Nessa posted:

I would like Wally more if he showed up more in the game. The fight against him on Victory Road in ORAS is amazing, but it would have had more impact if you saw more of him throughout the game.

Internet Kraken posted:

You know all I really remember about Digimon is that in the show I watched as a kid, they were fighting some veiny blob monster that was melting the whole planet. It was weird.

ZenMasterBullshit posted:

Nah, Kamen Rider Digimon was pretty rad, actually. Except near the end of the series where only 2 of the 6 kids could help in battle at all, but that's a problem the show shares with Adventure and 02.

Blaze Dragon posted:

Koji with Wolfmon/Garmmon/Beowolfmon/MagnaGarurumon and Koichi with Loweemon/KaiserLeomon. The former is one of the two that keeps importance, the latter loses his powers so the former can fight in better forms and is ultimately killed because, as you can read, his second form was a Leomon and that's a death sentence.

It's Takuya with Agnimon/Vritramon/Aldamon/KaiserGreymon that takes the other spotlight-stealing spot.


Not quite. Adventure actually gives a lot of importance to the entire team even as Taichi and Yamato hit one level higher than the rest (hell, it's Takeru that is critical in taking down the most powerful Dark Master, Taichi and Yamato lose). Tamers has all four protagonists hit Mega and, while Guilmon gets a super mode, it ends up being mostly unimportant and it's Ruki and Ryo that give the finishing blow to the D-Reaper, with Jenrya devolving it to a primal state; Savers also has all four protagonists hit Mega although Masaru and Touma ultimately hog the spotlight, and Tri is divided into movies which follow two Children each, thus evading that problem entirely.

Also the time moving is very much an Adventure thing, since no other series got a sequel. Taichi goes from 11, to 14, to 17; with the other characters following suit. Xros Wars also has a one-year timeskip, but we don't talk about that, ever.

ZenMasterBullshit posted:

She Married Izzy, confirming herself as the ultimate settler.

Spatula City posted:

pssssh, I have a DSi and an old broken-hinge DS, and a copy of White 2. but that makes me think, maybe I want to use one of those in my soon-to-happen Bug run of White 2.

So I'm thinking...
Escavalier
Vespiquen
Crustle
Volcarona
Galvantula
Leavanny

Scolipede and Heracross are my good buddies, but I have used them a lot. The plan will

Ruggington posted:

I am happy to see dexio and sina for reasons that are unclear to me

Kerrrrrrr posted:

that thing is some serious frankenstein abomination type poo poo

this poo poo is gettin' dark

mabels big day posted:

so are ultra beasts not pokemon? is this the first time we're fighting not Pokemon things?

LupusAter posted:

Gotta say I didn't expect a Ratatouille reference.

mabels big day posted:

Type: Null is a hosed up abomination, a cruel, tragic mistake of man, and it's up to us to exterminate their unholy presence.

Johnny Joestar posted:

but honestly, if there's a theme of weird, artificial pokemon made to fight legendaries and whatever the hell that jellyfish thing is then i'm probably going to assume that the techy-looking group that built their own island is more liable to be involved than the street punks who are squatting out in the road and trying to sell pokemon for cash

Ethiser posted:

I love that the crazy chimera monster is a Normal type pokemon.

Waffleman_ posted:

notoriousman posted:

Type: Null is a synthetic mythical 'mon, and I feel there's some significance to him using Tri-Attack of all moves in his demo. And given this gen's love of bizarre forme changes, there's more to be seen about this one.

cheetah7071 posted:

I just spend two hours reorganizing my pokemon bank only to have it inform me, right as I tried to save my changes, that the connection had dropped and then, instead of reconnecting and saving, just throwing away everything without so much as a prompt

The entire bank really is a lovely piece of software

Spatula City posted:

yeah, also it's the "Aether Foundation" not Team Aether, so you know they're extremely on the up and up and not ever up to any bad things at all, never mind that they're researching extradimensional entities and have their own artificial island.

