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Pokémon Community Thread 3: "Soon, All of Hoenn Will Be Under Its Withering Glare "
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Black-Wind
Member
Did not know there wa-
... Wait, I DO remember there being an extended opener back when I had a Pokemon CD.
But that was a looong time ago.
... Wait, I DO remember there being an extended opener back when I had a Pokemon CD.
But that was a looong time ago.
No way in hell am I singing along when at the UK ones. Yikes, awkward to the max.
Only awkward if you are alone singing, but if everyone is you should be ok
Boss Doggie
all my loli wolf companions are so moe
They played the original Pokemon opening theme?
So here's my Red vs Cynthia fanfic. Sorry for crappy quality and even more terrible dialogue.
Both - ! Red - Our eyes met! That means you want to battle! Cythia - Hmm said:
Red - So what are the rules? Cynthia - Let's go all out and use all our Pokemon. Red - Sounds good to me! Red - Go Bulbasaur! Cynthia - Come out said:
Red - Garchomp said:
Red - Bulbasaur said:
Red - Attack it Bulbasaur! Cynthia - Take it down said:
Cynthia - Great work Garchomp! *Garchomp roars* Red - Dang said:
Red - ...Squirtle! *Squirtle noises* Cynthia - Keep it up Garchomp! *Garchomp noises* said:
Red - Squirtle said:
Cynthia - Great work Garchomp said:
Red - Don't let their efforts go to waste! It's your turn said:
Red - Charmander said:
Red - You did it Charmander! *Charmander noises* Cynthia - Oh no said:
Red - Come out everyone! You were all fantastic! *Bulbasaur said:
Red - That was a great battle! You were amazing! Cynthia - You demonstrated yourself quite well out there too. Red - Let's battle again some day! Cynthia - I look forward to that day. said:
SenorArdilla
Member
Seeing Moltres evaporate Water-type moves made me wonder if Gamefreak should put in a ability that acts like a weaker Desolate Land/Primordial Sea.
I found that someone managed to get the Houston Gotta Catch Em All (not me).
After the first part, it was hilarious when we realized none of us knew what came afterwards, though we started to remember bits and pieces later on.
After the first part, it was hilarious when we realized none of us knew what came afterwards, though we started to remember bits and pieces later on.
Watch Da Birdie
I buy cakes for myself on my birthday it's not weird lots of people do it I bet
Weird they're doing a new Sunday show now, seems like those only got replaced when a new Generation began...
AnkiRendan
Member
Yeah, I'm a bit stunned.
Boss Doggie
all my loli wolf companions are so moe
To be fair, Get TV was kinda subpar compared to Smash. They only picked up the pace around right at the middle of their airing.
Also near naked fat man.
Also near naked fat man.
Boss Doggie
all my loli wolf companions are so moe
In other news Blaziken is out officially in Pokken! Yeah he was only playable on certain test locations.
Interestingly, another card has been banned from the Expanded Format
http://www.pokemon.com/us/pokemon-news/shiftry-banned-from-expanded-format/
http://www.pokemon.com/us/pokemon-news/shiftry-banned-from-expanded-format/
Boss Doggie
all my loli wolf companions are so moe
Greninja
Greninja
So Ash will finally have a fully evolved Water starter and it took only 6 gen to reach it.
I also find it funny that the last water Pokémon he owned that evolved was Kingler waaaaaay back in Kanto.
AnkiRendan
Member
Greninja
So Chespin still won't evolve? Not that I'm complaining...
Boss Doggie
all my loli wolf companions are so moe
Nah he will evolve, there's an autograph featuring voice actors and used Quilladin's name there rather than Chespin.
dakkumauji
Member
huh, been a while since we had all the starters evolve at least once
and not take 120+ episodes for the last one to
and not take 120+ episodes for the last one to
Catchy.
I wonder why they didn't give Chespin to Ash?
Oshawott was clearly meant to fully evolve as was Iris's Axew but they became popluar and that plan was scrapped.
The same thing happened with Dawn's Piplup.
Watch Da Birdie
I buy cakes for myself on my birthday it's not weird lots of people do it I bet
Yeah, and Pignite was basically pushed out of focus for Charizard and never did much.
I don't know why they didn't let Snivy evolve, its personality could've easily been kept through Serperior.
