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Baby Pokémon have one quite understated use: Making a previously late-game evolution family available earlier in the game. Take for instance the Magmar family. The original Magmar itself is a 495 BST 'mon originally designed to be available around the seventh Gym. That's very late in the game to...

Great idea for a thread! I'll take the honour of inaugurating it! I would like to gush a bit over these guys, under the interpretation that "Pokémon" in the title can be plural as well as singular: :sv/crobat: :sv/kingdra: :sv/mamoswine: :sv/roserade: :sv/togekiss: :sv/porygon-z: :sv/ursaluna...

Strangely enough, the photo in the background here shows a part of Poland, using German spelling for the place names. You clearly see Białystok above Surge's head, Lódz above Raichu, and Warszaw between them. The Narew river is also marked. I can't make out the word written in all caps behind...

How typical that Presents in the summer always happen during the week I'm away on holiday with limited Internet access. Oh well. To be honest, I'm not really sure what to think about Legends Z-A. At least I'm pretty sure I was wrong about the game having other habitats from which you can bring...

I had this old crackpot theory that Ash-Greninja really was supposed to be "<player>-Greninja". That it was originally designed as a gimmick for the unreleased Pokémon Z, where the starter Pokémon model could take on some characteristics of the player model. After all, Gen VI added clothes to...

Plus the Magmar and Rolycoly lines, although the latter also doesn't start out as Fire. Strangely, Water is almost as badly off in this regard. There are tons upon tons of Water-type Pokémon out there, but only a handful of three-stage families that aren't starters (Poliwag, Marill, Horsea...

Hm, there could definitely be something to this. The prospect of all-out brutal street brawls with dozens of Pokémon coming at you in quick order doesn't quite match the tone of the trailers so far, but then again, we never saw the Noble Electrode fight coming from the first Legends Arceus...

What I'm saying is that the pieces we've seen so far add up to a suspiciously small picture, if this is all there is. And this is, remember, not just the big Pokémon game release this year, but also the first in two years. It's not entirely impossible that the game is this small in scope, but...

Interestingly, the lore argument against regional form doesn't just apply to the starters, but to every Pokémon available in X/Y. However, that also means the Pokémon from Generations 7, 8, and 9 are exempt. Who knows what those would turn into in a Kalosian climate? It'd be fun to have...

Okay, I will try to lay out the argument a bit better. Because I think it is reasonable to expect the game to be more than Lumiose. First, the space. Does the city, as shown, have enough room to include a natural habitat for all the Pokémon in the game? For instance, we've seen a sand pit where...

By the way, I might as well add my reaction to the trailer/preview. Or at least, try to. I'm not sure what to think, to be honest. The battle system is probably what I'm the most intrigued by, but at the moment I can't really see what the "hook" is. I haven't yet seen something that made me go...

I agree with this prediction. There is a reason why we really only see five types as secondary types to starters these days. Ghost, Dark, Fighting, and Psychic are the only types that don't interact neither offensively nor defensively with any of Grass, Fire, and Water. That means they can be...

While I think it is reasonable to expect "Z" to stand for "Zygarde" and "A" for some other Pokémon, since the previous Legends game was named after Arceus, somehow I think it shouldn't be taken for granted either. It could refer to something else, like other Pokémon, NPCs, game mechanics, or...

This kind of prediction has shown up every generation since patching games over the Internet became possible, and thus far it has not come to fruition once. After the DLC, I'm pretty dang sure that they consider SV a "sold and done" product, whose development cycle is now over. Improving the...