r/pokemon 13m ago

Discussion Honorary pink pokemon no.1

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Ok y'all, I'm currently doing a run on emerald and I have a really important question. Who would count as an honorary pink pokemon and why? I'm between Spoink and Lileep. Or do y'all have any other suggestions? Currently I have a Whismur and a Skitty on my team, on my way to the fourth gym.


r/pokemon 57m ago

Discussion Why are there still 2 versions per generation?

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Pokemon had been making more trade evolutions not require trading starting in (I think) SwSh, so why still lock a bunch of pokemon to trading between versions?

I know the obvious answer is money, but it there any other reason?


r/pokemon 58m ago

Discussion Kerian's hairstyle

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I know his new hairstyle is supposed to imply that he is changing and you know mixing the old personality with the new hairstyle and whatnot but me personally I loved him with his hair down and his face it was just so adorable and he was so shy it was perfect but I understand the reasons why it is staying the way it is I just wish there was an opportunity to influence him to put it back down for those who did prefer his other hairstyle


r/pokemon 1h ago

Discussion It's ridiculous some Pokemon don't learn any useful moves until they are like 40

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This is a little rant on my Sneasel. It's a physical dark/ice attacker, levelled it up to 40 and the only dark type move it learns is hone claws, the only ice move is Icy wind, which is special. Wtf.

What other mons make you consider abandoning them at the daycare with the natural moveset they learn by growing up?


r/pokemon 1h ago

Discussion Legends Z-A disappointment?

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Is anybody else disappointed with the fact a new legends game is getting released instead of a Unova remake or Gen 10? I’d even go as far to say a Johto let’s go would be better. But I feel like an outlier as I never liked the legends concept. Everyone else seems thrilled.


r/pokemon 1h ago

Discussion is boxed.gg good?

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i’ve been wanting to buy some pokémon slabs or cards for a bit and dont know where to get some that are generally cheap and a bang for your buck. i’ve tried whatnot and ebay but i found boxed.gg. i just want to know if it is reliable for good cards, and generally good for what it is?


r/pokemon 1h ago

Image wooper.

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real

r/pokemon 1h ago

Misc Guys can you help me?

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I have a problem that I need clothes, but they either don't fit or I don't like the look. So now I tought about it and it would be amazing to have some nice pokemon themed clothes. The only requirement is that it needs to have shipping to Belgrade- Serbia. Also worth noting that my favourite pokemon are the eeveelutions (yes all of them), jirachi, mew, mimikyu and mawile.

Thanks in advance guys, and feel free to ask if you something is OK or not!


r/pokemon 1h ago

Discussion Am I allowed to be mad we got a XY/Gen 6 sequel before a unova game?

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Response to this post I made last week:

Like before you say, "ZA isn't a sequel," it quite literally is.

We are spending time with the main character of Gen 6, AZ! After he finally got a happy ending in XY!

And he is the same guy who created mega evolution (by accident) and saw the 2nd fight with Rayquaza against the primals that Zinnia showed on the murals during the Delta Ep. He is, like MEGA, essential to the lore of the modern Pokemon games.

In a vacuum, this is like hanging around N or Cynthia after the events of their games in a significant way outside of their games in a mainline game!

How do people not consider ZA to be a sequel?


r/pokemon 1h ago

Misc I really need the paldea map for blender

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So, i want to make a thingy / animation in blender.
But i really... REALLY need the 3d map.
So if anyone can help i would really appreciate it.
Already... Thank you guys!

So to be more specific... i won't need area zero, i would still love it do!
And it does not need to have that many faces, if it does then ok!


r/pokemon 2h ago

Discussion Zweilous Training

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You know, when Zweilous's two heads don't see eye to eye (ironic because they’re blind Lol), it can be quite a problem. If I were training one, I'd sit them down and try to mediate and find a solution so they are on the same page. i’m pretty sure that each head is probably jealous of each other, but with a bit of time and patience, the heads can work their differences. maybe there is a Pokémon language to English translator, or maybe I need that contraption Phineas and Ferb built in "Interview with a Platypus."


r/pokemon 2h ago

Discussion Pokemon authors?

