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Pokémon XY General Discussion
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I wonder why this is the "last" batch of info WPM has to post...
Anyway, Malimar worst pokémon ever, 4x weakness to U-Turn, no resistances besides the Psychic immunity, etc
Anyway, Malimar worst pokémon ever, 4x weakness to U-Turn, no resistances besides the Psychic immunity, etc
To support the bad typing, both typings can't hit Dark and Steel well
It's the last batch because, allegedly, he got caught.
These new "leaks" seem fairly awful to me... a Psychic / Dark type seems pretty terrible competitively and some of the names are just completely uncreative. Please don't let them be true. Also, I can't wait for Smash to tell us nothing. It's going to build up momentum... and then "reveal" to us the new Pokemon Gogoat, Yancham, etc.
Uncompetitive types or awful typings are nothing new to Pokemon.
See pretty much anything with a part fire or part bug type.
Or Ice types, in general.
People said this about some of the 5th gen names (Throh, Sawk, Klinklang)
Also the 4th gen names (though which ones were REALLY hated I can't recall off the top of my head)
"uncreative" names are a time honored tradition in Pokemon
Just imagine the japanese names for some of these would-be Pokemon.
I mean, for reference:
Sawk = Dageki = "Strike"
Throh = Nageki = "Throw [also Strike]"
Klink = Gear
Klang = Gigear
Klinklang = Gigigear
(other notable names: Jolteon = Thunders, Vaporeon = Showers, Umbreon = "Blacky", clefairy is Pipi, etc)
Whaaaaaat. Did WPM post about it?
Lets assume the thing about Belch is true, how could it be useful?
Belch: "The user must consume a held berry to perform it". This is kind of mysterious. It would probably be most competitively useful if using the move consumed the berry, the berry's effects are applied and the Pokemon can Belch repeatedly after that at least until switching out (knowing GF...it'll be one-shot like Nature's Gift so I'll take two out of three). That would allow a Pokemon to activate pinch berries at full health while dealing damage. So we'd have another alternative to repeated Sub-bing. A Pokemon with Unburden, a Leichi berry and Belch could deal damage and give itself the equivalent of a Shift Gear to set up a sweep in one turn. The mechanic would be even more interesting when combined with Harvest and a Starf/Salac/Leichi/Petaya berry. It'd become like a 120 BP Accupressure/+1 boost that's potentially blocked by Steels/Unnerve.
If it turns out this way it'll probably be one of those moves/strategies that only a select few Pokemon have the right combination of attributes to make good use of. Just as nothing runs a status orb or Facade unless it has another compelling reason to be statused thanks to Guts, Poison Heal, or Toxic Boost.
Belch: "The user must consume a held berry to perform it". This is kind of mysterious. It would probably be most competitively useful if using the move consumed the berry, the berry's effects are applied and the Pokemon can Belch repeatedly after that at least until switching out (knowing GF...it'll be one-shot like Nature's Gift so I'll take two out of three). That would allow a Pokemon to activate pinch berries at full health while dealing damage. So we'd have another alternative to repeated Sub-bing. A Pokemon with Unburden, a Leichi berry and Belch could deal damage and give itself the equivalent of a Shift Gear to set up a sweep in one turn. The mechanic would be even more interesting when combined with Harvest and a Starf/Salac/Leichi/Petaya berry. It'd become like a 120 BP Accupressure/+1 boost that's potentially blocked by Steels/Unnerve.
If it turns out this way it'll probably be one of those moves/strategies that only a select few Pokemon have the right combination of attributes to make good use of. Just as nothing runs a status orb or Facade unless it has another compelling reason to be statused thanks to Guts, Poison Heal, or Toxic Boost.
Inkay > Inky > Ink (What kinds of animals use ink?)
Malimar > M(Kalimar) > Mal(Kalimar) > Malicious Kalimari?
I bet it's a squid, although a squid ought to be Water...
Malimar > M(Kalimar) > Mal(Kalimar) > Malicious Kalimari?
I bet it's a squid, although a squid ought to be Water...
Some of my favourites are:
Haunter=Ghost
Charmeleon= Lizardo (Lizard)
Vileplume= Ruffresia (Rafflesia)
Gloom= Kusaihana (Stinking Flower)
Oddish= Nazonokusa (Enigmatic Grass)
Belossom= Kireihana(Pretty Flower)
But the best of all is:
Wynaut= Sohnano- Comes from expression sō na no, which means "really?
and Wobbuffet= Sonans- Comes from expression sō na-n-su, meaning "That's the way it is"
So put together, they mean:
"Really?"
"That's the way it is"
Eexcellent! I also thought Inkay strongly suggested 'ink' (duh) but I couldn't make sense of Malimar. Malicious Calamari is a great guess (lol).
Here's another point: Octupi and Squid are Cephalopods (literally head-foot) = turning 3DS upside down to evolve and the dual typing of opposites (Psychic/Dark)?
I don't think being inspired by a marine creature necessarily implies Water-type (see Stunfisk and Eelektross) so you could very well be on the right track.
I personally didn't like Sawk and Throw, only because the puns are too obvious.
I would have preferred it if the Japanese names were kept for the international release, because that way they sounded "cool" but were just pretty much just puns if someone was curious enough to look them up.
I would have preferred it if the Japanese names were kept for the international release, because that way they sounded "cool" but were just pretty much just puns if someone was curious enough to look them up.
The Youtube stream is slightly behind. For a closer to live stream, check out this japanese one.
Stunfisk irritates me...it seemed like lost potential, especially after I read (on bulbapedia) that it was originally going to be an angler fish. I know that Chinchou and Lanturn were supposed to be "deep sea animals", but Lanturn looks more like a glowing dolphin. I wanted a beastly, toothy ambush predator...
I could see squids being Psychic, but I would rather have them be Psychic/Water or Water/Psychic.
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