry lol
>>432578
What about picrel or goodra?

No. 432620

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>>432619
or this

No. 432667

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>>432620
i'd leave clodsire out of it, it hasn't got a clue what's going on

No. 432730

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>>432496
shroomish and breloom!

No. 432763

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>>432619
i love salazzle but a lot of people hate it, and it might be seen as mocking detrans women with its overt femininity? while others might see it as powerfully reclaiming femininity? idk. goodra is based on a slug though, not a salamander.
i like quagsire and don't see it as stupid, it's a beloved pokemon.

No. 432771

>>432763
Same here, I love Salazzle but others may get uncomfortable as she's kind of sexualized. Can be read as "Back to being a woman -> Back to being a sex object" or similar (or I might just be reading too much into it).
Quagsire is very cute and neutral, people love that line.

No. 432844

>>432578
It would be something with a divergent color scheme/theme between mid stage and final.
Ampharos maybe?
Ralts>Kirlia>Gallade works for detrans guys.

No. 432885

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>>432554
I've grown to like Chandelure more after noticing how art deco it is.

No. 432887

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>>432608
>>432617
Feels forced. Here's a Pokemon that troons themselves have turned into an anti-trans symbol.

No. 432892

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>>432887
Gallade is the one good moid. I also remember some trannies sperging about Hatterene because "IT HAS OUR COLOURS BUT IT'S VIOLENT AND HATES EMOTIONS!!!" kek. Maybe we could adopt the shiny version.

No. 432897

>>432887
how does it feel forced? are you just the person who hates azumarill's meme status?
"the shiny version of the tranny symbol because it has different colors" feels even more forced. it should just be a simple explanation.

No. 432898

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>>432885
personally i absolutely love its game animation. swinging chandelier!

No. 432955

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>>432897
What meme status? Literally nobody outside of this thread knows about TERF Azumarill.

No. 432956

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No. 432957

>>432955
well… duh. it's a lc meme. quagsire looks better next to azumarill than any others suggested imo. plus it fits the salamander theme best.

No. 432960

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>>432955
terf queen azumarill is a lolcow original

No. 432964

>>432955
Do you not understand what a site culture is kek
>>432608
Real, I support it
>>432897
>are you just the person who hates azumarill's meme status?
Definitely that one nonny who always shows up to seethe about TERF azumarill being a thing whenever she gets brought up. Weird hill to die on imo

No. 432968

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>>432496
There are tons of Pokemon I like though Gallade is one of them. He's such a protective gentleman.

>>432887
Nice, I love him even more.

No. 432973

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>>432964
>Weird hill to die on imo
there's a surplus of obsessed autists in here huh
>>432496
i have a lot of favorites, but if i had to pick one, maybe mew. it's just so cute.

No. 432993

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>>432897
>>432964
>>432973
It's so easy to get you people riled up over nothing.

No. 432995

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>>432993
so it's decided? terf and detrans icons azumarill and quagsire ♥

No. 432996

>>432995
I still prefer Salazzle

No. 432997

File: 1731834300970.jpg (997.73 KB, 1240x1654, Froslass.jpg)

>>432887
>>432968
Froslass works better. She also evolves using the anti-trans stone (aka the dawn stone), and she is known for killing men.

No. 433000

>>432973
>>432973
>Definitely that one nonny who always shows up to seethe about TERF azumarill being a thing whenever she gets brought up. Weird hill to die on imo
>there's a surplus of obsessed autists in here huh
TERF queen Azumarill would have the Subway Masters as her cute butlers.
Then one day she sees thay they're balding and she abandons them as post-wall moids.
TERF detrans queen Quagsire ponders if any of this is feminist at all but then she remembers it's just a shitpost on a gossip forum's side board so she just chills with her Clodsire gf.

saged for autism kek

No. 433035

>>432608
Honestly a good point. Also in mystery dungeon quagsire is super powerful but chill and unbotheted by everything. Evolving into being mentally strong so you can no longer be affected by troon tactics and being at peace with yourself fits detrans.

