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I am a big proponent of Lumineon getting Quiver Dance, though I would also argue it kind of sets itself apart from being a generic fish by its butterfly-esque movepool. Unfortunately its stats are extremely and detrimentally "generic fish." To add to the convo, I think it's crazy that Drowzee...

I understand why they removed them and can actually see possible problems with implementing them with purely overworld spawns (mainly from a niche "player can't get to a shiny/rare pokemon because a repel is active" standpoint). The other thought is to have them just reduce overworld spawns...

It's an amalgamation of 108 evil spirits sealed away. Gameplay-wise, it also had (under normal circumstances) no weaknesses in its debut generation. I'm not knowledgeable enough about the 108 symbolism (IIRC it's a Buddhism thing?) to say for sure but I assume that Spiritomb being a royal pain...

I like Thorton, I feel like the clothes are feasible/stereotypically nerdy, even if the hair is a little out there. Never noticed that about Dahlia's hair, though. That's going to bother me.

Noted (and I understand the frustration from that). Will use this if it comes up again. I'm not involved in testing mechanics or ensuring accuracy like you are, so I'll take your word for it, but I don't think I've personally had many issues using Bulbapedia for general move info. When I say...

Forgive me if I'm overstepping my boundaries here. While I understand your frustration with whoever misinterpreted your initial research and put that incorrect conclusion as fact on Bulbapedia, I doubt the edit was done in bad faith, and I don't feel that the user who asked about move type...

Archaludon is pushing it but I can see Duraludon being fairly light. It's named after duralumin, and a Google search puts its density at about 3x that of water. It's also based on buildings, which are more space than mass for their volume. It's still way too light for its height, but I can see...

Fair, fair. I enjoy me some deliberately ugly shinies sometimes. I think if they wanted to do something like this, it could be fun to just change one small part of Reshiram/Zekrom to be the opposite color (to reference the yin/yang symbol), though I think shinies like that were introduced in...

Gonna be honest I think these look pretty bad, Zekrom looks like an insect that just finished molting and Reshiram is giving 2007 Sonic OC vibes. Their official shinies are definitely a case where they keep their almost straight black/white color schemes for a reason (that being their names). I...

I hate to be a downer but I don't think Flygon was ever actually that good. Decent, but generalized stats and a lack of boosting options hold it back despite a good typing, ability, and movepool. It was reasonable in Gen 3 because of the lower general strength, and in Gen 4 because all of the...

I double-checked this this morning and I'm surprised no one corrected me on this, I should have said, "Maybe Sage/Elder Li was the real Flying type Gym Leader of Johto all along." I actually had the final trainer in Sprout Tower in mind when I made the post and thought that his name was Li, but...

Maybe Sage Troy was the real Flying type Gym Leader of Johto all along

Guzzlord is one of my least favorite Ultra Beasts but I don't think it's bad at all, it just doesn't really speak to me personally (plus I have some nitpicks on how its stats were distributed). I like how despite it having relatively "familiar" design aspects as a dragon, it also very clearly...

Pokémon is restricted from leaning too hard into open world because we can't have the player character actually interacting with the world in any meaningful manner (so anything beyond picking up items) without the aid of Pokémon. Zelda doesn't have that problem.

Legends Arceus is like the opposite of open world though. Extremely strict story progression beats. You're generally free to go back and explore old areas as much as you want in between said beats, and which Pokédex tasks you complete to up your rank is flexible, but I don't see how that differs...