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Alright boshes questionnaire time
I want y’all to pick a three stage Pokémon you would substitute for a starter of all Regions
Go!
Rhyhorn
Larvitar
Aron
Gible
Sandile
Kalos there’s not enough 3 liners so pass
Jangmo-o
Ok not my greatest idea, I think it’s too predictable that I’d pick Pseudo dragons as my starters
(Also all of them are reptilian in nature…)
Replacing Rhyhorn with Nidoran M
Which is funny because I’ve used Nidoran as my starter dozens of times
Poliwag
Larvitar
Spheal
Shinx
Solosis
Scatterbug
Pikipek, I guess?
Gastly
Mareep
Ralts
Starly
Gothita
Goomy
Bounsweet
This was hard because most of my favorites are two stagers
Yeah but the reason I made it three is to savor the growth of a Pokémon’s development
I mean what’s the point if the starter is fully evolved right off the bat
Wait, does it count if their pre-evo/evo was introduced in a later Gen?
Yeah I think I might scratch Rhyhorn off that list
Oddish
Mareep
Ralts
Gible
Litwick
Goomy
Jangmo-o
Alakazam
Ampharos (if I could Mega evolve it)
Salamance
Mamoswine
Leavanny
Aegislash
Alolan Raichu
Cross gen evos are kinda fudging it a little bit I’ll allow it…for now
Gengar
Ampharos
Gardevoir
Luxray
Krookodile
Aegislash
Kommo-O
Oh, apparently Adidas is making Frieza colored sneakers (It’s a collaboration)
Pokemon Z with revamped Kalos region, removed Team Flare and replaced with something else, Removed the rivals, improved gym leader designs and personality, Some alola mons added in, expanded post game, all of X and Y’s customization plus more, Lumiose redesign, bottom screen map option, dexnav, Sun and Moon style graphics, new areas, less linear, cross Kalosian forms… uhh
idk
I honestly don’t expect anything related the Nav coming back unless it’s another Gen 3 remake. But yeah, a Z version does sounds cool. As much as I like Gen 6, it did have issues
Or better yet than removing the rivals
Make them actual likeable characters
no i just dont want them at all
Generic girl
Dumb bimbo
Red headed nerd
Fatass
Quite the circle of friends
Or generic boy..
Were they really that bad
Yes….yes in all possible conceivable reasons
I don’t think so. I don’t love them, but they were fine. They do have room to improve, don’t get me wrong
They weren’t even fine. They just told you that they were friends and never earned it. They’re the fucking worst characters
I just want a legitimate rival none of this safe watered down bullshet friendship rivals
A rival is supposed to be a constant thorn in your butt, trying to one up you and taunts you every step of the way…i….I miss that….I miss that anger
Let’s get someone like Silver. Maybe a little less of an edgelord… or more of an edgelord
Infinite?
I want somebody a little more justifiable or do I
Do I want a guy who wants the world to acknowledge his strength and skill because he possesses it or that he wants to prove his worth
So another Silver…
Fun
You try writing an edgelord that doesn’t immediately fall into predictable tropes
Less of an edgelord pls, his constant moaning of strong and weak Pkm made him annoying
What about edgy Gladion?
He’s not a rival
The definition of rival doesn’t necessarily imply that the person has to be an ass.
oh really didnt know that
Is that sarcasm?
no?
That’s MY definition
So Blue?
Did any of them ever not just tell you their friends, eventually they earned, but not right away
Ex. Barry, Hugh, Cheren and Biana (last two kind earned it from the get go as they were always there for you and you to them)
I do admit I like Trevor (the redhead) for having a more realistic goal and that Tierno has Corphish for a starter. But everything else about them is bleh
Worse
Tbh this circle of friends sounds like something a normal kid would have
Cough trope alert
Maybe if Kalosian forms were if of Gen 7 pokemon. They would never delete the rivals, they’d rather change them to be better.
this is what I want not what is realistic.
And the only character that could be a decent character is the gender swapped one. The rest are literally one thing and can’t be anything else.
Shauna is a straight love intrest
Orange hair is.. what is he again? the pokedex nerd?
