Roar of Time: Generation II

Yesterday we broke a long-standing record on the site: we finally beat the highest number of views we’ve had in a single day on the site, and we hope to beat the latest record come X & Y. Admittedly we slacked a little yesterday and didn’t bring the promised continuation of The Journey to X & Y with the start of Generation II. As such we’re a little unprepared for today, the planned article isn’t finished and we don’t have any back-ups. What do we do?! We try something new…

As each new Pokémon Generation comes around there’s always a list of new features and ideas fans want to see incorporated into the games. Whether or not anything of that list can be crossed off is of course down to the dedicated team developing the games. What if you could us Dialga’s Roar of Time to turn back time and make one change? Any change you wanted. What would that change be?

You could pick something obvious to change about Generation II, but we want you to think up something big and potentially game changing, but keep it realistic. Don’t forget to think about how the change would effect the future of the series, of course time is all wibbly-wobbly timey-wimey but in some way it would alter the games as we now know them.

What are you waiting for? Get those brains ticking and turn back the clock! We should also apologise for not publishing an article as we promised yesterday, but we’re kicking off the week now even if it is with this quickly thought up article. Hopefully it’ll get our readers thinking regardless!

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1,050 thoughts on “Roar of Time: Generation II”

  1. The worst part of Gen 2 was how badly spaced out the new Pokemon were. When a gen starts one now expects to see a lot more new Pokemon than old, but in Johto the new Pokemon were rarer than Kanto ones.

    Skarmory, for example, is so rare you can only catch it in one of the last route’s of the game, and only one trainer actually uses it. I’ve seen a lot of people confuse Skarmory and the Slugma line as being part of Gen 3 due to how common to find they were in Hoenn.

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  2. I would 86 the night and day/time dependent function that required a battery. My favorite game, Silver no longer works because it’s battery went dry. while it was a nice novelty for the games, its not been in any other games except for the gen II and remakes.

    If anything, they should have made the night and day function run on the same process Egg hatching works of. x number of steps changes the time from night to day.

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      • The night and day function only was in gen II and their remakes, the time function was in gen III games but not the gen I remakes, and the time function was very very limited in RSE. Also, since the birth of the DA, the games have used the DS system time, leaving them not dependent on tracking their own time with a battery that dies. Nintendo should have either waited, or made it where you could have the battery easily replaced without jeopardizing the saved game. It might have come off ugly, but they could have given GSC a AAA battery input just over the label, it there is enough room. Heck, even making the cartridge with small Philip head screws so you could remove the back panel and replace the watch battery would have been a good move on their side, and as mentioned, made sure it didn’t impede the game data in any way.

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  3. I’d definitely raise the wild Pokémon levels. Trying to get leveled up was a PAIN in Gen. II, though I understand that was improved at least slightly in HGSS.

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  4. Everything. EVERYTHING.

    Such a flawed generation. The Pokemon leveling, the Pokemon selection in Johto, the evil team (something other than Team Rocket or a Team Rocket that isn’t just basically begging to get Giovanni back), cutting out Kanto so Johto can not suck as a region, less baby Pokemon, either give Red a new team or replace him entirely with someone who isn’t a horrible boss fight, etc. etc. etc.

    The only good thing was everything about Blue and how he was handled. Oh and the mechanics changes I guess. Those can stay.

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  5. Whitney not being cheap.

    And Pokemon like Xatu being available earlier.

    And Kanto having higher level Pokemon. Why would I want a level 4 Pikachu when I’m already level 60?

    And those -fucking phone calls-.

    If you’re going to call me you better have something amazing to say.

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  6. I probably had my best team ever in Soul Silver:
    Typhlosion
    Ampharos
    Red Gyarados
    Ursaring
    Tyranitar
    Dragonite

    One thing I would probably change about Gen II was obviously how they didn’t incorporate the legendary into the story line

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  7. To be honest I loved everything about the second generation! They added so many new mechanics and features, including being able to breed pokemon for the first time! And the sprites were so nice to look at that it boggled me as a child! But to make it interesting: I’d have put in new fossil pokemon, as it is the only gen that doesn’t have them! It could have made an interesting side story, potentially involving Rocket.

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  8. The phone calls, those stupid random phone calls. I feel the poke swarms could have been incorporated into the Radio instead of having trainers call you.

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  9. I love GSC, though I agree with others that the levels of the wild pokemon should be upped, and the introduction of new pokemon such as houndour, misdreavus, sneasle, smeargle, among others, should have been obtainable, at least within the Johto region, before heading off to the Kanto League.

    Now for a substantial change…maybe scrap the battle tower or completely revamp it. Add more rewards than vitamins.
    Add new battle modes and tournaments.
    Add a gym leader tournament, or a monotype tournament.

