Ice isn’t just an elemental type to deal with in Pokémon, it can be a headache of sliding and slipping around in the overworld for trainers as well. The series didn’t always include ice on the ground though—it was first introduced to the series in Generation II games Pokémon Gold & Silver.
Evolution of Ice
When players first encountered ice in Pokémon games it wasn’t quite as, well, visually appealing as it became in later titles. In fact the Ice Path, where players had to navigate a tunnel with both rocks and frozen sheets of ice, didn’t look that different from many other cavernous areas. ‘Ice’ just looked like parts of the ground that were smooth and had diagonal lines.
This was ultimately rectified in the follow-up to Gold & Silver, Pokémon Crystal, which had a much more distinct look and really sold the icy feel of the route. It was much more immersive and looked like a place that Swinub and Delibird would actually reside in. It set the tone for how Game Freak wanted to portray colder zones in the future and let Ice-type fans have their own spot in the Pokémon world to call their own.
Not limited to routes, it was also used as a puzzle mechanic when challenging several gyms throughout the series. Challenging the Mahogany Gym in Johto, Snowpoint Gym in Sinnoh or Icirrus Gym in Unova (pictured above) all required players to slide their way through the gym and find the correct route to the Gym Leader at the end. Oddly enough though, Kalos’ Snowbelle Gym lacked a sliding puzzle; it remains the only Ice-type gym not to feature one.
Where there’s Ice, there’s Snow
Not content with keeping Ice-type Pokémon constrained in cold caves, Game Freak eventually added snow to their arsenal of route designs and several regions benefited from the change of scenery. First introduced in Generation IV’s Pokémon Diamond & Pearl, snow-covered routes forced Trainers to dismount their bikes and trudge through by foot. They also featured random encounters anywhere there was snow, similar to walking in caves or surfing over water. This meant repels were needed if you weren’t grinding experience or searching for Pokémon when you wanted to move unhindered.
In Pokémon X & Y the ante was upped further—players were now forced to get through the snow by riding a Mamoswine around! It was an interesting use of the new Pokémon riding mechanic introduced in Generation VI, but certainly slowed down exploration a bit. Plenty of dismounting and remounting the patient Mamoswine meant that adventurers weren’t going to finish exploring the route in a hurry. There’s also an entire city covered with snow, Snowbelle City!
Finally, players of the latest games, Pokémon Ultra Sun & Ultra Moon, may not be able to slide around on any ice puzzles, but they can see a bit of snow and some ice crystals when they climb up Mount Lanakila on the otherwise tropical island!
Fun world-building or unnecessary hindrance?
In the end there’ll probably be two camps of people: those that love ice and snow routes, and those that don’t. Even if you’re in the latter camp, I hope you’ve been able to see the love put in by the designers and how gameplay has evolved throughout the Pokémon series in regards to chilly climates and the many places Trainers now have to explore. As a kid I always loved sliding around and trying to figure out the puzzle on my own… although many times I’d just lose patience and consult the internet.
I want to post something random.
Congratulations. You just did it! Your reward? Nothing because this comment is as pointless as a reward would be!
You can’t say that a lot of us don’t post random or pointless content all the time though.
Except the random things we post can generate actual discussions and aren’t filler really :I
Then why do most of mine never generate discussions
(Typical day in the Jungle)
*Kurusu posts question or cool idea
(Gets a few likes and 1-2 comments if lucky)
*Star posts random thing or art
(10 likes and starts big convo)
Because Star either posts when it’s more active or people here just prefer her content over yours.
But Seraph could post Showdown videos and get convo’s starting
I could do the same and get flat out ignored (I find times where some people are here)
Dude, out of every 20 or so showdown posts that Seraph makes, only one or two get convos starting, he just gets lucky to say the least
Because other people here are really into showdown, and as Kuppo says, he posts a lot of those so there bound to get responses
I think I’ve watched and commented on more of your stuff tbh. Don’t be too disheartened if you don’t get a response. If we are talking about being ignored then I am quite alot, but then I’m not interesting so I understand why.
I actually was just thinking something about you.
How did you not win Kindest Jungler? You don’t pick fights, you always keep your comments fresh (I honestly love commenting on your stuff), you also look over everyone’s stuff to make sure you missed nothing good
You say your boring, but you’re wrong in so many ways. You probably should be one of the last to be ignored Pokejunglers with how awesome you are.
