#except for bdsp

[konotton]

I don't get how there are people who prefer Kirby Super Star to Kirby Super Star Ultra when the latter is just the same game but greatly expanded

Pokémon fans are known for being easily nostalgiabaited but man they're not the only ones

[wildkimiko]

So remember that thing in the beta leaks that said the twins had a Togekiss that just showed up?

Remember when I said I'd write a meetcute about it?

It's almost done, but I'm too excited so have a wip. Maybe I'll make this a comic, I don't know.

More below the cut

Emmet arrived in a few minutes as promised, panting heavily as he approached the office. Almost at once, Togekiss barreled towards him, stopping just shy of knocking him over.

"Hello, passenger! Where is your trainer?” Emmet asked. Togekiss just chirped, looking back in the direction Emmet came from, and then back to Emmet. It seemed to be thinking, shuffling from foot to foot.

Then, it gently headbutted Emmet’s legs before hopping into the air, gliding over to the Doubles platform.

Emmet and Ingo glanced at each other. Ingo shrugged; perhaps if they found out what Togekiss wanted, they’d come closer to finding its trainer.

When Emmet didn't follow it right away, it glided back, circling him before shoving him towards the platform.

"That is verrrrry rude!” Emmet exclaimed, raising his hands in surrender as he followed it, "Is your trainer on the Double Line? Please do not shove, we will find them!”

Ingo fought back a laugh as Emmet was guided away. Something about that Togekiss seemed familiar, but he just couldn't place his finger on it…

-----

Parfait was a genius.

It was true that wild Togekiss showed themselves in times of peace. It was also true that Togekiss brought blessings to humans if they were kind.

Parfait, however, was raised by Sheyla from an egg. And being in the wormhole during such a formative time changed her. She had this strange sense of Future Sight; she could see situations where Sheyla would become overstimulated before it happened, or moments where if she just nudged Sheyla in the right direction, good things would occur.

That was why Parfait was so well suited to being a Service Pokemon. She knew her trainer like she knew herself.

That being said, when Parfait felt that pull, and saw a brief glimpse of the future, she knew she had to act on it. Her trainer would never believe her if she told her, so she simply had to force her hand.

Navigating to the Subway was an easy task. Humans took photos of her, assuming her to be a wild Togekiss bringing good luck. But she wasn't stopped, and that was good. She managed to make her way inside until she saw one of the men Sheyla had helped a few months ago.

Parfait inspected him. This one wore black. This wasn't the one she was looking for. But maybe he knew where the other one was! So she shoved him back to a place she recognized; the office.

Finally, the man in white appeared, and Parfait felt that pull again. Hooray! This was the right thing to do. She shoved him back in the direction he came in. If they boarded the train, then Shey would have to come find her. She’d battle, maybe even battle the man, and everything would fall into place and her trainer would receive her blessing.

It was the perfect plan!

[implalazz]

Got all my teams made for my pokemon marathon! (Not really a marathon I’m just playing every single pkmn game)

[goldensunset]

y’all my ds from 2011 still works (but i can’t say it’s really a shock; nintendo really popped off with that piece of hardware) and my sister is willing to lend me pokémon platinum!

the only things wrong with the ds are that the color on the bottom screen is inverted and i think the left and right shoulder buttons are busted but that shouldn’t matter for pokémon right?

[dawnedon]

masters will never ever be canon here in my entire life bc 1. i only play the game just to get my favorite characters. i genuinely dont care abt the plot/story and cant get into it. and 2. dawn's sync pair is turtwig so that's already a massive failure that cannot be overlooked (and her special sync outfit or whatever is SO ugly like green slaps but w a bright ass yellow??? get out)

[minuteminun]

nintendo and gamefreak treat your pokemon consistently challenge

like either they are sapient beings similar to humans to the point they can have conversations and be considered the same or they are hunter and farmed animals with powers making them both has weird implications

[synthetic-sonata]

one day ill post my pokemon games + spinoffs tierlist that im slowly chipping away at and have been since, like, june or july . but i dont think people are ready

[0x-hazel]

No pokemon can *directly* learn even 3 of the 4 moves.

but you're forgetting one pokemon who can learn *all* of them

Smeargle

pokemon themed blowjob. leech seed

[lea-khena]

I don't get why so many people are surprised that Cyrus is tall or have trouble to accept that fact. Cyrus is depicted as a tall man practically towering over almost everyone else in every piece of official medias hes in despite USUM. In fact i believe the reason why people think hes small is because of USUM where his model is smaller than the other pokevillains, but thats literally the only exception.