    I just skipped over the battle tower, though it could have easily been a fun feature.

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  10. I would have really loved it if Jasmine had been a more difficult trainer… but with only 4/5 steel-types to choose from my substantial change wish would be for there to be more steel (and dark) type pokemon released, since there were so few of each compared to ~200 pokemon.

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  11. I do wish to know everyone’s team through Johto mine was:
    Typholsion
    Noctowl
    Ampharos
    Ursaring
    Umbreon
    Politoed
    I do admit my team was pretty bad

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  12. The major problem with GSC was the level-scaling. Wild Pokemon go up from lvl2 to 25 at a reasonable pace, and then it plateaus in the 30’s. Even the final area doesn’t have any Pokemon above lvl 50 or so, making leveling to beat Red an obnoxious grind. Oddly, Heart Gold and Soul Silver did not really do much to fix that, although they mostly fixed the other big issue, that Kanto seemed like an empty wasteland.
    One mistake I don’t think they’ll ever make again is having some new Pokemon unavailable until after beating the Elite Four, like Slugma, Houndour, Murkrow, Larvitar, and Sneasel. Also, Kanto Pokemon were largely the stars of the game, aside from the starters. Most of the new Pokemon that were available pre E4 were rare. And a lot of the Johto Pokemon were…terrible. Not design-wise so much as in terms of stats and movepool.

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  13. Ahh GSC…the last pokemon game I played with absolutely ZERO spoilers, because I didn’t have a computer at the time. Plus my first game was a japanese gold version, so I got the game 1 year before it’s english release. I remember all of my friends would come over to my house to watch me play. Since I couldn’t read japanese, there were no strategy guide, it was the hardest pokemon game I ever played as of today. I beat the whole game, but you could imagine my reaction when I realized you can go to kanto and you can battle red. When I got english silver version a year later, I realized how easy the game was if you can actually read stuff properly.

    This was my 2nd favorite generation.

    Positives:
    Pokemon Variety, Red/Blue, Kanto, Holding Items, Dark/Steel, Team Rocket, Shiny pokemon, Day/Night, Transferability with RBY, Connectivity with Pokemon Stadium 2, Roaming Legendaries,

    Negatives:
    Very low leveled battles, Environment is bland (buildings, forests, and caves)

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      • Tell me about it….god I had no idea the the house next to whitney had the squritbottle…..you have no idea how long it took me to find that out…..and the number of things I tried to get past sudowoodo…..all of which failed

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  14. Crystal was my first game, and it will always be my favorite. If I could change anything, it would be the lack of available/total new pokemon, especially fossil pokemon.

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    • I remember hearing about Crystal having animated sprites and girl option. That was pretty new that time and I was dreaming of how animations would be. I have never had a chance playing it though.

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    • Crystal was my first game too.
      Gotta say gen II legendaries were awesome, and from my group of friends I was the only with a Suicune, since they had gold and silver.
      But yes, new fossils or the availability of the older ones would have been awesome, since is near Kanto.
      For me it was perfect since it was my first game, but gotta say that iwhatever failed in gen II was pretty much fixed on gen III and the remakes

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  15. Probably something that should have made its way to at least gen 3, was once you beat the game you have the option to start a new game with diffuclity modes like hard and export modes which I hope they introduce in x and y.

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  16. I really wish gym leaders use new pokemon of the region such as:
    Faulkner-Hoothoot
    Bugsy-Pineco
    Morty-Misdrevaus
    Chuck-Hitmontop

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    • I totally agree with you,
      Gym Leaders should try use Pokemon native to their respected regions.
      Like using Pokemon native to its region when starting a new journey

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    • I could have seen Faulkner with Hoothoot or Murkrow, and Bugsy with Pineco or Ledian. Pryce I can understand though since the only Ice-types introduced were Sneasel, Swinub, Piloswine, and Delibird and well it would have been a joke to give him Delibird.

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  17. I love Johto. I played and loved Red, but Silver was the first game I poured hours and hours on end into. Finding something to change would be pretty tough. I could say to make more Johto Pokemon available earlier, but I think Johto gets away with mixing in more Kanto ones because it was only the second generation and some people hadn’t played Red/Blue/Yellow.

    I guess I’ll go with the cop-out answer of sorts and say they should have expanded Kanto. However, I don’t think that Kanto was bland- in fact, I think that it was completely appropriate to limit Kanto since it made the game almost twice the original’s size. Where I wanted it expanded was on its story. Kanto was basically just a challenge area that really didn’t progress much of the plot. I would have liked to have either continued battling more of Team Rocket or to have something about Red prevalent in the plot. I wish that they could have given us the Kanto starters too, just for travelling to Kanto.

