Pokémon Direct 2016 Mysteriously Pulled from YouTube

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The Pokémon Direct from 2016, which celebrated the franchise’s 20 year anniversary and also revealed the titles for the next games (Pokémon Sun & Pokémon Moon) has mysteriously been removed from Nintendo’s official YouTube channel. This comes on the heels of the Nintendo Direct page also having a new slot added. Some fans have pointed out that Pokémon Sun & Moon trailers have also been pulled from various Nintendo channels.

Why would Nintendo remove these videos? We don’t know for sure, but if they were going to reveal information about a title that follows Sun & Moon it would be reasonable that they wouldn’t want fans to get the trailers confused. Depending on how similar the titles look, viewers may mistake features and Pokémon from the previous game as representing whatever title is revealed next.

A new Pokémon Direct coming soon? More and more signs seem to be pointing in that direction.

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969 thoughts on “Pokémon Direct 2016 Mysteriously Pulled from YouTube”

  1. This does add up more to the possibility for a Pokemon direct inbound. At this rate, I’d be surprised that there isn’t a direct this month, or even a brief announcement like ORAS.

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  2. What if in addition of a main series Pokemon game we get announcements for spin-off games as well?

    Seems unlikely but I can dream.

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  3. Hmm, its a hard call. On one hand it could be hinting at something. On the other hand it could just be cleaning house and this only stands out because we want to see patterns in nothing again. Time will tell I guess.

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    • I’d agree, but they have a ton of old ones and the Pokémon Direct where X and Y were revealed is still up. It seems weird that 2016’s was taken down when everything else is still up.

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      • Hmm, that true, but I wonder if perhaps there’s some legal reasons. Like certain music or the footage of all different pokemon game’s had legal rules behind them that limited it to about a year or something. Who knows really. Also it seems strange then to assume that while they haven’t removed previous pokemon directs when revealing a new one that removing one now means a new pokemon direct.

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    • It really was one of the most epic trailers we’ve received for Pokemon. Despite not showing anything of SM it made me so freaking hype for the games hahaha

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  5. I nearly had a heart attack when I saw a new article hahaha anyway yeah it seems like a Pokemon direct is coming. Before when they removed the JP Pokemon direct we could have chalked it up to them just making space and it being a coincidence that they got rid of the Pokemon, but with them now having gotten rid of the same direct on the US site it seems all but confirmed to be a new Pokemon direct. Hopefully we’ll hear about it soon so we can have a time frame of when to get excited. I can wait for the direct, but I at least want to know when it is!! hahaha

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  8. So i started a Dwarf Monk on Moonguard (which is the biggest RP server around)
    Tharrgo Brewgut
    aka One Mean Drunk
    a brutish drunkard who’s two passions in life are drinking and hitting things (oh and getting angry)
    Rude and insensitive towards anything and anybody

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  10. They’ve done this before I think. I remember sometime after the announcement of Sun and Moon, they pulled X and Y trailers off of YouTube. Could be pointing to something… And CoroCoro also comes out in a day or two, so we could get something from that.

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          • It’s not… the grade is gonna count later… I might not get college credit if I fucked it up
            And I have test anxiety

          • English, my best subject
            Buuuttttt… this test was extremely hard for NO REASON
            Like.. we took every single practice test available
            Not one was this bad

          • Practise tests don’t really help, the same questions are never used twice within a generation (if not longer). There’s an uncomfortable degree of randomness in the system, depending on what questions they choose some students will do better than others.

            Sidenote: stop viewing it as some major trial and start viewing it as a game. The object isn’t to win, it’s to do better than everyone else and if you mess something up it’s no big deal. Tackle it like a Pokemon battle – read up on what facts you need to know, think of a strategy (e.g. skim the entire paper first to look for all the easiest questions and the questions with the most marks awarded) and go in viewing it as a relaxed challenge rather than something life-changing.

            Heck, by the time you’re in college doing college work and getting college grades nobody is going to care much about your lower school grades anyway because the college stuff will be more impressive.

      • Funny coming from someone who spends their free time whining about fictional Pokemon that aren’t even as strong as some of the things they use

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    • Figured. It’s typically pretty easy to see through fakes like that. Unless the major sites are covering it there’s not really much to trick people lol

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  14. Totally real leak
    Pokemon Plus and Minus

    In Pokémon plus you level up normally but in Minus pokemon level down instead.

    The legendaries are Primal Plusle and Minun.
    The region is called equalia

    Z moves are removed

    Incineroar is removed

    The third legendary is a giant equals sign

    Math-Moves are added to give your Pokémon a proper education

    …

    I want news so bad

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    • I wouldn’t be surprised if they called a game plus and minus. The definitely need to announce and do the Nintendo Direct this week or next week. Other wise they might just be safer to wait till E3. Nintendo are experts at stalling stuff out until people are desperate for news. Here’s hoping for anything but a Sinnoh Remake, because I don’t want primal Dialga and Palkia to ruin VGC how Primal Kyorge and Groudon did. Though if Sinnoh Remake doesn’t have primals I would be happy for it exist as long as there are new Rotom forms.

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        • You can have your DP remake as long as there are more Rotom forms and of course no primals to ruin vgc. Though some people say the tapus and ultra beast already do that. I only run one legendary which is tapu koko though I might just change my team entirely and make a bulky team with bulu. Hopefully whatever game we get includes more auto terrain setters so I don’t have to always bring a tapu.

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    • This got no upvotes because none of us shut-ins can relate 😛

      (Seriously though, the Bill and Ted images must be working. Ganbare kurusu-kun.)

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      • True even though she and I aren’t dating, but I do like her but don’t know if I’ll ever say it to her

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        • Now there’s one thing I’m definitely not good at. Both of my girlfriends approached me.

