POKÉMON CENTER

[timber vale]

||admittedly, one of the best defensive mons this generation is that, so... who knows. Maybe be a Kyurem Black thing where just little enough coverage is in its moveset to be vaguely balanced?||

[languid lichen]

||thousand arrows exists||

[timber vale]

||especially with no lefties healing or anything||

[timber vale]

||off a 90 attack stat instead of 216 special?||

[languid lichen]

when needs must

[timber vale]

Fair.

[languid lichen]

coverage is coverage

[timber vale]

Give it earth power gamefreak

Nothing could go wrong

[languid lichen]

and also

||216 spatk would, unless they utterly ignore the stat balance part of megas, necessitate taking massive amounts from the rest of zygarde somewhere||

[timber vale]

||iirc its full stat spread is like... 216/90/80/216/85/100||

Sonething like that

[languid lichen]

||because snakegarde has 100 atk 81 spatk, and mechgarde has 100 atk 91 spatk||

ah i see

it does just

take from every other stat

[timber vale]

Yeah, it seems to give up some bulk in exchange for that insane number

That's the highest we've ever seen, right?

[languid lichen]

no

[timber vale]

Wait deadass?

[languid lichen]

emax has 250 defenses

[timber vale]

Oh I meant for sp. atk specifically

[languid lichen]

ah

my brain is skewed by smogon OMs, but maybe

[timber vale]

If I meant in general chansey and blissey would also already prove me wrong

[timber vale]

Just googled

The highest was Mega Mewtwo Y with 194

[pliant violet]

what other megas leaked?

[timber vale]

Like... a lot of them. Possibly all of them.

[pliant violet]

sorry was unclear

what were the new megas leaked

[timber vale]

Will send a list (spoilered)

[pliant violet]

you're a saint

[timber vale]

Some of these stat changes baffle me a little

Why the fuck did they give ||Clefable 10 more attack (reportedly)||

[pliant violet]

two pokemon I like the rest are not for me

[timber vale]

I care a tiny bit but none of the pokemon i would've wanted to see megas for got megas

But I'm not like. Upset with this list, ig

[pliant violet]

||mad about scolipede, but better give it speed boost as it's ability on mega||

||Falinks Sweep||

[timber vale]

||Twas a pipe dream but I had kind of hoped Archeops and/or Tyrantrum could've gotten megas||

[languid lichen]

that's pretty normal

a lot of megas get like 10-20 in random unhelpful places

[pliant violet]

||Simply join me in little cup where tyrunt is good||

[languid lichen]

do we have ability leaks as well?

[timber vale]

Uuuhhh, not as widespread i think?

||Zygarde gets to have aura break on top of its construct form though, seemingly||

Not that that's really impactful at all

[timber vale]

Yeah true

Holy shit I just looked at Delphox

[languid lichen]

that's a solid statline

i hope it gets a good ability

[signal glen]

So it looks like Game Freak suffered a massive leak. Like plans up to 2030.

Also employee data too sadly.

[pliant violet]

Oh that’s a lot worse

[timber vale]

Oh, yikes.

[timber vale]

Oh also apparently ||Mega Zygarde is getting a 100 BP dragon move that ignores type immunity||

[languid lichen]

oh fuck

this is interesting

[languid lichen]

this is not

[glossy umbra]

Yeah, gave them a quick look and the long and short of it contains future game titles including information on the next generation (X) and some lesser information on the one after that (so XI).

[timber vale]

What's Gen 10's regional gimmick? /hj

[glossy umbra]

||procedural generation allegedly||

[honest cairn]

the next pokemon showcase is just gonna start as a livestream with the leaker on their knees with a bag over their head

[timber vale]

:(

[glossy umbra]

||Would guess that that part is more slated for the late-game/filler, but ye||

I'll be taking things with a grain of salt until finalised, but if you want to check for yourself: ||https://www.reddit.com/r/PokeLeaks/||

[glossy umbra]

On a happier note ||it's inspired by Southeast Asia and Indonesia.||

[timber vale]

Okay maybe it'll be peak

[glossy umbra]

Yeah, it's a nice surprise.

Really wasn't expecting that one, assuming the leaks hold true/things haven't changed down the line.

