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[edited by a mod to remove references to deleted messages] Anywho, Pokemon. Setting aside the matter of darkness, I've always appreciated SM Lusamine as a character. Without getting too personal, I'm being completely serious when I say that Lusamine helped early-teenage me realize that my own...

My bad for the error, thanks for correcting me! In that case, EQ Gligar looks even more promising for in-game.

Mystery Gift is only unlocked once you reach Goldenrod, so you'd have to deal with a Level 5 Gligar going up against Whitney. Not the worst level deficit in the world, and the Falkner and Bugsy match-ups are pretty mediocre so it's not really a big loss to miss those, but you would have to go...

Tangentially related, but Crystal getting rid of Mareep is evil. Johto already lacks for type diversity and good team members as is, and you’re going to take away one of the only Electric options and one of the only decent Johto lines? Why? The Odd Egg at least gives you a shot at Pichu or...

Maybe I'm reading too much into things, but cross-gen cameo characters feel like a casualty of Dexit to me. Their team would need to perfectly align with the roster already set in place for the regional dex, and adding yet another consideration when tailoring the Dex for both in-game and...

I absolutely love this direction with Mew's design. I get why they didn't keep it that way, as it certainly would have been less marketable and it would have lost some of its visual contrast with Mewtwo, but I do miss embryonic Mew. It's another one of those Gen 1 sprites that may not be...

RB Golbat is the best depiction of Golbat in any form of Pokemon media, ever. This sprite is often the go-to when people talk about Gen 1's sprites, for better or for worse. The tongue is off-model with how its depicted in any other part of the franchise, it's a lot longer than it usually is...

Damn, I literally checked Electivire's Bulbapedia page just to be absolutely sure that I wasn't forgetting anything. And I still missed it! In my defense, I don't think you ever want to click Flamethrower on Electivire anyways outside of in-game, but still, my bad

This probably belongs more in unpopular opinions? But the Regigigas talk is happening here, which makes it relevant. I think Regigigas having Slow Start is fine. Good, even. That's not to say I don't understand why people are frustrated with it - admittedly I'd be annoyed too if my favorite...

This is what I get for skimming the article! My gut feeling is that Thunder clashes in a way, given how strongly associated it is with rain and rainstorms specifically in Pokemon, but there's no reason that association can't be changed or challenged. What made me think of Discharge specifically...

To go a step further - why don't the volcano Pokemon (which I'd qualify as the Magmar line, Moltres, the Cyndaquil line, the Slugma line, Entei, the Numel line, Groudon, and Heatran) learn Discharge? Volcanic lightning is a real phenomenon, and I don't think any of these Pokemon would be...

I think it's a reasonable possibility that we'll get city outskirts of some kind - I certainly wouldn't expect them to extend much farther than where routes were in the original game, but even just parts of Routes 4, 5, 13, 14, and 16 would do a lot to increase biome diversity and add more...

I don't think this is unlikely at all. After all, we saw a 3D version of the city, which is pretty incongrous with the sketch plans we see in the rest of the video that makes up the rest of the video. Having two different cities in the past and future also justifies being locked to just that city.

NO ILCA UNOVA REMAKES WE WON Ahem. Legends ZA- (This is the name, right?) looks so damn cool! I'm very curious to see how they implement the Paris Exposition into things here - maybe Lumiose will be your home base, like Jubilife was in PLA?

Who knew that a Pokemon could so accurately reflect my undergrad experience? First and foremost, this is a work of art. Second, I honestly find Cerulean Cave's myriad of encounters to be completely fascinating. It's absolutely boring in Yellow, but it's still so distinct from pretty much...

I think the idea here was to buff Fire, which was a pretty weak type in Gen 1. It kinda goes under the radar a bit because Gen 1 had more immediately bad types in the likes of Fighting and Bug, but Fire wasn't doing well for itself either. Its offensive profile was mediocre, only super-effective...

Your conclusion here is really just fundamentally flawed. You're assuming that A. Pokemon fans are all one monolith, which is not true; B. that you can't like something and be critical of it at the same time, which is not true; and C. that having issues with Palword means that you deny the right...

My very strong Type Chart Take™ is that they should have made Poison super-effective against Water. Steel already received the Ghost/Dark nerf at the same time as Fairy being added, so it's not as if pre-existing type match-ups can't be altered - and on all counts, I think it would have been...

This is, by far, the most compelling argument I've seen in favor of pseudo Archaludon lmao This is the second-most compelling argument! I think it's a very good point to recognize that archetypes are not set in stone and can evolve over time. Thus, what is integral to an archetype can be...

I'm not super familiar with the JP side of things, but my understanding is that they use the descriptor 600 Club to describe the same 'mons we do as pseudo-legendaries. Hence, Mythicals or a handful of Legendaries like Zygarde and Landorus are not considered part of the 600 Club. If I'm...