          If I had to attempt a suggestion though, using my ‘older and wiser’-ness, I’d say…

          – Make sure you’ve got each other’s contact details,
          – Make sure you’re texting/talking somewhat regularly (a few times a week).
          – Look for some indication of interest, even things that might be innocent. *see footnote
          – Invite her to go and do something some day (walking, cinema, whatever. probably not bowling though, that’s more of a group thing), and if she asks or thinks it seems odd tell her it’s not a date.**
          – At the end (assuming you both enjoyed the day) tell her that you’re interested in her but if she just wants to be friends then that’s fine to.
          – Live with the consequences.***

          *footnote:
          Your mind will be telling you that she can’t possibly be interested in
          you and you’re seeing things that aren’t there, but ignore that and try to think logically. If you’re unsure ask someone the question hypothetically, preferably someone who isn’t going to figure out who you’re talking about (probably here since you can get more than one opinion).

          **footnote:
          Might want to take her places with mutual friends first so it’s less odd.

          ***footnote:
          She might say yes.
          If she says no, you’ll just have to learn to accept that she doesn’t like you back and decide to either stay friends or tell her that if she doesn’t want to be with you then it’s too painful to be around her.
          If she agreed to go somewhere in the first place and she’s a decent person she’ll probably understand.

          Final Disclaimer:
          Please get someone else to assess this post before attempting these things. Because:
          https://candlesandherbs.files.wordpress.com/2015/02/d6a1143f571184db25f94613edd43b40af6d3a629221aba00d9efdcfef5efd84.jpg

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        • just be chill, hang out a few times and you’ll most likely know from there, that being said if she doesn’t want to hang out alone with you she’s probably not interested, but like, maybe I’m not the best judge of character because I’ve never had such problems, being gay is very no-bullsh*t

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          • I know it was completely unintentional, but you’ve just given me a small epiphany.

            A few years back there was this girl I suspected was interested in me, and I always had my doubts but one day near christmas we went around town together for a while and now I’m beginning to think she might actually have been interested in me.

            Conclusion: I’m not very good at this, I think staying inside was a good decision 😛

  24. Well regional rodent is done its

    Voliume a normal type Vole and its Evo. Volodious still pure normal type they are very sound based Pokemon

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  25. Hm…So I haven’t said this before but I’m a pretty big fan of Doujinshi(self published/ fan manga) and something caught my eye. The current top selling book in Japan is a 16 page book that tells a brief history of some of the U.S.A.’s most famous millionaires/billionaires and depicts them as Moe girls. These range from those you would expect like Ford and Edison, to some that you wouldn’t like Chaplin or J.P. Morgan Jr.(I think). However the one that kinda seals it as being great is Donald Trump as a Moe girl and managing to have his weird scrunched up face. Regardless of your political feelings, I think we can all agree that its worth a little laugh and has some potential to be a new Japanese gag. Here’s a picture of it for reference.
    https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C_Y6sRfW0AAXFsV.jpg

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  26. so it was true they also removed the x/y direct when the sun and moon reveal direct was about to happen

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  27. hmmm what about more Alola Megas….none really catch my eye
    one i must try to make better
    Mega Kommo-o
    to start it off it grows a pair of wings where its little scale braid thing was, its a mix of bother dragon and avian wings with the scales representing feathers and some of the shoulder fur, its arms are the same except that cover plate on its fist now extends out like a blade and the other expands like a shield, its thighs and legs get more scales resembling a knight’s suit of armor (in this case a paladin)
    the scale (jez i’m scale alot) its headdress gets longer and more red while two scales cover the side of his mouth and he has a spike under his chin, lastly on his tail the very tip of his tail grows a very long spike scale
    as for stats it gets a boost to literally everything this thing needs all the help it can get and for an ability i don’t think much could get through that layer of scales maybe even deflect stuff so….MAGIC BOUNCE CLONE BUT WITH SCALZ
    HP: 75
    ATK: 145 (+35)
    DEF: 140 (+15)
    SPATK: 125 (+25)
    SPDEF: 115 (+10)
    SPEED: 100 (+15)
    ability: Zealous Scale reflects status moves

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  29. Well she just asked what I’m passionate about? Thats kind of a strange question, but I answer truthfully

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          • No asians.
            There were a few Japanese in the younger years and I think maybe one Chinese girl in my year (and a couple of Indians if they count) but apart from that there weren’t many asians at my school.

          • If you’re after my first girlfriend then you’re barking up the wrong tree there in two respects.

            (That’s a really ironic inside joke that I might someday explain. Let’s just say that ignoring the fact she dumped me for another guy (a texan she met on the internet), I certainly wouldn’t be interested in her now.)

          • yikes, what a coward, she couldn’t have just broken up with you truthfully, people like that are awful

          • Worst bit: she told me in an email.
            Didn’t even wait to tell me at school in person, or call me, or text me.

            I’d be lying if I said it didn’t still bother me, but I forgive her all the same.

          • yeah she a coward lol, you’re better off, I’m also willing to bet mr. texan doesn’t actually exist. The only reason she’s still on your mind is because you haven’t found someone yet thats given you an excuse to forget her

          • If he didn’t exist I can think of two other reasons why she might have done it. One is perfectly understandable and I don’t blame her, the other means my ‘friend’ was even more of a backstabber than I thought (in which case I feel less bad about what I ended up doing to him).

            There was this one girl after my second girlfriend that I liked and I was actually closer to than either of my actual girlfriends but there was one small snag and it ended badly. It was a pretty daft decision to get involved with her, but I don’t regret it because even though she ended up betraying me to save her own skin, that one encounter we had was the farthest I’ve ever gone and will still remain a happy memory.

            Saly I don’t think I’ll ever forget any of them. Aside from having so many unanswered questions and so many things about my school days that still haunt me, I’m far too forgiving.

            I should probably get counselling or something.

          • you must be only young I take it, because these relationships don’t sound very mature, possibly middle school early high school mentality. Still you’re better off, because if they didn’t treat you well they probably weren’t in it for the right reasons in the first place.

          • I’m in my 20s. The last one was nearly 7 years ago (about 2011 I think, maybe 2010), the first was 2008-2009. This was a world ago, before I even knew what the differece was between a megabyte and a gigabyte was. I’m hardly even the same person tbh.

