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I pronounce Toxapex the standard way but I emphasize the "odor" in "Garbodor," so I get you. I think having to say the long A diphthong in "apex" sounds a little awkward when it's part of a longer word, though. I'm not a fan of Gliscor's name for similar reasons but I don't have an alternative...

I don't have any personal anecdotes to add to this thread as I don't have the game but I saw this tier list from a Japanese player on Twitter and thought I'd share it. (I used the automatic translation for explanations, but replace "Armarouge" with "Skarmory," no idea how Grok decided エアームド...

Stunfisk supremacy :blobtriumph:

It's been a hot minute since I played Legends Arceus but I'm pretty sure the game itself tells you to send out your Pokémon once you've stunned the Noble to get some hits in.

I wouldn't say Gen 6's trash can animation for Gunk Shot is "inexplicable." The move's Japanese name is "Dust Shoot", and in Japanese, "dust" is an unusual loanword in that it usually refers to garbage or trash (Garbodor's Japanese name has the "dust" loanword as well, and Nintendo...

It was the signature move of Pineco and Forretress in GS (Smeargle notwithstanding), Cloyster and Qwilfish only got the move in Crystal.

I bought Aegislash plushies when I was in New York and I'm always reminded that the living/possessed sword line is one of the inanimate object Pokémon that has a gender for whatever reason. That's definitely pretty mysterious. I don't know all the language rules for using pronouns in Japanese...

Masquerain got some pretty nice glow-ups between Quiver Dance in Gen 5 and +20 Special Attack and Speed in Gen 7. Saying it lacked anything to set it apart from other Bug/Flying types doesn't sit right with me, either. It has Intimidate (not amazing on a Pokémon like that, but still a strong...

There's one outlier, yes :wo:

Um I can think of 4 Pokémon (and one regional form) that can use Volt Tackle :mehowth:

I'm actually more shocked (only slightly, given some of the other choices/decisions in TMs in Gen 9) that Dugtrio lost Aerial Ace in Gen 9. Checking the learnset quite a few things lost it in Gen 9, though I question some of them being able to learn a slashing move in the first place...

If you're going by the logic of "it becomes a Ghost-type," what's your take on the Duskull line learning it?

I'm sure this has been mentioned before but I don't feel like searching. Electroweb's distribution is pretty easy to follow. Electric types, a good smattering of Bug types, a couple of Electric-adjacent Pokémon... And this guy :SV/passimian: This isn't new, either; it's gotten it since Gen...

Yeah, I always felt that the MC being from Kanto in Gen 7 was a part of the Gen 1 references they focused on for the 20th anniversary.

Yeah that's the point lol I know Let's Go gets some hate but I think it was well-executed for what it was (a bridge between Go and the mainline games) and I enjoyed it on those merits. It was meant to be simpler, a little cuter, and a way to show that the Alolan forms exist to fill type gaps in...