Well that’s nice of you to say. I don’t know that there was a competition, I just post as myself tbh. I don’t like people to feel bad, even if I know I can’t help everyone, I often don’t know what to say and get muddled quite alot.
Its alright to get muddled and to be yourself, everyone gets muddled from time to time . It means alot to me when I get comments from you, it makes me know someone cares about me or hasn’t forgotten me.
Because people are more interested on Star’s art because it took her more effort and people appreciate that. And because your cool ideas is in form of long texts that a lot of people don’t read (me) (sorry)
Don’t
I’d like to see a rap video of Jynx and some bouncing’ Igglybuffs, known as the Icicle Princess.
why
It’d be a great Pokemon gift from GameFreak to use. Plus it’d make sense in the already random and weird anime.
Can you stop
Fine I’ll just be Generic Gertrude instead.
Cause not posting random, flat stuff makes us generic ?
It’s a personality trait to be random 😛
If you’re a scene kid on MySpace maybe
No it’s not
It’s annoying
But posting out of the norm ideas isn’t too bad either
That’s not what they’re posting
Be yourself, don’t listen to star, if like an idea keep at it.
People want everyone to be unique and share what their likes and ideas, but then go right back and tell others who have ideas or likes they don’t like to stop posting stuff on them. This seems to just be the Jungle recently though.
If you haven’t seen Last Jedi yet don’t read this thing, but if you have
The Last piece of this article is so true about more than just SW. Its also true about Pokémon and many other games
https://www.theverge.com/platform/amp/tldr/2017/12/19/16796228/star-wars-the-last-jedi-admiral-ackbar-fan-expectations-canon-theories-rian-johnson
I haven’t watched the movie yet so thank you for the spoiler tags.
Your welcome 🙂
I know people hate forgetting tags so I always make sure it’s a not already spoiled topic before I tag
I agree with the article so much especially the last bit of it! Thanks for sharing 🙂
Your welcome
I felt it really is true
He was a minor character and the VA died, that’s all the justification it needs. It’s not that big of an issue in comparison to others in this movie.
Why is everyone suddenly posting about The Leauge Justice? That movie is a month old! And also why is Super Woman trending now?
Jk
To those Who didn’t get it
TLS
SW
*TLJ
That joke’s shitt
I figured
No but like it’s actually among the worst I’ve heard
I haven’t seen one person post about Justice League yet
https://media.giphy.com/media/jXD7kFLwudbBC/giphy.gif
I don’t blame the people who didn’t get it, that joke was pretty unfunny without context tbh
What was the joke?
No fuucking idea, he replied himself with a JK so it must be a quote on quote “joke”
Maybe it’s a joke about how it’s such a bad movie nobody likes to remember it?
Could be actually
It’s OK, not great by any means. Better than BvS, not that that was hard.
I never saw any League of Justice posts….is that some sort of new Marvel movie or something?
So what’s everyone favorite Ice area and Pokemon? And what’s your favorite theme dedicated to these snowy areas? Ice type areas have the best themes
Area: Idk probably Route 216 and 217
Pokémon: Glalie
Theme: The special flakes added on particular days of the year
That snow mountain from Sinnoh. Only like it because I saw it in the anime and it seemed nice. Otherwise the other ice places are either too repetitive, boring, generic or annoying.
Area: idk
Pokemon: Aloslash
So damn right about ice areas having the best themes tho
Favourite area: Ice path – One of my highlights of Johto really, the music, atmosfere and puzzles gives it a very unique feel compared to the rest of the region making it really stand out :0
Favourite Pkm: Weavile – Great design, good competitively and awesome type combination ?
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/1f/51/c6/1f51c6f9fa4ee1f8c4f8120b9a0e85cf.jpg
Mamoswine is a pretty ice type. Too bad its dropping more and more in the ranks. Piloswine is still very good in low tiers. At this rate Mamo+Pilo teams will be a thing
Hm, I like HGSS Icy Path, though I really like areas where I can leave prints in the snow. My favourite Ice type is probably Swinub. I don’t remember themes much, I often play with the volume off and TV on.
Probably route 216 in sinnoh. Favorite ice types are easily sneasel and weavile
I actually really like Snowpoint and the other snowy city in X and Y. Probably the only memorable towns in that game other than….
Lumiose..
Laverre and Anistar are shook
If you remove the Toadstools and Tree Laverre is kinda eh.
If you remove paint the Mona Lisa is kinda ehhh
Point taken.