            Can’t think what alterior reasons they could have had, it’s not like I’m attractive or wealthy or anything. I can only think that they were more desparate than me.

            Long story short, everyone’s probably better off if I stop mithering on and stay single forever.

  30. Some more information about my starters:

    Bearine (Bear + Vine)
    Grass
    The Small Bear Pokemon
    These pokemon are friendly but can also be great pranksters. They will always protect their friends if there is a need.
    Looks like a small Bear with green fur and vine-like leafs on it’s face (instead of fur, the face is visible).
    Based on baby bears, vines and kinda on the “Brother Bear” characters.

    Snakoal (Snake + Coal)
    Fire
    The Snake Hatchling Pokemon
    Snakoal are clever but they don’t like company of pokemon or people they don’t know. Their fangs aren’t fully developed yet, but it still hurts a lot when you get bitten.
    Looks like a small orange snake with a zigzag black pattern on it’s back that transforms in to a black flame shaped mark on it’s “forehead”.
    Based on snake hatchlings and Vipera Berus snakes.

    Waterole (Water + Vole)
    Water
    The Baby Water Vole Pokemon
    They are still babies so they aren’t very active. They have their eyes closed because they can’t see very good yet. The porcelain/clay-like cups they’re holding are very important to them.
    Looks like a baby European Water Vole with wet light-blue hair and thick yellow whiskers that is holding a simple cup made out of a porcelain/clay-like substance.
    Based on Baby European Water Vole (what a surprise).

    What do you think about them? I’ll post the second stages soon.

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  35. This is all so bizarre. There’s no way that something won’t happen very soon. Need I remind people that the NX reveal trailer was announced at around 6PM PST?

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    • Was it now? I guess that makes sense. I suppose the problem we have here is that we are still in need to of two steps. First wee need to be told about the direct and then the actual direct has to happen. I imagine the direct will happen at it’s usual times of early morning for the west (well the US anyway) or early morning for Japan. I’m just wondering when we’ll even hear about it. lol

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  36. We should have been running books on when the news is going to happen. My money is still on ‘not this week’.

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      • Main reason is that it’s still not been that long since SM was released.
        Aside from the time it takes to develop a game, there’s also the fact they’ll be wanting to cash in on all the events, anime, merchandise and competitions first.
        It’s only been 6-7 months since SM was released.

        If it’s coming this year, it will be in the latter half of the year, closer to SM’s 1 year point.
        Might come as early as 8 months since SM, but I’m willing to bet closer to 10-12 months.

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        • I mean it’s not like they haven’t done back to back years before…..The may immediately after XY was released we got an ORAS announcement and that wan’t more than 2 extra months than we have going on here. As for the development of said games GF has at least 2 teams. They work on their games concurrently and swap people on and off as needed in order to get the best result. Of course they aren’t going to be able to make a fully realized game in only 6 months……The fact of the matter is that they wouldn’t have started making whatever comes next in November when SM were released it would have been shortly after (if not slightly before) they were finished making SM. Even then like I said they start production on games even when they are still working on the already announced games. I don’t remember when it was exactly said, but back when XY came out I think Masuda stated that they had technically already began production on XY when they were finishing up BW (or maybe BW2 actually) I think you are underestimating GF as a company. They don’t have a one track mind where they can’t multitask. I will agree with you that the game will likely come out late 2017. It goes with the release model they’ve made for themselves so it makes sense. As for the cashing in on SM merch I’d say they can do that regardless of whether a new game comes out. They may be able to make even more if the next games are still set in Alola. They’ve done this before it makes sense for them to do it again.

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          • Well actually they technically didn’t release something in 2011 for Japan, but even still lol

          • ‘something’ yes.

            A mystery dungeon game, pokemon rumble, pokemon shuffle, something like that I could believe. A mainline game though is highly unlikely.

          • I want a new Mystery dungeon but I don’t wanna be stuck as a Litten most as the game
            I wonder if they’ll make Pokemon other than starters, maybe a Rockruff
            Or at least give us more moves to play with like in Super
            Seriously Litten learns nothing fun except Fire Fang

          • Agreed. The other week I rediscovered Gates To Infinity and found I hadn’t completed it, so I finished completing it and then forgot about it because there’s no post-game and they only had 5 starters available.

          • So how long do you think it takes to port 100,000 lines of code? (That’s a conservative estimate ftr)

          • Plenty of time except when you have a head start doing it while making SM and you have early access to a system descirved as being super easy to port and develop for

          • Most of the developers saying it’s easy to port to will already be using x86/x64 processors or existing major game engines (like UE4), but Pokemon will almost certainly be running on an in-house engine, which they’ll have to port themselves instead of relying on a 3rd party to do.

            They’d have to have been working on it at exactly the same time they started on SM to have both done in time.

          • … which the eurogamer leak confirmed. They WERE working on it at the exact same time. Besides,
            most stuff like environments, animation, music and models can be transferred over. There isn’t much work they would have to do at this point as far as porting goes. All that’s left is developing the new stuff for Stars

          • Actually in hindsight, Platinum (2009) through to BW2 (2012) were all using a slightly modified version of the same engine, which explains the fast turnaround.

            XY they must have started working on much much earlier, either 2011 when the 3DS was already released or slightly beforehand.

          • 2 months is a massive timespan in game development.

            Like I said to Infinity, I could believe they’d release a spinoff in that time, but not a mainline game.

            XY->ORAS was an exceptional case because they were developing for the same console and only upgrading the existing game engine. And notice that took at least a year.

            If you’re running under the assumption that the next game will be for Switch, then here we’re talking about porting the game engine on top of actually making a game, which is going to be a massive time sink on its own.

          • But GF don’t make the spin offs…..They only make the mainline games…..Also the rumor about the game being on the Switch also states that the game has been in development as long as SM were and was only put on pause for a short while when they wanted to polish SM. Other than that pause it’s been in development for a long while.

