r/pokemon 6d ago

Questions thread - Active [Weekly Questions Thread] 31 March 2025

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Have any questions about Pokémon that you'd like answered?

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r/pokemon 14h ago

Hype [Hype Thread] 06 April 2025

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Welcome to the HYPE THREAD, a place to share your excitement about in-game achievements, brag about success, and get hyped for upcoming events. CAPS LOCK IS OPTIONAL IF IT HELPS YOU GET YOUR HYPE ON!

This is a chance to post about your successes. Our rules against self-promotion and most low-quality content, including shiny Pokemon pics, are relaxed in these threads--please talk all you like about your luck and accomplishments!

This thread is meant to be pretty positive, so please think twice before downvoting someone! Rude and negative comments will be removed -- please report them if you see them :D


This thread is also the place to earn /r/pokemon's prestige flair for completing various aspects of the games. To claim your flair, post proof of your accomplishment in the comments below. Please note that flairs are assigned once weekly, so it may take up to seven days for your flair to appear.

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r/pokemon 9h ago

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

872 Upvotes

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 12h ago

Discussion If Kanto and/or Johto come back they should be a real modern sequel instead of a nostalgia-centric remake.

502 Upvotes

I'm really sick of the game design from 1996/2000. I want Kanto to be the urban metropolis it's supposed to be. For Johto to have the same mix of rural and urban development it's supposed to have. A problem with Gen 2 to me is that the rural vs urban divide between Johto and Kanto isn't represented very well as Kanto is also just a few small clusters of buildings strung together by dirt roads, if even that. Probably wouldn't happen very soon as they're already doing a game centered around an urban environment at the moment, but if a revisit to these gens is just the copied map from 1996 or 2000 again with a bunch of features cut out what's even the point?

I get that they are afraid of taking risks and changing what works when it comes to Kanto because of all of the fans who only care about Kanto and nothing else, but I feel like a modern update to Kanto and Johto with a new story set in the future of the events of Gold and Silver could genuinely be a great game.


r/pokemon 1h ago

Discussion Which pokémon is the most edible looking

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Okay ik the title sounds very crazy, but i think it's no mystery that's it's implied (especially in games) that pokémon get eaten, atleast some parts of them. So like which one looks the most edible to you? For me it's probably obvious pokémon shaped after food like alrcreamie or swirlix.


r/pokemon 7h ago

Discussion What is your all time favourite fan game/rom hack

87 Upvotes

A while ago I played my first fan game (Pokémon Xenoverse), and then I didn’t give it much thought after that. Until I watched Alpharad’s video about Mariomon, which rekindled that interest.

Which leads me to wonder, have you ever played a rom hack/fan game that was so good that you wish that you could play it for the first time again?


r/pokemon 1h ago

Discussion What is your pokemon hot take/opinion?

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Mine is.. I love Sylveon but it would be so cool if she was a physical attacker. Like imagine Pixilate Quick Attack, the first and only fairy type priority move. It'd be so cool. Not to mention moves like Double Edge, Take Down, and Extreme Speed. Imagine a cutesy little cat just charging at you with the full force of dragon-killing energy. It'd be so cool.


r/pokemon 10h ago

Discussion What is Pokemons main villain

78 Upvotes

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 11h ago

Discussion Creating a Pokemon Legends game concept for every region

39 Upvotes

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 12h ago

Discussion Question: is the Pokemon Scarlet Violet DLC worth getting ?

51 Upvotes

Hi I'm contemplating if I should get the pokemon Scarlet Violet DLC. I've heard some good things about it and so.e bad things. If anyone could put a link to a good review for the pokemon Scarlet Violet DLC because the problems I've heard hopefully aren't in the actual DLC and just a glitch so if anyone could help I would appreciate it!


r/pokemon 1d ago

Discussion is it against the rules to attack "normally" without using a move?

748 Upvotes

while watching them battle in the anime i've always wondered if youre allowed to command your pokemon to attack without technically using a move, especially since ash comes up with weird move combos all the time. like would it be against the rules to tell my blaziken to punch a pokemon in the stomach, or is that somehow added to its moveset? would i be allowed to sweep pokemon off their feet without using low sweep??


r/pokemon 16h ago

Misc Trying to find the words to explain to my mom what it means she kept my master set original Unlimited

67 Upvotes

Finally finished re-organizing my cards, so that the non-first edition unlimited master set were finally put an order. Obviously, some of it isn’t in the best shape because I didn’t take care of my stuff that well as a kid, but she did. I told her the fact that she kept my stuff in such great condition and the reason why there’s such a huge craze going on with Pokémon… it transcends the hobby and shows the depth of loving and emotion of being that we have for one another as family and friends. Anybody else agree or have their own thoughts?


r/pokemon 1d ago

Discussion Fake Pokémon Games kinda a rant?

971 Upvotes

Got sold a counterfeit Pokémon Heart Gold, was so excited to play it until I put into my original childhood 3ds and was greeted with "Deep Labryinth USA, INC." I was devastated, I am so tired of people scamming others just for their own benefit. Please be careful everyone when it comes to buying older games. For context I had lost my old version of Heart Gold as a kid, which is the only reason why I don't have it now. I am extremely frustrated and sad. With that being said, help cheer me up by telling me your favorite Pokémon game, feature in a game or favorite Pokémon/Pokémon fun fact!


r/pokemon 10h 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 11h ago

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

13 Upvotes

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 1d ago

Discussion Favourite normal type

109 Upvotes

Previous post got me thinking about how shitty normal type is (should have been explicitly excluded from that question). So what are your favourite normal type pokemon? God Bidoof excluded. Imo Tauros and Miltank have pretty strong personality, other stuff like Skoovet just have no soul. I guess Snorlax and Slaking might be popular. Eager to hear your answers.


r/pokemon 1d ago

Discussion What is your favorite and least favorite type and why?

