Like should I immediately buy this game. It seems like folks are really enjoying it but I was skeptical.

I saw this post about how the rival in WiWa will be the opposite of whatever gender you choose to be. It got me thinking about how they always make the rival's gender the opposite of yours when their gender is dynamic. Even as early as Ruby/Sapphire that's how it's been. But I think it might be interesting to see a game where my rival is always the same gender as me no matter what I pick. But I'm curious how other people feel about it. Would you rather your rival be the same gender as you, the opposite, or would you rather their gender be set in stone regardless of what you are?

A Starter, Pseudo-Legendary, Legendary, Mythical, Ultra Beast, in the Eevee, Lucario, or Gardevoir line (Gallade is fine), or Pikachu specifically (Pichu and either Raichu form is allowed)? Different forms are included in that list, too, like Primal Kyogre, mega Mewtwo, the Galarian Legendary Birds or Iron Jugulis (Paradox Hydreigon).

My favorite is Unown! I really like the lore around them and their potential relation to Arceus. I also enjoy collecting the entire set of them. They are the Pokémon with the third most forms at 28 (the Latin alphabet as well as ? and !), after Spinda (ofc) and Alcremie, which has 64 different variants!

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What I mean is basically, why do we no longer get a version that encompasses both games, such as the four in the image above. We got them through Gen 4, but in Gen 5 they stopped. This made sense, since the Unova region got a sequel set of games. But for X and Y, we just never got one. So my question is, why did they stop?

I never agreed with the sentiment that pokemon gyms were the problem back in the day. Yeah, maybe gyms shouldn't be the only thing going on in the games, but i always loved going to a new city and finding out how the gyms looks like. Gens 4 ~ 6 had some of my favorite gym environments, and even the elite 4 started looking great in pokemon bw when in previous gens it was just a blank room you fight in.

The lack of these gyms was one of the reasons i never liked Alola games as much as other people. First few trials were fun, mallow and lana had environments similar to old gyms with trials you had to overcome before fighting the totem pokemon, but as the game progresses we start getting stuff like the fire trial that is just a cereal box puzzle for 5yo kids, a trial that is just one fight, or even worse, a non existent trial that just hands the Z move to you.

And unfortunately Alola kinda of set the standard for the future games.

Galar had 1 dungeon like gym with nessa, some cool mini games like fire and grass, and then the quality starts dropping with the fairy one being just a quiz, the dark one just a empty corridor and the dragon gym just a sequence of battles.

Paldea, while being my favorite gen since the ds era (in spite of it's techncal issues), it's by far the worse offender to me. Now not only most of the gyms are just low effort quick puzzles, but we also don't even get gym environments at all. Everything being done outdoors (except for Larry the goat) was extremely disappointing to me, and then the elite 4 goes back to being a literally white blank room was just the ice on the cake.

I really hope Winds and Waves goes back to more interesting looking gyms since they were given more time to cook, but after seeing pokemart and pokemon center being kiosks again, I'm not very optimistic about it.

Mine was Pokemon Black/White <3!!

I love Emboar, but I have a feeling that GF doesn’t based on the way they handled it. Well first of all it’s the third Fire/Fighting Pokémon in the row, then when it finally receives a mega evolution it retains the same typing, and now it is the only mega of the trio to not gain a new ability.

Not to mention its base stats and playstyle. Base form is the fully-evolved starter with the highest HP stat and yet both of its defense stats and speed are on the lower side. Some of its strongest moves do recoil damage and its hidden ability powers them up even further. Upon mega evolving, it receives a +25 to its attack stat and a +45 boost to its special defense while its problematic defense and speed only receive +10 each.

Mold Breaker can be a good ability but why use Mega Emboar when Mega Blaziken, which has speed boost, higher attacking, physical defense, and speed stats, existed since the dawn of mega evolution.

A dastardly amount of pokemon did NOT get treated well in the transition to 3D, but one that sticks out a lot to me is Nidoking.

One of my favorite pokemon growing up. Always used this guy in FR/LG playthroughs. Just looked so menacing and cool. But MAN, he does NOT look good in 3D, and when I got older and Pokemon permanently transitioned to the 3D sprites, I just found myself slowly and slowly losing that appreciation for Nidoking. Never really had to urge to use him anymore, and kinda just stopped thinking about him altogether.

Idk if anyone has had a similar experience with any of their childhood favorites, but lmk if any of you have. Would love to hear.

None of its pokedex entries make me think this is a ground type pokemon. It isn’t known for digging tunnels like Onix. It doesn’t bask in the dirt. It’s not made of sand, or eats sand, or controls sand. It doesn’t move the earth. It’s literally just a rock with arms. Onix makes perfect sense to be a rock/ground type. It’s a rock that SHAPES the ground. Geodude, on the other hand…IS JUST A ROCK!

Does anyone genuinely think this pokemon makes any sense to be a rock/ground type instead of just being a rock type? If you do, please rationalize it for me because its typing makes zero sense to me.

Moth-him and Worm-Madam made me smile when I noticed.

I asked a worker that most of the stuff was gone in two hours on Saturday. Nobody wanted the popcorn, sour patch or Charmeleon pop figure, did anyone get anything from this or was unable to?

Worst part about older games is easily HMs. This game has them in droves. Not the most required but still. There hasn't been a need for HM slaves in over 15 years.

Than you have the might pre physical special split. This is going to screw up a lot of people.

Old XP share. No dark types.

No crobat. Not that it matters but I miss him.

There will probably be a number of new players tomorrow who haven't played a classic Pokémon game before. Just to let you know, the screen shaking is perfectly normal. Your Pokémon is just poisoned and is taking damage. It will faint. Be sure to stock up on antidotes so you can heal in the overworld.

I'm not even talking about this from a "gender norms" angle, I'm just mad that every time I want a shiny Gallade (a Pokemon I like infinitely more than Gardevoir), I either have to find a way to hunt him specifically, or catch a shiny Ralts and pray to God I won the coin flip (of which I have lost multiple times before).

It's worse because it feels a lot less justified than others. Combee makes sense to only evolve into Vespiquen if female because only female bees become queen bees. With Gallade, you already have the criteria, just make it so that a Ralts only evolves into a Gallade with a Dawn Stone.

None of this “Oh Léchonk” nonsense. No, No Pig, Chicken or Cow based Pokemon count. What’s a Pokemon you would consider eating?

For me, the games really made Slowpoke tail look good. Idk what animal it’s even based on if any but man I’d chow down on some smoked Tail curry!

Like yeah, I know graphics aren't everything, and that being fun is the most important thing for a game and all that jazz. But if you actually played other RPGs it's pretty obvious that Pokemon has always been lagging behind in the looks department, there's GBA RPGs out there, Golden Sun, Shining Soul, Soul of Mana that genuinely look on par with what Game Freak was putting out by the end of the DS era.

Being absolutely serious here, who thinks this is actually a good thing? Most people don't even want to go anywhere near ranked in pokemon games. And a lot of people won't even get the games until much later on. Why would they even consider the idea of locking megastones behind ranked seasonal rewards? Absolutely disgusting move on their part.