Pokémon Thread XXX: Hot Skitty on Wailord Action!

[Emmerlaus]

Well, if you do, would you be interested in helping me get a cyndaquil? Kinda wanted to also train one.

... How? I dont own the game yet. My newest Pokemon game is Pokemon Sun

[DaOldeWolf]

... How? I dont own the game yet. My newest Pokemon game is Pokemon Sun

No, I mean if you decide to buy it, would you like to help me?

[Bartmanhomer]

I like how Pokemon Arceus uses three different starters from three different generations even though I don't have the game and a Nintendo Switch.

[NeoVid]

Legends has me thinking it'll be the first Pokémon game I've played seriously since Gen 2, thanks to finally implementing a feature I've been wanting since the original Safari Zone: Stealth takedowns. Being able to bait a mon, sneak up on it and capture it instantly without having to hurt it first sounds like something I'd have a ton of fun failing at.

[Emmerlaus]

No, I mean if you decide to buy it, would you like to help me?

I’ll gladly help if I ever buy the game. Not interested in Cyndaquill myself anyway lol

[Kantaki]

Legends has me thinking it'll be the first Pokémon game I've played seriously since Gen 2, thanks to finally implementing a feature I've been wanting since the original Safari Zone: Stealth takedowns. Being able to bait a mon, sneak up on it and capture it instantly without having to hurt it first sounds like something I'd have a ton of fun failing at.

Legends is basically "How the Wild Area should've worked: The Game."

Really there's so much in this game they should use in the main games.
Great open world, less "rigid" battles*, a Pokédex you have to work for, maybe the crafting, the ability to say more than "yes" and "no"...

*Still turnbased, but more flexible?/dynamic?/tactical? One of those words anyway.

[LaZodiac]

If Legends does well it'll likely be the new normal going forward. It IS a mainline pokemon game.

[Rater202]

There are items that let you evolve trade only Pokemon without having to trade them, and there are no version exclusives because there's only one version.

Now if NPC trades are abandoned as a concept, that would mean that you can finally catch'em all. You don't have to have other people catch them for you or rely on trade-back cheese.

[Lord Raziere]

If Legends does well it'll likely be the new normal going forward. It IS a mainline pokemon game.

I haven't bought a pokemon game since I canceled my Sword order. if this is true, I'll have to watch at least some of a playthrough to see if its good.

[LaZodiac]

There are items that let you evolve trade only Pokemon without having to trade them, and there are no version exclusives because there's only one version.

Now if NPC trades are abandoned as a concept, that would mean that you can finally catch'em all. You don't have to have other people catch them for you or rely on trade-back cheese.

NPC trades are abandoned as a concept and you can in fact catch them all in this.

[MCerberus]

So since the pokedex is completable, the pokedex is RAPABLE

*shines the Weird Al signal*

[Lord Raziere]

So since the pokedex is completable, the pokedex is RAP-ABLE

*shines the Weird Al signal*

But since its like, two centuries ago, wouldn't be more of a long epic poem set to classical music?

like pokemon names sung to the tune of Ode to Joy or something.

Edit: No wait, a patter song in the style of Gilbert and sullivan

[MCerberus]

But since its like, two centuries ago, wouldn't be more of a long epic poem set to classical music?

like pokemon names sung to the tune of Ode to Joy or something.

Edit: No wait, a patter song in the style of Gilbert and sullivan

Found in a previously neglected cave in the Delphi complex - "And he yelled, as the great Eagle of Zeus so as all could hear. 'Are you guys up for the pokerap?'"

edit - I'm about 3 stars and 2 story missions in.

So far this is everything people have been telling gamefreak they wanted, and wow is it shaking up the formula in ways that can mean some spicy things down the road. Anyone notice how the new battle system would be the perfect change they would need to make to, say, have battles in spaces shared by multiple players?

[Kareeah_Indaga]

NPC trades are abandoned as a concept and you can in fact catch them all in this.

About time.

Found in a previously neglected cave in the Delphi complex - "And he yelled, as the great Eagle of Zeus so as all could hear. 'Are you guys up for the pokerap?'"