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    • If you compare the quality of sprite animations in crystal to sprite animations in Emerald or even Platinum….you realize how lazy gamefreak got after crystal version

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      • I wouldn’t call it lazy, I feel like it’s more likely that they didn’t have time or space in the game to animate all of the sprites so nicely and thought it would be a better use of that time and space to focus on other aspects of those later games.

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    • I started in Emerald so I never had the chance to play this generation or the first (excluding Stadium). Boy, to me the color scheme looks off, but I think that’s due to handheld color limitations.

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    • Comparatively, yeah, they were awesome. I remember being a kid and wondering what in the world Venusaur’s back sprite was. I knew the Pokemon from the show and the book, but so many Pokemon looked garishly distorted in the RBY sprites. Gen II had the first nicely colored sprites and their designs were pretty close to the Pokemon themselves.

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  18. Love the Doctor Who reference in the third paragraph Moving, you sly Stoutland you! A minor thing I would do is remove Youngster Joey forever! Another thing I would do is raise the difficulty for the gyms (except for Whitney cause she is a bxxch with her Miltank and we know it) because let’s be honest getting the badges is a little too easy, especially when you can completely skip Chuck and Jasmine to go straight to Pryce.

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  19. Okay, I would change the rareness of elemental stones in Gold and Silver. I mean I once had a Gloom that I would like it to evolve into Vileplume. That was my one and only dream, but I couldn’t do it because I didn’t have any leaf stone.

    But you know what when I wanted to evolve my Sunkern into Sunflora I realised “able” option on Gloom. I was so freaked out, I mean I thought Gloom was able to evolve into Vileplume via sun stone too. That was the most shocking revelation of my life. It evolved into Bellosoom. I was always in thought of Bellosoom being single stage Pokemon.

    I was truly shocked, utterly shocked. I can’t forget that moment and I won’t. Later I have learned the real purpose of evolution stones because at those times we were in misconception that you can evolve any level-up evolve pokemon via elemental stones before they reach that certain level, for example you can evolve voltorb into electrode before level 30 by using thunderstone. So funny.

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    • Yeah. I have no clue how many stones I bought in Yellow to get Ivysaur, Wartortle, and Charmeleon to evolve, among others too.

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    • How many times does the Doctor actually say that? I’ve watched Seasons 1-2 and 5-6, but I think I’ve only heard him say that once. I just started Season 3 (haven’t touched 4 yet), and I get that it’s a Dr. Who reference, but I don’t know from where or when.

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  20. I loved Gen 2. Personally, I much prefer Heart Gold and Soul Silver to their original counterparts, but I have a few fond memories of Pokemon Gold and Pokemon Crystal.

    A few things annoyed me, however:
    -The introduction of roaming legendaries.
    -Celebi being event-only.
    -Kanto being glossed over.
    -Houndour, Slugma, Sneasel, Misdreavus and Murkrow can only be obtained after you visit Kanto.

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  21. This is not something I would change, but it’s something that IF changed, would rewire the conventions of Pokemon.

    My Roar of Time for Gen 2? Shiny Pokemon becomes a dropped beta element and is never implemented.

    Now, hear me out for a second. How many of your Pokemon memories involve beating the insane odds and finding a shiny? Probably quite a few. And what about you fellow shiny hunters? Wouldn’t your opinion on Pokemon change if there was one less thing to do post-game? These are some true questions I have had, and it’s weird to think about how different life would be without shinies.

    However, having no shinies would mean NO SHINY XA-

    *dimensional hole rips open, the universe implodes*

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  22. My problem with Generation II is… they hardly introduced any new Pokemon. To date, I think that Gold/Silver/Crystal incorporated the fewest with there being about… What? 99? I mean, I read somewhere that Gen II was just supposed to be a sequel to Gen I so maybe that’s why they cut back; they didn’t plan to go any further. I don’t know. And I kinda have the same worry with Kalos and Gen 6. They said that all Pokemon from the past 5 Gens will be in it. But what does that say about the Kalos dex? Is it going to be as tiny as Gold and Silver’s?

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    • It’s possible. Gen 4 and Gen 2 both followed regions with over 135 new pokemon.

      I am also apprehensive that mega’s may be expected to satiate the fanbase in regards to new pokemon introduced.

      I am still holding our for 121 new pokemon.

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  23. I was never blessed enough to play Pokemon until the 3rd Generation, so I think it’s best for me not to answer this one. I guess I’ll just have to wait till next week’s article. 🙂

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  24. All of these are excellent suggestions. They’re all changes that were desperately needed in Gen II, but then again they wouldn’t have really been massively game changing for Gen III and beyond.

