Pikachu315111
Ranting & Raving!
Never really use Trubbish but I did use Vanillite in my White playthrough and it was a pretty good Ice-type.I Really loved the vanillite and Trubish line, not only design wise but gameplay wise in b/w, especially in b where their appearance actually could improve your team.
Pokemon is its own world. If the creators want to have it have a god I don't see how anyone would be bothered by it. Those who don't believe in god do so because there's no scientific proof in real life that god exists (LET'S NOT GET INTO THIS DISCUSSION. If you believe in God and see proof of his existence everywhere that's great, but by scientific methods they cannot detect whether there's a being such as God). However in a fictional world? Sure, why not have a whole pantheon, if the god(s) are important to the story the main character would probably be "physically" meeting them so whatever. Also Pokemon doesn't really have a religion, like there's no Church of Arceus. We've seen Buddhist stuff and there was that one Church in Hearthome, but they usually put a Pokemon spin on it and they don't really focus on it. Besides Pokemon's creation myth is pretty stock compared to other creation myths. First there was chaos, something came from the chaos and brought order, created the world and its inhabitants, went away/to sleep. Honestly I'd say GF wasn't even trying and just wanted an excuse to make a god Pokemon with high stats.Pokemon shouldn't be based off real-life religions or deity. This just attracts criticism from extremists from people who believe in God (and somehow thinks Pokemon is mocking the God) or people who don't believe in God (and thinks that Pokemon supports this idea so they blindly hate said Pokemon).
OK, for my own unpopular opinion,
1) Pokemon models should never have been made. They look much nicer as 2D sprites. The 3D models are pretty ugly, by today's standards.
2) Phione's existence serves no point other than screwing players who don't have a Manaphy but wishes to complete the Platinum Dex. It's just so average in battle and has no value at all.
3) Victini's signature move should be V-Create instead of Searing Shot which has no use on it because it has Blue Flare lol.
1) It's not that I don't think they shouldn't have models but what does it being in 3D bring? Yes it looks marvelous but now we'll no longer get high quality sprites and there's kind of no point to make any more Stadium/Colosseum games since the main point of those was the 3D battling (though Colosseum does have a story (that's still waiting to be finished, or at the very least the next part told)). Also the 3D models, while looking good, for the most part just stand there. The previous 3D console games I felt had the Pokemon moving around more, doing neat stuff when idol/attacking/fainting. But Gen IV's models are pretty standard when it comes to animation. I'm hoping that now that they've made all the models they'll put in time to giving them more complex animations to give them some more life.
2) Phione is in neither DP's nor Platinum's Regional Dex. Neither is Heatran, Regigigas, Cresselia, Phione, Darkrai, Shaymin, and Arceus. The only Legendary added to Platinum's Regional dex is Giratina since you know encounter it during the story. Of course I don't know why Manaphy is in the Regional Dex, like I can understand them wanting to push Pokemon Ranger but still.
3) Searing Shot is a perfectly fine Special Fire-type move. 100 Power, 100 Accuracy, and 30% to burn? If it was on any Fire-type it would be a fantastic move, but Victini gets V-Create and unless you want it to be a mixed attacker with 2 Fire moves it'll probably stick to being a Physical Attacker for V-Create. But if you can't get your hands on a movie Victini a Special Attacker with Searing Shot isn't so bad.