Pokémon General Thread

Today I learned how annoying the IV checker in Platinum is.

‘My ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.’

Pokemon Direct on Feb. 26

...Huh. What could they have to discuss?

You cannot firmly grasp the true form of Squidward's technique!

On my birthday?! You shouldn't have!

Watch it actually be a birthday present to Fawriel and all it is is the announcement of a Furret Mega Evolution.

Switch stuff, a third version to Sun and Moon, Gen II on Virtual Console.

If a tree falls in the forest and nobody remembers it, who else will you have ice cream with?

It seems a bit premature to discuss a third version.

You cannot firmly grasp the true form of Squidward's technique!

I agree. Just throwing out possibilities.

If a tree falls in the forest and nobody remembers it, who else will you have ice cream with?

Pokken Switch please

please

real talk though it's probably going to happen given they've announced Pokken will be a part of 2017 Pokemon World Championships again and the arcade version has 4 characters the Wii U doesn't alongside a bunch of balance changes.

edited 25th Feb '17 12:07:14 AM by Hashil

So, um.........is anyone going to point out the year on that tweet?

Trans rights are human rights.

oh fuck off

I'm just going give the person who posted it the benefit of the doubt and assume they were misled. Too tired to be mad.

If a tree falls in the forest and nobody remembers it, who else will you have ice cream with?

On second thought, that did sound terribly familiar.

... but...

but mega furret ......

Sorry, someone posted on another forum that there was going to be a direct and I didn't notice the date >_>

Well now I feel like an idiot.

You cannot firmly grasp the true form of Squidward's technique!

I believe this was when they officially announced SM, by the way

... And that's called jazz!

/threadhop

So, I finally replaced my 3DS after it got screwed up two years ago... not exactly a lot of room in the budget for the last while, but eh... and I'm back (/Monty Python "Yaaaaay.").

Flipped back a couple of pages, and the mention of third versions got me kind of vaguely wondering. There are really obvious names for a third iteration in Generations 5, 6 and 7 (Pokemon Grey, Z and Stars, respectively)- far more so than any of the previous gens, really- and yet we haven't actually gotten one since Gen IV. So... are we just not going to get a Pokemon Yellow-Crystal-Emerald-Platinum-alike until the name is a bit less obvious, or what..?

Er, right... so, question... is there anyone that's still playing Gen VI that would be willing to trade a Hoopa, Volcanion, or either of the giveaway-only Vivillons for... well, honestly, pretty much anything? I've got (almost) any non-event legendary from Gen I-V I'd be willing to trade, and a Mew, Celebi, Darkrai, Shaymin or Manaphy that I'd be willing to put up for either Hoopa or Volcanion (one caveat- no idea how 'legit' any of the event mons are- got them all off the GTS).

Can also breed... again, nearly anything, as Volcanion and Hoopa are all I'm actually missing from my Gen VI 'dex. I've got Pokerus out the wazoo, a bunch of hidden abilities (yay Protean Froakies ), pretty much any one of the 'good' natures you might want... blargh.

Let's just say my completionism is itching

Sun and Moon seem to be set up for sequels rather than a third version.

X and Y seemed to be set up for a third version, but that seemed to be scrapped for the 20th anniversary. After all, the time between XY and ORAS was the shortest between the first and second games of a gen, and the time between ORAS and SM was the longest between last game of a gen and first of the next.

Yeah, there was definitely supposed to be a Z-version. There's Zygarde, there's the fact that the name of the games was supposed to be a play on the three dimensions (the X-, Y- and Z-axes)... But what makes you so sure it's going to be sequels instead?

Also:

Hi there.

Personally, I just think that Sun and Moon end in a way that makes it feel like it'd be better to continue the story than just retell it with additional elements.

Oh God! Natural light!

Them feeling like Black and White, alternate worlds rather than just minute differences, construction lots in every single city... With the focus on story, they'll probably continue rather than retell.

Especially with the subplot of Kukui working to get a Gym-based League set up in Alola.

The empty lots seem like really ideal spots for most of the current Trial Captains to set up shop, given their proximity to the Trial Sites or their homes.

edited 25th Feb '17 7:08:46 AM by Pulse

I sure said that!

We may see an Ice-type specialist. There's absolutely no named character whatsoever in Alola (at least Psychic had Faba, Dragon had Ryuki, and Flying had Kahili, despite them not handing you the respective Z-Crystals).

You can be the Ice trainer. There's barely enough ice mons in Alola to make a full team.

I was.

it wasn't worth it