I agree, even having a Pokeball factory in it doesn’t help (And that’s where you get a Masterball which says alot knowing most places you get one are memorable)
The factory was bland for what I’d want such a place to be.
It was way too bland and way too irrelevant to be a place where the most key item in the game is born
Yeah, even the stuff there feels out of the way and unnecessary, there is no revisit value which there should be imo for such a place. I think back to Kurt and how much I went back to his house because it actually had a use.
They’re fine I guess
Also Froslass is incredible and Route 216 has the best Route theme probably ever
If only there could be some exciting news from Pokemon to talk about….as there’s nothing, it’s hard to start up any discussions or find anything interesting to talk about.
Welcome to all Pokémon sites circa 2015
We’re probably having another drought in 2018, besides a little blip in summer when the movie comes out and a potential teaser shows a Gen 8 Mon or form which most of us won’t see until a few months later. Of course, if PokéSwitch is a larger game and thus has a longer reveal period or if it’s coming out early to mid 2019 we might start getting info in later 2018.
RIP. Well I can only hope we get some great news about Gen 8 or a new Pokegame or else next year will be slow.
As much as the waiting would suck, I really hope it’s pushed to 2019.
Shıtposting is okay. Crap can be useful for fertilising a dry day on disqus.
What is less okay is diarrheaposting and constipationposting. Either peddling through so much crap with little substance, or forcing crap out and giving dry ass posts.
Just my two cents but I know others will share this viewpoint.
My two cents is that this place needs to have a change
Good guide lines for posting
1. Why do you want to post this?
2. What kind of response are you looking for?
3. What is your goal with making a post
4. Will it contribute to conversation
5. If it’s a meme, is it actually amusing or relevant whatsoever?
Most of the time it’s no because most memes don’t even get responses.
Unless its stellar
What goal?
I sincerely hope that Pokémon Switch takes the right lessons from Breath of the Wild.
I feel like basing your game off of BOTW is sort of risky because it relies on you being able to understand WHY BotW works and being able to execute on it
It could be amazing though if they pull it off.
I personally dont want that much like botw. as much as I want it to be kinda open world. I dont like Openworld too much. It really depends. Open world games are annoying to me like Zelda games
Can you elaborate?
Just like the weapons in BOTW, Pokeballs are quite fragile. If thrown the wrong way the way break before hitting the Pokémon spraying Pokeballs shards on them causing them to possibly faint. (Adding difficulty to the game).
Would ruin False Swipe and capture multipliers maybe.
That is true. It’s also something that could happen if the rumors about moving the joycons to catch Pokémon are implemented. An unlikely situation but still a possible one.
I hope it doesn’t become that gimmicky. :/
Uhhh, no. I would not play a game where catching a Legendary, shiny or a Pokemon I really want is threatened by this.
lol basically
well i’m finally watching the first episode of Trollhunters
How far into it are you? I haven’t seen it, but may become interested from reviews
i literally just put it on….like 15 seconds in
So, has anyone else seen the preview episodes for Lego Unikitty here?
They’re giving her a show?
Yes, and it’s the happiest thing I’ve ever seen.
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/1bacc1ffa64c4714d1545bdd25a53f7baefb3305b490dd066bde61fd225d6b0c.png
Brock? You mean Brock Rock, the Kantonian Rock Gym Leader and abandoned orphan of fifteen children?
yes…..I effing love it…
Say what you will but ANY show that has Tara Strong as the main character Earthen will watch and most likely love
I dunno why but it’s kinda satisfying watching someone play a gamey finish before and watch them constantly fail :p. Anyone else get that feeling?
Aside from two online assignments, I am done with the semester. Just got an interview invite for a medical school in New York, so I am going over there for Spring Break fun. Friends are graduating, I am being dragged along to a bar to celebrate because I have nothing better to do. Thus, I posit this question, what does one do at a bar if they do not drink and don’t like dancing? Also what should I do with my free time in New York after I am done interviewing? (I will probably be with my family). These are my conundrums for the day.
l’m a complete lame-o and if I’m dragged to a party I really don’t want to, I sit down somewhere and read a math textbook (that covers pretty much every subject I’ll encounter) I found online.
I’m not sure I can be a complete lame-o in this scenario. I’m in a smallish party of 8 so I think that it would become immediately apparent if I were to do something similar to that and would translate to being rude.