          • Seems very unlikely that they’d start making a game before any hardware was finalised.

            It would depend how long the Switch has been in production for and at what point Nintendo decided on the CPU and GPU spec.

          • You can’t make a game without having some idea of what hardware you’re going to be using.

            You can draw up images and scripts and storyboards, but you can’t write any code if you don’t have anything to test it on unless you’re using a multiplatform engine like UE4, which GameFreak almost certainly don’t do.

    • I agree on not this week. However, I its a little iffy on not this year. If not in May then definitely not this year, but it cant be this week

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      • Later in the year is much more probable, nearer Autumn/Winter.

        They like to wait until a game is well worn before announcing the next one so they can milk all the competitions and events first.

        They haven’t even properly released Marshadow yet.

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      • I was going to re-run the books every week so I could say ‘not this week’ every week and make a ton more money 😛

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  41. I swear if Pokemon doesn’t reveal this year and then next year its not DP remake There’s going to be hell to be raised

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  45. Jeez, the switch’s battery life is so low. I’m goona need to get one of those external batteries for the thing soon since I’m going to be on a 4 hour road trip to my grandparents in a few weeks and I wanna get three stars on all of the Grand Prix in MK8D

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  47. For me, this all seems too fishy to be a coincidence. I mean, they’re updating the site like they have before, the history of reveals in May lines up, the discussion of not skipping a year again, the constellation picture, and the corocoro? All of this will be one giant coincidence if nothing actually happens. I’m hyped!

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  51. I hate to say it but Game Freak is really kinda dumb sometimes

    – Has no idea what their audience wants (No Post Games after gen 5)
    – Leaves all the game data in the demo even after ORAS was data mined from the demo.
    – Refuses to embrace the fact that you can update games now and leaves in mythicals pretending like we’re going to be surprised seeing them 6 months before from a data mine.
    – Introduces mechanics in one game and just drops them after a gen
    – Can’t balance pokemon for shit (weak af Alola Pokémon, Mega Rayquaza)
    – Leaves in a bunch of doors you can’t open on Lumiose Badlands leading to players thinking there is more to find when there is it. Basically lying to your players
    – The entirety of the Delta Episode besides the very ending.
    – The fact that shiny locks exist screwing over a good chunk of players that want these shiny legendaries
    – Really bad difficulty curve in many of their games. Especially between the 8th gym and the E4
    – Over reliance on cut scenes
    – The fact that they can’t make a game right the first time and has to make a third version at all

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    • I have to call out the first post slightly… theres no way for them to know what their audience wants because their audience is so huge and diverse everyone wants something different. Im sure things like cultural influence, age, game experience ect, all make for different gaming wishes and such, I know for a fact there are things I want to see in the games that others even here would detest.

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    • Hmm about this

      -Yeah no idea like umm
      -Yes for Sun and Moon maybe a few leaked like Trumbeak, Dewpider and maybe even Salazzal, but not everything
      -I don’t understand? Explain
      -True Mega’s, Walking with Pokemon, Inverse battles!
      -Yeah M-Ray was a bad udea from the get go
      -Or in a few places like… I can’t remember any but they exist
      -All but zinnia and making Deoxys no longer mythical
      -I hate Shiny locks!
      -More like all of ORAS difficulty in general
      -Meh cutscenes are ok
      -Platinum was unneeded to the awesome DP action there was!

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    • The only problem with the update thing is that one day they’ll shut down the update server and you won’t be able to update the games.

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    • Also they can’t add Pokemon in an update because if anyone who doesn’t have the update tries to battle someone who has that Pokemon, their game won’t be able to comprehend it because the data won’t be present.

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    • I agree with a lot of this. I adore the Pokemon franchise and will be a lifelong fan but Gamefreak’s stubborn ‘two steps forward one step back’ is infuriating.

      I don’t need a ‘perfect game’ (there’s no such thing, you can’t please everyone) but for them to just stop removing previous technical features that made the games better and everyone loved, would be a nice start.

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  52. Y’know, when I stopped caring about X and Y, I got more out of the cutscenes than I did when I played through it the first time. The only cutscene I noticed was the AZ one where he reunites with Floette… I never noticed it but it’s …. actually really well made

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  54. Pokemon Game I feel a lot of peeps would like
    Level curve of SuMo
    Distance between gyms of Black and white
    BW2 tier aftergame with battle frontier
    variety of a round 400 obtainable mons pre elite four
    Story around SuMo tier
    Cutscenes around BW or X and Y levels

    Donezoes

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        • I think what Pharap and I both were looking for within the story is for more of Hawaii’s lore to be explored rather than all the sci-fi shit that went on in Sun and Moon. We expressed our disappointment for Gamefreak taking that route a few months ago if I recall correctly

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          • fantasy > sci-fi , the only difference of course is that one usually focuses on the past, and myths and legends, while the other is futuristic, and ill take the past anyday

          • I’m usually into sci-fi stuff, especially other video games and books, but it just wasn’t the right fit for a Hawaii-based region, since there is a LOT of Hawaiian myths/stories

          • the only sic-fi I’ve ever really been into has been Horizon Zero Dawn, but that was also a clash of primitive and futuristic soon

          • Random ramble before I make my point:
            The truly hardcore scifi fans like to differentiate between ‘science fiction’ and ‘science fantasy’, where the former is where events are actually plausible and the latter is where the laws of the universe are ignored or there’s no discernable scientific reason for things, in which case Pokemon would be the latter. I’m not a hardcore scifi fan but it’s good to know.

            The main event:
            I agree with @Dicie:disqus , I like scifi like Stargate and Doctor Who (though I have a love-hate relationship with the newer series), but I prefer when Pokemon is mostly nature with a few necessary bits of technology (Pokeballs, Pokedexes and CGear/Pokenav/Poketch, and a little bit of gene splicing and fossil reviving here and there) but not too scifi.