It's like, Team Skull are the obvious threat, but Aether Foundation being secretly evil is about the best Nintendo's ever going to manage in terms of a twist in a Pokemon game's plot.
My theory is that the legendary version exclusive is going to be summoned to protect Alola from the Ultra Beasts.

Improbable Lobster posted:

Maybe they aren't evil

Sebadoh Gigante posted:

It'd be really weird and sort of against the whole spirit of the series if you had to fight a creature you couldn't also catch and use yourself. I know Pokemon wasn't the first RPG where you could recruit monsters and have them fight for you, but it may have been the first where all of them could be controlled.*

_{*I'm probably wrong}

Brother Entropy posted:

only an absolute dipshit would see a character in a tropical setting with a tropical shirt and go 'hey wait i don't understand what happened to his skin'

Kelp Plankton posted:

it's supposed to share some special new mechanic or something with the starter pokemon evolutions, so once we know what rockruff does we'll know what they do i guess

Golden Goat posted:

Let's see what Bulbapedia has to say about Girafarig



Bulbapedia's not helping

Hardcordion posted:

Haunter is another of the more unimaginative gen 1 names.

"Alright, what's this one's deal?"
"Well, it's one of the ghost types. It haunts th-"
"Okay cool, Haunter. When's lunch?"


I guess we should just consider ourselves lucky that we got Jolteon and Zapdos instead on Thunder and Thunders.

Boomstick Quaid posted:

Wished they'd demote heatran so I could breed that sucker

Heatran is a legendary with absolutely no bombast other than "lives in volcanoes"

Zore posted:

why do people keep thinking Magcargo should/does have an evolution?

heatran and torkoal can be their own thing and magcargo can be its.

less laughter posted:

no the pixies are

Ka0 posted:

There should only be 2 or 3 legendaries on each generation.

less laughter posted:

and pretty soon you'll get to do it again with doombat

less laughter posted:

I think Pokémon merchandise has finally hit its zenith:



These would be ideal as wedding rings.

Ka0 posted:

Drapion looks like an origami, which is cool I guess.

Dunban posted:

CoroCoro finally leaked:

And a look at the new season of the anime:

Zore posted:

you know birds are bipedal to begin with right.

like, a bird's body shape is already fairly close to humanoid. and this



Isn't really that humanoid. It still has the backward bird legs, wings instead of arms and a pretty short body overall.

I think it looks pretty rad, probably in my top starter evos ever. Definitely less humanoid than, say, Blaziken or Greninja.


its a scaley.

Zore posted:

Delphox is great and it has one design flaw that prevents me from ranking it with Greninja.

The goddamn ear hair is totally out of control and terrible.

Other than that I really like Delphox.

cheetah7071 posted:

They at least have the redeeming quality that the totodile line isn't any better and you have to pick one

There is literally no reason to ever pick Chespin

Calaveron posted:

On a different note, are cyndaquil and chikorita the worst starter designs, debate

Sebadoh Gigante posted:

I'm not saying the others are bad, it's just that it's pretty obvious Greninja was the favorite and they went out of their way to make him everyone else's favorite.




Also a third rockruff evo leaked.

Tired Moritz posted:

I thought they were tied to ivs or random bs

Ka0 posted:

Is it mandatory for japanese magazines to reveal information as if the editor barfed all over the page.

Blackheart posted:

I wasn't sure at first but Nightwolf is actually cool and crazy.

McDragon posted:

oh, more origins, nice. looks like a selection of every gen as well.

I hope they do the delta episode

Adder Moray posted:

The scene I was talking about yesterday:

HoneyBoy posted:

machamp is able to move a mountain with one finger. also machamp has the power saver belt, what it does is it restrains machamps true power. in the pokedex it says that if he takes his belt off he could be so powerful the universe would seize to exist. in the yellow pokedex it states if this pokemon takes off this belt it will be unstoppable by all pokemon" not even reshram and zekrome can stop him.