Tiereno is just a walking fat joke
screw them all
At that point just put that effort into a new region lol
But I want a good France region
Okay, they’re promoting Yo-Kai Watch at McDonalds now. Didn’t expect that
Yep, 3 years later and now they give us the merch
Making a team in B2W2 is literally impossible
Can someone make me a team not including
Scrafty
Galvantula
Chandelure
Archeops
Whimmsicott
Haxorous
Lopunny
Swablu
Yes
Leavanny
Ampharos
Lucario
Scolipede
Musharna/Espeon
Cinccino
not a bad team
I gotta use Cinccino for sure
Yeah actually
I can use altaria ;3
no but seriously it’s hard to do so, add Hydreigon, Volcarona, Flygon, Scolipde, and Eelktross, Ampharos and it actually becomes impossible
Easily
Emboar
Excadrill
Sawk/Gigalith
Leavanny/Crustle
Eelektross/Beheeyem
Golurk
i meant for me…
What not good enough for an Excadrill? One of the most powerful Ground types in existence?
Or Leavanny or Crustle as reliable buggies
I used Leavanny not too long ago (i loved it) but Crustle isn’t really my style
You could use Altaria
Already have
I was joking on how you said not including Swablu instead of Altaria
Couldn’t think of its name lol
how could ye
Beheeyem or Reunicliuce can’t spell it for shite
mehh
I’m playing B2 so no Reniculous and Beheeyem is a no
Well sit and spin den
What do you have against rainbow fingers..?
Its head is disgusting
Lilligant/Mienshao/Azumarill/Emolga/Gothitelle/Arcanine (Vulpix if you trade)
Scolipede, Gothitelle, Eelektross, Mienshao, Swanna, Lilligant
Uses these then:
Lucario, Azumarill, Umbreon, Chichino, Roserade and Ampharos
I’m debating if I should keep my Narwhals Ice/Water or change them to Ice/Electric or Water/Electric
Change the first one to Narwatt
Ice/Electric with either Lighting Rod or a Water Steelworker
Critisize me as you wish but USUM/SuMo had my favorite rivals
I liked Hau and Gladion. I liked how Hau actually had a character arc where he developed and changed. He wasn’t nearly as annoying as people say he is. Also Gladion is a pretty cool guy. I like how he sides with the bad guys in order to further is own good intentions.
Exactly. I also liked Gladion in the sense that he was a generally good person but he also wouldn’t hold back in fighting you
He’s the anti hero of the story. He’s kind of jerk and is technically shown to be on the bad guy’s side for a time, but ultimately is a good person.
Yee
Too bad USUM didn’t even expand on or develop gladion as he deserved to be.
I mean teamwise they did, I love his post elite four addition because it actually does say something about him
I dont really have a favorite. The rivals just annoy me because they never help us in the story when sh*t goes down. It’s a plot hole. That honestly really bugs me about Hau. He selfishly jumps ship after aether paradise. F*ck him.
Only Barry actually helped when he came to spear pillar. And I guess Serena/Calem in XY? But kalos sucks and so did serena and calem so im not counting them.
You didn’t like Gladion at all?
I kinda forgot Barry anyways
Also Hugh….. he tried… he honestly tried XD
Yeah he tried I guess. But I dont remember him coming to the meteor site or whatever. The kyurem place.
Gladion is just okay? He has potential but vastly underdeveloped. They still didn’t give us a cutscene with type null evolving or something.
I seeee
Hugh was there, he nyoomed in to save his cat and got ptsd’d when it was sent out of the ball
I just liked Gladion as a character
I want to like him but he really got the short end of the stick. The story hardly cares about him. Everything is given to Lillie. You could remove gladion and pretty much nothing would change tbh
I adored gladion cause of personality but yeah, it’s pretty unfortunate
Lillie was kinda eh to me anyways and all the side characters were more interesting imo
Also I REALLY wish they did more with the recon squad considering the little subplot they had
Castrate?
Nope
Cool fact: Team RR grunts attack Alolan form mons based on their Kanto types. A cool little reference to how they have no experience with these forms
That is cool, but also gamefreak made their teams so boring. Like I get they’re supposed to be from gen 1 when they had lame teams consisting of zubat and raticate, but of all the liberties to take this is where they play it safe? SNOOZE.
They should’ve used Gen 2 mons too because Johto had no rep
Would’ve been better though still boring tbh
Wanna hear another fun fact?
Their mon variety here was better than some of their actual games
Simply because they used one or two more lines than usual
Dealing with that NICE 2x odds shiny encounters for this fucking flying bacon strip
Still pissed alola didn’t have a ghost ship
Or just a ship we could explore. Or a sea we could explore.