[languid lichen]

okay wait

i was super low on mega feraligatr

very very briefly

but this goes hard

i love that ||it has a shell over its back/head and arms that make it look like a giant totodile, but can unfold them||

[timber vale]

Hrm... I wonder if it'll be viable at all competitively

Like that's absolutely not the most important aspect

But looking at its statline and what I know it does right now where it is viable, the stats don't play into it great

[languid lichen]

depending on what it gets as an ability

i think it will, because ||160 atk is crazy||

on a ddancer with good defensive typing

[timber vale]

Wait what

Ok hold on I think i misread massively lmao

[languid lichen]

?

[timber vale]

Also probably spoiler that

[languid lichen]

guess so

fair enough

i don't think it's a huge spoiler for something like feraligatr specifically though lmfao

[timber vale]

Was reading the wrong stats 💀

I thought they gave the ddancer like 130 sp. atk for zero reason

[languid lichen]

lol

[timber vale]

Hrmmmm

[near flower]

||no extra speed on gator... is it over (<JOKING AND NOT A COMP PLAYER SO DOESNT ACTUALLY CARE)||

[timber vale]

Dw, DD fixes the speed issue

Big guy isn't a scarfer

[near flower]

mucking around in my image folder and found this screenshot of one of those japanese 'randomly generate something' sites

whatever. go my u-turn

[deft path]

Pokémon company discussing how the diamond/pearl remakes have made them realise that unova remakes must have much more care taken

[languid lichen]

wait, was the bdsp reception actually poor?

i assumed that it was just as popular as everything else

[soft isle]

we’ve only heard bad things about BDSP

[deft path]

yes

it made money but nobody liked it, not even the company

[languid lichen]

that's equal parts surprising and relieving

[deft path]

it got heavily shafted by the scheduling

but yeah they were not happy with how it turned out

[languid lichen]

I'm still flabbergasted that they didn't do a remake of platinum

literally just dp but complete

[signal glen]

Yes but that's just a single game instead of two that superfans can double-dip for.

[crude moon]

alleged leaked Pikachu redesign

[languid lichen]

https://bsky.app/profile/rdiinmm.bsky.social/post/3lc6odk5q6c25

. (@rdiinmm.bsky.social)

Mimiku

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Bluesky · Nov 30, 2024, 5:59 PM

[blissful needle]

The one thing good that came out of it is that the game was made in unity, and I think because of this people are attempting to use it as a base to make romhacks for the other regions

[timber vale]

They make them skinnier every year... it's not going to survive the winter...

[glossy umbra]

Much as it's annoying for the company with leaks, I do like learning about the internal design process and thought that we otherwise don't get to see.

[exotic garden]

by 2030 pikachu is gonna have a snatched waist

[languid lichen]

oh no

nintendo of america will have its big titty pikachu

[exotic garden]

they've played the long game for almost 30 years...

[round perch]

https://bsky.app/profile/cyberlord1109.bsky.social/post/3m36zcfnb3s2i

Cyber (@cyberlord1109.bsky.social)

my idea for future paradox is instead of just being robot versions of existing Pokemon they are instead robots disguised as pokemon and only when threaten in combat they reveal their true form , example :

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Bluesky · Oct 15, 2025, 12:45 AM

[round perch]

I unfortunately like the redesign a little more.

[timber vale]

Iron Valiant is entirely unchanged and does not have a "true form" in this redesign...

[arctic dagger]

Also what do you even do with Iron Moth

It's just a moth-shaped robot anyway

I feel weird about this because they're doing a really terrible job at disguising themselves as not a robot

If that's the intention

[round perch]

I think that's the joke.

It seems that their disguises being horrible is intentional.

Or thats how I'm interpreting the text.

[arctic dagger]

Oh, I took it entirely seriously

[round perch]

Cause the text makes then seem a little silly and convinced their disguises work 100%.

[round perch]

https://tenor.com/view/qubeley-gundam-zz-sd-gundam-sprite-mecha-gif-12074865239078461190

The wings do give me funnel vibes.

https://tenor.com/view/iron-moth-pokemon-volcarona-paradox-pokemon-pokemon-scarlet-and-violet-gif-27309106

[azure crane]

That actually looks like a Glimmora.

[round perch]

Pokémon NPC Spoilers.

https://tenor.com/view/kronk-oh-yeah-its-all-coming-together-the-emperorss-new-groove-gif-15204610

[runic umbra]

lööps

[fickle thicket]

those new megas are a real fuckin mixed bag huh

[trail bridge]

on one hand YEAH SOME OF THEM ARE SICK

on the other hand...

some of them are the physical manifestation of 😔

like straight up 😔core

like. I absolutely ||Love Mega Scolipede and Mega Froslass||

but I have ||Zero care for mega Litleo||

although ||Mega Staryu and Mega Falinx are very funny guys which I like||

[blissful needle]

Some people are taking advantage of the teraleak to push their views harder

[karmic imp]

Views?