    What if they had introduced Fairy type in Gen II, along with Dark and Steel? There would have been changes to hidden power calculations, the type match-ups may have been completely different, because dark and steel wouldn’t have been played around with yet. Maybe we would have had another trio of eeveelutions (Dark, Psychic, Fairy). And then Gen IV may have had another eevee trio with Dragon, Grass, Ice? And finally, would we be getting a different type introduced in Gen VI? Maybe another type to counter Fairy type haha.

    I know one thing I WOULDN’T change about Gen II is the fact that you could get both box art legendary Pokemon in the game. That was a great feature (except my Lugia in Gold version was never able to learn aeroblast XD)

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  25. The only thing that I would want different about Gen II is that the gym leaders would be tougher (higher levels) Nothing future generation game changing :/

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  26. Wait, I thought of something I would change that’s more drastic! Back in RBY, there was a little Easter Egg. When your Gameboy Color turned on, if you held down one of the directional buttons, the game would change color entirely. We all know it as being either greenish monocolored game. But whenever you would hold down the button, the world would change, but most importantly, so would the Red’s color. I used to be so excited as a kid to play as black-colored Red and green-colored red. It was like costume changes before costume changes were even a thing.

    I wish they would have continued that in GSC. I know that the GBC had actual vivid colors instead of what the original GB had, but imagine if Pokemon would have allowed us to change the MC’s color ever since. We’d be walking around with blue-colored Gold, yellow-wearing May, Dawn with a pink shirt, and Hilbert with an orange one. The color-changing Red (character) was such a cool Easter egg that I was sad to see was gone. Maybe if it had remained, we would have gotten MC customization sooner. Maybe not.

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  27. I wish they’d switched Babies for Evolutions. Do I want to evolve Jynx into a straight up awesomesauce Poke or say, I don’t know, make a baby Jynx and call it MY SMOOCHIEPOOKINS?! (not enough characters damn)

    (p.s. I hate Dr Who with a burning passion.)

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    • Seriously.. most of the old-poke evolutions we received in Gen 4, we could have gotten additional ones since Gen II. I mean, they aren’t even useful on Little Cup tournaments..

      ( lol, why the hate on Amber? I really don’t like Dr Who either.. Too much hype 4 it)

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  28. What I loved most about gen 2 (crystal) was you were given an egg from the daycare man and you wouldn’t know who it was until it hatched! They need more of the surprise element.

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  29. Growing up i never played the GB Gold and silver but there were Pokemon I loved more then anything, Heracross and Donphan!
    But along with those two, some other Pokemon that I loved were Gligar, Piloswine, Steelix and of course Quagsire! also Delibird and Elekid.

    Even as a kid I’ve had a love for Ground Pokemon

    (Do i have too much dirt in my head, cuz I think my Ground Obsession is getting over-inflated)

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  30. Nice Doctor Who reference. I believe there should have been a transfer system that allowed you to transfer your Pokemon from Gold and Silver to Ruby and Sapphire….and Emerald. When you think about it, you could transfer your Pokemon from your original Red/Blue/Green/Yellow to Gold/Silver/Crystal then you can transfer it to Ruby/Sapphire/Emerald. From there you could transfer to 4th Gen then 5th Gen and even to 6th Gen. It would be amazing, but it wasn’t able to be done, and that’s really depressing. I know the hardware might of had issues to where it may not have been able to make a connection to a GBA, but it really seems that it would be important. It’s like starting anew when you play Ruby/Sapphire/Emerald, which isn’t bad, but it would have been nice to be able to transfer them.

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  31. if I can change something I would like to change the proffesor because the person who give you the pokedex is oak -.- I dont know why but in this region we dont get fossil, we dont get our pokedex from porffesor and I would like to have Misty as main character

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  32. the stuff about pokemon shinies for me it’s okay why? well ahahah the first pokemon shiny I saw in my life was Zubat in pokemon ruby and then I’ve never seen another pokemon shiny in my life soo for me, if Masuda wants to put the game more easly to catch shiny its ok

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  33. I feel like Gen2 often gets the short end of the stick. It’s really not a completely new generation. It usually gets treated unfairly compared to the other gens. It’s specifically meant to be a sequel and addition to Gen1. (Originally called Pocket Monsters 2). They had the games ready in ’97 but pushed the date back more than a year to enhance colors for the Game Boy Color. Most of the Pokémon were already designed at the time of R/B/Y as well as the mechanics. It is one of the most dynamic Pokémon games we have, changing numerous aspects of the game and enhancing mechanics greatly. I think it’s absolutely perfect considering how quickly it was made, and how perfectly it created a foundation for Pokémon. I wouldn’t change a thing, and I think Pokémon/Game Freak are doing a good job adding on new features as we get more and more games.