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Since most, if not all, pokemon are sapient and capable of understanding language, are there any examples of them expressing themselves in writing? There are many with hands that can hold a pen; and with the advent of typewriters and PCs, those who can't physically write could presumably still use a keyboard.


r/pokemon 2h ago

Discussion Which Deoxys Form do you like the most?

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Deoxys is a unique Mythical Pokemon in that it has a total of four different forms. That being Normal, Attack, Defense and Speed. Each one has their own unique appearance and distribution of stats, so it's really customizable to what niche the player wants it to fill.

Want a Glass Cannon to annihilate your opponents in one hit? Attack Form is for you. Want a Defensive Tank? Defense Form is there for you. Want to never ever be outsped outside of Trick Room? Speed Form with Extreme Speed is there for you! Normal Form.... Yeah you might as well just use Attack Form because it's dying in one hit anyways with 50 base HP, Defense and Sp Defense... But it looks cool at least!

Which form of Deoxys do you like based off of design or stat distribution? Are you Team Normal, Team Attack, Team Defense or Team Speed?


r/pokemon 2h ago

Discussion What is Pokemons main villain

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There are plenty of characters that are considered villains or we just hate, there are plenty of examples like Mindy, Incineroar for VGC players, Whitneys Miltank, and many others. But the question remains, who is the main villain the most hated or just the most evil one.

  1. Mindy
  2. Incineroar
  3. Whitneys Miltank
  4. Lances Dragon (if you refused to use revives on gen 1 you know why)
  5. Vaporeon
  6. Anything i didnt think of

r/pokemon 2h ago

Discussion My theory about Iron Leaves, Iron Boulder & Iron Crown

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might bolding out their legendary status. Legends are stories told and forgotten about what's true or/and fantasy. What if, instead of going extinct, they're simply forgotten and remade?

Well, I'm not really much of a thinker (nor native english); so my words will sound weird when I'm trying to explain my thoughts.


r/pokemon 3h ago

Discussion Need help fixing GBC game

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Was going through my old Gameboy games replacing some batteries in them and discovered that some of the traces may be damaged on my Pokemon crystal game. Does anyone have any thoughts on repairs for this. Is this something I can get a donor pcb for? Obviously I don't want to loose to much value for this. Should I be getting a destroyed game case and merge them together. Need everyone's thoughts


r/pokemon 3h ago

Discussion Proxy or real card

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I just bought a PSA 10 graded Pokemon card. Everything looks good. The certification number works etc. The only thing is that the owner says its a proxy card. Is he right or is he mistaking it for a real pokemon card. Like i said it looks fantastic. The card looks real the number works. The psa looks good etc.

Thanks in advance guys!


r/pokemon 3h ago

Discussion Assuming we get future legends titles what "Alternative" paths would you want to see?

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Legends games are made to branch from the main formula so was thinking about some options we have seen in the franchise. As we've seen that LA took place in the past while ZA seems to be modernish day time period is optional and there are some interesting things you could use such as a midquel between the gen 1 and gen 2 games or a hypothetical game focusing on ultra space. This is about the task the player is focused on but can still generally be translated into an Action RPG or a turn-based RPG.

Just finished this video which went over briefly the history of contest which despite being a fairly big focus around the anime only appear in Hoenn/Sinnoh and their respective remakes and they were the side task that basically required a different approach to how you plan out movesets and even things like natures. Though since they were marketed as fairly "feminine" with most contest stars in the anime being girls alongside a focus on aesthetics maybe the fear could be that it would alienate a sizeable amount of the player base.

