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Pokémon Community Thread: Gotta Catch 'Em All!

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Anth0ny

Member
I've reached episode 23 in my journey to catch up in the Pokemon anime. It's the episode where Gastly, Haunter and Gengar aren't really evil, they're just trolls.

I love this show lol
 
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Nocturnowl

Member
Anth0ny said:
I've reached episode 23 in my journey to catch up in the Pokemon anime. It's the episode where Gastly, Haunter and Gengar aren't really evil, they're just trolls.

I love this show lol
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If anything i'm now thinking of Sabrina's dad and his "TELEPORTATION" powers from the episode beforehand, man those Sabrina episodes confused the hell out of me when i was a kid.
I like how Ash essentially dies in the ghost episode so that the ghosts have someone to join them on a merry go round, they truly are trolls.
 
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Dr.Palutena

Member
Nocturnowl said:
I like how Ash essentially dies in the ghost episode so that the ghosts have someone to join them on a merry go round, they truly are trolls.
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This is why ghost pokemon are the best. In game they are all cute/cool looking with sinister intentions. In the anime they are awesome trolls. truly both interpretations are so lovable.
 
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Gravijah

Member
we were discussing hgss last night, and here are some things that came up

lance being champion sucks. having two dragon type trainers as gym leader/champion sucks. THREE DRAGONITE? REALLY?

koga should have had a venusaur.

1 new dragon & 1 new ghost introduced in gen 2 really sucked.
 
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Dr.Palutena

Member
Gravijah said:
we were discussing hgss last night, and here are some things that came up

lance being champion sucks. having two dragon type trainers as gym leader/champion sucks. THREE DRAGONITE? REALLY?

koga should have had a venusaur.

1 new dragon & 1 new ghost introduced in gen 2 really sucked.
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seriously This is just highlighted by making those typings gym leaders and champions. Heck a champion that uses a single typing just plain sucks . -looks at Wallace and Lance-
 
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EvilMario

Will QA for food.
I was surprised in HGSS, that they didn't allow Lance to reach outside of Gen 2's limited Dragon types in the Pokedex and pull a few from Gen 3/4.

At least one of his Dragonite's could have been Dragonair, just to.. change it up.. I guess?
 
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Chet Rippo

Member
EvilMario said:
I was surprised in HGSS, that they didn't allow Lance to reach outside of Gen 2's limited Dragon types in the Pokedex and pull a few from Gen 3/4.

At least one of his Dragonite's could have been Dragonair, just to.. change it up.. I guess?
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In his second fight he has Garchomp, Salamence, and Altaria. At least that's something!
 
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Dr.Palutena

Member
Yea both steven and alder use 3 of the same type. but that still Isnt as bad as using the same exact pokemon 3 times plus game freak taunting us with 2 pokemon they very well know should be part dragon.
 
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ColtraineGF

Member
Well, that's mostly become less of a problem over time, right? It's a good thing that now (with a National dex), one could make a strong monotype team of potentially any type, even Bug thanks to Gen V.
 
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Gravijah

Member
ColtraineGF said:
Well, that's mostly become less of a problem over time, right? It's a good thing that now (with a National dex), one could make a strong monotype team of potentially any type, even Bug thanks to Gen V.
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well, personally, i'm hoping every new gen (not counting remakes or sequels, if we ever get those) are self contained, like unova.
 
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ColtraineGF

Member
Well if not in the main battles, then definitely in rematches (which I fully expect in 'certain' upcoming games)

As an aside, I guess we'll only see full Battle Frontier in 3rd versions from now :|
 
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Chet Rippo

Member
Gravijah said:
well, personally, i'm hoping every new gen (not counting remakes or sequels, if we ever get those) are self contained, like unova.
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I'm not a big fan of them just making replacement Geodudes and Zubats every generation. They might as well just bring them back.
 
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Gravijah

Member
Chet Rippo said:
No!

Well, there's
Gigalith - Golem
Swoobat - Golbat
Conkeldurr - Machamp
Gothitelle - Gardevoir
Unfezant - Pidgeot*
Watchog - Raticate*

* Though to be fair, these always get replaced every generation.
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i wouldn't consider gothitelle and gardevoir similar. conkeldurr was also awesome.
 
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Dr.Palutena

Member
You see i dont recall seeing any of those stuff as much as i've seen zubat/tentacool/etc. They were at least these abundant/there was more variety per area.
 
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Gravijah

Member
to be fair, cute electric types are introduced in every gen.

pichu
plusle/minun
pachirisu
emolga

garbodor and muk are quite unique. seismitoad... ehhh, i dunno.
 
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Boney

Banned
Gen 4 Lance could've had more dragon types, but by gen 2 they were still ultra super awesome rare and I like that. Them being weak to ice is stupid but they were still supposed to represent the unbeatable type, hence why they were so rare.
 
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Exterminieren

Banned
Gravijah said:
well, personally, i'm hoping every new gen (not counting remakes or sequels, if we ever get those) are self contained, like unova.
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Ooh, no.

I enjoyed the fresh feel of B/W, but seeing new evos of past Pokemon and what they bring to the lines is one of my favourite parts of a new Pokemon generation. I loved the Diamond and Pearl reveals more than BW's, that's for sure.
 
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Gravijah

Member
Boney said:
Gen 4 Lance could've had more dragon types, but by gen 2 they were still ultra super awesome rare and I like that. Them being weak to ice is stupid but they were still supposed to represent the unbeatable type, hence why they were so rare.
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so what about ghost

and why make a GYM LEADER AND CHAMPION BASED AROUND THEM

Exterminieren said:
Ooh, no.

I enjoyed the fresh feel of B/W, but seeing new evos of past Pokemon and what they bring to the lines is one of my favourite parts of a new Pokemon generation. I loved the Diamond and Pearl reveals more than BW's, that's for sure.
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a few old pokemon being around to get new evos would be fine, like some new eevee. i also didn't have many pokemon from dp or bw spoiled for me, i didn't see most of them until i encountered them in game.
 
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Kaper

Member
Billychu said:
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Jaina Solo's torso? Good choice.
 
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Exterminieren

Banned
Gravijah said:
a few old pokemon being around to get new evos would be fine, like some new eevee. i also didn't have many pokemon from dp or bw spoiled for me, i didn't see most of them until i encountered them in game.
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Yeah, but you're king of blackouts, whereas I am weak to spoilers.

Besides, I enjoy the hypestorm.
 
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Gravijah

Member
Boney said:
ghost as well

i mean they're ghost pokemon that shit's gotta be rare!
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as i said in irc last night, i don't think game freak knew what to do with ghost types until gen 4/5. we got misdreavus in gen 2, and the banette/dusclops lines in gen 3, but starting with gen 4 we started to get very cool unique ghosts like froslass, giratina, golurk, drifblim, jellicent, etc.
 
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ThatObviousUser

ὁ αἴσχιστος παῖς εἶ
I had like a four-way connector that worked for both GB and GBC. Was sweet. I also had a second GB and both Gold and Silver. Oh man. Such good times.

I also had a GameShark but I could never get the damn thing to work, so I just stuck to in-game glitches like turning off while box transferring to clone.
 
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Anth0ny

Member
Andrex said:
I had like a four-way connector that worked for both GB and GBC. Was sweet. I also had a second GB and both Gold and Silver. Oh man. Such good times.

I also had a GameShark but I could never get the damn thing to work, so I just stuck to in-game glitches like turning off while box transferring to clone.
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01XXD8CF

XX=15 for Mew

Gameshark nostalgia <3
 
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