No. 433053

File: 1731852523851.gif (372.44 KB, 498x498, IMG_6232.gif)

I love the entire wooper line. they're all so cute

No. 433055

>>433053
Absolute thug life weed cat wtf

No. 433067

>>433053
why doesn't clodsire just use a poison type move? is he stupid?

No. 433081

>>433067
Yes but also weedcat is a meanie

No. 433096

>>433067
Clodsire did, that's why weed cat runs away with the poison skull

No. 433103

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>>433067
he did poison weedcat. you're next btw

No. 433104

>>432995
This is animated so SMOOTHLY I can't stop watching it

No. 433125

>>432997
There can be more than one terf pokemon imo

No. 433128

>>432996
nta but quagsire is the better choice. Her smiling expression is one of peace and joy - good metaphor for the life detrans can find after leaving the gender cult.

No. 433137

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>>433128
agree. quagsire is deceptively strong too, appearing unassuming and perhaps something to underestimate. but its typing is one of the strongest in the meta, and its ability "unaware" means it can shrug off statted-up pokemon's attacks.
like i said i do love salazzle but i think it can be misinterpreted.

No. 433191

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Pokemon if American

No. 433192

>>433191
Team Galactic were basically terrorists (even moreso in the manga) so they would be a force of nature if they were allowed to have guns kek. Also Team Plasma looks awesome here.

No. 433234

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Happy anniversary to Scarlet/Violet!

No. 433239

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>>433128
>>433137
quagsire is very successful in her professional life as well

No. 433245

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>>433191
This gives me a fun idea. Burger anons, if you could choose a Pokémon to represent your state, what would you pick? I'd choose either Aurorus or Gogoat to represent Colorado. A lot of fossils have been found here, and the ice type is appropriate for the climate. Gogoat is because of its resemblance to bighorn sheep and it's grass type, so cannabis.

Alternatively, non-Burgers, what Pokémon would you pick to represent your country, province, or city?

No. 433254

>>433239
I need to visit Kochi prefecture right now to support my queen.

No. 433270

>>433191
it looks cool but if guns existed in the pokemon universe pokemon would be pretty redundant. team rocket especially would just be shooting everyone in their way lmao

No. 433281

>>433245
I think it should be limited to Unova and Alola pokemon, since those are the actual american pokemon we've been given
>>433270
I think several pokemon like steel types would be immune to bullets, and I imagine having a psychic type to lift the enemies gun to make them fire it into themselves would be a hazard for gun users kek

No. 433286

>>433270
It would be just like palworld then

No. 433293

>>433281
By this logic, the Pokémon from Gen 1-3 would all be concentrated in Japan, which would mean that one relatively small country would have like one third of the world's biodiversity. Also African, South American, and Australian anons would just be fucked because there are no Pokémon games that take place in those locations. Let people pick whatever they want.

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i am now thinking about the war lt surge talked about

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can the next threadpic be a comfy anime cap please

No. 433428

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>>433392
We already agreed a while ago that it should be Misty or Jessie or both.

No. 433477

>>433293
Unovan (and Alolan) pokemon were created specifically with american culture in mind though, they ARE literal representation of the country! I'd like to hear what nonas think of those pokemon, did they succeed in representing your state?

No. 433480

>>433428
Yes it needs to honor Rachel Lillis our fallen queen

No. 433491

I tried playing Sword for the first time after saying I'll never ever play another mainline game again. It's somehow both extremely fast and slow paced. I hate being shoehorned into walking in literal Hallways. At least Gen 5 has some degree of exploration even with the game forcing you to progress with the story. The only positive I can say is the Wild Area is fun. But at that point I'd rather replay PLA instead.
>>433477
The pigeon mon made me laugh when it was revealed because it was scarily accurate to city pigeons kek
But I kinda wish they covered more than NYC-Westchester area for Unova, they don't even feature all the boroughs. Only 2 at best.

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>>433477
Ngl I thought it was funny that the American nation was the one where they chose to do trash

No. 433493

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