          • thats not what I meant and you know it, but yes I did actually know that because you have said so before

          • Better memory than me then, I’ve only been back for a week or so, so it must have been months ago that I mentioned that.

          • That’s part of it. Seems a waste to take everyone to a region based on Hawaii and say “screw the local gods, here’s some ugly aliens from another dimension and some psycho woman who hates her children because they aren’t ‘beautiful'”.

          • And you’re absolutely right. I’d feel the same way if they tried forcing an Ultra Beast story down our throats in a region based off, say, Greece, instead of tapping into the legends and myths. I hope this is a mistake they don’t repeat.

  55. This is the thing about pokemon games and our community. At this point nintendo has such a demand from their fans to push games out so fast because we absorb them so quickly, all of us here play them very quickly and we don’t pay attention or really get absorbed enough in the game to like it long after its release, then nintendo puts out another game just as quick and we all move on never really experiencing the games in the way we had in our youth such as Red and blue, gold and silver, etc. all games I’m sure we poured hours into, now we ask for things such as higher difficulties and longer games, its not the games that have gotten worse, its us who have gotten better, the difficulties we ask for now, many of us wouldn’t have been able to play when we were kids, and we play games so much faster now then we once did. But somewhere out there so kid is enjoying his experience with the newer games just as we had when we started

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    • Actually thats not true I’ve gone back to a few and it takes me longer to beat it than the first and thats without grinding sometimes, but anyway yeah we shouldn’t be rushing them so much I’ll wait for my D/P remakes till they can make a more perfected form that we can enjoy and still they poured their hearts into

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      • Do not expect much from remakes
        we had ORAS so you need to be willing to accept they may suck
        But if they’re amazing, that lets you see them as even better

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          • Soaring, revamped areas, the good old story (but now in 3D), the Delta episode, the best high-IV finding tool ever to hit a Pokemon game, actually involving Latios and Latias into the story slightly, making Deoxys part of the game with a bit of story behind it, better camerawork for cutscenes.

            Totally not different to the original GBA games at all.

          • *headdesk*

            You forgot the delta episode?
            I’ll admit it had its flaws, but how can you forget one of the longest post-E4 storylines they’ve ever had?
            I dare say it was more involved than BW2.

            And soaring, which continues to be useful post-game for uncommon Pokemon.

            And the Pokeradar, the best damn Pokemon finding tool ever made.

            How can these things be forgotten?

          • They made it different from the Secret Base theme, and made it more fitting of the city itself.

          • to you it might have, but by making it more different and slow its more fitting to the atmosphere of the city itself

          • I’m glad they re-made Ruby and Sapphire and not Emerald since I preferred one team being seen as the “good guys” and also Steven Stone as Champion. Did I miss the Battle Frontier tho? Hell yeah, and I was really expecting it to return in Sun and Moon. No Battle Frontier, no gym leader re-matches, and no Juan are my only complaints about ORAS….

            Kinda wish Steven was the Champ the first time through, then after completing the Delta Episode Wallace takes over in the Pokemon League, and Juan is in Sootopolis Gym as part of Gym Leader rematches. Steven can then be found in Meteor Falls as a re-battable super boss

          • I agree with most of that. I think Emerald’s flaw in regards to Aqua and Magma was to not have a 3rd team trying to stop them both (like the international police).
            Steven Stone is still probably my favourite champion.

            A battle frontier would have been nice, they should have taken the time to add it, but they clearly wanted to release it in time for Christmas.

            No gym rematch is the flaw with more games than just ORAS to be fair.

            The changeover would have been interesting and would have given a good reason to re-beat the champion, I agree.

          • He’s my favorite champion too xD They definitely wanted to get the game out in time for Christmas… what leaves a sour taste in my mouth is the easter egg stuff with references to the Frontier, really made me think at the very least it would be in whatever game was next. No gym leader rematches is a flaw that shouldn’t be, why is it not a staple by now?

        • theres no way a D/P remake cant be better than the original, for me its a very low bar. And as much as I love R/S, I love ORAS so much more

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          • its a R/S remake, not an emerald remake, not that I found emerald overly exciting, the only real thing it added was the battle place and I will never miss that

          • Not entirely it’s more the neutering of the difficulty byy going
            HERE’S A LATIAS M8

          • You could have not used it.
            I boxed Latios the moment I received it because I already had my team full.

          • I didn’t have a full team i used castform instead of Latias my team was
            Swampert
            Linoone
            Swellow
            Hariyama
            Pikachu (Cool cosplay)
            Castform

          • I swapped a few in and out by the end, but at that point I had 6 Pokemon and didn’t see much point in adding a Legendary.

          • I won’t admit to liking it more than the original RS because despite the things it improved, it also introduced new megas and I still don’t like the mega mechanic, but I preferred it to SM and XY, and possibly some of the older games.
            Certainly more than FRLG in terms of remakes (maybe not more than HGSS though).

        • You either get improvements like HGSS

          The same game with graphical updates like FRLG

          or something like ORAS which isn’t bad and has great aspects but just doesn’t have the charm of the original

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          • In FRLG’s defence, the Sevii isles were at least a small post-game, so it made small improvements.

            It would be impossible for ORAS to match the charm of the original because half the charm is the good old 2D tile-engine graphics.

          • I guess I’m the rare, unusual person who loved ORAS so much more than the originals.

            However the 3rd gen of Pokemon was a weird time for me, I didn’t like the GBA and all my friends has lost interest in Pokemon so I had no-one to trade with anymore.

            I was so grateful for ORAS because I finally got to enjoy Hoenn the way everyone else did before, haha. Plus it had gorgeous graphics!

    • To be fair, SM has been the first Pokemon game where I’ve actually put it down and stopped caring about it so soon after the main event.

      All the other games I have kept using for months after the release (I still use ORAS sometimes, mainly just hatching eggs and collecting items, but I still play it a bit).

      I actually don’t care if we have to wait until late 2018 for the next game if it’s well made.

