We’re just days away from 2018 which happens to be a “Year of the Dog” according to the Chinese Zodiac. In Japan, the country of origin for the Pokémon series, there are reminders everywhere as New Years draws near. There are also plenty of dog-like Pokémon now in the series, so many so that it might be hard to just pick one favorite but today we challenge you to do just that! What is your favorite dog (or dog-like) Pokémon?!
From Poochyena to Furfrou, Granbull to Manectric, what’s your favorite Pokémon that resembles a dog from our own world?
Here are some pictures to give you inspiration as you think of your answer! Tell us below!
Potentially unpopular opinion, there are too many Legendaries.
More unpopular opinion
Legendary Pokémon make more sense as just rare Pokémon that ancient people made up legends about
More unpopular opinions.
Diancie is an amazing Mythical Pokémon and has a beautiful Mega evo.
That’s not unpopular
I just found a ton of people who consider it meh.
There’s tons of people who find every Pokemon meh
On average, Diancie has positive reception.
Good.
I think it depends how much lore is built around them. But most seem to be considered one of a kind so idk.
Idk if that’s an unpopular opinon. I think it’s a very reasonable opinion.
There’s just so many now, I like them but I can’t say I use them much, doesn’t help many are banned in competitions/battle areas. I prefer things I can breed and raise earlier on, that I can actually journey with.
Plus what’s the point of them being legendary if they’re in almost EVERY game AND there so many of them. It’s become a cool club of just a few to a crazy amount where more than half of them get forgotten.
Phione should evolve into Manaphy and just be a rare event breedable, otherwise I’m not sure why Phione exists. I do remember all Legendaries most of the time, I just don’t really use them.
~50-60% of Gen 5 legendaries/mythicals are useless, like the orus trio and the Musketeers.
Define useless
They’re kinda filler Pokemon, I mean they’re fairly forgettable after Gen 5. Like who would remember the four Musketeer Pokemon if asked about?
No they aren’t. They serve good purpose for the lore and worldbuilding of the region, and they have cool events as well and are not just a legendary trio from a previous game copy and pasted, like gen 6 fe
The Musketeer Pokemon are not too interesting design wise though, I mean especially that fat grey one, who’d prefer that over say Ho-Oh, or even Lunala.
They’re memorable to other people tho
Sure but overall they’re not as memorable as say the Time-Space continum trio, the land-sky-sea trio or even the Sun-Moon-Eclipse trio.
Because those are box legends. They’re actually part of the main plot and are important to the story lol
Also, shorter names are Creation trio, Weather trio, and Light/Cosmic trio
Having a trio named “Creation” in a game heavily focused on evolution is pretty weird.
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Not really. Things have to be created before they can evolve. Plus the whole plot of Sinnoh is about creating something new
It refers to the creation of the universe, not creationism.
That’s so subjective tho, and these are box legends so
so
So of course they are going to be more memorable
So they’re meant to be more iconic because the marketing is heavily on their fictional shoulders
Meh you’re right.
Terrakion reminds me of Spike from Tom&Jerry and that’s how I remember it. Also it has a unique typing.
Isn’t it Ground-Fighting?
Rock/Fighting.
And I guess Verizion is Grass-Fighting and the blue guy is Water or Ice-Fighting right?
Virizion – Grass
Cobalion – Steel
Terrakion – Rock
Keldeo – Water
All share a secondary Fighting type and the move Sacred Sword
Oh ok. Well I was partly right, I remembered Keldeo being water and Virizion not being grass would’ve been weird.
The genies are used alot in competitive, especially Landorus. The Musketeers are less used.
Yes, but they really made too many mythical Pokemon in Gen 5, 1-3 is fine, 6+ is not. That makes the “Mythical” title not really an exclusive title.
There are 4 Mythicals, Victini, Meloetta, Keldeo and Genesect.
Well then there are too many Legendaries introduced in Gen 5.
They’re well designed and unlike most other legendaries can be used during your playthrough… Which you’d of known if you’d actually played the games :p
No need to rudely snap at me.
It’s an explanation followed by a joke. 5Gs
Sure but I actually did play a bit. I just lost the interest and the game.
You got to like the third gym. You wouldn’t even of seen the legends lol
TECHNICALLY, I saw the legendaries at the opening title.
You didn’t see them in game, which is where your judgement should reside. Unlike most modern games, you can use most of Unova’s legendaries before the Champion. Hence they’re far from useless.
