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    SPOILERS! Mysteries and Conspiracies of Pokemon

    Kanto was meant to be part of Japan for a while it just wasn't that strongly made a connection. Gen 2 being set in "the rest" of Japan originally was probably because it was a jrpg sequel. The best way to show it was a bigger world, was by going across the entire continent and reframing the...
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    (Little) Things that annoy you in Pokémon

    She's considered the Top/First I assume because of her ELO I don't mean that as a joke I mean that since she rose to the rank of champion far fewer people have gotten the rank themselves and it sounds like she routinely enforces that when checking in on the other leaders and E4s and I guess the...
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    Little things you like about Pokémon

    Yeah it started going south in a hurry, and his Brick Break also did not help. I think I had to send Mabosstiff in several times to initimidate him to give me some breathing room it also did not help that my only water answer was Arboliva. Who I think I did terastalize, but, well, you know. Ice...
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    Little things you like about Pokémon

    Yes?
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    (Little) Things that annoy you in Pokémon

    I think Rapidash-G looks nice, rather than ugly, but also yes it absolutely should have had wings. Like everyone wanted pegasus Rapidash to begin with and now we've got My little Pony rapidash and its like it wants wings even more, without needing an evolution Hey remember when the reveal of...
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    Little things you like about Pokémon

    I think it's called layered -or sometimes dynamic?- music, but I don't think it's necessarily harder to do these days. Plenty of games will go in & out by setting up songs to activate/deactivate layers or provide bridges they can go into. Mario & Zelda in particular like to turn parts on/off or...
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    Little things you like about Pokémon

    Let's be fair here, in a situation where every single gym battle was a Doubles battle it would still be snowbally because you're doing it to 2 of your Pokemon at the same time instead of just one.
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    Little things you like about Pokémon

    Speaking in terms of in-game Megas probably feel more broken because their design ethos is "what if this specific pokemon was busted". There's multiple layers of design going into them, from ability to minmaxed stat allocation to aesthetic design. So you're looking for it and that makes...
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    Little things you like about Pokémon

    It's definitely not a super overbearing mechanic which was nice. Yeah yeah yeah they ~should have made the bosses use it better~ whatever. It had a nice sweet spot for me. Shoutouts to Clavell whose Tera Water Quaquaval beat my ass in.
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    SPOILERS! General Pokémon Anime Discussion

    Episode: Arven continually put off as the writer's room goes back & forth on if they should just pick one professor to focus on or grab both e: By Grab Both I more mean, do they make both of them jointly responsible for the issue and also maybe kill both and make both into an AI. Since...
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    Pokémon Movepool Oddities & Explanations

    If we're focusing on the "flavor" of the move (cleanliness! bushy tails!) then I'm going to gesture at Buizel & Aipom (whose tails are not bushy as already noted), Greedent (the opposite of clean), Zacian/Zamazenta (who despite having the tails for it I'm shocked even got the move, tbh...
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    SPOILERS! Mysteries and Conspiracies of Pokemon

    I can see the logic but to me the way they work is too different to really apply it.
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    SPOILERS! Mysteries and Conspiracies of Pokemon

    well worst case they can just import another region's legends. Sinnoh had one million sub legends and still felt the need to import 3 others and then add a new one for Hisui. Or, hell, just reuse the birds again considering they were in XY to begin with. I am still on the A-B-C legendary...
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    (Little) Things that annoy you in Pokémon

    Ganondorf & Bowser are also playable characters and transform in their final smash, and got those transformations as bosses. There is a reason I brought up mega mewtwo Y and also those 2 in the same conversation here.
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    (Little) Things that annoy you in Pokémon

    To be fair, if there was a Pokemon boss they probably would have had at least one route actually based around fighting said boss regardless of who it was. & yeah Marx was in Dark World alongside Dracula & Ganon (all 3 had their own areas, though marx's was only tangentially related to Milky...
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    (Little) Things that annoy you in Pokémon

    I'm guessing it's more because they did not actually care about being thematic & they didn't want that many bosses. So in addition to the 2 new OCs & the Hands as minibosses (who they're already using for Classic mode) you had 2 returning smash originals (one of which got to reuse assets), 2...
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    SPOILERS! Mysteries and Conspiracies of Pokemon

    I don't think it would tone down the zigzagging at all, it just puts it in a different spot you'd go Katy on the qest, then Brassius to the east, then Iono a little more to the east then back to the west for Kofu & Larry to Katy west, Brassius east, back over to the qestfor Kofu, then Iono in...
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    (Little) Things that annoy you in Pokémon

    Honestly every time I've seen Geeta fight (excluding her BB rematch) she typically sent out Kingambit 4th, to the point where I wondered if she had a special AI routine for it and it was like "yeah this gets the point across, watch out!" if that was just coincidental, it's pretty funny
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    (Little) Things that annoy you in Pokémon

    Honestly even without super mechanics and with generally stronger teams, it still feels slightly deflating. We'll put aside rando rival battles or mid game gyms or lolBugsy. Those are too easy to peck away at. How about Cynthia? I think we can all agree that she's a pretty solid team. High...
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    (Little) Things that annoy you in Pokémon

    I think it works fine because you get to see their strong pokemon have extra aesthetic things and go 'wow neat' I think the number of people who see "best for last" and go "oh this is how i need to play!" are pretty low. Not like people are out there seeing low team numbers and going "I have to...
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