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Grafaiai's Japanese name, 「タギングル」, is probably best romanized as "Tagginguru" or "Taggingle". Thought there might be a better clue to what animal it was in another language...but it's just more tag art references
Well, we already knew there would be artsy types for a hot minute...
Loving that whatever they're teasing was probably important enough to the game/region to theme a trainer class around.
I saw one fun guess elsewhere that the Oma Forest reference might have something to do with the "treasure...
Just gonna put it out there that there have always been a couple storylines in every pokemon game, usually split between the gym challenge, fighting the evil team/getting to the boxlegends and completing the pokedex (occasionally there's a distraction like contests in RSE/DP, which did have a...
was wonderin' what everyone's first impression is on how Tera types might be used competitively? A part of me thought there'd be a meta built around predicting switch-ins where pokemon with good coverage are the best choice/can punish something they'd be weak against with their tera type (like...
Cool, so people have already parsed that the region appears to be based primarily on the Iberian peninsula from the Sagrada Familia-esque giant building and those english starter names, but here's a bunch of imagery and symbols that were unique-looking enough to possibly hint to in-game content...
nobody tell this fellow about Minimize :P
I actually love this comment. tbh Pokeballs are one of those tricky things whose function would naturally change with the medium. A flash of light that solidifies in to a pokemon works for the anime because it's animated and any time you have moving...
Can't wait to see how to get Toxtricity and Galarian Darmanitan to change forms. The second one's prolly just Zen Mode or a clone ability but hey.
Speaking of clone abilities, do we know if any abilities were removed from the game?
might be something that the trainers in each gym do, but the gym leaders seem to be type specialists still. Didn't really watch until they got to Raihan's gym but each trainer used one dragon-type and another pokemon of a unique type
Same person was doing a youtube stream as well but that got taken down p fast. The smash stream is a bit janky but they haven't been copyright banned yet
(hope the nintendo lawyers don't check on Smogon for clues to this stuff)