You could also use the mascot legendaries in the Elite 4 for X/Y though.
That doesn’t make the Unova legends useless lol.
I know.
Then why bring up that point?
Yeah, that’s specially bad in Gen 4 and 7, where gen 4 had like 15-20 percent legendaries and 7 where it had a lot of UBs compared to normal Pkm
Oh yeah, there was
Shaymin, Giratina, Dialga, Palkia, Darkrai, Arceus, Cresselia.
Gen 7 is slightly more understandable considering UBs are a new concept.
So everyone, I’m going to say that it’s now guaranteed that we’ll get a new Nintendo Direct this week after this Amazon placeholder debacle. They’ll probably drop a tweet tomorrow saying “HAPPY NEW YEAR! Join us on Wednesday…” and set the date and time. I feel like this is going to be one fantastic event if it truly goes down this way.
Seems likely. It’s been a little while since we got a direct and they’ll need to outline at least the first part of the year as early as possible.
The last one was on September 13, which feels like ages ago to me. I’m happy that we won’t have to wait too long past the new year to get a new refresher of things to look forward to!
Next Nintendo Direct is in February and it’s a Digimon direct ʕっ•ᴥ•ʔっ
now all makes sense
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I think they should make the Gen 8 Grass-type based off that large and long creepy centipede.
No centipedes…..they’re really REALLY gross……….
Or they should make it extremely detailed on one of those gigantic spiders from the Coniferous and have it feast on all other Grass starters.
So you just want a real gross grass starter then huh? lol
I’m just joking of course I don’t want it.
We already have Scolipede based on this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scolopendra_gigantea
I guess we could have something based on the Arthropleura but I don’t think as a starter since it’d have to be Grass/Bug probably.
what’s Primarina? It’s too small and I can’t see it.
it is something with spikes
Not sure that makes sense….but ok…
Primarina should’ve just been a siren.
Fire and Grass have basis, but the Water one is far too random tbh. If the weapons were really part of a pattern, they’d be better incorporated into the designs and probably be used as weapons.
they have a point but yeah Grass types also have weapons: leaf, vines, arrows, spike shields, …
Primarina is kinda farfetched imo, and Feraligator too. But the others kinda fit
Wow, thanks for the insight articuno Pokemon art Tumblr gaming Kanto 90s Instagram photo video anime.
lol I found it while searching chinese zodiac fire starters. but I found it a curious theory
Weapon is reaching. Water starters are most likely based on creatures that live both on ground and water. That’s why we haven’t seen a horse or fish water starter.
I believe in none of them.
The fire one sorta has basis, but Fenniken isn’t really a dog.
Grass maybe, but sinvy line is a snake, treecko line is gecko,and turtwig lines are turtles mainly.
Water is just pure bs
Nah. Typhlosion and Delphox don’t fit unless we’re stretching it. I also seriously hope Gamefreak doesn’t limit themselves to such stupid patterns and instead just focuses on making good pokemon.
Fun fact: every Pokemon game besides the original Red and Green, Fire Red and Leaf Green, and Black and White 2, were released initially in Autumn.
(Blue came out the same year in Autumn as RG, but because it’s a third version Blue probably didn’t effect RG’s release date at all (if it was even being made when RG were released, because it’s less of a third version and more of a third game in a trio), whilst Emerald came out the same year in Autumn as FRLG. FRLG may of been delayed from Autumn of 2003 but it could’ve just been their intent)
Does anyone else wonder how GameFreak would handle a reveal over the course of more than one year, like a good number of game companies do? I know the fanbase would be barely able to cope lol
I remember the fanbase went crazy when the initial Announcement of oras and usum didn’t have a trailer. So really if the new game is different Enough maybee we could have small trailers every month or so, otherwise the whole fanbase will go nuts
TBF ORAS and USUM didn’t have the best reveals but like… I don’t think this fanbase realises how spoilt it is for pre-release compared to others lol
Release a few Pokemon a month, maybe a smidge of gameplay to placate us.
Have a Pokemon Advent Calendar sometime in the middle of the year where they reveal one Pokemon for 12 days.
Best approach would be bi or trimonthly large reveals (which either narrows down the months of content to 6 or 4) with minor reveals dotted inbetween
I feel like revealing new info every month would be a little overwhelming and spoil the game a little too much, especially if it’s in the course of over a year, so I’m hoping for medium sized trailers every three months and adding a few more minor trailers the close it gets to release.
