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Ok so Eevee evolutions in the anime are more common than I remembered. That still raises the question of whether Chloe’s will ever evolve though (and given its intro episode it’s possible we may be dealing with the Let’s Go version in this case).
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I think Cyndaquil is the only starter where the middle form is my favourite. Everything else I either prefer their first form, final evolution, or just don't like the line at all.
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Jul 5, 2021 19:04
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ApplesandOranges posted:I think Cyndaquil is the only starter where the middle form is my favourite. Everything else I either prefer their first form, final evolution, or just don't like the line at all. Raboot is absolute top tier while its prevo and evo are really generic. Other than that I really like Quilava, Grovyle, Dewott and Ivysaur the most out of their lines as well.
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Jul 5, 2021 19:10
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Wartortle is great.
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Jul 5, 2021 19:11
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Electric Phantasm posted:Wartortle is great. Blastoise is such a letdown after how cool the surf and wave crash tail Warturtle
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Jul 5, 2021 19:21
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ApplesandOranges posted:I think Cyndaquil is the only starter where the middle form is my favourite. Everything else I either prefer their first form, final evolution, or just don't like the line at all. Braixen for me. Delphox is weird and ugly. Braixen is adorable and whips out a twig stuck in its tail to use as a magic wand. It's adorable.
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Jul 5, 2021 19:29
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i like charmeleon not being a huge regular dragon guy but a cool fire lizard that is pretty menacing. would like there to be a meleon melon item that he could hold to be 95% as good as a charizard. and i would prefer to use the shiny one. Peepee
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Jul 5, 2021 19:34
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Pikachu's alright since it has access to so many gimmicks denied to its base and evolved forms 'cause screw 'em
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Jul 5, 2021 19:40
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Silver Falcon posted:Braixen for me. Delphox is weird and ugly. Braixen is adorable and whips out a twig stuck in its tail to use as a magic wand. It's adorable. I caught a shiny Braixen in a friend safari in X, and have never evolved it to this day. Just because I think Delphox is such a worse design compared to the first 2 stages.
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Jul 5, 2021 19:45
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I don't get the Delphox hate. It doesn't even look that different than it's other forms. I get the weird hate for Samurott, even though I disagree with it, but not that.
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Jul 5, 2021 20:10
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ZenMasterBullshit posted:Blastoise is such a letdown after how cool the surf and wave crash tail Warturtle Blastoise was originally conceived as part of a different evolutionary family from Wartortle, and it really shows in the way it loses its distinctive tail fluff and grows cannons out of nowhere. Similarly, Venonat and Butterfree were obviously originally part of the same evolutionary family.
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Jul 5, 2021 20:13
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I love my crossdressing seal son and all his evolutions.
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Jul 5, 2021 20:16
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Rudoku posted:I don't get the Delphox hate. It doesn't even look that different than it's other forms. I get the weird hate for Samurott, even though I disagree with it, but not that. I think it's ugly.  Don't know what else to tell you.Samurott rules though and I will die on that hill with you.
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Jul 5, 2021 20:28
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Middle forms from top-tier to garbage tier are officially as follows: Brionne Charmeleon Dewott Raboot Drizzile Frogadier Wartortle Torracat Braixen Grovyle Ivysaur Quilava Dartrix Thwackey Grotle Bayleef Servine Croconaw Marshtomp Prinplup Monferno Pignite Combusken Quilladin
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Jul 5, 2021 21:26
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Come on, man. Quilladin had that perfect "big doofus" energy. How could you see him as being lowest of the low. 
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Jul 5, 2021 22:32
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Croconaw is cool actually cause they look like they all wear caveman tunics.