[blissful needle]

some racist stuff but there is also people talking about how Sugimori got Kojima'd apparently

[round perch]

Huh?

They were already making a lot of black characters by X and Y if that's what they mean.

So like... idk, they need to get a life.

[blissful needle]

Nah, the racist stuff is separate

||Apparently Junichi Masuda and Ken sugimori had a falling out or something around the time gen 6 was developed, and by that point Masuda was no longer allowed to be the Director of Pokemon.
||

[fickle thicket]

if you love ||mega scolipede|| so much, maybe you could help me out real quick please and thank you
what is the design even going for?

[trail bridge]

||EXTRA EVERYTHING||

[round perch]

||Knight on horse maybe?||

[fickle thicket]

yeah I thought it looks kind of armor-ish but I just can't pin it down

[timber vale]

I like mega falinks

It's cute

[runic umbra]

in that case you have to work on your wrestling

[round perch]

https://youtu.be/akuzrraaXd8?si=EV_7DQdepF_iYmca

[primal wadi]

who let mega starmie happen

[soft isle]

It's just a silly little guy 😌

[arctic dagger]

Ok, people talk about the silly megas

But lmao Mega Excadrill

Mega Excadrill is SO much sillier than like, Mega Dragonite

Mega Skarmory is also just a shiny but with big feet basically

Mega Drampa SLAPS

[timber vale]

I kinda like it, even if it's not particularly special

[timber vale]

This is true

[primal wadi]

mega malamar being a brainstem is pretty clever

[karmic imp]

https://www.rxddit.com/r/TwoBestFriendsPlay/comments/1o88zjb/pokemon_legends_za_lets_the_player_go_fuck_this/

[karmic imp]

Not quite an ending
But funny

[signal glen]

https://bsky.app/profile/ryougasaotome.bsky.social/post/3m3coxmhptk2d

RyougaSaotome (@ryougasaotome.bsky.social)

I was annoyed that pokemon is still doing the gender locked rival thing but then japanese players have massive brains and i never considered this

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Bluesky · Oct 16, 2025, 11:51 AM

[runic umbra]

wait, is gender locked rivals something that bothers people?
I never thought about that.

from what I remember gen 6 threw a bunch of them at you.

[sudden spade]

I'm not a huge fan of them. It's not a dealbreaker but it is a bit annoying.

[runic umbra]

I feel like they matter less and less in recent years

rivals in general I mean

which is a bit weird given how much of a driving force they were in the first two games

[pliant violet]

I mean, did you play scarlet and violet

hell even hop and hau in the gens before that

scvi especially though, the three "rival" characters in that do a lot of lifting

[runic umbra]

I didn't. fair point

[runic umbra]

yeah the longer I think about this the more I realize this is nonsense

Your rival is mostly absent in Gen3 and a bit less relevant in 4, but from gen5 on the games tend to give you multiple rivals that do matter.

[sudden spade]

I kinda want more vitriol in rivals.

I don't mind nice rivals but I like Rivals you love to hate.

[runic umbra]

I guess Gen8 had Bede

I think that was his name

the magenta coat guy

[trail bridge]

bede was cool

but i NEED more rivals that extrude dickishness

like I want a rival who's a rich trainer architype

who starts all snooty and haughty

but as the game goes on, they're humbled a lot by the player (and the events of the game)

[runic umbra]

funnily enough the first gen8 DLC had exactly that in Klara

[trail bridge]

ohhh Klara

right i forgot about her

...maybe that's why dickish rivals aren't remembered

[runic umbra]

eh, I liked her as a rival.

added some friction

I feel like her rivalness undercut a bit by her being all talk.

which iirc is a bit of an issue with Bede as well.

I'm not even speaking strictly mechanically (although I wish rivals and gym leaders were a bit more of a challenge). Early rivals were manageable opponents but they were also always one step ahead of you when it came to badges and plot points.

