I noticed that too. Sounds like Zoroark's ability won't be as good as we thought it would be. GF has already killed two abilities that could've had potential(Encourage and Illusion). Oh well, Overconfidence/Earthquake Spiral makes up for it.
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Pokemon Black & White, aka Gen 5. Coming to Japan in Fall 2010.
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Of the ones revealed now, I just don't like immediately the emo girl. I'll need to see the coffin face although its hands look pathetic (and did you notice that when the tarantula was hit its ghostly parts withdraw to the coffin?) and I have no idea on the green goo yet, I'll wait and see.
I like the others.
I like the others.
There are many worse looking Pokemon than the ones revealed. I mean, if you'd run out of ideas after about 500 Pokemon too, wouldn't you?
As for my impressions:
Emo Poke: Looks very weird, prolly a Dark/Psychic.
Spider: Looks like Bug/Electric to me.
Mantis-thing: Obviously it's Bug/Something. Prolly has good stats.
Moles: Ground/Steel typing would be cool. Moar moles.
Slimer: Might be decent, looks like it may be Ghost/Water or Psychic/Water (I say that because of the fluid surrounding it).
Blue/Red Tank-like thing: Prolly a Probopass evo, which would mean it's Rock/Steal?
Sarco-ghost: Definitely Ghost/Rock. Might have potential with a good movepool.
As for my impressions:
Emo Poke: Looks very weird, prolly a Dark/Psychic.
Spider: Looks like Bug/Electric to me.
Mantis-thing: Obviously it's Bug/Something. Prolly has good stats.
Moles: Ground/Steel typing would be cool. Moar moles.
Slimer: Might be decent, looks like it may be Ghost/Water or Psychic/Water (I say that because of the fluid surrounding it).
Blue/Red Tank-like thing: Prolly a Probopass evo, which would mean it's Rock/Steal?
Sarco-ghost: Definitely Ghost/Rock. Might have potential with a good movepool.
when i first saw exeggutor i though he was horrible and made me have nightmares but now i really love that big tree. i am sure you guys will get used to those pokemons.
i doubt anyone liked emo clown when they first saw him, but now i am the only person who hate him, everyone else kinda like him now.
even if you guys dont like him i am sure there is a pokemon out there that you hated at first but now love.
i doubt anyone liked emo clown when they first saw him, but now i am the only person who hate him, everyone else kinda like him now.
even if you guys dont like him i am sure there is a pokemon out there that you hated at first but now love.
Oh my god. I just. Oh my god. I watched the trailer and you know what crossed my mind?
Is this Pokemon?
Seriously. They said we'd say it and now I'm saying it. Is this Pokemon? But it's not the dynamic camera angles, or the 3 on the 3 battles, or all the other stuff. It's the Pokemon themselves. Namely these 3;
And these four;
Is this Pokemon? Is it really?
Is this Pokemon?
Seriously. They said we'd say it and now I'm saying it. Is this Pokemon? But it's not the dynamic camera angles, or the 3 on the 3 battles, or all the other stuff. It's the Pokemon themselves. Namely these 3;
And these four;
Is this Pokemon? Is it really?
Yeah, I think the knee-jerk reaction is to hate on new Pokemon.
I think it's that people want them to cure cancer and bring world peace and they never quite live up...lol
Then eventually we get used to them as run-of-the-mill Pokemon like any other and the world continues to turn.
Also, some real world animals still make me uneasy so I guess it's normal never to warm up to some Pokemon.
Edit@Jibaku...that's an interesting possibility. Maybe if a move is used that refutes the illusion's typing it immediately fades.
OTOH, I've never seen Zoroark's illusion survive an attack to maybe it just fades at the first hit after switching in.
I think it's that people want them to cure cancer and bring world peace and they never quite live up...lol
Then eventually we get used to them as run-of-the-mill Pokemon like any other and the world continues to turn.
Also, some real world animals still make me uneasy so I guess it's normal never to warm up to some Pokemon.
Edit@Jibaku...that's an interesting possibility. Maybe if a move is used that refutes the illusion's typing it immediately fades.
OTOH, I've never seen Zoroark's illusion survive an attack to maybe it just fades at the first hit after switching in.
Interesting Combo set here, wondering if this would happen but not sure. Say I'm battling in a triple battle with Plusle, Gear, and Minun. Now say gear has minus, Plusle would have plus which increases Sp. Atk x1.5 while battling with a pokemon having minus. Now say Gear had minus, and obviously Minun. Would Plusles Sp. Atk go x 3? If so, this is incredible.
I will never get this "Running out of ideas" thing. By virtue of there being so many different kinds of Pokemon, they are not running out of ideas.
Just now we got 8 Pokemon.
A mini-mole with giant claws that turns into a giant purply mole with metallic claws
An insectoid dragon-esque goldenplated beetlehorned ....uh...insect dragon thing.
An awesome looking spider
A haunted coffin
A...whatever the nosepass-esque pokemon is.
An ectoplasm projecting fetus (well, fetus is what I think of)
And, iffy looking or not, tower witch
All of these are unique, and even the ones based on animals that already Pokemon take it in a different way. Like the moles. They wanted more "realistic" or obvious moles then the Diglett line.
Might be true. If only SE and neutral attacks made the Illusion break, it could work, but either way, after 1 hit, you'd probably know whether it was Zoroark or not anyway.
The main problem with the bottom right Pokemon being a spider; it has four legs. Spiders have eight legs. Then again, Ariados looks very spider-like and only has six legs.
The Tarantula-like pokémon is called Denchura. Denki means electricity, and "taranchura" is tarantula in Japanese.
So, maybe, well, you know.
So, maybe, well, you know.
That makes sense, and I've been hoping for an Electric/Bug.
To be fair you could hit start to see the numbers anyway, even back in 3rd gen (emerald at least)
can't say I ever expected a spider to finally be the electric/bug
Bug/Dragon is awesome typing, imo. It basically gets two awesome STABs for Ubers, because it can hit all the Psychic-types + Darkrai via X-Scizor (misspelled on purpose) or some other strong Bug-type move, and it gets amazing coverage on the bunch of Dragons in Ubers, like Rayray and Palkia and those people.
Hopefully it's defensive with a lot of SpA, or just fast and frail. Because it either needs to outspeed the metagame to hit them hard, or survive the metagame's attacks to counter.
Wow, that just sucks. Essentially it's an almost useless ability. Then again, some Pokemon are still good without any sort of ability.
Look at Infernape. It's good even without Blaze, and the ability is rarely activated anyways so it doesn't matter. Or look at Dragonite. While it doesn't have Intimidate like Salamence, it is still a decent OU Pokemon. And it's ability only comes into effect when versing Togekiss or Jirachi, so it isn't completely useful.
If Zoroark has the stats to back up its typing, I don't think Illusion should affect its placement as OU. It doesn't really hinder Zoroark at all, it's just pretty much useless.
I doubt Shooter would mean Items, because they've kept it "Items" for the past four gens, and I really don't want to see a change. Maybe you can access items by pressing Select or R or one of those unused battle buttons?
But it would be funny shooting a Potion to your Pokemon. Imagine if it hits them in the head and KOs them. Such irony.
It probably will, imo. Multi-target moves were slashed from 100% to 75%, so it seems viable that they'll be slashed again to what I speculate to be 66%.
Electric and Fire types seem to be having their generation with the main legends being Fire and Electric Dragons.
We have already seen three Electric and three Fire Pokemon and not a single Water except Mijumaru.
I'm certain we'll get more Waters but maybe they're making an effort to diversify the selection of some of the less common types.
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