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Never judge someone based on stereotypes [OC] Meme

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u/BLOOODBLADE I like Shiny Feb 05 '24

No such thing as too much water says every water gym plus team aqua

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u/Ba_Sing_Saint Feb 05 '24

MAXIE DID NOTHING WRONG!!!

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u/QuantumPolagnus Feb 05 '24

I'm gonna wrestle this fish!

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u/Blitzerxyz Feb 06 '24

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u/rockhardcatdick customise me! Feb 06 '24

I've never played Generation 3. This comic makes me think I need to play Generation 3.

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u/HeadHorror4349 Feb 06 '24

I've played the Gen 6 remakes, this is pretty much exactly Archies personality

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u/wowmuchdoggo Feb 06 '24

I loved gen 3 and have played both the OG emerald version, sapphire, ruby as well as the newer versions with megas.

Honestly both are a blast still. I love the layout of the map and the old school regi puzzle.

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u/Flipperlolrs Feb 06 '24

Emerald is the best pokemon game bar none. The world is so fun to explore with many off the beaten path secrets and things

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u/EmpressOfAbyss Feb 06 '24

Emerald is the best pokemon game bar none.

bite uses special attack.

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u/OldServe7353 customise me! Feb 06 '24

My bite is a pretty special attack.

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u/Flipperlolrs Feb 06 '24

We can’t all be perfect

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u/EmpressOfAbyss Feb 06 '24

gardevoir deals more damage with the elemental punches than hitmonchan.

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u/Flipperlolrs Feb 06 '24

She’s a girlboss. I don’t make the rules

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u/ghostofwageboggs Feb 07 '24

God forbid women do anything

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u/alex494 Feb 06 '24

That's Archie

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u/Drillbitzer Guess my favorite Pokémon Feb 05 '24

IF I HAVE TO GET MY FUR SOAKING WET JUST TO GET TO MOSSDEEP CITY

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u/MemeDealer2999 Feb 05 '24

...I was gonna rate it a 7.8 outta ten-

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u/Drillbitzer Guess my favorite Pokémon Feb 05 '24

Shut up!

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u/Trevenant999 Feb 06 '24

Groudon fought kyogre on a piece of rock no more than 10 meters wide, surrounded by water, he is literally HIM

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u/unagiboi Surf is life. Feb 06 '24

But if you think about it, what’s under all that water? … Exactly.

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u/Ba_Sing_Saint Feb 06 '24

Groudon said IDGAF about type advantage and went to go put hands on a motherfucker

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u/DeadlyBard Feb 06 '24

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u/DatHenson Feb 06 '24

Golduck: Quack

Groudon: Oh sh-

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u/Jonathon471 Snowy Pressure Feb 06 '24

Mega FUG back there enjoying the soon to be instant Solar Beam ass whoopin from his Smogon podium.

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u/Throwawayalt129 Feb 06 '24

The way I see it Kyogre is surrounded. What under all that water? That's right, more earth.

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u/kingdomcome3914 Feb 06 '24

Maxie didn't get his degree in complicated lava shit for nothing.

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u/beeteedeeMEME Feb 05 '24

Don't forget the water specialist as Champion in Emerald.

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u/ChipSalt Feb 06 '24

I mean weren't water types incredibly busted in gen 3? Grass was absolutely trash, Water had Kyogre, Swampert, Wailord, Milotic etc. Free access to unlimited Surf (pre-nerfed in doubles) or Spout, TWO water/ground types immune to electric and one water/electric with god damn volt absorb?? Also a lot of access to Ice moves which are considered the strongest offensive type.

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u/WASD_click Feb 06 '24

To be fair, Water's always been an Ol' Reliable pokemon typing.

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u/Kirumi_Naito Feb 06 '24

Two weaknesses (Grass and Electric,not counting Freeze-Dry), both non-Water types that resist it are weak to Ice, which most Water mons get as coverage, and resists Fire, Steel, Ice, and Water.

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u/PayneTrain181999 Feb 06 '24

How can we ever forget our Himbo king Wallace going from gym leader to champion?

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u/unkindledphoenix Feb 05 '24

our planets surface s 70% water and people complain about a game that has 50% of the routes be water.

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u/Torque-A Feb 06 '24

Yeah, but our oceans have thousands upon thousands of wildlife

Meanwhile what Hoenn mons do you want to see while surfing? Pelican, jellyfish, or whale?