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Jul 5, 2021 23:03
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Yestermoment posted:Come on, man. Quilladin had that perfect "big doofus" energy. How could you see him as being lowest of the low. It was harsh to put him below even the dick-and-balls chicken... but it was also fair
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Jul 5, 2021 23:08
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Rudoku posted:I don't get the Delphox hate. It doesn't even look that different than it's other forms. I get the weird hate for Samurott, even though I disagree with it, but not that. It's the 3D model. Delphox is a fine design on it's own and looks as such in the official art, but man is that model where it stands board stiff like it failed to load it's animations and is stuck in its t-pose dire.
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galagazombie posted:It's the 3D model. Delphox is a fine design on it's own and looks as such in the official art, but man is that model where it stands board stiff like it failed to load it's animations and is stuck in its t-pose dire. Marshtomp and Dewott are perfect mid-evos that were hit hard by this
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Jul 6, 2021 04:08
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Abundant Atrophy posted:Marshtomp and Dewott are perfect mid-evos that were hit hard by this Feraligatr was impacted too. God does it look dumb that its holding its arms at perfect 90 degree angles at all times.
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Jul 6, 2021 04:11
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It would be kind of nice if the current Pokémon models were in more dynamic poses or had more animations, but I'd imagine that its hard to give that kind of treatment for over 1000 models.
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Jul 6, 2021 05:20
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Vinylshadow posted:Pikachu's alright since it has access to so many gimmicks denied to its base and evolved forms 'cause screw 'em I always find it a bit funny how Raichu is Lt. Surge's signature Pokemon. Maybe it's just because the big tough army man would have, I dunno, Electabuzz or Electrode instead of a kinda cute mouse. But I ain't gonna judge, macho men are allowed to like cute things. Silver Falcon posted:Braixen for me. Delphox is weird and ugly. Braixen is adorable and whips out a twig stuck in its tail to use as a magic wand. It's adorable. I'll admit that I barely paid the Fennekin line any attention because I just zeroed in on Chespin and Oshawott as the much cooler options. Kinda wish Samurott wasn't in Just Another Water land, though.
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Jul 6, 2021 06:31
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Zuzie posted:It would be kind of nice if the current Pokémon models were in more dynamic poses or had more animations, but I'd imagine that its hard to give that kind of treatment for over 1000 models. A whole lot of pokemon do have more dynamic and natural-looking poses. They're just... only in Amie/Refresh/Camp. So many of the pokemon that are stuck in a perpetual flying pose in battle have a proper standing pose, complete with idle animation flourishes, for example.
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Jul 6, 2021 07:14
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ApplesandOranges posted:I always find it a bit funny how Raichu is Lt. Surge's signature Pokemon. Maybe it's just because the big tough army man would have, I dunno, Electabuzz or Electrode instead of a kinda cute mouse. But I ain't gonna judge, macho men are allowed to like cute things. Oshawott is from the previous gen as Fennekin/Chespin, they were paired with Froakie  Oshawott was a gen V starter with Snivy and Tepig
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Jul 6, 2021 07:17
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ApplesandOranges posted:I always find it a bit funny how Raichu is Lt. Surge's signature Pokemon. Maybe it's just because the big tough army man would have, I dunno, Electabuzz or Electrode instead of a kinda cute mouse. But I ain't gonna judge, macho men are allowed to like cute things. To be fair, that Raichu did beat the poo poo out of others using his tail as a whip and knows mega punch. Pokemon in the military is such a weird design when you think about it.
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Jul 6, 2021 08:14
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Zore posted:Oshawott is from the previous gen as Fennekin/Chespin, they were paired with Froakie Man, the Gen 5/6 era is where it starts to get real blurry for me. For some reason I had it in my head that Samurott's samurai shtick would be pairing with the knight/magician motifs of Chespin/Fennekin. It probably doesn't helped that I burned out hard on B/W2 and X/Y didn't really help much. It wasn't til ORAS that I started getting back into the game again, but it's never reached the same level as before (DPPt/HGSS was my peak of investment).
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Jul 6, 2021 08:44
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Prinplup is the worst middle form because it comes from Piplup, and you're not topping that. To that extent Torchic got hosed too. Cindaquil escaped this by just being stretched out across it's evolutions.