[pliant violet]

I don’t like the hater rivals, personally

[runic umbra]

Understandable. they're also easy to mess up

I do like when games give you rivals you love to hate tho

[wispy yarrow]

Blue and Silver are my favorite rivals

[sullen mesa]

i'd say kieran is a top tier rival now

[runic umbra]

he did have a banger of a theme

[trail bridge]

oh thats true yeah

[pliant violet]

kieran is my little brother

I have adopted him

[karmic imp]

Enby rival who is obsessed with you and thinks it's just competitiveness (it's a crush)

[karmic imp]

Legends za has anti homeless benches
XY had a questline about a homeless girl

[fickle thicket]

Oh I hadn't caught that actually

I thought it was just designed to be kinda flashy

[fickle thicket]

They got the fucking ||CRURRY what in the hell||

[worldly plume]

thats an aspic

[fickle thicket]

The fuckin ||CRASPIC||

[vernal rapids]

It's very scary

[fickle thicket]

I keep forgetting that Ogerpon is female and not genderless like other legendaries

[azure crane]

Given that the "different" rivals are clearly just the same person in different clothes, I'm going to say that it's a single genderfluid person who presents opposite to you.

[fickle thicket]

Genderfluid hater who present opposite to you to maximise weird tension between you

[near flower]

||curry with croissant as a side would be kinda fire ngl but then again im the kind of guy who puts curry on toast||

[runic umbra]

All I see is three soon to be soggy croissants and I weep

[azure crane]

That phrase in the Pokémon context always makes me think of https://imgur.com/gallery/PRLLoBR

[arctic dagger]

God

Mega Greninja Speed Tying Dragapult is so nasty

That's such a nasty counter, although at least it takes your mega slot to do it

[languid lichen]

i wonder what it'll get for its ability

[primal wadi]

nope 0/10 game now

[primal wadi]

||croissant and Japanese curry would go crazy||

[fickle thicket]

||yeah but this is croissants with english (indian) curry aspic||

[primal wadi]

0/10 game

[karmic imp]

Saw jokes about lumiose being dystopian
Night in the backstreets: Every night in Lumiose, for a period of time, the poorers areas are swept by ravenous dark, poison and ghost types, elimimating most people out at this period

[runic umbra]

that's amazing

[round perch]

Pokemon Animations
||Oh, he's terrifying.||

He's just a Narga.

[arctic dagger]

Something that I haven't seen people talk about much

Mega Dragonite is actually a special leaning attacker

[languid lichen]

yep

loses 10 atk

gains a bunch of spatk

[arctic dagger]

45

[languid lichen]

ends up 124 vs 145

[arctic dagger]

134/100 pre-mega, 124/145 post

~20 more in Def and SpDef so remains quite bulky

[languid lichen]

+20 def, spdef, speed

[arctic dagger]

Yeah

[languid lichen]

er

+20 def, speed

+25 spdef

[arctic dagger]

But regardless I think it's interesting

[languid lichen]

i got tripped up by your 20 spdef lmao

[arctic dagger]

Why I said ~20

Instead of 20

😄

But it gets Hurricane and Draco Meteor for good stab, air slash maybe if you want something that hits more than Hurricane but usually I think you'd do Hurricane

Tera Blast ofc

[languid lichen]

i mean

it gets so much more than tera blast

[arctic dagger]

It gets thunder and Hurricane

So I think running it in rain teams is kinda interesting

Hydro Pump/Draco Meteor/Hurricane/Thunder

Is pretty nasty moveset

[languid lichen]

you'd probably be using things like ice beam, thunder, fire blast/flamethrower/heat wave, focus blast, etc.

over tera blast

[arctic dagger]

Yeah

[languid lichen]

unless you're going like, tera steel

but even then

[arctic dagger]

It has a really good special movepool tho'

[languid lichen]

idt you care about hitting fairies SE

yeah

gen 1 mon

which means it gets all the cracked elementals

[azure crane]

Doesn't it still get Extremespeed?

[languid lichen]

yep

that's physical, though

's why regular dnite runs tera normal a lot

free stab

[azure crane]

True, but 124 Atk ESpeed still hurts even if you aren't specced for it. Take a chunk out of potential revenge killers.

[languid lichen]

ehhhhh

[azure crane]

Though I think at that point you don't run the mega.

[languid lichen]

non-stab, 0 investment isn't enough to be worth it over coverage super often

it would be a rare pick

[sullen mesa]

wait we still have tera in ZA?

[languid lichen]

no idea

i don't have it

i'm just talking about from the gen 9 dragonite perspective

[sullen mesa]

oh

[arctic dagger]

ZA does not have tera

[sullen mesa]

okay we good

[arctic dagger]

But yeah you probably don't run Extremespeed if you're planning on investing in special attack for the mega

If you don't invest in special attack, you probably just don't run the mega.

[round perch]

Wait... can you just... change gender, lol?

