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Gripweed posted:I don't want shinies, I just want to beat the drat game and collect Pokemon on the way buy repels??
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Does Platinum include the increased walking speed and other stuff from HeartGold?
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Jun 20, 2019 01:02
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indigi posted:buy repels?? But then I wouldn't be able to catch any Pokemon. The problem is that calling for help makes catching a Pokemon a pain in the rear end. The solution isn't to just stop trying to catch Pokemon, because then I'd rather just stop playing the game altogether.
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Jun 20, 2019 01:06
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Blaze Dragon posted:I find that hilarious. We went from a point where every franchise was trying to appeal to the Yokai Watch audience (including Pokemon, the Rotom Dex exists for a reason) to now, where Yokai Watch is doing its absolute best to get someone, anyone, to play it. And it doesn't seem to be succeeding. YW seems like it found out how to have good short term appeal, but couldn't retain or like pokemon and even digimon did
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I really want to know which galaxy-brained designer in Platinum/BW2 was like "Hey, lets make breeders rematch you via eye contact every single time you re-enter a route." I always forget it's a thing, and then I have to waste time fighting a bidoof/marill/whatever 15 levels below my team members every single time I pass them Gripweed posted:But then I wouldn't be able to catch any Pokemon. The problem is that calling for help makes catching a Pokemon a pain in the rear end. The solution isn't to just stop trying to catch Pokemon, because then I'd rather just stop playing the game altogether.
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IMO Pokemon succeeded where those failed by creating its own world. Yokai Watch is just our world + Yokai and most Digimon media is split between the real world and the digital world which is (as far as I remember) just a place for Digimon shenanigans to happen, it doesn't have its own culture or anything. Plus, Yokai and Digimon only interact with the main characters, they exist to battle and be collected and engage in silliness for kids to enjoy. Pokemon are animals, they exist in the real world (of the games) and everyone knows what they are and are involved with them. That leaves a much greater impression on the imagination and that's why you get explosions of fanart like Gym Leader-sonas and Ryme-sonas and what have you because everyone can be a part of the world at any social level. Not everyone's gonna have a Yokai Watch or be a Digi-Destined so everyone with one has to be an Original Character Do Not Steal. Great for kids, for a while, but it doesn't last.
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Jun 20, 2019 01:25
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I filled in that poll, and it was surprisingly hard to choose candidates for gen 4. The one Pokémon I really like that doesn't have links to an existing evolutionary family is Glameow, and it sure doesn't keep that aesthetic when it evolves.
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Jun 20, 2019 01:30
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Gripweed posted:But then I wouldn't be able to catch any Pokemon. The problem is that calling for help makes catching a Pokemon a pain in the rear end. The solution isn't to just stop trying to catch Pokemon, because then I'd rather just stop playing the game altogether. Paralyze the pokemon you want to catch dawg, and they won't be able to call for help, given how broken their body is It also increases catch rate, you know!
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Jun 20, 2019 01:32
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Tir McDohl posted:Paralyze the pokemon you want to catch dawg, and they won't be able to call for help, given how broken their body is Not all my Pokemon have Paralyze!
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Jun 20, 2019 01:34
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I feel like the poll should've lumped some of the Legendaries together based on their group. Having one Regi that isn't Regigigas seems off. Same with having, say, Moltres but not Zapdos or Articuno.
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Jun 20, 2019 01:51
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thrilla in vanilla posted:Does Platinum include the increased walking speed and other stuff from HeartGold? I don't remember but u get a dope mansion
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Jun 20, 2019 01:55
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Klungar posted:Loathe it or hate it, it seems like we are stuck with the Galar Dex. What I want to know is, what would an idealized version of such a Dex look like, if we carried forward the most popular Pokémon from each Generation, and let the unloved die on the vine. If you care to weigh in, I've created a poll here: https://forms.gle/cQ3kpaMt8y53kBLT6 . There are already a couple hundred responses, but a previous version of a poll that went around last week asking for people to choose their singular favorite Pokémon hit 50k+, so I'd like to get a similar turnout to have good data to compare against. After filling it out I have come to this conclusion about Pokemon and their distribution across the generations: I really like Pokemon and every generation brought me such good friends.
