Recent content by SlowAriados

I misunderstood Koffing when I was a little kid. In the anime, I thought he was saying Coffee! And I thought he shot out coffee, not smog! XD

That one scene from the anime where Brock accuses a Sunflora of using steroids. It's real! Look it up!

Hopefully Thunder Armor becomes a real move someday...

Why do Prinplup and Empoleon have Tackle as a starting move, while Piplup has Pound as a starting move? It seems intentional as it's been this way in every generation. This is something fans could easily miss because no one would really pay attention to Empoleon's starting moves. This is odd to...

This applies to the Bellsprout line too. This is due to the egg move being carried over from gen 2, where it could be taught to a father in gen 1 through TM

In Generation 3, the Oddish line can learn Swords Dance through breeding. But the only eligible fathers that can pass the move down only can get it themselves through move tutor

Good points. I forgot that there were more examples.

That's possible. But I wonder if it could have been intentional because it only seems to be this way with both of the screen moves, Reflect and Light Screen. And it's like this for both generations 3 and 4.

Why do some Pokémon in Gens 3 and 4 (like Machop, Scyther) learn Light Screen only as an egg move, but not by TM? This is unusual, usually a Pokémon can learn an egg move by TM (if there is one for it).

It could be a mistake. Or maybe they changed their minds like they did with Toxic

In Pokémon X, I randomly ran into 2 wild shinies in 1 week! And I wasn't even trying to find them! I also got a 3rd shiny much later in X, but that was intentional through breeding methods

Maybe the idea is that when fighting Seviper and other snakes, it can drain the poisonous venom out of them? Since Zangoose is immune to being poisoned.

I kinda like the resource management of items you sort of have to do with bag items in the games. Like healing items, Pokeballs etc. Like using worse Pokeballs on weaker mons and saving better Pokeballs for stronger mons. It's simple but I kinda like it

That all makes sense! The gameplay first consideration makes a lot of sense to me! Interesting they changed this in later gens. Maybe because there are more options for passive damage now

Im trying to figure out the logic behind why almost every Pokémon used to be able to learn toxic. Maybe because it's described as a technique in RBY and FRLG, if I remember correctly. I know the Serebii website describes it as a technique in Gen 1. So maybe it's not the Pokemon emitting the...