At least his back-up Pokemon were allowed to evolve, but they all ended up being largely ignored---shame because him constantly switching around Pokemon off-screen and being a surprise as to what he'd use would've been a cool element, instead it was pretty much always the starters and Scraggy except for the rare moment when one of the others got a small time to shine. And they barely got any focus outside of their capture or time to actually show off a personality.
dakkumauji
Member
yeah, I remember looking forward to Ash having a large team for once
but instead of seeing them all evenly, it was basically like one rotating spot on the team so nothing much really changed
AnkiRendan
Member
The Unova anime....man, it seriously depresses me how awful it was. I'm trying to come up with what they did right, and my list is painfully short.
-Iris and Cilan's Japanese voice actors, Aoi Yuki and Mamoru Miyano were top class. They were absolutely amazing. Pokemon doesn't usually have a top tier main cast like this. The English voices weren't so bad.
-I liked the first Japanese opening.
...Yeah, that's about it. -_-
-Iris and Cilan's Japanese voice actors, Aoi Yuki and Mamoru Miyano were top class. They were absolutely amazing. Pokemon doesn't usually have a top tier main cast like this. The English voices weren't so bad.
-I liked the first Japanese opening.
...Yeah, that's about it. -_-
I wouldn't mind Chespin not evolving but at the same time I'll be sad that it didn't evolve to Chesnaught as I think it's a pretty solid looking Pokemon. I picked Chespin as my starter in X so I'm kinda biased on this.
Braixen can stay as Braixen as I don't want it to evolve to that ugly 3rd evo.
Braixen can stay as Braixen as I don't want it to evolve to that ugly 3rd evo.
PreyingShark
Member
Apparently, Chile is having some corruption issues. The gist of it is that the company in charge of the Pokemon license in Chile, Big Bang Entertainment, is blocking people from becoming TOs so only their guy can host official tournaments there (he's also allegedly a dick).
If true, this is a bunch of bullshit and makes me sad.
If true, this is a bunch of bullshit and makes me sad.
I was about to post this... such a sad situation taking into account what happened @ the first Pokémon Day event with Juegos de Video de Chile and their premature announcement of the Pikachu 3DSXL and Meloetta event that costed them to not have any Pikachu 3DSXL shipped to them at the time...
Also, 'their guy' is the one that OWNS Big Bang Entertainment iirc, making this a bad joke
Gaiaknight
Member
So i recently started to play ORAS very seriously so im going back and watching the Hoenn saga of the show and god damn is there alot of episodes for that region o.0
PreyingShark
Member
Actually verified the information at his linkedin account...
He isn't the guy who -owns- Big Bang Entertainment, but he's their Community Manager. So that's that, lol.
Apparently he also manages the company's Social Media accounts and has been spotted making snarky comments with at the Pokémon fan communities that tried to get more OTs.
There was even some trouble with a player that had some tourney rounds info just before Worlds uploaded wrong or something and because of that he couldn't apply to go... and he already had his plane ticket bought :/
PreyingShark
Member
...Oh god. Just oh god. This situation is a mess.
dakkumauji
Member
Cilan while underdeveloped was a fantastic character. The only bright spot in a terrible season.
PreyingShark
Member
AZ's response to the Chile thing:
Knowing that they're aware of the issue is good but the last paragraph kind of wasn't necessary. "Look at all these other countries that don't keep having their applications rejected! Doesn't that make you feel better?"
Boss Doggie
all my loli wolf companions are so moe
future ep has a team battle featuring Ash and Serena vs Tierno and Shauna
PreyingShark
Member
Tierno and Shauna? Eh, Trevor > Tierno.
Boss Doggie
all my loli wolf companions are so moe
Trevor kinda sucks at fighting though. Then again so does Shauna, but still!
PreyingShark
Member
He's my type though!
Watch Da Birdie
I buy cakes for myself on my birthday it's not weird lots of people do it I bet
A lot of people hated her, but I really liked Iris. She was fun. Cilan was too, but a lot of times he sort of got on my nerves because it seemed there was a point they sort of ran with his "---Time" gimmick and every episode seemed to have him monopolize the focus. But I think everyone was glad they finally let Brock take a break.
Stefan (was that his dub name, the Sawk dude?) was a cool character, and I loved the Tournament Arc where he fought Throh. Those two mini-Tournament Arcs the Don George hosted were years ahead of the shitty Unova League, huh? Actually, the show had some cool rivals in Stefan, Georgia, Burgundy, and Bianca. But then we had Trip, who was like oh my god so bland and fucking pointless, and the two Unova League rivals (forgot their names, never actually finished watching that far) seemed shitty too.
