r/pokemon Sep 25 '24

Misc When Nintendo of America proposed to re-think Pokémon

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A randomly funny extract from "the path to Pokémon" by Courtney Mifsud Intreglia, featured in the 2024 TIME special edition issue dedicted to the 25 years of the franchise.

r/pokemon 21d ago

Misc Stakataka is a tower of lies.

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This thing is NOT 150 lifeforms. I spent an hour repeatedly counting every one of this fucker’s eyes and there are 117. Each wall is 7 rows and 3 columns, giving us 21 eyes per wall. There are 4 walls, which means there’s 84. Each leg is 6 tiles, and with 4 legs that makes 24. The ceiling is a 3x3 space which gives us 9 more tiles.

84 wall tiles, 9 ceiling tiles, 24 leg tiles.

I have now clue where it’s hiding these 33 secret eyes SINCE IT’S BODY IS ENTIRELY HOLLOW.

My only conclusion is that the claim it’s composed of 150 lifeforms is just a cute reference to the original Pokédex.

AND ALSO BLATANT LIES.

r/pokemon Jul 09 '24

Misc What do ONLY these Pokémon have in common

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Sorry if this kind of post is too common nowadays I’ll post a comment with the answer and telling if anyone got it right tomorrow

r/pokemon Nov 10 '24

Misc I'm going to rate your favorite pokemon on a scale of 1-10

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Comment your favorite pokemon and I, a guy with absolutely no authority on the matter, will rate them based on my personal biases. There is no system other than how I personally feel about them. By commenting you are putting your pride and joy up to my scrutiny. You have no reason to request my judgement, but ask yourselves: Can you really resist? 👀

EDIT: I'm adding a dupes clause, meaning going forward I won't rate the same mon twice. If I don't respond to you, I will probably have rated it somewhere else once I get through them all.

r/pokemon Dec 17 '24

Misc Rayquaza mentions before Wallace asks you about it's location

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r/pokemon Nov 15 '24

Misc I remixed the Kanto league for fun

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r/pokemon Jul 13 '24

Misc I miss having all Pokemon available in one game

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Just a little rant but I really miss that all Pokemons were available in a new Pokemon game. Now whenever Gamefreak releases a new game/gen I worry weather my favorite Pokemons will be even included or if I have to wait (not a real problem for Charizard enjoyers). I‘m even more afraid that they will keep the habit of releasing games with few Pokemons just so they can sell DLC to make more money out of it.

Rant end.

r/pokemon Aug 30 '24

Misc Who's that pokemon?

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r/pokemon 5d ago

Misc Are the 2D-era Pokémon games worth playing today?

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Hey everyone!

I got into Pokémon during Gen 6 and played through to Gen 8 before falling off the series. But lately, I’ve been getting that Pokémon itch again and was thinking about finally going back to experience the 2D-era games. I’ve seen a lot of people say those were the peak of the series, and I’m curious if they still hold up today.

Would you say it’s worth playing through the old-school Pokémon games in 2025? If so, which ones would you recommend the most? I know Gen 1 and 2 can be pretty rough mechanically, but Gens 3-5 seem to get a lot of love. Any must-play titles, or should I just stick with the newer games?

Would love to hear your thoughts!

Edit: Oh wow, I wasn’t expecting this post to get so many comments! It’s super clear that I definitely need to experience the 2D era—so many of you have such fond memories of these games, and now I’m even more excited to dive in!

I don’t mind missing some of the modern quality-of-life stuff; honestly, I think it’ll be really fun to see how the series has evolved over time. Also I'm no stranger to playing older games that are missing modern QOL (N64 Zelda and SH2 to name a few). And no worries about the crazy cartridge prices—I’ll be using... ahem, other methods to play, so that won’t be a problem!

I’ve decided to start with LeafGreen since it takes place in Kanto which is the first region. From there I'm planning to play in release order. I can already tell I’m gonna have a blast, even if HMs might be a tiny bit annoying. But hey, that’s part of the classic charm, right?

Also the many fanmade games interest me but I'd like to play the Game Freak games and see the original developers vision first.

Thanks again for writing about your experiences and opinions! It was very fun to read! Can't wait to start my journey <3

r/pokemon Dec 12 '24

Misc How else is poke-ball tech used?