Either
But ghost ship cause route 14 and dhelmise
Alola was full of missed opportunities
At leas there was no battle frontier project to not finish
True
Tbh most regions are
Kalos was a completely one
Wow I never knew how much I love the Vanillite line till last night
They got Ice Beam and ZOOF!!! It destroyed the entire gym trainer section of Skyla’s gym single handedly
Well you did have the type advantage and Ice Beam is really quite powerful.
It’s even better knowing Frosty is Rash natured
Oddly all except Emboar and Simisage have Rash natures on my team
I often seem to catch the same natures, it can get annoying, it might be to do with your OT or some other value. That or you led with a Synchronizer when you caught them that was Rash.
Nah I don’t have a synchronizer
Why are Gladion and Wally considered Rivals? You rarely ever fight them
Gladion you actually fight 3 times which isn’t exactly rare
I get what you mean for Wally
I just consider them to be and enjoy them a lot
But like….
He isn’t rivaling you at anything
It’s more or less he becomes one at the end of the story. He makes a comment about how you and Hau are getting stronger and the need for him to keep up with you two. By the end of the story’s events, he’s technically a rival
He more is your rival in the fact that he wants to get to your level and beat you as you are his hero basically
Wouldn’t say hero as much as I’d say someone he highly respects
You rarely fight a lot of rivals though? (Like I think you fight Serena/Calem 4 times in game)
But Wally should more be a sub rival knowing you fight him… twice throughout the game and only see him 3 times (except if you look starting at I think Lavaridge he has beaten every gym after that before you)
Ok but they’re still competing with you in some way. Wally rarely interacts with you at all
Wally does openly state that he wishes to become strong enough to beat you and promises to catch up
He’s a great rival but he’s way too infrequent to cout
But you already know you can beat him, he’s not equal in strength like Blue, Silver or Barry ya know?
Ummm what? I wouldn’t call Barry equal in strength and blue is only good cause he became champion
I did legitimately feel like Silver was a good rival though
Wally’s not as strong as you but it’s more or less the fact that some day he will be that’s interesting
….plus that postgame team YIKKES
He definetly is faster though
Starting around Lavaridge I think every gym statue says he already has beaten it
Oh yeah I forgot about that
Shoutout to wally’s theme btw, gets nowhere as much as credit as it should get
Imo It’s repetitive and the guitar sounds awful.
It sounds like a chunk of its missing
Just like the game it’s in, it’s so close to greatness
Still it’s a cool addition
Like Zinnier’s theme
Zinnia gas the same problem really. Repetitive and feels like there’s a part missing
I mean it’s cool because they’re new and did sound quite different
I honestly liked how they sounded
Now that I think about it there are quite a lot of forgettable elite four memebers
I remember them
Lorelei, Bruno, Marshal, Shauntal, Aaron, Wikstrom and Koga are my favorites though (All such good characters imo)
Can you name the rest of Kalos elite four and anyone from Hoenn?
Hoenn: Sydney, Glacia, Drake, Phobie
Kalos: Drasna, Siebold, Malva
Sinnoh: Lucius, Bertha, Flint
How did you even remember Lucian and Glacia
I have a gift of remembering the small pointless things from stuff
Lucian is hard lol
He is?
Yes? Lol
Yeh, his Mons hit haaaaard
C’mon Glacia was cool
“Glacia sent out sealeo!
“Glacia sent out sealeo!
“GLACIA SENT OUT WALREIN”
God I just looked at her teams and noticed how little variation they have. I know ice types are rare but damn
They’re amazing
You get no time with them
True but like
Think about
Agatha
(Not counting Bruno or Lance cause they show up twice each)
Karen- (Mainly cause of that stuff she says)
Grimsley who was apparently popular enough to bring back in SuMo
And as much as I hate it, Kalos had Siebold who was a relatively unique elite four member
Alola’s was memorable cause they were people you fought on your journey plus Kahili who’s team was too bitchy to forget
Than you have people like
Bertha
Glacia
Drake
Yeah sometimes they feel like trainers with unique designs, the ones that usually stick with you are the ones who showed great characters with the little time you spent with them.
Agreeeeed
I’m still pissed they missed a totally justified reason to stick Iris into the XY arc for the ol previous companion episodes but she’s fawning over Drasna
DrasnaCC
No one liked Iris so that’s probably why they left her ass in the dust
Honestly probably my favorite addition ORAS had was that little post credit fight with the rival.
