If You Love Rumors, That’s OK

I’m re-tooling this post a bit. Some people and outlets decried the coverage of the fake starters yesterday for not being reasonably believable or not 100% confirmed. I would argue though that reading about interesting stuff can be fun, especially when you’re covering a game intended for a primarily adolescent audience. Everyone needs a break from the stresses of life, why fuss over gaming news. Let’s just have fun and enjoy it.

As long as rumors or suspect information is clearly marked as such I think we can enjoy it without shame. No worries, we won’t stop covering them.

Have a good weekend everyone!

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1,456 thoughts on “If You Love Rumors, That’s OK”

  1. Donphan trainersona details
    Gender: Male
    Ability: Sturdy
    Unique Traits: A notch in his left ear, scars on his armor
    Moves: Bulldoze, Rollout, Sandstorm, Giga Impact
    Tenacious and headstrong, loves practicing its rollout attack, loves having its tusks polished

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    • Oh and can use rollout to deflect and defend against attacks by spinning (Unless I just make it learn rapid spin or gyro ball)

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      • I know you interpret the ‘anime style’ thing differently but in my ‘canon’ Entry Hazards and the like can be broken by normal attacks so if you think the same I’d keep Rollout

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        • True but the whole ideas is Donphan’s mastery of rolling and spinning gives him plenty of ideas to write battles

          Him bouncing around like a pinball, he rebounding a water Gun or bullet seed by spinning in place

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    • Rhyperior: Hits hard, can break through defenses, and can do massive burst damage when you’re at a disadvantage. In an anime style enviroment, it works well.

      Excadril: My only issue is Metal Claw, but I understand why you want it. But Iron Head is just better, but it works for you and thats what matters. But tbh I’d envision Iron Head as ‘Iron Drill Head’ which means Excadrill would basically do a Steel-type Drill Run

      Donphan: Speed control and weather setter, no issues there. Earthquake would maybe be better but it’s not an issue.

      Nidoking: Missing a STAB usually isn’t optimal but it has four great moves and Flamethrower + Bolt Beam covers a lot of your weaknesses.

      Sandslash: Kinda covers all your weaknesses, my only issue is Gyro Ball and Rock Tomb being counter-productive: assuming Gyro Ball maintains some of its game origin, Rock Tomb actually works to weaken it. Maybe a Poison move to bolster your anti-Grass defense?

      Garchomp: Nice crossover between lore (Chop, Crunch) and strength (Iron Head, Earthquake). No issues here and Dual Chop on Mega Chomp would probably look cool as heck

      Really good for an anime team

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      • i chose Metal Claw just to realy give a definition to Excadrill’s powerful claws, aside just to give it more slashing momentum

        and for Sandslash the Gyro Ball just to let it spin similar to Donphan honestly i might drop it on the team in favor of Mamoswine or Golurk and the Rock Tomb so it can trap opponents so it can dig underneath them for a combo attack

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          • Yeah sadly Sandslash is better off as my wittle pet Sandshrew <3
            Female
            lives at home at my ranch house

            Dig, Rollout, Metal Claw, Rototiller

            As for Golurk

            Magnitude, Shadow Punch, Phantom Force, Heavy Slam (Unless i need to teach it Fly to actually fly around)

          • perfect
            It slams its fist or foot to create tremors for Magnitude
            Shadow Punch Haymakers that follow you
            Heavy Slam body checks

            and Phantom Phorce to teleport in and out of the shadows

      • Also you may be asking why none all carry Earthquake
        i am so animoo i follow the Earthquake banning!