[Rater202]

So according to Legends Arceus, all pokemon have the power to shrink to incredibly small size.

This is apparently how Pokeballs worked before computers and digitization was a thing.

[Spore]

Is this actual lore or just conjecture from your gameplay?

A computer shrinking pokemon is as much fiction as a some mystical wooden orb. One is just fantasy, and the other science fiction.

[Rater202]

Is this actual lore or just conjecture from your gameplay?

It's "the guy who gives you your pokeballs during the tutorial says it explicitly."

And he's "something of a Pokemon Professor."

[Lvl 2 Expert]

So according to Legends Arceus, all pokemon have the power to shrink to incredibly small size.

This is apparently how Pokeballs worked before computers and digitization was a thing.

I want an anime season where they don't use pokéballs now. The main character just has this backpack with a bunch of tiny Pokémon in it. Sometimes he'll check up on them and they'll be eating chewing on his pencils or tearing into his lunch, sometimes they'll stick their head out of the bag to see what's going on. In fact, why not just have at least one tiny mon riding your shoulder at any time? Or on a smaller bigger pokémon. Tyranitar flying around on Pidgey. Pikachu carying Onix and Gyarados.

If they're going to do cute anyway, do it well.

[Razade]

Is this actual lore or just conjecture from your gameplay?

A computer shrinking pokemon is as much fiction as a some mystical wooden orb. One is just fantasy, and the other science fiction.

It's outright said by the Professor and a handful of other characters, major NPCs and minor.

[MCerberus]

Considering exp share, does that mean your entire party is conscious inside of the blank void but merely very tiny the entire time?

[LaZodiac]

Considering exp share, does that mean your entire party is conscious inside of the blank void but merely very tiny the entire time?

We know from Pokemon Black and White that pokeballs are definitely fully furnished inside. It's fine.

[Lord Raziere]

We know from Pokemon Black and White that pokeballs are definitely fully furnished inside. It's fine.

My new headcanon is that is that new tech is much the same as the old tech but better and with space-warping capabilities, and that pokeballs are basically as you say. the boxes of a PC don't actually have pokemon in them, they're just connections to the pokemon on some ranch or pocket dimension or whatever that get space-warped to you when you switch them around.

[Kareeah_Indaga]

the boxes of a PC don't actually have pokemon in them, they're just connections to the pokemon on some ranch or pocket dimension or whatever that get space-warped to you when you switch them around.

So basically Professor Oak’s place in the anime.

[MCerberus]

We know from Pokemon Black and White that pokeballs are definitely fully furnished inside. It's fine.

I'd like to make sure this gets expanded to Legends, where the quick crafting is just a gameplay thing and part of the process of carving the apricots is to carve out tiny terrariums.

[Qwertystop]

I'd like to make sure this gets expanded to Legends, where the quick crafting is just a gameplay thing and part of the process of carving the apricots is to carve out tiny terrariums.

Well, in gen 2 it takes all day to make them, so "the crafting takes a while" does seem to be canon. Though on the other hand Kurt probably has commissions from other people, and the remakes changed that regardless.

[LaZodiac]

Well, in gen 2 it takes all day to make them, so "the crafting takes a while" does seem to be canon. Though on the other hand Kurt probably has commissions from other people, and the remakes changed that regardless.

It's also worth noting that his commissioned are artisanal, hand crafted things that also look and resemble modern pokeballs.

the pokeballs you craft in Pokemon Legends look like thrown together wooden prototypes. Still impressive, but way easier to chop together.

[Lord Raziere]

*finally gets Pokemon Legends Arceus*

*plays it for a couple hours*

my conclusion: I have just bought a third monster hunter game

[MCerberus]

In my nightmares I am measuring Buizels.

[Spore]

So according to Legends Arceus, all pokemon have the power to shrink to incredibly small size.

This is apparently how Pokeballs worked before computers and digitization was a thing.

In my nightmares I am measuring Buizels.

Is there a Buizel in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?

[Lvl 2 Expert]

Would you rather battle a team of pokéball sized Wailords, or one Wailord sized pokéball?