Pokemon aren't completelly biological beings, there's the whole growing up in burst of light and energy, and the fact that they can be turned into energy for ease of transportation, and how such diverse things can breed with eachother.
I'm more inclined to the "adult" explanation, of they aren't telling the 10 years old that their pets are having sex like bunnies for eugenics purposes.
Pokemon Ultra S&M - Let's Minecraft Pikachu and Eevee Quest
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I will say that it is kind of weird playing Silver on a 3DS, after being used to playing SoulSilver on the same console for years now. Playing Alpha Saphire was enjoyable(regardless of my criticisms of it) to play compared to Emerald or another 3rd gen game I play regularly because of both the graphics updates and the additional features.
But compared to that, playing Silver really is mainly for the nostalgia. For all intents and purposes, Soul Silver is the better game. But hey, I guess Nintendo found a way to get an easy $10 from me. I'm not complaining, though.
Meanwhile I had no problem instantly deciding to rather play Blue or Yellow on VC than Firered or Leafgreen for replay value. Sevii islands are cool, but other than that it's really just upgraded graphics and a few extra things. HGSS gave us Pokemon following us along with the Special/Physical split and other newer features.
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Turns out that pokemon are all actually corrupted gem based lifeforms
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Turns out that pokemon are all actually corrupted gem based lifeforms
Evolution is just a cheap tactic to make weak pokemon stronger!
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Oh, fuck. Kept pushing back getting that Pikachu and ended up missing the one I wanted (Kanto hat).
I hope I gather enough strength to turn the game on in time to get the mega stones before they are made unavailable at least.
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Oh, fuck. Kept pushing back getting that Pikachu and ended up missing the one I wanted (Kanto hat).
I hope I gather enough strength to turn the game on in time to get the mega stones before they are made unavailable at least.
On that subject… should we be worried about Gamefreak not actually providing all of the mega stones in USUM?
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What I'd want is the damn bank to be able to hold items.
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At the least it should hold the mega stones. As long as there is a mechanic to not allow Bank to be used until defeating the Champion, there really is no point of not allowing items. I'm sure they could easily make it impossible for it to hold any event items or specific ones, to avoid hacks and cloning of items.
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My other worry is that I will have to do some bouncing around if I ever get to have pokemon switch to send my mons from my American 3Ds to my probably European switch. Specially if I can't directly trade because its another gen.
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But they don't give immediately Bank support to new games anw so what's the point not allowing items? Farming? Like there is no other options
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I'm more interested in what they have done to amp up the difficulty in battles. Sun and Moon IMO have been the most challenging games since Platinum. I'm eager to see if they can totem Lurantis even more of an asshole than he already is.
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Just finished replaying Pokemon White, and I think I stand by gen 5 being my favorite, and arguably the best. The story is actually solid, the characters around you actually get development, gym leaders mean something, there's high stakes going into becoming champion, and I really really like that they gave the new gen space to breathe by not allowing older mons to appear until post game.
On my team:
! I always make a point of using mons I have never used before to cover main game stories, so did the same here
- Viridi the Serperior was a solid starter during the whole thing. It lacks in terms of moveset, but just with leech seed it was able to stop most threats by stall healing and hitting hard. Mine wound up with special attack as its lowest stat and it wasn't even low. The only thing I regret about picking the grass starter is that I still haven't gotten to try grass types such as Lilligant, Marractus and Leavanny.
- Zess the Zebstrika did work early game but petered out in late game. Shame, I was enjoying it until it was getting killed by everything.
- Stuffed [the] Crustle was also a really solid addition. This is one of those mons with a phenomenal moveset + chance for rocky helmet stalling. As far as bugs goes, this gen is great, and I chose this after realizing I couldn't do Escavalier or Accelgor on my own. I still think Scolipede stands as my favorite bug from this gen.
- Bot the Swanna was surprisingly useful. For water flying I always had a fondness for mantine and I never did like the design of ducklett enough to care. But I needed a water and a flying type, so condensed into swan form this did the job. It actually hit pretty hard in the elite four. Scald + Air Slash were overall stupidly reliable in most places.
- Lara the Cofagrigus was something I wanted to use for some time, so I'm disappointed in the result. As a yamask it did phenomenally and as a wall it did work. However, it was never able to stall as well as Crustle, its moveset wasn't as varied without access to strong tms post-game, and it grows super slowly in late game. Got benched.
- Fringy the Bisharp. Good mon, strong and reliable, and actually only evolved at the very end. The only regret I have is that he happens so late game.