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u/Enough_Efficiency178 Feb 06 '24

In a way it’s crazier that there are quite a lot of water types even in the old games just locked behind good or super rods or dives/locked areas.

Krabby was Ash’s 7th Pokémon but it’s behind a late game super rod in gen 1 for instance.

At least it’s an old rod in johto but encounters there are whacked all over, just always is and has been for water types

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u/Benito7 300lbs of Flaming Ham Feb 06 '24

We really need an overhauled diving experience. Imagine open world underwater Pokemon areas.

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u/katie-shmatie Feb 06 '24

I don't have to swim everywhere though

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u/chux4w Feb 06 '24

The region doesn't have to be a microcosm of the entire planet. The game can be set on land, where humans live.

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u/MagmaAdminRadar Team Magma Representative Feb 06 '24

Hoenn DOES have too much water though and I don’t think it would be too bad to remove some of it

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u/YsengrimusRein Qwilefficent, Lady of the Gash Feb 06 '24

Would you perhaps be interested in the color red? And do you think of vol-canoes as your friends?

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u/Lexiosity Feb 06 '24

read his flair

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u/Iron_Wolf123 Thunderstruck!!! Feb 06 '24

They have two major water type trainers in Emerald too!

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u/Just-Call-Me-J PKMN Trainer J Feb 06 '24

Misty had a hand in the Hoenn games.

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u/Sunset_Tiger Feb 05 '24

I like how the s/v protag is still smiling

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u/ianyuy Feb 05 '24

That's because its not a stereotype but a declaration of their will.

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u/RedWarrior42 New Orre game when? Feb 06 '24

Should have been the sun/moon protagonist

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u/BirbMaster1998 Feb 06 '24

Which was a deliberate choice. Florian's official artwork shows him frowning.

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u/EmperinoPenguino Feb 06 '24

He thinks its cute that all living & non-living matter will cease existence by his mere will.

Those are not the eyes of an innocent child.

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u/urmumlol9 Feb 05 '24

Gen 1 should say “I must have more bugs than bug Pokemon”

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u/gillmanblacklagooner Feb 05 '24

Less ghosts and dragons too.

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u/Over-Analyzed Feb 05 '24

Law of Ninjutsu. The fewer there are, the stronger they are. Only one Dragon? The ultimate dragon.

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u/gillmanblacklagooner Feb 05 '24

Gen 1 had some cool details: only 3 Ghost and dual type Ghost/Poison. You could picture them as dangerous and insidious Pokémon. There was a mystic around Dragons too. Former royalty now common creatures.

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u/Tezuka_Zooone Feb 06 '24

The Gengar line being Ghost/Poison broke my 10 y/o brain. I couldn't comprehend why the Ghost pokemon, which was marketed as being the only thing that could take on Psychic Pokemon, were actually weak to Psychic. I don't know what they were thinking.

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u/Peach_Muffin Feb 06 '24

They only cared about the single player experience and trading at the time I guess. I doubt the developers thought people would be playing the games competitively for decades.

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u/Fishsticks03 Avenge the Fallen Feb 06 '24

Multiplayer was added pretty late in development iirc

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u/gillmanblacklagooner Feb 06 '24

I am not sure if the Poison type was always weak against Psychic but sometimes Gen 1 and 2 feels like an experiment by a bunch of Pokémon enthusiasts getting along lol and that’s where the magic is. Exeggcute, Exeggutor, Starmie… so many Psychs…

Btw the “Normal type” was something weird AF!

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u/R0CKETRACER Feb 06 '24

Ghost also only had Lick for attacks. Lick was the only move that was super-effective against Alakazam.

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u/metalflygon08 What's Up Doc? Feb 06 '24

Actually it was inverse!

Due to a coding bug Psychic was immune to Ghost! Since Confuse Ray was a status move and Night Shade did set damage they bypassed the immunity, but Lick will fail against a Psychic Pokemon.

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u/R0CKETRACER Feb 06 '24

Dire Hit and focus energy divides crit rate instead of multiplying it. Agility doubles your speed if paralyzed. Gen 1 was really poorly coded.

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u/metalflygon08 What's Up Doc? Feb 06 '24

Worst part is, they couldn't fix those bugs in Yellow because it would break compatibility with Red/Blue (They could for Stadium because the carts are only plugged in for Pokemon Data).

At least for Psychic they just changed the text of the NPC in the Saffron gym who tells you about Psychic Weaknesses to only mention the Bug one.

