Pokémon General Thread

Jeez, you didn't need to go through that much.

I'll at least put a few neat items on them.

I'm lucky I didn't have to trade a shiny for any of them. Enjoy.

Why is an item that can be infinitely copied via growing so expensive to trade for...?

Well, it's more the fastest way I could fish for a reliable trade.

I only go to one other place for Pokemon trading and the place is usually swarmed with requests for legendaries, events, 5-6 IV shiny Pokemon, and such. Like I said, I was fortunate that a few perfect Dittos were enough. I know it seems excessive from my end but I have plenty more Dittos in reserve.

The thing is, do we really need a metagame where switching around isn't really punished? Remember there are plenty of SR-weak viable Pokemon.

Rapid Spin Regenerator Slowbro is something you DON'T want to have around.

Rapid Spin Mega Lopunny would be cool. Anything with Scrappy really.

Fuck yes!

Thank Chuggaconroy for introducing that last part. There really is a lot of potential for Colosseum, but it's been discussed before that it won't really happen. The 3DS provides 3-D battles, a way to transfer pokemon across the world, and a lot of the features that Stadium presents (They started putting more effort into the story in Black and White, and ORAS and XY provided a more cinematic experience).

They've clearly given up on the series. It's a damned shame, but I ain't expecting anything.

3DS games set in Orre?

What's fun is that in Colosseum, if your Pokemon goes into Hyper Mode, sometimes they'll attack the enemy trainer directly.

I remember seeing my Makuhita sock Miror B. in the gut once.

Edit: EVERY battle in the Maison I'm getting 2-3 Poison-type opponents. The game REALLY doesn't like Pixilate Hyper Voice Sylveon.

edited 28th Jun '15 8:21:11 PM by Anomalocaris20

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Oh hell no. We need 3D games set in Kanto, Johto, Sinnoh and Unova before we start on spinoff regions.

Considering how big Xeno Blade Chronicles X is, any possibility we could get a game that happens in all of them?

I don't see much sense in that.

Sense?

Sense?!

We don't need no sense around here!

Causes nothing but trouble.

Rule of Cool should guide everything.

EVERYTHING.

Edit: I just want a game for Wii U.

edited 28th Jun '15 9:17:49 PM by HandsomeRob

Same.

I'd be fine with either a followup to XD, or another game not unlike Pokemon Stadium and Revolution. Though taking more cues from the former.

Battle Revolution mashed together the worst parts of Stadium and the Orre games. I can see why there is some scepticism towards making a similar game.

Remember how in Stadium an attack would fire, then it would show it missing? That's the kind of stuff people would look for in that kind of game, not just 3D but a slower battle system (and being slower than DP takes guts).

Also rentals, and not preset rental teams. Actual rentals; if I want to try out a species, I'd like to be able to, even if it has a lackluster moveset (still, Stadium 1 was decent there; Stadium 2, well, we all know GSC T Ms sucked for the most part).

Stadium was better in almost every way, but the trainer customization from PBR would be nice to have return. Provided they get rid of the gender/build-locking, that was silly. Especially for things like hair and eye colors.

And yeah, I liked having Rentals. Hell, it'd be really cool if they went full-sim and let us completely customize a rental Pokemon right there. There'd probably be a restriction on them in the singleplayer facilities and online in order to encourage people to actually import their teams, but it'd be fun for Free Battle mode.

The fact that in Stadium it would show the attack animation but then if it missed it would cut to the opposing Pokémon who's just standing still always make me imagine that the attack failed because the user attacked at a completely different location which is pretty silly.

One thing that was supposed to be in PBR that didn't make the final cut was destructible terrains.

As in, if you used a really big attack like Earthquake or Roar of Time it'd destroy parts of the scenery too. That'd be fun.

But the most important thing to have is the return of the Gym Leader Castle. With every region. And 6-on-6 instead of 3-on-3.

I think we discussed this before, but didn't PBR have better rule customization that the main series still lacks? I'm like 75% sure it let you toggle stuff like Sleep Clause (we seriously need this) and Explosion Clause.

Something else that the console games had that's very subtle is accurately displaying the HP Bar's percentage. The handhelds cheese it a bit because it's like 33 pixels too short of 100 or something; the original Stadium went as far as telling you the actual value of the opponent's HP.

edited 28th Jun '15 11:30:15 PM by Karxrida

I keep reading that as Pabst Blue Ribbon.

Never heard of it before. It's beer for those who haven't either.

First thing it says:

Made me laugh so hard. I never expected The Other Wiki to actually use the term hipster.

edited 28th Jun '15 11:51:35 PM by Karxrida

That's such a meaningless term nowadays. For real.

Shock of the century. Pokemon Shuffle coming to mobile systems later this year.

Tyrogue to Himonchan

edited 29th Jun '15 11:56:52 AM by rmctagg09

Stadium and PBR included quite a few toggleable clauses. Sleep/Freeze Clause, Self-KO Clause^* If a draw happens because of recoil moves, Explosion, Self-Destruct, Perish Song, or Destiny Bond, it's a loss for the user and a win for the target. Or something along those lines., Species Clause, and Item Clause. Stadium also established Little Cup, and within it a ban on Sonicboom and Dragon Rage.