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Jun 20, 2019 01:59
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Man. The ultra beasts were cool but too many drat legendaries in gens 5 and 7. At least gen 4s legendaries had the decency to not have extra forms and stuff
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Jun 20, 2019 02:01
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so when Ash is sent to the past and befriends Kukui as a child, the two of them befriend a giant Trevenant later, when he gets back to the future, Ash happens upon this:  when will Kunihiko Yuyama and Aya Matsui's reign of terror end
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Jun 20, 2019 02:03
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Xelkelvos posted:I feel like the poll should've lumped some of the Legendaries together based on their group. Having one Regi that isn't Regigigas seems off. Same with having, say, Moltres but not Zapdos or Articuno. There's also some non-Legendaries that should have been combined, like Plusle/Minun and Sawk/Throh. But there's some edge cases, naturally.
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Nodosaur posted:so when Ash is sent to the past and befriends Kukui as a child, the two of them befriend a giant Trevenant Kukui cant be more than 30 years old right? Does this mean Pokémon have lifespans around the same as dogs/cats or was that Trevenant already pretty old?
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Jun 20, 2019 02:09
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Gripweed posted:Not all my Pokemon have Paralyze! oh, Gripweed, speaking of pokemon being annoying to catch, here's a fair warning about something extra frustrating: Wimpod (little bug pokemon on the 2nd island) is like drifloon from the DPPT games, in that it doesn't show up in the grass, only as an overworld encounter. If you get it to half health, it will run away. If you knock it out by accident (it has very poor defenses), it will not show up again upon re-loading the route. IIRC, it may take several days to respawn. So, if you want to catch all the new pokemon, keep that in mind. I'm telling you this because I wanted one for my team when I first played, and finding that out after the fact was THE most frustrating thing.
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Jun 20, 2019 02:14
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How does a tree possessed by the ghost of a child die of old age?
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RatHat posted:Kukui cant be more than 30 years old right? Does this mean Pokémon have lifespans around the same as dogs/cats or was that Trevenant already pretty old? Yeah, he was old and looked close to kicking it in the past already. Gruckles posted:How does a tree possessed by the ghost of a child die of old age? I dunno, ask the dead Mimikyu 
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RatHat posted:Kukui cant be more than 30 years old right? Does this mean Pokémon have lifespans around the same as dogs/cats or was that Trevenant already pretty old? given it's size I'd say it was already probably super old Gruckles posted:How does a tree possessed by the ghost of a child die of old age? The anime dex entry for Phantump said it's born from tree stumps possessed by spirits. So it's not a dead person, or necessarily a dead anything, and life just fades from it eventually.
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Xelkelvos posted:I feel like the poll should've lumped some of the Legendaries together based on their group. Having one Regi that isn't Regigigas seems off. Same with having, say, Moltres but not Zapdos or Articuno. In retrospect, I probably would have just left Legendaries off completely, but this would have perhaps been a happy medium. By the time I realized I should have done something, they already received votes, and I didn’t want to invalidate them. None of them have gotten too high of a vote, so I don’t think it will make too big of a difference statistically.
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Jun 20, 2019 02:23
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basically, aside from that one Gastly, Ghost-types are different from literal ghosts
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RatHat posted:Kukui cant be more than 30 years old right? Does this mean Pokémon have lifespans around the same as dogs/cats or was that Trevenant already pretty old? I'm not aware of many explicit statements on Pokemon lifespans in any continuity. The Pokedex notes that Wartortle "is said to live 10,000 years," but the "it is said" hedge, as well as the lack of discussion of how long Blastoise lives, makes me think that this should be taken with a grain of salt. There was a Johto-era anime episode called "Just Waiting On a Friend" about a Ninetales that had outlived its trainer by 200 years, but Ninetales is the sort of Pokemon you'd expect to be especially long-lived.