As they currently operate, they couldn’t. They haven’t put enough content into these past 2 generations to draw it out for so long. They barely make it on the pre-release marketing schedules as is. (I’d even argue that they don’t given how abysmal hype was for USUM)
Let’s see what happens in the January’s Nintendo Direct
I think they will reveal the title names and we’ll have to wait until before summer to see the first images
I think that’s way too soon to be getting any info about the games. They need to reveal zerora or whatever first
Zeraora will probably just be in the movie with one Gen 8 mythical
Zeraora probably would’ve been revealed by now if there was another surprise Pokemon in the movie. Right now, it seems it’ll be Lugia as the first reveal and Zeraora as the surprise.
I really hope lugia isn’t in the movie. That bloated sea bird has gotten enough attention
They still have to reveal it officially.
I have a feeling it will be revealed in next movie
I expect something like this:
January Direct:
Pokemon [Blank] and [Blank] coming to Nintendo Switch 2019
Beggining of Summer Pokemon Direct:
Region, starter, protagonist, box legend and battle system reveals
The rest of 2018:
Trailers showing more and more
Very Beggining of 2019:
One Final Trailer
Early 2019:
The release
Lets hope.
I really hope it comes/see it coming in 2019
If I recall correctly, we got the Sun and Moon starters revealed in a trailer in August right?
So based on that reveal and a November release date (was that the November of the next year? I can’t remember.), when would we expect the same things? (I know they don’t always match this timeline but its still nice to think about.)
I hope for Gen 8 it’s not based off a tiny region like Gen 5 and 7 were, they really should return to actual countries instead of “Ooh! Hawaii!’ or “Ooh! New York City!”. They need to expand the cultural influence to southeast Asia or Eastern europe.
The regions aren’t small though.
Sure but I’d like it if they use more different cultures. Currently only 3 areas have been used; Japan, the U.S and France.
That’s because Gen 1-4 were based on Japan. By all means expand into different real life culture bases, they have already done this with Pokemon themselves.
Alola and Unova were based on US states. Which are pretty darn big.
Hawaii is relatively small, compared to majority of Europe, Asia, Americas and even Japan. Unova was mostly based off of New York the city, and I’m not American, but I do know New York City isn’t really a state.
Unova is based on NYS with aspects of New Jersey, and Virbank City even draws inspiration from Burbank in California. The reason NYC is so prevalent in its design is that NYC is super iconic, especially to those from without NY state.
The 4 first regions weren’t specially based on huge regions exactly, Kanto for example is based on a kinda small region in japan (which is not much bigger than Hawaii)
Also, only one region was based on a country lol. And it was only the Northern part of that country.
…
The size of the area it’s based on isn’t representative of the in game region
Ughhhhhhh note to viewers Hawlucha has a very low SOS rate, I spent 36 minuets hunting one and an hour and a half and it only called 8-14
Honed Claws and eventually brought down my entire hunting party aka Marowak, Scyther and Pangoro until I was left only with Aerodactyl and Pressure it into struggling
Get a Pokemon with Unnerve, increases call rate but doesn’t lower PP like Pressure.
Good to know I was either hunting for Hawlucha or Bagon
There’s strategies for making it so you don’t have to worry about PP but you’d have to get a Leppa Berry onto the target and have Skill Swap + Harvest but I’m too lazy for that :p
I have Exeggcute set up for that.
Yo that sounds perfect dude can you breed me one?
Yeah, I need to find it in my bank, it will be in Dream Ball.
It’s ready, you got any Apricorn or Beast Ball ‘mon you can trade for it?
And Intimidate I think.
Just threaten him with a Tauros.
Odyssey is so amazing that if BotW is really even better I really won’t be able to contain myself
Probably more a case of which game style you prefer.
Definitely was for me. The most mind-blowing thing is that BotW feels so expansive yet so open for improvement. I can’t really say the same for Odyssey, which is sort of locked in place. Both were incredible though!
Odyssey was better to me
Currently I’d say I like BotW better. You can explore everything. Whereas in Mario there are still places limited by Mario’s jump. But there are definitely comparable aspects of Odyssey that are better than BotW. For example, power moons and the purple coins are way more satisfying to get than Korok seeds.
In the end it comes down to what you prefer. I’m more of a Zelda fan so naturally BotW holds more meaning to me. Mario has always been something I play with friends so Odyssey is something that I both dislike and enjoy.
Guys…GUYS!
Amazon removed the listings.