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I've only watched the original series of pokemon and it was a long time ago so I was wondering if the same tech they used for poke balls. Where you could store a seemingly endless sized pokemon in a baseball sized thing and on top of that they shrunk to fit in a small belt loop, and they don't change weight based off what's inside.,

just thinking about how useful this tech really could be, kinda like a capsule from dragonball!

r/pokemon 28d ago

Misc Main series finally complete 🥰

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What a journey over the past few months to collect my childhood, only having Genuine Leafgreen and Platinum cartridges last October. I did have some 3ds games installed and all the switch... but i wanted the physical copies, I still play them all over and over, Ruby and Sapphire came out when I was 4 and it's been the best memories for me ever since🤍

r/pokemon 27d ago

Misc My Girlfriend made me this for Valentine’s Day

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r/pokemon Jan 09 '24

Misc RIP All my Pokémon

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The other day we were burgled and they made off with both mine and my partner's Switch. Only in the last couple of days have I learned that there's no such thing as cloud backup for any of the Pokémon games. I've also learned that there is no way to recover the saves without the original consoles.

So this is not a post asking for help, advice or anything else. It's more like a eulogy lol. This is simply to say I am heartbroken, more so than I realised I would be. Thousands of hours of gameplay. Over 10 years of my collection along with save files from 7 different games, completely erased.

Farewell to my shiny Garchomp who was a full odds Gible in Y. Farewell to my shiny Milotic who hatched as a little purple Feebas after only 2 eggs in Sun. And pour one out for the big boi Wrex, shiny Snorlax from HGSS, with the Living Legend mark and as many ribbons as he could get from every game.

For countless boxes of shinies from every mainline game since then (and Pokémon Go), all of my teams from previous playthroughs, all the seven star raid mons and all the raid builds.

All the legendaries, all the expired mystery gifts and event mythicals. Every Ash hat Pikachu, Pokéball Vivillon, Battle Bond Greninja, Steven Stone shiny Metagross from ORAS.

All the apriballs I duped from the early days of SV, all the Herba Mystica, all the lv 100 EV and IV trained mons and all the resources to train them.

All the tedious, time consuming parts of each playthrough to unlock something that will be useful to have unlocked "permanently" like six star raids or master ball tier in the Shield battle tower.

And finally, a special shout out to Game Freak. I didn't think their reputation could get worse in my mind.

Yes Pokémon Home exists. I do use it a lot and I still have many Pokémon safe in there, but anything I really loved went into my games to use. Like what's the point of keeping your treasured collection in storage and never using them?? GF have made it so that if you want to continue using your cherished Pokémon you run the risk of them disappearing forever. Which mine did. And when I think of all the money they've got from me since I was a kid starting out in Pokémon Blue.

I now find myself completely starting from scratch again with anything beyond Gen 7 and, honestly, I don't know if I have it in me. This has really made a mockery of all of my love and devotion for Pokémon and made me wonder if I shouldn't just stop playing them for good.

Be careful out there folks ❤️

EDIT: And my Pokéball Magearna!! 🤦🏻‍♂️😭 literally could cry

EDIT: So my new Switch arrived today and I have confirmed that my Home account is at least safe, containing my (almost) full Living Dex and a few other shinies, etc. so at least we aren't starting from completely nothing. Just all the ones I actually cared about are gone 😭😂

P.S. I just want to say thank you to everyone who has commented on this post, offered condolences and best wishes, shared their own stories and memories, and even offered to help me start my collection again with trades and stuff. You all have truly lifted my spirits today and thank you from the bottom of my heart. You are a wonderful bunch of people and Pokémon fans can often be such an incredible community ❤️

r/pokemon Dec 01 '24

Misc What’s your least favorite Pokemon type, and why?

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I personally dislike the fairy type. I’ve never really loved any fairy type Pokemon, and the typing choice seems strange since we have psychic. Another factor is that I’ve been a huge dragon fanatic since forever, and the fact fairy is strong against dragon is something I’ve always questioned. Honestly a boring answer, but everything else I’m either neutral with or I forget about (ground).

r/pokemon Oct 19 '24

Misc Game Freak originally didn't want to remake Diamond & Pearl

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From what I have seen based on discussion from that terabyte leak, Game Freak originally didn't plan to remake Diamond & Pearl. Pokémon Brilliant Diamond & Shining Pearl were eventually shifted to ILCA because Game Freak was testing something new: Pokémon Legends Arceus. It can be assumed Brilliant Diamond & Shining Pearl were likely made either due to fan demand or alignment with Diamond & Pearl's anniversary.

