#pokemon legends z to a

[csolarstorm]

Oh for frick's sake - !

How much longer am I going to have to wait for a freakin' Unova remake, I'm so old already, I'm going to be freakin' dust before GameFreak revisits Unova, I mean at least if they went Johto we could count on Unova AT SOME POINT, but who had their money on POKEMON Z?! Besides the people who voted for Pokemon Legends Zygarde on that poll I did as well as all the other people who wanted it?!

Do you just - do you just not have a pattern anymore, GameFreak? You like to be unpredictable and spontaneous by skipping from Sinnoh to Kalos? OR HAVE YOU FORSAKEN BLACK AND WHITE? Was Unova just a FILLER region to you? Was the Blueberry Academy just a consolation prize so you could move onto the region you really love, the first core game to feature "three-dimensional gameplay", and "Mega Evolution". Well let me tell you -

Oooh cool, Furfrou is finally back!

[taki-on-the-go]

Just FYI it's not called Pokemon Z

It's called "Pokemon Legends Z to A"

We time traveling again homies.

[thisselflovecamebacktome]

So we can agree that gamefreak loves their generation one bias right? Well, if I am remembering correctly, there are only seventeen pokemon/evolution lines from generation one that haven't gotten any love since generation one, whether that be pre-evolutions, evolutions, megas, (official given I'm including Arbok on the list lmao) regional forms or giantamax forms. So I have to imagine at least some of them are probably getting Kalos forms and/or megas in Legends Z-A. Anyway I've put them all below, bolded the ones I think are most likely to get the treatment and italicised the ones I hope do.

Fearow

Arbok

Nidoking

Nidoqueen

Parasect

Golduck

Victreebel

Dodrio

Dewgong

Cloyster

Hypno

Seaking

Starmie

Ditto

Omastar

Kabutops

Dragonite

[therealeagal]

Pokeemanz, Pokeemanz, Pokeemanz, let's do it.

And Mega evolution is coming back! Hell yeah!

[numahachi]

LOL whos tye saultry little binch on the bottom lsft????

[grovylelover]

Walked into the local marriott and guess who was behind the front desk. yuuuuuuup. the immortal king of legend who vaporized so many people it permanently fucked up the timeline.

[adobe-outdesign]

Chikorita and Totodile: Yay we get to be in Legends Z-A!!!

Cyndaquil, stuck in 1800s Japan:

[snowyy133]

Came out of my tumblr hibernation to draw this

[aonik]

Happy Pokémon Day!

[azaracyy]

quadruped solidarity

[1863-project]

I can't believe my entire mission in Z-A is going to be obliterating this guy

I will be the savior of the Paris Metro

[hisuianserperior]

You can't fucking sleep in Lumiose City. From people sending out Hippos on your roof to the fact the competitive battlers wait until night to do this shit, I imagine earplugs sell great

[thisselflovecamebacktome]

I've been meaning to make a post on the new legends game since the announcement, but have continuously had stuff come up so finally getting around to it now. Noting now that I've only seen very little (I'll mention what beneath the cut) about it so if any of this has been proven/disproven, my bad I guess lmao. But yeah, with that in mind, these are my very late night thoughts/predictions for the game.

So starting off I want to say that the only things I have seen on this game is the trailer and that apparently the whole game happens within Lumiose City. My kneejerk reaction to it happening purely in Lumiose was disappointment but then I took a step back and remembered that this will be Lumiose before it becomes the city we know from X and Y. Realistically I cannot see them making the areas of the game either 1. any smaller than Legends Arceus or 2. if they are smaller, have any less areas than Legends Arceus. Like with all the work they've done since Sword and Shield with bigger areas, I have faith that the sizing won't be an issue here.

Plot wise I am a little nervous, but I think a lot of that is just because there's so much that is unknown for now. Like tbh we don't even know if it'll have the same elements as Legends Arceus. Like for all we know it's a level by level game that once you finish a level, you can't go back because that part of Lumiose will have been built. Like I doubt that's the case, I imagine it'll be similar to Legends Arceus because they know that works, but we just don't know for sure yet.

Much like everyone else, I do hope Zygarde gets a proper story and tbh I don't want the A in the title to be another legendary (I do have a theory that instead of a new one, it may be Arceus but we'll see), but as long as it's written well, I will be happy. I also do wonder if the swords of justice will play a role given them being based on the 3 musketeers and feeling like they should be in Kalos.

More broadly plotwise, I am also super happy that Kalos was picked because tbh it's one of my least favourite games given how many missed opportunities I felt it had (likely due to the lack of a 3rd game) so I am excited to hopefully see those gaps be filled.

But yeah, overall I will say though, with Legends Arceus being my favourite pokemon game, it does have a lot to live up to, and that makes me anxious.

As I'm sure is the case with most people, my main hope for this game is that there are new mega pokemon (and regional forms). And tbh, I hope that any pokemon that already has a mega doesn't get a new one... maybe with the exception of Blastoise and Venusaur because it'd be nice for Charizard to not have the special treatment lmao. I don't really have any hopes for specific pokemon to get a new form or mega, maybe something I wouldn't usually use. Like I had never used Muk before Sun and Moon and now Alolan Muk is a top 10 pokemon ever for me.

Starter wise, my first guess is that they will pick all 3 from ones that aren't generation 6 or generations that were picked for Legends Arceus. Sprigatito, Sobble and Torchic were the first to come to mind, but I also have a nagging (affectionate) feeling that Squirtle may also be picked. If I'm right, I will likely pick Sobble because I've never done a runthrough with it, but if it is Squirtle and not Sobble, I really don't know because I've used all three of those pretty evenly. Then again, Lavender specifically came from another region iirc (did we ever talk about the implications of this? Like the 'Hisuian' starter forms may not actually be from Hisui if he brought them along from where he was from. Like I know pokemon says it's the area that determines the form but it takes years/generations to adjust so there's likely another region that had at least similar if not the same final forms as the Hisuian starters) so they could use that as a reason to finally give the generation 6 starters a mega and/or new final form.

And there is probably more but it's 1am here so those thoughts will have to wait for another time.

[galaxysketches]

I am Emmet

[thearsonistofarland]

I’ll show lumiose a real ultimate weapon

[adobe-outdesign]

Seeing a lot of people saying they don't want AZ to give you his Floette just so the player can have the Eternal Flower form, but honestly given that he's immortal I think they can just do what they did with Cognita/Enamorous in PLA. like during the endgame he just goes "oh btw Floette wants to hang out for a little bit, do you mind watching over her for like 80 years? I'll pick her up at your funeral"