Recent content by ZB7

After I finished Pokémon Crystal, I decided that before I Pokémon Bank shut down (not confirmed on when that’ll be, so don’t worry just yet) I’d hunt one of the most elusive shinies of all of Pokémon, Celebi. And I got it! Rather quickly in fact - it’s possible to get about 110~ of these per...

Of all the Pokémon I used in Crystal, there was one good boy who surprised me the most and was the MVP of my team… This guy. Quagsire is a great team member. As a Wooper that can be caught just past Falkner’s gym, it learns Water Gun, Tail Whip and Slam by level 11, meaning it’s incredibly...

I played Pokémon Crystal for the first time recently! It was my first time going through Johto (and Kanto, but I haven’t actually gotten to doing it yet). I was able to observe a few things I liked and disliked about the region, so I’ll probably make a few posts in the next two weeks talking...

Paldea is the only generation in the past 7 where these guys aren’t catchable at all by any method in-game. Why forsake such a rich tapestry of Regi history, why, GameFreak, why!? D:

Ogerpon has something to say to an old nemesis of hers…

I was in the Terarium testing out the Synchro Machine (good concept, needs a little more refinement but very fun). I wanted to see if one of my favourite recently released Pokémon could swim. Unfortunately Raging Bolt cannot swim, but it can do this: This makes me smile :)

The Sprigatito line is really, really fun to use. In my first Violet play through, I chose it because I liked the entire line’s design, even though I understand that some people’s love for it ends at Meowscarada. Initially, it’s pretty generic, having access to Leafage as its main attack. It...

(This post is not my true feelings on Tera but I made this meme because I find the format too funny)

I was just existing in my natural state of endless thought when something came to me: I really like how to me, Terastalization feels like less of a marketing gimmick than the previous gimmicks. It’s admittedly still a gimmick, but the gameplay-story integration is much better than the...

My problem is exactly what you described however - nothing uses Stone Edge over Rock Slide in doubles - Excadrill loves Rock Slide anyway paired with Sand Rush. It’s more about me not understanding why of all ground types, why does Excadrill not learn it. It has nothing to do with the typing...

For whatever reason, there are 4* fully evolved Ground type Pokémon that don’t learn Stone Edge: Seismitoad, Toedscruel, Sandy Shocks and… Excadrill. Seismitoad can live without it, it had (at least in SwSh) a pretty colorful move pool and Stone Edge wasn’t ever really used. Toedscruel very...

Speaking of cross generation evolutions: I really like Dudunsparce. I think it’s a fun evolution by virtue of it obviously being barely an evolution at all. Some people were excited for Dunsparce to grow really strong and big, so much so that I’ve seen people argue Drampa should’ve been its...

I was just thinking about this yesterday actually. I believe it to be Gen 5’s influence of BW being a 'soft reboot' and much of the Pokémon in its dex being Gen 1’s Pokémon reimagined in a sense. This obviously included no cross-gen evos, despite the few Pokémon that people claim were intended...

Wow, I didn’t know that. By the way, it wasn’t just Roaring Moon and the Bikemons - just regular, common Pokémon also failed to catch unless it was critical - but I suppose it doesn’t matter with this information. I still find it annoying that it can make you sit through up to three shakes even...

Scarlet and Violet critical captures suck. After you’ve registered a Pokémon into the dex, every capture afterward requires it to be critical to catch. This is less of a problem and more of an annoyance because it means that every time you throw a ball to catch something you’ve already caught...