Pokémon General Thread

But I would be really happy to have a good Shiny Rayquaza. I'm more leaning towards getting a good one but it would be so funny to nickname it something like 'Lamequaza' and Wonder Trade it.

Well you can't nickname it, sooo...

Oh yeah, I can't! Frikken' Galileo! I guess I'll reset for something better!

Yeah. I know you can't nickname traded Pokemon but they should make an exception for ones gotten through events.

Why IS this Rayquaza's original trainer Galileo anyways?

Hilarious in Hindsight: I used search engine and it turned up a fan fiction called Pokemon Cosmic Quest, where a Galileo character is the Tenno (region) champion and his signature mon is a fakemon called Dracosmic which is described as "a long serpentine dragon. Its skin is pitch-black..."

edited 12th Oct '15 1:19:21 AM by Malco

Pokemon isn't that aware of their fan base. Right?

I'm still looking for any canon Galileo.

There's also the meteor showers that happened recently (Perseids?) when that Rayquaza was released but Galileo (the historical astronomer) had nothing to do with it.

edited 12th Oct '15 1:33:39 AM by Malco

The next game will be called XYZ and it will be a sequel to both X and Y. The player character from X and Y will be an important character and the name, customization, team, and whether they have Xerneas or Yveltal will depend on what they were in X and Y through a system similar to Gen 5's Memory Link. Immortal Lysandre will be the villain again with a Mega Pyroar.

edited 12th Oct '15 10:45:12 AM by PushoverMediaCritic

Would it be useful/fitting if Solrock and Lunatone got Drought and Cloud Nine as hidden abilities, respectively?

I feel like they would need better Abilities but that would fit.

Fitting kinda, useful no.

Solrock could possibly be useful since it would be the only Sun setter not weak to Rock, but Rock/Psychic is still a pretty mixed bag defensively and it can't abuse the buff it sets up with Base 55 Special Attack.

And Solrock gets Flare Blitz.

Rock needs to just resist Rock already. (as well as Electric)

Indeed.

If you bash two rocks together, they will scratch and possibly chip each other.

It depends on composition; quartz will obliterate talc. </paleo nerd mode>

And if you got a scratch, you wouldn't think too much of it when you're in a fight.

I think the gist of it is that there are too many kinds of mineral that are different states of brittle or not brittle. Like x2 said.

edited 12th Oct '15 1:19:20 PM by Karxrida

Even a diamond shatters if you hit it right.

Diamond is quite fragile, even if it is one of the hardest materials in the universe. Different characteristics.

Try to scratch a panel of glass and an wooden board with a knife. Then try to break them by throwing a stone at them.

And I guess harder stuff eroding away softer stuff is the basis of Steel beating Rock.

Or maybe steel being the primary thing you use to break rocks.

Like you don't get a rock to break a rock, you get a pickaxe or something.

Also, c'mon, type relations don't all really make logical sense. Some do, but some are entirely arbitrary, like pretty much everything to do with Psychic and Dark. At this stage, it'd be better to focus on improving the game than making the type chart perfectly logical.

edited 12th Oct '15 2:10:23 PM by Pulse

Is it bad that I mentally refer to Emolga as Ebola?