His first canon appearance in his first game, and first concept arts, he towers over everyone else in his team and his commanders. In pokemon masters he's close behind Lysandre. In his latest depiction with BDSP he's once again depicted as really tall and towering over everyone else. And in his manga appearance he's AGAIN very tall. Cyrus being tall is just canon and not even surprising. His exact height is up for discussion, some revently leaked infos shows him at 190 cm but pokemon is known to have irregularities though even with that, him being tall has pretty much been a majority constant fact since day one.

[dysphoriaposting]

The beginning of every mainline Pokemon game has the professor being like, "Oh hey, what's up? Man, I'm so proud of you for taking this leap into the big wide world, can I get to know you a little better?"

Except Legends: Arceus, where God himself abducts you from another timeline, rips you from your memories and team from BDSP, and says "Be not afraid" in a black void before sending you to the dark ages.

[loupy-mongoose]

How I've collected an Army of Mews. :3

@puzzled-zebra asked me in a chat how I get my Mews, and it made me realize something. While I did make a post awhile back talking about how I easily get my Mew characters in-game, there are a few aspects that I feel need more attention (some of which I've learned since that post). So I figured I'd make a new and improved, deeply in-depth post about it! :3

It is important to know, though, that the Mews (and Jirachis) obtained this way are SHINY LOCKED! You cannot reset for a shiny this way! (I have a post about how I got Akoya here~)

The Lindens, the Branch crew, and my first gift Mew Pearl. All safe and sound in Scarlet. :3 Every Mew here except Akoya was obtained in Shining Pearl.

What you need: Nintendo Switch/Lite Brilliant Diamond OR Shining Pearl Let's Go: Pikachu OR Let's Go Eevee (For Mew) Sword OR Shield (For Jirachi)

First off, it's best to do do this on a user with HOME access for a few different reasons. First and foremost, Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl has a lock that makes it so you can send ONLY ONE Mew per file into HOME! I learned this the hard way, as I made the mistake of stockpiling my Mews in a Shining Pearl file, only to find out that I had go through convoluted hoops to get them all into HOME. XD This issue is ONLY present in BDSP--Sword and Shield, and Scarlet and Violet do not lock you in this way and you can transfer as many Mews as you want to your hearts content. (Currently--please don't change it GameFreak!) (I don't fully understand the mechanics of it all, but Mews obtained in previous games pass through this lock--Akoya and Randy were consistently able to be put in HOME together from the same file. It's only when they're obtained in BD/SP that the lock applies, or so I understand.)

The second reason for HOME access is, you have to beat the first Gym to do this method. I have in the past done it using the starter Piplup and catching Starlys and Shinxes, but if you have access to HOME and powerful Pokemon, then you can borrow some to help you get through. I use the Linden Shiny Squad since their levels are between 65-70. They scarcely listen to me, but when they do, it insta-KO's their opponents. (I recommend having Piplup or a Lv. 10-ish powerful Pokemon on hand, especially for Roark's Onix, as it has Sturdy. I have had them all disobey themselves to death.)

Make sure you put your borrowed 'mons back into HOME before deleting the file, if you want to do so!

How it works is, there's a lady in Floaroma Town that will give you a Mew, at Level 1. (The guy next to her will give you a Jirachi at Level 5 as well.) In order for her to give it to you, you need to have save data of LG;P or E on the same user. It doesn't matter how far in the LG file is; it just needs to be to the point that you can save the game. And you don't need to touch it after you save--One LG save gets you as many Mews as you restart BD/SP for. (For Jirachi it's the same, but instead of LG save data you need Sword or Shield save data.)

