Pokémon General Thread

How about going to a "strange stone" with a fainted Eevee in your first slot? And then it "evolves" into your ghost-type?

Too dark?

Sorry, I can't hear you from my FLYING METAL BOX!

Who cares about darkness? That right there is a total Guide Dang It! nobody should be expected to figure out without shelling out money for the strategy guide going on gamefaqs.

Kangaskhat◊, actually.

Khat is apparently the feminine version of Khan.

I also have an idea for a pure flying type Pokemon. It's a barely corporeal representation of freedom, or a soul, like some sort of light-type ghost. It basically functions as a physical Blissey with impenetrable Defense, since normal attacks can barely harm something that barely has a physical body. Which makes it a ghost type in principle, but why should only Normal and Fighting type moves pass through a ghost?

edited 24th Nov '09 4:54:02 AM by Fawriel

Btw, what would the legendary pokemon for gen 5 be? They've already made god into a pokemon....Where do they go from there?

Mewtwo 2.0: Mankind's attempt to play God.

Also: More space stuff.

edited 24th Nov '09 5:37:46 AM by Fawriel

Nothingness?

INT is knowing a tomato is a fruit. WIS is knowing it doesn't belong in a fruit salad. CHA is convincing people that it does.

Wasn't that sort of what Giratina was?

-*shrug*

Honestly, the whole must-one-up-ourselves with the Legendary Pokemon that started with Gen III got a bit ludicrous with this last installment. Not that that's news to anyone or anything, but yeah...

On that note, am I the only one that wants to see every single Legendary in a movie just brawling it out for... well, whatever Excuse Plot reason the animators can come up with? I mean, yeah, granted, there's not going to be much left of Pokeworld after all that, but I'm sure they can handwave everything back together somehow. And watching the embodiments of psychotic genetic engineering, weather, sea, land, time, space, antimatter, Pokegod, bad dreams, good dreams, spirit, forests, and the ancestor of all Pokemon all trying to beat the snot out of each other would likely be decidedly entertaining

For Movie 13?

INT is knowing a tomato is a fruit. WIS is knowing it doesn't belong in a fruit salad. CHA is convincing people that it does.

I'd like to see a fighting/flying type. Maybe it could be a Winged Humanoid or anthropomorphic bird. Also, I'd like to see some kind of ant or termite pokemon. Hive insects FTW!

Of course, nothing would be quite as cool as a T-rex fossil pokemon, except maybe a raptor pokemon.

Ghost types are really underused, in my opinion. Who doesn't want to see a ghost/fire type or a ghost/psychic type?

As for legendaries... what about a Pokesatan to oppose Arceus? Or, if you think that's too cliche, how about a pokemon Eldritch Abomination? Think about it. A being whose true form cannot be perceived by mortals, that projects itself into this reality in the form of a legendary pokemon, that can only be stopped using the MacGuffin so that it is weakened enough for you to punch out Pokethulhu, or even better, catch it. Actually, wait, that's a terrible idea.

edited 24th Nov '09 7:12:37 AM by SapphireFlame

Are you not entertained?

We need more KILLER TURKEY pokemon.

Also, I love how the Pokemon people have Shown Their Work with regards to the basis of the Pokemon.

INT is knowing a tomato is a fruit. WIS is knowing it doesn't belong in a fruit salad. CHA is convincing people that it does.

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This. Perfect.

We also need more llama pokemon. I demand llamas!

edited 24th Nov '09 7:17:13 AM by SapphireFlame

Are you not entertained?

Note that in my book, Velociraptor mongoliensis = KILLER TURKEY. Because it totally is.

Observe.◊

This one, too.◊

edited 24th Nov '09 7:19:42 AM by Kinkajou

INT is knowing a tomato is a fruit. WIS is knowing it doesn't belong in a fruit salad. CHA is convincing people that it does.

Missingno

Totally BADASS killer turkeys.

Why do I always get actual raptors mixed up with Jurassic Park raptors in my head? I know what raptors were actually like, but whenever I picture one in my head, it's human-sized and sans feathers.

Are you not entertained?