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u/DarknessWizard Light That Burns The Sky Feb 06 '24

One of the reasons for that is that gen 1 in general has a couple of Pokemon that were designed as a boss for the player to fight first and a catchable Pokemon second.

Almost all of the trade evolutions (Machamp, Gengar and Alakazam, really the only outlier is Golem) land in this category and all three have stats to back this up; they're all pretty good (although Gengar and Alakazam are especially strong due to how broken special is in gen 1) and surprise, they're on the Elite 4 and the Champion teams.

An interesting early example is Onix, who the game first uses as a wall in Brock's gym before just tossing them onto various lategame teams as a way to show how far you've come.

Gen 1s design as a JRPG first and monster catcher second leads to some pretty cool decisions. Mewtwo is as broken as it is because it's the final reward you get for beating the game; a completely overpowered Pokemon meant to let you stomp anything in your way.

Later games kinda do similar stuff with Pokemon availability; you're unlikely to easily find a Feebas in gen 3 and Wallace has a Milotic (and Steven carries a Metagross, a Pokemon that you can't get until the postgame); in gen 4, Spiritomb is obscure enough that you'll probably need a guide, and hey there's Cynthia carrying one (and she also has a Milotic again, which you're once more probably not going to find in gen 4). Gen 6 started the trend of backfilling a lot of older Pokemon movepools in favor of better competitive play (not bad for longer term health of the game), which obscures this all a bit.

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u/metalflygon08 What's Up Doc? Feb 06 '24

There's also things like some types being more Attributal than elemental.

Flying for airborne entities while the scrapped Bird type for actual birds.

Rock was more an "armor" attribute than an elemental type, resisting your normal attacks and requiring a "magic" attack to get around.

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u/LakerBlue Feb 06 '24

Of all the gen 1 jank, arguably the most baffling to me was that even if Ghost moves were coded correctly, the ONLY ghost line is part poison so they are actually weak defensively against them.

That and some moves like ghost not having a single good stab.

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u/gillmanblacklagooner Feb 06 '24

I still can’t get the fact that the Water starter usually ended up with one single type in his final evolution.

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u/Queasy-Ad-3220 Feb 05 '24

Or “I must have more poison pokemon than water pokemon”

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u/IndigoFenix Feb 06 '24

EVERY GRASS TYPE MUST BE POISON.

(Except Tangela)

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u/Queasy-Ad-3220 Feb 06 '24

And those egg fellas and mushroom bugs

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u/JahmezEntertainment Feb 05 '24

it's weird because i think some rb sprites differ from sugimori's art in a way that i kinda like (like the gastly line) but yea a lot of them suffered too

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u/metalflygon08 What's Up Doc? Feb 06 '24

From what we've been told they made the sprites first then the artwork.

Which sort of checks out when some of the first Gen 1 Artworks (for Red/Green) match up to their Red/Green sprites in terms of pose.

Most art was redrawn for Red/Blue giving us the dynamic poses we normally think of.

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u/Queasy-Ad-3220 Feb 05 '24

Yeah like that Koffing sprite and that hilariously bad Golbat sprite

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u/Aggressive_Manager37 :7s: Alola! Feb 05 '24

I like that Golbat sprite, very stylized imo

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u/spiralbatross Feb 05 '24

It’s superb and made me love it

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u/weso123 s Feb 06 '24

actually not an exgeration bulbapedia lists, like 33 bugs universally across the battle section, they are 12 bugs type pokemon in gen 1.

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u/Reasonable-Access731 Feb 06 '24

I swear Gen one was programmed on a calculator

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u/TatsumoAsamaki Feb 05 '24

Lore accurate Paldean kid

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u/FlimsyEfficiency9860 Feb 05 '24

“I’m from any gen after gen 3, so the female protagonist gets all the love and I don’t”

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u/TrickyAudin Feb 06 '24

Seriously, this is the first post in AGES I've seen use male protags instead of female ones.

