Pokémon General Thread

Bulk, Drain Punch.

Seriously, the lack of Protect and Rest in its movepool is yet another sign of D/P era Gamefreak having plenty of vapor in their skulls.

Favorite Ghost is Dusknoir and favorite dark is Umbreon.

On an unrelated note how many would want to see more things like the Pokeathlon and the like? And what would you like to see?

edited 30th Aug '16 3:21:58 PM by RussellStar5641

Pokeathlon! Pokeathlon! Pokeathlon! Pokeathlon! Pokeathlon! Pokeathlon! Pokeathlon! Pokeathlon!

In general?

Favorite Ghost is Chandelure, Dark type is Darkrai (if non-legendary, then Houndoom)

I don't care much about non-battling activities.

i like pokéathlons

Ditto.

The only one I found remotely fun or interesting was the movie stuff in BW and even then it was more like "eh, I don't care that much about being forced to do this" rather than "OMG YES PLEASE MORE".

Well, not really in general. I asked because I'm gonna do a shiny giveaway for Halloween, so preferably people should vote for something I can breed and isn't shiny-locked.

That's what I get for not knowing what's going on.

That's understandable, I personally always loved the non battle stuff. I always find that stuff very charming. And always look forward to what new non battle stuff they will do.

edited 30th Aug '16 4:13:26 PM by RussellStar5641

The main problem is that there aren't any with any depth or development put into them because they keep swapping them out for new ones.

The movies were really cool tho

Yeah, I loved Poke Star studios. I think my favorite is Brycenman 2, especially the alternate strange ending.

rioluman was kind of hilarious

I like Pokemon Contests.

Poke Star Studios was one of my favorite things from B/w2. Maybe one day we'll see them again.

The movies were cool because they were just battling with a puzzle element, sort of like those academy battles in Stadium 2, so the system depth wasn't much of an issue. Plus you could get some funny writing from some of the movies, and you didn't need to redo things except to get different endings, so it doesn't get old quickly either.

Yeah, the battles for them were quite interesting. I've also always loved Pokemon Contest, but I have wondered how they would work with a battle portion like in the anime.

How would that work?

Probably similar to Emerald's Battle Arena. There's few ways that they could realistically transfer the anime's contest battle system to the games since it relies heavily on presentation and style, something that would probably not be worth the extra time to spend on a side mode.

edited 30th Aug '16 4:49:08 PM by strawberryflavored

Man, i gotta do PokeStar Studios when I replay White 2.

Well, seriously do it.

I'm probably going to buy Black and Black 2 to play through the BW series again- since I've already played White enough times and I don't feel like deleting my 300 hours of playtime on W2. And because I need a Reshiram since Pokebank thinks that my Reshiram from W2 is fake.

Kinda think of it, I never heard anyone liking Alomomola before. I'm more neutral to that thing now. Peoples do like Skarmory and Talonflame, but is there really anything wrong about its design?

Alright, besides the "resembling Luvdisc's evolution" part.

PokeStar Studio was the most fun I had with a main game "side attraction," especially when it came to figuring out the best ways to get the alternate endings.

One of my favorite alternate endings is the movie with the evil queen where your character proposes marriage to her. Makes me wonder if Sabrina, the one playing the evil queen, is using her psychic powers to read your mind and figure out why you've gone off the rails of the script.

edited 30th Aug '16 5:37:33 PM by dragonfire5000

PokeStar was the best, but I like the aesthetic of Pokemon Contest Spectaculars, at least. I'd love something that had that atmosphere but had more meat to it.

I loved the Hoenn Contests, and I was super-happy that they were brought back more or less intact in ORAS.

Contests were alright, I did manage to get the Lucarionite in ORAS, so I wasn't really bored of it.

Pokeathlon was just awesome. I visited that place every so often to buy things like Apricorns and a Shiny Stone for my Togetic as soon as it was available, even before going to Kanto.