Other General Pokemon Discussion

[Emperor Cross]

Hypnosis and its Dark Void got nerfed

Too true

 

[The Fool]

Too true

now Darkrai will be easy to catch and especially if you use a poke with Unaware or another that counters its move

 

[Roogy]

Recently got up to 400 different species in Pokemon Go. Also caught a shiny Sneasel.

 

[Einsauer]

Recently got up to 400 different species in Pokemon Go. Also caught a shiny Sneasel.

You're blessed.
All my shinies are weak in Pokemon Go.
Onix, Sentret, and Metapod. The holy trinity.

 

[Roogy]

You're blessed.
All my shinies are weak in Pokemon Go.
Onix, Sentret, and Metapod. The holy trinity.

I got a mix of weak and strong. My strongest shinies are Metagross and Moltres and my weakest are Mareep and Pikachu.

 

[Suppiluliuma]

that was mainly for balancing reasons; it would have only be weak to a few types

Tbh, I really find this nothing but a myth - whenever the topic of why Gyarados or Charizard weren't dragon types are brought up. I mean, I've played the gen 1 games ever since it came out, and played it a lot.... and the whole type strengths and weaknesses were all over the place for pokemon with dual types in gen 1, such as:

- Charizard, being weak to ice... despite being partly fire type
(I remember my childhood, I used Charizard on Lorelei's jynx, and jynx knocked it out in one hit with an ice punch)

- Dragonite, being resistant to electric.. despite being partly flying type; Gyarados, weak to ice; Zapdos weak to electric; Articuno weak to ice; Venusaur, resistant to poison and weak to ground etc.., just off the top of my head.

And I didn't just have one gen I cartridge... I had all 3 - red, yellow and blue.. even in yellow, where a few tweaks were made (Charizard could fly in yellow, unlike red and blue.. though they didn't do the same thing for Dragonite, which was pretty stupid of them.. *shrugs*), the type strengths/weaknesses still remained the same.

Heck, I remember getting Pikachu to use thunder on Dragonite in yellow, and it didn't even lose 1/4 health.


I think the reason they didn't make Gyarados or Charizard a dragon type was because they didn't want the player to get an easy dragon type early in the game, like how they put Dratini as a rare catch in safari zone and the game corner - they wanted dragon types to be rare - to fit the idea of them being mythical, and both of them didn't fit that: you could evolve Magikarp to Gyarados in Cerulean, and you could evolve Charmeleon to Charizard by Celadon.

 

[Einsauer]

I got a mix of weak and strong. My strongest shinies are Metagross and Moltres and my weakest are Mareep and Pikachu.

Underhyped myself, I also have a horrible shiny Nidoran (gal).

 

[Emperor Cross]

The only shiny I ever saw, was a shitty geodude but will try my luck in two weeks

 

[The Fool]

I remember my first shiny back ages ago and it was the shiny before you get any pokeballs as you start your adventure

 

[Waindo]

Ffs idk none of them, could we just pretend it's 2001?

 

[Emperor Cross]

Is it true that the game leaked ?

 

[The Fool]

Is it true that the game leaked ?

Yep its leaking on Twitter as evolution and forms are being leaked

 

[Emperor Cross]

Yep its leaking on Twitter as evolution and forms are being leaked

Worst design for starter ever !

 

[The Fool]

Worst design for starter ever !

Spoiler

you mean sobble's evolution or grokey's?

 

[Emperor Cross]

Spoiler

you mean sobble's evolution or grokey's?

Both of them

 

[The Fool]

Both of them

I hope a trailer comes out soon revealing most of these leakers

 

[Emperor Cross]

After a week of leaks, I’m going for the water starter *.*

 

[Einsauer]

After a week of leaks, I’m going for the water starter *.*

I tend to skip starter pokemon.

I just need me a Sirfetch'd. If I had to pick based on final, I'd go with Grookey though.

 

[Emperor Cross]

I tend to skip starter pokemon.

I just need me a Sirfetch'd. If I had to pick based on final, I'd go with Grookey though.

So you are buying Sword, I prefer Shield because of Tyranitar *.*

Why skipping Starter tho ?

 

[Chris Mic]

Just wanted to say something about the leaks~

Impidimp is now my favourite Gen 8 pokemon. I can't believe it! It looked so goofy before but as it evolved, it's now genuinely lovely to my eyes. Its leaked abilities too. If I had a Switch, it would definitely be my go-to Pokemon, even moreso than my starters, no matter how many levels it took to get to Grimmsnarl. Is it weird if I find it very cute as well? <3