History Characters / PokemonGenerationIIITreeckoToSharpedo

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[[caption-width-right:240:Mega Sceptile]]

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[[caption-width-right:240:Mega Blaziken]]

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[[caption-width-right:240:Mega Swampert]]

* LilyPadPlatform: Lotad has been known to let small Pokemon ride on its head leaf across ponds.

* NinjaPirateZombieRobot: Ludicolo somewhat resembles a pineapple with a duck bill wearing a lily-pad sombrero. On top of all that it's based off of {{Kappa}}, a type of {{Youkai}}.

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[[caption-width-right:240:Mega Gardevoir]]
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[[caption-width-right:240:Mega Gallade]]

* CuteButCacophonic: Whismur, whose screaming can get as loud as (or louder than) a jet plane. There's even a DummiedOut ability in their debut generation ''called'' Cacophony that is presumed to have belonged to this line.[[note]]Said ability is functionally identical to Soundproof, but most other Soundproof Pokémon are either {{Animate Inanimate Object}}s with no discernible ears or are based off of mimes, while this line is presumably immune to sound-based moves because they drown them out. The only other Pokémon with a similar justification for the Soundproof ability, and thus the only other line that likely would've received Cacophony instead (had it continued to exist), is the Jangmo'o line, which didn't debut until Generation VII.[[/note]]

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[[caption-width-right:240:Mega Sableye]]

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[[caption-width-right:240:Mega Mawile]]

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[[caption-width-right:240:Mega Aggron]]

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[[caption-width-right:240:Mega Medicham]]

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[[caption-width-right:240:Mega Manectric]]

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[[caption-width-right:240:Mega Sharpedo]]

* AluminumChristmasTrees: Many fans have found it weird or disappointing that Sharpedo looks like only half a shark. Aside from the obvious "torpedo" inspiration, it's also based on the ocean sunfish, which really does look like half a fish.

* EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs: Though the line is more heavily based on geckos, Grovyle and Sceptile have some [[RaptorAttack dromaeosaurid]] features, and even get a few things right in the depiction with their inward-facing hands and "feathers".

* EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs: Being birds, chickens are already dinosaurs to begin with, but Combusken bears a passing resemblance to a non-avian theropod too, namely with its long arms with three claws at the end, similar to those of a therozinosaurid or an ornithomimid.

* EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs: Breloom has some characteristics of dinosaurs, with its head being similar to a ''Pachycephalosaurus'' and its tail resembling an ''Ankylosaurus'' tail. Shroomish is noted by some to look somewhat like a dinosaur egg.

* EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs: Lairon and (more obviously) Aggron. Aggron resembles a cross between a ''Triceratops'' and a ''T. rex''.

* SeldomSeenSpecies: As noted above, they appear to be based on brown hyenas and striped hyenas rather than the more well-known spotted hyenas.

* AwesomeButImpractical: Shedinja's ability to negate damage with Wonder Guard. Having a Pokémon that is potentially invincible against an opponent without the right moves sounds extremely powerful, but there are [[KryptoniteIsEverywhere so many ways to get around Wonder Guard]] that it's often not worth the trouble.

* PowerupLetdown: Not only is Telepathy — its Hidden Ability — utterly useless in Single Battles and at best situational in Double or Triple Battles, its sole good stat (a doubled Attack) is only thanks to its original ability of Pure Power.

* MasterOfNone: All of Sableye's stats range from "bad" to "below average" compared to more specialized Pokémon, though access to the rare Prankster ability and a good support movepool mean that it can function as a decent SupportPartyMember.

* CombatPragmatist / CastingAShadow: A Dark-type that uses Prankster to use non-attacking moves first.

* CombatPragmatist: A Dark-type that uses Prankster to use non-attacking moves first.

* CockyRooster: The Torchic line is based on chickens, and Combusken and Blaziken dual-typed Fire/Fighting, both associated with aggressiveness and strong attacks. The middle evolution Combusken has a permanent Death Glare and is known for being belligerent.

* CluckingFunny: ''Kickboxing fire chickens!''

** In a Double or Triple Battle, Skill Swap can be used by an ally to remove Truant and let Slaking reach its full potential. While your ally is now stuck with a crappy ability, switching out will remove it from them so they aren't completely crippled by it. [[spoiler:Evice actually uses this strategy in ''Pokémon Colosseum''.]]
** In a Single Battle, Cofagrigus can spread its ability Mummy to a contacting opponent, and Slaking can later contact said opponent to get Mummy itself, giving it another way to remove its PowerLimiter.

* RatedMForManly: Good attack, good bulk, awesome typing both offensively and defensively, and '''Mega Swampert''', dear god. It's a giant humanoid fish with a similar body type to the ComicBook/IncredibleHulk.

* NiceHat: Lily-pad hats are awesome, okay?

* NiceHat: Probopass sports a red ''pukau''.

* PeekABangs: Starting from Kirlia, the line switches from the BlindingBangs of Ralts to always having one eye covered and the other exposed. Which eye is shown depends on the direction it's facing.

* BlindingBangs: It might look like Ralts has no eyes, but they're just obscured by its hair, as can be seen in [[http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/File:Raltseyes.png this picture]].

* HuMons: The Ralts line is among the most human-looking Pokémon out there. Ralts itself looks like a little girl in a long dress with BlindingBangs, its evolution Kirlia resembles a ballerina with pigtails, and the final evolution Gardevoir looks like a lady in a ballroom gown with pseudo-PeekABangs. The alternate final evolution Gallade is more masculine and resembles a knight.

* BreakoutCharacter: The whole family has become much more prominent in later generations than its first. Initially, they were just a family of Psychic-types that happened to be Wally's signature Pokémon. Then Gen IV gave them Gallade as an alternate second-stage evolution, and Generation VI gives ''both'' Gardevoir and Gallade Mega Evolutions, with Mega Gardevoir being the signature Pokémon of Kalos's Champion while Wally got Mega Gallade. Gardevoir is also one of the playable characters in ''VideoGame/PokkenTournament''.

* BreakoutCharacter: The whole family has become much more prominent in later generations than its first. Initially, they were just a family of Psychic-types that happened to be Wally's signature Pokémon. Then Gen IV gave them Gallade as an alternate second-stage evolution, and Generation VI gives ''both'' Gardevoir and Gallade Mega Evolutions, with Mega Gardevoir being the signature Pokémon of Kalos's Champion while Wally got Mega Gallade. Gardevoir is even one of the playable characters in ''VideoGame/PokkenTournament''.

* ShownTheirWork: The SecondarySexualCharacteristics of male Torchic having a nearly-imperceptible dot on it's behind is a reference to how real freshly-hatched chicks have (through breeding) a few feathers longer on their wings if they're male. It's completely unnoticible if you don't know about it already, like Torchic.

* HotBlooded: UpToEleven with Vigoroth. Its heart beats at a tenfold rate, so it has so much energy that it ''literally'' can't stay still. It gets incredibly stressed to the point of getting sick if something keeps it from burning energy.

* GlassCannon: Has fair offensive stats and a good mixed movepool, but its typing and defenses do it no favors.

* AntiFrustrationFeatures: The Hoenn remakes lower the levels needed for Nuzleaf to learn its natural moves (particularly the vital [[PsychicPowers Extrasensory]]), allowing you to evolve it much earlier than before.

* MagikarpPower: Seedot is one of the worst unevolved mons in the series, and it does get better as it evolves. But Nuzleaf doesn't learn Extrasensory until level 36, so have fun dragging it around until then.
* MindReading: Shiftry [[GameplayAndStorySegregation is said to be capable of this]] in the Pokédex to sense an opponent's actions.