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  34. To Everyone who makes the articles on PJN:
    You guys are amazing. I can’t stand the wait for X and Y. It’s. BRUTAL. But your articles make it the wait enjoyable with these well written articles! Thank you for everything! I’ve only been here for 2 days, too! XD

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  35. If i could go back i would tell the designers to bump up the batteries……ill never forget the day my original silver died on me 🙁
    It was like 5 years later until i found out why and how to replace the battery but it still didn’t bring back my save file. So yeah battery life… but i wouldn’t sacrifice the day/night system (which was the main cause of battery meltdown) as i loved the inclusion of that.

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      • Well now this takes a think….i definitely know i had tyranitar (took me agesssss) and houndoom (again because it’s so late in the game to get it) and typhlosion plus kingdra (which i had to trade to get) and i believe skarmory and either umbreon or electabuzz. It was just so sad because back then it wasn’t easy to trade pokemon so kingdra was a heavy loss and tyranitar took so long to get.

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  36. I think the overall ease at which Kanto could be completed…it really was not that difficult once you got there and then there was such a jump to Red… i think a higher level curve and a more linear gym path with a bit of storyline would have improved the game slightly but i still can’t fault the inclusion of kanto.

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  37. One thing I wouldn’t change is the inclusion of Dark-types. What would happen if it wasn’t included? Sorry, but I HAD to post this pic :p

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    • I think it was because the games were so new that no one really cared. Now that we have a certain formula, I’m not surprised people lost their minds, although Fairy-types do fit in with Dragon-types and Ghost-types. Smogon seems to be ok with the type, so its clearly gonna be a good type!

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        • I was leaving for Europe on the DAY of E3; so when I saw the Direct in the morning before our departure, I had no time to have my mind blown (well, I had 12 hours to think it over -_-)

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  38. One thing I would change from Gen I-III is in order to complete the Pokédex you have to CATCH Pokémon. I hated that. Especially since I didn’t have a link cable :p

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  39. I want to buy SoulSilver and live the “second-gen” experience again. I have now decided that I will never delete a save file in any of my games, as it would create an inexistent ID for some Pokemon (OCD I know) and yeah. HGSS for the win.

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        • I got into Pokemon accidentally. My aunt had a Game Boy Color in their car pockets and so when I became addicted to the formula, I decided to get HeartGold because I wanted to have a more modern experience. This was after Gen. 5 came out XD

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          • I don’t exactly remember how I got into Pokemon; starting 1st grade, the Pokemon phenomena began to grow in our elementary school, and it just caught on. However, all the people that were once into it are now out of it, except for me (although I am meeting new Pokemon fans in high school now), so that’s cool.

          • Same. I was introduced to it because it popular back in like second grade while I was in school. All my grade school friends fell out of love with it. IT wasn’t till college that I met a bunch of people that love it as much as I do. 21 year old junior in college and I love it as much as when I got my hands on it back in 1998!

  40. I would travel back in time with Dialga and set up Pokemon Contests in all the regions so that in the present day it’s as important as the pokemon league and there are contest halls in every city and you can choose to go on a coordinator journey or a trainer journey. And there would be an elite 4 champion equivalent for the end of the game. And the the contests would actually use a complex program to analyse the creativity of move combinations… that is all

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  41. This list of types set to be introduced in Pokemon X/Y was recently leaked on 4chan, and even though it is 4chan, it seems very plausible:

    Fairy/Dragon- A pseudo-legendary, has elements
    similar to Hydreigon, but also has a Fairy-type look, giving it this typing.

    Electric/Water- Helioptile’s
    evolution, which is an electric amphibian with elements of an Aquatic God.

    Grass/Ghost- Oorotto’s typing.

    Fire/Water- There will be a line
    of “unnatural” Pokemon types in Generation VI, this being one of the three.

    Grass/Fire- Another unnatural Pokemon type.

    Water/Grass- The final of the
    three unnatural Pokemon types. Difficult to find in the grass, and great
    stats overall.

    Fairy/Bug

    Fairy/Dark

    Fairy/Electric

    Fairy/Fire

    Fairy/Water

    Fairy/Grass

    Fairy/Steel

    Fairy/Rock

    Fairy/Ground

    Fairy/Fighting

    Fairy/Flying

    Fairy/Normal

    Fairy/Ghost

    Fairy/Ice

    Fairy/Electric

    Fairy/Poison

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  42. the first time i ever played pokemon to my heart’s content was in gen II. My mother had gotten me red as a kid but i didn’t understand it much so when gen II came out i was about six and my mom and I would play it all day I chose totodile and she chose chikorita i have a very close bond with my mother and we will be playing x and y together and introducing my sister to gen 6, as her very first “owned” pokemon game

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      • That’s so true. My dad used to play Blue with me before my brothers grew up to entertain me. We bought him a DS Lite and got him hooked on Black and Black 2. Now he’s trying to catch them all, but he doesn’t realize that he can’t in those two games alone. We’re considering getting him a 2DS for Christmas along with X/Y because he doesn’t care about graphics too much.

