#I name my Pokémon after shapeshifting robots

[the-starry-lycan]

Sideswipe the Manectric and his autobot namesake!

See the resemblance?

[gemevieve]

hex girl, gen, rotom

Hex Maniac: What is your favourite ghost type? 

Oh shit that is difficult because I have many ghost favs. I love Gengar (well their whole evolution line is great) because they have a nice simple design and they are shaped like a friend (they are also a good fighter). There are also pokemon like the shuppet line (creepy hand puppet to evil voodoo doll that deserves love). the duskull line is cute. Shedinja (undead cicada shell who cannot eat), Sableye (gem eater goblin). Drifloon and Drifblim (creepy ballon that steals children and simple happy blimp). Froslass may be not the strongest defensively but she is still good and was a good edition to the Snorunt line. Rotom has a great design and concept (being the alolan pokedex is great as well). Griatina is a def fav for being a shapeshifting ghost dragon centipede thing.  Yamask and Cofagrirus have nice designs and I love how the latter move. the Litwick line are cute and evil (and fucking good fire ghost types), Frillish line is good design wise (being ghost jellyfish monsters) and they can take a lot of hits. Golett and Golurk were my number #1 favs as ghost types because they are one of the few ghosts that protect people and they are giant golem robots (I dig giant robots! Also, them being ground/ghost types helped). The honedge line may be overused but I still love their design and typing. the phantump line and Pumpkaboo line are equally good with cute designs and creepy backstories behind them. Decidueye is a pretty good grass/ghost type as well (grass/ghost has been a good typing for me) and they are an awesome owl (I’ve been wanting another owl pokemon for a long time). Sensu style Oricorio I still need to use to see how they are but I dig their design. Lunala is a pretty good design with the space inside their eyes and being a skeleton bat doesn’t hurt as well. Alolan Marowak has a good typing and I like their design (I actually prefer Alolan marowak over kanto marowak). Mimikyu is a great fairy AND ghost type pokemon that packs a fucking punch! The totem Mimikyu almost took my whole team ddown in Sun becuase of how much of a hard hit they are. I used them throughout most of my journey in Sun. Sandygast and Palossand are cute and good with being really good special attackers with decent defense plus they are a HAUNTED SANDCASTLE THAT EATS PEOPLE! They were going to be my number one favorite dethroning Golurk that was until I got myself a Dhelmise. Dhelmise is a 12′10 tall monstrocity that when I first saw it I thought it was going to be a ghost/water type or ghost/steel type but instead is a ghost/grass type which is odd but cool. I love how this thing is and anchor with a broken helm, a compass eye, and a ships’ jet propeller. It looks like it’s covered in seaweed but that seaweed is it’s flesh! This thing as just normal seaweed and somehow becomes a ghost pokemon and absorbs what falls on the ocean bed. I named mine the Goryo after the sunken haunted ship with seaweed monsters from Okami. 

Gen: Your favourite Pokémon generation?

My original fav generation was Gen 5 for taking what started in Gen 4 (attempting to add more lore and story in the series) and expanding it with developed characters, good heartfelt story, and new experimental pokemon. But now Gen 5 has been surpassed with Gen 7 taking everything from Gen 5 and taking what worked in Gen 6 and just multiplying it by 12. Sun and Moon has made me feel so many emotions and I felt so invested in the game with the story and characters. I love so many aspects of it and a lot of the mechanics are fun. The Z-moves are silly and I love the pokemon rider since that means I don’t have to use HMs. The changes it made with the trials instead of gym was a fresh breath of air to the series and I fully welcome it. I like it when pokemon does something new and different. I’m glad they put more effort in Gen 7 than they did in Gen 6. I’m also glad what helped Pokemon make Gen 7 the way it is was by having good competition of another series I like, Yokai watch. 

Rotem: What is your favourite region in Pokémon?  

That is a tough one because each Region has something to offer. But if I had to choose, the top for to me in no particular order would be Sinnoh, Unova, and Alola. 

After watching Chuggaconroy’s lets play of Pokemon Platinum I started remembering all the good things about Sinnoh. Sure, Sinnoh’s victory road is annoying and a bitch to get through and having to use defog in certain areas was just no. But everything else in Sinnoh is well nice. Mt. Coronet being in the center of the region dividing it in half, the lore in sinnoh with the Canalave Library, and the Distortion world being one of the most unique looking places in Pokemon. Sinnoh was one of the good things from my days in Middle school.

Unova was a lot of fun to explore and all the things one can interact with was very nice. The change of seasons, the best victory road (and victory road music), very cool cities that some has designs differences between version and after the time skip in Black2 and White2, the bride at the time showing the improvement of the graphics in pokemon and the start of the improvement of them. How music was a key thing in pokemon with certain npcs you could talk to who played instruments or could sing and you would start hearing their inclusion in the background music. The return of characters like Looker and Cynthia. I have replayed black 3 times so far and I loved replaying it. This was the region that helped me start experimenting different pokemon to use in battle. 

Alola just looks beautiful and I love the islands and just how different all of them are. The architecture differences like with Malie Garden stating that people from Johto who came to the island made Malie city or Seafolk Village with people living in boats OR even the Aether Foundation being an artificially made island. Alola is new similar to Unova but moreso. Alola brought a lot of new things and I loved how the Elite Four was new for them and how when you become champion (the first champion mind you) you have to defend you title similar to Blue to Red back in Kanto in Gen 1. It brings back all the old stuff but mixes it into something new.