All I want is Animal Crossing. Animal. Fucking. CROSSING.
GIVE IT ME, NINTENDO.
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This is not what I asked for!
Animal Crossing is cancelled and is to be replaced with Plant Junction.
Pitch yourself off the astronomy tower
It’s going to be a better game than Fungus Crossroads
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There’s a spin-off I wasn’t expecting.
Aren’t we talking about listings for new nintendo games though?? Like AC should be one of them.
I meant “Animal. Fucking. CROSSING.” is an unexpected spin-off.
Ah. I’d still take it.
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Only because it’s McGonagall.
I thought Alex or Butters would come out as a furry before you did :0
I’m desperate yo
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I actually probably wouldn’t play it if that was the case.
I would watch youtube videos first>.>imagine its a error on our part no new games coming
But, do they really have a reason for doing that or… cuz i’m kinda confused at what that would imply
they back up
False alarm then
I just watched the last Nintendo Minute video of 2017 and it had some very suspicious moments. Krysta said one of her resolutions for 2018 was to play a long term game, and was talking about Animal Crossing and Stardew Valley as possibilities there. Also, they said that they’re taking a break for the first half of January…for all of the new Direct content to blow over perhaps?
Who da hell is Krysta
She’s the woman host on the show.
Do you think she would know insider stuff though?
uh she works for nintendo? and most of there shows and pre recorded
But she’s just a spokesperson. Does working for Nintendo automatically mean they spill all their secrets to you?
but he never said she spill anything secrets tho?
I thought Xatu was implying that she was implying something when talking about wanting to play a new long term game. And if not, I’m not sure why it was important to mention that part at all. All he would have to say then is that the show is taking a break
She’s obviously talking about New Leaf: Switch guys
IT ALL COMES TOGETHER
Never let this die
Watch it be a coincidence 😛
honestly i should of pre order some of these. because what if it was collectors editions lol
What are my hot boys and gamer girls up to today?
Lol my day is already ending, so only thing left to do is the dinner with my family and staying up all night just like I did last year
Just finished doing homework, gonna eat chips, watch Runaways and play Splatoon 2
Away for a meal with mi amigos before enjoying some fireworks
I wanna be cute not hot
Why not both
Any New Years resolutions or goals for 2018?
– Get a passable femme voice
– Get cute girl clothes
– Draw more
– Learn Animation
– Be a better person
-be cooler
don’t know how you could be even COOLER than you already are but I’m sure you’ll find a way
– Be a nicer human bean and if it doesn’t work the back to normal
Aand good luck on the animation thing 😮
– Eat healthier
– Put more effort into working out
– Practice my writing more
– Study far more to get the exam results I need for Uni!!!
– Keep my confidence and not letting things get to me
Draw more
Work on my fangame
Play some cool games
Maybe if I’m lucky train singing
idk
-Be more Govnah
To be fair you’re obviously gonna achieve all of this :3
-finish concepting my fangame
-have comp bois ready
-actually lessen my stress a bit
-become more comfortable as me
Time to show some gratitude! 😀
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What are you most thankful for in terms of the Jungle this year?
Support on my art!!
I try very hard and I’m very discouraged sometimes but seeing all the nice comments I get when I post my stuff on here it makes me so happy!
Well thankful for the good moments I had here in the first half of this year, like I really needed that back then 😛
( btw never knew Shaymin could do that that’s pretty cool)
That I got a shiny Pheromosa and Oricorio!
The discord Group chat with pretty cool peeps.. the overwatch one.
Uh what discord chat *sweeps under rug*
*places a rug on that rug*
The fact that y’all don’t hate me
And that cute shaymin
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I guess the most thankful I could be is the fact I’m still allowed here despite numerous issues with my anger and depression
*huggu*
…… *hugs back*
well awh GROUP HUGGU *hugs both*
*hugguuuuus all*
Aww
*hug*
Everyone’s peace and good health!
I’m kinda glad how accepting everyone is
Like you all accept I’m the best person here ♥
No but in all seriousness nearly everyone’s so nice and stuff and I really appreciate that
People actually talking to me and not hating all of my ideas and opinions.
So I started playing Metroid Samus Returns last night. Not too far in yet, but so far I’m enjoying it. Have never actually beaten a Metroid game so this should be good. It’s the last game in the line of games from older series from Nintendo I have set out to beat this year (sort of) The first game was a Zelda game, Then a Mario game. And now a Metroid game. Until this past year I don’t think I’ve ever actually beaten a Zelda or Marion game ever. Played them sure, but never fully beaten any. Now that’s not true as I’ve beaten both BOTW and Odyssey. Now I set out to beat Samus Returns so I can say I’ve beaten at least on game in Nintendo’s biggest 4 series.