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    • I tried to get my parents to play Pokémon when I was little. They didn’t understand it and my mom couldn’t pronounce Magikarp or Gyarados :/

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  43. Hey guys, first time commenting on the site! I hope to remember to post as this account more often.

    Also I think the levels on the Rival/Elite Four should have been buffed for post game, which I think they fixed in HGSS??

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    • WELCOME!! 😀 I agree! I hated how low the levels were. I felt unaccomplished having a Lv. 28-30 Pokémon as my toughest against the 5th Gym :/ And Silver was too easy to beat :/

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  44. Ok so this is my try at choosing 1 poke per Gen to make a team. It was my suggestion to do it in the first place but I had yet to do it. So I chose 1 from each of my Gens Teams:
    Dedenne
    Gliscor
    Seismitoad
    Sceptile
    Charizard
    Garchomp
    =]

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  45. I loved the fact that we could explore two entire regions, but I would have loved it more if places from the first game weren’t removed, like the inside of Silph Co. or the Rocket hideout. It would have been fun to explore those several years later, maybe finding some cool leftovers in the Rocket hideout? I know that the game was almost as full as it could be, but it still would have been cool.

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  46. when they use real sprites for surf (so you can actullay see the pokemon you’re riding) non water types who can surf (like torous) would be only half the speed of a large water type like (lapras), and if you have a small pokemon (like sqirtal) the trainer would have to be in water with being draged along, now this would be faster thatn tourous but slower than lapras. and they could introduce pokemon races for pokemon that you would have to train to raise the speed stats

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  47. Raise poke levels and focus more on gen II. Was a pain trying to level up for the Elite 4 challenge. Ended up challenging them and losing over 5-8 times just for the level ups and money (amulet coin really came handy)

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  48. From a graphics designer perspective I was in charge of creating the Pokédex for X and Y, so this is my favourite element of X and Y. This time we’ve been able to move into 3D so the actual Pokémon model will appear on the Pokédex screen and you can freely move it around, and look at the Pokémon from any angle.

    OMG I’ll love the new pokedex 😀

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  49. Junichi Masuda: Well… Now I have to think of something that, you know, won’t be used by competitors! [laughs] But one thing that I wanted to put in that didn’t quite make it was a translating machine for Pokémon cries, to find out what they’re saying. So you have this machine, and when a Pokémon cries out something, text would appear telling you exactly what that Pokémon is saying.

    Do you imagine that?:O

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  50. Okay. This just somehow only occured to me now. In about 21 days, a new generation of Pokemon is upon us. I only focused on the news and the new stuff being revealed that I completely lost track of time haha. Time flies by so fast. January 8 seems like it was only yesterday haha xD

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  51. “something big and potentially game changing”

    After seeing “No love for Grass and Ice” movement in new type chart, I’ve thought about what would they do back in the first chart update?

    Hmmm. Maybe Grass having some resistances? I have thought about Ghost resistance, why would a plant effected by ghost? That’s my logic. Or Psychic resistance? And Ice getting resistances would be good too back in the day. They would have added poison weakness to water.

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  52. Famitsu Wii+DS has unveiled the first two episode titles for Pocket Monsters XY. 「カロス地方にやってきた!夢と冒険のはじまり!!」 We’ve Arrived in the Kalos Region! The Beginning of Dreams and Adventures!! and 「メガシンカとプリズムタワー!」 Mega Evolution and the Prism Tower! will air during a one-hour special on Oct. 17.

    Clemont has a Bunnelby, while battling Ash and Pikachu. Wobbuffet is confirmed to be returning in Pocket Monsters XY and is joining in with the motto.

    ~Bulbapedia

    PS: Shokotan and a Chespin are confirmed for Pokemon Get TV.

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  53. I think we should get back on topic because I don’t think X & Y have even been announced yet! *winks*
    Dialga used Roar of Time! Wait…who is Dialga??

    P.S. 20 days, 11 hours, 9 minutes, 2 seconds left!!!

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  54. Letdowns for X/Y:
    1. Starting location is back to a town. :
    2. Awesome mechanics may not return from previous games. :
    3. We have a male professor AGAIN, rather than a female. But then again, Patrice could be female and could be the replacement professor if indeed Sycamore works for Team Flare (random fan speculation.)

