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No. 468715
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.
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I love how his clothes are stitched together because he's too tall for regular clothes kek
No. 468721
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>>468700i don't like whitney being changed to fairy type. she's iconic for her miltank and normal fits her really well since she's happily normie. she only got into pokemon because everyone else was and just happens to be really good at it.
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perfect threadpic, bless you anon
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azumarill never stops winning, it's super strong in both unite and go
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>>468721Fairy is the only type that does not have its own gym in either Kanto or Johto. Whitney could specialize in two types at the same time as Larry (a Normal-type gym leader) does to fix that. Fairy also fits her because pink and cute.
Her Miltank is iconic, but half of her team is a Fairy Pokemon. And her gym is designed after that Fairy-type.
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>>468740
soooo we should just get rid of her miltank? hell no that's why she's the most memorable gym leader in the whole game
No. 468746
>>468743>Whitney could specialize in two types at the same time>we should just get rid of her miltank?two teams. a normal one and a fairy one. miltank would be the ace of the normal team and clefable would be the ace of the fairy team.
if those two pokemon had to be included in both teams then miltank could be terastallized into the fairy type and clefable into normal.
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>>468746i guess i don't see why gym leaders would suddenly specialize in two types or have two separate gyms, seems arbitrary. raihan was cool because although he was billed as a dragon specialist his strat was based on weather.
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>>468721I don't understand why they decided to remove Whitney's association with baseball and aipom. It's such an unnecessary change.
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related to the fairy stuff i want to see a fairy trainer who isn't "cute" or trains fairies for their cuteness. i want to see a gym leader who picked them because fairies are tough and can be tricksters
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Fairies are cute and Eeveelutions are cute!
>>468764They latch on to anything and everything. Just ignore them.
No. 468786
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>>468764sylveon was made by a woman, for women.
>Sugimori added that the flagship Fairy Pokemon Sylveon had also been designed by another Game Freak artist. "Sylveon was by [designer] Atsuko Nishida," Sugimori added. "Generally speaking, with the straight-on cute Pokemon like that, you can leave those to Nishida and you'll never go wrong that way. What you see in the game is pretty much exactly what she submitted to me; I gave it the OK immediately. >>468765why? too popular?
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>>468789flareon does just fine in pve. if you want to use it for pvp it's definitely lacking, but works well as a guts +
toxic orb + facade user. it can learn trailblaze too which is great.
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i've been playing TCG Pocket a lot recently. it's gachaslop and the actual TCG mechanics are slightly lobotomized but like. I just really enjoy the cards. Got this weird fucked up eevee today.
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>how do you do fellow women?
No. 468856
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>>468851That is called an encounter ratio. It is the likelihood for the
player to encounter a specific kind of pokemon.
In X and Y, your first encounter is 100% a pidgey. That does not mean that all the pokemon in that route are pidgeys.
No. 468858
>>468825I have this card irl. Some pokemon cards are so "ugly" or simple that it makes me feel I could make it as an artist in japan lmao
>>468852>but i've definitely seen ppl say Chikorita isn't cool because it's girlyYeah this, it's cute and has a giant flower (meganium) so boys didn't like as much back in the day. Saying it's misogyny is a bit much though imo, it's not that people would say "it's weak and bad
because it's girly" it's just that boys on average prefer the giant alligator or angry fire-badger over the pretty flower. Same way I as a little girl didn't like machamp because it's just an ugly muscle dude in briefs, didn't mean my opinion was rooted in hating males.
No. 468862
>>468858ok yeah thats fair, I'm kinda on the fence on whether this counts as explicitly misogyny.
also i remember having a similar experience to your machamp one when I was a kid, I had PMD Blue Rescue Team and my player character was a Squirtle and my partner was a Chicorita, and when I finally got to evolve them in the postgame, I was so fucking angry when Squirtle turned into the hulking monster creature that Blastoise is while Chikorita just became more regal and cool. they really made my dear Squirtle experience twink death.
No. 468864
>>468851>>468860The 87.5% male gender ratio only exists to keep certain pokemon rare because they are meant to be more special. GF didn't want the players to just breed more of those pokemon.
>because your first encounter is hardlocked to Pidgey and then it changes after that.Do all the other pokemon temporarily become pidgeys in the meantime? No, the game itself forces
you specifically to encounter a pidgey, just like how game forces you to encounter male Eevees 87.5% of the time.
No. 468873
>>468870>Gamefreak's intention for how the game mechanics work doesn't change the fact that Chikorita is mostly male.It's the
ENCOUNTER rate. Why are you pretending to be retarded?
No. 468907
>>468873>>468870I get where you're both coming from, but I think the gender ratio implies there are sometimes more of one gender than the other. You're encountering more male Chikorita because there are more male Chikorita. Which I think is what
>>468870 is saying. Pokemon with 100% gender ratio like Gallade is implying there aren't females of that species. Of course this affects the encounter rate as well. Also
>While Terapagos as a species has a 50-50 gender ratio, the only Terapagos encounter is set to always be male. Because of this, a female Terapagos cannot currently be legitimately obtained.This implies there are equal amounts of male and female Terapagos, but you can only encounter the male one currently. This might not be true in the pokemon universe, but it is in the games imo.
No. 468913
>>468909Yes, but that is only relevant to the player.
In X and Y, the starters have a 87.5% chance being male when picked by the player. But those same starters have a 100% being female when picked by Shauna.
No. 468928
>>468907>I get where you're both coming from, but I think the gender ratio implies there are sometimes more of one gender than the other. nta but I agree and disagree. For wild pokemon, yes. For starters? No. Starters are NOT found in the wild and the professors can easily choose and limit the number of male/female pokemon presented to trainers. The fact that they're not in the wild and that they're the entire regions starters given out to all new trainers implies they're actually bred by human somewhere. Females are needed for breeding and for raising the babies, so handing out fewer of them makes sense. There's no reason to think every starter species just happens to have that gender ratio, it's more likely it's a mix of ratios but the males are favored to be given out to new trainers. Remember that gender ratio is not a stat or "fact" that appears in the dex (unless it's in the trivia text), it's just the ratio for which they appear in the game. Another thing to note is that "genderless" pokemon aren't actually genderless, they're called "gender unknown". Meaning humans just aren't really sure how to figure out what they are or how they breed. So gender ratios aren't set in stone.
Plot relevant pokemon like terapagos are obviously individual characters on their own so their gender ratio is mostly irrelevant.
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Beyond upset we get a Kalos game but we don't get all the iconic routes or town!
No. 469077
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guys, stop arguing about the starter gender thing. it was made to stop people from easily breeding the starters lmao. it's also to lower the chance of you getting a shiny because due to coding, females are more likely to be shiny. that's literally it.
No. 469080
>>469059we will never get to hear this…
imagine if the background music turned out to be just different arrangements of the lumiose theme.
No. 469101
>>469077>>469078>it was made to stop people from easily breeding the starters lmao. it's also to lower the chance of you getting a shiny because due to codingTrue, in Gen 1 and Gen 2 it's literally impossible to get a female shiny starter pokemon, due to the DV always being too low to be a shiny if it's a female pokemon.
>Due to Shininess being determined by DVs, certain oddities arise in other things that are also determined by DVs in Generation II:>It is impossible to have a Shiny Pokémon with a gender ratio of seven males to one female that is female in those games, as the highest Attack DV a female Pokémon with a gender ratio of seven males to one female can have is 1, while the lowest Attack DV a Shiny Pokémon can have is 2. https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Shiny_Pok%C3%A9mon#Quirks
>females are more likely to be shinyWrong, Shininess and Gender is determined by your personal values in Gen 3 and onward.
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No. 469404
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I'm new to "seriously" wanting to collect TCG cards of my favorite pokemon. I'd like to collect all cards on which those favorite pokemon are featured, even if it's in the background of another pokemon or on a trainer card. For example if I wanted all natu cards I'd get this bouffalant card because they're on it. But I can't seem to find any database that lists anything like that. Does anyone happen to know of something like that?
No. 469414
>>469404You have yo scroll thru unrelated Natu pics but this page seems to be a good resource. It might not have all cards, but on a quick view I saw a few that fit your criteria, so it's a good start.
Replace the "Natu" on the url for your chosen pokemon, this is just the spanish pokemon wiki's category/image list link, the one you get when clicking "See all [X] images" under a pokemon's main data sheet.
Bulbapedia has the same thing, but it doesn't list the cards if the pokemon appears on the background (or at least it didn't for the ones I checked some time ago)
https://www.wikidex.net/wiki/Categor%C3%ADa:Natu No. 469415
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I find it so weird that the act of FLYING has its own Pokemon type. It's like having a type for walking or swimming.
No. 469423
>>469416The only Flying "wind" moves are Air Cutter, Defog, Tailwind, Gust, and Hurricane.
Flying was actually supposed to be called the "Bird-type" before they presumably remembered that Zubat and Butterfree existed.
No. 469424
>>469415in the code of Gen 1, there's an unused "Bird" type. Probably got changed to Flying because that's more in line with the others, cause like, water types are water types and not fish types right. But then we also have the bug type. hmm.
Having it be the air type would have worked i guess but might have been slightly confusing too.
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>>469471>It's usually based on animals living in or around waterIt's about the moves. Some moves like Aqua Step and Surging Strikes don't involve the element of water. And moves like Crabahammer and Octazooka are only Water type because they are related to animals that live in the water.
>>469490I love those types mentioned, especially Fairy!
No. 469510
>>469504>It's about the movesA water type pokemon having a water type attack makes perfect sense to me. If the pokemons life essence is full of water energy then the attack would naturally have that too.
Are you sure that video scrote isn't just creating problems out of thin air to seem smart?
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>>469523It's a direct reply to
>>469504 what are you even on about? I agree with
>>469510 that a pokemons type can be seen as an inherent energy or essence (why else would they have types?) so their signature attacks of course have the same type because the pokemon is using its own energy to make the attack. And a water living creature like a crab or octopus having the water type energy because they live in/near water is just obvious. Saying "crabhammer is only water type because they're based on crabs" as if that is somehow NOT super obvious and logical is confusing. Where is the disconnect? Out of all the types to be confused about water seems the most obvious and straightforward.
Also just for the record the scrote in the video in
>>469457 is a massive troon shill. He made a video on womens perspective on men playing as the female player in pokemon games (because he does that himself). He didn't ask real females, and instead brought in men, including a filthy cat ear wearing troon as the "female/gender expert" who said it's fine if men are turned on by the female characters they play as because "everyone (meaning himself) thinks that too huehuehue". So this scrotes video was essentially debunking "men playing as Hilda to see her ass is sexist and creepy" into "troons are women and they also sexualize Hilda so it's fine for men (like me!) to do it too".
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>>469574>and instead brought in men, including a filthy cat ear wearing troonhere's the troon from that video mentioned, in case anyone wanted to see him
No. 469580
>>469490I've always liked ghost, psychic and steel. I
would appreciate ice as the designated "glass cannon" type if it wasn't SO weak defensively.
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>>469490steel and poison with fairy coming in close second (i really dislike some of the fairy types but adore others)
why do you dislike dragon? i agree a lot of them are ugly but some are soooo cute. i love the cute/weird/pretty dragon designs
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>>469575>in case anyone wanted to see himno we did not
No. 469620
>>469490Electric is a lot of fun to use and I love the electric designs. Also steel, fire, flying, water. I like the idea of ice but not the reality of using ice Pokemon. I'm not a fan of fairy and the way they retroactively made a bunch of Pokemon fairy. The way fairy is strong against dragon feels like a too obvious way to fix the metagame, and the weakness to steel and poison feels random. But I'm nitpicking since dark's weakness to fighting and bug is also pretty random and it's another type that was obviously made to nerf psychic. I guess the theme is fairy types are magical creatures and they're sensitive to modern society. Maybe I just need to try out more fairy types to have them grow on me.
>>469574I used to not really care if men played as female characters in games because it's such a who cares issue, but these days I'm paranoid it's a sign of imminent troonism. Nobody would really care about it if men didn't feel the need to defend their choices to other men to prove they're so macho.
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>>469490ghost type best type
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>>469669if only they were all like kyle broflovski
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>>467236At least Team Star's admins are memorable unlike these irrelevant clowns whose names I can't even remember
No. 469803
>>469620Fairy is weak against Poison and Steel because poison and iron are common weaknesses of faeries in folk tales, they're also resistant to Bug for similar reasons, folk tale faeries were said to ride forest insects as steeds.
Dark ("Evil" type in the original Japanese and other languages,it's not literal darkness) is the villainous type that is weak against the heroic Fighting and Bug types, let me remind you Japan thinks bugs are really cool and badass as seen in shows like Kamen Rider.
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Replaying HGSS and I just wanna say Lyra is cute
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>>469810She is. Just like the average Johto pokemon.
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The anime is doing a timeskip!
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>>469832I wish she was Kris but updated.
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This is the first time since Ash’s Greninja that I’ve seen anipoke fans being this excited for one pokemon to debut.
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>>470316hate this stupid thing. stop making cute little kitty starters turn into ugly fursonas
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opened my 3ds to look through lumiose city to look for little details that might be important to ZA and I find unova and johto in the art museum, which explains the starter choices ig. but i dont think we needed two johto starters as a painting of the sinnoh battle frontier was also present next to the unova painting, we shouldve gotten chimchar and snivy along with totodile for the starter trio instead imo
No. 470485
>>470476>we shouldve gotten chimchar and snivy along with totodile for the starter trio instead imoThe problem with those 2 are that chimchar was heavily featured in both the last legends game AND the gen 4 remakes. It already had 2 recent games in which it got to shine. One of which was the direct prequel (in terms of game series, not story) legends game so there was no way they'd pick one of them.
Snivy would have been fine, but think about the fact that the final evolutions may get new forms like in the last legends game. If we assume those will be French inspired due to it being in Kalos, then that puts them in a tricky spot because serperior is already inspired by that sort of European/French royalty. Basically they can't Frenchify the already French pokemon, and if they still did it that's just a waste because you'd just have 2 of the same concept!
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>>470048Glad they didn't forget about her in masters. Makes me really want a lets go pikachu eevee style Johto remake.
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>>470466i am just tired, sprigatito and litten were both such cute designs
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>>470683Whats your Issue with lets go exactly (was it the catching system) because the following mechanic is done great(It's also best looking Pokemon game on switch).
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>>470686If these billion times cooler, unique, more pokemony designs for fakemon looked like this
>>470454 then no thanks. I'm glad GF doesn't take advice from LC.
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>>470686>good adult fan artist absolutely humiliate game freaks designers by making a billion times cooler, unique, more pokemony designs for their fakemonswhat really sucks is that GF sees those and tries to avoid "copying". i'm sure most of these fanartists would be thrilled and not care about getting credit or wanting to copyright strike them, but you know.
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>>470717I'm just so tired of anthropomorphic starters. It's not the fact they all end up on 2 legs nowadays, but it's that they are too human in proportions. I'd have loved meowscarada if they kept the proportions more animalistic like this design. I love how it's pictured lounging in the tree like an actual big cat. modern pokemon starters are so weird and ugly. Thank God we're getting chikorita again in za, it'll be impossible to turn meganium into a walking fursuit with a career.
No. 470786
>>470784fuck, meant to reply to
>>470686 my bad
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>>470784i can relate it to typhlosion. it stands up at times, but it doesn't look like an anthro animal. plus it also goes four-legged most of the time. it's like how bears stand up sometimes. the four-legged pokemon just start standing up and get human proportions and it sucks.
No. 470809
>>470760>i'm sure most of these fanartists would be thrilled and not care about getting credit or wanting to copyright strike them, but you know.I fully get them not doing it, because trusting random fan artists to not sue them out of the goodness of their own hearts when they earn millions upon millions on the designs is a massive fucking risk. Sadly it kinda makes me hate fanartists for ruining real pokemons potential. And maybe they're happy the first day, but what about in a decade from now when they're a starving no-name artist and even just the publicity alone from the legal case will sky rocket them to "fame"?