- Sami the Heatmor. Same as Bisharp… kinda had fun with it, was surprisingly ok at stalling thanks to amnesia and will-o-wisp, but due to being in victory road (at which point Zebstrika got benched) it means it got very little use compared to the rest. Otherwise I'd probably have enjoyed it more.
- Stealynx the Liepard. Fun mon, I like its design, but this one petered out super early and I wound up replacing it as soon as I could. Not to mention there are so many dark types to choose from in this game. Like that brief stint of time where I almost used Todd the Scrafty... but that got benched too because of the biggest surprise hit...
! - Min Min the Cinccino. Easily the VIP of this run. Holy fuckballs man, I managed to catch one Adamant with Technician and gave it a scope lens. This meant that anytime it got sent in, not only was it faster but most of the time it just insta-killed things. For those unaware, this mons learns a ton of multi-hit moves, such as Bullet Seed, rock blast, and its signature move Tail Slap. Reason being that its hidden ability is Skill Link, which is even more fun... but even with just technician, the boost to damage was stupid. Add to that the fact that technician powered up Wake-Up Slap from being a weak fighting move that requires sleep set up to a base power 90 fighting type move that always hits, and suddenly a normal type wasn't getting walled by nearly anything.
Throw in cute cry and fancy design and this thing went from forgettable inconsequential normal-type mon to something I actually really like. Kind of like how playing ORAS gave me an appreciation of Masquerain.Sadly, I don't think later gens will come close to this. Pokemon Company makes too much money off of nostalgia from earlier gens to do this again where there's zero of it in the main game.
At this point, with gold and silver coming next, I'm only missing a revisit to gen 4. Though for that I'll probably just wait for the obligatory remake.
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Gen 5 is the only gen I've actually revisited multiple times and managed to get a different team each time, even managed to squeak in an all-bug run once for kicks
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Now you'll be able to catch one in the upcoming USUM. Have fun leveling up this little fella, by the time it does you'll be in the League, most likely.
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Gen 5 sprites are beautiful and just feels overall faster then Gen 4.
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Just finished replaying Pokemon White, and I think I stand by gen 5 being my favorite, and arguably the best. The story is actually solid, the characters around you actually get development, gym leaders mean something, there's high stakes going into becoming champion, and I really really like that they gave the new gen space to breathe by not allowing older mons to appear until post game.
On my team:
! I always make a point of using mons I have never used before to cover main game stories, so did the same here
- Viridi the Serperior was a solid starter during the whole thing. It lacks in terms of moveset, but just with leech seed it was able to stop most threats by stall healing and hitting hard. Mine wound up with special attack as its lowest stat and it wasn't even low. The only thing I regret about picking the grass starter is that I still haven't gotten to try grass types such as Lilligant, Marractus and Leavanny.
- Zess the Zebstrika did work early game but petered out in late game. Shame, I was enjoying it until it was getting killed by everything.
- Stuffed [the] Crustle was also a really solid addition. This is one of those mons with a phenomenal moveset + chance for rocky helmet stalling. As far as bugs goes, this gen is great, and I chose this after realizing I couldn't do Escavalier or Accelgor on my own. I still think Scolipede stands as my favorite bug from this gen.
- Bot the Swanna was surprisingly useful. For water flying I always had a fondness for mantine and I never did like the design of ducklett enough to care. But I needed a water and a flying type, so condensed into swan form this did the job. It actually hit pretty hard in the elite four. Scald + Air Slash were overall stupidly reliable in most places.
- Lara the Cofagrigus was something I wanted to use for some time, so I'm disappointed in the result. As a yamask it did phenomenally and as a wall it did work. However, it was never able to stall as well as Crustle, its moveset wasn't as varied without access to strong tms post-game, and it grows super slowly in late game. Got benched.
- Fringy the Bisharp. Good mon, strong and reliable, and actually only evolved at the very end. The only regret I have is that he happens so late game.
- Sami the Heatmor. Same as Bisharp… kinda had fun with it, was surprisingly ok at stalling thanks to amnesia and will-o-wisp, but due to being in victory road (at which point Zebstrika got benched) it means it got very little use compared to the rest. Otherwise I'd probably have enjoyed it more.
- Stealynx the Liepard. Fun mon, I like its design, but this one petered out super early and I wound up replacing it as soon as I could. Not to mention there are so many dark types to choose from in this game. Like that brief stint of time where I almost used Todd the Scrafty... but that got benched too because of the biggest surprise hit...