Samus Returns is a great entry point to the series.
Yeah seems to be. I’ve played a little of Fusion and the original game when I was younger, but for some reason never really got into it. I like Samus and the world in general, but my tiny kid brain just couldn’t focus long enough for me to actually get through a game. Which really says something as the Metroid games are generally some of the short games in Nintendo’s arsenal. haha
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rHG-JO8gIGk
This always makes me laugh so much
“YOU STUPID EVOLVED PRICK”
*Gets morph ball bomb* *presumes to use it to blow everything up*
Okay sorry if this sounds greedy to some but like
I really really REALLY hope the water starter is something I love this gen…. I always claim I love water types but I rarely actually pick water starters. It feels really weird
What animal would you like to see as a water starter? inb4 dolphin………..
Honestly? Either a Shrimp, Manatee, or Jellyfish… or maybe a cuttlefish
Any of those could be really cool. I could see a Cuttlefish being part psychic
I can see that
Shrimp could be bug, or even fighting
Jellyfish is my absolute favorite and it could go in like fifty different directions
Manatee would just be adorable
Mantis Shrimp Starter! 😀
It has way more than just Water/Fighting possibilities too if I may add
Ayyyyyyyyyyyy 😀
Cause apparently they use some mechanism that paralyzes its prey so Water/Electric
This one won’t happen, but they also can boil their prey so Water/Fire could work
Oh I’m well aware of what they do
*all water starters have to be based on animals that can walk on ground as well as swim*
Shrimps can do it
And who’s to say Pokemon can’t take liberties? You realize what Garchomp is right?
yeah, but starters are diffrent
Says who?
Nobody, that’s who
Man-atee
Moonatee
Btw I have the Exeggcute, you got anything to trade?
Dats my Water Starter
Dottle-Inteliphin-Percephin
You wake up and see this
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What do you do
AAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH
….back to sleep
Takes the suicide pill I keep in my pillowcase
*Slowly gets up and creeps out of the room and wonders wtf happened and why is James in my bed?
Depends on how big he is
Steal his Bottlecap collection for Hyper Training.
“AAAAAAAH, GET AWAY FROM ME YOU CREEP!”
*Pepper sprays*
Where is this from?
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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9EKJpxye7ZQ
Can’t say I don’t know the anime this is based off of
Cause I totally (Kekkai Sensen) do
Blood Blockade Battlefront is such a great show. This is cool to see haha
Ayyy you know it toooooo :3
I need to get a move on with the second season. I’ve been slacking with keeping up. Have only gotten into a few episodes, but so far the second season is still as good as the first season.
Imo there’s a quality drop but it’s definitely not bad
I’m not sure what I just watched but it was HYPE AS HELL!
That was cute, and creepy… All in one go…
9/10
Should’ve had Pheromosa dancing alongside Lusamine, Xurkitree with Guzma and Nihilego with Lunala.
Jesus Christ! Super Mario Challenge in Mario Maker is difficult!
I have replayed 2-4 enough times that I went from 2 lives left to 30 because its so damn hard
Because it’s all clock based as you hit a button and have about 10 secs to get across certain places or die!
Grah!!!!!!! Hate this damn level
If I don’t run I die by spike ball, but if I run I die because of Bowsers freaking fire breath he blasts!!!
You just gotta keep trying different things.
You knew RadQueen2016
Now get ready for
RadQueen2018
All hail the Queen of Radium!
Yeah I’m rad
R – Rad
A – As
D – Ducks
You knew Shiny Totem Lurantis
Now get ready for
Fifth thousand different usernames
I wanna run to you @ //uploads.disquscdn.com/images/819832d83ed0b9adf197d963e75de95786b3b781b957545d8f0e5dcb4f2d33c4.jpg
i am beat…..i finished cleaning out my closet and i found a lotta cool crap, dusty as sh*t but still good
(My room has a bad dust problem kinda like that one house in Skyward Sward)
@UnburdenedLegume:disqus where did you find that little Pokemon picture yesterday? I tried reverse image search but got nothing.
4chan
Oh, I was hoping I could find the artist.
ive no idea who the artist is i was just browsing 4chan tbf