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Out of curiosity, where is this stated?
The only thing close to implying an official pronunciation thus far is the Japanese website transliterating the text to "zetto-ei", but Z in Japan is pronounced "Zetto", seeing as how Z-Moves in Japan are called "Zetto-Waza". The "Zetto" is closer to the...
Platinum seems to have deliberately removed two version-exclusive pairs from the availability pool so that both Diamond and Pearl still had mons exclusive to them specifically. Those two being the Misdreavus+Murkrow lines and the Glameow+Stunky lines. It kind of reeks similarity to how Yellow...
These two are the very last trade evolutions to have ever been made, and by extension they are also the last ones to be simple trade evos, since most of the ones we've had in generations past Gen 1 have been "trade holding this specific item". These guys are the first since the original four...
The anime tends to ignore the post-game stuff for the most part, and by the end of XYZ there likely wasn't enough time left to even do anything with her even if they wanted to.
It's very rare for any post-game locations or story to ever be acknowledged in the anime as a whole. Places like...
I like how Cynthia and Diantha's teams contrast each other in a few ways. Both of them use fairly varied teams with no real specialty but I find the contrast cool nonetheless.
- They both lead with a single stage Pokemon, but Cynthia leads with Spiritomb, a slow and bulky Ghost-type, while...
Yeah while FRLG was the least different and most faithful of the first three remakes, all three of FRLG, HGSS, and ORAS are very much different experiences from their original games with a lot of changes. HGSS isn't quite as different as ORAS, but it still is much more different from GSC than...
I actually liked this because it not only made sense with Calyrex being a Psychic-type and all, but because before it regained its power it wasn't fully using telepathy but rather it was using and possessing Peony as a device to speak to us with. It was really funny seeing the fun and energetic...
I don't think Z-A will be late 2025 but I do think it will be later than January, perhaps somewhere around Summer 2025. Like May or June 2025, which is actually a pretty good time to release a game because it's around the end of the school year just before the big summer break. There wasn't...
Toriyama's works, most of all Dragon Ball Z, have been a huge part of my life. To think he's really gone now...we really lost one of the greatest legends.
Rest in peace, Toriyama
Legends: Arceus had 242 including the mythicals. It included everything introduced in Gen 4 and a lot of other Sinnoh Dex mons, but swapped out a number of mons who were in DPP in exchange for several regional forms/evolutions. This was naturally a bit larger than Platinum's Pokedex size at 210...
At the same time it had a lot less of them than even DS or 3DS games, and the traditional "routes" in Galar were a lot smaller in scope and had less going on than any given route in the DS or 3DS games which had a pretty decent scope. Galar only had 10 traditional routes outside the three Wild...
As an avid watcher of the anime, I can say this much: Horizons will definitely be in the same continuity as Ashnime, and I see no reason for them to do otherwise. It would be a complete waste if they just completely threw away all the worldbuilding they had done over 26 years and 1200+ episodes...
X and Y were where Ride Pokemon were technically introduced, and I imagine we'll have more of a variety of mounts in terms of what they do. One of the new Pokemon from Gen 6 is Gogoat, whose whole thing is literally being a mount, insofar as the modern Lumiose we know in X and Y has a Gogoat...
Not really. We saw its Terastal form and it using Tera Starstorm once and that's it so far.
The upcoming episodes may show more of it since the next few episodes seem to be a major climax, but nothing was shown about it that we don't already know from the games thus far.
Yeah I've gotta say, the Switch era as a whole so far has been such an interesting era for Pokémon because there's been so much change and a clear intention to actually steer this franchise forward and in a new direction. Around Gen 7 I was starting to get bored of Pokémon and the infinite loop...