My issue is that there are general things that are just universally seen as cool (like how charizard is "just a dragon" but that's cool) and game freak refuses to touch those things. If they made a pretty basic giant wolf starter that would be 100% guaranteed to be super popular. But that's too "predictable" for them so they make a bird with a giant ass instead. Yay.
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>>470797I feel like I'm the only person who thinks SWSH was way better looking
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>>470810I also prefer the mystery dungeon switch remakes style to the let's go games, but I get that not everyone likes the painterly fairytale book style they went with
No. 470927
>>470809>because trusting random fan artists to not sue them out of the goodness of their own hearts when they earn millions upon millions on the designs is a massive fucking risk. Sorry but I don't agree with you that this is the reason. TPC own the biggest media franchise in the world, I really don't believe they couldn't beat literal nobodies in the court room with the amount of money they have. And ultimately what legal case would the artists of these designs even hold? You can't patent 'elemental animal' - there is such a grey area for 'inspired by' designs in media. Look at Palworld, they are being sued for infrigement of vague catching mechanics and not for any of their creature designs despite being blatent ripoffs of Pokemon.
>But that's too "predictable" for them so they make a bird with a giant ass instead. Yay.This is the reason I'm sure, GF are just put off by 'ideas that have already been done' and are instead obsessed with 'subverting expectations'. Most fanmons follow earlier gen design logic and don't introduce entirely new concepts half way through the evo line, like the later gen starters do.
No. 471007
>>470927>Sorry but I don't agree with you that this is the reason. TPC own the biggest media franchise in the world, I really don't believe they couldn't beat literal nobodies in the court room with the amount of money they have.Winning doesn't even matter that much. Fans would see as them stealing a pokemon design, making millions of $ on it, and then legally ruin the
victim while publicly denying stealing in the first place. And it would naturally make them all look like lazy incompetent art-thieves. It would be a huge scandal. So why waste time, money and their reputation (and thus sales) when they could just make something else instead?
>not for any of their creature designs despite being blatent ripoffs of Pokemon.Right, but we aren't talking about "inspired by" like palworlds shitty rip-offs, we were talking about actually copying fan designs that are better than game freaks own designs. If the designs are so different there's no legal case it's just not the same conversation.
No. 471013
>>471007>Right, but we aren't talking about "inspired by" like palworlds shitty rip-offs, we were talking about actually copying fan designs that are better than game freaks own designs. If the designs are so different there's no legal case it's just not the same conversation.Fair, I intepreted the op's post to mean that GF avoid treading on similar ground, not that they fear literally stealing an entire design unchanged. They would never do that, obviously.
>Fans would see as them stealing a pokemon design, making millions of $ on it, and then legally ruin the victim while publicly denying stealing in the first place. Have you met pokemon fans? kek they'd 100% defend them, even if the stealing was blatant, they are that into licking GF's asshole
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>>470809>giant wolf starterand mightyena, the throwaway "thing you encounter on the first route" fodder is more appealing as a pokemon design than fucking quaquaval.
No. 471094
>>469490I like Fire, Water, Dark and Dragon kek. I've always gravitated towards "cool" looking pokemon… cuter/beatiful pokemon were also often weak or very difficult to get (Milotic…) I'm also someone who gets very attached and hates to bench pokemon.
A question: how many shinies have you guys found "naturally", without masuda method or any other tricks? Because I must have played around 700 hours of pokemon through 6 gens (not a lot I know), and I have only ever found one shiny (Absol which I love, I'm still giddy about it).
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>>471094been playing pokemon since 1998 and only found two shinies, ever. i never shiny hunt btw. it was a spearow and a magikarp. one in crystal, one in ruby. i accidentally killed both. i also only caught pokerus once.
No. 471112
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>>471025I love Mightyena. I had one in my first Emerald Nuzlocke, named her Shade, and she carried me all the way to the battle against Wallace and kicked ass like a gigastacy.
I miss her~
No. 471122
>>471094>how many shinies have you guys found "naturally", without masuda method or any other tricks?xy was my first game, I found a shiny bagon and pancham, but I put a everstone on the pancham and traded it away for some reason LOL. never had anymore luck like that from what I remember until violet where I also came across shiny flamigo and mudbray
most of my shinies came from either the masuda method, or the hacked raids back before those got banned in swsh
No. 471129
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>>471114It’s how I imagine picrel sounds.
No. 471130
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>>471119we have this convo every thread but i still get mad. i miss when they were "pocket monsters" and not cereal mascots. a fucking soccer-playing rabbit? why would i want that instead of an ankylosaurus with a tree on its back? why would i want a spy lizard that shoots water from its finger like a gun when i could have a penguin with metal flippers? why the fuck would i want a crocodile with a bird on its nose that sings opera???
No. 471150
>>471112>>471025I love him sm I always kept mine until endgame
Too bad his shiny sucks ass, I hate piss yellow mons
No. 471165
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>>471157I just said fuck it and never evolved my Fuecoco. He grows up to be so ugly.
No. 471191
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>>471094I only caught one shiny in my whole life but it was a Swablu I named Aria (one of my fave gen 3' Pokemon) and I evolved her into the prettiest killing machine ever like I swear that Altaria was a game changer for me!
No. 471194
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>>471165god fuecoco is such a good design. how dare they? it reminds me of a pokemon-ified mario enemy. so cute, and it turns so fucking ugly with possibly the dumbest concept ever made in pokemon.
>>471152i thought palworld was gonna be cool until they showed us weird coomer mons and then it just totally died off
No. 471196
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>>471191altaria and other cute dragons make me not hate the dragon type. i actually love dragons irl, they're my favorite mythical animal, but so many dragon types are hideous.
>>471195i also hate the really flat shapes they put on like 99% of new pokemon
No. 471200
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I'm such a hypocrite though because I unironically love Incineroar kek. Every cereal mascot design is bad except for the single one I like.
Unrelated cute art.
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>>471198>The crocodile with a bird on it's nose was a great idea that plays with behavior found in naturei know they clean teeth and all, but yeah, they really ruined it. slowbro was so elegantly made as a symbiotic pokemon. the croc (i can't even remember its name rn) has way the fuck too much going on. is the bird even alive or is it just a flame? and it doesn't clean the teeth or do anything to benefit the croc or even harm it… all of it is so dumb and ugly.
No. 471205
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>>471200curious why you like it, not trying to infight or insult you i just think it's so ugly.
speaking of that what are your guys' favorite ugly/unpopular pokemon? i love diggersby for some reason. i think it's the hand-ears and its unbothered expression.
No. 471218
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>>471112The mightyena girl was cute.
No. 471223
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>>471200I guess same here. I don't hate Incineroar though I think he has a fun personality despite looking like a bara furry. His design is meant to look like those wrestlers with tigers or large wild cat masks.
No. 471225
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>>471205Not sure if he's unpopular or ugly but I really love Toucannon. Just a grumbly lil guy, he never left my S/M party. And its so funny bc real toucans really are assholes lmao
No. 471231
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>>471205They hate them cuz they ain't them.
No. 471232
>>471205I already sort of answered this in another reply but it's mostly the personality the pokemon radiates that really does it for me. I think people might actually hate this about it but incineroar feels like a singular character to me rather than, like, a general species of animal, and I happen to love the character it is. I'm a big fan of the SuMo anime and I also really loved both of the incineroars that showed up there.
More far fetched but I'm a tokusatsu fan as well and tokusatsu has these live shows where kids can come and do meet and greets with the stunt actors in costume after the shows. I personally imagine incineroar is popular with kids in the same way and I think it's cute lmao.
No. 471235
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>>471225people hate toucannon for being "just a toucan" the way they hate flamigo for being "just a flamingo". but i love them! maybe because i love birds but idk i enjoy simple designs.
No. 471238
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>>471205>what are your guys' favorite ugly/unpopular pokemon? Delphox. I just don't understand how anyone thinks she's ugly. It is her face since some people compared her to Arnold for having long fur on her cheeks and huge flame-looking furs on her ears? Is it the fur coat dress? From what I think, is that moids seethed that their fox loli Braixen turned out to be an "ugly" witch hag and of course Delphox being less popular compared to Braixen for being less fappable. Pathetic. She's super cool to me especially as a fox witch which I both love and her shiny is absolutely beautiful.
No. 471243
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>>471238i think delphox is pretty cool, though i really like this particular art of her and wish she kinda had that hunched look like h-typhlosion, makes them look kinda spookier! but i agree it has one of the best shinies in the whole series.
No. 471245
>>471205I'm surprised pokemon like slurpuff and alcremie r somewhat disliked, I think they're really cute and I love when pokemon are based on food.
also yamask it's the cutest ghost type to me
No. 471249
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>>471205Samfag but Jynx too because she's queen.
No. 471257
>>471205tbh I like a lot of pokemon that are often hated on because I don't really dislike any of them and I like any pokemon that I think has an interesting concept, for example I like palafin cause the superhero motif is cool to me
>>471238pokemon fans hate on her for having a fur dress meanwhile their favorite is lucario kek I remember naming mine hairy potter as a kid
No. 471273
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>>471205purugly, she's perfect
No. 471341
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>>471165Another thing I hate is that the apple/chili features get lost upon evolution. I really thought it would be a cool spicy chili crocodile in the end instead we randomly got… a stage clown. Fuecoco literally has the stem/leaves on the head! I don't like the new idea that evolutions need to be shocking and totally different from the previous evo, my favorite middle stages are ones like quilava and ivysaur who are just perfectly in the middle of the road between the pre and later evolution. I want to see where the evolution is going, I don't like being blindsided by some ugly ass shit appearing out of nowhere for starters! It really should be more of a straight line for starters specifically imo.
No. 471345
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>>471200>Every cereal mascot design is bad except for the single one I like.I think everyone is allowed to like 1 of the cereal mascots while still hating them in general. Usually you warm up to at least one through playing the games. I can't help but like hisuian decidueye because of it's goofy hat/hair but I'm still the first to call any hate for it
valid kek
No. 471346
>>471218Oh snap I want her to be the anime protagonist! She looks cool af and like she can handle some shit
>>471249>Jynx too because she's queenI love jynx for being overtly female in design, confident in herself, based on mythical man-killer creatures, and moids hate her because she's too ugly kek she's not for you dumb moids
No. 471349
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>>471238I like Delphox, but I always everstone my girl because for some reason its 3D model looks weird to me.
Maybe is the head? It looks so tiny compared to the body, but in 2D drawings it looks fine…
No. 471351
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>>471205My favourite of all time. People have actually argued with me that this cannot be someone's favourite. I don't get why!
No. 471353
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>>471349It's the dogshit 3D models with totally static poses. I swear so many designs from gen 6 onward have suffered because their 3D models are basically t-posing. Delphox is a perfect example, look at this sprite work that gives her a more dyanmic pose and actually shows her weapon that ties together the whole witch inspired design, looks so much better.
No. 471354
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>>471349all of the 3D models make the Pokemon look fat and washed out
No. 471356
>>466594>>468446I unironically really liked most of the gen 9 characters. I do agree that the game's 3D style looks abhorrent, but the designs are solid and I think a lot of them have way more personality than older characters. It's probably influenced a lot by external things because I think I've had the best time talking about characters with my friends this gen, fan art is all gorgeous too. Rika is probably one of my favorite characters of all time too, so many things about her just strike right.
But yeah, awful 3D style lead to nearly all NPCs looking irredeemably ugly and stiff. I wish the game preserved same visual style as SwSh, but better animated. If gen 10 moves further in this pseudo-Pixar direction, it's over.
No. 471372
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>>471353Wah those sprites looks amazing. Looking at my post again, I don't think the model looks that bad as how I remembered it (still very inferior to the artwork though) maybe I will evolve my Braixen after over a decade kek
>I swear so many designs from gen 6 onward have suffered because their 3D modelsI feel the opposite actually! With exceptions (a handful of gen 6 ones ironically since they were still figuring stuff out) the ones affected the most by the 2D->3D transition were gen 1-5 pokemon as those were designed with bidimensional art on mind. Gen 7-9 ones looks better because they were made for 3D from the start and take adventage of it with some idie animations and attacks, there are some pokemon I wasn't fond of until I saw them in-game.
I still hold a grudge over what they did to Meowth… It's such a cute and charming pokemon and they sucked all the life of it. I get having too much movement in 3D spaces can look bad so they can't be like BW sprites for example, but I wish they had given it a cute pose like all its previous sprites at the very least.
>>471354I give Hitmontop a pass because its in-game animation is kinda funny (even if I don't understand why it's standing on its legs), one of the few old pokemon they gave personality to its 3D model.
No. 471373
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>>471231I could never hate Sunflora because she was cute in Mystery Dungeon. My beloved unpopular Pokémon is the Nosepass line, they look so dopey and cute to me.
No. 471376
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>>471205I have many, but Maractus always stands out to me. I really like its cry and its design is so whimsical. Grumpig is another fun one to me. Just a kind little pig.
No. 471426
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>>471351Porygon? It's not even unpopular, that person was just a random hater
>>471354I miss sprites so much. I really wonder if they'll ever manage to get good enough at 3D to match how good the sprites looked. It's the same with humans, they fuck up proportions and poses.
To be fair the BDSP models are presumably done by ILCA, but because they did the same poses it's easy to compare them. See how in 3D his torso is too long, his arms are too thin and noodley and he is so stiff he can't even rest his arm on his leg like in the original pose! Even just the shape of the cap is wrong and his hair is too long for some reason. It's like they don't understand the appeal or weight of the fisherman sitting there sunken in for hours while fishing, putting his weight on his other leg while raising his rod. He's giving "alright then kid, let's have a battle!" while the new one looks like a team rocket members poor attempt at blending in, he's never fished a day in his life but wants to steal your pokemon as you can tell from his deranged face. They literally JUST had to match the sprite and they couldn't even do that!
No. 471431
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>>471372>I get having too much movement in 3D spaces can look badNot arguing against you nona but why would it look bad? Plenty of other games, including pokemon games have had better idle animations for battles! Pikachu should do like picrel when entering battle
No. 471494
>>471431Because my mind wandered a bit and thought triple battles were still a thing (they were my favorite format) haha…
For singles and doubles lots of idie movements is fine, but I thought of 6 3D-modelled pokemon moving the same way as BW sprites at the same and it looked a bit distracting to me. Or unnatural.
But yeah, they can look good and I hope Game Freaks makes the models move more lively in the future. I'm surprised they haven't done anything like your picrel considering how much they pamper Pikachu, it looks much better. Pokemon Showdown gave a few 'mons new battle stances and they're nice.
No. 471503
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I feel urbaine and taunie are supposed to vaguely resemble nancy and curtis from b/w, cause of how both pairs are assigned to the opposite gender player
I think ZA is gonna have a lot of nods to unova and maybe johto, hopefully not too much I wanna see if kalos characters get their own counterparts or something
No. 471624
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>>471157it's pretty amazing how much greninja shits all over inteleon. they have a lot of similarities, starting from a meek little pokemon and turning into an agile and sneaky pokemon. i don't love greninja's design because it's a little 2edgy, but it does everything better than inteleon. it's meant to be a ninja, which is something you could apply to a real-life animal, like any kind of stealthy carnivore. inteleon is based off a spy. there are no animals in nature that act like a human spy. greninja's design tells you how it moves and its "clothing" is just its tongue wrapped around its neck like a nija scarf which is honestly clever. inteleon has markings that resemble a suit, gloves and boots and it stands upright and strangely. greninja throws water shuriken using its water generating powers and inteleon uses a finger gun. that's retarded. it's fursona tier. and finally, inteleon has that faggy smug grin on its face while greninja just looks like it's going to fuck you up.
No. 471753
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>>471431Not very good at fighting games but looking back Pokken looked great.
No. 471761
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>>471759ugh is it really because of britbong shit? i like this redesign, it feels more elegant and eastern-inspired
No. 471777
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>>471624intelleon is so fucking ugly, I actually burned that thing from my mind just like quaquaval. and I swear I'm not the only one, I never saw anybody buy any merch of those loser, not even the contrarians that claim they looove the designs. I pray GF has learned after the past 2 gens to stop with these weird humanoid designs.