Since pokemon seems to be moving away from more traditional villains with most of them either being more sympathetic or tragic alongside the twist villains instead of a Giovanni maybe have the player being a recruit for the international police force like Looker was as currently he is the only known member.


r/pokemon 3h ago

Discussion Need help on naming pokemon after kaiju’s

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I have a couple pokemon i wanna name after kaiju’s but im not sure which Kaiju fits best, so i made a list of Kaiju’s that dont have a specific pokemon counterpart.

Gabara - Orga - Titanosaurus - Dogora - Orochi - Viras - Guiron - Jiger - Legion - Irys -

Feel free to add on some other Kaiju’s that dont have a pokemon counterpart.


r/pokemon 3h ago

Discussion Creating a Pokemon Legends game concept for every region

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We now have an idea of what makes a Legends game a Legends game, and what we know is that it can be ANYTHING. Originally people thought the Legends line would just be explorations of the history of regions, but Legends ZA we can see that a future game can also work. In the end, a Legends games is just basically taking a region and building on some important element of it.

For example, Sinnoh as a region is seeped in its history, more so than any other region, so making a game that explores that history was incredibly fitting.

Meanwhile, ZA seems like it is focusing more on Lumiose as the central city it is. Of all the cities in Pokemon, it is probably the one that feels most like a massive hub, even if in its original form or is realistically quite small, so it makes sense that or gets so focus.

I thought it would be interesting to consider some concepts for Legends games for regions that have yet to get a Legends game, and what important elements of the games could be carried over or what interesting directions you could take them in. I'll also be giving each one a name.

Pokemon Legends: Rocket - I think any region could be interesting to play as a member of the evil team in, but Team Rocket is the most iconic so it feels fitting here. However, Team Rocket is also woefully underdeveloped, despite being the main villains of two regions, so I think it would be cool to expand them a little bit here. In this game you would play as a Team Rocket grunt and maybe work your way up the ranks. Obviously it's a Pokemon game so you would have to end up turning against Giovani, but it would be great to expand on the goals of the team and develop the characters more than could have been done in gen 1 or 2. I think a cool idea would be to have this game take place concurrent to the gen 1 games themselves, but it might also be cool to have it take place in the creation or Mewtwo, with the climax maybe having you assisting in Mewywo's escape.

Pokemon Legends: Ashen Wing - I'll be honest, Johto is the region I have the least familiarity of, seeing as I have never completed a Johto game, but the burnt tower feels like it has a lot of history to it. I also feel like focusing on Ho-Oh and the Legendary Beasts makes more sense than Lugia, I dunno. I feel like there are better ideas that could be created here, I just don't have any.

Pokemon Legends: Desolation - We have seen the past, we have seen the future and my Rocket idea could represent the present. So what about alternate reality? What happened if Maxie won? What would the Hoenn region have looked like if the gen 3 protagonist hadn't reversed the damage her did to the region? I think this would be a really interesting way to approach a Legends game, and while maybe it would be a bit darker, I would love to explore what Hoenn would look like as a Desolate wasteland.

Pokemon Legends: Deluge - of course, if we're gonna explore the scenario where Maxie wins, we have to also explore what happens if Archie wins. This game would instead be a completely flooded ocean world. I will say that I think Desolation has more scope for an interesting world, but seeing how the people of Hoenn would have had to adapt to their home being flooded would be interesting. Maybe they have created underwater colonies, that would be cool. I kinda see these two games as potentially version opposites, although they would ultimately have to be very different games, but even if both could not be made think exploring one or the other possible scenario would be awesome.

Pokemon Legends: Pokestar - Honestly, I don't want all of these ideas to just be "hey, what if we explored the ancient history of this region?" Sure, for some regions that feels like the right move, but I am glad that ZA demonstrates it isn't the only way this can go down. So instead, why don't we explore the Pokemon equivalent of Hollywood? Legends games often take the gameplay on new and different directions and I would love to see how they would tie movie creation into a Pokemon game. You could even make it based on the early 20th century, and maybe explore some of the history of the region that way, while having a unique aesthetic. Maybe even make the whole game stylised as a black and white movie. Get it? Honestly, this idea has so many cool layers to it.

