Xelkelvos posted:

Delta Misdreavus doesn't look great, but the typing demands it be nicknamed Cirno or (9)

Geostomp posted:

It took me a minute of looking at that thing's sprites to figure out what it even was supposed to be.


Anyway, why are there so many evil Teams..I mean, Cults? We're seven badges deep and still getting introduced to more factions. That leaves very little development for any of them and almost no coherent plot between all of this. Just a heaping helping of EDGE when they enter the room.

Leraika posted:

pls stop bullying cake crab, haven't you done enough???

Miss posted:

that's clearly the best pals box

EatinCake posted:

"Rectreem"

Epicmissingno posted:

It's almost certainly just Arceus.

Waterfall of Salt posted:

People are still upset about that episode, eight years later.

Regalingualius posted:

It kind of cemented the idea that Ash is never going to actually win a Championship outside of filler arcs.

Black Robe posted:

Nobody ever watched the Pokemon anime for the quality of its writing.

Waterfall of Salt posted:

His loss to Tobias is more like he gets cocky and brings his B-team to this nobody and gets destroyed for it

Vandar posted:

I’m not going to pretend that Kanto-Ash was a great trainer, but he didn’t really beg for any of his badges.

Epicmissingno posted:

Can we all agree, at least, that Gen 5 Ash is an utter embarrassment? He lost to a newly-picked Snivy of all things in the very first episode, and his League showing was just pitiful. He lost to a guy who didn't even know you were supposed to bring six Pokemon, for heaven's sake!

Draxion posted:

I think her plan is meant to be that she learned the Blue Orb and Tidal Bell would be kept together at some point in the future, so she stole and replaced the one that she had a location for at the time? I guess if she just stole the Orb and didn't replace it then people would put more effort into hiding the Bell.

DoubleNegative posted:

: Of course you aren't. You'll want to battle. But here's the thing...



: Why would I? Beating me won't change a thing. You walked right into a trap.

Onmi posted:

While this is annoying I have to compare it to a scene in pokemon glazed where the boss is trying to capture moltress you beat them so they turn and capture moltress anyway.

Verant posted:

Well, Ho-oh doesn't strike me as a Pokemon that would jive well with the infernal aesthetic, since its focus seems to be more on rebirth and fire as a bringer of warmth rather than, y'know, hell. I'd say Giratina and Heatran would fit that mold better.

Nomadic Scholar posted:

Oh wow. I may have figured out Amy's deal. But it's more than actual guesses since this wacky game is way better to experience than to theorycraft. Also, sick choice of combee names.

DoubleNegative posted:

: What I said was awful. I just hope that he won't snap and betray us.

DoubleNegative posted:

Regalingualius posted:

I say Poliwrath, but rename it to Bradley.

Some Numbers posted:

the Hiker and his family weren’t buried.

Like Clockwork posted:

E: was that ^ a Rainbow Rocket reveal or

KataraniSword posted:

USUM's whole ultra-space diving thing for legendaries gives you a bunch of creepy areas that are implied to be destroyed versions of regions, too. In particular, you find Guzzlord in a creepypasta mirror of one of the Alola towns.

KataraniSword posted:

"woah hey pokemon actually die and you might have killed Gary's rattata"

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I really hate that theory, because it's needlessly edgy. Pokémon Red/Green/Blue is not this grimdark world where you go around offing people's Pokémon like it's a Nuzlocke.

As he says during his Championship match, "While working on my Pokédex, I looked all over for Pokémon. Not only that, I assembled teams that would beat any Pokémon type." He keeps Pidgeot, which is Normal/Flying. Being a Normal-type, it already covers the same stuff Raticate does with the added benefit of an extra typing and evolving once more, so he retires the latter to his box. Or maybe he released it.

Then there's the fact that in later games in the series, Blue uses multiple Pokémon. His Gym Leader team doesn't have his Starter like his Champion Team did. He also replaces Pidgeot and Rhydon with Heracross and Tyranitar in FR/LG. Switching out team members is just what Blue does.

And in case that's not enough, the dialogue surrounding Lavender Town's encounter isn't even hostile as if the player killed his Pokémon.

"Hey, <player>! What brings you here? Your Pokémon don't look dead! I can at least make them faint! Let's go, pal!"

"What? You stinker!" I took it easy on you too!"

"How's your Pokédex coming, pal? I just caught a Cubone! I can't find the grown-up Marowak yet! I doubt there are any left! Well I better get going! I've got a lot to accomplish, pal! Smell ya later!"

Onmi posted:

There is nothing to imply this beyond Anabelle vaguely recalling defending the battle tower. You know the thing easily construed as her job?

DoubleNegative posted:

I want to apologize, because I didn't do my research properly. It turns out that Bradley the Poliwrath will not be as helpful as I'd have hoped. In fact, she'll be somewhat useless given the pokemon she was meant to counter has Thunder in its move set just to dick over the strategy I'd hoped to employ.

Miss posted:

Saladin Rising posted:

There's been like, the hiker and the person with them