So you start BD/SP, play up to Floaroma, and boom, Mew! You can save by the lady and reset for a specific nature, and even name it! With the Shiny Squad's help it takes me roughly an hour of play time to get to that point.

Anyway, a little long-winded, but I thought I'd put this out there for peeps who have the means and want to build their own in-game army of adorable pink cats. :3

[conspire24]

Why a Kalos game actually makes sense right now (crack theory)

So, I'm super excited we're getting a Legends game in Kalos featuring Zygarde. As a longtime fan in the XY anime, I always wished Zygarde was done justice in the game side of things, and once Legends Acreus came out, I knew another Legends game would be the perfect way to give Zygarde they're dues.

That said, this was definitely out of left field! Literally everyone was guessing we were going to get a Johto or Unova game this gen, since they're the only two that have yet to be remade in 3D. At first, skipping straight to Kalos makes no sense. But the more I thought of it, the more I've noticed a pattern, a pattern that I will now present as:

THE POKEMON GENERATION MULTIPLES HYPOTHESIS

The idea is that the region that gets remade is influenced by its age as well as whether or not the region's generation number shares a common denominator (that isn't 1) with the current region's generation number. I know, I'm bringing math into this, but trust me it'll make sense when we go through it.

Let's start simple, the first gen to get remade was Kanto (gen 1) during generation 3. Easy enough, it was the first gen where it made sense to remake past games, and oh look, 3 is a multiple of 1 (though to be fair everything's a multiple of 1).

Then we get to gen 4, where after the sinnoh games, we got a remake of John (gen 2). Oddly enough, 4 is a multiple of 2.

Then there's gen 5. Now, 5 is a prime number, so the only factor 5 has is 1, but gen 1 has already been made available on DS (along with every other gen, so it's not like they could do much anyway).

But then we get to gen 6, followed by the Hoenn remakes (gen 3), and 3 is a multiple of 6. Now, 6 also a multiple of 2 and even shares a common denominator with 4 (that c.d. being 2), but it seems gen 3 takes the precedent because it is the earliest set of games to have been released, since Johto and Sinnoh had games out more recently.

We move to gen 7, and you know, I remember back in 2017 when everyone thought we were gonna get Sinnoh remakes next. But why would we? 7 isn't a multiple of 4, 4 and 7 don't share a common denominator. 7 is a prime number, it isn't a multiple of anything - except for 1. And wouldn't you know it, this is the generation where we got a set of Kanto remakes - and 1 was the only thing that could factor into 7!

As we go to gen 8, suddenly it's apparent what would get remade next. Sinnoh was the region that had been out of circulation the longest, and 4 goes into 8 just fine, meaning now is finally the time to give Sinnoh another spot in the limelight with BDSP and Legends Arceus!

And now, we have reached gen 9, and again I say we all had thought we would get a return to Johto or Unova, but why? I mean, 9 isn't a multiple of 2, or 5. Rather, 9 is a multiple of 3. And you what else is a multiple of 3? 6! And since gen 6 had come out a year before the Hoenn remakes, it seems Kalos was the earliest game to pass the threshold for a modern reimagining.

So, in short, it appears that the region that gets remade or reused next coincides with whether or not the generation number shares a common denominator greater than 1 as well as whether or not the region's last release has been longer than other regions'. If this theory holds water, gen 10 may yield some interesting results, as 10 is a multiple of both 2 and 5. Though, there has been more time since the last new Johto games than there has been since the last new Unova games, so by my logic, Johto would be the next to be remade. Though if you count the Johto VC releases on 3DS, maybe that would mean Unova has spent more time out, so maybe Unova would be next on the docket?

Either way, I just think it's interesting that all the generations' numbers line up this way. Who knows, maybe each generation, GameFreak has been playing a simple numbers game when deciding their remakes.

Well regardless, I'm happy that we're getting another step into Kalos next year, and in a way, maybe the timing makes more sense than we realize. That said, definitely take this theory with a grain of salt. I highly doubt the numbering of generations (which I don't think GameFreak has ever actually acknowledged officially) truly factors into how GameFreak and the Pokemon Company greenlight what projects. But if nothing else, it's fun to notice those kinds of patterns. I'd take this in the same vein as that fire starter zodiac theory from a while back. It's probably not true, but it's funny how well it fits together!

