Little things you like about Pokémon

[Magcargo]

Apparently the gen 4 games had several of the Pokemon Stadium modes built into the main games, with the "Pokemon Communication Club Colleseum" acting as a hub for these extra modes like Little Cup and Fancy Cup. I never played any of the gen 4 games online, so learning this was extremely cool.

It is unfortunate to see that they engaged in Smogon's tyrannical policy of banning healthy strategies like Dragon Rage and Sonic Boom, but if you can get past that, it seems like it would have been a fun time. Here's hoping extra modes like these come to Champions.

Also think its cool that official Pokemon Channel has videos like this: (

) that explain obscure mechanics.

 

[Karxrida]

It is unfortunate to see that they engaged in Smogon's tyrannical policy of banning healthy strategies like Dragon Rage and Sonic Boom

Doesn't Dragon Rage OHKO literally everything in the Little Cup format? At least prior to the introduction of Fairy. I am not an expert on Little Cup, but I highly doubt keeping DR (which has no accuracy penalty and more PP than true OHKO moves) would have been healthy, especially in the context of Gen 4. Sonic Boom is in a similar boat since the bulkiest viable mon I am aware of (at least in Gen 4) is Munchlax, which has 30 HP. Most anything in LC probably falls to a single Sonic Boom after minor chip.

Game Freak was very justified in those move bans so the format could like. Function at all.

 

[R_N]

Doesn't Dragon Rage OHKO literally everything in the Little Cup format? At least prior to the introduction of Fairy. I am not an expert on Little Cup, but I highly doubt keeping DR (which has no accuracy penalty and more PP than true OHKO moves) would have been healthy, especially in the context of Gen 4. Sonic Boom is in a similar boat since the bulkiest viable mon I am aware of (at least in Gen 4) is Munchlax, which has 30 HP. Most anything in LC probably falls to a single Sonic Boom after minor chip.

Game Freak was very justified in those move bans so the format could like. Function at all.

I just assumed they were joking about it being tyranny

post it in discord and you'd get everyone reacting with 1 9 8 4 emotes

 

[QuentinQuonce]

Stumbled across one of the scripts for an earlier game on a website (as in the game's text, not the code) and something I noticed both Gen II and III have is a character who says "My Pokemon brought me some mail from my boyfriend/girlfriend who lives overseas!" It's such a cute idea and one of those little immersive details I like. In Gen II the girl who says this is in Olivine City (so possibly her boyfriend lives in Cianwood, but likely a different region altogether), while in Gen III there's a couple whose progress you can actually follow - the guy in Fortree City who sends a love note to a girl in Mossdeep. I don't recall it being mentioned in Gen I due to the lack of mail in those games but in FRLG there's a girl on One Island who wants to trade with her boyfriend "who lives far away" which I'm to assume is Hoenn, since she subsequently is able to do so after we fix the Network Machine.

Obviously from Gen IV this isn't really a thing due to NPCs being able to use the GTS, but you do still get the occasional reference to someone having received a traded Pokemon from across the globe. The boy in Alola who says he got a Mewtwo from a Wonder Trade is hilarious.