To an extent, even the Beasts and Musketeers got new "members" with Walking Wake & Iron LeavesRegieleki, Regidrago, and Enamorous being made is amazing to me since it means preexisting legendary/legendary adjacent groups can receive new members well past their introduction. While Enamorous was somewhat predicted due to the Forces of Nature's Therian Forms being based off of the 4 Gods, nobody would have guess it would be introduced in a 8th gen game based on Meji era Sinnoh. They even got counterparts in the Treasures of Ruin in Scarlet and Violet. It makes me wonder what other groups will receive new members in future games/DLC. While I've seen fanmade Paradox Pokemon that are based on Mega Evolutions, I'm wondering if we might see Paradoxes based on Gigantmax forms.
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I don't know why someone at Game Freak decided to give each variation of Tauros a slightly different weight but keep the height the same, but I think it's very funny that they did.
In hindsight it's kind if weird how the English dub of the anime decided to name one of Misty's sisters after an already existing game character.So I was kicking around another list, when today they revealed all the Pokemon 151 cards and there was actually a little surprise: Daisy got a card
No not one of Misty's sisters from the anime, I mean Gary's sister
As far as "important npcs" go, she's the one who gives you the Town Map, checks happiness in FRLG, and will groom one of your Pokemon in both FRLG and the Johto games. She actually had a Fame Checker sprite and everything. Surprisingly wasnt in Let's Go at all...
But since she's kind of obscure in the grand scheme of things, she never got a card until now and is her first batch of official art. I think it's fun when the TCG digs deep like this.
It's not that weird; she didn't have a name during Gen 1. The one named appearance she had in a spin off, Electric Tale of Pikachu, had a completely different name then what she would get in Gen 2.In hindsight it's kind if weird how the English dub of the anime decided to name one of Misty's sisters after an already existing game character.
Yeah I know Gary's sister never shows up in the anime, but still.
Plus Aqua breed is described as being more fatty to help it float, seems likely that would affect its weight, meanwhile Battle has more denser muscles compared to the Normal type variant while Blaze almost looks the leanest of the bunch but is no less weaker for it. It’s pretty interesting way to differentiate the four further.Well their designs imply they should be different for sure.
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One thing I’ve been thinking about recently is that Seadra is the only non-poison type with poison point as its ability. Which I think is just a really interesting to do as outside of that the evolution line doesn’t have anything to do with the type, not even learning poison type moves like sludge bomb.
It’s almost like they wanted Seadra to be more of a poison type when they made it but decided against it because of the over saturation of the type; Or because they wanted to do a something with the whole baby dragons are seahorses in some Asian cultures angle but still wanted to call back to that via the ability.
I don’t know, it’s just so interesting because you just don’t see this with stuff like flame body or static.
Heck, maybe a Poison/water type regional variant could be a thing someday?
Yellow | Touching the back fin causes numbness. It hooks its tail to coral to stay in place while sleeping. |
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Stadium | A clever Pokémon that can swim backwards while facing forward. Fainting may result from a jab of its sharp spikes. |
Imagine telling people back in Gen 4 competitive Dragonite is the strongest Psedo-legendary in Gen 9 and Garchomp is powercrept into being almost UU/UUBL.In the face of all the powercreep over the gens, esp in gen 9 which is seen as one of the most powercrept gens (or rather powered down gens due to most older Pokemon being nerfed), seeing the OG psuedo, Dragonite, be a contender as one of the strongest Pokemon in the game next to the newcomers, Bax and Dragapult, is a great sight to see. Its especially awesome since it was a joke the first 3 gens, so its position has somewhat reversed, with it being much stronger now than it was previously.
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I've known about the shot where Brock insists that rice balls are jelly donuts for a while, but I never knew that the shot immediately preceding it established that they do in fact have "jelly" inside them. (Also this isn't even the first time they're called jelly donuts in the show).
Yeah I always just wrote it off as like fully sugar coated donuts and never second guessed it, since I never paid close attention to the textures or anythingAs a kid, I never thought they were always but donuts due to the design.
While the dub didn't need to change the name from rice balls to donuts, the substitution, at least, made visual sense.
They're both Ubers now, so it certainly feels right.Volcarona at the bottom of Relic Castle, especially in Black and White where it's a post game only level 70 similar to the legendary Kyurem. It feels right.
I think some networks did have a weird thing with culture stuff like this, but also 4Kids in general was extremely weird about it. I swear there's a quote about how like people wouldn't understand it at all so they just removed it all. Which got very funny when they would start removing the fake language they implemented later.I still sometimes wonder what prompted the Rice Ball rewrite, like if that was 4Kids thinking kids wouldn't recognize the food or some weird kid show rules about how other cultures could be depicted on Kids TV in the US in the 90's or something (I've heard of weirder things), primarily because of the inconsistency. Like if it had been "Donuts" in random eating scenes and Rice Balls when they were at the clearly-Japanese festivals or such I wouldn't raise an eyebrow.
That said this was a funny bit that came out of it.