XY had one too though?
It’s mainly because in the originals the last time you fought may was in lilycove and her starter wasn’t even fully evolved yet
In ORAS you get to see their full team
That’s true I love that battle too (I wasn’t trying to say I hate that fight, more just pointing out XY also had one)
X and Y you fought AZ for no reason and created a meme
Memes… Memes everywhere!
The X and Y one wasn’t even earned
Doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist tho
AZ could ruin your whole day if you somehow lost to him there
You can lose?
I think it’s possible, but very unlikely I presume
I just looked, the ending is the same either way
You mean the green toothpick?
Wally was victory road
I mean the may one
I don’t remember her
Cool little animation https://twitter.com/LoosePopcorn/status/954036207968768001
I’d like to see a Pokémon game with an art style like this rather than the 3D models we have now. The same goes for the next 2D Mario…hand-drawn will be the new polygon.
Could be cool. I’d like it if eventually we could essentially play the anime.
That’s basically the sticker franchise though.
I know it may feel lazy/sloppy but tbh the Elite 4 in Gen VII being story characters who you already knew were strong characters was something I actually enjoyed. I can remember them all.
Besides Swahili or whatever her name was with her tennis racket was
How dare you disrespect Kahili like that 👁️🗨️
I loved it too
I remember Kahilli soley because of what she did to my team in SuMo
She was the only e4 member to beat my Togedemaru 🙁
Araquanid fainted
My entire team followed
That’s gotta suck bud
Kahili is meant to d*ck people
Hazard spamming Skarmory, Steel melting Orocorio, Taunt Mandibuzz
Such a competitive flying team
You’re forgetting that dumbass flinchfusion crobat
Oh right
If she has Masquerain on her team I would’ve flipped the f*ck out
Mah baby gurl
I despise them now after what Guzma did to me with one
SHUSH MASQUERAIN IS AN INNOCENT BAB
though it was well deserved, let them feel the pain my baby had to go through
When something 10 levels higher than it with a type advantage and one of the highest defenses in the games existence gets killed in two hits by a STAB buffed little moth thing there’s a problem!!!
Which mon?
Turtonator (Sh*t why did I remember it was 4th when its 35th highest)
https://www.serebii.net/pokedex-sm/stat/defense.shtml
That thing is not bulky from what I remember, check the HP
60 HP stat
That explains it
All of them were minor inconveniences at best
I think them using already established characters was the wrong thing to do. I get why they did it, but it took away from the mystery of the E4. If they had been all new characters then it would have been better. Having 3 of them be characters you already have met is a little lame…
Hala >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Molayne
Molayne more like
MOLAME
*HYUK*
No but it was worth it to me just because I got to watch Sophocles suffer
Can they just remove Molayne and Sophocales?
Like release an update removing them
Just replace them with.. idk.. a bag of trash
Molayne i felt nothing for
But Sophocles made me legitimately feel depressed for existing
Won’t make much a difference tho
There’d be no sophocles so no festival plaza
There’s nothing wrong with Molayne though. It’s not fair to hate him because of sophocles.
He’s just boring
Hundreds of pokemon characters are boring. In fact a lot characters from Gen 7 are boring or bad. I personally hate fighting type and I hate going up against them. I’d battle steel over it any day.
Hala is such a memorable and charismatic ol gramps
True (even if his team was shittttt)
Yeah, so many good fighting types out there :I
But eh I’m ok with his team because it seems to fit his personality more
It does it does
But he could have stood to teach bewear more than two moves
All this elite four talk reminds me, my region doesn’t have an elite four!
I remember I wanted it to be this
Gym Leaders
Normal Honor Student
Grass Farmer
Electric Arcade owner
Psychic Soothsayer
Ghost Blind Violinist
Fairy Spoiled Heiress
Dragon Amazon Chief
Fighting Martial Arts Master
Elite Four
Fire Meditator
Water Buff Woman
Flying Pilot
Rock Sumo Guy
Champion
Mixed (but mostly Grass) Wildlife conserver
Sounds cool! I especially like the Violin player idea
Ilima
Better Ramos
That lady from the battle arcade but a leader
No words
Feel the vibes duuuuude
A pretty awesome one
Fetish bait
I wonder where I’ve seen this before
That dude from suicide squad (I dunno DC)
Provide more description plz
SKYLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
Bruno if he was brock
Cool fact, the chance for crits was lowered in SuMo!
thank god..
