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I feel like when people usually say they want Dragonite to look more like Dragonair, they’re picturing a sort of branch evo type of thing where you more-or-less dispense with Dragonite’s design altogether and make some elegant blue serpentine alternative. Problem is, I doubt that GF had any...

Just to be clear, I have no clue about either of things myself :psysly: I’m completely winging it with my phonetics transcriptions, and I don’t actually know how any of the Berry names are officially pronounced. It just happened to be on my mind because I saw an old thread somewhere the other...

Just to be clear, I have no clue about either of things myself :psysly: I’m completely winging it with my phonetics transcriptions, and I don’t actually know how any of the Berry names are officially pronounced. It just happened to be on my mind because I saw an old thread somewhere the other...

As a sort of offshoot question from the thread prompt, what about how you say Berry names? I actually find myself wondering about those more often than Pokémon names, because it’s at least much more common to hear how Pokémon names are said in things like animation and promotional material...

I watched through a video of how to pronounce each Pokémon’s name, just to sort of take stock of where my pronunciations sit against the official word. I don’t feel like it’s really worth mentioning instances where I maybe slightly deviate from the standard due to me being a wet-brain flesh man...

I was actually thinking the same thing when the Wo-Chien raids started. Would’ve been a nice little change of pace. I like the Tera Raid Battle theme, but using the Treasures’ own music would have made these raids feel a bit more eventful.

Yeah, this was kinda my thought on it too — I feel like it’d be really weird for most peoples’ first experience with any new wave of Pokémon to be in the context of battle mechanics that don’t then translate to turn-based / Champions, because you’d basically have to learn two entirely different...

I’m pushing the boat out here because I doubt they’d do this even though it’d be fun, but maybe one of the options could be Invert Type Matchups, since Inverse Battles originated in X & Y.

Looks like we got confirmation of Champions being free-to-start in today’s press release. “Pokémon Champions is a free-to-start game coming to Nintendo Switch 2, Nintendo Switch, and mobile devices in 2026. More details on a paid digital version of Pokémon Champions on Nintendo Switch 2 and...

Why do Poltchageist and Sinistcha’s forms have different names? Usually, with evolution lines where both stages have different forms following the same theme, the names for those forms are the same across both stages. For example, Shellos and Gastrodon = West Sea and East Sea. Burmy and...

I’ve never liked how inconsistent their approach to Shinies for fused Pokémon is. Kyurem, as you and pika pal have covered, takes on Kyurem’s own Shiny coloration for the body, but then only Shiny Black Kyurem takes Shiny Zekrom’s green electricity into account, whereas Shiny White Kyurem...

I would agree with that for the main generational titles, but if Legends: Arceus (with 7 new Pokémon, 17 Hisuian Forms, and Origin Formes for Dialga and Palkia — so essentially 26 new designs) was any indication, Legends games, much like most mid-generation releases before them, may just not...

I mean I personally think, for instance, that Bede from SwSh is pretty blatantly queer-coded, but then that just folds back into Hugin’s point about demanding better, because even if I’m right that it was deliberate, it still means Game Freak weren’t bold enough to just come out and say it...

Maybe this is just a nitpick (because I do agree with your overall point), but I feel like the phrasing of this makes it sound like someone has been attempting to put queer representation into the games, which then got suppressed and removed by the devs. Whereas, unless there’s specific examples...

I don’t really like the optics of Legends: Arceus, but strangely enough I think the nuances actually get a lot murkier the deeper you look into the details of the game’s lore. Because technically, the Diamond and Pearl Clans are stated to have been settlers themselves, who came to Hisui well...

She’s pretty clearly wearing a version of it in Z-A It’s been modified / refurbished, but it’s the Expansion Suit.

I actually seem to recall it being a bit of a theory even before MM, though I think it came more from the Japanese side of fandom? Though even there, we knew from base SV that Penny was from Galar. Of course, Z-A isn’t out yet so we don’t really know what it will or won’t say about Corbeau...

First responses to new Pokémon are always more intense. It cools off after a while. I think people think they’re supposed to be big announcement blowouts like Nintendo Directs. I suppose the fact that they used to be called Pokémon Directs doesn’t help, but after this many rounds on the...

Hearthflame Ogerpon bonked her way through it without much thought or trouble. Didn’t even bother to note which random partners I had. (Though I’m curious if you have to remain connected to the Internet for it to “count” if you’re doing it solo.)

Gotta be real with you here, I can only imagine this kind of statement being a net negative on the quality of Pokémon discourse. If we get to a point where people are saying “Was this Pokémon generated with AI?” even though we know Game Freak have a whole team of experienced artists, we’re...