        Garchomp only preforms Earthquake when mega’d and under the full effects of Sand Force to unleash a devastating tremor that scars the battlefield

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  2. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/0124cf7959a96a29919db0412e3bb84b9575b89d2ac29a76f43d6385f12404ba.png

    Whatever ill go into details no one cares about

    Star (Taylor)
    Fairy Specialist cuz im gay af

    Primarina – Venus
    Female
    kind but shy unless she’s performing

    Gardevoir – Kumatora
    Female
    The oldest on the team and strongest. She’s pretty chill tho

    Mimikyu – Stiches
    idk cant decide
    Quiet and Self Unconscious. Total weeaboo

    Sylveon – Vivian
    Female
    Super confident and happy. Makes everyone around her happy too

    Mawile – cant think of a name whatever
    Female
    Sick of people’s sh*t. sort of kinky. when shes not totally pissed shes extremely annoyed

    Whimmsicott – Whitney
    Female
    Kind of adores drama but stays out of it. Sleeps often. Snarky

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  3. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/54d857d818d0d1bed9c38a619d2a11b3ed79e73cebdddcda913818cdb41f9774.png

    (Mega) Venusaur – Giga Drain/Sludge Bomb/Stomping Tantrum/Leech Seed
    Toxapex -Liquidation/Poison Jab/Recover/Toxic Spikes
    Nidoqueen – Sludge Bomb/Earth Power/Focus Blast/Shadow Ball
    Crobat – Cross Poison/Acrobatics/Leech Life/Steel Wing
    AloMuk – Knock Off/Poison Fang/Fire Punch/Explosion
    Salazzle – Venoshock/Fire Blast/Dragon Pulse/Nasty Plot

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    • The only two I’ve got on lock are Bernadette (Fire-type blacksmith, a hardened old woman) and a Psychic-type hypnotist

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    • i have them all which are my gym leaders

      Caleb Normal Honor Student
      Rusty Grass Farmer/Rancher
      Token Electric Arcade Owner
      Clara Psychic Soothsayer
      Abbigale Fairy Spoiled Heiress
      Leopold Ghost Blind Violinist
      Eva Dragon Amazon Warrior
      Jayden Fighting Martial Arts Sensei

      Fire Water Flying Rock Elite Four

      Freya Grass Champion
      Ilko Ground Team Quake Leader

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    • From left to right (top are current player characters). Note: still a WIP, I’m happier with some more than others.
      Ghost? (seems random, but relevant to the story), Flying, Dragon, Normal, Psychic, Fire (maybe Steel, maybe both?), Dark, Rock. Not Gym Leaders.
      https://imgur.com/JULqQGY

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    • Fire-*Insert pun name here* E4 member, very attractive girl
      Water-Michelle/Micheal your rival
      Gras-Les (male) gym leader, Forest national park ranger
      Electric- *insert pun name here* gym leader mechanic of a River Electricity generator
      Normal-Typica (f) gym leader, owner of a hotel/restaurant
      Fighting-Clark gym leader, Comic book shop owner
      Dark- Tatiana E4 member Old post lady
      Ghost- Celos (m) Team Autumn leader
      Bug- Verba (full name Verbascuma) (f) Team Spring Leader
      Flying- Gale Gym leader Old lady living in a small House in the middle of the city
      Ice- *insert pun name here* E4 member, very cool guy
      Rock- Professor Pine (m)
      Ground- Professor Fir (f)
      Steel- Svar (m) Gym leader owner of a Metalworks
      Fairy- Dulce (f) Gym leader owner of a candy factory
      Psychic- Philip (m) E4 member
      Poison- Victor your older brother, Works in a very radioactive area
      Dragon- Drakoslav (m) Gym Leader rich talk show host

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  4. Time for my Trainersona (even though it’s not really me). I cant of any of RN, so I will just finally make the trainer card to the one I had earlier
    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/535b9ebc5451f41db37e045aabb4784aeb78a2bdb3b031a9453327dbcd20d52d.png
    Basically it is a Pokemon Coordinator who is from the Dragon Village in Unova. Who unlike people who want to prove Dragon’s Strength is Battle, I strive to prove Dragon’s ravishing skills in Pokemon contests. I amfrom in the Hoenn Region competing in Contests to be the top coordinator with Dragons. I am very proud of myself, and my dragons. To the point where I am pretty cocky, but I am easily on the best coordinators, and will show off my Pokemon at any instant. I have a major emphasis on the 5 contest labels: Cool, Beauty, Cute, Clever, Tough
    The team:
    Sceptile: Leaf Blade/ Dual Chop/ Quick Attack/ Leaf Storm
    My starter in the Hoenn region. Basically just Ash’s Sceptile very cool, but friendly. This Pokemon is used for my emphasis in the “Cool” variant of Contests. With it’s mega evolution becoming Dragon type, my appreciate grows for it even more.

