I'm similar in that the eyes of a Pokemon usually makes or breaks how much I like them, but probably for different reasons. I generally dislike Pokemon that don't have 'expressive' eyes. Beartic falls into this, and it's also the main reason why I dislike a lot of bug Pokemon, because most of them have compound eyes. Hydreigon is another notable case of this for me.
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RTTP: The Pokemon. All 721 of them, and counting.
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Yeah, no, I don't do any battling in Pokemon. Never got into it. All the multiplayer junk on the bottom screen does nothing for me. I only trade with friends. I'd much rather have the bottom screen full of useful gameplay information.
Oddly enough I love dungeon crawlers and roguelikes, but I've tried so many times to get into the Mystery Dungeon games and I can't. No good reason why.
I love the PSS, but I do hope that Z brings back all of the tools from the Poketch, in the same way ORAS added the DexNav. It wouldn't be hard to make them all an option.
Boss Doggie
all my loli wolf companions are so moe
I love Avalugg
Missed this before, but eh - I think that Magnemite and Magneton are based on 'magnets' in the broadest sense. Like most Pokemon, they don't just take influence from one specific thing.
Yeah, I loved Bergmite when I first saw it, and was hoping Avalugg would be more like an Iceberg-Rhino type thing. I think I'd like it a lot better if its torso was flipped upside down.
I mean, IIRC in X/Y the bottom screen even has an online and offline mode that you needed to enable anyways. Why can't the offline mode just have some useful, modernized Poketch functionality? I loved all that stuff, like the map, step-counter, et al, and those Poketch apps were primitive compared to what they could be... But nope. Gotta put some local player search bullshit on there that nobody in the US uses outside of gaming conventions.
Boss Doggie
all my loli wolf companions are so moe
Avalugg's greatness is hard to be seen in the games.
Easily, it is a dinosaur iceberg fucking carrier viking ship, it's supposed to be fucking huge and there's a concept art of Wulfric riding it like some viking chief
Easily, it is a dinosaur iceberg fucking carrier viking ship, it's supposed to be fucking huge and there's a concept art of Wulfric riding it like some viking chief
My favorite Pokemon from Hoenn <3
Seven Force
Banned
balladofwindfishes
Member
I've been told in the past that Ledian was based on Pulseman, but other than a vaguely similar design and color, they don't really resemble each other at all.
It's only like 6ft tall though.
Benzychenz
Member
Kingdra's cool, but Seadra's just kinda boring.
I do love Cloyster, Lapras, and Slowbro. It's just that there tend to be a lot of Water types every generation I find really boring. Like Gen 2 has some cool Water types like Octillery and Chinchou, but I find Corsola, Quilfish, and Mantine unbelievably meh.
unknownstranger
Member
My main issue with gen 2 is how few new evolution lines there are in it. Outside of starters there's only like 10 new Pokemon that evolve and some of those are after the elite 4. So many Pokemon that gen never evolve and it hurts the feeling of progression.
balladofwindfishes
Member
And you have junk like Stantler and Quillfish that never really fit into the meta, but are too rare or late game to ever be useful in the main game either.
Which doesn't help the feeling that Gen II was an expansion pack of gen I.
We Bare Bears
I guess Munchlax and Snorlax invite got lost then.
Maybe the Pawniard line?
The Pawniard line is actually based on Kamen Rider and their typing reflects that.
Yeah I know what you mean, thankfully some of them got new evolution in gen 4.
Yeah, gen 2 was really overshadowed by gen 1.
We Bare Bears
And suddenly this picture got even better.
Wait, Snorlax is a bear?
I'm not sure how Pawniard's typing reflects Kamen Rider. Steel kinda works since the original Kamen Rider and many of the further ones were cyborgs, but Fighting or Bug would make much more sense than Dark.
We really need another gen IV to evolve (not mega) these folks. Also steel and poison eevee pls.
Yep, the Snorlax line are based on bears.
Also the origin of Snorlax's Japanese name is also funny as he was named after Kōji Nishino's nickname who was so hungry that he ate a moldy food from the fridge.
Well the steel reflect the cyborgs and the dark type reflects how Kamen Rider are heroes who gained their powers from evil.
Yeah, I am hoping that Mega existing doesn't stop some past gen Pokémon gaining traditional evolution.
I honestly don't see any reason why there can't be room for both.
AnkiRendan
Member
I thought the Pawniard line were based on samurai.
We need a Dragon Eeveelution before anything else. All of Eevee's evolutions were originally Special Types, sans Sylveon since Fairy didn't exist before the split. Dragon is the only original Special type that still isn't represented, and it still kind of bugs me that they didn't give it to us alongside Sylveon since the past two sets have also had that kind of type relationship(Dark > Psychic, Ice > Grass).
The world doesn't need a Stantler or Quillfish evolution because no one actually gives a crap about them. Create new Pokemon instead of wasting time on evolutions for lame ones that are going to be garbage in competitive play anyways.
Blackleg-sanji1
Banned
This is exactly why i don't like playing pokemon online anymore everyone is so worried about a "useless" Pokemon u wind up seeing the same teams over nd over again. Id love if lesser mons got evos jus for the fun of it.
Nocturnowl
Member
I want a Qwilfish evo just because an awesome pufferfish pokemon is long overdue, obviously Qwilfish itself does not live up to my hopes.
Of course I'm open for something completely new instead like how Sawsbuck effectively wipes Stantler from our memories.
Of course I'm open for something completely new instead like how Sawsbuck effectively wipes Stantler from our memories.
Angst-Incarnate
Banned
Protean Mega Smeargle.
Gamefreak pls.
Gamefreak pls.
Holy shit I want this
Dark Orchid
Member
Using Moody Smeargle as the base and stalling for a few turns would make it so broken. Even only reaching 55/50/35/50/45/115 with the 100 point mega boost would be ridiculous.
Corsola and Qwilfish are unremarkable but always felt complete design wise, like they don't need an evolution.
Stantler is just awful and uninteresting, it could really use an evolution to give it some unique characteristic.
Girafarig has always been weird but I like it. It'd be cool if it gets a mega which focuses on it's tail more.
Dunsparce has always felt like it has potential but there's nothing which stands out about it. I'd love for it to have an evolution with a really weird typing like normal/dragon or normal/fairy.
The rest are all great and were great design wise even without their evolutions IMO aside from Yanma which was kind of boring.
Competitive players are so jaded.
balladofwindfishes
Member
Dunsparce has a gimmick for being a hax machine.
Back in the FR/LG Net Battle days, I'd run Haxsparce and get a good laugh until they used Skarmory and it wasn't fun anymore.
Back in the FR/LG Net Battle days, I'd run Haxsparce and get a good laugh until they used Skarmory and it wasn't fun anymore.
Boss Doggie
all my loli wolf companions are so moe
Yeah which is weird, because of the concept stuff of it being so massive.
I guess the avalugg people can have are 6ft but there are massive ones too
Seven Force
Banned
Haha, this would be fucking amazing.
I'm not jaded but if you're going to give evolution to old Pokemon, do it for one people actually care about. Pokemon like Corsola and Stantler are so unremarkable that they don't deserve an evolution in the first place.
balladofwindfishes
Member
Stantler actually has a really big movepool. It's his stats that are bad, something an evolution fixes.