>>471759now I actually think the theme of a spy-chameleon is fine, it's the gross paper thin proportions they gave it that make it look so bad. if they made it more reptilian like picrel, it would have worked and probably actually been some peoples favourite water starter final evo.
No. 471798
>>471761I like this because it incorporates more of the 2nd evo's design elements, and drizzile has always been one of the starter middle stages that I like more.
Unrelated but I remember how much seething I saw on vp around the time of Galar's release claiming that Pokemon's design sense had gone to shit because they werw intentionally crafting designs like inteleon's to be husbando pokemon lol.
No. 471803
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>>471802>husbandoing GholdengoThis is the worst thing I've ever read on this site.
No. 471808
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>>471803I like gholdengo but i cant yume it.
coin stack penis sounds horrifying..>>471787well the original is more exaggerated and cartoony and the redesign looks more like actual human proportions to me if that makes sense? but thank you for amicably disagreeing
No. 471812
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>>471803Its really bizzare
but to be honest I find its yumes endearing. No. 471825
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>>471777>intelleon is so fucking ugly, I actually burned that thing from my mind just like quaquavalSame, I thought maybe I had gotten used to it by now but seeing it again now it really is straight up ugly. Human hands? Spider-leg-thin arms and weak legs? Turtle neck tank top shirt pattern, random ass cape??? Good god water type lovers are really being kicked and spat on, it's bullying at this point. I've literally never seen a fan design starter that is as bad as inteleon or quaquaval. Like picrel isn't perfect but it's at least 10 times better than the 2 we actually got. I just don't get it. When I talk to fellow fans most of us seem to dislike these new starters? How are they not getting the message? Does Japan love them or something?
At the time of gen 8 I thought maybe it was James Turners influence since he was the art director and I dislike a lot of his designs, but gen 9 had shit starters too and he left the company before those came out. Though now I see he is confirmed to have designed several gen 9 pokemon (paldean tauros, tatsugiri, dondozo, gholdengo) so he could easily have worked on the gen 9 starters too before leaving. He's also the guy who talked game freak out of making Galar a beautiful medieval inspired region to instead do modern soccer/sports so I really hate his taste and his negative influence on pokemon. I really hope his influence is gone in gen 10, though I'm sure it wasn't all his doing.
No. 471854
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No. 471872
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>>471825I love it when fakemon starters have their own distinct style like picrel. It feels like if the artist wanted they could make their own game with them without it infringing on pokemon, and at the same time it doesn't disappoint me that they aren't real because they're just not-pokemon enough
No. 471948
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>>471882As she said
>>471941Especially not after we got the whole Blue Berry Academy DLC.
Also, it received the most regional variants after Gen 1, 4 paradox Pokemon were Gen 5 Pokemon (+Kingambit), and Enamorus in PLA.
Gen 5 also had the most returning characters with Colress, Grimsley, and Professor Burnet in SM (and Ghetsis if you count him), and Ingo in PLA.
No. 471951
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>>471948ALSO the only Pokemon neither from Gen 1 nor 8 to receive a g-max form was Garbodor (unless you count melmetal)
No. 471955
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>>471860Here you go
>>471881Not yumes specifically but I've seen Gholdengo husbandofags call themselves coinfuckers.
No. 471970
>>471951>>471948>>471854Completely unrelated to your posts but I love this kind of immersed, daily life fanart.
>>471955What… Hey this is cute!
No. 472001
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>>471812I was going to judge but I used to yume Gallade before so I don't think it's my place.
No. 472333
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>>471970I like fanart of in-game locations
No. 472487
>>472333I wish I had gotten Platinum when it came out but now physicals are unjustifiably expensive.
Currently I'm waiting until my Japanese level gets high enough to make it the first Pokemon game I play in Japanese (through emulator).
No. 472526
>>472001>>472489nta but i think some are smarter than others, however, all of it makes me uncomfortable and creeps me out
>>472504pikachu to help power my electronics and also it's one of my favorites
No. 472527
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>>472504marshadow! if i can't get him then ditto
No. 472579
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>>472577Agreed. Pokémon are animals. Gijinkas on the other hand…
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>>472579i like the ones with armor
No. 472673
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>>472592only 3 of ash's pokemon are confirmed to be female. bayleef, snivy, and unfezant.
the only one of them that the pokemon fanbase ships with ash is latias.
No. 472713
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>>471948>>471945>>471941I was more thinking of a Legends game or just a full-blown sequel/re-imagining rather than BDSP slop. There's just so much potential to elaborate on those games, I want to see Castelia as the huge sprawling metropolis like how I always imagined it as a kid, I want to see Bianca taking over from Juniper as the new prof, I want to learn more about ancient Unova and the Abyssal Ruins lore, I want to figure out what the fuck the Village Bridge guy is singing, I want more AMERICA references, I want Pokemon Musicals that don't suck and a revamped Pokestar Studios, I would love a retelling of N's story in a more emotional or dramatic way, maybe in the nostalgia-overload style of ORAS. I get the feeling GF has been drip-feeding Unova references so they won't have to bother making another game from a generation that sold so poorly and relatively fewer people are nostalgic for
No. 472727
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I just realized how much of a missed opportunity it is that the game that takes place entirely in one city is not based on a microstate or city-state.
No. 472739
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>>472713I unironically want BW3 to become a thing. I think it's "unpredictable" enough for game freak to consider it for real some day. It would blind side all fans (except me I am the chosen seer of the prophecy kek)
No. 472931
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grasses
No. 472939
>>472739if/when we get new black and white games I'd be shocked if none of the new characters from the indigo disk dlc show up, it'd be such a missed opportunity
chances are one or more of the bb league elite 4 kids will either become a gym leader or an actual elite 4 member
No. 473486
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>>473008I wouldn't say that something is bad just because it's different. Meow looks different because it's the only Grass starter that was entirely designed to be an agile physical sweeper, while everyone else is slow and/or bulky (because Grass was meant to be the "support" type).
>>473480maybe the two of them stick out for being mammals
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No. 473488
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No. 473509
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if you were a gym leader what would you specialize in and what would your team be? for me it's poison. i would be a mid-game gym with only two pokemon and one is severely overleveled like jasmine
No. 473540
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>>473509this was fun to come up with lmao i would be a late game normal type gym in kalos, mega audino would be my ace and smeargle would set up trick room fo her
No. 473559
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I love Rika fanart and I love Rika overall, she's my favorite Elite Four' member ever.
And of course, I love her Clodsire.
No. 473614
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>>473610>pure coom material for menIt could be worse.
No. 473620
>>473618Is that what her relationship with Poppy is like? I remember it more like a babysitter playing along with a kid who thinks she's an adult.
Anyways I still think it's crazy that poppy is supposed to be 9 and looks like that kek
No. 473632
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>>473614>>473619salazzle is adorable idgaf what anyone says. men are insane. i love salazzle and refuse to let men who fuck dogs ruin my girl. also she's really fun in pokemon go battle league.
No. 473664
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>>471205I love Mudsdale and Delphox.
No. 473680
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>>473610>was entirely designed to be pure coom material for menWould it have been better had it been designed to be pure coom material for women? I don't see how it's any worse than Incineroar.
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No. 473727
>>473621NTA but when I got HGSS at release I beated the full game (Elite 4 twice + Red as well) with just a Nidoking because I was too lazy to train other pokemon kek
It's 100% doable, Pokemon games are easy. Also HGSS has a terrible level scaling, with wild pokemon being at Lv. 25 at most outside the post-game mountain, so I think carrying few critters is recomended if you want to avoid grinding as much as posible.
A few years back I also beat Pearl with a single Roselia, but that one was more of a fun challenge.
No. 473812
>>473794I keep it on when I take a walk outside. I don't keep up with any events at all though.
>>473799I love Bede too! I love that he's such a sassy little bitch and I love that Opal chose him over everyone else. I hope for a future Galar game in which he is the gym leader you face
No. 473813
>>473812Right? He's such a prickly brat who deep down just wanted to be recognized by somebody and Opal seeing the worth in him for who he is made my heart swell. A future game with Bede inheriting her gym might make me cry lol.
I don't get in my feelings over the games often but Bede really landed for me.
No. 473816
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Speaking of Opal, I still have a crush on her young design and my love is only enhanced knowing the kind of individualistic and powerful old crone she became. I'd give anything to see her at a midway point between this design and her current one. She's just the coolest.
No. 473823
>>473794yes, i'd give my id here but i don't want it to be tied to my irl at all haha
>>473680incineroar has more gay male fans than female fans. the only woman i've ever seen claim to like incineroar is a contrarian friend of mine who claims to love everything TPC does no matter what
No. 473879
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>>473816Speaking of Opal's design, I just noticed how most of the Galar female characters visibly wear makeup.
No. 473884
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>>473879well that's because the UK is famous for its amazing makeup techniques
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No. 473981
>>473816I love the design! I just hate the anime/cartoon trope of an old person suddenly growing their nose or ears 5 times larger, that's literally not the same person anymore and it's not how aging works!
>>473879It's not all of them but for the ones who do it makes sense.
No visible makeup: Bea, Melony, Marnie, Gloria, Sonia, Magnolia
Though I'm not counting just long eyelashes as visible makeup (because in that case plenty of male characters are wearing it too)
Visible makeup:
Nessa - is a literal fashion model
Honey - young gold digger wife (sorry not sorry)
Opal - stage diva
Klara - bitchy pop singer/social media influencer
Peonia - rebelling teen daughter
Oleana - sexy secretary trope
I really think it makes sense for all of their characters tbh! They're also older than for example the Alola crew where all the trial captains are kids.
>>473884kek nona
though given that a literal brit WAS the art director that gen… it's actually not impossible at least some of them (Honey) was a reference to that
No. 473986
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>>473981Melony wears lipstick
>MagnoliaI completely forgot that she even existed lol
No. 473989
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>>473986She has a natural shade of pink lips, could be either imo. Everyone else has such obvious makeup, they don't tend to be that subtle about it and since Melony is plump I could see that just being added to make her look rounder overall. Though either way I'd still argue it could fall under "no visible makeup" because it doesn't "read" as makeup to me
No. 473998
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I adore Professor Magnolia's design.
No. 474015
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>>473998i love drasna as another older lady. dragon trainers look best when they are older people instead of kids. they seem like they've spent more time harnessing the power of dragons
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>>473998>>474015Bertha is also a really good old lady's design, and her team also shows her experience in battle too.
No. 474174
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Favorite Mega?
No. 474192
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>>474174Chompers!
really should have been just a regular evolution No. 474298
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>>474192She's really fun to use as well.
No. 474318
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>>474174kangaskhan will forever be my favorite mega because it's so funny. no change at all, just the baby jumping out to also beat your ass
No. 474393
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Given the recent old lady talk, how do nonnies feel about Rhyme?
I personally like her, it was nice having a very untraditional granny design. Her design might be sort of out there but having her twin be extremely normal in comparison added a comedic stroke to things.
No. 474418
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>>474393I love her design. Though I cringed at first when I found that she was a rapper.
No. 474429
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>>474393>how do nonnies feel about Rhyme?The 2D art is pretty cool but the 3D models of her and Tyme (especially Tyme) look like a racist caricature. There were times when Tyme would smile with her eyes and mouth wide open and it looked like a "blackface smile" in the same way jynx does. I can't even find a screenshot of it though
No. 474537
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>>474393>>474429Ryme's model just for comparison
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No. 474596
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>>474174Wouldn't say it's my fave, but I really appreciate that while some just became a mess mega pidgeot is stil just a basic bird but a little bit fancier
No. 474630
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>still no fish water starter
No. 474648
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>>474174I love Mega Audino, it's literally a magical girl outfit made in Pokemon form, transformation sequence included.
No. 474689
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>>474174I like her Madoka inspiration.
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>>474648I normally played singles when ORAS was out but man if I could use Mega Audino on my team for double battles again I would
No. 474780
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>>474174Gardevoir and Gallade. They're both gorgeous and love the royalty look.
No. 474826
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>>474792we also have "too many" birds and reptiles and small furry animals and yet.
i think we could get past the awkward fish-on-land thing with a starter if it was like a mudskipper. like mudkip except actually a fish instead of some amphibian thing.
what i really want is a bug starter!
No. 474827
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some fun ideas for a bug starter
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No. 474829
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No. 474830
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No. 475018
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>>474418I couldn't find the original image of this so i edited it so i could have it as a wallpaper, hoenn is my fav, ty for sharing this cute pic
No. 475026
>>474826That thing looks disgusting, it would be a shit starter. They could have done a more fish like pokemon in a region like Alola if they had utilized water areas more but that shithead moid review going "too much water" ruined that forever for you, sorry nona.
>>474827>>474829Sorry, hate this too.
No. 475030
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I hate it when some dumb moid says "nobody likes that pokemon" and it's about a girly or cute pokemon, last time it happened it was gothorita which is literally one of my all time favorites because I love goth lolita fashion. She's not for you scrote, she's for the girls.
No. 475038
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>>475018I am glad you liked it, nonna!
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No. 475149
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>>475030Gothorita suffers a bit of mid-evo syndrome to me, but I enjoy her line, they're like the goth cousin of Jynx. Gothita's 3D animations are so cute too.
No. 475179
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Behold, the penis Pokemon!
No. 475204
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getting back into collecting pokemon cards again. i am interested in collecting yuka morii cards. i love her clay figures so cute and funny looking.
No. 475263
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>>475250The two of them along with the Hatterene line look great as a trio. The trio of witches!
doesn't include delphox though No. 475378
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Apologies for spoonfeeding request, I figure it would be best to ask here of all places.
I would like to get into the pokemon franchise even if it's just a single game or two, but I have absolutely no clue where to start and I feel so overwhelmed with the sheer amount of media out there. What game would be good for beginners? Is there anywhere I should start to learn about the lore? I would prefer if it were just the games, I don't think the anime or the card collecting would be for me. Is there any content creators who make pokemon content/gameplays I should check out? Thank you in advance, obligatory cute picrel since Gothorita was just mentioned.
No. 475382
>>475378The problem with Pokemon games, imo, is how varying in quality they are. The older games are very limited to the technological capabilities of their time, and it
shows. If you start with a newer game, like Sword/Shield or Scarlet/Violet, ancient games like Red/Blue or Gold/Silver become a
lot less fun by comparison. That's not to say the older games are bad, but they are not very accessible for new players. They're also spread out across a lot of consoles, nearly all of which are considered obsolete, up to and including the 3DS. All that being said: for a modern player, I'd recommend starting with X/Y^ (3DS), the first of the 3d-style games, and going from there. If you only have access to a Switch, Sword/Shield (my personal favorite, kek) is a good start too. Legends: Arceus is also super fun, but it's not a "main" game and it revolves more around catching Pokemon than battling.
^ A new game based on this region (Legends: Z-A) is coming out soon, so now is a great time to play it!
No. 475395
>>475378If you want to play the main games in order of release you can emulate them, so you just have to pick a version between Red, Blue or Yellow. I'd recommend starting with Gold,Silver or Crystal if you don't know if you want to play all the main games because it's the second game so from there it gets better, it has a lot of QOL features added compared to RBY, and these features are kept in the next games for the most part. I'm talking about things like knowing what a move does before choosong whether you want your pokemon to learn it or not, which wasn't in the first gen and which led me as a kid to have pokemon that couldn't attack at all in very first runs of Pokemon Blue when it was just released. It also has all the types except for fairy. Pokemon Black and White were supposed to be a soft reboot so you could also start with one of these versions if GSC isn't recent enough for you. The games are easy and not too long compared to other turn based rpgs so you could even play several versions if you like one of the games a lot and will emulate them instead of trying to pay hundreds of dollars in second hand copies. Pokemon SM is slightly different compared to other main games because the gym leaders are replaced by other types of battles, and Pokemon SV is very different in that the game is an open world as soon as it starts so you can potentially beat gym leaders in any order even if that's not recommended. The other games are a lot more similar, the story is just an excuse for you to explore a region, beat gym leaders/bosses, beat a criminal organization, beat the elite 4 and the champion, and in some of the games you have more things to do after you beat the champion. Some are more linear than others and you can't complete the pokedex unless you trade with someone or hack a game so if that interests you I suggest you start with Switch games so you can play online and trade with others.
