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Been seeing a lot of speculation online about the potential starters for the game, given the first legends had such a weird trio. While my heart pines deeply for mega meganium, I would also like to mention that LZA is under way less pressure to do something different for starters.
PLA...
Just realized: No new Unova games means that Patrat and the elemental monkeys are in jeapardy of not being available in the wild since the original release of Pokemon X&Y 11 years ago. PLA lacked some Sinnoh dex staples like Medicham, so they could very well end up neglected.
In fact, I've...
Yeah, people like Kalos. There's a whole generation of kids who played X&Y in elementary school that are now adults on the internet, waiting to enjoy their first big nostalgia trip. Happened to me when HGSS hit back when I was in high school. Hope all the people who grew up with Gen 6 are...
Pokemon Z is the funniest possible option for them to have picked. They really did a Metroid Dread where fans were mulling over a theoretical title for years and went "You know what? Fuck it! Fuck you! Here you go!"
While I have not seen the film, I have a certain level of trust for studios like aardman to make an okay movie. It could be bad, but also, I think that your first date should not involve media with rats around shit.
Legitimately Open Season has not been in a singular thought in my head for 16 years. It remained that way until the Freddy Fazgyatt clip started popping around last year. I believe I can confidently say not a soul has given a singular shit about it either until the last few months. Like, not...
I love being bombarded with notifications of events for games I don’t play for 20 minutes straight. Nothing fills my heart with joy quite like Pokemon Sleep telling me I can turn the basic mammalian act of rest into different gacha rolls this week. I can’t wait to look up the presentation time...
I think nidoking and nidoqueen should be run together so they can both bask in the warmth of each other’s company and savor the deep love that has bloomed between them over the past 26 years. The world is cold. Blizzards don’t hit as much as they used to, but it still feels like every day is a...
Wow, I’m surprised anyone remembered an article released in January of last year for this. I’m glad people seem to like the cinderace article. Seeing the SV raid machine take form and organize properly for the first time was a fun ride. Thank you to all who gave it a read and for letting me know...
This got a lot more attention than I was expecting. I’d like to thank folks for the kind words on the post. I’m surprised it got traction outside of Smogon, and I’m happy I was able to write something with a resonant message.
I’d also like to thank Theorynon and Pearl for bringing up parts of...
This is a big thread, covering a topic that's been pressing into me lately. I apologize to the mods of the in-game play forums if this is a hassle to deal with. I've wanted to talk about this sort of thing for a very long time, and I felt the need to speak about it somewhere as best I can.
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Thanks for the ping, love me some Pokemon legality minuta :quagchamppogsire:
I think the OP covered most of the examples well, though there are also a handful of (mostly irrelevant) DW exclusive attacks and weird events that are also affected by the September Bank Update.
I don't play anything...