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Jul 6, 2021 21:17
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So I just stumbled across this and I know it's not going to happen. But this is exactly what I wanted for the Sinnoh remakes and why i'm most likely not wasting any money on them. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIlopKnC6JU
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Jul 6, 2021 23:22
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Zuzie posted:It would be kind of nice if the current Pokémon models were in more dynamic poses or had more animations, but I'd imagine that its hard to give that kind of treatment for over 1000 models. heaven forbid The Pokemon Company have to spend any money
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Zuzie posted:It would be kind of nice if the current Pokémon models were in more dynamic poses or had more animations, but I'd imagine that its hard to give that kind of treatment for over 1000 models. i can see how you would have to cut manor corners with... the flagship property of the highest-grossing game franchise of all time
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Jul 6, 2021 23:40
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Converting money into time is not as easy as people want it to be. I think that being cautious about increasing the scale of their operations is the smart move, even though it does lead to disappointing outcomes.
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What I really want is them to just port R/B/Y and G/S to the Switch, and let me play them like I did on the Super Gameboy. The 3DS ports were great, with being able to transfer monsters to the modern games.
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Jul 7, 2021 00:35
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Silver2195 posted:Similarly, Venonat and Butterfree were obviously originally part of the same evolutionary family. This is incorrect, it's just a fan theory.
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Jul 7, 2021 00:44
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RatHat posted:This is incorrect, it's just a fan theory. No poo poo? But design-wise Venomoth clearly fits with Caterpie and Metapod better than Butterfree and Butterfree is literally Venonat with wings and less hair.
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Jul 7, 2021 00:47
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RatHat posted:This is incorrect, it's just a fan theory. Maybe but you're never going to convince me otherwise
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Zore posted:No poo poo? But design-wise Venomoth clearly fits with Caterpie and Metapod better than Butterfree and Butterfree is literally Venonat with wings and less hair. Yeah but the difference is there are actual sprites from early Red&Green versions showing Wartortle and Blastoise were originally unrelated, while the Venomoth and Butterfree switch is just theory.
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Jul 7, 2021 00:52
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becoming posted:You might be interested in Drayano's other romhacks; in addition to Renegade Platinum, he's published hacks for Fire Red, HGSS, BWB2W2, and ORAS (3DS); if you do wind up branching out to 3DS, Dio Vento has published similar romhacks for ORAS, SuMo, and USUM. I went searching for posts about romhacks, and I think I'll try Renegade Platinum for my first game from that generation, mostly because it allows catching all the Pokemon without trading, likewise for Blaze Black from the same hack author. For X/Y, are there any this thread would recommend that also allow catching them all without trading?
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Jul 7, 2021 03:17
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Gyarados was obviously originally an evolution of Dragonair, they're both long and snakelike and blue, you're telling me this blue serpent-like dragon evolves into a big orange goof? Gimme a break.
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Jul 7, 2021 03:31
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Twelve by Pies posted:Gyarados was obviously originally an evolution of Dragonair, they're both long and snakelike and blue, you're telling me this blue serpent-like dragon evolves into a big orange goof? Gimme a break. I think Gyarados specifically was intended as an evolution of Magikarp from the start (note the similar whiskers, and of course the reference to the carp-climbing-the-waterfall legend) - although I guess Gyarados could have been created first and Magikarp created to match. The transition from Dragonair to Dragonite is indeed pretty jarring, though; you'd expect it to evolve into either something vaguely like Gyarados, something vaguely like Milotic, or at least something blue like Salamence. I guess when it was literally the only Dragon-type line, the elegant blue Chinese dragon evolving into a fat orange European dragon seemed less strange.
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In fact, I would go so far as to say that Milotic makes more sense as the final evolution of the Dratini line than Dragonite does. Speaking of which, what exactly is the correlation between Feebas and Milotic in terms of design/reasoning? Larryb fucked around with this message at 03:51 on Jul 7, 2021 |
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