Can't believe I've never brought this up before but the littlest thing that annoys me the most is that Empoleon got Defiant as a hidden ability instead of Competitive
While I understand why it would get Defiant/Competitive due to the Japanese names of Abilities (Empoleon are a prideful species), from its Dex entries I could also see it getting Intimidate (leaders have the longest horns & will not hesitate to slash anyone who wounds its pride), Swift Swim (is as fast as a jet boat), or Mold Breaker (its wings can cleave an ice floe into pieces); all which I think are better Abilities than Defiant & Competitive (not calling them bad Abilities, just that the ones I suggested I feel are a bit better).
There's a noticeable delay for Special counterparts throughout the series.
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And there's a lot of reasonably widespread moves and abilities which feel commonplace enough to have Special counterparts, but don't.
This probably has to do with GF thinking that the Special category is overpowered (remember in Gen VI when they lowered a lot of Special Moves' Power by 10 points?). Since they're already so powerful, obviously they don't need an Ability to make them more powerful, right?
As for Ability counterparts, honestly I think a lot of Abilities would just be better if instead of increasing a specific offense/defense stat that they just raise the user's highest offense/defense stat.
For example we don't need a Special version of Anger Point, Guts, Justified, Hustle, Moxie, & Sap Sipper. We also don't need a Physical version of Berserk, Lightning Rod, Plus, Minus, Solar Power, or Storm Drain. Just make those Abilities raise the highest offense stat.
Now granted there are some Abilities which, due to how they named it (which I've noticed lately is becoming a bigger problem as they get more specific with Signature Abilities), really only applies to a certain group of Pokemon. Like Hyper Cutter doesn't sound like it would be given to a Special Attacker ever. Still though, for the Abilities which just has enough wiggle room in their name for ambiguity, there's no reason not to make them more flexible. The "worse" thing you'll do is give a Mixed Attacker an option of which offense stat they would prefer to lean on.
The most likely reason as to why weight-based moves don't work when the user or the target is a Dynamax/Gigantamax is because they never defined how much bigger a Dynamax Pokémon is.
Yes, we have sizes for Gigantamax, but regular Dynamax does not have measurements.
tl;dr They never thought of it.
Well, honestly, a Pokemon that grows that big, no matter its original weight, should easily reach the max weight of 999.9 kg. Infact, it would be MUCH heavier, which is likely why they made the decisions they did:
- They have no weight, because there's no way to properly portray that weight in the current mechanics.
- To explain why they have no weight, they portray Dynamax as some kind of projection. There's no weight because what we're seeing isn't technically the actual Pokemon.
Now all that should mean in terms of the weight-based moved is sorta what
CPU suggested. Because, to fair, it makes sense for some to either not work or do min damage: Grass Knot wouldn't do anything cause you'd need PRETTY big pieces of grass to make a foot knot big enough, Low Kick it's not that you're kicking the opponent but tripping them over (which Dynanamax does look too big for, though since it is still kicking the opponent maybe do min damage), and good thing Sky Drop was Movexited cause I'd feel sorry for any Pokemon that tried to attempt it. Heat Crash and Heavy Slam though should work "as normal", just doing min damage. However, I guess they would then still need to give the forms the max weight of 999.9 interally which I guess they didn't want to do so decided to just make them immune.
Yeah, I've noticed at times when it comes to Pokemon origins Bulbapedia tries to either cut or generalize out out-of-franchise references and be a bit prudish with the more sexual references.
Can we take a moment to appreciate the work of our brothers and sisters at Bulbapedia
Oh, don't get me wrong, they do fantastic work, it's just sometimes it feels like some take things a bit too seriously. My favorite example being the discussion tabs for
Green and
Leaf where they argue whether they are the same character thus should combine or split them (at the moment they're split but they were originally combined until Let's Go).
I've gone to all three GameStops in my city and found no sign of the Volcanion distribution.
Don't know whether I should be glad, disappointed, or angry that the GameStop near me isn't the only one having this issue.
It's funny, I work in digital publishing and my old boss absolutely despised QR codes. She viewed them as old-fashioned, unnecessary, pointless, and a silly modern fad.
Wait, how does that work?
Which makes it so annoying that they keep going back to this method (although I'm not chasing these particular events).
The only time Codes should be used if they're going to post it up on the website or it's going to be shown in the anime (maybe also do some clever things with them like put up a promotional trailer with parts of the code strewn throughout it for us to find). Otherwise there's no reason not to just make it an online distribution.
"They likely have deals with stores to do these events"
I can't imagine the deals being made until they plan on doing the event, so just don't make the deal with the stores.
I'll be forever bummed that Staryu was localized as Staryu, from Star + You (for some reason) instead of Starlett, from Star, -lett (suffix that means small/young) and Scarlet like its gem
What would Starmie then become? Starande (Star + Grande)? Starimson (Star + Crimson)? Starise (Star + Cerise + Rise)?
I wonder what is so moody about, say, an icy rock face or an octopus cannon.
Moody's Japanese name is "Sudden Impulse". So taking that into account:
- Remoraid family: Guess because, being artillery, they have a "trigger finger" tendency?
- Smeargle: Artists sometimes get hit with a sudden impulse of inspiration.
- Snorunt family: Being Pokemon adapted to the cold, they normally stay still as to conserve energy. But if a predator or prey is close, they can immediately spring into action.
- Bidoof family: Being beavers they're always working so could be the idea of them "getting a second wind" to keep going?