If you don’t drink for religious/personal moral/health reasons, I’d just recommend trying new things like dancing, finding sober(ish) people to speak to, and just generally having a good time. Hell, even conversations with drunk people can be fun.
FYI: if you’re being peer pressured to drink, try to go for weaker alcohols or mix your stronger alcohols with mixers and pace yourself rather than shots and stuff. Also, make sure you eat plenty before you go. If you can drink but just don’t want to get drunk, you can keep this up so your friends won’t pressure you as much to drink because they see you drinking. Of course your friends may not be the type to pressure, so you might not even have to worry about it.
Thanks for the advice and warnings. Don’t worry about me getting peer-pressured to drink, I have known everyone in my group of friends (or the party that I am going with) for 2-3 years so I am not concerned about that.
That’s good to hear, and I’m happy if I helped in any way dude
Being a man id freaking agony. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZHtXy7kIfQ
Be back later, I get to perform in my Winter Chorus Concert with an hour rehersal before, Yay…
*Cries silently at the agony of the songs
I hated forced singing at school, was so glad it stopped before secondary school.
I don’t want to sound like I’m bragging about being a ‘cool kid’ or anything but can I just say how weird it is kinda flipping from jungle to irl? Like, all my friends irl are extroverted asf and we have really off kilter humour whilst here everyone tends to be a bit more introverted and more careful about how they speak. Anyone else kinda feel a large rift between their online and irl communities?
In fairness you can’t get banned from real life in the same way you can here.
Yea you can get banned, but really the only one that I have seen use the ban hammer is Dae-that is why it is called Dae’s Ban Hammer-and he doesn’t go crazy with it. If memory serves me correctly, every time he has banned someone is after it became apparent that this individual were trying to lead the comment section to a destructive path.
Still, that may be why some are a little more reserved. There’s also the fact that most of us don’t really know each other that well, at least not enough to joke around in the same way we might with irl friends without fear of offending them. Idk just some thoughts as to maybe why. I also am a very introverted person anyway tbh.
Yea. I am in a similar scenario as you are. I can also add that I can’t really talk about Pokémon as an extended conversation topic as most of them are not into it.
Although, a good portion of my friends and I usually try to be ‘PC’ irl because we are pre-meds and a good doctor isn’t usually one who offends or is not understanding of their patients and coworkers.
Me and my friends don’t try to be offensive but it’s more of a ‘nobody is safe’ kinda humour and we have very clear set boundaries (like, the slightest hint of you being serious about it and you’re probably going to be on your ass)
But I do have to kinda shift my personality because I want to go into health and because I’ll be working extremely closely with a variety patients/client I don’t want to offend anyone
Wat happened to gym leaders list?
It got finished dude
I know but wat was that for?
We’re all fairly introverted, but I definitely hold back more here.
E.g., I roast more of my friends irl than on here. I don’t want to hurt anyone’s feelings, but I know my friends won’t feel (that) bad.
Kinda same but I do feel I come across as extroverted irl and here, it feels more arrogant on here tho and sometimes I look at something I typed a while before and just think ‘yikes’
Nope. I am very extroerted in real life. I do hold back on my rude jokes here, but I love talking to people giving speeches and such. I just love speaking.
In a house of 9 other people, I love sound and things going on. I hate silence. Silence is rarely tolerated in the hous.
^^ without extroversion
Nah, not really. I treat my irl friends and my online friends the same
Btw, trying to keep up with the articles, hats off to you, Earthen. I found something new to binge watch (I HATE Fairyland).
*clap clap*
Such a delightful display of whimsical fantasy and gut wrenching violence
Well i started Trollhunters and Ruby and already up to episode 3 and Ruby
Badges 3
Marshtomp 31
Hariyama 25
Aron 24
I don’t get how people can replay so much, I’m powering through a Moon Nuzlocke I started a few months ago and I find it a slog :0
shrugs
besides it’s just harmless time wasting
binge watching a series after a long ass day of work, and i just feel like it
Replaying. meh it’s understandable. but an update everdayy so often can be very annoying no offense.especially since heuses the same pokemon every game
I try new combo’s. Sadly most of them fail me
I soon though am starting a Nuzlocke with my friend, of Platinum
Finally you started Trollhunters after I told you like 20 times to watch it?
Finally gonna see Star Wars tomorrow, im so excited 😀
Hope you enjoy it https://media.giphy.com/media/UsmcxQeK7BRBK/giphy.gif
Good viewing!