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  55. I remember earlier this year I was being judged for preordering X the day after it was revealed. I just found out that that X and Y have sold over a million copies with PREORDERS. o.o

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    • I think it was Iris. I was looking for that, but I didn’t see it. Maybe it’s in the next episode, because Gible is at Oak’s lab and Ash is in Pallet Town. Maybe Iris and Cilan’s train broke down and they stopped to visit him.

      Did they ever explain why Iris and Cilan left. Misty had to take over for the gym, Brock had to go to med school, May wanted to compete in Johto, Max was sent home to prepare for his journey (I think), Dawn wanted to stay in Sinnoh and train and then head off to compete in Hoenn, so why are Iris and Cilan leaving for Johto? If they’re just sightseeing, they should just stay with Ash. If not, I could imagine Iris wanting to meet up with Claire, but what about Cilan?

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  56. What would I change about Gen 2? The story. You defeated Team Rocket before they really did anything compelling. I also would’ve liked to see Lugia and Ho-oh incorporated more into the plot perhaps, rather than just thanks for saving the radio tower, here, have a wing.

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  57. i think a cool feature would be be battleing team flare and when you win one of their rare pokemon would decied to join you’re team.

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  58. oooooooooo do you know what another cool feature would be? new pokeballs that actully do somthing cool
    1. theif ball: you can steal the enemies pokemon in battle
    2. prison ball: this makes the pokemon dislike its trainer(and powers up moves like outrage)
    3.extra ball: a pokeball that dosent connect to the pc so you are able to carry around an extra pokemon
    4.glass ball: catches evaisive pokemon

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    • I can imagine Mega Typhlosion having its whole back aflame.
      Its the Volcano Pokémon and its English and Japanese name come from explosion and typhoon. Actually, Mega Typhlosion might just be
      a big ol’ blaze of glory.

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      • I love this!
        At first, I was not too keen on what seemed like a dark cloud emanating from the back, though I realized it’s a smoke cloud, and really adds to the overall design without going overboard. I give this an A+

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  59. I think I would change things about each generation, actually
    Gen 1: My first game was Gold Version, so I never did start with Gen 1. However, I would go back and remove all those awkward real-world references, like the statement that Mew was found in South America. Those things really didn’t hold up well over the years. Also I’d make that guy on Cinnabar Island stop saying that the Raichu you gave him evolved. That’s just infuriating.
    Gen 2: A sentiment that’s been expressed before me; I’d make new Pokemon a little less spaced out. Kanto-exclusive Gen 2 Pokemon was an interesting idea, but I really struggled to beat the Elite 4 in Gold Version and I barely even played around in Kanto, so I never got to really experience those. Making things like Slugma, Murkrow, and Skarmory a little easier to find would be ideal.
    Gen 3: Stop Wallace from becoming Champion. Seriously, the guy barely changes his team from his Gym Leader setup and somehow he manages to usurp Steven? Having already beaten Juan, I just did the exact same things to Wallace and he went down just as easily; most underwhelming Champion ever in my opinion.
    Gen 4: Make Fossils obtainable in some other way than excavating in the Underground. I never really did use the Underground feature as it was meant to be used, and I’m sure many others can say the same, so it was a pain to try and hunt around for the right Fossils to resurrect when other games just present them to you. Also, I’m not a fan of Fossils being version-exclusive. Just my opinion.
    Gen 5: Change the translation. I’m not sure how many of you feel the same way, but I think Black and White were translated HORRIBLY. The dialogue was super awkward, used waaaay too many exclamation points, and was just generally a lot less polished than previous gens. I guess that’s the influence of Nintendo of America doing their translating in-house, which is still, in my book, a huge mistake, although I’m sure they don’t really care how good their translation is so long as people still buy their games, which frustrates me greatly.

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    • Hm, I never noticed B/W’s translation being poor quality. Also, I would definitely not say that in-house translating is a bad thing; look up the Nintendo Treehouse sometime, those people are amazingly hard workers and overall one of the most elite localization teams in the entire world.

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      • Treehouse I know is great. Whatever team specifically did Black and White were clearly amateurs. They had characters say things like “woooooow” with all those o’s in there, a trait that no Pokemon game ever had because it looks stupid and immature. The characters’ names were also awful in some cases, most notably “Grimsley” and “Stu Deeoh” in BW2.

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        • I’ll definitely give you that the German names for the player-characters was an odd and not-so-great choice in my opinion. The rest didn’t bother me very much, but I see what you’re saying.

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  60. I know they’re incorporating old pokemon, which i’m grateful for but make the new pokemon more abundant. Cause gen 5 tried the clean slate thing but failed so in b/w 2 they fixed it. P.S Aurorus 😉 love ya!