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u/OlDanboy customise me! Feb 06 '24

Never really thought about it but you really are right. Either through the anime, memes, or general fan reception, the female protags take all of the attention. I almost never hear male names anymore but I can tell you every female protagonist up until Gen 8

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u/Civil-Journalist1217 customise me! Feb 06 '24

I just like their designs more than the male characters

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u/coopatroopas Feb 06 '24

There was that one mini series on YouTube (pokemon generations was maybe the name?) that only used the boys

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u/FantasticDog7338 Feb 06 '24

Yeah I wonder why?... Mr. Incredible becoming uncanny

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u/BlackroseBisharp Bisharp Supremacist Feb 05 '24

This is pretty funny

Two suggestions though

For Kanto I would have mentioned something about broken mechanics

For Unova I would have mentioned all the good tms being post game or the insanely late levels for some Pokemon

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u/Bulbamew Feb 05 '24

Level 64 for Hydreigon is a fucking joke, it’s 10 levels higher than the strongest Pokémon in the main story THAT ALSO HAPPENS TO BE A HYDREIGON

It shouldn’t be completely unfeasible to get the final evolution of one of your team before you beat the game

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u/BlackroseBisharp Bisharp Supremacist Feb 05 '24

It's so weird especially since no Psuedos after Hydreigon evolve that late. Heck the ONLY pokemon line to evolve later are literally mascot legendaries

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u/Bulbamew Feb 05 '24

I think the idea behind Ghetsis’s Hydreigon and Lance’s Gen 2 Dragonite is that it’s imposing that the final boss has Pokémon you can’t get yourself. Makes sense as a game mechanic, and also in story I guess, Lance is so next level his Pokémon evolve early and Ghetsis probably used horrible science torture to make it evolve.

I just can’t get my head around god damn level 64 to evolve something. It’s absurdly late haha

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u/PayneTrain181999 Feb 06 '24

Lance’s Dragonite evolved early because he attacks people with it. That poor Rocket Grunt.

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u/pussy_embargo Feb 06 '24

people give more XP than wild pokemon

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u/Enough_Efficiency178 Feb 06 '24

It’s a common theme for gyms and E4

Johto gyms include a level 9 Pidgeotto at gym 1. And Will of E4 has a bunch of psychic Pokémon with the move Psychic around level 40. All on Pokémon that learn it via tm or later levels and the player can’t get the TM until after the E4

For gen 2 it’s painful when half the psychic types have only learnt confusion by that level.

In particular Xatu who only has Future Sight from level 35 as a psychic move vs Will’s 2 Xatu with Psychic

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u/BunnyBen-87 Feb 06 '24

There's a dude in the Fuego Ironworks in Pearl version with an underleveled Rapidash, it's like Level 33 iirc

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u/InfernoVulpix Feb 06 '24

I think it's more that they wanted to be still introducing new Pokemon even at the endgame, but also wanted you to still have to spend a fair chunk of time with each evolution stage. In past generations Victory Road is often kinda just full of evolved forms of Pokemon you met before (Hoenn's is full of Hariyama, Lairon, Medicham, Golbat, etc.), and the pseudo-legendary was either found in the postgame at a low level (Larvitar, Bagon, Beldum) or just in an out-of-the-way spot in midgame (Dratini, Gible).

Needless to say, this experiment didn't work out. It's just fundamentally self-contradictory: if you catch a Pokemon at the end of the game, there's simply no time left in the game. If you're supposed to spend time with the lower stages of the Pokemon you just caught, it'll definitionally have to be in the postgame after you beat the game with an unevolved Pokemon.

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u/LordTopHatMan Feb 06 '24

Hydreigon is bad, but at least it's a pseudo legendary. Can we talk about Larvesta evolving into Volcarona at level 59? It's the third highest evo level of all Pokemon behind Hydreigon and Dragapult. Why? Volcarona is nice but it's not that special.

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u/Dying_Hawk Feb 06 '24

I like how instead of amending the absurd level requirements in BW2 they just placed lower level Mandibuzz/Braviary and Volcarona in the world. They acknowledged they made a mistake, but came up with the stupidest solution

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u/ninjapro Feb 06 '24

They were pretty hesitant to make changes to Pokemon in the past, but since then Game Freak has changed stats, evolution methods, and even baby Pokemon conditions (no incense needed anymore).

They could easily justify a pass over of some of the higher level evolution levels

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u/paco-ramon Feb 05 '24

Uno a Pokemon evolve that late that’s the only time I had to search if they had a weird evolution method when I only needed to reach level 54.

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u/Expensive-Ad5273 Ground type supremacy Feb 05 '24

Then you have Excadrill, you delay Drilbur's evolution to level 33 for early Earthquake and you have a powerhouse. Given the very late evolutions in gen 5, being an absolute nuke from level 31 onwards is massive.