As for spinoffs, Pokemon Legends Arceus is the closest game compared to the main game, I really liked the Pokemon TCG on the gameboy as a kid. I loved Pokemon Colosseum on the gamecube which only has double battles but I found it way harder than main games back then. There are a lot of spinoffs and which one you'll like depends on genres so check them out later.
No. 475413
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This is the second time I've seen fanart where the female protag does this to him.
Is this a common thing to do to Ghetsis? It's very cute.
>>475378Sorry if you already knew some of this, I don't know how familiar you are with Pokémon.
I'm also assuming that you'll be emulating. EVERY main Pokémon game can be easily emulated, including the Switch games if you have a gaming PC.My personal recommendation, especially if you are into retro games from the GBA era, is to play any Gen 3 game: FireRed/LeafGreen and Ruby/Sapphire/Emerald. I'd pick FireRed/LeafGreen first, since they're remakes of the very first Pokémon games, Red/Green. Although, Ruby/Sapphire/Emerald were made with the intention of being separate from the previous two generations (Gen 2 games were a sequel of sorts to Gen 1 games), while at the same time many pokémon from those generations can be caught, so you'd be fine picking the Hoenn games instead. Also, the Gen 3 games are huge classics, like the two previous generations.
After that, either play the other set of Gen 3 games, or pick another generation that interests you. Keep in mind that there have been some changes to various mechanics after Gen 3, like in Gen 4 where a major change was made to Pokémon attack moves (the so-called Physical/Special split) and usually, several moves' effects change from generation to generation. But the basic battle system is still the same.
Alternatively, you could start with X/Y, which are Gen 6 games for the 3DS. They were the first games in full 3D (with chibi overworld models), are relatively modern compared to Gen 3 (so you'll play with the benefits of more up-to-date QOL improvements and battle mechanics), and introduced the Fairy type (which so far is the latest type to be added), so it's a pretty good point in the franchise to start.
In the same generation, there are Omega Ruby/Alpha Sapphire, remakes of Ruby/Sapphire, but I wouldn't say they're that much better than the originals. My personal and very biased recommendation is to play the originals first, but feel free to ignore this opinion.
The first two generations are very, very different from Gen 3 and onwards, in terms of the system and graphics. You can try them out later if you want, but I don't recommend starting there, unless you love
really old retro games. If lore is extremely important to you, I'd suggest playing Gen 1 first (international version of Red/Blue) and then Gen 2 when/if you eventually decide to give them a try. But if you don't mind missing some plot context, you'd be fine just playing Gen 2 (Crystal is the best by far and it was the first game in the main series to have a playable female protagonist).
I do not recommend starting with Gen 4 (Diamond/Pearl/Platinum and HeartGold/SoulSilver) because I didn't like them that much, and for some reason they made the battles slow as fuck. I found HGSS to be kinda difficult compared to other games, because you have to grind a shitton, and there aren't many good options to grind for EXP in HGSS (they're still hailed as some of, if not the best games to date). Besides, lore-wise, HGSS are a remake of Gold/Silver/Crystal, which were sequels to RGB. That means HGSS is a sequel to FRLG, which is all the more reason to start with FRLG.
I also don't recommend Gen 5 (Black/White and their sequels Black 2/White 2) because BW have a completely new Pokédex, meaning pokémon from previous generations can't be obtained in these games (unless you trade or transfer, of course). Many people didn't like that there were only Unova pokémon, although I didn't mind at all, but I had already played previous games. You could start with BW if you don't mind the lack of old pokémon. Meanwhile, B2W2 should only be played after BW. Gen 5 was quite heavy on story and lore.
There's also Gen 7, but I don't have much to say about it other than I just don't feel like it's a good entry point. Gen 7 is Sun/Moon, Ultra Sun/Ultra Moon (3DS) and Let's Go, Pikachu/Eevee (Switch).
You may have a Switch and be considering getting a Pokémon game for that console, but personally, I wouldn't recommend the Switch games. For long-time fans, Generations 8 and 9 (both on the Switch) are where the franchise has really started to go to shit. But still, it seems many people got into Pokémon that way, and the games are still enjoyable, esp. if you're new. Just expect subpar graphics for a Switch game, and some bugs.
All the mainline games on the Switch are:
>Let's Go, Pikachu/EeveeGen 7 games. Remakes of the Gen 1 game Pokémon Yellow, which itself was a special version of Red/Green/Blue.
>Sword/ShieldThe first Gen 8 games. Has DLC. Removed a lot of Pokémon and moves from previous generations and rendered them unobtainable and unusable (respectively), which caused a huge controversy as nothing like this had happened before in the series (before, it was possible to obtain any pokémon by transferring them from game to game and generation to generation).
>Brilliant Diamond/Shining PearlRemakes of the Gen 4 games Diamond/Pearl. Not developed by Game Freak. Regarded as the shittiest remakes in the series.
>Legends: ArceusOfficially considered a mainline game, but features different gameplay from the usual. Actually pretty good, but heavy on lore, so you'll want to play previous games first, especially Diamond/Pearl/Platinum since this game takes place in a past version of the same region as those games (Sinnoh in the present and Hisui in the past).
>Scarlet/VioletThe first Gen 9 games. Has DLC. Worst new pokémon and character designs to date.
>Legends: Z-AUpcoming game. Similar to Legends: Arceus, it's different from the other mainline games. Takes place in the Kalos region, which is where X/Y took place. If you care a lot about lore you'll want to play those ones first (another reason to start with X/Y).
>tl;drIMO start with FireRed/LeafGreen or Ruby/Sapphire; alternatively, X/Y if you can't stand GBA-era games and/or you wanna be ready for the release of Legends: Z-A and subsequent hype. Then, pick any game you want, and preferably play a Kanto game before playing any Johto game.
>Is there anywhere I should start to learn about the lore?Honestly, Pokémon lore is best learned by just playing the games. When I started playing Pokémon, I also liked reading Pokémon wiki articles on lore kek
The many official Pokémon manga and the TV anime are based on the games, but they're not exact adaptations. So the primary source of lore is the games. Lately, there have also been other animated adaptations like Pokémon Origins and Pokémon: Twilight Wings that are completely separate from the TV anime and more directly based on the games.
No. 475430
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>>475413Very good post, but there is absolutely no reason to recommend Ruby/Sapphire when Emerald exists, and Diamond/Pearl when Platinium exists.
No. 475433
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>>475430Yeah I know kek, I just didn't wanna write another paragraph explaining the "3rd version" stuff.
I still like to play the basic versions in addition to the improved version for the story differences No. 475483
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>>475378Are you a seasoned gamer used to playing older games? Start with the original Red/Blue then go to Crystal, then whatever you want after that. If you're new to gaming start with Black/White, then Black 2/White 2, then the older games if you liked those. Black and White won't overwhelm you with Pokemon from the get go and have some of the best story, music, and aesthetics in the franchise. Black 2 and White 2 are the sequels and continue off of the first games' stories while mixing up the map and Pokemon enough to where the region feels interesting still.
Personally my favorites are Gen 2, Gen 3, and Gen 5. Gen 6 is only really worth it if you really like outfit customization and shiny hunting. I do not like Gen 7. Gen 8 is horrible, Gen 9 is marginally better than 8.
Also, if you see an unusually colored Pokemon that sparkles before battle while you're playing, drop everything and catch it.
DO NOT START WITH THE SWITCH GAMES. Apart from Legends Arceus they're some of the worst games in the franchise. I hesitate to say worst because Sun/Moon exist but they're very very bad.
>>475430>emeraldEmerald is a much harder game than Ruby/Sapphire. I wouldn't recommend it to a new player for that reason alone.
No. 475494
>>475030I hate to say it but I really don't like the design personally and I say this as a goth who also likes gothic lolita fashion. I think the design looks so awkward and unappealing through all of it's evos and I personally hate that her design is too on the nose including "goth" in it's name when "Goth" is a music-based subculture and if it were a Pokemon, it definitely wouldn't look like that lol.
More power to you for it being your favorite Pokemon though. I do agree that it sucks when moids say that more cute or feminine Pokemon don't have their fans.
No. 475504
>>475503>that's what people, at least in my experience, have said about this Pokemon calling it the "goth Pokemon"Ah, I see, so retarded. Moids will call anything "goth" as long as it's female and has a black color scheme kek
>I just prefer more creative names.I get it, but, then again, the Japanese names are like that, maybe even worse.
No. 475509
>>475504>Ah, I see, so retarded. Moids will call anything "goth" as long as it's female and has a black color scheme kekYeah kek Though to be fair though, I've seen girls say the same thing so I can't put all the blame on the moids entirely with this one lol.
>I get it, but, then again, the Japanese names are like that, maybe even worse.Fair point lol.
No. 475512
>>469575(in gruff voice) "M'Lady" kek
Seriously that is such bullshit because there are plenty of women who play Pokemon and he could've found a couple but I guess he couldn't do that because actual women make him (well, "them" since it's more than one in the video) seethe and internally rage kek.
No. 475523
>>475499>but of course he had to include troons and a gendie for "muh diversity" Good to know, won't watch the video. Fuck the troon pandering cult.
>I really hope that GameFreak doesn't give into to such retarded "representation" for troons that will be looked back on as a "why did anyone ever take this (mental illness) seriously?" It's going to age so badly if they do.Yeah, the good thing about game freak is they tend to be behind on things, so I'm hoping the troon scandal keeps growing so fast that game freak never fully had time to catch up to pandering and they silently remove it from their future plans before even getting to release any of it.
>>475503>this Pokemon calling it the "goth Pokemon".Really? I've never heard this, anyone who likes it have always called it gothic lolita and anyone else just goes "ugly, not for me" and that's it. I've seen people call zoroark (both forms) goth though
>MismagiusIt's quite literally "Miss Magician" though with magius being a commonly known latin word meaning magician, that's way more on the nose than gothorita which is also a play on senorita!
No. 475527
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>>475505>I always assumed that Marnie wore eyelinerSure but there's nothing in her design that actually confirms it, she has pretty standard eyes and eyelashes for anime, similar to Bea who is just a fighter, while Nessa who has blue eye shadow also has a noticeable winged eyeliner on top of that. Since they're all female japanese-created characters, in reality there's about a 99% they're all meant to be wearing makeup.
No. 475532
>>475475I love how "Z-A" just means you go from rank Z to A lmao
I think this is a very basic pokemon concept, similar to the tournament Ash was in in the anime. You battle trainers to win the tournament and go up in rank to become champion. It's a much smaller story than a main series game but a fun one that I think I'll enjoy a lot. This could easily have been framed as a boring pokken fighting game, so it being a "real" pokemon game has me excited.
>>475514>More like he couldn't do that because the women would definitely think it's disgusting for scrotes to play as a girl just to look at her ass kekThis kek I think he asked his very handmaiden wife who would naturally just go "yasss queen" over anything troony, she encourages him to wear a skirt so you know she's pornrotted on drag queens and troons. She'd love it if he trooned out so she could be in a kweer couple
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>>475527Bea is the only one with eyelashes similar to Marnie's though.
No. 475558
>>475523>Good to know, won't watch the video. Fuck the troon pandering cult.Understandable. Normally I would still suggest watching just to see how good he mimicked the style but one of the designs that's a TIF literally has tit scars on full-display kek
>Yeah, the good thing about game freak is they tend to be behind on things, so I'm hoping the troon scandal keeps growing so fast that game freak never fully had time to catch up to pandering and they silently remove it from their future plans before even getting to release any of it.Yeah same. I mean it's already annoying enough that the gender-tard fans of Pokemon already headcanon certain characters to be "trans" or 'nonbinary" like what we have seen with characters like Bugsy, Grusha, & Penny. I've even seen some say that Tulip and Nessa (KEK at how bad this one especially is) are "transwomen". So for the love of Arceus I hope that you're right that Game Freak continues to stay behind the trends and just doesn't give in.
>Really? I've never heard this, anyone who likes it have always called it gothic lolita and anyone else just goes "ugly, not for me" and that's it. I've seen people call zoroark (both forms) goth thoughMaybe it's where I hang online then because I've definitely heard it a few times, I even explained to a comment how it's not "goth coded" and that gothic lolita is not the same as goth.
>It's quite literally "Miss Magician" though with magius being a commonly known latin word meaning magician, that's way more on the nose than gothorita which is also a play on senorita!Sure but with "Magius" you don't really hear that term used all that much compared to "magician" so it makes it sound much more ominous, at least to my ears haha With "goth", I feel it's on the nose because most people when they hear "goth" will think of the "aesthetic", they already have that preconceived notion of what the word is compared to "MisMagius" (where not many people would think of "magician" right off the bat if that makes sense lol). Like if I were to rename Gothorita, I'd call it something like "Kurolita" or something like that lol.
No. 475586
>>475558>one of the designs that's a TIF literally has tit scars on full-display kek He as a man literally drew a mutilated female chest and is presenting it as something good or progressive. Let that sink it. I would personally unsub and never watch him ever again just over that. We're supposed to go "but it's just a drawing" when he's actively pro that real life mutilation of women (often done on literal fucking kids) and promoting it to kids, yet it's seen as silly to even care. It's all so fucked up, I don't want to support a man like that at all. It's 2025 and being ignorant about troon shit when women, gay people, and actual minorities have been screaming and showing proof of how hamful troon ideology is for years just shows he never listens to any of those groups at all. You cannot be "innocently" ignorant at this point.
>Maybe it's where I hang onlineHonestly if they're male fair enough, males are retarded by default especially when it comes to fashion.
No. 475614
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>>475499I couldn't continue the video when I saw the third gym leader's hands. jesus fuck these people are weird
No. 475620
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>>475510i love sylveon too. i wish its colors were different.
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>>475640yep, white/pink/blue is perfect together. it makes me think of the 80s and of ice cream and girly things. i see so many clothes and shoes i'd like to get that have that combo but it's fucking ruined. i would kms if i was in public and someone mentioned tranny pride to me or something.
No. 475650
>>475586>He as a man literally drew a mutilated female chest and is presenting it as something good or progressive. Let that sink it. I would personally unsub and never watch him ever again just over that. We're supposed to go "but it's just a drawing" when he's actively pro that real life mutilation of women (often done on literal fucking kids) and promoting it to kids, yet it's seen as silly to even care. It's all so fucked up, I don't want to support a man like that at all. It's 2025 and being ignorant about troon shit when women, gay people, and actual minorities have been screaming and showing proof of how hamful troon ideology is for years just shows he never listens to any of those groups at all. You cannot be "innocently" ignorant at this point.Ayrt and 100% agreed. I'm not subbed to him and the video just popped up in my recommended so I decided to give it a watch and I had to pause at the TIF character and give a deep mental groan. And yeah, to act like this fucking mutilation of the mentally ill is "progressive" and "good" is so fucking infuriating and it should be obvious why this kind of stuff does no one any good. I know it's because these fuckwits don't actually listen and critically think about what de-transitioners say nor do they read the info on just what these mutilations disguised as surgeries actually do to the body but the info is out there and there's no excuse to not look at it.
And also, Pokemon is mainly targeted at children so could you imagine if GameFreak did try to pander to it by including troons in their games that would further influence gullible children who end up playing that game, especially autistic children? I don't even want to fathom that disaster of a situation.
>Honestly if they're male fair enough, males are retarded by default especially when it comes to fashion.Yeah it was mostly moids though there were some women as well.
>>475614Oh wow, I didn't even clock that. I just… Artist when drawing black characters, they don't need to do that to black characters' hands. Nessa & Lenora, and Grant (from what I remember) didn't have that, it's just not necessary.
No. 475658
>>475640I refuse to let them have it. I'm crypto with some woke friends, whenever they've tried to use the froon flag I insist the progress flag is the better option because otherwise they're being exclusive. It's helped push them away from the pastel colors and opt for rainbows instead which helps a tiny bit. Funny thing is my other friends are terfs and help me do it to the woke ones, and us terfs secretly use sylveon as a
terf icon.