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  61. Mega Meganium!
    My only complaint about it are its antennae staying the same.
    I’d love for its antennae to have pink tips. Little change, big difference.

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  62. I’m thinking of breeding for pokes with perfect IV’s which I know is Extra Hard.. so would I need a ditto? or are 2 of the same Pokémon just s good?

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        • If Power items (power brace, power band etc) are held by either parent in the Pokemon Daycare, that parent passes down its IV in that respective stat; HP for Power Weight, Attack for Power Bracer, and so on.

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          • Really? I just bred a Jolly natured Shroomish yesterday with “Relatively superior potential overall. Its best potential lies in its attack, it can’t be better in that regard.”

            Can I breed it again holding a Power Bracer (think that’s attack), to pass down the attack IVs?

          • You can take that even further…say you want max speed and atk. If your male parent has max atk, give it power bracer and if the female has max speed, give it power anklet. Then, every baby is guarenteed to have max speed and max attack IVs.

          • Would take a lot of breeding to find max speed IVs. I got lucky on max attack IVs lol.

            I had been training this Shroomish this morning haha. It’s Breloom now and lv 82.

          • Hmmm….there is always a strategy where you can try to find a wild shroomish female or ditto with max speed IVs by making sure your pokemon has a speed stat just 1 point less than a max IV one. But unless it’s high leveled, like over 50, there’s no guarentee that it has max iv, maybe 30 or 29. That’s probably the easiest way I can think of.

  63. I wonder if we’ll get gameplay of the fossil evolution’s on Smash. Highly unlikely but still.

    Also, the Cartridge designs have been unveiled.

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  64. Blaze Kick is Super-effective on Oorotto. GF could be the biggest trolls ever and make it an Ice, Steel, or Bug-type and not Grass. That would be so… ugh…..

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    • If that’s true, then Sudowoodo has had a type change.

      There was gameplay with it in a horde battle against Flareon. Flareon used a fire type move that hit the 4 Orooto and the Sudowoodo, and out of all of them, Sudowoodo’s health went down the quickest. Rock resists’ fire doesn’t it, so how come it went down that quick?

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          • The fact that Orotto is weak to fire type moves means it’s part grass type. Sudowoodo is know for being mistaken for part grass type.

            What if, it does evolve into Orotto, and the fact of being mistaken for being a grass type has become a wish of the Pokemon, but because it was hit with water for being mistaken as a grass type, it wanted to get revenge and is also part ghost/dark type?

          • Maybe Blaze Kick is a dual type move (Fire & Fighting) and is super effective to both Grass & Rock types!
            That explains all! Plus no type change for Sudowoodo!

          • The emphasis on Dual type moves was misguided. For example, take the new move Freeze Dry. It’s an Ice type move which is super effective against Water type Pokemon. I think this is what was meant to by “Dual type”

        • But Blaze Kick was super effective against Orooto, meaning it’s definitely part Grass type.

          If Orotoo is the evolved from of Sudowoodo, then the type change makes sense.

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      • Here’s a screenshot of the HP after or during the attack. BTW, what music do you think that is that’s playing from the part about the horde battles and Sky battles?

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    • Nothing against anyone, but I feel like I’m the only person who could care less about Oorotto. He’s just an average Pokemon whose design doesn’t really appeal to me. I’ll probably think of him like I think of Sudowoodo, or Garbodor, or Boufollant (Spelling fail)- they’re alright, but generally forgettable. The fact that they’ve teased him so much is laughworthy, but he’s not interesting enough to hold my attention for long.

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      • Today I learned… some Pokémon are forgettable.
        That so cray-cray to me because I feel as if I have
        a Pokédex implanted in my brain. I will never forget.

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          • Well, to me, there’s never been a time when I think of Pokémon and say, “Oh, yeah! That thing!
            I forgot all about [insert PKMN name]!”
            They’re all kinda just… listed in my head, I guess. Lol

      • There must be something more to him since they have chosen to blatantly ignore him despite inserting him into various clips.

        But I agree, there always those pokemon that are just forgettable.

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  65. If I could change something about Generation II, I think I would have to add the Fairy-type. It just seems odd to be adding it now, it would have felt much more natural in G/S alongside Dark and Steel. This would surely change the types of some Pokémon introduced in that and later Generations, with Togekiss being a perfect example that comes to mind.

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    • I wonder if they had intended initially to do some sort of nod to the fairy type with the fairy egg group added in generation two. Perhaps they were too apprehensive to change more generation 1 pokemon types in addition to the magnemite family. I would have loved for them to add the type at that time though!

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  66. I think that they could have made it where you could travel to the orange islands…….i will go into detail about this theory on my personal tumblr which is sketchamadoo.tumblr.com

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