I pictured that as one of the female evolutions of Tyrogue, a perfectly balanced fighter who specializes in raising her stats, based in design on a woman who practices martial arts for the sake of her health. (Fun fact: If you keep the typical 110 Base Special Defense of Hitmons and average out the rest, you get 69 in each. Make of that what you will.)

Low HP, but very high defense, high Attack and very high Special Attack but only capable of using very few Special Moves, mostly based around shooting acid or poison. The secondary type would be Dark, because their hivemind nature means they are already controlled by the hive queen and can't be manipulated by anyone else (except the trainer). The basic form would be based on a construction worker, while the evolved form is a soldier ant. The actual hive queen could be a legendary mother of all insects.

Actually, just to subversive, I imagined the T-Rex Pokemon as a physically frail thing with a huge head and tiny hands that actually acts more like a Black Mage than a physical attacker.

Will-O-Wisp, of course. I'd actually be more interested in a Water/Ghost fog Pokemon, it would have some real moe potential. Or a dryad grass/ghost thing made of swamp gas!

I'm sorry, what exactly do you mean by this?

Well, where else have you seen barghests, Anomalocaris, and antlions represented quite accurately?

Granted the first two generations ran more on Rule of Cool, but still.

INT is knowing a tomato is a fruit. WIS is knowing it doesn't belong in a fruit salad. CHA is convincing people that it does.

Personally, I'd like to see a Fighting/Electric type; then again, we need more Electric/whatever types anyways; as it is, there are precisely four, one of which is legendary.

Also, for the record, "Zen Headbutt" has to be one of the best Pokemove names ever.

And it's a good move, too. Gives certain Pokemon a Psychic move.

INT is knowing a tomato is a fruit. WIS is knowing it doesn't belong in a fruit salad. CHA is convincing people that it does.

^ Don't forget Bagworms. I was rather surprised to find out Burmy's life cycle is based on a real insect, at least.

Of course, there's the matter of the utterly ridiculous pokedex entries.

EDIT: Ninja'd.

edited 24th Nov '09 8:03:44 AM by SapphireFlame

Are you not entertained?

I wouldn't mind a Grass/Ghost that's a sort of fragrance spirit.

The three finest things in life are to splat your enemies, drive them from their turf, and hear their lamentations as their rank falls!

The Pineco line, too.

And I hate the Pokedex. It looks like an Encyclopedia Exposita but it isn't.

INT is knowing a tomato is a fruit. WIS is knowing it doesn't belong in a fruit salad. CHA is convincing people that it does.

If a Pokemon uses a headbutt, and there's no one around to be hit by it, does it have a base power of 80?

One of? Dude, what could possibly give it competition?

I'm a little surprised that there hasn't been a mosquito Pokemon yet. I see it as being a Bug/Dark type Glass Cannon with high Physical Attack, decent Special Attack, and poor defenses. It would learn an exclusive move that acts as a slightly weaker Mega Drain that has a chance of poisoning the target.

Also, for the fifth gen, I think it'd be interesting if they were to include some more typical boss battles against very powerful Pokemon. An idea I had for the fifth gen's Evil Team is that they have discovered a method of evolving Pokemon beyond their natural limits (maybe they found an artifact of Arceus's from when it created the universe that does this). This results in the creation of mutated Pokemon that the team plans to use as weapons of war. Several of these Pokemon would be sent after you throughout the game; one example would be "Mashura," an even stronger version of Machamp that has six arms.

They wouldn't try this with a Legendary though, because they have enough sense to realize that making a Pokemon that controls, say, the flow of time even more powerful isn't a great idea. Instead, the team leader (who I'm thinking would be Cyrus again) wants to perfect this forced evolution so that he can use it on himself in order to elevate himself to the level of a god.

edited 24th Nov '09 8:22:52 AM by jtmmachine

On that note people who want Pokemon to go Darker and Edgier bug me.

Go play the Game Cube games if you want a dark plot.

INT is knowing a tomato is a fruit. WIS is knowing it doesn't belong in a fruit salad. CHA is convincing people that it does.

@Kinkajou: Well, I'd try to keep my idea from being too dark... No grotesque mutations or anything. I just thought it'd be interesting for the concept of Pokemon evolution to be explored a bit more.

edited 24th Nov '09 8:37:06 AM by jtmmachine