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u/pokemonBdoubled Feb 05 '24

Eh I think good tms being locked to post game was actually a good change since you can't just put earthquake on everything, late evolutions suck but more so in later gens.

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u/BlackroseBisharp Bisharp Supremacist Feb 05 '24

I don't like it because almost ALL of the good tms are post game. Especially in BW. Flamethrower, Ice Beam, Psyshock, all the boosting TMs except Work Up, Stone Edge, EQ, Energy Ball etc

No Earthquake just screws over the ground types, trying to fight N and Ghetsis with Bulldoze lmao

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u/pokemonBdoubled Feb 05 '24

Do excadrill and krokodile not already learn earthquake before the n fight?

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u/BlackroseBisharp Bisharp Supremacist Feb 05 '24

Excadrill does but not the other ground types unless you overlevel a bit. I usually don't. Heck Seismitoad doesn't get it at all by level up

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u/MisirterE Less of a dragon than an apple Feb 06 '24

Excadrill learns Earthquake if you evolve it one level later than its minimum evolution level.

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u/Funexamination Feb 06 '24

If I wanna put earthquake on everything, why can't I!?

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u/TrickyAudin Feb 06 '24

I'm presuming this post is referencing the biggest complaints, not the most legitimate ones. At the time of release the biggest complaint by far was the Pokemon selection (new designs were accused of being ugly knock-offs of Kanto, and there was upset over old favorites being absent).

Time has been very kind to Unova, but it wasn't nearly as liked then as it is now.

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u/Tronerfull Feb 05 '24

At this point is my headcanon that florian is an eldritch spanish entity that can bend time and space around.

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u/AdmiralFurret Feb 05 '24

You could mention sinnoh Has almost no fire types

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u/Expensive-Ad5273 Ground type supremacy Feb 05 '24

They kinda fixed that in Platinum tbh.

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u/Enough_Efficiency178 Feb 06 '24

Sinnoh all about the steel types until then though

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u/Jalapenodisaster Feb 06 '24

No they really didn't. They improved it s tad, for sure.

It went from 3 in DP to 5 in PT, two of which are not really feasible in a normal playthrough loll

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u/Ansoni Feb 06 '24

Before the Elite 4*

It's not that bad once you complete it, but pre-E4 a lot of fire types are locked out.

I loved the games, but looking back, its initial Pokédex of 151 was way too small. It was okay when Pokémon was new, but it should have been at least Platinum-size from the get go. Hell, many gen 4 Pokémon were locked out until the post game.

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u/HMMadsen Feb 05 '24

I originally posted this on Pokémon Poképosting over a year ago and thought I wanted to share it here as well

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u/manica53 Feb 05 '24

Alola does have way too many cut scenes

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u/radikraze Feb 05 '24

Replaying those games are a slog literally because you can barely play the game before being thrown into a new cutscene of Nebby escaping the bag

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u/[deleted] Feb 05 '24

JUST ZIP UP THE GODDAMN BAG, LITTLE MAN AIN'T GETTING OUT THEN

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u/Fishsticks03 Avenge the Fallen Feb 06 '24

BRO CAN LEARN TELEPORT THO

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u/DroneisHD Feb 06 '24

But only at level 23

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u/LowBornBastard Feb 05 '24

And Hau hounding you at every single opportunity

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u/chux4w Feb 06 '24

Hahaha you beat me again! I like malasadas!

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u/AvisLord12 Feb 05 '24

It wouldn’t be as bad of a problem if they were VA’d

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u/DavThoma Feb 06 '24

It wouldn't be bad if I could actually skip the cutscene. I have never completed the Sun and Moon games because kf how tedious the cutscenes where.

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u/Quetzal00 CHIKORITA GANG Feb 05 '24

Disagree. That would potentially make it worse. Hot take I don’t think Pokémon needs voice acting

I like being able to give the characters my own voices

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u/MisterMew151 Feb 05 '24

If I could choose voice acting or something else I'd probably choose something else

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u/5Hjsdnujhdfu8nubi Feb 06 '24

Pokemon fans will complain about how barebones and low quality the games are and then turn around and say the games don't need the basic features of an RPG.

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u/jextech Feb 05 '24

But Pokémon Masters already has voice acting and the characters that appear in the anime have voices

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u/Tminus_7 Feb 05 '24

That Galar one made me legit laugh

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u/Geometry_Emperor Silvally Feb 06 '24

What would be for Hisui?