>>475641I think having a mix of artists is fun, I just hate the direction they've gone in gen 9. As long as no artist suddenly insists on big titty coomer shit it's fine. I just headcanon Paldeans as having shit genes and taste culturally.
No. 475664
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>>475663i hope we don't find emmet searching for his lost brother…
No. 475669
>>475430Emerald story differences kinda suck so I can understand recommending to play R/S instead.
>>475663At this point especially after the teraleak I'm just thinking they never want to touch upon southern France again kek, so I wouldn't get my hopes up for seeing anything outside of Lumiose.
>>475664I'd be happy to see my favorite again but I'd be very upset seeing the continuation to their current story. Not that I don't want to see it continued but I feel bad for them.
No. 475687
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>>475483>Emerald is a much harder game than Ruby/SapphireIs it because Gym Leaders have slightly different teams? That's just an improvement. Tate & Liza each having 2 Pokemon instead of just one is just better imo and not really all that more difficult.
If you want to play the game in easy mode just pick Mudkip as your starter.
No. 475688
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>>475664I want to see this. But we're going to have a remaster of the first Raidou game soon so even if none of the twins show up in Legends ZA I can still cope.
>>475669>At this point especially after the teraleak I'm just thinking they never want to touch upon southern France again kekI forgot about that, fuck…
No. 475706
>>475663>So, about Legends ZA, I wonder how far in the future it takes place compared to XY. Most likely about 12 years later, nothing is saying it's anything but present time and XY released in 2013. Though I could see it being way less than that with an older teen Clemont appearing. We know in the future/parallel future the robot pokemon from violet exist so it's not going to be set in the distant future. This just isn't the future legends game, it's just a normal game like all games except arceus have been. Time travel isn't what the legends games are about at all.
>I wonder if it will be possible to visit other cities and not just not!Paris They said in the reveal trailer the game will only take place in Lumiose City, there's no point in hoping for other towns I'm afraid.
No. 475723
>>475710Southern Kalos routes were cut early in development so the final XY games just had the shitty train station and one town kek
Don't have the files on hand right now but TCRF should have pages about it
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>>475710>>475723Samefag, had to find this on some random ass Brazillian blogspot page because I was too lazy to dig in my hard drives kek
No. 475762
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>>472504Either him or his sister.
No. 475791
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>>472504ninetales. she is my favourite mon
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>>475483>I hesitate to say worst because Sun/Moon exist but they're very very bad.Don’t listen to this loser, gen 7 is the best gen.
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>>472504he would be permanently attached to an everstone but i would go to the ends of the world to catch this silly little guy
No. 475840
>>475546>>475576Why are you guys arguing about this? We all know modern pokémon character designs are a clusterfuck of art styles. I doubt the artists even thought about whether or not all those characters are wearing eyeliner or false lashes, unless the artist is a woman who's really obsessed with makeup. We can't know for sure, blame the art direction.
I can't believe someone on Twitter actually made a compilation of female character eyes though, kek
>>475641I hate it. It'd be fine if the designers were kept in check. I really fucking hate Milo's official design, for example. He doesn't look like he belongs in the franchise at all, and in fanart people always cope by making him look normal lmao.
No. 475841
>>475709>nta but everything listed is just an improvement.NTA either, but she did say
>For a seasoned player it does make for a better experience>but a new player would probably prefer an easier time to learn all the type matchups and suchAnd like she said, picking something like Treecko and not having any super effective moves on your team can get you stuck on Wattson (happened to me the first time, although I did manage to beat him with moves that weren't very effective after many tries). So one little fuckup in the wrong place could make it unnecessarily hard for a new player compared to other newbies. But I guess it also depends on how easily frustrated the player is.
No. 475863
>Found a fan game I really enjoyed because there were very few fakemon outside of starters and the legendary.
>A little more mature than the main games with some crass jokes here and there, but leagues above most fan games without overly sexy character designs or anything.
>Decide to browse files.
>Full-on porn art of characters in the files.
>There's an art gallery in the physical world map featuring 18+ art of the characters that you can visit when you beat the league.
>Apparently, this was a minor controversy when the game released because the creator did not, in fact, warn people about this on the download link or game page or anywhere.
Yes, it's my fault for playing fangames and not properly researching beyond some comments and posts recommending it, but I'm still pissed. This isn't even an obscure game, and it seems so irresponsible when kids could download it without knowing. It's so unnecessary, and I can't understand why it gets so highly praised when it pulls that stunt. Again, I know I'm a victim of my own stupidity, but I was also trying not to look up too much related to it because it's supposed to have a great story and I was avoiding spoilers.
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>>475546>>475576>>475840yeah but what the fuck is this?
No. 475887
>>475885>>hau the snorefestNo he's great in his scenes with Gladio. Not his fault if the MC is a silent protagonist that makes everyone boring by default.
>>the abusive bitch is actually oh no so misunderstoodIt was only a thing in USUM iirc. It pissed me off so much I transfered my pokemon from Ultra Moon to Sun thanks to the pokemon bank and then sold my copy of Ultra Moon.
>>no diving in a hawaii region>>no biking in a hawaii regionI agree, it pissed me off. I love Hoenn and loved surfing and diving everywhere, I was expecting this from Alola. You can't even surf between the four main islands, that's so boring.
No. 475892
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>>475798i wouldn't say it's the best gen mostly because of that fucking hour or so you're forced to be handheld in a tutorial, and i'm still not entirely sure how i feel about totem pokemon, but gen 7 had some of the best things we've gotten in a long time that we also didn't get in gen 8 or 9.
>great setting/cities>cohesive pokedex>incredible alolan forms that actually make sense within the setting>fantastic spread of gym leaders/kahunas>best evil team since team rocket>awesome secondary evil team surprise reveal>main antagonist is actually scary>introduction of ultra beasts, an entirely new type of species that aren't pokemon and are terrifyingthe legendaries suck and the tutorial is awful but that's about it
No. 475912
>>475885>hours of unskippable tutorialIt's not a tutorial it's literally just playing the game, which works exactly like any other pokemon game.
>lillieGreat character with a cute design. Has important message about parent-child abuse, how she's being controlled by her mother but in the end manages to stand up for herself an becomes a pokemon trainer.
>hau the snorefestHau is great, he was unlike any friend character we had before, he's a perfect "hawaiian" chill dude who becomes for serious through the game. He's a great contrast to the rival Gladion.
>npcs won't shut up for five minutes and let you playOh no, world building! How scary an boring!
>the abusive bitch is actually oh no so misunderstoodThat's literally just what coomers say, most people just praise Lusamine for being an interesting complex character by pokemon standards. People aren't saying "she's innocent" but that showing an
abusive mother was an interesting to them and they could relate.
>no diving in a hawaii regionOnly
valid point, but there hasn't bee any good diving mechanic since gen 3 when it was introduced. There is instead a surfing minigame that's pretty cool.
>no biking in a hawaii regionSo what? You get to ride pokemon instead, which is superior.
>SOS garbageThat was a great fetaure for shiny hunting, the pokemon called added to lore, and it made catchingor battling wild pokemon potentially a bit harder. The fact that they updated basic wild battles like that was cool.
>1% encounter rates are back babyAnd they still weren't hard to find.
>new region's pokemon overrun by gen 1 and 2 pokemonYou hate new things in games and you hate old pokemon. I think you just hate pokemon. Try playing digimon instead.
No. 475935
>>475912I will say, Sun & Moon would not have as many complaints if it had voice acting.
It's my favorite modern gen era but I see why it can be a log to get through
No. 475936
>>475923>several people who like different generations make valid criticisms of Gen 9>"HURRRR GENWUNNER!!!"Why
>>475909Ok
nonny No. 475945
>>475925I'll take riding a random pokemon over riding a bike. A pokemon is just cooler by default than a bike.
>>475935I actually hate voice acting in games. I've never in my entire life heard good voice acting if it's more than just grunts (like in legends arceus) it always takes me right out of the game and more often than not makes me hate the character. I just do not get the appeal of it at all!
No. 475979
>>4759532DS and regular 3DS should share the same hardware though outside of the screens, right? I never had SM/USUM crash on me so I actually am confused by what the hell she's doing to her 3DS kek
Unless she's playing on emulator which would make more sense since Citra's finnicky
No. 476018
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Dear God do moids really?
No. 476038
>>475912>it's literally just playing the gameThe older games managed this without forcing you into constant NPC dialogue. You learned the game's mechanics and world by guess what? Playing the game and figuring it out yourself. If you wanted to learn about the world you had the choice to talk to NPCs or ignore them.
>lillieI hate this character. I wanted to love her, her initial design was cute, but she is useless and insufferable and responsible for too many of the times the game came to a screeching halt.
>Oh no, world building! How scary an boring!Again, the older games managed to convey the lore and the world without stopping you every five minutes and word vomiting all over you. World building should be conveyed through the world's design and through things you find organically.
>Lusamine is complexHow? She's an evil mom that gets forgiven for all her actions in the end because oh no le evil alien Pokemon poisoned her because like with most Japanese media, moms aren't allowed to be shown as evil abusers without some bullshit excuse. Compare her to Ghetsis' portrayal and how the characters treat him and the difference is night and day.
>you get to ride pokemon insteadHawaii has bikes absolutely everywhere. It's a massive lore fail to exclude them in a Hawaii region. Plus like other nonnas said the Pokemon aren't even yours.
>great feature for shiny huntingThe previous games had much better shiny hunting methods. SOS battles were annoying as hell. You get an encounter, can't run, then the little shit has the audacity to call for help over and over when you're just trying to leave the damn battle.
>1% encounters aren't hard to findAnon there's a Pokemon that will only appear if another Pokemon calls them for help. RNG upon RNG.
>you hate new things in games and you hate old pokemonYou are being deliberately obtuse. When I'm in a new region, I want to see that region's Pokemon. I want to use that region's Pokemon. I don't want old Pokemon overrunning them. This could have been forgiven if they'd leaned into real life Hawaiian concerns about invasive species killing the island's local species but it's not, it's instead genwun pandering.
>>475935I do think this would have made the game more tolerable. But Black/White has a lot of cutscenes but it didn't feel like a slog to get through them. For me the quality of the writing from BW to SuMo had gone off a cliff.
No. 476110
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>those "balconies"
No. 476125
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New mega evolutions have allegedly been leaked btw
No. 476177
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I love my peepaw.
No. 476178
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>>476129Yay Clefable mega evolution.
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>>476180because this looks so cool
No. 476250
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>>475663I wish Legends Z-A took place in a different region other than Kalos. It's honestly such a beautiful region despite XY literally being an unfinished game. Kalos deserves a proper revisit.
LZA should've been in Goldenrod instead of Lumiose.
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>>476271The reason why I said Goldenrod and not Castelia is because Unova has A LOT of beautiful and interesting areas to explore, unlike plain boring Johto. We wouldn't miss much if a Johto game only took place in one city.
Kanto is just as boring as Johto but it at least it was revisiting again back in LGPE.
No. 476345
>>476250I really think Lumiose City is the perfect city for ZA, but I also want a proper XY remake really badly. The only other city that would make sense is Castelia City imo. We gotta remember that the next in line to get remakes are gen 5 anyway, and ZA might just spark more interest in gen 6 again making future remakes possibly more likely to happen then. They made PLA and BDSP at the same time so one doesn't exclude the other.
>>476265>retarded thing that nobody likes such as dynamaxI like dynamax/gmax far more than I like megas. Megas are just
another evolution, except less cool than a real evolution because it's temporary and you never get to see it outside of battle. Gmax gave you the same but was showier and cooler, and as a bonus you could dynamax all your other pokemon too so you weren't limited to just a few select ones to use this fun new feature. No gym battle will ever be as cool as those in SWSH, they felt so intense with that crowd cheering all around you. Going to a gym in SV after that felt so boring.
No. 476375
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>>476374God, this artist draws such cute art it's gonna give me diabetes
No. 476379
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>>476375Part 2
>>476377They should hire her for Pokémon Masters because makes so much adorable gen crossover art and short comics that I feel would fit perfectly in that game.
No. 476401
>>476265The TCG announced a while ago that megas are coming back so it's safe to assume Z-A will have them again.
https://www.pokemon.com/us/pokemon-news/the-pokemon-tcg-mega-evolution-series-beginsBut the next mainline will probably have something extremely stupid I agree.
No. 476405
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>>476403Larry and Kabu got added last year during the same event in Pokémon Masters. A lot of trainer fanart you see these days (especially from Asian artists as the game is more popular over there) is based on or inspired by PoMa, in case you're ever confused by trainer art.
This art was so shit No. 476406
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>>476403Also I'm not sure if that specific artist ships them. I think they're cute as friends and that's enough for me.
No. 476528
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if we're talking about old man ships it's giovanni and nanu for me
No. 476535
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>>476534nanu used to be a high-ranking member of team rocket. now he's a cop. it's kind of funny how he goes around the island and kicks team skull's ass just by talking to them because they understand he's not a guy to mess with. giovanni apparently has his phone number still and calls him. plus him and giovanni both have a persian so that makes fanart fun.
No. 476563
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>>476560Who gives a single fuck
No. 476578
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No. 476580
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>>476406Oh yeah, Guzma is there too
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No. 476590
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No. 476592
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>>476590I love that he loves cats. He's so fucking moe
No. 476594
>>476535!? I do not remember that being part of Nanu's backstory, wild.
>>476560I like elderly ships of all varieties. It's not about sex or anything so I don't see why it would be gross, at least for me. It makes me look forward to a happy future when I see older people in love.
No. 476595
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>>476592cat guys are the best
No. 476597
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>>476594i think he mentions it really off-handedly in sm, or someone else does, and it's confirmed in the anime. that's why he uses dark types despite now being a "good guy"
No. 476601
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>>476598no anon i made it all up just to fuck with you
No. 476602
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>>476597>it's confirmed in the animeI would take anything said in the anime about game characters with a grain of salt. If it's not mentioned in the main games, it's not canon to the games.
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>>476601no cause i used to be a massive nanu fangirl and im like "what the fuck is she talking about" LOL
No. 476605
>>476598I looked into it, Giovanni and Nanu are acquainted in the anime.
>>476601I like your fanon kek it's cute.
No. 476606
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>>476603yes it's from the anime
No. 476610
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>>476608Seconding, I need to see it
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>>476613Bonus from the search
No. 476615
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>>476606oh okay, i only ever watched up to xy so i didnt know. but anyways i love ghetsis/giovanni
aka terribledadshipping their interactions in usum and pokemas were super amusing
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>>476613>>476614>>476615かわええええええ！！
>>476617Oh my god, thanks for posting this, I remember it from a husbando thread 3 years ago and didn't want to go all the way back to find it!
No. 476621
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>>476620Japan's No. 1 husbando 2020, baby
No. 476625
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>>476620>>476621there's just something about a sporty silver fox
No. 476627
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>>476624Don't worry, Sizzlipede is ok.
>>476625Kinda ugly
No. 476630
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>>476626>He's a boku guyYes! It's so cute. What do you think of his voice in Masters?
>>476628I'm crying, this is so fucking moe
No. 476640
>>476630This is his JP voice, and here's his EN voice for comparison.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpBF_dJi4Q0His Japanese voice is way better.
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>>476640maybe unpopular opinion but i mostly like the english pokemas dub, pretty much all of my favs got amazing voices and im happy with them. but yeah kabu's english voice is ass
No. 476648
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>>476641No, I fully agree with you. I don't know how unpopular that opinion is, but I love the English dub for the most part. Most of the voices are perfect for the characters (Colress, for example), and I think some of them are superior to the Japanese VAs.
However, Kabu's JP voice in Masters is so godly it's practically canon to me. I hate having to hear his EN voice occasionally because I play with English audio. If only we could set different languages for each character.
No. 476650
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>>476648I think the guy who voiced N also voiced Kaworu in one of the eva dubs which is really funny since i remember people would compare N, kaworu, and komaeda all the time
No. 476656
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>>476650That's an amazing coincidence lol
There's a lot of English-language voice actors in the game. Some of them even play different characters, like Roark's VA (Alejandro Saab) who also does Kukui and The Masked Royal's voice; I think he's perfect as Roark but his Kukui voice is a bit too forced.