      Frankly Pokemon is never going to be truly difficult because it’s an RPG with numbers at its roots, so it will always be able to be mathematically abused.

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      • I agree with the first bit, I played D/P more than I played SM, it just isn’t really all that fun for me, Ive never played any game more than XY/ and HGSS though I poured years of my life into those, and even ORAS is high up there

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          • I have played platinum, yes its a little better but I still am very meh about it, the remakes might make me love it though who knows, no matter what it’ll always probs be the lowest on my list

        • I think I’ve played all of the others more than SM. I’ll check tomorrow how much time I put into some of the games. I know I just passed 500 hours in ORAS, so I’m guessing most games are 200-300 and SM will be just over 100.

          XY I wasn’t a massive fan of, but HGSS was almost unfaultable.

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    • I think it was different then. It was the first couple games and trading and battling was enough to keep intrest in the game. But now players need content. Stuff like the Battle Frontier

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    • The problem isn’t that we absorb them so quickly, it’s that the replayability of Pokemon games has gone down considerably over the years. I can see myself picking up Emerald, Platinum, HeartGold, BW/B2W2, etc. any time from now into the future, but I can’t really say the same thing about any of the Gen 6-7 games. They just don’t feel the same for some reason.

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      • I can agree with that fact but only for Sun and Moon, its the only game I struggle to replay at all, it actually kinda feels like a chore

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      • If you discount ORAS from G6 then I agree.

        XY’s postgame was nonexistant.
        SM had the UBs but I don’t like them and I didn’t like the SM story so I haven’t touched it in months (whereas I have with ORAS).

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        • Yeah, I wouldn’t count ORAS because I love Hoenn and they did a decent job with those remakes. Sun and Moon are definitely good, but once you finish everything it just feels empty.

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    • This is absolutely not true, except for the last sentence. The issue isn’t us, not at all. while I’d love for GF to take breaks to make better games, the longevity of the games have gone down astronomically. Late gen 3 through gen 4 is the absolute peak of the series for me, since it just had a load of content packed in. As for the difficulty thing, I found SM to be difficult games, so that isn’t an issue anymore, at least not now. And it isn’t just that we’re getting better and older, I can go back and still have a tough time with some of the older games. I get what you’re trying to say, and it’s true to an extent, but the argument falters for me.

      Side note: keep in mind that we are a Pokemon community, so it isn’t fair to say that we don’t pay much attention to the games. It’s just that they don’t have the content to keep us coming back like they used to, at least during the peak for me.

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      • ok but this was a maybe statement as in “maybe this is why some of us have such problems with liking the games” but you also just kinda proved all of my other statements about how diverse the community is and how we all have different opinions on whats good within the games. And saying that we don’t really get invested or pay attention to the games is totally ok to say because I know a lot of people here are like that, not for lack of trying, some just cannot get into the games and don’t notice as much as someone else might.

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  57. I remember before I got Smash 4 I thought you could give Miis attacks from other characters. So like, Samus’s charge beam or Link’s bow.

    I still want that

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  58. So going around at dislikes there are a few I have no full seething hates for but reasoning

    Not a fan of
    Pyroar
    This is an odd one I just never liked how are only Fire/Normal is a weird lion whom I don’t even know much about

    Salamence
    It just always bothers me how its over hyped like come on its a quad. Form Dragonite same stats same over used Dragon/Flying type if it was a cooler type like Dragon/Fire then it might not get on my baf side so much

    Wormadam
    For annoyance in Platinum how it would never just win always lost even though it had the advantage and a two level higher difference trying to get it!

    Golbat
    We all know its for Emerald cause they always just ruin VR for me cause they can learn the trolliest moves then you catch one and its awful

    Pelipper
    For the reason of how its always got the same wild set even in games they all just Stockpile->Spitup or Swallow and it always gets me that when I see one I know I won’t leave soon from it cause they won’t let you just run

    And no I hate none these are just the ones I like least on my lists

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  60. i still can’t get over the fact that Hapu basically almost got destroyed by Guzzlord when using Tapu Fini….
    I know weaknesses and stuff don’t play as large as a role in cutscenes but suspension of belief can only go so far

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  61. Jim Sterling made a video defending Smart Steerig and the invincibility lead and all that and it got me thinking. Was the EXP share that bad? It’s there for players who want it but you can turn it off at any time

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  62. I remember reading a comment where someone said team skull probably couldn’t even kill someone… If I remember right, the game implies that that scenario actually happened

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  65. Watching a playthrough of XD Gale of darkness
    I love how some mons have such dramatic damage animations
    Like sandstorm is up and every single time the sandstorm effect happens, I just see this slaking get blown backwards and it looks frigging hillarious

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  66. What are my favorite parts of each game you might wonder well

    Yellow: I love the challenge and experience I got from it! And Muk

    Silver: I love the use of Characters and the regional set up

    Emerald: Fortree cities Ladders… this honestly was my favorite part and Fortree music

    D/P: everything I loved the mons, the beautiful music, character development, The end, how things were balanced (except razor claw being hidden in VR)

    SS: Walking with my Totodile for the first time as (Totodile of first forms is my favorite starter)

    BW: The 3d parts astonished me I was bewildered walking across the bridge to Castellia city and walking up Dragon Spiral tower

    BW2: Pokestar studios movies were amazing and very fun to act on

    XY: The looker story line it was very fun and hey i caught and Croagunk and named it Looker in memory of him (cause his dead partner was Croagunk)

    ORAS: The part of Liza and Tate that was the most epic battle I remember there I had Hariyama and Pikachu take them on

    SM: The starter scene and all the different landscapes they made for the games

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  72. @TCMets:disqus @BigGuyI:disqus @starstorm295:disqus
    I made a room and another person is expecting so first come first first serve

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  75. I have a good feeling tomorrow the direct will be announced and Friday will be the direct early in the morning. they always seem to have directs on Friday for some reason.

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  83. Also it’s very weird to be here in Japan where it’s 11:10 am and I’m hearing you all talk about going to bed! Fingers crossed for a direct announcement this evening!

