Little things you like about Pokémon

[R_N]

My personal theory is that Nemona has a (possibly undiagnosed) physical disability. She's wearing a wrist brace, it's mentioned that she's terrible at throwing pokeballs, and she's regularly seen as being physically exhausted by things that younger chars handle just fine. I doubt it's intentional, but it makes for an interesting background beat for her.

My read of it was "she throws so many pokeballs [because she's bad at it] that she got carpal tunnel".

I also don't recall her being exhausted by things, I felt like the joke in Area Zero was Penny was the out of shape one exhausted by Nemona's boundless enthusiasm and athleticism, but pokecorpus is kind of a pain to dig through and bulbapedia's down for maintenance.




Also adding to the repetitive stress injury, I kind of wonder if she terastalizes a ton too. A number of animations for terastalizing shows it kind of takes a lto of force and people will grimace about it to hold the ball in place.

 

[Worldie]

Unless you misinterpreted the dialogue this is funny because it's also just blatantly wrong. There are multiple trainers in the game with teams of 5 and 6, being pretty above average in terms of the full team count especially

It's obvious it's "factually wrong", since duh there's trainers in the ranks above W with 5 or more and usually somewhat capable ones, but the absolute ineptitude of people in the city (even from sidequests) is just... even worse than in the main series.

I liked LA much more on that regard. In that game it *made sense* that you were special for being able to catch/train multiple pokemon, for most people pokemon were just scary wild animals and the simple thought of bonding with one let alone 100 was terrifying.

Much less in this world where pokemon roam freely in the city and all it takes is literally fling a pokeball at one (you don't even have to actually fight them, many just run away!)

 

[Valoo]

If memory serves right Arceus was actually kind of similar about its own player character too.

The Galaxy Expedition Team, especially the Survey Corps which you join, didn't make it very far before the player was isekai'd into the region, and your comrades comment on how far they've genuinely come in their progress in studying the Hisui region and its Pokemon once you entered the picture.

Both because of your exceptional catching ability (something that's even commented on in Arceus iirc) and because of your ability to forge bonds with your own Pokemon. Something Rei/Akari (the one you don't pick) points out because they still couldn't really become a team with their Pikachu.

So Z-A in that regard is kind of reiterating on that idea. In general, it's implied throughout the series that the player character is exceptional and one of a kind, but both Legends games were rather explicit about it in similar ways.

My assumption/headcanon was that the PC from PLA is the same as DPPt or similar, and just didn’t have any pokemon with them when arceus took them. They’re naturally better at capturing/battling because it’s normal in their time.

The ZA main character is honestly so bizarre, even for Pokemon. Why are they in lumiose! Why did they go along with any of this!

 

[R_N]

My assumption/headcanon was that the PC from PLA is the same as DPPt or similar, and just didn’t have any pokemon with them when arceus took them. They’re naturally better at capturing/battling because it’s normal in their time.

The ZA main character is honestly so bizarre, even for Pokemon. Why are they in lumiose! Why did they go along with any of this!

Genuinely I think they were just here on vacation; some dialog options in sidequests say that and its likely why Taunie just says "you're a tourist right? need a hotel". They're literally a tourist who took no notes, just packed a single bag and headed to Lumiose. and you know what they say when in paris join a battle royale and resolve a mysterious phenomenon

 

[ItsScaryCary]

holy this is an old thread but my answer would be piplup because he is pretty little and I like him

 

[Esserise]

A little thing I like about Z-A (some endgame spoilers and new Megas)

Spoiler

They really found a way to have almost every Mega (that’s programmed in, anyway) appear in the game in some capacity, outside of the player’s own choice of use:

Absol, Camerupt, Victreebel, Slowbro, Hawlucha, Beedrill, Banette, Barbaracle, Mawile, Ampharos, Altaria, Froslass, Venusaur, Tyranitar, Starmie, and Dragonite are all Rogue Megas.

Charizard X, Gyarados, Malamar, Manectric, Clefable, Skarmory, Excadrill, Scolipede, Scrafty, Eelektross, Chandelure, Pyroar, Dragalge, Drampa, Falinks, Floette, and one of the Z-A starters you didn’t choose are all major characters’ aces.

Lucario is loaned by AZ to serve as the tutorial Mega once again.

Blastoise, Alakazam, Gengar, Kangaskhan, Aerodactyl, Heracross, Gardevoir, Gallade, Aggron, Garchomp, Pidgeot, Steelix, Pinsir, Salamence, and Metagross all appear during the climax during the gauntlet to get to Prism Tower. (You don’t actually battle Mega Pinsir, but I guess to make up for that we see a whole swarm of them chasing after Grisham and Griselle, and also see next paragraph.)

Pinsir, Houndoom, Medicham, Abomasnow, Sableye, Sharpedo, Glalie, Lopunny, and Audino can all be used by late/post-game Z-A Royale opponents. (As can Tyranitar, Aerodactyl, Pidgeot, and Gallade, who were also accounted for in the previous paragraph.)

And Mega Zygarde gets the big climactic story moment.

Thus the only Megas that don’t really get showcased are:

1. The starter that’s weak to yours (since Urbain/Taunie Mega Evolves the one that has the advantage over yours, though they own both)

2. Chesnaught, Delphox, and Greninja, because Game Freak chose limited-time distribution fuckery instead

3. Charizard Y, for some reason (but who knows, maybe Leon turns up in Hyperspace Lumiose in the DLC because he got lost on the way to the post office and Mega evolves his Charizard at you lol)

At any rate, we’ve come a long way from Megas being barely featured at all in XY, and only slightly more featured in ORAS.