[signal glen]

No. Clothing isn't gender locked

None of the customizations are.

https://bsky.app/profile/toastcrust.bsky.social/post/3m3hi5e5rgc27

[manic kindle]

your gender choice largely affects, as far as i can tell, your chin shape / your hip shape and your pronouns, and then your rival

[trail bridge]

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lyra 🏳️‍⚧️ (@lesbonightcrwlr.bsky.social)

Taking in the sights

#PokemonLegendsZA #PLZA #art

-# lyra 🏳️‍⚧️ (@lesbonightcrwlr.bsky.social)
Mega energy that turns you woke

#PokemonLegendsZA #PLZA #art

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Bluesky · Oct 19, 2025, 1:48 AM

[pliant violet]

I'm currently in awe of no retreat mega falinks

what funky little guys

highest cooldown for a move in za, fun fact

[torpid pivot]

Oh Feraligatr you kind of got it rough didnt ya

First your name can't fit and now this

[karmic imp]

Reminded of the animal crossing comic
Where isabelle comments the mayor (with pink hair and a cute dress) changed a lot, holding a picture of her as a shy man in boring clothes
The mayor rips the picture in half and makes a new law: no talking about the past

[karmic imp]

So the blog is gone
I found the comic on knowyourmeme, which marked it as sensitive content for some reason?

[fickle thicket]

maybe because her thighs are about as thick as her head if memory serves

[karmic imp]

Hm

https://knowyourmeme.com/photos/1504541-animal-crossing

[soft isle]

Poor Isabelle 😔

[arctic dagger]

The pokemon teams that gen10 wants

TIL Mega Starmie is a physical attacker???

Wild

[timber vale]

What the fuck

[signal glen]

It's a mixed attacker

[arctic dagger]

It has 140 attack and 130 spatk

[languid lichen]

it's mostly phys

so, for reference

[timber vale]

Does it have any physical coverage???

[languid lichen]

that 140 atk is going to be 100

in main

because it's going to have huge power instead

[arctic dagger]

The theory is that it has 100 atk, 130 spatk, and Pure Power

[languid lichen]

based on the treatment of mega medicham and mawile, where they did the same thing

[arctic dagger]

Because it gains too many stats and other pure power/huge power got 40 extra attack yeah

Pure Power is WAY better than 40 atk so

That's gonna be nuts

[languid lichen]

yeah

[timber vale]

If Mega Starmie becomes an OU staple i may stop playing Pokémon showdown altogether

[azure crane]

Why is there Showdown for PLZA when there wasn't for PLA?

[arctic dagger]

Waterfall, Avalanch, Psycho Cut, Gyro Ball, Facade even before ZA

And it gets Aqua Jet, Liquidation, Headbutt, Flip Turn, Zen Headbutt, Self-Destruct

In ZA

For notable physical moves

[timber vale]

Hrmmm

[arctic dagger]

My bet is we'll see something like Aqua Jet, Liquidation, Zen Headbutt, Utility/Self-Destruct

[timber vale]

No boltbeam type coverage but that is pretty solid

[arctic dagger]

There's like zero chance it'll use Gyro Ball ofc

And its coverage is like, fine

It'll be interesting to see if pokemon actually need to hold mega stones going forward

Would be an interesting tweak on it if they don't

Seems likely they do tho;'

And they just didn' tput them in for ZA?

IDK

[manic kindle]

Eager to see how Champions handles a lot of stuff

[manic kindle]

you do NEED the mega stones to mega in ZA

as in they need to be in your inventory

[languid lichen]

does ZA have held items?

[arctic dagger]

Yes

But the mega stones don't need to be held

You can have like, choice scarf megas

[signal glen]

Oh that's disgusting

[arctic dagger]

The way mega-evolution works in ZA is you fill a meter every time you do... Almost anything, honestly

[manic kindle]

It feels much nicer in the battle system.

