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    Pokémon Presents - Pokémon Day 2025 - Pokemon ZA Info & Pokemon Champions Announced

    There's basically 4 ways they could make you get mons in Champions: Home transfers Premade rental mons Download other players teams via teamcode Showdownesque teambuilder Transfers have to be one option, but they also can't be the only option if phones are a way to play the game that doesn't...
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    High Quality Fanworks

    My gut instinct is to do Humanoid Mon+Nonhuman Mon transformers. Emboar-Charizard, Venosaur-Roserade, Ceruledge-Mismagius. The easier option is just to do evolutions/form changes, but those seem boring.
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    Unpopular opinions

    Fundamentally, for an in-game run, both IVs and EVs are useless. Players won't notice them unless told and also the difficulty level doesn't matter. For various challenge runs, especially modded ones/fanhacks, they probably get patched(and also GF hates fanhacks). If you're playing some...
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    You are a type specialist in a hostile region. How do you best represent your chosen element?

    When we work together, when we're at our weakest, when we're underestimated, that's when we're at the strongest. So, we have 4 bugs, Kingler(crabs are bugs), and a computer bug. The character is a group of kids who all fight you as a unit, each of them training one mon even though it's a...
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    (Little) Things that annoy you in Pokémon

    Water-type distribution in general. It's the unfortunate reality of the type's flavor and various decisions made early on in the series, but for most of the lifespan of the series, you could only get most water-type mons after you had access to Surf or the Good/Super Rod. Surf, of course, means...
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    Unpopular opinions

    The reason people still talk about Cynthia is that Cynthia, Leon, and Blue all have, not just multi-type champion teams, but multi-type teams specifically composed of mons that are reasonably considered broken. That's basically just the 3 of them. Any single-type champion just doesn't have the...
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    Pokemon that disappointed you in-game despite looking good initially?

    IME the Nidos are very much...They're really good as a route-clearing mon, since they're bulky, generally have 4 powerful attacks, useful immunities, and can one-shot most weak stuff. In major battles, they're more a "press in case of emergencies" button. Without a type advantage, they're going...
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    Little things you like about Pokémon

    Materials testing HYPE! Y'all should be glad I wasn't making the type chart, we'd have so much diversity on the various soil mons.
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    You are a type specialist in a hostile region. How do you best represent your chosen element?

    There's plenty of danger in these mountains, but there's beauty, too. This is a hiker. One who's well-bundled against the cold, and invites you into his campsite to warm up with a battle. Two ice-types, a penguin, and 3 mons who learn ice moves. Specifically Steelix for the icy mountain...
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    (Little) Things that annoy you in Pokémon

    Which is weird, because I thought GF had learned their lesson about that. One of the big complaints about Megas in XY was that so many were postgame-locked. Z-Crystals and DMax then were available pretty freely throughout their respective storylines. And then Tera was sharply limited once again...
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    Unpopular opinions

    Gen 1-2: The Debut. The era they're figuring everything out. The games are brand-new, there's no rules, etc. Arguably this is defined purely by vibes, but I think GSC wasn't sure what a generation was, and RSE knew exactly what one was. Gen 3-7: 2D's Heyday. They're still experimenting(they...
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    Best regional dex thus far?

    XY. Or rather, best dex+catching. There's good dexs that have great mons that you can only find in Victory Road, or ones where you have 1 option before Gym 3 and have to run that every time. Shoutout to SwSh with an incredible dex entirely locked behind the raids and dens, making finding...
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    You are a type specialist in a hostile region. How do you best represent your chosen element?

    It's a Legitimate Strategy! This trainer is young, full of himself, and leaning into the cheating and annoying aspects of the Dark type. This team has the 2 Dark/Grasses, Rattata and Gyarados(who both get Dark alt forms in later gens), and Primeape/Fearow who both are angry and dishonorable...
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    (Little) Things that annoy you in Pokémon

    Raids are cooperative multiplayer and multiplayer will always have incompetent noobs and trolls. Pokemon is worse since there's essentially no matchmaking, no moderation, and no coordination. Basically, good luck. They're not fixing anything and even if they tried, Raids can't be fixed.
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    The Best and Worst Boss Fights in Pokemon

    Penny is an interesting discussion for how they built her team compared to Arven/Nemona/Clavell. Nemona: 5 mons with broad types, a starter, all with high stats, some of them are rare/powerful, others are iconic to this generation. Mostly 4 attacks with excellent coverage. Clavell: FWG core...
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