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PokéBOMB: Pokémon X and Y for 3DS (Coming October 2013 WW) - Lord Fennekin Ascends
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fuuuuuuuck no.
Torterra is my favorite grass starter tied with Sceptile and Tropius is a fucking boss; gives bananas to little kids and looks like a happy mofo.
shit if I were a Tropius, I'd be so happy right now. But I'm not so fuck this world.
IceDoesntHelp
Banned
More of a Skink with many Snake attributes.
Goodbye ;_;7
Will be missed.
If you hated Tropius I would have cried harder than I have ever cried
IntelliHeath
As in "Heathcliff"
I'm glad that I'm not only one hating on pugs. They look so weird.
Black-Wind
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Ok, do people not realize that Chespin is a Hedgehog and not a Turtle or Armadillo or ... mole thing?
So what's the issue with this whole 'fire/fighting' thing? I'm guessing it's one of those meta-game problems.
Personally I've only ever cared about how cool pokemon look
because I am shallow.
IceDoesntHelp
Banned
BECAUSE FIRE/FIGHTING TYPE POKEMON ARE TAKING OVER THE WORLD! STAND UP, AND STOP THE TYRANNY!!
It's mostly that it's happened three generations in a row. Fire/Fighting is not a particularly strong defensive combination, but it's a pretty good attacking one.
But the Fire/Fighting types we've had are all kinda lame.
Cjdamon042
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What about fire/psychic, grass/dark and water/fighting? That would be pretty neat, plus the trailer kind of suggested it anyway.
I'd rather Chespin be Grass/Rock or even Grass/Fighting. It seems like Fennekin is a princess, Froakie is a sage, and Chespin would be the knight. So fighting would thematically make sense.
IceDoesntHelp
Banned
What god damn universe do you live in?
There have been 3 fire/fighting starters in a row. They were really pushing it with tepig becoming yet another one.
I say go a step further and just have them all be Fighting type.
*cough* as in just fighting type. No secondary.
IceDoesntHelp
Banned
The last two generations of Fire Starters have been so crappy (design wise). How did cute little Tepig turn into...that
Deja-fucking-vu. That's it, going outside.
Deja-fucking-vu. That's it, going outside.
Cjdamon042
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That does make sense and would be cool to see him as a grass/fighting. The trailer suggests otherwise though. As long as Fennekin doesn't end up as a fire/fighting I'll be glad, but seeing Chespin evolve into a dark type would be kind of sad. Just look at his happy go lucky face
But I do like the idea of them getting the psychic, fighting and dark treatment to cover peoples wishes to get that trio instead.
ShockingAlberto
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I think Grass/Fighting, Water/Dark, and Fire/Psychic would be a really cool combination and fit with the designs.
That does make sense and would be cool to see him as a grass/fighting. The trailer suggests otherwise though. As long as Fennekin doesn't end up as a fire/fighting I'll be glad, but seeing Chespin evolve into a dark type would be kind of sad. Just look at his happy go lucky face
But I do like the idea of them getting the psychic, fighting and dark treatment to cover peoples wishes to get that trio instead.
Remind me again, what in the trailer suggested dark type? I know Froakie might be ice type and I saw something psychic-like with Fennekin, but I don't remember anything really dark. (Could that "psychic" move just be leer or something?) I agree, Chespin evolving into a sinister dark type would be a little sad.
Make it Grass/Dark and water/fighting and you've got yourself a deal.
Why are people so interested in seeing Grass/Dark anyway? We've got two of those...
In the reveal video, chespin uses what I assume is night slash against golurk.
I WANT THIS NOW.
Night Slash has pretty wide distribution though. Hell, Gallade learns it by level-up and he's Psychic/Fighting.
ShockingAlberto
Member
That was my initial thought but it would hew rather close to Ninetails at that point.
Or steel, but 4x against fire is totally lame. Maybe a Dark knight
Because in my headfanon, Emboar was supposed to be an awesome Infernal quadruple Beast Ganon-like from motherfucking hell, and Samurott was supposed to be an awesome bipedal Water/Fighting Samurai badass. (And Snivy final evo should be called Grasshole and be a motherfucking Tyranosaurus Rex, for no reason at all.)