I'm honestly surprised they keep finding new VAs, but it looks like they also hire VAs with little experience that nobody has heard of. There are still a bunch of unidentified English VAs in the game. Not a bad thing per se, I'm in favor of the non-Japanese VA industry growing so we don't have to hear the same 10 voices all the time, but sometimes it can lead to disappointing quality. For example, Riley's voice is too goofy.
No. 476674
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>>476110>>476114a tiny indie game i'm playing that i got for $15 has more detail in its environment
No. 476685
>>476676You can thank Kazuhiko Inoue for that. He has killer ikebo, a even at his age (71
his birthday was 3 days ago kek). It couldn't have been more perfect for Kabu.
No. 476829
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>>476780Black and White definitely has the most appealing overworld design of the main games. I also really like the Distortion World in Platinum. However, my absolute favorite games visually are the DS Mystery Dungeon games. The towns and buildings feel so cozy, and there are some genuinely impressive cutscenes in the game.
No. 476838
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>>476780>>476829Seconding the Mystery Dungeon games. They have such a nice fantasy vibe and genuinely felt like a challenge.
Also I will admit the Explorers of Sky ending made me cry like a baby even as an adult kek No. 476911
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>>476910people have different opinions than you, surprisingly
No. 476917
>>476911No shit, that's why we're having this conversation in the first place.
Ingo is so cute here.>>476912That sounds good. I need to replay BW someday even if it's one of my least favorite main games in the series. The first time I played it I didn't bother explore the postgame cities and routes after beating Ghetsis and in my second run I checked every nook and cranny in the game but it wasn't possible to play online anymore unfortunately. I should even replay all the games I have in order of release.
No. 476923
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>>476917lol what do you want out of that conversation though? "i don't like this theme" "but it's one of the best" "fuck you"? great convo
No. 476941
>>476917>I should even replay all the games I have in order of release.You should! That's what I'm doing, although not in order of release.
>>476923Yeah I don't know what it is about this thread but there are some regulars here who just don't seem to know how to interact or are just obvious persistent trolls. I just imagine they're 12 and drop the reply chain whenever it starts again now kek
No. 476942
>>476833I actually haven't played Crystal although I believe I have the digital download for it on 3DS? I should give it a shot sometime.
And wow, I guess everybody is so different? I was just thinking earlier today that I enjoy how they move in this one. I was lamenting that we only got the feature for one gen before we transitioned to 3D, but sounds like my loss was your win lol.
No. 476948
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>>476942NTA but I remember absolutely hating how they moved back when the game came out. While I still prefer the static sprites, I can't deny that the BW animations have a ton of personality compared to how the 3D models move.
>>476833Crystal is a good one, but I love having Pikachu follow me around in Yellow. I'm glad they brought that feature back in HGSS.
No. 476960
>>476650N was voiced by Akira Ishida (Kaworu’s seiyuu) in pokemon generations
Tracks since this episode was yaoi as fuuuuck
No. 476994
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I finished Black… I was thinking about playing either Pearl of SoulSilver before I move on to White2 so I don't get sick of Unova. But the story of N and the protagonist actually got me in the feels! I can't decide anymore!
No. 477036
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>>476650>>476960wtf I hate N now
>t. yaoi hater No. 477039
File: 1743387877565.png (1.77 MB, 1082x900, 127980157_p3.png)
>>477036You don’t want to rejoice with the boys in a gay way?
No. 477092
>>476960Generations sucks ass
Vid unrelated
No. 477097
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>>476994Did you intend to post a shitty version of that pic? I'm trying to post the original but it's not letting me because "this file already exists in this thread", even though the difference in quality is massive. Weird.
https://danbooru.donmai.us/posts/716769>>477036Based Hilda
No. 477099
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>>477042this reminded me to post more traintards
No. 477102
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No. 477138
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bdsp hate
No. 477252
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>had issues with sleeping
>thought this game looked cute
>download it and read the fine print
>says it can keep all my data is sell it to advertisers
>to even play the game you need to keep your phone on at night and have it listen to you
Yeah this is spyware isn't it.
No. 477256
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>>477252I don't get all these mobile side games and why so many people play them. I guess TPC is trying to continue capitalizing on pokemon go's success (and that's probably why the more recent games have been appealing more to normies rather than weebs) by releasing more mobile stuff but who cares this much about pokemon to want them to track your sleep cycle of all things? The only one I get is masters since it has collecting your faves and fan service.
No. 477446
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I am fuck_fujoshits btw
No. 477452
>>477420>The sprite deforming "animations" from gen V looked lazy at the time, but at least they have some vitality.It really annoys me I didn't appreciate it enough at the time. I liked it and thought it was a step in the right direction, but I didn't think it looked amazing and was a tad annoyed by some of them. Now in hindsight plenty of them have better animations than the 3D models looking stoned out of their mind.
I wish they'd edit the 3D models more from game to game tbh, if feels like they're stuck in development while sprites allowed them to evolve. For example totodile in some sprites have a shorter and rounder snout, and it's body was consistently smaller (compared to the head) which gave it much cuter proportions. The 3D model has a longer body and flatter face. It's just not nearly as cute. I also miss the colors changing a tiny bit from game to game, made it feel like each region had their own subtly different variant.
No. 477532
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>>477045Still would. He even took us on a ferris wheel date.
>>477050Nooo I don't like this theory.
Typhlosion flashbacks. I'll need to hurt him enough to break the illusion and make sure he's not an animal. I also find it hard to believe a Zoroark being this highly intelligent in speaking perfect human language, having Pokemon battles, and taming a legendary.
>>477092Generations is cool and way more interesting than Ashnime. Also Evolutions and Origins too. Wish there's more Pokemon anime that follows the games.
No. 477533
>>477532>I also find it hard to believe a Zoroark being this highly intelligent in speaking perfect human language, having Pokemon battles, and taming a legendary. Mewtwo basically did all that in gen 1, it's been a canon possiblity for a long time! Alakazam has an IQ of 5000, slowking can talk human languages, oranguru uses poke ball and battles using other pokemon…
>I'll need to hurt him enough to break the illusion and make sure he's not an animal.kek I like your attitude
For real though, it's a fun theory. I like that they made it so us fans can never really be sure if he is or isn't a zoroark. I'm not a fujo myself so I'm fine with either one.
No. 477558
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WE WON TRAINSISTERS WE WON
No. 477573
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No. 477575
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>>477533All those Pokemon you mentioned are all psychic types which makes sense but Zoroark isn't one. Though like to think Zoroark could be N's doppelganger if he ever needs cover.
No. 477604
>>476780OG Crystal.
This is going to sound stupid, but the entire world being pink and yellow felt so damn warm, and the little details rendered in pixels, like the radio and the berry trees, were so cute.
No. 477620
File: 1743553135854.jpg (1.12 MB, 1000x1333, 1000013648.jpg)
>>477558HOLY SHIT!!!!!!
SUPER BRAVOOOOOO
No. 477652
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Morty's getting an Academy alt this month and the design is kino.
He's paired up with Hisuian Typhlosion.
No. 477655
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>>477650I usally don't care for old men, but some geriatric pokéboys are too cute.
AZ is also quite peculiar, at least imo, because he is 3000 years old so it gives him a completely different perspective from most characters…
I was always into him, frankly, so seeing him in Legends ZA made me too happy. I also love what we have seen of his younger self, he is totally my type hehe
No. 477656
>>477655I think everyone was happy to see he'd make an appearance in ZA.
Not gonna lie, I screamed a little.
No. 477712
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>>477711Nah, he's perfect like that.
No. 477714
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>>477700he is really punchable but his relationship with Lysandre was interesting. it would have been great if written by Hideo Kojima.
both of them can be seen as extremely stupid gays.
No. 477716
>>477714>>477711>>477707Nothing you guys say will change my mind after like 10 years of hating his ass kek but I'm at least aware my hatred is irrationally strong.
>would be good if it were written by Hideo KojimaThis made me laugh IRL thank you. A Kojima Pokemom game would be interesting to say the least. I do think Lysandre was wasted on XY's writing.
No. 477719
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>>477716>Nothing you guys say will change my mind I don't care
>>477717>I think it's the forehead that gets meI just chalk it up to the art style of that era. The same thing happens with Ingo/Emmet, leading some people to believe they're balding in BW (they're not).
>being on the path to semibaldnessCase in point
No. 477721
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>>477716Their friendship gives me unironic Hideo Kojima homolust vibes. Sycamore is such a stupid centrist doormat who thinks he is sexy and Lysandre is an insane narcissist with problems who wants to rebuild society with a super weapon. He even has multiple schizo monologues about society being rotten.
I'm too reminded of Kojima's schizo gays.
No. 477723
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>>477720Submas Goes In The Image Field.
No. 477725
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>>477723>>477721i hate lysandre solely because he is ugly
No. 477726
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>>477725Tbh both Lysandre and Sycamore annoy me but they end up being unintentionally funny, especially the former. His evil plot makes zero sense when the world around him is perfect and idyllic.
No. 477727
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>>477726why is ingo breaking the train?
No. 477735
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>>477728is this a japanese pop song or something
No. 477759
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>>477700>I think he's the one character where I sort of get the rage other nonnies have nona are you retarded? why would you admit that in the thread where when someone goes "i don't like x thing" anons will spam it without fail just to spite them. Anons here aren't nice!
No. 477760
>>477759I hate this ship but I don't even care kek, you're so right
>why would you admit that in the thread where when someone goes "i don't like x thing" anons will spam it without fail just to spite themSo true, that's why I love this thread.
My god, Lysandre looks even uglier in that pic.
No. 477763
>>477759>>477760this is what lysandre looks like
but also, idc what anyone posts here and i won't tell them to stop unless it's moidy
No. 477772
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>>477763I feel bad for all Lysandre fans for bullying him so much kek. I do like that his hair and beard combo resembles a lion mane, though.
No. 477773
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I love this gem
No. 477792
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>>477735Yes, they're singing it together.
No. 477813
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>>477773Cyrus and Dawn! CUTE
No. 477831
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ORRE GAMES ON THE SWITCH 2 I REPEAT ORRE GAMES ON THE SWITCH 2 HOLY SHITE IT'S HAPPENING HOLY SH
No. 477909
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No. 477910
>>477759I expected it, I just really needed to get it off my chest. Having him shoved in my face after years of hating a fan fave isn't anything new kek.
I think the funniest response I ever got to hating Sycamore was a 30 year old white gendie telling me I'm not allowed to hate him because he's interracial gay TiF coded in her eyes and it would be lowkey bigoted of me to dislike him after hearing that. Good times.
No. 477946
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>>477772>all Lysandre fansthere's like 2
>>477773hilbert is such a deviant
No. 477948
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>>477910those gendies are obsessed with trying to make their white / asian characters mixed with some kind of brown
No. 477972
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>>477948Who's the artist? I love this style
No. 478046
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Wanna play a stupid game I just made up?
Post a pokemon, and the next person posts a pokemon that beats it and says why - the catch is that the thing it beats it in has to be silly and arbitrary. Example:
>Anon 1: goomy
>Anon 2: My caterpie beats your goomy because it has more legs
>Anon 3: My staravia beats your caterpie because it has fancier hair
and so on
I'm starting it by sending out my mankey to battle!
No. 478053
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>>478046My golem beats your mankey because it's like a mankey with armor.
No. 478056
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>>478053My Gigalith beats your Golem because it has cooler colors and crystals all over its body!
No. 478059
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>>478056My diancie beats your gigalith because it's an even fancier rock!
No. 478065
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>>478059My tinkaton. Well. Hammer vs rock.
No. 478075
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>>478065That thing is terminally ugly and therefore loses to my Arcanine
No. 478095
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>>478075My Raikou beats your Arcanine because it looks like Arcanine but with longer teeth.
No. 478104
File: 1743651961784.png (513.38 KB, 1200x1200, 1200px-1021Raging_Bolt.png)
>>478095Your raikou loses to my long raikou because more raikou = more power
No. 478105
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>>478104My pikachu wins against your long raikou because it's the mascot of the game.
No. 478106
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>>478105my eevee beats your pikachu because it's the
superior mascot for the game
No. 478107
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>>478106My mimikyu defeats your eevee by pityfarming
No. 478109
File: 1743655932358.png (1.05 MB, 975x975, 0035Clefairy.png)
>>478105>>478106>>478107Oh yeah? Well my Clefairy beats the three of your Pokémon because it was the original (read: TRUE) mascot of the franchise. She got ROBBED!! So she deserves more pity than Mimikyu.
No. 478118
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>>478109My gengar beats your clefairy by being the same thing but dead.
No. 478128
File: 1743662930595.png (656.55 KB, 1280x720, copmon.png)
>>478118My Gumshoos beats your Gengar because your Gengar has a warrant out for her arrest
No. 478129
File: 1743663298665.png (118.82 KB, 565x571, 2775-Shiny-Komala.png)
>>478128my komala beats your gumshoos because trump shouldn't have won
No. 478142
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>>478129my exploudred beats your komala by waking her up…
(your response made me kek)
No. 478149
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>>478148i didn't, but i can see the vision. i always thought lt surge was hot lol. and hey i found a pic of them together
No. 478180
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>>478142my jigglypuff beats your exploud because it's also a sound based pokemon but her songs are prettier
No. 478185
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>>478180My Sylveon beats your Jigglypuff because I just wanted an excuse to post this cutie
No. 478188
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>>478185My Skitty beats your Sylveon because she was overpowered as FUCK in the PMD franchise
No. 478235
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real
No. 478252
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>>478188My Kecleon beats your Skitty because he caught her stealing from his shop.
No. 478261
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>>478252my ditto beats your kecleon because it evades theft charges by committing identity fraud and framing someone else
No. 478291
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>>478261My Zorua beats your Ditto by framing your Ditto for another crime. Oh, how the tables have turned…
No. 478566
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Based misty?
No. 478582
File: 1743730589321.jpg (116.76 KB, 932x700, EvaoE6IXAAEioNM.jpg)
>>478566Wait is that… transphobia? Misty is a confirmed
terf!
Very appropriate given the water type, she'd have an azumarill for sure!
No. 478634
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>>478566misty has always been based
No. 478764
I swear my copy of DP is cursed, I have been shiny hunting this fucking pink rat for 16 whole years (of course I don't play daily, but I pick it up every other month to try) and I still can't even get a chain of over 30.
A bit agothis video showed up on my recommended and it explained some tips I wasn't aware of, like capturing the pokemon instead of defeating it for increased chances, so I have been hunting Pachirisu this year again but still no luck.
I reset the radar all the time to get a far-away tile, I capture those rats, I have a pokemon with static on my first party slot, I always pick the same shaking grass, I use repels, I never pick the edge tiles or adjacent shaking ones (I'm pretty sure the later is a superstition, but no hurt to try) and yet. I keep getting those darmn weasels and slugs breaking my chain.
3% chance of breaking and it happens all the time, why is my luck like this. And I'm too stubborn for my own good, so since 11yo me wanted to get a pink Pachirisu using the cool method she read on a magazine, that's the only way I will accept it. No masuda method, no gen 6-onwards for better chances. Only me, my Pichu and Valley Windworks agaisnt the world.
I started to think the whole pokeradar thing is all a hoax, but I'm determined Lolcow, I WILL get that pink bitch.
The new tips have helped me to get longer chains so I'm very motivated now, I will keep you updated.
No. 478790
>>478775Thanks for the luck!
Yeah I heard about the cute charme exploit, but that 25% chance is too high to add value to the shiny for me, plus I'm not too fond of manually changing my savefile, I did the void glitch not long ago for Shaymin and that's as far as I will go.
No. 478932
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No. 478943
File: 1743804928312.jpg (306.7 KB, 720x665, dont kill yourself.jpg)
>>478764…When I worte this post I expected to write the follow up (if any) in months, not in some hours.
I finally can rest in peace haha I'm not even that excited, just glad my hunt is finally over after so long. Super happy she is a female as I only use girls, she has gentle nature and her characteristic is that she's a retarded, I love my new daughter.