Pokemon Legends: Ultra - Maybe focusing on the Ultra Beasts is too obvious a direction to take this, but this could be one of the most exciting ideas. Imagine not only being able to explore the Alola region, but dive into Ultra Wormholes to explore massive areas filled with Ultra Beasts. Alola is really the only region where travelling to alien worlds makes sense so that should be taken advantage of. I also see this as the only way we are likely to ever get to see new Ultra Beasts, which would be cool.

Pokemon Legends: Armoury - I know I said I don't really think it would be good to focus to heavily on exploring the history of regions, but I think most people agree that after Sinnoh and Kalos, Galar is the most compelling region to explore the distant past of. And, in fact, I think making this a game set in a medieval Galar would be so awesome, especially as it will be the furthest back in history that we have ever been. It might even be cool to make this a time before Pokeballs and instead you would maybe have to take a more monster hunter approach to taming Pokemon. Or maybe the game would put a hevau emphasis on the warrior side I things, having you fight enemy warriors alongside your Pokemon. There are some great possibilities here.

Pokemon Legends: Paradise - I think there are a lot of ways you could take this story in, but I think, like Legends ZA, making it a sort of follow up would work here. Maybe there would be some sort of anomaly which allows the Paradise Protection Protocol to contact the modern day world again. Maybe there would be some sort of shenanigans where both Turo and Sada versions of the Protocol are trying to get back to the modern day, or something like that. Either way, I think playing with the idea of paradoxes and alternate realities here could be cool, at least from a story standpoint. Also, the name would officially be Paradise, but the logo, when ever shown, would glitch out to instead say Paradox. I don't have too much to say about the actual gameplay of this one but I think there are some really interesting possibilities.

Any other cool concepts that could work here?


r/pokemon 3h ago

Discussion First ever hardcore Nuzlocke!

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Hey guys! This is RexlovesAS and I am attempting my first ever hardcore nuzlocke of Pokémon run and bun. I have never done a nuzlocke before so any help would be much appreciated. I have only seen pchal's video about it which hyped me up a lot to do this. I know I'll probably fail but I still want to experience the thrill. I'll be live on twitch everyday at 11pm Indian time.

Please help me plan my run out. I'll be choosing chimchar as my starter because Monke.

Thanks!


r/pokemon 3h ago

Discussion Emerald (starters)

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Hello, i just finished pomemon fire red and decided to continue with pokemon Emerald. But the problem is that i dont know what starter to choose.. my favourite is Treeko and Torchic is second. But the problem is that I've seen many people saying that treeko is the worst and makes the game way harder, im not that good in the game because fire red is the only one that I've played so im scared that I'll end up hard stuck. Also i dont know if mudkip wouldn't make the game too easy... Please help😭


r/pokemon 3h ago

Misc Should I get Pokemon Bank/Transfer modded onto my 3DS?

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I want to transfer my Pokemon onto my Switch but I never got to get either app as a kid :( Is it possible to mod them onto my 3DS? Or maybe even log into a Nintendo account that already purchased them to download them? Someone please help me!

Thanks a bunch!


r/pokemon 3h ago

Discussion Can I trust non official games?

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I’ve been wanting to get the sinnoh games and I have found them for less than $20 and I found it a little suspicious so I looked into and they’re fake, the reviews says they’re fake but good.

I’d prefer a real official game than a fake. But can I trust fakes? Are there places where I can get Pokemon platinum? I’d prefer the real but if the fake works I’d might take it.


r/pokemon 4h ago

Discussion If you have to fight a pokemon for 50 million dollars, who would you chose?

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Just to make it a little more fair you can bring any 3 weapons of your choosing (no atom bombs) and you're stuck in an arena with the pokemon let's say the about half size of a football field. (Edit: You have to last at least 15 minutes)

No baby pokemon

AND NO EATING YOUR OPPONENT(Leave Fidough and vanillite alone please 💔)