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  90. Hopefully a new game will be announced soon but i have to say I am not totally convinced it will be on switch like many are thinking. personally I feel we will get either stars or gen 4 remakes on 3ds this year and next year or in 2019 we will get gen 8 on switch.

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    • But thats the thing…putting either a remake or “stars” on the switch would be ideal and a good way to initiate the shift over to new hardware. Dont have a switch? SuMo is still a good choice to get the more basic handheld pokemon experience. And lets face it…they need to give the switch all the support it can get. It cant afford to have older systems get new first party hits

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      • while I do agree with you I just feel that the first pokemon game on a new system will be a new generation. we will have to just wait and see what happens. either way I will get the new game. just need a switch first lol

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  92. If I wrote a pokemon league fanfiction and needed a bunch of trainers with a signature pokemon, would you all want to be included?

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  93. I changed my name. Now you shall call me Butter. (As nobody called me by name when I was called Chibi me me big boy)

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  96. Ffs Sophocles caught a Charjabug in today’s episode. That rules out the possibility of Ash getting one

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      • I haven’t watched it yet but saw some screenshots and it looked like a flashback episode after which he caught a Charjabug near the end of the episode

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          • For some reason it’s in a cage at one point, which is being held by Satoshi, so I get the impression that he caught it for Sophocles or caged it up for Sophocles to catch.

          • “Charjabug
            Sophocles obtained a Charjabug as a gift from Ash when he thought that Sophocles was moving away. Ash caught Charjabug in the forest and brought it to Sophocles for him to capture. After a small battle with Togedemaru, Sophocles captured the Charjabug.”

          • Oh yay, good guess.
            Except now you’ve spoilt it for people who haven’t seen it 😛
            Put some spoiler tags on that immediately.

  97. I think there should be a longer gap between Gens, I never understood why A new game should always mean new region and Pokémon.
    I would love sequels to older games and more games like Gales of Darkness and Colessuem.

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  99. So it seems that Nintendo is doing a “Nintendo Spotlight” for only 2017 games at E3? Wow, that’s just typical isn’t it…

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    • No idea why it’s going to be in the film, it seems odd.
      Maybe it’s just going to be in the background the whole time as a teaser for its actual film.

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      • Dude this is classic Pokemon movie mythical pumping
        They gotta have a movie for the unreleased crap so they can make money from it

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          • I’m still annoyed about that random match…..
            I had a Hitmonchan sweep with two bulk ups and ol depressio stole em and ruined my game, I blame you for this

          • Fehhhhhhhh
            Although technically speaking it is technically a Fighting type which I’m fond of…..

            I should get the Brick Breakers back in action
            Emboar
            M. Heracross
            Lucario
            Breloom
            Hawlucha
            Gallade

          • It gets close combaaaat
            Hawlucha is underappreciated, an amazing High Jump Kicker

          • Sadly this team is a little sucky, I mean there’s a finite number of Fighting types that can fill every role of a team.

            Maybe I’ll switch Hawlucha for Hitmonlee, I dunno I need a better Special Fighting other then mlp bait

          • If it didn’t come down to balancing and actually countering things
            Emboar
            M. Heracross
            Pangoro
            Throh
            Hariyama
            Kommo-o

          • But this is an exception because Marshadow is a pure ball of perfection who deserves everything good

  105. I think if the games weren’t leaked Salazzle would have been the next revealed mon
    I’m not sure if y’all noticed, but every totem mon besides Salazzle was revealed

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        • I’m sitting in SAT prep, aka throwawayclass.exe

          This class doesn’t work, I took the SAT already, and this class improved my score by exactly 0 points

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          • Are American SATs different to UK SATs?
            We only did sats once at the end of primary school and then never again 😛

          • They are a huge ass test at the end of 11th grade that basically decides a lot of your life and college and shit

          • Not the same then.
            Also don’t believe that they decide your future, they don’t.
            They’re just for getting into college and college is far more important because it’s where you’ll specialise and do the really hard stuff.

  108. Alright I gotta Guzzlord this Pepsi and peanut butter sandwich
    Take a shit and start my shift

    Later buttwipes

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  111. still wishing we got a event battle with marshadow where you go to area and it pops up from your shadow or something like that

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  113. Actually, Why aren’t there Dark type gyms? Is it that all gym leaders have to be good? (Dark type=Evil type)

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  115. Graghhrrgghhhhhh some idiot broke a whole case of rubbing alcohol……my brain hurts…….and feel dizzy….

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    • “It should be used in a well-ventilated area due to inhalation hazards.
      Poisoning can occur from ingestion, inhalation, absorption, or
      consumption of rubbing alcohol.”

      Huh. Erm… don’t breathe the fumes?

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        • Out of interest, what sort of shop do you work in?

          For some reason I imagined you working in some remote log cabin in Oregan selling trail mix and maps.
          That or a hardware store with drills and hammers.

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          • I is working at BJs tis a wholesale club
            Me head of recovery, make sure crap in right places and not in wrong places, everyone’s a turd except cute chick in baking/deli department

          • We have a wide selection of useful useless crap
            And I’m the guy who they always hit up for heavy lifting

          • Don’t we all
            Also on slow hot days I like to hide in the industrial sized freezer
            It’s dark, isolated, freezing cold and all noise is drowned out by the soothing white noise of AC fans

            I swear I want to sleep in there it has all the qualities

  122. Let me think of something
    Emboar
    Reckless
    Choice Scarf speed attack
    Flare Blitz, Hammer Arm, Head Smash, Wild Charge

    Heracross
    Guts/Moxie
    Heracornite Speed attack
    Pin Missile, Close Combat, Rock Blast, Bullet Seed

    Pangoro
    Iron Fist
    Life orb HP Atk
    Power-Up Punch, Knock Off, Poison Jab, Bullet Punch

    Throh
    Guts
    Assault Vest HP Sp Def
    Storm Throw, Knock Off, Poison Jab, Ice Punch

    Hariyama
    Guts/Thick
    Leftovers Hp Def
    Fake Out, Close Combat, Knock Off, Bullet Punch

    Kommo-o
    Overcoat
    White Herb SpAtk HP
    Clanging Scales, Focus Blast, Flash Cannon, Flamethrower

    My fighting type dream team…which will be a nightmare if I actually used it competitively

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  124. Second stages of my starters! And they all have signature moves that they learn through evolving!