Um, the Meowth joins the gang arc was a great idea---the episodes were basically filler, but it was cute idea. I'm tempted to say since if they ever write out Team Rocket, have Meowth join Ash because that opens up some cool plot ideas, and could lead to more development for the Pokemon if they had a translator.
Dropping Team Rocket from some episodes was good. I think them not being in fillers sort of weakened them since often their antics can save episodes, but leaving them out of Gym Battles was smart---too bad the Gyms SUCKED.
But, that's like it. There are SO many problems with Best Wishes...
* Team Rocket sucks. I said it. I didn't like them becoming super-serious, and even when they lightened up a bit, they were completely dull. Honestly, even in XY I think they're really boring and don't have the same humor anymore they used to. It's a shame, because I think in DP they were top-tier since they were entertaining, but the Contest plotline actually have us time to see them as fairly competent, and they had a great team. In BW, they only had Woobat and Yamask, which was weird since they were meant to be more "evil" in Best Wishes yet the writers couldn't give them more powerful Pokemon---why they didn't just keep Seviper, Carnivine, and Yanmega on since they were relatively more threatening confuses me, but I guess they wanted to do the whole "reboot" thing. Fuck no Wobbuffet though, XY bringing him back ruled.
* Fillers were often lame, with weak comedy, and instead of Team Rocket, they just seemed to randomly have a Pokemon attack the group for tension. And the plot episodes were barely better---the Pokemon got barely any focus and didn't really have much personality besides Axew, Scraggy, and the Starters. And I fucking hate the Gym Battles---the Elesa one being the worse.
* Ash wasn't as funny as he was in Kanto dumbing him down, and I missed his Hoenn/DP-self where he was basically the strongest, arguably the smartest since Brock by then had lost a lot of his maturity, and competent and fun to watch. Him forgetting to bring Pokemon with him to Elesa pissed me off so much. I'm glad XY fixed this, and he's back to roughly DP level---although he seems to be a bit nerfed still.
* Decolora Islands. Jesus christ. It sounded fun, you know maybe it'd be neat like Orange Islands, but from what I read it sounds completely pointless and a waste of time where nothing happened.
Best Wishes literally doesn't need to exist.
Boss Doggie
all my loli wolf companions are so moe
Iris grates on my nerves and was a shitty character. Full of hand-me-downs for someone stated to be a Dragon Master.
Bonnie managed to evolve a dragon type Pokemon that she doesn't even own!
that was more of Zekrom giving Pikachu electric arthritis.
It was... dumb and stupid.
Bonnie managed to evolve a dragon type Pokemon that she doesn't even own!
that was more of Zekrom giving Pikachu electric arthritis.
It was... dumb and stupid.
Even though levels aren't really in the anime, here's the game comparison I use.
Situationally, Zekrom had damaged Pikachu and made it unable to use its electric moves
Let's say Pikachu is at 1HP due to the Zekrom hit.
Pikachu uses Thunderbolt
But it failed
Snivy uses Leaf Tornado
It hits
Pikachu faints
It is every bit explainable in game terms. Level != immunity to weaker Pokémon.
People really need to let that go and understand the context more. It has been 5 years.
dakkumauji
Member
zekrom debuffed pikachu
and please it was a level 5 snivy, you never get your starter at level 1
PreyingShark
Member
I find it interesting that both XY and the Exp. Share seem to get so much hate on GAF. I heard both get a fuckton of praise IRL when the game came out and even for a while afterwards and the Exp. Share in particular had a ton of people raving about it (For reference, my college had a place where all the nerds hanged out) so I find this a bit surprising.
ColtraineGF
Member
I'd like to know where this saying that the initial generations were much more difficult came from.
Literally the first time I played, I soloed Blue with Blastoise. And again with Charizard. It was only in Yellow that I even considered raising a team equally, and I beat the game with my team constantly underleveled.
Really, once you've played enough, there's not much you can do to make any of the games more difficult without restricting yourself.
Literally the first time I played, I soloed Blue with Blastoise. And again with Charizard. It was only in Yellow that I even considered raising a team equally, and I beat the game with my team constantly underleveled.
Really, once you've played enough, there's not much you can do to make any of the games more difficult without restricting yourself.
The thing that gets me about the whining about the EXP Share is you can literally just turn it off. Like, when they gave it to me in the game the first thing I did was make sure it wasn't on cause I didn't like the idea of it. The end. (though I do use it for endgame grinding for multiplayer)