That said, I'm calling it now, a Legends game in Johto is gonna be the game for 2028!

[starabsol]

contestshipping shinies

i am a mad contestshipping fanatic, i am sure i've mentioned so before. and one of my main hobbies is shiny hunting. since last year when i got my switch i've been shiny hunting left n right! and since i love contestshipping as much as i do, i went ahead and caught quite a few shinies who are contestshipping related!! ^^ i like showing stuff so heres a whole dump of shinies who r contestshipping related hehe. i dont have them all yet, im also busy w other stuff so

MAY'S POKEMON

blaziken (violet/sword)

and here some funny backstory on how i got these two!

violet blaziken i actually found on accident. since the scvi dlc came out i really wanted to get torchic so i could evolve it into blaziken. however i saw they didnt spawn in the location they were supposed to, so i popped an encounter power lvl 2 sandwich, and, crazily, a shiny torchic appeared right there. i named her ikaika! :3

sword blaziken i purposefully hatched out of an egg. surprisingly it was within 100 eggs or so, so I was very lucky there x3

2. glaceon (violet/sword)

and here some info on how i got them:

in violet i really wanted some shiny eeveelutions, since i was an eevee kid back in the day, so i got to a mass outbreak of it and managed to get like three shiny eevees within 30 minutes of a sandwich! which i evolved into leafeon, glaceon, and left the last eevee as it was. i named glaceon lazuli, based on lazuli from the eeveelution squad!

in sword i again, purposefully masuda hunted it. though it was much longer and more dreadful than the torchic hunt i did XD

3. venasaur (violet)

how i got it:

how i got this guy was surprisingly similar to how i found my shiny torchic in violet. i originally wanted to get a regular bulbasaur, but when i found four or five bulbasaur covered in some tall grass, and noticed one was different from the others, i knew i'd found a shiny! XD

4. beautifly (shining pearl)

how i got it:

let me tell you, getting this thing was painful; in the bdsp games you ARE able to find silcoon and cascoon; except there's a problem. i have shining pearl, and silcoon was exclusive to brilliant diamond (as cascoon is exclusive to shining pearl, which i had). so, i had to chainhunt wurmple. and it's very painful considering my chain broke several times. but that isn't even the main issue! wurmple can evolve into cascoon, too, which means i also had a big chance of getting cascoon instead of silcoon. and that's what happened when i got my first wurmple.. it evolved into a cascoon. i evolved it into a dustox anyway, and after more fighting i managed to get the shiny wurmple that evolved into beautifly. <3

DREW'S POKEMON:

roselia & roserade (shining pearl)

i know you see a roselia/roserade in sword there, but i actually caught it in shining pearl! since its in bdsp and i was able to chainhunt it, i actually managed to get three shiny budews within that chain without it breaking. one i kept as a budew, the other two i evolved into roselia, and eventually one of them into roserade! so i have the entire line, basically. however i like the shaders n lining in swsh a lot more so i decided to transfer them to sword <3

2. masquerain (violet/ultra sun)

how i got them:

in violet masquerain was a shiny i obtained really early as soon as i got my shiny charm! considering it's drews only pokemon that (before the dlc came) was in the games i wanted to hunt masquerain. and i know a lot of people shit on green shinies, but i love shiny masquerain.

in ultra sun i got it through the SOS method, and it went surprisingly fast. i dont think i spent that much time on it at all XD

3. flygon (violet/usum/shining pearl)

im not gonna explain what's going on here...

how i got them:

in violet as soon as the dlc came out and i had completed it i immediately rushed to shiny hunt it (trapinch) in the dlc. and i got it relatively fast, i got two even. not long after i bumped into a shiny flygon in the wild, and... like that, it continued... the first shiny i got though was named sapphire!