! - Min Min the Cinccino. Easily the VIP of this run. Holy fuckballs man, I managed to catch one Adamant with Technician and gave it a scope lens. This meant that anytime it got sent in, not only was it faster but most of the time it just insta-killed things. For those unaware, this mons learns a ton of multi-hit moves, such as Bullet Seed, rock blast, and its signature move Tail Slap. Reason being that its hidden ability is Skill Link, which is even more fun... but even with just technician, the boost to damage was stupid. Add to that the fact that technician powered up Wake-Up Slap from being a weak fighting move that requires sleep set up to a base power 90 fighting type move that always hits, and suddenly a normal type wasn't getting walled by nearly anything.
Throw in cute cry and fancy design and this thing went from forgettable inconsequential normal-type mon to something I actually really like. Kind of like how playing ORAS gave me an appreciation of Masquerain.Sadly, I don't think later gens will come close to this. Pokemon Company makes too much money off of nostalgia from earlier gens to do this again where there's zero of it in the main game.
At this point, with gold and silver coming next, I'm only missing a revisit to gen 4. Though for that I'll probably just wait for the obligatory remake.
The hype ruined gen 5 for me. There was a constant flow of information about how Black and White finally had a real story, and the Pokemon were all-new, so it was "like playing Red and Blue for the first time!"
An hour in I'd caught another rat, dog, cat, caterpillar, pigeon, tadpole, geodude, machop and hitmonred.
At least the ice cream Pokemon hadn't been done before.
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Says the guy who spent all his time in Gen 7 trading for eight copies of every single mon so he could have the Dex filled out in every language O_o;
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We get all those things every gen, it wasn't a Gen 5 thing.
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We get all those things every gen, it wasn't a Gen 5 thing.
Yes, but almost all of the early Pokemon in gen 5 were bootleg versions of the Pokemon I was actually nostalgic for.
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We get all those things every gen, it wasn't a Gen 5 thing.
They usually aren't as blatant, and they're generally more spread out throughout the game.
Look at how Machop evolves. Now look at how Timburr evolves.
Look at how Geodude evolves. Now look at how Roggenrola (oh god that name) evolves.I fully admit that the rest of the game was much better, but the areas before Skyarrow Bridge were shit.
Also… this:
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i really don't see the problem with having a pigeon pokemon in a region based on New York
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Yes, but almost all of the early Pokemon in gen 5 were bootleg versions of the Pokemon I was actually nostalgic for.
Say what you will about Gold and Silver, they used actual Pidgeys and Rattatas instead of making up forced ripoffs just so the game could claim to have all new Pokemon.Johto was meant to be an extension of Kanto that is why the regions were connected. Like I said you can make that connection with most regions, sure they both have caterpillars but they evolve to something completely different, the dogs look nothing alike, the cats can both stand but one evolves to a cat the other is a leopard, I know there are plenty more comparisons like Zebstrika/Rapidash, Musharna/Hypno, Chansey/Audino, Seismitoad/Poliwrath but they play differently from the originals, even if they were going for that(which I admit they are), I'm fine with it, I liked the designs of Gen 5 a lot.
Johto is still my favorite region, probably a bit of nostalgia(even though I started in Gen 1), but most of my favorite Pokemon come from Johto, including my favorite starters(Cyndaquil and Totodile) and legendary(Ho-Oh).
I still don't get the hate for the monkey, the little ones are adorable and the evolutions are cool and they were associated with a gym, could they make one that evolves into the three like Eevee? sure, but then you would talk about the monkey being an Eevee clone. So many games do palette swaps and people don't even care, Pokemon kinda does that with the monkeys and people develop a dislike for them.
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It's just the fact that a game that was presented as highly original and brand spanking new started out with over an hour of the most unoriginal content in the series.
! Also I'm still pissed that the genuinely interesting conflict over Pokemon rights was "resolved" when the "good guys" turned out to be mustache twirling villains all along.
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I agree with those who think GenV is the best so far and I have very solid reasons:
- Lots of great bugs with cool typings,
- No bug/flying (go die, genIV)
That's it.
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I actually had not realized until this point that gen 5 and 7 are the only ones to not have a bug/flying mon.
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VESPIQUEEN WAS ROBBED
ROBBED I SAYshoulda been Bug/Steel or something to actually facilitate her tank stats
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All in all, the core of the game is good. There's just a bunch of bad stuff book-ending that core game.
1.) The beginning of the game (see above).
2.)! The end of the game.