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Jun 20, 2019 02:25
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Xelkelvos posted:I feel like the poll should've lumped some of the Legendaries together based on their group. Having one Regi that isn't Regigigas seems off. Same with having, say, Moltres but not Zapdos or Articuno. the problem is registeel is bad but rock and ice own and articuno is a tier beyond zapdos. and moltres is awful
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Nodosaur posted:basically, aside from that one Gastly, Ghost-types are different from literal ghosts lies
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Klungar posted:In retrospect, I probably would have just left Legendaries off completely, but this would have perhaps been a happy medium. By the time I realized I should have done something, they already received votes, and I didn’t want to invalidate them. None of them have gotten too high of a vote, so I don’t think it will make too big of a difference statistically. The only time it really matters is if someone picks one or more of a particular group, thus taking away from another pick.
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Jun 20, 2019 02:28
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I'd be perfectly happy if they exiled Landorus but kept Thundurus and Tornadus
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Blaziken386 posted:This is the main problem with calling for help. You put status moves and the like on a pokemon specifically for catching pokemon, who probably isn't a member of your main team. Calling for help only being abated by status effects means that if you find a cool pokemon you want to catch out of the blue, you're pretty much poo poo outta luck. this dreadful game series
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Nodosaur posted:basically, aside from that one Gastly, Ghost-types are different from literal ghosts  also, if you take a picture of gengar with the pokefinder, there's a chance for one of the fake instagram comments to be "Grandma?!"
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Nodosaur posted:basically, aside from that one Gastly, Ghost-types are different from literal ghosts A lot of the ones in later gens are literal ghosts, at least in the games, Yamask being the most notorious example. (White's Pokedex explains it the most directly: "These Pokémon arose from the spirits of people interred in graves in past ages. Each retains memories of its former life." The one people always talk about, though, is the hilariously disturbing Black version: "Each of them carries a mask that used to be its face when it was human. Sometimes they look at it and cry.") Edit: Ninja'd.
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Gripweed posted:this dreadful game series It sounds like you haven't enjoyed any of the Pokemon games you've played recently
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Farecoal posted:lies look man, as much as I like him, dying and having one's spiritual remains trapped in a mask, leading to your intelligence degrading to the point your loyalty can be bought by James of Team Rocket offering you PokeKitten chow is not a reality that should be encouraged.
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ArmyOfMidgets posted:Yeah, he was old and looked close to kicking it in the past already. Hang on what's going on with James there?
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Jun 20, 2019 02:34
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Farecoal posted:It sounds like you haven't enjoyed any of the Pokemon games you've played recently I really liked Alpha Sapphire
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Electric Phantasm posted:Hang on what's going on with James there? He's reacting with proper horror while Jessie is yet to realize what's happening
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Jun 20, 2019 02:35
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Electric Phantasm posted:Hang on what's going on with James there? He's seen a gh-gh-gh-ghost
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Xelkelvos posted:The only time it really matters is if someone picks one or more of a particular group, thus taking away from another pick. My goal is to provide sample Dexs of size 300/400/500/600 (to add to whatever new Galar Pokémon there are) so I can try combining Legendary families and see if it makes a difference in the final outcomes either way.
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And I am enjoying Moon, as long as I'm not currently in a fight that's going on way too long because the Pokemon called for help. Or I've just been reminded that there's a wise-cracking Digimon on my bottom screen for some reason
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Gripweed posted:I really liked Alpha Sapphire Fair, and sorry, that came off as kind of rude  
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Gripweed posted:And I am enjoying Moon, as long as I'm not currently in a fight that's going on way too long because the Pokemon called for help. Or I've just been reminded that there's a wise-cracking Digimon on my bottom screen for some reason It's a Yokai, actually.
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