just like roselia/roserades case, the shiny i got was originally from shining pearl n transferred it over to sword. however, how i found this thing is WEIRD. so fucking WEIRD until this day i still dont get it. basically i was shiny hunting vibrava in the desert area of shining pearl as soon as i got the national dex. i was chainhunting, as usual. thing is, you just normally encounter pokemon, so if it's a shiny you should be able to see that it's shiny and the little sparkle effect, right? well, in this case not, apparently. because i was casually catching vibravas to keep the chain going. when you catch a pokemon you temporarily she the sprite of the pokemon you caught; but when i thought i'd caught a regular vibrava (i didnt see it to be shiny, and i saw no sparkle effect) i see a quick flash of the shiny sprite. at first i thought i was hallucinating, so i went to go check, but it was a shiny. i still dont get it. HELP. (ill put a video below LOL)

on usum i got it by doing the SOS method! that one i also found surprisingly fast.

4. absol (ultra sun/shining pearl)

shining pearl absol has, just like roselia and flygon, the same origin. it's from shining pearl. however, i instead shiny hunted absol via the mesuda method, considering the shiny charm is fucked up in bdsp and getting a shiny via the grand underground (the only spot where u can find absol in the games) is pretty much impossible. named him sol!

usum absol which i got via the mesuda method also. i originally wanted to SOS hunt it, but absol rarely ever calls for help, even on 1HP+adrenaline orb. it took awhile to get it, but when i got it i was filled with joy lol.

5. butterfree (usum)

i got this baby from the SOS method. and let me tell you, it was fucking fast. like.. like literally so fast i got it within an hour or so, maybe even less! i named him andrew >;3

HARLEY'S POKEMON

cacturne (violet)

i just got this guy from a mass outbreak! it's really cute because one of cacneas idle animations is them waving, so when i found the shiny cacnea it was just waving at me >o< i named her mayley, by the way!

2. banette (violet)

this one i also got out of a mass outbreak ^o^ if anything i managed to get two shiny shuppet, so one i evolved into banette n the other remained a shuppet! i named shuppet spooks and banette shooks! :3

3. ariados (violet)

this dude was SUCH a pain to get. first i had tried to catch it via spinarak mass outbreaks, but after 2-3 hours of running around i was fed up and decided to try an ariados outbreak instead. eventually i got it, though in my opinion, it took way too long. i named him kumo, which means spider in japanese!

and last but not least, arcanine. he's connected to contestshipping in a way, you know? so i had to hunt it >:D

how i got this baby was via mass outbreaks. i actually caught two shiny growlithe, so i evolved one and kept the other as is. arcanine i named summer, and growlithe i called lente, which means spring in dutch!! i love these babies!!

thanks for listening to me ramble. XD also, if you're a (crazy) contestshipper, PLEASE be my friend. I'm desperate. if u guys wanna see some screenshots of may n drews pkmn interacting let me know!

[grilledcheesesupremacy]

Ok

I am doing another run of pokemon SHIELD

Because sword wasn't available, and I think the shield dogo look cooler anyway

And I REALLY wanted a lilligant on my team

So I went into Google and saw that lilligant isn't in the base game

I don't have the dlc

So I went into legends arceus

Because I have all the pokemon switch games except let's go...look I never grew out of my pokemon phase *OK*

And got a petilil to breed and evolve in shield

And that got me thinking

I have four pokemon games

And they give me a lot of options for pokemon to move between versions

But even then they're complicated to get

If I wanted a normal zoroark I need to

Go to legends arceus

Get a hisuin zoroark or zorua

Send them to scarlet (since generation 9 is the only current generation that accepts hisuin pokemon to be sent since hisuin pokemon are new)

Breed the zoroark/zorua to get the normal version(since if you don't breed them while holding am everstone you get the normal)

And only then do you get the normal

And I need to ask

Why?

Like why

Pokemon games make MILLIONS off of the basegame alone

So why dlc?

And why hide pokemon behind it

The only way to get Kanto starts for me is till through the post-game of bdsp

And God forbid I play that again

[pkmnprideflags]

Which Eeveelutions are most popular among NPCs?

On today's edition of Useless Pokémon Stats: I gathered data of the used Pokémon by all major NPCs (rivals, gym leaders, villains, and any other important story figures) and scanned them for Eeveelutions to see which mons are the most common.