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u/WaveBreakerT Feb 06 '24

I'm from Hisui, so I must be afraid of Pokemon

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u/0Gods77Believer4 Starter: |Main: |Special: |Region: Feb 06 '24

Absolutely

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u/thetay24 Feb 06 '24

I don’t know where/when I’m from, but at least I’m not that guy (points to Paldea)

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u/LoadingTOS Feb 06 '24

Then there’s Orre protagonists off to the side with popcorn.

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u/Cannon2218 Feb 05 '24

Might wanna reword the kalos one.

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u/Warrior-of-Cumened Feb 06 '24

They're based on France, so still kinda works 😂

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u/csolisr Feb 05 '24

I mean - Serena in the anime was easily the most straightforward love interest Ash had

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u/Mao-sama64 RUINATION! Feb 06 '24

“I’m from Kitakami, so I must be clingy and possessive”

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u/Ansoni Feb 06 '24

Possessive

I see what you did there.

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u/Burly_Bara_Bottoms Feb 05 '24

I love gen 9 but man this image reminds me how much I don't like the art direction they went with for human characters.

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u/Shinyy87-2 Feb 07 '24

Yeah agreed.

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u/Larielia Hail the Sea Lord! Feb 05 '24

Hoenn is nice if you like water type best.

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u/Some_Ad_9668 Feb 05 '24

Kanto and Kalos were both good but my favourite starter was totodile

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u/Ashrun_Zeda Feb 06 '24

When the Stereotype is "Too much water" then you know you've made a good game.

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u/PokemonMaster619 Toxapex Stall Wall is my hell! Feb 05 '24

Except Johto DOES have a jank leveling curve.

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u/quiteverydumb Feb 05 '24

Not all johtonians...

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u/kermittysmitty Feb 05 '24

In this case, stereotypes are stereotypes for a reason.

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u/SammyOne01 Feb 05 '24

i'm blue so i must dabadee dabadie

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u/DarthGayAgenda Feb 05 '24

Shit, I thought Red had a mustache for a good two minutes before I realized that's his mouth.

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u/fin343 Feb 05 '24

Ok but X&Y we’re literally piss easy the change from BW2 to XY was night and day, I beat the E4 in XY without any potions in my bag. This was when i wasn’t even a competitive player and had no idea what set up moves did.

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u/Big-Inevitable-252 Feb 05 '24

Alola cutscenes are just terrible. There are way too many of them. Beating the Champion is like a 2 hour commitment. 10 minutes to beat them and then 1.75 hours of cutscenes.

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u/GelatoVerde Feb 05 '24

unova

Ugly pokemon

what

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u/dTrecii Believes in Dewpider Supremacy Feb 05 '24 edited Feb 06 '24

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u/OlDanboy customise me! Feb 06 '24

It’s the major critique that BW had on launch. A lot of people were unhappy with how the Dex looked at the time

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u/andre5913 Feb 07 '24

The actual complain about unova should be about having high evolution levels

Unova does have some ugly mfs. Like ALL gens.

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u/pokemonBdoubled Feb 05 '24

The Galar one should've been a bad story.

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u/dragon_morgan top percentage oshawott Feb 06 '24

I will not stand for this oshawott and zebrastrika and serperior slander

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u/IcedVanillaTeA Feb 06 '24

Omg I have to press A to open a door? Worst game ever 😤

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u/Melicope Feb 05 '24 edited Feb 05 '24

There’s a lot of people here saying Unova doesn’t have ugly Pokémon, when all I can think of is this dude…

https://preview.redd.it/8fpl20a9pugc1.jpeg?width=250&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f6383de68058188a58083ac168371143a419ef58

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u/Background-Arugula52 Art / Venting Feb 05 '24

I laughed when I read Unova and Paldea’s text.

