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(like I have the same take on it but I still don't really get it)

Various gen stuff I got super late last night that I'll post real quick before going off to work: - Corsola (Saniigo) partially from amigo along with the more obvious sunny and sango - "regi" of the regis is from "register"... the kanji they list is specifically "primary storage" (一次記憶装置, which...

hm, never heard this one and although some of them are definitely back-justifications, it is honestly a fair take given gf's love of tokusatsu.

So one thing that I didn't expect to see was localization documents, for all games up to HGSS!!! Although they're not always direct explanations of Japanese names, some do leak quite a bit into that and it's also interesting to see the deliberate choices made on the localization end. It's...

mildly interesting is that they changed its name from Gonzou (cf 小僧 (edit: kozou), literally "little monk" figuratively and more frequently "kid") to Gonbee.

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In previous revisions, many Pokemon in gen 5 use stats and abilities copypasted from other Pokemon that... vaguely visually / typewise resemble them (chicken and egg scenario): https://tcrf.net/Development:Pokémon_Black_and_White/Pokémon_Data/Base_Stats The older the Pokemon the more likely it...

I don't think this is the case as Metagross was intended to be based on a meteorite. The design document just calls for "meteorite pokemon 1 2 3" when they make the Beldum line.

Casual thought, but given Gamefreak's fondness for upcycling scrapped concepts, I wouldn't be that surprised if Bonsly had inspiration from the sprinkler shrub Pokemon. It's kinda visually similar and has a similar gimmick (albeit expressed in different ways) - Bonsly has Fake Tears while the...

It started out as a Pokemon called Bee and then they changed it to Kamomeeru (portmanteau of Kamome (seagull) and potentially mail). A lot of the beta Pokemon in gen 3 don't feel very exclusive and a lot of concepts were split up into little pieces and reused later. It being reused for Illumise...

I think all of them are listed as single types. I'm not sure if this was what they intended as their "primary" type? Things like Lotad (which is explicitly a lotus) is listed as water only rather than a pretty logical water/grass.

So in 2021 we got a chunk of Gen 3 Pokedex entries / Pokemon category names + also a couple names (iirc). What we did not have was any sprites or the other chunk of (WIP) names. https://www.smogon.com/forums/threads/leftover-prototype-gen-3-pok%C3%A9mon-data-first-looks.3664582/page-2 Now, we...

Even gamefreak forgot finneon lmao On a serious note one thing I didn't think about is that dive isn't really realistic given that there's no magic "breathe underwater" item like there is in the anime / games. This makes encountering deep sea pokemon kind of difficult so the only way you could...

Beyond the last one being (apparently?) "Crown Flower" and the second being (at best) "Viscous Flower" or some corruption of "Hibiscus", the other two are mysteries, especially the third one. Maybe the first one is a corruption of "Plumeria"?

Not too big or anything, but something I never noticed because the word was spelled in kana is that the spelling of the word used for "Shrub" for the bizarre sprinkler Pokemon's category name (かんぼく / 灌木) has the first kanji as one that is also used for 灌水 (to spray water, especially onto plants...