3.) The Dream World, a series of terrible mini-games that demanded MONTHS of your time if you wanted to collect every medal in Black and White 2. It's now defunct, and while gen 5 wasn't the first Pokemon game to have an online-only section of the game that was later deleted (Platinum was), the Dream World was heavily promoted ingame and was the only way to obtain the majority of hidden ability Pokemon.I originally had high hopes for these problems being fixed by a special edition third game, but we all know how that turned out…
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Seems like a good opportunity to point that Festival Plaza has been confirmed to be back in USUM.
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Hey Simipour was the best. She helped a lot in my White 2 team [although hunting for a water stone was annoying]
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I have good memories of Vivillon, and Vespiqueen was pulling her weight in the team building tests.. but.. bug flying.
My most hated "waste of space" pokemon has to be Silcoon or Cascoon.
It is too late for it now, but I wonder how it would have gone if they had come up with the "regional variants" before.
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I'm just personally not a fan of the butterfly pokemon. Butterfree, Beautyfly, Vivillon… to me they're all just completely uninteresting.
Particularly since there are cooler-looking similar mons, like Venomoth and Masquerain.
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Unf Vespiquen, such a cool looking pokemon. If I only had used it in my Sinnoh playthroughs (only played through Pearl twice)
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Butterfree and Beautifly agree, but Vivillon and just the wings gimmick just clicked. Made every spewpa from wonder trade at least interesting.
I disliked masquerain, as it pokeblocked us from a water bug for 5 gens. Golispod and Aquanid, plus intimidate and scald, make me accept it and move on.
Venomoth and Mothim didn't click for me, Volcarona the moth coolness went, it has it's own fur coat.
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I have a Butterfree bias due to the anime and many playthroughs of Yellow. Rest I kinda glossed over.
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Oh god, I forgot about Mothim. Again. XD
As for the Vivillon wings thing, I've never been into the whole collecting thing, particularly after the Unown letters ultimately meant jack-shit. To me it's just a matter of the mon having a good design, good typing or simply being good, and Vivillon fails all of those when it comes to my standards.
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Unown…..oh gods, Unown.
I was that guy, crazy enough to hunt down all of the Unowns, in two different games.And while we're on the topic of alternate forms, this was unacceptable to me
A cute grass type that's flower themed? Checks all of my boxes but I would have to use Sunny Day just to see it, from the back no less!
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Vikavolt has all the past regional bug types beaten. I mean, name me another bug with an sp. att. as insane as Vikavolt's. And don't get me started on the fact it only has two weakness and even in its pupal stage is more useful than any of them save for Whirlpede. I consider those two the best three-stage bug types.
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Oh burmy, if only all coats weren't all trash.
I raised volbeat and illumise, and well, anything with prankster has its capabilities for being at the very least a surprise.
Poor useless Ledian, I remember you.
And the bugs that weren't, trapinch and skuropi. A good one and a…. Let's just call em ugly and move on.
Nincada tho. The sheer terror to be locked in with a shedinja that you can't harm (sadly very unlikely) and a ninjask that you can't kill before Batton pass.
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I raised volbeat and illumise,
I distinctly remember the hours it took me to find a Volbeat in Ruby. Looking back they may be crap but it's cute that they're a pair-kinda deal.
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Gen 6 gave Bugs another nerf too ;-;
They don't even have a special status immunity like electric or grass do
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Durant is also a very underrated one. It's a heavily armored small ant with the strength of a bulldozer and matching speed.
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That doesn't count as a nerf, they didn't take anything from them, they just didn't get anything new. Bug as a type is fine as it is. We are only needing the type combinations that they lack: normal, dark, dragon, ice, psychic and another bug ground, but this time good.
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GOODRA SHOULD HAVE BEEN BUG/DRAGON DAMMIT
I'm still steamed about that after all these years, damn
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Mollusks aren't bugs.
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Goodra? If anything I thought Goodra would be another Dragon Poison like Dragalge.
Closest thing to a dragon bug I can see is Flygon. I still don't understand how both vibrava and flygon remain ground nor how in hell they evolve from Trapinch.
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And yet, Flygon is Ground/Dragon
more of a case of the English name but still. :P
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Mollusks aren't bugs.
Hermit crabs aren't either, and yet crustle
goodra coulda been bugedit: Shelmet and Accelgor are based on snails too!
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Godra isn't in the bug egg group, just in the dragon one, so it's just a melted reptile.
https://veekun.com/dex/pokemon/search?egg_group=3&egg_group=__None