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  1. ScraftyIsTheBest

    (Little) Things that annoy you in Pokémon

    You know, this is actually true. The Elite Four levels of both, at least in DP, are also similar and progress in the same way with each Elite Four being two levels higher and then the Champion is three levels higher. The only difference is DP Sinnoh's E4+Cynthia levels of their aces at least...
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    SPOILERS! Mysteries and Conspiracies of Pokemon

    Kanto was always based on the actual Kanto Plain in Japan, since that's the most extensive lowland in the Japan islands and also where most of contemporary urban Japan is, including its capital city Tokyo. Game Freak deliberately chose their home base as the region to base the original Pokemon...
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    Little things you like about Pokémon

    This shot of the new opening for Horizons gives me life. The sheer girl power radiating from it is beautiful, five of them together making for a fantastic group, all girls. Girl power from Pokemon, and I fucking love it. Screw Ash Ketchum, it's girl power time! The girlboss-to-be Liko and her...
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    SPOILERS! General Pokémon Anime Discussion

    The third OP song for Horizons, for its upcoming third chapter Terastal Debut. This one is such a bop, I love how these OP songs just keep getting better and better.
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    SPOILERS! Mysteries and Conspiracies of Pokemon

    One thing I've always noticed is Gen 6/Kalos utterly lacking any sub-legendary Pokemon. Most generations always introduce a mostly native minor legendary trio or quartet, such as the birds, the beasts, Regis, the lake guardians, Swords of Justice, Forces of Nature, Tapus, Urshifu, Ogerpon, the...
  6. ScraftyIsTheBest

    (Little) Things that annoy you in Pokémon

    This sums up my thoughts, and I agree with this. In SwSh and SV especially, I like that they send out their ace that uses Dynamax/Terastal last especially because environmentally, the game has a special final showdown theme for the Gym Leader in both cases with crowds cheering. I like to think...
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    (Little) Things that annoy you in Pokémon

    You "expect"? I'll tell you this much, there's been quite the uproar about Bulbapedia's decision to rename the Starter Pokemon page to "first partner Pokemon" for the past week or so in all sorts of places. And I can totally understand it, as personally speaking, I'd never call them that ever...
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    (Little) Things that annoy you in Pokémon

    Yeah I definitely agree because it gives off the wrong impression about which two of those three are supposed to be counterparts. "Dawn Stone" and "Dusk Stone" sound like counterparts but they're not actually counterparts or parallels to each other. When you look at the way they're implemented...
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    Little things you like about Pokémon

    I really like how the Savanna Biome in the Blueberry Terarium has its own Pride Rock in it, complete with a static male Pyroar standing atop of it watching over the land. If you get it, you get it.
  10. ScraftyIsTheBest

    (Little) Things that annoy you in Pokémon

    Gen 1 was actually for the most part very good about making single stage Pokemon stand out. Most of them actually stood out just as much as three-stage lines because they were unique for not being part of an evolutionary line, and they often made up for it by being much rarer, in many cases only...
  11. ScraftyIsTheBest

    Unpopular opinions

    Ah yes, Serena talk. I really like Serena as I was super into the XY anime back in my high school days in the mid 2010s, and Serena has been one of my favorite characters for a long time. My hot take is that both the aggressive AmourShippers and the Serena detractors online grossly overstate...
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    SPOILERS! General Pokémon Anime Discussion

    Today, we celebrate a great milestone in Liko's story. What's that, you might ask? *drumroll* LIKO'S SPRIGATITO HAS EVOLVED INTO FLORAGATO! WE MOVE! From a cute little cat to a cool and badass yo-yo cat, truly a symbol of Liko's rising power as she continues to grow into a strong Trainer...
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    (Little) Things that annoy you in Pokémon

    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...
  14. ScraftyIsTheBest

    Little things you like about Pokémon

    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...
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    SPOILERS! Mysteries and Conspiracies of Pokemon

    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...
  16. ScraftyIsTheBest

    (Little) Things that annoy you in Pokémon

    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...
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    Little things you like about Pokémon

    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...
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    SPOILERS! Mysteries and Conspiracies of Pokemon

    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...
  19. ScraftyIsTheBest

    Little things you like about Pokémon

    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...
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    Pokemon Day Presents 2024 - Pokemon LZA 2025

    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...
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