I have no clue when I am going to see it. I am flying back home for Winter Break tomorrow.
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In relation to the ice locations, I’ve some cool ideas on other places that should be in Gen 8’s region;
– A volcanic plateau, where you need to carefully cross from stoney piece to piece either via a new HM called Magma Shield or by riding on it with a Fire-type Pokemon, and each area collect a key to unlock a higher platform until you get to the volcano and swim through to find the legendary Pokemon.
– A cloud-based valley where you need to fly from cloud to cloud and get to the end to the mystical cloud city.
– A mysterious and foggy Fairy forest where you need to follow the silhouette of a certain Pokemon and if you follow the wrong one you’ll get lost and must recommence.
So…..what do y’all think?
Love everything but the HM
Meh just think that Rider Pokemon should be left to Alola.
HM’s are just so outdated, especially when it basically forces you to use an HM slave. It would be an awful regression.
That and ride Pokemon don’t feel as uniquely ingrained in Alola culture as say, trials.
Yeah I guess so, but I think they should make the choices for Rides much more diverse; say be able to choose between different Pokemon who are able to for a certain ability, like fly, you should be able to choose from Altaria, Charizard, Croat, Talonflame, so on.
I guess you could choose between 3 for each one and swap them later. There would need to be a special ride Pokemon ranch or something to accommodate this though.
Considering the fact that we had all those running animations, I can see them adding something like that to the Switch game.
Literally everyone hated HMs lol and GF knows that
HMs should stay dead. Magcargo ride please.
Eh, I guess so. I also mean other Pokemon you can ride if you choose (they’d replace Magcargo but this would be a post-game feature):
Groudon
Heatran
I think Grooudon is too big to be worthwhile, the area itself would need to be ridiculously huge.
They should downsize him ridiculously.
Like in Omega Ruby lmao
Why? It’s a ledengerry, it has never been properly represented as the size it’s meant to be.
It could be a baby Legendary like baby Lugia! Or baby Manaphy. “But it’s a different Pokemon called Phi-ITS A BABY MANAPHY!
I guess, baby Lugia is anime only though.
Nah, of course not! Clearly everyone knows about the famous PIkachu-Swellow Thundershield fusion! /s
O ya, here are a few more ideas:
A ginormous fruit and veggie garden, which is actually a regular sized garden but you are shrunk by the chief Grass Type and explore. You’d discover different factions of Grass-type, like Tsareenas nursing baby Steenees and the pre-eves, Litigants dancing and teaching Petilil their dancings, Roserades teaching Rosellas and Budews the art of disguising, and then Xerneas sitting at the front, with it being partially connected to the ground as its part-tree.
HMs are finito
OK, well then switch HMs with a new Mega transformation which allows for lava movability.
Or just make Magcargo or Camerupt a ride for “Lava paddle” or whatever idk
Well my Ruby crashed this is why i don’t mess with gameshark stuff
Always save often
It was probably a sign that Omega Ruby is much more preferred by GameFreak.
dis is a emulator
Well, as they always say back in ye olde Nintendia: “Emulators of Nintendo games mean elimination of Nintendo access.”
Y she loos more cute in the game? http://i.4cdn.org/vp/1513728677704.jpg
Ultra Space radiation can something like that, which is why Pheramosa is so beautiful, and Lunala exists.
I really love looking at the concept art for Pokémon games. The artists at game freak are so good
I think that I am voicing an unpopular opinion when I say that I prefer her old design in Emerald more.
I don’t like her at all in emerald
I’ll give you this, her Emerald outfit is nice
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTLBEzJQU9M
I’m finally watching Episode 1 of Kamen Rider Build, been looking forward to this
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HZB2_hlgKoA
WTF……So I’m doing the Zelda dlc and riding one of those sand walruses…….I get hit by an electric bat and some how I lost my Master Shield…….I LOST MY MASTER SHIELD……..How does this even happen……..I just spent 5 minutes walking around trying to find it and I can’t even…….What the hell……..
I’d reload the last save if you can.
It’s been to long……..I think you can get a new one, but this is just so annoying and sad……
Damn that’s rough. Sorry :/ hope it’s not too much of a pain to get back.
Yeah me too……..I just don’t know how this kind of thing would happen…..I guess it would happen in the desert…..you know….the sand and all…
Yeah that’s literally the worst luck, and you’re right of all places.
On top of all that it was at night so by the time I realized it was gone I had no idea where to even look for it lol