What do you think of the Rotom ‘Dex?

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rotom-dex2What are everyone’s opinions on this unique Pokédex/Pokémon combo? Not only will it record your Pokémon, but it also guides players to the next objective. This is feature is remarkably similar to Yokai-Watch and may have been the inspiration.

Do you think it will be a good addition to the games? It already seems to be popular among fans, but I hope it won’t end up being too annoying (ala Microsoft Office’s Clippy). Some have expressed hope that it may carry your HMs for you, eliminating the need for an HM slave while adventuring.

I’m just curious if we can use it in battle.

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305 thoughts on “What do you think of the Rotom ‘Dex?”

  1. I wish it floated and followed you around like the mask in crash bandicoot. Could be used as a torch at night or loads of things, could be upgraded and more personalised too. I feel like poke balls should be changed fir a gem TOOO, we could have poke discs ( like frisbees). These small changes to core aesthetics inject freshness into the whole series.

    Loving the Rowlett theme, aesthetically best Pokemon site by far.

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  3. I really like it. I dunno, it find it adorable and I know it will be super helpful to people who need a little extra help.
    I’m just hoping it won’t be too annoying or there’s an option to minimize the help you are given, for the people who don’t want it.
    The HM holding part is genius, so I hope that it actually happens 🙂

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  6. Ughhhhhhhhh I’m bored
    I’m also extremely antsy about new Pokemon being potentially revealed I truly hope they make plenty fully evolved Pokemon of each type
    I WILL NOT GO ANOTHER REGION WITHOUT AT LEAST 5-6 GROUND TYPES
    Diggersby alone just isn’t enough for a Ground Mono

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    • The electric and ground options for Kalos were super limited. I always have both so making a team wasn’t exactly fun

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          • Avalugg’s line and Aurorus’ line were great, strong additions to the ice type, and while every type only got a few, I will always want more since its my favorite type!

      • Come to think of it
        My X team was very fighting and rock heavy
        Chesnaught
        Diggersby
        Pangoro
        Tyrantrum
        Barbaracle
        Hawlucha/Avalugg/Goodra

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        • I think I had
          Greninja
          Florges
          Talonflame
          Heliolisk
          Meowstic
          Aurorus

          My team was rather unconventional for me, since kalos had limited new choices

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      • It has to be native Pokemon no exceptions
        And Roggenrola is pure rock

        But I had to settle on Kanto Pokemon because sad story
        I wanted to do a LeafGreen Mono on a physical copy because I needed the credentials since I last did it on a Rom, but turns out I bought a bootleg LeafGreen, I was just about finished with the Pokemon mansion and was raring to throw dirt on Blaine’s fire but when I started up “The save file was deleted” naturally crestfallen I decided I wouldn’t stop there, but I couldn’t do it on that copy due to bootleggedness so I did this, I hatched the team I was using and gave them to my newly deleted Y and played through that with this Kanto Ground team

        But one day I’ll have to either have to download a copy of Blue or buy a real LeafGreen, but something tells me that doing it on Blue would be easier…… Honestly I would’ve needed to grind to like lvl 60+ to get past Lorelei’s surfing Pokemon in LG

        But I’m not out of the woods yet, I still have a few straggling Ground types to use on a main game, and honestly might need to redo HGSS since SS didn’t have Donphan and Pupitar, but if I can do a main game with Donphan, Pupitar and Wormadam sandy lve officially have used every Ground Type in existence. But there are so many more hopefully out there

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        • Oooh I thought Roggenrola line was Rock Ground just like its brother Geodude. <3

          So bootleg carts just randomly wipe out saves, huh? Tough, but I suppose it was hard to tell if it was a good GBA cart. (I have a bootleg Emerald myself for some reason. Naturally it didn't have a wireless adapter.)

          I've been thinking on how you can get past Lorelei but you'll have to go off-type with Poliwrath (and you probably won't) since grass/ground or water/ground haven't been invented yet back then.

          As for new Ground types (or anything else), we can only hope Gen 7 ain't a barren wasteland of new Pokemon just like Gen 6 was.

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          • If I go off type it’s taboo, I work too hard to be a Ground Type master
            I only did it in the Rom because I could throttle and power level, it took me like a hour of smashing Victory Road Pokemon until I got to 70 each, and the lack of Rock Slide and Rock Tomb repeat, God the Leviate…..Dig was the only decent attack I could use…..dark times Mal, dark times

            But my imagination runs wild, because with a new Mono I hopefully find a new partner who started when it began
            Nidoking/Rhydon
            Quagsire (was going to be Donphan but SS no has Donphan)
            Swampert
            Torterra/Rhyperior
            Excadrill
            Diggersby

  8. I have a feeling this feature will only tell you what you previously heard from another NPC, sort of like a quest log. So you are told to find a key from the evil team to get into their secret base (for instance) and so until you’ve done that, the pokedex will have it listed as an unfulfilled mission on the screen. I don’t think it will give us advice on where to go and what to do, more of a reminder. All in all, I hope it has the ability to be toggled on and off.

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  9. I think it’s going to be handy for the quest log and for viewing maps etc. However I don’t expect it to do too much else other than the usual touch screen features such as Amie and PSS etc.

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  10. So turns out that Ash Vs Wulfric rematch battle hit a million views
    Which makes me wonder if Goodra rejoins the team for the Kalos League since we’re bound to have a full 6 on 6 match which we haven’t seen in forever

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    • Ugh….If Goodra rejoins the team Ash’s team will be so over saturated…..He already has 3 different flying types….does he need 2 different dragon types? The Pokemon on his team are great, but I would have liked to see a little diversification for his last Pokemon.

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  11. To everyone complaining that it would make things too easy, consider this: everyone would’ve been more than glad to have a convenient RotoDex map for Lumiose City. We may need that again if there are places on the map that are more confusing than they may appear.