103 Upvotes

My favorite is Grass. It may have a lot of weaknesses compared to most of the other types, but I love it nevertheless. In all of the pokemon games I have played there has always been at least one grass type in my team, and Leafeon is my favorite pokemon of all time. Torterra, Lilligant, Trevenant, Decidueye, Tsareena, and Lurantis are also pokemon I love a lot, especially Torterra.

My least favorite is Water. I simply don't find it as appealing as the other types. While there are very few water-type pokemon I don't like, most of them I think they're either decent or I do like them but not that much. The water-type pokemon I like the most is Vaporeon, but it still doesn't come close to how much I like the grass type-pokemon I mentioned.


r/pokemon 4h ago

Discussion where do i go

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Hello reddit, i dont normally use this app and have no idea how this works but i need help

I beat normans gym in petalburg, and since i need to get to winonas gym, i ventured out without knowing where the hell to go. currently im in slateport and guy with the boat is just not here. i dont have surf, apparently i was supposed to go to wallys house but i didnt. hm. what do i do. help


r/pokemon 4h ago

Discussion Pokémon game recommendations with both an open world and a great story? (like Violet)

2 Upvotes

Hey guys, so I’m new a pokemon fan and just finished Pokémon Violet completely (DLCs too) and I absolutely LOVED it. I was wondering if there were any more pokémon games which have an open world coupled with a great story and characters (the things i liked most about it). Thanks!


r/pokemon 10h ago

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

6 Upvotes

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 1h ago

Discussion Lugia - My favorite Pokemon

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I Don't play the Devil's advocate here, but I LOVE Lugia, He's my favorite Pokemon, I Love him in his Movie Debut (Pokémon: Lugia's Explosive Birth). and I think he's attractive (Don't judge me plz). I Think Lugia is a Pretty awesome role model and I really wish I could play as him, even though i'm not big into pokemon. What you all think? I wish there's a fan base for Lugia. or a Discord group of some sort.


r/pokemon 21h ago

Discussion In-game musts..

40 Upvotes

What are your in-game musts?

I'm not talking about your hold down whatever button to catch, or organise your boxes in alphabetical/numerical/type order.

Let's talk about the specific and odd stuff in each game.

I, for one, must take Mr. Brinry and Peeko back to their house on Route 104 (Gen 3) after their services are no longer needed. Can't be leaving them on Slateports dock..

What about you? What are your must-dos ) or must-don'ts) whilst playing?

edit: spelling is hard


r/pokemon 1h ago

Discussion Cast idea's for a live action pokemon movie.

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Me and my brothers came up with some cast ideas for a live action pokemon movie.

Jace Norman as Red

Liam Neeson as Prof. Oak

Jack Black as Prof. Birch

Oscar issac as Prof. Sycamore

Tom Hiddleston as Prof. Elm

The rock and Kevin Hart as ash and Pikachu

Tom Holland as ash

Zendaya as Misty

Jacob Batalon as Brock

These are just dumb cast ideas some we thought were actually pretty good, or at least some we're, but what are your cast ideas give me your best and your worst ideas. Also this all for fun.


r/pokemon 1h ago

Discussion Help choosing a pokemon game please?

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Hi, so I finished Let's Go Eevee, my first pokemon game, a while back and now I'm feeling the urge for something new. I am contemplating buying myself pokemon Scarlet in its physical version, cuz I have my birthday in a month and asked for a new switch console to replace my passed down Nintendo switch lite, and I have a few questions I hope somebody could answer

  1. Is the physical cartriladge for the lite and the new consoles the same? (I know this is prolly not the proper place to ask this one but I dunno where to go)
  2. Is the jump from LEt's Go to Scarlet a drastic one in terms of difficulty?
  3. Should I get Scarlet or Violet? I think I'm drifting more towards Violet, but this is my first time choosing between sister games and I feel really out of my depth here

If someone could clear these up I'd be really grateful, again sorry if this is the wrong place but I really dunno where to go atp :<


r/pokemon 1h ago

Discussion Weird Glitch

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So, back in 2017, I bought my first pokemon game. Pokemon Platinum. I remember being lost on how to reset the save (it was a pre owned cartridge from gamestop), so I looked it up on my personal chromebook. I remember once I did the button trick to erase saved data, my game kinda got all glitchy, and while it was deleting the data, it said "Deleting all save dodddddddddddddddddddddddddd"

I am curious, did this or anything similar happen to anyone else? Or was this just a me thing?

I wish I saved screenshots, but at least I have my brother as an eye witness.


r/pokemon 1d ago

Discussion In real life excluding legendaries and mythicals What 6 pokemon would you want? Not just battle but just day to day life too?

374 Upvotes

I'll start.

Charizard so I could have a way around fast and conveniently and a built in flamethrower for marshmallows.

Jigglypuff so that I could put myself to sleep easily at night

Umbreon because its awesome

A riolu because I think they'd be fun to be around + they're super cute

A noibat so I can annoy my friends and family

And lastly a Bulbasaur because I feel bad it's never picked :(


r/pokemon 2h ago

Misc Breeding Omastar

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I'm currently playing Fire red

I have a male and a female Omastar for two different save files in the daycare on four island

I must have taken at least 5000+ steps by now, but no egg in sight.

Is there something I'm doing wrong? Or some mechanic I'm unaware of? Every guide I've seen says I have the highest chance of getting an egg every 256 steps. They "get along very well", so it's supposed to be a 75% chance.

Has anyone else had this problem?