    Bearave (Bear + Brave)
    Grass
    The Defender Pokemon
    They are very active, protecting those in need. They are very loyal to their friends. The amount of moving from place to place they do would make any human tired.
    Looks like a not-fully-grown bear stanging on two legs with green fur. It has a giant leaf on It’s back that is tied with an “Ivy Belt” it has on It’s Belly and hips.
    Based on a bear and Ivy. (He moved on from Vine to Ivy)
    Signature Move:
    Sudden Leaf Strike
    Grass
    Physical
    65 power
    10 PP
    User can’t be put to sleep this and next round.

    Slithermal (Slither + Thermal)
    Fire
    The Shedding Skin Pokemon
    Even the parts of it’s old skin that are already shed can be moved by him like limbs. He puts them on fire to deal more damage.
    Looks like a bigger version of Snakoal with a diffrent face and with a diffrent black mark on It’s forehead. And it has “arms” made of split in half upper part of his shed skin with the “hands” (the parts that were the skin on his face) being on fire. I hope that made sense.
    Based on Vipera Berus snakes and snakes shedding skin.
    Signature Move:
    Scaly Blaze Slap
    Fire
    Physical
    65 power
    10 PP
    User’s next move is twice as likely to land a crit.

    Cupole
    Water
    The Water Vole Pokemon
    As the Pokemon evolve they change into young fighters. The cups are even more important to them now because they use them as weapons.
    Looks like a bipedal European Water Vole with wet yellow hair, simmilar to Waterole’s whiskers that holds a porcelain /Clay cup.
    Based on the same things as Waterole.
    Signature Move:
    Spraying Cup Stream
    Water
    Physical
    65 power
    10 PP
    User’s next move ignores target’s stat changes.

    The final stages probably coming tommorow with their signature status moves!

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  126. Should I learn coding and game making and all that stuff just to make my own fakemon game? I mean, would it be worth it?

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    • You don’t need to know how to program to make a ROM hack.

      On the other hand if you’re talking about making your own Pokemon game from scratch, then yes, some programming is required.
      There are tile-engines and tools out there already, but all the ones I’m aware of require some programming.
      Except maybe RPGMaker, but RPGMaker games tend to be pretty terrible.

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    • I actually have a qualification in game development and I’m an intermediate programmer with knowledge of various languages.

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  128. My regional birdies

    Shardinal
    The Cardinal Pkm
    Normal/Flying
    Big Pecks/Keen Eye HA: Sheer Force
    A very small grey bird with rusty red wings and head plumage, it has a very large crooked and jagged grey beak, and lastly pink feet
    “Their hard beaks are tough enough to peck holes in trees in search of food, when at rest they sing beautiful melodies high above the treetops”

    Into
    Sparroh (WIP)
    The Arrow Pkm
    Normal/Flying
    Big Pecks/Keen Eye HA: Sheer Force
    A much larger and thinner bird Pokemon with a greyish white color with that same rusty red color in its wings and head, it’s wings are long and very thin with two stripes at the tips, tail feathers sticking straight outward, and a small head with a very long pointed beak with an arrow shaped notches
    “Agile and extremely fast, they can dive bomb through openings no bigger than 6inches wide, with this great speed they can pierce right through trees and still keep going”

    Finally
    Halbird
    The Polearm PKM
    Steel/Flying
    Big Pecks/Intimidate HA:Sheer Force
    A large bird of prey Pokemon, a fit compact body with grey sleek feathers, it’s wings have three red streaks that end with points, it’s neck is slightly long and has a mask like face with a crest on its head and under its chin resembling an axe head, it’s main feature is it’s mighty 3 foot long beak with several wedges and barbs that resembles a powerful spear, and its tail feathers are long and streamer like
    “It’s soaring through the sky it spots prey from over 2 miles away and dives straight for it, skewering whatever is in its way”

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    • Mines just a coconut solider
      Cocojoe
      it’s basically a Deku scrub with a coconut helmet with a tiny palm tree on its head
      It has a funnel mouth which lets it spit pellets at a powerful range (and it’s fluids on the inside are volatile and uses the palm leaves on its head to heat up the mixture to make it explode)
      Evolving into Cocomando which is bigger and has more camo with a freaking mortar for a mouth

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      • Cocojoe
        The Coconut Pkm
        Grass/Fire
        Skill Link/Sniper HA: Chlorophyll
        As I just said, a small plant Pokemon with a ruddy red tan and green camouflage patterned body with two half circle hoofs, a large coconut shaped head with a funnel mouth and two holes for eyes and a second coconut half on its head with a miniature palm tree with three leaves on top
        “It swallows anything round and keeps it in its belly, when the time comes it spits them out with enough power to pulverize stones”

        Into
        Cocomando
        The Mortar Pkm
        Grass/Fire
        Skill Link/Sniper HA: Chrolophyll
        It is mostly the same except a bigger body with bigger feet, it has a large wad of grass on its shoulders like those…military scrubs thingies, it’s mouth funnel is much longer and has two red rings on its side like a cannon, it’s face has red and green zigzags like face paint, and the helmet as a chip in it while the palm tree is longer and the leaves bigger
        “It soaks up sunlight to raise its body temperature before fighting, it can fire explosive seeds in rapid succession that can blow apart a tank”

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  132. Wait Earthen about leaked SU

    Do they make it to Home world? Is an Emerald seen? Do the rest of the gems have a role in the arc?

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  134. I feel like a leech, I spent the last 20 minutes on the can, just 16 more minutes then I’m done with work

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