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    • Well Lillie came off as more stuck-up than timid to me in the original art and the trailers… and I guess that’s one reason some people thinks she’s the rival.

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    • Her droopy eyes speak to me
      It like “yeah I’m a smart gal, but y’know whatever, I could throw a sarcastic quip here and there”

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        • Oh speaking of Gems
          I’ve been working on my Homeworld Gemsona “Obsidian”
          I wanted to be a raging quartz warrior but I went for a different direction

          A towering Homeworld gem with a command of molten earth that I blacksmith into crude gem constrcts, the body is bloody Crimson with black coloration, a apron and a helmet that hides the face, also the gemstone is located in the base of my spine and I pull out a massive smith hammer that not only causes eruptions it can also compress minerals into gems to briefly come to form

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          • That’s a dumb sounding gem
            Obsidian plays into the molten earth motif
            I take a handful of magma, grip it, it becomes a rough gem, and they gain a fiery form

            That’s way more interesting then just a standard Quartz

          • Eh, not really. They are more of just a fun fan character than a character you take on as yourself if that makes sense

          • Woo! Gemsonas are fun!

            I had an idea of a light weight kind of scout gem. Probably a bit bigger than little Peridot. I dont have a name for her but she would wear a hood. The weapon would be a short bow. She usually sneaks into rebel bases to spy but will occasionally be sent to kill unoticed

          • Thats cool my gemsona is a fusion of jet and brown topaz called andalusite, topaz weapon is a battle axe and jet has a katana while andalusite fuse the two and creates a scythe idk how to describe its appearance other that unlike other gems it is more male looking lol but here are pictures of the gems

          • Also i forgot to say that topaz controls fire and jet controls smoke as andalusite is a fusion of the two it naturally controls both

  13. The rotomdex is actually a wise idea for guidance, the reason for this is text that people don’t repeat in the game, i cannot tell you how many times i missed cues in black and white and the sequels. and x and y due to people saying stuff once, then leaving, i had to look EVERYWHERE… for certain plot points to continue the story. The best advice i used to be able to give was “Talk to everyone you possibly can, go anywhere you can think of.” which is also mentioned it the game, but only by once person… Now we do have better help, the only concerns i have are fuzziness of the hints (“fuzzy” meaning cryptic or puzzle like, Think Zelda) the frequency of the hints, and the ability to toggle the hints for less aggravation. If the hints are too frequent, it will be annoying, but i still want them just in case… so they might as well be there, this include the dex talking about story events, maybe even with other trainers or people.

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    • Well speaking of Zelda, I hope it’s not the Pokemon version of “HEY, LISTEN!” 😀

      But I’d want to ping my Rotomdex buddy once in a while (manually of course, please don’t interrupt me) in case it says something funny.

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  16. Best thing from the trailer. Buuut, I hope it doesn’t get too annoying and there’s a setting on DexTom to limit its convos and tips.

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  17. Wow gf is naming so many things after flowers lately, i just found out that hau is hawaiian for a type of hibiscus i wonder how all these names and the interview about the future of pokemon being flowers fit together

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  18. Before I call it a night I have something incredibly important to say
    I just had a stroke of genius, I should let my chest hair grow out, and I’ll shave it in the pattern of a desert cow skull
    That is all

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  20. So when I wrote about Rotom being refreshed in this gen, I thought of my top ten most forgettable pokemon. They are based on my own playthroughs but also based on what I have/haven’t seen in the community. These are pokemon I just never hear anything about, haven’t really ever been heavily featured in the anime, etc. #10 actually is one of my favorites as it was the first pokemon card I ever received, but I think it is severely overlooked. They are also based on the fact that there might be a better pokemon of the same type like with #10, or they may not be the most helpful in a playthrough).

    Here goes: (I tried picking at least one from every gen too).
    10. Dewgong
    9. Durant
    8. Swoobat
    7. Binacle
    6. Carbink
    5. Stantler
    4. Volbeat/ Illumise
    3. Porygon2
    2. Lumineon
    1. Mothim

    Agree? Disagree?

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    • I usually remember a large majority of Pokémon, including everything on your list with the exception of Stantler. Stantler was definitely forgotten.

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      • Lol right? I mean, I knew of all of them (I have a pretty good memory) except Porygon2- I always forget about him. I was also hesitant to put any gen 6 pokemon on this list, but I feel that twenty years from now, those two will be flying under the radar of every player.

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    • Agree for most part except porygon 2. Now i know you may not see it a lot but its there very frequently. Porygon 2 is on same level as Porygon Z competitively. Porygon 2 has amazing bulk and with eviolite it just sooooo good. So i wouldnt say porygon 2 is forgotten. But hey you may not play competitive that much. I would replace porygon 2 with maractus or heatmor.

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    • I always remembered Dewgong cause it destroyed me when I first tried to fight Lorelei in FRLG.

      Lumineon is so forgettable it’s memorable to me, same with a bulk of that list.

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    • I think this is highly subjective. I don’t find mothim forgettable because there was a week in DP where I absolutely loved it. I still love swoobat and woobat, and their signature heart stamp, I thought they were really cool. Dewgong is more memorable for me than Walrein, I adore it its absolutely beautiful. And I remember stantler, though I don’t like it, because I thought deer Pokemon had much more potential ( which then came through Sawbuck and was perfected in Xerneas)

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    • Carbink features highly in the Diancie Movie, though…

      It’s a movie that isn’t well received, however, can’t blame you for not seeing it…

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  24. I wonder if sun/moon are gonna have a good place to hatch eggs like XY and ORAS

    I was also wonder if it was gonna have an underwater bridge like black/white two cause of all the water but then verlisify had to ruin it for me

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