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I always remember Clyde — he gave me free water at every Gym!

R_N covered the points I was going to hit, but I’ll still throw this into the ring for consideration: a user on the Bulbapedia talk page for Paradox Pokémon makes the case that the wording in Japanese always suggested that the Pokémon were drawn from alternate timelines, even in the base game...

Unless GF’s writers are playing 18-dimensional KerPlunk, the verbiage that’s exchanged in the Crystal Pool scene is pretty blatantly discussing time travel: “Have I somehow broken through the boundaries of space-time?” “From the clues you’ve let slip, I suppose I would have to conclude… From...

Well, we can infer that there weren’t any Paradox Pokémon in Area Zero when the Professor began studying there, because otherwise there would be no need to build the time machine. The Pokemon that they wanted to see would already be there. In other words, Paradox Pokémon only inhabit Area Zero...

One of the reasons Klara is my favorite rival is because her actually cheating in our third battle left a big impression on me, lol. I like the idea in principle, but it’s the kind of thing I could see becoming old hat pretty quickly. I don’t fault GF for generally wanting all battles to play...

Cycling Road, I would assume, since it’s supposed to be a downhill slope. (Funny enough, as a kid I don’t think I ever really “got” what was going on there. I think I just took it as some kind of mysterious force exclusive to that area. Maybe I missed some dialogue…)

The ability to have both bikes is strictly post-Delta Episode though, because the third NPC is located at the Battle Resort. In that regard, it’s sort of like Koraidon / Miraidon’s flight power, or the perma-charged Tera Orb in SV — a final convenience afforded to you only after it no longer...

Zacian and Zamazenta’s Hero forms had 670 BSTs back in Gen 8, but were tweaked down to 660 in SV On a similar note, I don’t think I’ve ever really understood why Blaze, Torrent, Overgrow, and Swarm don’t have a proc alert. Defeatist too, for that matter.

But… they did do this, at least for the new characters and, by nature, all of the new Pokémon. The fact that they reused a handful of animations for a couple of characters in a couple of instances doesn’t mean they didn’t also do lots of new animation work. They just did it where it made sense...

I don’t see any objective reason to assume that desperation was a factor or that they blindly created some kind of problem for themselves, rather than it simply being a case of them reworking the established idea of Gengar getting trapping capabilities into the newer mechanical context. The...

The Gym Leader battle theme in SwSh has dynamic layers like that. Whenever you knock out your opponent’s Pokémon, it gets a little more peppy, and whenever your Pokémon gets knocked out, the music becomes more muffled and imposing. Also there’s a guitar-playing NPC in Mesagoza, and if you stand...

My stab-in-the-dark speculation is that it’s for the same reason I think there were only 72 new Pokémon added — a lot of XY’s development would have been spent making the absolute shit ton of high-quality 3D models for the 649 existing Pokémon, so why add even more onto that workload with an...

The name logic may not hold up, but they were still cooking with that idea regardless. Who wants another held item trade evo mon over a stone evo anyway?

I think it’s from the anime. There’s no mention of such a thing in the script for GSC. In those games, it’s just a rare Gyarados. Team Rocket are said to be forcing the Magikarp in the lake to evolve early, but while the Gyarados’s wild behavior is attributed to that, its color isn’t.

Ultra Necrozma is really the only instance of this that sticks out to me, because UN is so blatantly “Necrozma made whole again” in terms of its design. Regular, Dusk, and Dawn Necrozma are all fundamentally incomplete, and unlike Kyurem, we actually got to see (and use) the “completed” version...

You couldn’t capture Arceus with the glitch. But what I’m saying is that they decided to skip the Azure Flute event because they wanted to ensure a consistent process and experience for all players, and DP’s glitchiness had already caused them to set a precedent. They could have released a...

This comment in the “little things you like” thread got me thinking again about a post I’d been meaning to make regarding the whole Azure Flute controversy, summarizing some insights that I picked up a few years ago from a Twitter user by the name of AdeptCharon, and combining them with some of...

I’m surprised that Boulder is so much faster than Leaves. Their body types aren’t that different from Terrakion and Virizion, and in the original trio, Virizion is the one that’s characterized as being swift and spry, while Terrakion is more of a burly tank, which is why Virizion has a higher...

I would think that in most cases they focus more on the individual stats rather than the total number, since that in itself is largely inconsequential. A Pokémon with “a 780 BST” doesn’t mean anything other than “it has a lot of stat points to work with,” whereas the actual Attack, Defense...

Mew’s Gen 1 sprite has often been criticized for being ugly or creepy: But I’ve always really liked that about it. The lumpy, fetal, vaguely eerie look of it always felt like a good match for the concept of a Pokémon that’s supposed to be a rediscovered universal ancestor. It feels...