Eh it still gave us a new character, mon and ability to look forward to. I really don't think it being subtitled matters much at all
Also, I heard a theory that, in addition to saving costs & likely not having time to dub, they decided it was alright to simply sub due to, you guessed, the increased popularity of VTubers. While there are English speakers, due to collabs and people just generally interested, many have gotten used to watching clips of the Japanese VTubers which has swathes of loyal fans ready to dub them.
Yes, in-world Iono is a streamer who you physically meet, but her aesthetic is based on VTubers so I don't think it's farfetched of a theory that the Pokemon Company felt okay with just a sub in this specific case. Remember, in addition to the second stream they had a third video of a quick overview of Iono and Bellibolt, they didn't need dub the streams and put them on international channels.
In a row maybe, but you know, that's also how we got Wiglett... actually, they didn't even aknowledge its existance on Eng side for like 3 days ...
Which is odd considering that presentation WAS in English.
Y'all are chatting about how broken Tera is gonna be, I'm still waiting for all Terastallized Forms to be revealed.
I actually think they're gonna keep the rest secret. Like Iono would have been the perfect time to show the Electric-type, but they didn't.
I'm also curious to see if we end up getting any unique Teras at all - maybe with a dual-typing instead of singular. At this point I'm honestly going to assume no because generational gimmicks seem to be getting more streamlined and universal over time, but at the same time, I wouldn't exactly be shocked if Charizard got its own Fire/Dragon Tera or something silly like that.
Yeah, I think if we were going to have unique Teras they would have shown them by now. I'll give them extra credit if something like if do exist and decide to keep it secret, it's not like they didn't have other things to show off with 3 stories.
Exactly! I want to know what happens if i Terastallize Bellibolt or Klawf, for example.
I think they meant in the way of wanting to see what the other Type's crowns looked like, not how certain Pokemon wore the crowns (though Klawf is a question mark there).
Penny looks too wimpy and soft to be messing with any kind of gang.
Do I really need to remind you that appearances can be deceiving?
There's also this tidbit:
She has a bit of a shy personality, and for some reason, she doesn’t seem to come to the academy very often.
Now what's one of the things Team Star is known for?
And is she "shy", or simply hiding her "true" identity?
On the topic of a drawback for Terastal, I think it would be interesting if same-type tera didn't change damage against resists
Like say water tera barraskewda deals more damage against hippowdon and zapdos but its damage vs amoonguss and gyarados stay the same as nontera
Interesting idea, having the super mechanic make the Pokemon stronger in normal & advantageous circumstances but still held down by the same same weaknesses the Pokemon had before. Would certainly put a damper on the power creep, or at the very least make the user of the super mechanic more selective (dare I say strategic). When the game comes out and we know how Tera works, could be something worth theorymoning (possibly see if can be implemented as an experimental mod in Showdown?).
I do find it odd that it so far seems to be a normal school. Like, too normal of a school. Previous schools in the series taught about stuff like held items and type match-ups, but Jacq teaches... biology.
So what I'm getting from this is that Jacq has a secret lab where he performs illegal biological experiments (hey, gotta find some way to give us a Type: Null).
Jacq was iirc supposed to be one leading the webinar even.
From what I recall, they checked in with either Jacq or his notes when they came across "Paldean Diglett" and learned that it's infact a completely different Pokemon named Wiglett.