[arctic dagger]

And then you use it to use Plus Moves which do a bit more damage but also do some story relevant things, and also to Mega Evolution

[manic kindle]

The ZA action-combat genuinely feels good to engage with, its been a delight

[arctic dagger]

Which just drains the meter over time

[manic kindle]

ive been likening Mega Evo in ZA to DBZ games with transformation meters using energy

[arctic dagger]

I think that the ZA system massively nerfs the speed stat

It's relevant but not nearly as good

[manic kindle]

I'm okay with speed tiers taking a hit for the combat system

[arctic dagger]

You basically can't just sweep people without them getting to respond, almost every pokemon will get at least one swing off for instance

It pretty heavily incentivizes bulky slow pokemon IMO

[manic kindle]

nah, faster pokemon getting better move cooldowns does matter imo

esp in the 4-player royales online

[arctic dagger]

I didn't say it doesn't matter. 😛

[manic kindle]

this is just my early experience tho i could come around on it as i play more

[arctic dagger]

But it's definitely easier to wall than it is to sweep IMO

I haven't experienced the 4-player royales tho'

[manic kindle]

Okay i'll be more specific: i don't think it incentivizes slow bulky pokemon, i think it makes it easier to have more back-and-forth and tug of war IN battles so you always have a shot

and there are hitbox/speed benefits to running (smaller/faster) guys

[arctic dagger]

I mean, I think having more tug of war incentivizes pokemon that both take a hit and give it back

Compared to fast glass cannons

[manic kindle]

i do think it makes priority moves much much worse, that i can for sure add in

[arctic dagger]

Oh yeah for sure.

Regarding hitboxes, I think it's just going to make moves that have consistent hitboxes better.

[manic kindle]

with speed tho: you ARE right you cant sweep, but i do think speed becomes much more vital on... status/setup pokemon, since you have [less attacks] so you cant just cooldown faceroll your 4 attacks nonstop

[arctic dagger]

True.

But it's much more niche of a stat

[manic kindle]

gunna keep an eye on bulky vs softer pokemon as i go up in ranks tho

good thing to keep in mind and see if i see trends

[arctic dagger]

Yarr.

Like, Mega Beedrill for instance at least during the story just felt SAD

Compared what it normally would feel like IMO

[manic kindle]

speaking of story-mode pokemon that feel good: Bois is one of the funniest gifts pokemon has ever given

[snow cobalt]

https://bsky.app/profile/infinitebrians.neocities.org/post/3m3h4tjzsfk2y

infinite brians (@infinitebrians.neocities.org)

just having a fantastic coffee with my yellow rat, i sure hope theres no gigantic hell dogs waiting to kill me

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Bluesky · Oct 18, 2025, 6:09 AM

[sullen mesa]

not true, the mega meter doesn't get activated if you don't have the stone held

(just tested it rn)

[arctic dagger]

Oh my b, for some reason I thought you just needed it in your inventory

[sullen mesa]

no biggie

[languid lichen]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/382299491589423107/1429665233844310096/Adaptableraggedadflino_29f35b_12799601.mp4

[round perch]

Is everyone playing on the switch 2?

[arctic dagger]

My house has it on the switch 1

It plays mostly fine

TBH

There are issues here and there but nothing like what Scar/Vi gets

[round perch]

Hm.

[arctic dagger]

I think it helps that there's like, nowhere near the amount of wide open spaces

I suspect half the reason of the reason this is a city is for the same reasons many old games have a lot of fog

They saw the problems the Switch had with things in Scarlet and Violet and went "Oh let's not have those problems again."

[pliant violet]

Aiui switch 1 runs at 30fps vs 60fps for switch 2

If that’s a thing you care about

[snow cobalt]

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Bluesky · Oct 22, 2025, 5:40 PM

[torpid pivot]

Amazing

She's right

[manic kindle]

nah be TRUE TO YOURSELF

BLACEPHALON NUMERO UNO

[arctic dagger]

I mean. Both probably.

Be true to yourself but also consider going "it's for mechanical reasons that are pretty boring for most people, do you want to hear more?"

[near flower]

i like blacephalon because it's a silly little guy :D
also really cool shiny

[torpid pivot]

He only likes them for merit and function, transactional.. not believing in friendship

[sudden spade]

Strong Pokémon. Weak Pokémon. That is only the selfish perception of people...

[torpid pivot]

Cephy did seem like a bit of a hater in the anime though

Maybe too alien to know other stuff doesnt like to explode

[sullen mesa]

big goomy...

[fickle thicket]

see the trick is to answer mimikyu and gengar on the first date and whip out buzzwole and blacephalon later

[runic umbra]

I'm sorry but blacephalon is just another take on mr. mime

they keep trying to make clowns happen

[azure crane]

Mine is Dunsparce, because fat snek :) and also because Serene Grace paraflinching.

