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.

 

[bdt2002]

Random shower thought I just had, but I only just now made the connection in my head about why these three have the stats they do:



Uxie being the defensive one (and slightly faster than Mesprit, actually) maybe be a nod to its role as the Being of Knowledge, since wisdom is something that is preserved over time and, in battle, it might also be commentary about how there’s more strategy to Pokémon than just spamming strong attackers.

Mesprit being the balanced one, to me that immediately makes me think of the idea of a balanced emotional core, and how one or more emotions having too much power over other emotions can be incredibly detrimental. It’s also the one who lives the closest to where the player character is from which could be representative of the kind of “blank slate” style Pokémon protagonists are usually designed around.

Finally, Azelf being the offensive one makes me think of its role as the Being of Willpower and the idea of strengthening yourself and pushing through adversity even in hard times. It being the fastest of the three also makes me think of how our procrastination can hold us back from success if our own willpower is weak and we end up giving up before chasing whatever it is we’re trying to accomplish or find.