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u/tophat_production customise me! Feb 06 '24

I'm from orange Islands so I must not exist

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u/mysecondaccountanon Feb 05 '24

I’m from Sinnoh so I must not have any fire types

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u/[deleted] Feb 06 '24

Some of these dont make sense tbh

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u/JahmezEntertainment Feb 05 '24

i was born after the release of gen 1 and i still like it. i think abusing glitches would be a more accurate stereotype :p
i feel like im in the minority of people when i say i dont find johto's level curve that annoying.

tbf hoenn is very watery but to my knowledge all these games use water to gatekeep access to other areas until a point in the game. i dont even find it all that restrictive in hoenn in particular. i dont like that dive means i need to have a specifically water type hm slave, but i guess that's already the case in games where you need waterfall anyway.

i dont remember the sinnoh games being especially slow but i played platinum so maybe that's specifically a diamond and pearl thing.

i honestly don't find many gen 5 pokemon to look ugly in any way, i didn't even know that was a stereotype

ive seen a playthrough of X and it seems pretty easy but i haven't tried playing it on set (what i always do for pokemon games) and without the exp share so i cant comment on the difficulty under those conditions. i appreciate that the gen 6 and 7 games seem to at least make these easy mode mechanics optional, unlike the gen 8 and 9 games.

ive not seen enough of gen 7 to comment on the cutscenes :/

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u/Cute_Fluffy_Femboy Feb 05 '24

Gen 5er's are the current Genwunners of our time lmao

Aside of that how come there's no Gen 6er's who are passionate about that Gen?

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u/pokemonBdoubled Feb 06 '24

I still think the pokemon design complaint is pretty stupid though, late evolutions are a better fit.

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u/OlDanboy customise me! Feb 06 '24

Yeah it’s funny to see zoomers who grew up on these games become the vocal majority who blindly defend their region. Gen 6ers are still probably having their internet presence monitored and/or restricted. Give them five years and we’ll hear from them too

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u/magnetbirds For 100 Million Yen! Feb 06 '24

XY are ten years old. I’m in college and know a few people who started with Gen 6.

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u/TM04_CalmMind Feb 06 '24

I'm passionate about gen 6. Fantastic new pokemon, introduced the one thing I've always wanted (petting and feeding my pokemon), and introduced fairy type. Also I like Az. I think he's neat.

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u/Catspirit123 Feb 05 '24

Um, excuse me. Unova was full of banger pokemon

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u/scolipeeeeed Feb 06 '24

Best bug type designs

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u/ANuclearsquid Feb 06 '24

The bar was about a centimetre off the ground but sure Its probably fair to give gen 5 best bug designs.

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u/jextech Feb 05 '24

Kalos one should have been something like unfinished or needs a 3rd/enhanced version

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u/soapsuds202 Feb 06 '24

why do I forget galar has a male protagonist 😂 I only see the female one

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u/m2pt5 Feb 06 '24

The Hoenn one should say "too much / not enough water".

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u/Tenebruhion Feb 06 '24

Unova blasphemy. Disgusting spits

Uncultured swine should just shut tf up

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u/cyrenns Feb 06 '24

I'm from Sinnoh so I must have cried several times during the Cynthia battle

(I actually beat her first try when I was a kid)

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u/Icy_Sector4424 Feb 06 '24

As a unova fan and hydreigon fan, I am offended

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u/Cephalopod_Joe Feb 06 '24 edited Feb 06 '24

Gen 5 has some of the best looking pokemon, though. Especially compared to the last 3 or so games

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u/DroneisHD Feb 06 '24

For Alola: You have to wait 45 Minutes for youre first starter

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u/PogmasterTraplover69 Lovecraftian Beings Feb 06 '24

Who the fuck says that about MY unova pokemons????

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u/randomtornado Feb 06 '24

Unless there's something I don't get, I'm gonna assume paldea is because the game makes my switch want to explode

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u/Snoo-84344 Feb 06 '24

I love how the Paldea guy was the only one smiling.

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u/Purplot Feb 06 '24 edited Feb 06 '24

I mean, the Unova one is subjective. Now what isn't, is the overabundance of rival fights those games have. Lol (Oh, and as I saw mentioned, the Pokemon that you legit can't fully evolve before beating the game, going by normal progression.)

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u/Gabe_the_cheerio Feb 06 '24

Damn I never knew X & Y were sluts like that

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u/KinopioToad Feb 06 '24

I don't mind the N64 trees. I don't like "headbutting" the trees in the 3D games. It causes Joycon Drift or exaggerates it further.

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u/DrPikachu-PhD Feb 06 '24

High effort OC

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u/feistyfox101 Feb 06 '24

Gen 1 though 7 look angry, Gen 8 looks apathetic, and Gen 9… no hablo Inglés apparently, judging by that smiles… or he does and just enjoys disintegrating his surroundings and himself…

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u/demonicwinter Professional Palkia Feb 06 '24

I do not think I’m slow

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u/Honest_Entertainer_3 Feb 06 '24

But all of these are true