[timber vale]

I like Blacephalon a lot

I know nothing about Gen 7 OU I just know it has a rivalry with Xurkitree and I've decided that they're yuri

And also that its design is the only good clown type pokemon

[timber vale]

Serene grace paraflinching is the height of evil

[pliant violet]

I think there’s no bad reason like a Pokémon tbh

[karmic imp]

She could have just said she didn't care about going in depth on mechanics

[exotic garden]

blacephalon is real as fuck

[round perch]

Would you guys be okay with Pokémon having voice acting, but only if it was a made up language?

[snow cobalt]

It'd be acceptable

[jovial rampart]

I feel like certain scenes in recent games are scripted and animated with expressions that have have voice acting in mind but it was like they couldn't get it approved and it was left in as is which just makes it feel really awkward.

[karmic imp]

One gym leader actually sang

[pliant violet]

simlish

[round perch]

Yeah.

[azure crane]

Splatoon does this.

So they have experience.

[mellow robin]

they should use the splatoon language 1:1 and never elaborate on the implications

[arctic dagger]

I'm ok with voice acting without it being a made up language

Why is that a requirement lmao

[mellow robin]

expands the expense significantly for localization I suppose?

[round perch]

You only have to make one dub.

[manic kindle]

it would fit with the funny implication that pokemon language is something else which is why reading "unown" is a magical skill / years of hard work

[umbral hound]

I mean, written language already works that way.

[manic kindle]

yeah

but this is fantasy-to-real-world in the sense of

WE the viewers know Unown are lil english letters

[umbral hound]

no I mean the pokemon written language is already a made up one if you look at any sign or billboard in the newer games.

[manic kindle]

yeah

[round perch]

Gravity Rush did this really well.

https://youtu.be/chzpO1JSssw?si=rYLHEzbXBiHjc_ep

It sounds a bit french.

[sullen mesa]

i think just having some not-animal-crossing text sfx would make the games way better

some babble like hylian/monster hunter does help also with not needing localization (VAs and localization costs $$$ which gamefreak specifically does not have, surprise)

[blissful needle]

||Solgaleo/necrozma/Lunala shaped ability ignoring move:||

https://youtu.be/joam5ccEzN4

[timber vale]

Mold breaker
Teravolt
Turboblaze

[fickle thicket]

neutralizing gas

[mellow robin]

one of the abilities he put on is actually neutralizing gas

to deal with those

[signal glen]

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Bluesky · Oct 24, 2025, 12:07 AM

[karmic imp]

Oh emma is in ZA, nice

[blissful needle]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JtuxmEiYl4

[manic kindle]

My trusted partner, Beed, MD

[pliant violet]

I'm playing through having started this afternoon

it's a good time

[manic kindle]

i enjoy how much the game opens up once the tutorial ends

[worldly plume]

Is everyone hanging out in the city
I dont see screenshots of anywhere else

[near flower]

theres only the city in ZA

[manic kindle]

Yeah its entirely within Lumiose!:

[karmic imp]

You can get a fake ending by leaving

[round perch]

How diverse is the city btw?

[worldly plume]

Oh the entire pokemon game in one city huh

[karmic imp]

Fucked up city where wild animals go berserk

[manic kindle]

Feels very Lumiose! Lots of little wild zone parks w environs

[karmic imp]

Here

Truly, lumiose is ruthless

[manic kindle]

Its much nicer in reality / ignoring memes

Games going for more of a "you have to be really responsible with how you integrate nature into cities" route

[sullen mesa]

we got a good variety of environments, including manmade zones for like ice types and such

[round perch]

Hm.

[soft isle]

Been having loads of fun with ZA :3

We were hoping there would be a bit more visual distinction in the city, but it’s not getting in the way of our enjoyment, plus we like the new battling system. Too bad abilities don’t exist, because some Pokemon just aren’t great without them

[azure crane]

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Bluesky · Oct 23, 2025, 10:43 PM

[pliant violet]

I’ve also been fucking with ZA

Much more than I did arceus

I love being a menace in the night segments

[arctic dagger]

Yeah I'm still not sold on the combat system overall but it clearly had good ideas and it could go somewhere interesting

It's perfectly acceptable for a side game though

[soft isle]

Arceus I only didn’t get super into because of the framerate. If it got a 60fps Switch 2 patch there’s a very real chance it’d be a top 3 favorite game in the series for us

[arctic dagger]

I'm still amazed that we've dropped like an hour for the Pokemon Speedrun just based on lag

For scarvi

And swapped games because the reason we didn't use miraidon was purely because the extra particles caused too much last

Lag

[manic kindle]

been doing a lot of neat speed experiments, you can shove off some hefty seconds off cooldowns

[pliant violet]

I can’t wait for people to use the tornado dunk to get places they’re not meant to in the speedrun

[manic kindle]

the side quests have been so delightfully silly

spewpaaaaa

[pliant violet]

There’s just not enough meat on them

[azure crane]

I don't understand why 30 fps is a dealbreaker.