Now that I know the pokeradar isn't a hoax I'm almost tempted to hunt for Chatot like this as well, but I think I'm gonna go for the Masuda method instead, I don't want to trap myself for years again kek
No. 478945
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>>478943Congratulations! Are you going to give her a nickname?
No. 479028
File: 1743822027169.jpg (108.85 KB, 1200x1200, P9613_703E12201_02.jpg)
Holy shit, the figure is real
No. 479029
File: 1743822142256.jpg (91.24 KB, 1200x1200, P9613_703E12201_04.jpg)
>>479028Ghetsis looks kinda shit, but Hydreigon is gorgeous.
No. 479064
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>>478945 >>479031
Thanks you! I was close to naming her Shayna kek But ended up going for Berry (very fitting to your picrel)
>>478947You made me curious and I checked my save and my Pachirisu sucks lmao Still love her though.
I think I will try to Pokeradar Chatot for a few days and if I don't get her, I will go for Masuda or trying on Gen 6. If I do find a female via Pokeradar I will let you name her.
No. 479194
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No. 479214
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>>479194Love this. Looks so pretty and cozy.
No. 479230
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I wonder what their role in Legends Z-A is going to be. Especially Bonnie.
No. 479238
>>479230It won't happen but the thought of them both running the electric gym as they get older is cute…Gamefreak please hear my cries give us another double battle gym
>>479235Probably a year minimum, I can't imagine AZ getting his life in order that fast after you beat XY
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No. 479253
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how many people has lt. surge killed?
No. 479357
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>>479242>People always give me shit for loving BonnieLiterally why? lmao
No. 479386
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The BDSP models make me so mad! They're shit interpretations of the sprites, they don't match them nor do they understand anatomy or how fabrics/materials work! So fatter characters just look inflated like a balloon. Bulbapedia always use the latest art/model so for many trainer classes they have it as the default image, makes me rage
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>>479386Same and they look so stiff too
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No. 479518
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Good news: Looks like the curse was on Pachirisu and not the radar, did my very first non-Pachi hunt to test something and got the chain right away, 40 minutes total for the first shiny, got 3 ones in the chain.
Bad news: Last shiny broke the chain (got an edge tile) and all these fuckers are male, so I can't use them.
Not too bothered by this outside wasting ~2 hours, but I think I'm gonna get a cute charmer next time so this doesn't happen again kek.
I think I will keep the first one and axe the rest. A shame there's no wifi or 3DS wonder trade anymore so I can gift these to someone who appreciates them.
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>>479362i love marnie. i thought it was creepy that she has her own "fan team" (i bet those guys are pedos), she should have just been a weird and mean outcast like silver or something but i love her design
No. 479573
>>479518There's a fanmade GTS system for Gen 4 & 5 that you can connect your DS to and trade with people there
https://pkmnclassic.net/I do miss wonder trade though and offloading failed breeding attempts lol releasing makes me feel guilty
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>>479579>>479580so… if her brother is the gym leader why isn't he the one with the fan club?
>>479578it was mostly a joke but yes i find it weird that grown men are following a child around and dedicating their life to being her fan
No. 479593
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I found one of these pokeplush accs dedicated to our queen, keysmash japanese accounts never fail
https://x.com/39M7LVEZM5elEqLKind of related, but the other day I was wondering why the Marill line was given the fairy type, there's nothing magical/fairy-like in them (maybe the way their tails float in water can be seen as whimsical?).
I do enjoy lots how GF looked at her and went "Yeah, this one is capable of killing dragons" though.
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post your fave shiny from every generation (i love when pokemon become silver or gold)
https://pokemondb.net/pokedex/shiny No. 479625
>>479604I see, will look for it then.
I did thought of the moon rabbit connection, but since the line is based/linked to water and beaches/pools it didn't made much sense to me. Wigglytuff for example I can see it better because her body shape and Pokedex entries are a bit reminiscent to mochi.
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>>479600These are wonderful picks! I love the shiny color way for minior. One of the most mesmerizing shinies for me is vaporeon from the gamecube and nintendo 64 era.
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>>479641fuck i miss when you could change the colors of your pokemon with different names
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>>479600I like how well all of yours match each other. This was a way tougher decision than I thought, but I'll always maintain that shiny Froslass looks better than normal Froslass.
>>479700Celebi is one of the best shinies; I almost put her as my Gen 2, too.
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Are the Colosseum games really that bad?
No. 479895
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>>479600Just one per gen was so hard…
Also I haven't played past gen 6, but now that I look at them gen 9 sucks a lot. There are some nice desings, but most of them are a miss to me.
No. 479909
>>479874absolutely trash opinion, colosseum and XD are fantastic games that offer a unique battling experience no other main-line game comes close to:
>limited pokemon pool to craft your party from>all double battles so you can take advantage of different battle strategies that never come up in the main-line games>increased opponent AI>well-balanced teams on the bosses that WILL require you to prepare beforehand>bosses even switch up their teams starting order, so you can't prepared totally for the battlesIf you in anyway enjoy the battle mechanics of pokemon, they are a must play. People trying to argue they're bad or 'the worst' are contrarians who didn't want to engage with the battle mechanics in the first place, and would rather play pokemon for the myriad of other reasons people enjoy the series. Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but like fuck off man, pokemon games are so goddamn easy and some of us enjoy a challenge without having to play losers on showdown, or grind up pokemon for post-game facilities. Let us have this.
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>>479874>>479909samefag but I'm not done because I didn't even mention how amazing the battle animations in these games are. Literally the best 3D renditions of pokemon to date, so much personality was put into every pokemon. AND the music is fantastic. Damn I can't wait to replay these again on the switch 2.
No. 479914
>>479874I assume that's just a contrarian, I only see praise towards these games (unless that guy dislikes battling, but then that's a he issue)
I have never played them aside trying one of the GC ones at my friend's house but I have always been curious about them, seeing your pixel friend suddently in 3D must be cool.
The other day I watched a Platinum championship battle (which was played/shown on Pokemon Battle Revolution) and I thought "Woah, I hope someday mainline Pokemon looks like this!" until a second later I realized that mainline is already in 3D, that someday should be now kek.
These games are so expressive, might plug them into my hacked Wii, poor thing has been collecting dust for decades.
>>479913There, there… At least they're easy to emulate since they're old (so no need for powerful PCs + easy to find online).
No. 479942
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>>479936in the games sure but in the anime the balls could be made smaller and lots of people kept them on their belt or just took them out of a pocket. "pocket monsters" sounds adorable and refers to how they can be shrunk down to fit on your person + a reference to the games being played on things that can fit in your pocket. there is nothing to change.
No. 480036
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I want to see these four again in LZA. I feel bad for them for being completely overshadowed by every other major battle facility, especially the train twins. They didn't even get to make an appearance in the anime. Their legacy is being knows as Game Freak's cheap replacement for Hoenn's Battle Frontier in ORAS.
No. 480044
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Why is this the case?
No. 480053
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>>480036Frankly SubMas are a totally unexpected outlier even in the context of Battle Facility fanart…
But still, the dames are cute. It's just that like most Kalos NPCs they are forgotten. I wonder why, I personally think most of Kalos' trainers look cool.
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>>480053Cute lmao they look like monkeys
No. 480069
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>>480053BW/BW2 has a lot more cutscenes and character interaction compared to XY. I think the gigaleaks stated that XY was meant to focus less on characters and more on the Pokemon themselves but I don't remember which document it was.
I'm hoping Z-A will bring some new interest to the games and people will want to create more content of Kalos trainers
Don't even have good pics of the Battle Maison girls so Submas will indeed have to go in the image field
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>>480084One more for today.
Side note, I adore art of trainers with their pokémon and SubMas have some great mons in their squad. Any fanartist who draws them with their mons is based in my book. Some of them seem to forget they're pokémon trainers at all…
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>>480084>>480100>>480070i want to live in the gen 1 pokemon world every day
No. 480166
>>480144what is this? never seen it before
>>480100>Any fanartist who draws them with their mons is based in my book. i'm interested in this kind of fanart for submas and anything else
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>>480069I feel like you just wanted an excuse to post more submas
>>480161No way this wasn't on purpose kek
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>>480069here, I found you a good pic
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>>480166old pokemon 4koma comic
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based benimaru itoh
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>>479386>Bulbapedia always use the latest art/model so for many trainer classes they have it as the default image, makes me rageHoly shit, same. It's so inconsistent when the rest of the NPCs who have the superior 2D artwork as their article image.
>>480036At least the Battle Chatelaines appear relatively frequently in PoMa. My favorite is Nita.
>Let's get crackin'!I love my little crackhead.
No. 480292
>>480275Pretty sure we always knew they're sisters, nona.
>the mansion is from their dead parents.Ok, I don't think this was revealed in the games. I just know they're originally from Hoenn.
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>>480036i don't think i ever saw them in game but i love their designs. kind of remind me of the kimono girls who i also love
No. 480350
>>480326>i don't think i ever saw them in gameMe with the train fags.
>kind of remind me of the kimono girls who i also loveIn Kalos there's also the Furisode girls lol. I wonder if the Kimono girls will ever come back.
>>480335Dang, I didn't battle all of them.
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>>480335I didn't battle them all either and had to look up their quotes, Morgan says it.
Everyone was acting so shocked when the leaks happened about the Battle Chatelines but it was right there the entire time kek
Next time I replay XY I'll spend more time there, I got a kick out of their banter
Also learned they got cards from the set Team Up, fuck me in the ass cause that whole set is expensive seconehand rip Battle Maison fans
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>>480350The Furisode girls are possibly related to the Kimono girls actually. Valerie was originally from Johto, she speaks in the Kyoto dialect (Ecruteak City was inspired by Kyoto), and her ace Pokemon is Sylveon.
No. 480392
>>480334Did they change Journeys when they localized it or something? I don't remember it being like that at all.
Yeah, they were staying at the lab as research fellows but it was just a base of operations for the usual adventures.
Both SuMo and Journeys I liked as a departure from the usual formula. I haven't watched the current season with the new protagonist, though, and if she hasn't been allowed to have the same free roaming adventures Ash and co. got for most of the anime I'll be annoyed.
No. 480399
>>480392It wasn't so much a "base" as it was a guise for adults to make sure Ash and co didn't get into too much trouble, the professor even forcing them to babysit his daughter against her and their will. It was just the same as him living with Kukui in Alola, he was essentially just the adopted son of the house who goes out to play at day and then comes home in the evening. There was a huge increase in "correctly done daily life" stuff, like making sure to show Ash brushing his teeth, eating breakfast properly, always wearing seatbelts when traveling in a vehicle and so on. And now they do the same with Liko and Roy, they also have a bunch of adults around them taking care of them.
The second worst part is that it frames the adults as caretakers for kids. They can't have adventures anymore, that's for the kids! Friede being the exception, but even then he often is too busy doing adult stuff to adventure. They are all supposedly on an adventure traveling the world together but once they they reach a new place it's like "oh no we're not leaving because I'm checking the engine of the ship, and he's just gonna stay on the ship to cook dinner, oh and that old guy is gonna just fish as normal" they only go out if it's directly related to their jobs. It creates a bizarre dynamic imo.
No. 480408
>>480399Interesting… I'm planning on rewatching Journeys soon actually so I'll be watching with this take in mind.
Would you recommend the current anime at all? I'm doing rewatches through Netflix since it was the only place I could find JP audio eps with JP subs for language immersion and that was next on my list.
No. 480418
>>480334>can't go out aloneThese kids carry around magic monsters that harness the powers of the elements and are magnitudes more powerful than any human being. The only thing dangerous is how stupid kids naturally are… which I suppose is a
valid point, considering all the bullshit Ash and co. get themselves into on a weekly basis.
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>>480350i never saw the trainfags in game either but i ended up loving them due to fanart. bitches love quirky twins
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>>480505NTA but you can only encounter them in BW if you have a win streak in the Battle Subway. Personally, I didn't make a serious attempt because I didn't know shit about competitive at the time. That's why I've never seen them "in person".
No. 480516
>>480506Please play bw2! Its my top 3 pokemon game for sure, Im sad so many havent even played it…
>>480514Are you just trolling or a secondary?
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>>480520lol, I was about to pull out a wiki screenshot.
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>>480520oh yeah, i meant "no they aren't a forced encounter, in bw" not "no they aren't in bw" haha
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I love when SubMas artists give love to Tynamo and Eelektross. I even saw some cute art with Emmet and Eelektrik.
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>>480399This does
not sound like the same anime where a grown man once pointed a gun at Ash and his friends (and then got held at gunpoint himself) kek
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>>480542>It feels like the whole franchise as a whole is trying to be less "edgy" I don't know if that's the right wordI wouldn't say less "edgy", but rather "less fantastical" or "more realistic". It's like they're trying to force the setting of Pokémon to be as close to reality as possible without erasing the wish fulfillment aspect entirely, kinda like a lot of anime today that only exist as a fantasy version of the average Japanese person's life or something (or isekai).
Like, for example, this part in the 20th movie (I Choose You!) always seemed odd and out of place to me
>Ash dreams he is in a world where no Pokémon exist and where he attends regular school with his friends. IMO you can also see a bigger emphasis on the human characters than on the Pokémon and adventure/exploration aspect lately, at least in the anime.
Though I think part of this change may be due to GF wanting to "shake up the formula" because there were fans who thought everything pre-Gen 7 you mentioned was "getting old". Also, the fact that Ash finally became Champion meant that an anime "reboot" was necessary.
>I have no idea because I only watched the anime as a kid up to gen 3The DP and XY anime seasons have aged well. XY in particular produced unbelievable amounts of hype. I didn't watch many episodes, but I remember everyone being excited about it online, and they still talk about it to this day.
Man, Gen 6 was the best time to be a Pokémon fan.But they dropped the ball with the BW anime.
No. 480602
>>480541>Do you think the anime's shift in direction has anything to do with the current trends in anime in general?Hard for me to say, as I don't watch other anime aimed directly at kids these days and only watch pokemon because I'm still a fan of the games and it's cute/nostalgic to keep watching it. Though I think it's a sentiment that pokemon overall has been changing towards starting from the games around gen 7 like
>>480542 says
>I noticed this for the games as well with how you could go anywhere in the first games and deal with insane shit by yourself like ecoterrorists, the mafia, dangerous places with only your pokemon, but the teams in gen 7, 8 and 9 are harmless, stupid delinquants and your character will wear ugly as fuck but realistic looking protective equipments in gen 7 and 8 when riding pokemon or a bicycle.Gen 8 also had adults telling the player to NOT go after big plot events and instead focusing on the having fun and doing the gym challenge. Gen 9 makes you go to a school in a kids school uniform, and more than ever there aren't even bad guys in the game! Who's the most evil person in gen 9? The AI bot professor right? Who ultimately loved his/her son but just chose to work too much instead, and the last battle being programmed into them and not something they even wanted to do. Pokemon used to be a power fantasy adventure game for kids, it's now a family friendly slice of life game with morals approved by mommy and daddy.
The games story has gotten tamer, the characters are friendlier, the puzzles are easier and "annoying" challenging features like having to balance HM moves or having to individually raise pokemon is fully gone, there is no evil team, the main legendaries are you buddy best friend and not a threat…
The last mean-ish/not just a friend main rival was Hugh in gen 5
The last actually evil team was in gen 6 (including aether foundation, Lusamine just loved ultra beasts, she had no evil plans to take over the world)
The last evil plan/"troublemaking" main boxart legendary duo was in gen 6
So I think gen 7 is when it all got "softer", and that perfectly matches up with the anime when Ash was sent to school and was made more childish.
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I'm going to blame Ohmori for the current direction of Pokemon, you can just tell he probably has some deep seated issues about family and finding success and it shows in later titles. That's why Gen 8 and 9 are written the way that they are.
>>480602>The last actually evil team was in gen 6 (including aether foundation, Lusamine just loved ultra beasts, she had no evil plans to take over the world) It's kind of wicked to employ a gang to do your bidding while hiding behind a mask of being a wholesome CEO, or to endanger those around you to get what you want, but it's a lesser evil compared to literal genocide for sure
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>>480602>The games story has gotten tamerFrankly I disagree. In some aspects they have gotten annoyingly kiddy and sugary.