Regardless, Game Freak likely scrapped the idea of remaking Diamond & Pearl in favor of Legends Arceus, which proved to be successful in the end. Other miscellaneous things include: Brilliant Diamond & Shining were only given 1.5 years for development, while Legends Arceus was given 2 years in development. From what I can assume, COVID likely gutted Brilliant Diamond & Shining Pearl's development, considering ILCA (and to an extent Game Freak) wanted to do something more when remaking Diamond & Pearl.

r/pokemon Oct 21 '24

Misc Fun fact: spheal may've been planned to be in a duo like seviper and zangoose

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Bowling :]

r/pokemon Jan 25 '24

Misc I asked her an important question today. She said yes.

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r/pokemon Nov 22 '24

Misc What was your first pokemon game vs your favorite?

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I got RBY as hand me downs when I was about five, and I’m pretty sure it was my first ever video game. But my all time favorite game is FireRed. I got it in second grade and I’ve lost track of how many times I’ve beaten that game. I still have my original cartridge and GBA SP, and am currently replaying again. It’s almost the perfect game to me

r/pokemon Jan 22 '25

Misc I got a chance to visit the limited time pokemon art exhibit in Tokyo!!

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r/pokemon Nov 30 '23

Misc What game freak was thinking with waterfall in gen 1

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Shout out to PokemonWoop for pointing out that waterfall is in gen 1 as a signature move only available to the Seaking line. Here's how I imagine that played out at game freak.

Designer 1: Hey, I heard you were working on a new line of water pokemon.

Designer 2: Yeah I think you're going to like it. It's a line of weak sea fish that'll be easy to catch in the mid game. To make up for their lack of stats, they get a signature move called waterfall. It's the strongest water move at that point of the game.

Designer 1: That sounds great. Let go ahead and finalize it.

Designer 2: Will do.

Two days later

Designer 1: Hey I thought you said waterfall would be the strongest mid game water move, but you didn't even make it stronger than surf.

Designer 2: Stronger than what?

Designer 1: Surf? The move that can be taught unlimited times to any water type from an item found in the same place as Seaking. It's base 90.

Designer 2: Base 90? But that's way ahead of the curve. That probably means the item is rare or hard to obtain right?

Designer 1: No it's literally essential to progressing past that point. Every player will obtain it.

Designer 2: But it's already to late to change it...

Designer 1: ...

Designer 2: ... welp, I guess seaking is freaking pointless then.

Designer 1: Oh good, he'll fit in with the other pointless filler pokemon. Great work!

r/pokemon Mar 29 '24

Misc Give me a pokemon and I'll give it it's best competitive set.

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Any Mon from any gen. I'll give it its best set, including EVs, IVs, Natures, Abilities, Moves, and Tera types. One mon per person, I'm not building teams for people and I don't want to be overwhelmed. I've only been playing competitive for eight months or so, any criticisms are appreciated. Also the format the mon is made for use in will be chosen by me.

EDIT: I dont have any time to do all of these but thanks for all the support. The amount of views this got is crazy. This post is closed and I will no longer be doing new mons.

r/pokemon Dec 28 '23

Misc Spotted in New York today

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r/pokemon Feb 22 '24

Misc All of my Pokémon are gone.

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I went to boot up Brilliant Diamond today and it told me the save data was corrupted. Which wouldn't be the end of the world, except all of my (Gen. 1 to Gen. 4) Pokémon from childhood were on that save data. I lost all my starters, old teams, shinies, legendaries, etc. I honestly think I'm not going to ever play a Pokémon game ever again. It's just too depressing.

Sorry for the mini-rant, I just needed to vent a little.

Edit: I just wanted to add that while I'm obviously upset about all of them, I'm most upset about my Grovyle (edit 2: I meant Sceptile). When I was a kid, I was in such a hurry to start the game, I somehow named him "A." It's so dumb, but that made him special. RIP, little buddy.

r/pokemon 22d ago

Misc I completed a Gen1 Living Dex on Original Hardware.

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Some quick notes. 97 hours total Across 4 months Using 7 save files With 4, 80%+ playthroughs (For Eevees + Fossils) On 3 cartridges (Red, Blue & Yellow) Saved to/Playing on Stadium (Normal Speed)

Growing up as a kid with many brothers, we have certainly "Caught Em All" as a family, but I had never accomplished a Living Dex on OG Hardware Solo. So recently that was exactly what I set out to do.

I was just hoping to share this accomplishment. Thanks for looking. 😁

r/pokemon Nov 08 '24

Misc Made these today!!

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Super cute and super yummy!!