Okay, now seriously. I simply don't know what Gamefreak was smoking when they made Oshawoot's final stage quadruple. A Fire/Fighting starter for the third time consecutively was lack of creativity, and Oshawoot line had the perfect opportunity to have the fighting type instead (Samurai's code of honer should fit the fighting type criteria). Fire/fight for the third time was a plain cruel joke. That's why we'll have the fourth Fire/Fighting starter in a row, just because. *cries*
Dr.Palutena
Member
Yea, though arent there also two grass/fight ? I'd love to see either froakie or chespin be part fighting really, doesnt matter which.
That and hopefully a grass starter gets a wide movepool for once.
Team Grass/frighting or rock for life....or atlease until we get more info.
ShockingAlberto
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A totally left-field type addition for a final evolution would be kind of great
Like Froakie looks like the Loveland Frog statue and gets a rock-type.
Like Froakie looks like the Loveland Frog statue and gets a rock-type.
Boss Doggie
all my loli wolf companions are so moe
Has anyone else notice the snowflakes in froakkie's attack? I don't think it's just water gun, or even ice beam. It could potentially be a water type move that could freeze, just like scald is a water type that burns. Also do you think froakkie could be a water/ice type?
Nah it's water. It's Hydro Pump. Water Gun doesn't look that powerful. Notice how the others use the signature type attacks (Solar Beam, Flamethrower)? Those aren't snowflakes, those are (terrible) water splash renditions. Those are ends of the "water column", not ice stuff. You can check Fennekin's flamethrower animation and see the same thing.
Cjdamon042
Member
It wasn't so much what Chespin did but rather Fennekin using a psychic move and Froakie using what looks like Close Combat or something (though probably just quick attack...).
I don't know, it just seemed like they were trying to tell us their second types simply because we saw them use 2 moves each and Fennekin's was definitely a psychic move.
That and if you do pair them up as fire/psychic, water/fighting and grass/dark, they actually "cancel" each other out which I think is pretty neat.
UltimateIke
Member
Someone should use this avatar. For the good of #TeamFennekin.
Well, three. I just really like dark types.
IceDoesntHelp
Banned
I would but like, mines a thousand times cuter.
Someone should use this avatar. For the good of #TeamFennekin.
Breloom and Virizion, yeah. It's not like we have a ton of Grass/Dark, but the ones we do have don't make me look forward to another. Breloom's all sorts of awesome and Virizion's pretty cool in its own way too.
Dr.Palutena
Member
i wouldnt mind fennekin's evo being fire/ghost or fire/psychic . Also this is the first gen in a while I think i feel comfortable saying i genuinely want a go with all 3 starters, not "just because", but because I actually like how all three look, for now.
Black-Wind
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I could see the fire-ghost combo.
Everyone else used a super effective move, so I could see that being a ghost attack.
Don't get my hopes up please ):
Skyfireblaze
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Oh come on that would be... totally awesome o.o Whoa that is a really great idea I support this!
And now I wish I could draw because a idea of such a Fennekin just now came up in my head but I can't even draw a Pikachu...
Someone should use this avatar. For the good of #TeamFennekin.
Hmm if I can't come up with a avatar myself I might actually use this one
Has anyone else notice the snowflakes in froakkie's attack? I don't think it's just water gun, or even ice beam. It could potentially be a water type move that could freeze, just like scald is a water type that burns. Also do you think froakkie could be a water/ice type?
Well what if GameFreak pull some totally crazy thing and adds elements to attacks but only when certain Pokémon use them? Like Hydropump stays Hydropump but if Froakie's final evolution uses it it gets some sort of limited ice-effect with a chance of lets say 5%? I really doubt this will happen but it wouldn't be _that_ far fetched with the whole DNA theme!
ColtraineGF
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So something like, expand on Curse-type moves? That would be something to see, yeah.Well what if GameFreak pull some totally crazy thing and adds elements to attacks but only when certain Pokémon use them? Like Hydropump stays Hydropump but if Froakie's final evolution uses it it gets some sort of limited ice-effect with a chance of lets say 5%? I really doubt this will happen but it wouldn't be _that_ far fetched with the whole DNA theme!
IceDoesntHelp
Banned
False. It's Steel/Flying
UltimateIke
Member
I think Emitan is a big Litwick fan too.
Chandelure is one of the best shiny Pokémon in existence, at least.
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