But in others, these games have gotten dark and tell depressing, realistic events with various degrees of maturity and quality.
Professor Sada (I played Scarlet) was always a little crazy and her idea of scientific research was chasing after myths and legends, but after being left by her deadbeat husband
after her pregnancy she completely snaps and decides that the paradise for her and her son is a giant chasm filled with aggressive monsters from other universes. This is clearly still a monster catching RPG with wahoo crazy events and cool mons but just in this blurb we have deadbeat parents, child neglect, egocentrism and insanity.
And this goes without mentioning the clusterfuck of Gen 7 which I personally found too morbid for Pokémon.
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>>480602>Lusamine just loved ultra beasts, she had no evil plans to take over the world)NAYRT but this made me realize I have almost no memory of Gen 7 whatsoever. Like, in every other gen, I can remember the evil team and what their main goal was, even though it's been way longer since I played those games. Gen 7 is just a massive blank. I remember Lilli was carrying Nebby in her bag, and that Lusamine was her evil mom who owned an evil science lab, but I have no memory of what Lusamine was doing or what her team even wanted. I completely forgot about the Ultra Beasts until I read your post. I can't even remember the two main grunts on her team. There was the Elton John-looking guy and Wicke, but I don't even remember what they wanted or why they were working for her. I can't even remember how Nebby ends up becoming the box legendary, even though I remember it happened. I wonder why it was so much more forgettable to me than every other game I've played in the series.
>>480649>these games have gotten dark and tell depressing, realistic events with various degrees of maturity and qualityI think part of the reason the newer games seem so 'kiddy' is also because of the handholding in newer titles. I agree the themes are often darker or more explicitly dark than in old gens, but it's the overall feeling of the game that negates those themes.
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>>480641>It's kind of wicked to employ a gang to do your bidding while hiding behind a mask of being a wholesome CEO,ayrt and yes absolutely, all the evil teams are bad, to varying degrees! It being less bad is exactly what I meant, the stakes are a lot lower compared to Cyrus wanting to destroy the universe, or Lysandre wanting to wipe out most of humanity. I think Giovanni is the most comparable of the earlier bosses but that guy is an actual literal mafia boss of two regions who openly commits crimes all the time. Guzma is actually just nice, he never does anything actually bad.
>I'm going to blame Ohmori for the current direction of Pokemon, you can just tell he probably has some deep seated issues about family and finding successI haven't looked into who was "responsible" so to speak but it would definitely be interesting to have a close look at who the writers are for each game!
>>480649>Frankly I disagree. In some aspects they have gotten annoyingly kiddy and sugary. But in others, these games have gotten dark and tell depressing, realistic events with various degrees of maturity and quality.
That's a fair stance! Imo the "realism" is part of what makes it tamer (I could have probably used a better word though). It's no longer a fun fantasy adventure, and instead a bit too realistic and that's just not as fun to me. I'd rather look for a girl kidnapped by a hypno or explore ancient ruins than watch a guy I just met cry while making a sandwich because his dog is dying. Pokemon does have a lot of emotional value to me as a long time fan, but they just don't have the emotional impact to write that kind of serious story. I'll openly admit that I cried at the end of every PMD game when you're taken back from the pokemon world and your partner pokemon is crying begging for you to stay. Those stories and settings can have that kind of emotional impact, but in the main games where I'm just running around on a big lizard in safe world making a 30-hotdog-sandwiches while doing silly little challenges like rolling a giant olive around it just doesn't feel the same. The stakes were always low.
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Which generation do you find the most nostalgic? For me it's 6 and 7.
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>>481070The older gens, obviously
No. 481094
>>481070Gen 4! The ranger games are very nostalgic for me too.
>>480709The PMD Explorers games actually didn't fuck around in the second half of the story or the postgame.
For one thing, Dusknoir, who up until 5 minutes ago was your friend, tries to murder you by tying you to a stake so you can be eviscerated by Sableye kek. Then you learn that you and Grovyle have to sacrifice yourselves to save the world, so your character dies and then you have to watch your partner break down crying after mourning you for (probably) months (I know Dialga brings you back but it's still sad). And then the postgame quest with Darkrai is basically him trying to bully you into killing yourself. Obviously it's all dressed up in PG fantasy language but that is unironically what happens kek
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>>479230If picrel ends up being true, I'm guessing this is where we'll find them. It'd make sense for him to become a professor, right?
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>>481262Please let him be a qt.
It's Trevor, isn't it No. 481361
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>>481025Billions fell for this btw… maybe
>>481070I really love this kind of group photo art.
>>481347Or Tierno. Tierno gives you your Kalos starter in XY.
No. 481385
>>481070Gen 3
>first Pokémon games>favorite anime seasons>favorite region (Hoenn)>favorite version of Kanto to this day>playing FRLG on someone's borrowed GBA SP for a few minutes made me want to play Pokémon (he had a Lv. 100 Blastoise)>tazosGens 1 & 2
>strong anime nostalgia from early childhood; didn't play any games until much later>favorite movies>played the N64 spin-offs on emulator a lot>Crystal is one of the GOATGen 5
>first pre-release experience>started attending cons around that time and bought some imported official BW merch>first legally acquired game for my first handheld console and first game played on real hardware (bought HGSS too but didn't play it that much + Gen 4 was already over, I bought it mostly because it was hard to emulate well at the time)>first time playing a Pokémon game before the generation was overGen 6
>first time playing with so many other people and connecting with them through Pokémon in real time>first time experiencing massive hype with other people online and IRL>iconic for being the first fully 3D Pokémon games>first time I became interested in the competitive scene and the TCG>first time playing a Pokémon game in the same year it released>Hoenn remakes No. 481411
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>>481409Yeah I get it. It feels like such a waste to design a great looking character just to make that character entirely non-existent for a large portion of players.
Scarlet and Violet fixed this issue by making both protagonists ugly as fuck genderswaps of each other.
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>>481262According to some other leaks
it might be team flare's Mabel. I kinda doubt it but I still think it'd be interesting to see
former team flare characters return and redeem themselves No. 481470
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Look at this cute retard
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>>481470Meowscarada is one of those pokemon that look great in art but terrible in-game. The stoner eyes they give it most of the time break it for me, but with more open eyes it looks adorable.
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>>481114>That PMD plot slaps so hard. I want a new game so bad, I'd even take it over gen 10!Agreed
nonnie. I'm gonna take this opportunity to be autistic about a tiny story detail which I think goes unappreciated:
so Darkrai tries to trick your team into thinking the world would be better if you "disappeared", and your partner gets depressed about it. During the postgame, you move to a cave in the side of a cliff which directly overlooks the sea. One night, your partner wonders out loud if Darkrai is right and they should just disappear from the world - and in the morning, you wake up to see their bed (which is next to the drop over the sea) is empty. Obviously they're fine and they just went outside to angst, but still, that was a real "oh shit" moment for me as a kid because I knew the whole thing was supposed to be a euphemism for death kek. Seeing my cute little Skitty friend contemplate if she really should disappear made me so sad. No. 481501
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>>481472But she herself is a little girl
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>>481478>>481094PMD is so special for stuff like this. The existential horror I experienced as a child with the whole
"saving the future means you must effectively die by erasing your own existence," plus the fact that the villains are, on some level, fighting against you so they don't have to fucking die threw me for such a loop. Even the character writing in the lighter Special Episodes in Explorers is so heartfelt and well-done. All of the Mystery Dungeon games have like some weird dark part where someone tries to
fucking murder you. If I recall, Kyurem outright murders Hydreigon in Gates? And I think it was implied Kyurem had killed previous humans? No. 481613
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when did pokemon stop saying their names in the animu?
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>>481661no, japanese version also had them say it but in the japanese name. in the dubs that used the same name, they'd just use the dub voice, such as raichu (same in both japanese and english). that's why raichu pronounces the "R" as "L"
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>>481613Do all pokemon grunt now? I do find your vid cute in a way though, makes it feels like that thing is just a big cat.
I don't have any specific examples since I haven't touched the anime since I was 8, but I vaguely remember some pokemon would grunt like their real-life counterparts as well (maybe Skitty was one of them?)
No. 481863
>>479564I really miss asshole rivals like Blue and Silver. Later rivals were just annoying and kind of pathetic and didn’t inspire any feelings of rivalry in me at all, like I would’ve happily skipped their battles and ignored them if given the option. But winning that battle against Blue after exiting Mt. Moon for the first time was so insanely satisfying I wish I could have bottled that feeling of accomplishment and pride. Take that, asshole!
>>481070Gen 1 because it was my first and gen 2 because I spent months obsessing over it before its release (my elementary school notebook was full of crappy drawings of Celebi and Chikorita which my teachers thought were OCs) and was actually old enough to understand wtf I was doing. Gen 3 is the last generation I have any nostalgia for. I’m old.
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>>481983Well you can't really say shorts are sexual on girls unless they are furry girls. But if so just make the protags catgirls and it should all be fine!
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cute kitties
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would you eat an ingo?
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RIP /vp/
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>>482951Is 4chins shitting itself due to /qa/ being brought back?
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>>482959The sharty finally took their ultimate revenge. They doxxed all the mods and jannies (many were trannies as expected, and many were feds as expected), the entire site was compromised, all pass users or anyone who verified emails are compromised.
It's literally over
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>>482961>no more comfy pokéhusbando threads>but also no more /vp/ which is a net positiveI'm a little torn on this ngl
now I'm really curious to see which janny is a fed, a tranny or both No. 483010
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>>482961I wonder how many of those jannies are currently joining the percentage lol
>>482963Does it really feel like a net positive if you never leave the pokehusbando general?
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>>482963>>483010Well we got our own husbando thread anyways. We'll probably get some of those anons coming here posting more in our thread
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>>482957what about an emmet?
>>482951good
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>>483102Please do not eat the twinsies.
>>483013This is true, at the same time I hope nonnies who like Arven or Cheren won't be called pedos.
>>483010Sometimes I looked at other threads but it was really garbage, basically the board was run by genwar trolls and sharties except for the general which were the only threads with genuine discussion. And Mods did
nothing.
It was so bad that sometimes you even had anti-Unova trolls attempt to cause butthurt in the husbando thread by randomly showing up to criticize N or SubMas.
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>>483114they can live… for now
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>>483158No way half of the posters were men, men don't post like that.
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>>483158>Im pretty sure it was half gay/bi guys?It
used to be mostly men, but recently it was actually full of women (and I'm sure some were gendies) despite the rest of the board being underage moidlets central. It was a slow but nice thread with original content, yaoi and yume stuff being posted, not a lot fighting either.
>>483158I remember that. It was based and that poster was a Colosseum-loving
nonnie which makes her double based.
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>>483185have you ever thought about using the filter to hide the threads you disliked?
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>>483158Hell no.
My husbando is mine and mine only, I don't want the other one coming here. Pic unrelated.
>spoilerWhat character? At least that guy you mentioned looks like a typical Tumblr sexyman (so, not gay male taste).
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>>483185>also going to /vp/ in general was vomit-inducing because going in the catalog to find your threads meant you had to sift through threads dedicated to 10 year old girls and having sex with braixen.>not having https://boards.4chan.org/vp/husbando bookmarked for easy and direct access to the current threadsmh my head
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>>483327There was a Ghetsis yume? I don't know what was fascinating about her, but cool. Hope she finds this thread and likes my Ghetsis pics.
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I first found /vp/ as a 12 year old back in 2012 a little before the Gen 6 hype season and it's been part of my life ever since. I don't think I spent a week in the past 13 years of my life without checking /vp/ at least once. I know this sounds stupid but I do feel very lost right now knowing that it might not come back. I am happy that I found this thread, but it's just not the same…
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>>483356There there, I'm sure /vp/ will come back at some point…
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>>4829514chan's currently down? Good riddance.
Though I'm gonna miss the femporn/yumejoshi threads over on /h/ and /aco/ even if they're slow.Also there was that one Volo Akari anon that draws toxic noncon NSFW art of them together. I wonder how they're doing. No. 483455
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>>483356Look on the bright side, you can finally cure your 4chan addiction!
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>>483494Some 4channers are insufferable, others not so much.
As if some of the autism and retardation couldn't possibly be coming from users who came from other sites… No. 483554
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>>483494Where the fuck did you come from if not from 4chan? LC was literally created because of 4chan.
>>483523wow I didn't know that
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>>483525This thread's brand of autism has nothing to do with using 4chan, instead it's got all to do with Pokémon.
And it's not just that Pokémon attracts awkward, autistic individuals, it also attracts underages ranging from literal children to holier-than-thou teenagers. One of /vp/'s reknown problems since its inception as a board as been that it's infested with clueless underage newfags and even a
Nonnie itt confessed to having found the board as a child.
The moment you realize how many babbies use imageboards is the moment you understand why infights about SubMas itt happened at all or why threads on hot fandom topics (Fandom drama on /ot/ being the prime example) are so full of retarded takes and infighting.
Also, to anyone smugly mocking /vp/ browsing nonnies: more people use(d) 4chan than you think and /vp/ in particular is a board that has gotten bursts of visits from most of the Pokémon fandom during all sorts of leak seasons. You remember when the Gold & Silver Spaceworld Demo came out? Or everytime something got out early, like a wholeass game or an artwork? All of that got posted on /vp/ first and you're just probably used to seeing it reposted elsewhere.
Lurk more and stop being a clueless newfag.
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>>483558You can mock people who are regular 4chan users, and still know all of this and have been a regular 4chan user in the past, you know. I was just poking fun at that
nonnie's /vp/ addiction because I've been there. I'd rather have her (and other female /vp/ users who can integrate) posting here.
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Holy shit, I found an old 2014 thread where they organized to scam people out of their shinies and legendaries on XY. They called themselves Team Rocket kek
https://archived.moe/vp/thread/20179771/I'm laughing, but also fuck these faggots. Grown-ass moids scamming kids in Pokémon, it's so pathetic.
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If the leaks are real there is a non-zero chance SubMas will be back for Legends AZ because both Mega Chandelure and Mega Elektross are part of the leaked evos.
I hope it's true!
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>>483558this is quite literally every thread here, newfags infested the site. has nothing to do with just pokemon
No. 483751
>>483719I wonder if Submas would be older or younger here? Post-Hisui or maybe whatever goes on in PLZA leads to PLA? I'm more invested in their story now than literally anything else Gamefreak is trying to write kek.
>>483631Took me a minute to figure out how the scam would work because I was like "wouldn't players know it's not a Shiny Ditto they're trading if they can see it on the GTS?", but then realized anons were asking for shinies in return for random shittermons named 6IV[shittermon]. I wonder if you can do that still in the newer game, or if it shows all stats before trading.
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Do you have any pokemon you tend to forget it exists but that you love?
I suddently remembered about Phanpy and I spend like 15 minutes smiling at pictures of her kek. I think she and Dewgong and my favorite "overlooked" Pokemon.
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>>483981both sandshrew and diglett are so cute
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>>483981Dragonair and Axew for me, I love those cute little dragons but for some reason I never remember them
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>>483981Galvantula! I always remember joltik but when things like PokeDoku dailies come around, she always is a blank in my mind.
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>>483981It's Victini for me. Such a cute design and a combination of my two favorite types, and yet, I never use it or think about it.
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>>483981I've never used it and I always forget it exists but it's one of my top 10 favorites for sure…
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>>483981Cute as fuck but I've only ever used one in a romhack, where she was a ghost killing machine
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>>484212furret is decent in pokemon go battle league
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did someone order an emmet?
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>>484272Untie him, poor thingy
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I don't mind Sycamore but the real Kalos hottie should be Siebold despite not there being much about him other than a chef and part of the Elite Four. He's pretty underrated and deserves more yume treatment.
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>>484417There was a Siebold yume on /vp/ in like 2018-2020 that I remember vividly but she stopped posting. I think about her everytime I see Siebold now kek
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>>484317he is free
>>484417idk who this guy even is. he's cute though
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everybody wants him to fucking die… leave AZ alone wtf