Mina is me irl
Gen 7 had some great characters
Kinda off topic chit chat making – how long has it been since you’ve changed your name and/or avatar?
also help me decide which weather waifu I should use as my theme k thnx bye
Waifu 1
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/c91f4e89744d326b490564cea3225e85793d1f7b2c46c70154acf4eaad75a331.jpg
Waifu 2 https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/fe2a8813cd676486784b5c91bb3e7f7509af5fa0e3a7d7d93339247e1bacccbe.jpg
1 soley because I don’t like the weapon of two
How dare you disrespect Myrtenaster like that >:[
Also these are Waifu 2’s actual weapons, she jacked the rapier from best girl https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/b7419c43172492762c3ecd2bed907afd0b06cebf8558e7faa1a54be4cd088b04.png x2
Wait now that you mention it.
She HAS HER WEAPON, like who is she, damn I missed so much
You’ve missed all of Volume 5 I guess :p
Yep, guess I gotta catch up now that I don’t have much to watch/play lol
Waifu 2 is catching my eye
I changed my avatar December 20 something when I got Hollowknight because Hornet is really cool and I’m very excited for the Hornet Campaign DLC it can’t come soon enough
Vernal third best girl https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/2fb88312e5bdb42a2a97fca9f027975c62a770f6700d3cda41a25c5dad0205f2.gif
This morning because I had a vision
I really wish you didn’t
I believe it really shows how crazy I am with that wild look in Donkeys eye
No, it just makes you look much more annoying than you are
I’m…….. Annoying?……….
*Falls into depression
you’re much less annoying than me
“more annoying than you are”
Lmfao are you implying that Kuru was already annoying
I like Donkey in 1 & 2. Also I don’t find Kurusu annoying.
I like him in those too.
Shrek 3 is the real meme worthy one with how its the worst in the saga
I really don’t remember it and I feel he was too different in the fourth one due to circumstances brought about by the wish.
Yea he acted much, dumber almost as if he was more retarded than normal
That’s why he’s better in the first 2, because he’s not a step too far, they got him just right. He also has actual character growth in both of those movies.
Don’t you mean nightmare?
I had a Grinch ones for Xmas
Pls don’t remind me of that nightmare fuel thank you very much
Eh haven’t changed my avatar for quite some time and probably won’t change soon, and with the name, I just decided to not make it all cap like an idiot
Also dude clearly 1 like who even is the second girl, choose 2 and I’ll fucking shake my head
I like your avatar alot really
Thanko, I really didn’t expect someone to like my avatar because you know how ‘popular’ Undertale avatars are lol
Dude Undertale is awesomeeeeee
I’ll change too since it’s been a good while
Never mostly because I can’t be bothered.
I like both, but probably 1 more.
Name: Never
Avatar: when Mega Metagross was revealed.
You, Earthen, Monkeyfuzz and few others I don’t think ever change
I never change my name, but I swear some people on here change names more often than I change my underwear.
It can be hard to keep track of who is who if it doesn’t include at least part of what they are usually known by.
Yikeles
I haven’t changed my name since joining in 2013, but I did change my avatar three times: from an Inkay to Dedenne (when it was revealed), from Dedenne to Rowlet (when the SM starters were revealed), and back to Dedenne (after SM hype died down).
It’s been about a week since I changed my Avatar. A little over a week for my name
… I found something funnier…
Thank you
I also miss having the word fool in my name, but though it’s too soon to pull this one back out https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/e63fe9861ab3e674cc51a62197864e8c08bf55d69542faa231b5aa32fcb07bb7.jpg
why
Random but I really hope I can get my license soon so I can get another job. Telemarketing is such a dull job. Don’t get me wrong I am happy to make money but I just want something where I can do something and not just sit at a desk all day
I now imagine you as the guy in the Disney short ‘Inner Workings’.
That is very fitting actually lol hopefully things can change soon and I can find a job where I can actually move around
Did it cut off the profile pic?
Goddamnit
Yep this is what I’m doing now
Weeeb :3
If you watched it we could have Blend S-tarstorm too
Is that the one with the artist girl you were telling me about
Yes, the anime is memes
Also Miu is literally you
Plz