Pokémon General Thread

Nah, I’ll just stick to having my Pokemon fight off horrifically malformed villains like Porky Minch after undergoing a painful process to become a cyborg or Lin from Pokémon Reborn being turned into CURIE 2.0

Edited by MisterZygarde64 on Mar 22nd 2024 at 6:51:58 AM

Well.... they are working on the latest chapter of Rejuvenation.

So they might as well make more monstrosities.

Lunar Dance. Fainting yourself to fully heal a teammate sounds nice on paper, but in practice, outside competitive, you'll never see the need for it, and even in competitive, it's a questionable and very situational move. And until Gen 8, it didn't restore PP, it only starts healing PP as well from Gen 9.

Good thing starting from PLA, they finally gave Cresselia a much better second signature move, Lunar Blessing.

Edited by ShiningStardust on Mar 23rd 2024 at 12:28:11 AM

Lunar dance exists to make metronome battles 50% funnier

I completely forgot about Rejuvenation when thinking about it. I guess my fan game idea could be summed up as Pokemon Rejuvenation crossed with Learning With Pibby, Earthbound, Regular Show, and a bit of Bridge Kids thrown in there.

Edited by MisterZygarde64 on Mar 22nd 2024 at 7:49:40 AM

That game is more lighthearted but it went through a LOT of revisions.

Lots of the 10s edge is gone. Like narmy Angie jumpscares.

It is canon that some Ghost Pokemon used to be humans, that is one aspect I always thought could be directly explored in a darker Pokemon story.

It gets weird when those Pokemon breed.

So what, do humans die every time I hatch a Yamask?

Its the circle of life.

I uh kinda assume that some people die to beclme yamask or gengar. But that others are just natural species.

Yo, we even got fake Corocoro leaks back!

OK, that fake Charizard is hilarious.

@Red Hunter 543: Do you read Awkward Zombie? Because they did a strip about that exact topic.

Oh yeah! I must have been thinking of that one comic subconsciously.

I just had a weird idea for a Pokemon game: a Legends set in the far future, where the biosphere has largely collapsed, with most of the areas having an element of Polluted Wasteland, and the regional variants all based on having to survive after losing their normal habitat. Like a pure-water type Beartic because there's no icy areas left.

That note on Beartic got me wondering which Water Pokemon don't live in the water, and there aren't many.

All Water Pokemon that are not aquatic or semi-aquatic:

• Panpour and Simipour
• Sobble, Drizzile, and Intelleon
• Suicune
• Palkia
• Keldeo
• Volcanion
• Iron Bundle

Unsure how to count Wingull/Pelipper, Ducklett/Swanna, and Quaxly/Quaxwell/Quaquaval. They live around water and can float on it, but as far as I can tell they don't swim underwater like Cramorant does.

Honorable mention to Rainy Castform, Wash Rotom, Rapid Strike Urshifu, and Wellspring Mask Ogerpon. All being Water forms of non-aquatic Pokemon remaining non-aquatic.

Dishonorable mention to Paldean Water Breed Tauros, which actually IS semi-aquatic, somehow.

Edited by PushoverMediaCritic on Mar 23rd 2024 at 8:09:30 AM

Rapid Strike Urshifu is definitely the biggest outlier, since its water typing is based on its flowing movements, rather then any connection to actual water.

Re: Ghost Pokemon: My personal headcanon is that those stories were about the first instance of such species. For example, only the first population of Yamask to ever exist were the souls of the deceased, and all Yamask in the present day are descendants of those first Yamask.

Sometimes you need to try a double protect.

That reminds me. I had this idea for an Electric/Ghost Yamask variant that while not outright stated, it was once a villainous Digimon what with it holding a legally distinct Digivice that has dark colors.

As for an evolution, I thought of a more demonic and pointy looking black and red monster whose design is a composite of Numemon, Sukamon, and Vegimon emerging from a laptop called Malwarigus in which the Yamask evolves, hoping to regain its powerful form from a past life only to come out as a scary looking version of some weak looking Digimon.

I did not realize how BIG Clodsire is

Or Rika's just tiny.

The Pokédex says it’s 5'11"/1.8 m, but judging by the picture that might be its vertical height rather than its horizontal length.

Hmm, maybe it is length after all.

Edited by Lymantria on Mar 24th 2024 at 10:06:00 AM

I assume you mean vertical height when standing on its hind legs, because otherwise Rika would be absolutely ginormous.

It's more about how long it is.