Read on to find out which characters have Eevees!

The least-used Eeveelution is unsurprisingly the one who's the most newly added: Sylveon.

Shauna has a Sylveon on her team in XY.

It is also Gym Leader Valerie's signature Pokémon.

Bede adds Sylveon to his team once he switches to being a Fairy-type Trainer.

And of course, Penny has one. You're gonna get tired of seeing her on these lists, because she has every Eeveelution except for Espeon & Glaceon.

Next let's look at Vaporeon, who has six NPC trainers:

Misty has a Vaporeon on her team when rematched in Let's Go!

In Pokémon Yellow, Blue will evolve his Eevee into Vaporeon if the player loses both of the first two rival battles.

Calem or Serena (as the rival) will have a Vaporeon if the player chose Froakie as their starter.

Hau will have a Vaporeon if the player chose Litten.

Adaman has a Vaporeon in Legends: Arceus.

And Penny has one on her team as well.

Tied with six trainers is Umbreon.

Karen has an Umbreon on her Elite Four team.

Greta of the Hoenn Battle Frontier has an Umbreon in both Symbol challenges, so it's arguably her signature Pokémon.

Cheryl can use an Umbreon in the Battle Tower in all Gen IV games.

Buck has an Umbreon on his team at the Battleground.

Adaman has an Umbreon...

...and so does Penny.

And finally, also tied with the above is Leafeon.

Gardenia has a Leafeon in all of her B2W2 World Tournament teams.

Buck can have a Leafeon in the Battle Tower.

N has a Leafeon in B2W2 during the Summer battle at his castle.

Hau will have a Leafeon if the player chose Popplio.

And Adaman...

...and Penny too.

Interesting that Adaman has all of the less popular ones...

Anyway, moving up one NPC with Jolteon:

Lt. Surge uses a Jolteon in the B2W2 World Tournament, as well as during rematches in Let's Go!

Blue can have a Jolteon in Yellow if the player wins both early rival encounters.

Trace will always evolve his Eevee into Jolteon in Let's Go! Kinda wish they had kept the mechanic that Yellow used, but oh well.

Volkner has a Jolteon in Platinum, the game where his gym team actually makes some damn sense.

Marley can have a Jolteon in the Battle Tower in Platinum & HGSS.

Calem/Serena will have a Jolteon if the player chose Chespin.

And Penny! (the schuyyyler sisters)

Also in a tie is Glaceon:

Lucas will have a Glaceon in BDSP if the player chose Turtwig.

Candice has a Glaceon in her rematch battle in Platinum.

Cynthia has a Glaceon on her team in Black 2 & White 2.

Mira can use a Glaceon in the Battle Tower in all Gen IV games.

N uses a Glaceon in the Winter battle at his castle.

Sina has a Glaceon in Pokémon Moon & Ultra Moon, as well as in the Battle Tree in Sun & Ultra Sun.

And Irida has a Glaceon in Legends: Arceus.

And finally, we have two Pokémon in a tie for first, both with eight known trainers. The first is Flareon.

Blaine has a Flareon in the B2W2 World Tournament.

Blue will have a Flareon in Yellow if the player only wins one of the first two rival battles.

Lucas uses a Flareon if the player chose Chimchar.

Flint has a Flareon in Platinum, the game where he doesn't have a friggin lopunny for NO REASON

Calem/Serena uses a Flareon if the player chose Fennekin.

Hau uses Flareon if the player chose Rowlet.

And Irida...

...and Penny!

And tied with it is Espeon.

Red has an Espeon when challenged on Mt. Silver.

Sabrina uses an Espeon in for her gym battles in GSC.

Lucas will have an Espeon if the player chose Piplup.

Lucian has an Espeon on his team in Platinum.

Cheryl can use an Espeon in the Battle Tower.

And so can Mira.

Dexio has an Espeon in SM & USUM.

And Irida has an Espeon in LA.

[scream-mans-friend]

$30 for a used bdsp/$60 for new bdsp vs $90 for platinum. I would like to try shiny hunting the legends which I can do in both games, with the exception of no shiny Arceus in platinum