    Dragonair: Blizzard/ Fire Blast/ Draco Meteor/ Thunder
    Just as it seems it’s a hard hitter, each move it uses brings out it’s ‘beauty.’ That exactly is what characteristic it represents. To be such a beautiful pokemon that it is.

    Shelgon: Defense Curl/ Hydro Pump/ Dragon Claw/ Double Edge
    I obsess with my Shelgon stating that how ‘cute’ it is. Even though nobody ever sees it but me and the judges.

    Latias: Mist Ball/ Dragon Breath/ Reflect/ Shadow Ball
    As a psychic it of course represents the cleverness. I was very lucky to catch one of these in a masterball.

    Druddigon: Dragon Tail/ Glare/ Smack Down/ Iron Head
    Used to represent the toughness of dragon type pokemon. Being very slow but hitting very hard.

    Shiny Noivern: Hurricane/ Boomburst/ DragonPulse/ Steel Wing
    This is used to represent how dragon types incorporate ALL the contest characteristics and is probably the strongest member of my team.

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      • I when depositing my egg and then switching the boxes which in turn saves the game. I must’ve reset the game too far into the save sequence thus saving at the box instead of the old man, so in order to get more odd eggs I would have to start a new game. But even if I get zilch form these eggs I’ll start a new game after I get my Celebi.

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        • Ah, I think I might have this issue when I come to do the 3 starters glitch, since the timing is more difficult in Crystal apparently/

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          • Yeah it is in yellow all I had to do was stop the game around “The” but in Crystal you have to wait until all the text appears and hit it a second or two after. I practiced with my Togepi to try and get the hang of it. I Should’ve practiced a bit longer I guess😔

  5. I hope with the remakes going forward, GF make new Pokémon in the style of the generation Ex. New Pokémon in Sinnoh looking like they were MADE in Sinnoh and not the current gen. Now that GF has broken the barrier of one set of Pokémon per gen I can’t wait to see what they are going to do!

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  6. ok so there was a fake leak made back before sun and moon came out a little after Ribombee was shown and it had a bunch of evolutions for already revealed pokemon and one was of Ribombee and it was like a pop star and if you can find this please let me know

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  7. Kinda want to flex my writing muscles a bit, give me a trainersona and their signature Pokemon and I’ll right a few 1v1s

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    • A little bit of context. This genre of Polish music is called Disco Polo and it’s considered to be embarassing and pathetic by the majority of Poles. The lyrics are usually about attractive woman or love. Some people say they sound like anime theme songs and I wanted to check that.

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  8. Since everyone else did it:
    Mono Fire
    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/2cc7c2e44f8139d29f8bf1d79f2236cabd145486e5c69afecca0b098d46be807.png
    Anime sets
    Infernape – Close Combat, Fire Blast, Mach Punch, Flare Blitz
    Houndoom – Flamethrower, Dark Pulse, Thunder Fang, Will-O-Wisp
    Arcanine – Extremespeed, Flare Blitz, Morning Sun, Fire Blast
    Charizard (Mega X) – Flare Blitz, Dragon Claw, Earthquake, Fire Blast
    A.Marowak – Shadow Boner, Bonemerang, Fire Punch, Iron Head
    Volcarona – Bug Buzz, Giga Drain, Heat Wave, Quiver Dance

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  9. Fun Fact about me: I never sweared on purpose in my entire life. I always censor it, or don’t finish the word, or usually I just use a non-swear word Kij (pronounced Keey) (means basically a big stick/wooden pole)

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  10. Welp I’m watching a few months old Pewdiepie video and he said this @starstorm295:disqus
    “Why would you like a f*cking character from Splatoon. Like what kind of pathetic waifu is that?”

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