[manic kindle]

spewpa has plenty of meat

[karmic imp]

Humans have plenty of meat

[torpid pivot]

I do like the combat system in Legends, but liiiike.. a not-small amount of Pokes kind of have a lot of identity involved in their Abilities

it feels like it wouldn't be that much a stretch to include them somehow

[arctic dagger]

Yeah the lack of abilities is very sad

[median stone]

I imagine the next Legends game will include abilities, as long as they stick with this combat system.

[manic kindle]

i cant speak for everyone but i have not missed abilities here

or rather their exclusion hasnt affected any... teambuilding or strats and i havent noticed any particular pokemon being left out or improved

[round perch]

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Bluesky · Oct 26, 2025, 8:30 PM

[median stone]

Mega Malamar (and Mega Pyroar) can only be saved by an ability as either sleep merchant or superpower spammer. As it is, My Friend Malamar? More like My Fraud Malamar.

[manic kindle]

But they're so sillyyyyy

My gooby friends

[median stone]

They could have been gooby and had good stats.

[azure crane]

I just looked at Mega Pyroar's stats, and wow, how unimaginative. +20 to everything.

[languid lichen]

i think that's the only mega with +20 to everything in the game, so

that's rather unique

[azure crane]

...really? So it is. I thought there was another one.

[languid lichen]

no others that i can think of!

[arctic dagger]

It's very

Normal

Badum pssssh

[timber vale]

wonderful to know that they decided to completely waste a mega

[manic kindle]

awh its not a waste

the ultimate all-rounder is kinda fun to have in some ways

[torpid pivot]

that's what we all thought about the last one

[soft isle]

It’s not very good at the all rounder thing unfortunately 😔

murdoc (he/him) ↩️

[Reply to:](#1160615504562638910 message) the ultimate all-rounder is kinda fun to have in some ways

[manic kindle]

im simple to please i think he looks goofy and that makes me happy

[timber vale]

it's on a pokemon not suited to be an all-rounder, and all-rounders generally suffer due to being kind of mid at everything anyways

it'd be nice if it were properly versatile, but it simply does not have that

[arctic dagger]

I mean the plus twenty in attack is clearly wasted but

The stats aren't criminal

It just has very unfortunate typing to be honest

If it has a strong ability it'll still be fine

But a normal/fire special attacker is just

Not something that people usually want

[manic kindle]

i can only examine it within ZA itself and in there its just another fun goofy fire guy with a funny hyper beam

[arctic dagger]

Yeah I basically just expect it to have the same problems as normal version of the Pokemon but also taking mega resource

[manic kindle]

and i get a big giggle watching its hair to floof

[arctic dagger]

I think my favorite ability for it would be adaptability

Fire normal isn't a particularly strong offense combination so I think it can have it without it being too much of a problem

But it's still a very strong ability

[sudden spade]

To be fair, 'Anything/Normal' is hooking its entire offensive setup on whatever the 'anything' is. XD

[manic kindle]

hey now, STAB Return/X-Speed puts in da numbers

[sudden spade]

Imagine if normal had been super effective on fairy.

[languid lichen]

unless you're like, exactly hisuian zoroark

that loves having normal to deal with enemy normal and dark types

course, fighting would obviously be better

but it also enjoys the ghost immunity

[azure crane]

H Zoroark is the only Pokémon immune to both its types.

[timber vale]

Are there any type combos besides normal/ghost which this can happen with?

[sudden spade]

Ground/Electric with Levitate? 😛

[umbral hound]

if we're counting abilities there's tons of mono electric types with Lightning Rod or mono fire types with Flash Fire.

[timber vale]

I mean, fair, but I do specifically mean type combos. I want dual types here

[sullen mesa]

mega malamar is so funny

(source) || https://old.reddit.com/r/stunfisk/comments/1ogcj27/meet_hype_mon/ ||

[languid lichen]

yeah, poor malamar...

30 spatk is a fucking robbery

the spdef is good, though

you want to be able to survive a flamethrower or something

if it got like, 20 atk 10 def instead of the spatk, it'd be in a much better spot

[arctic dagger]

There's a number of the megas who got more bonus in their less-used defense stat

Not sure why

I suspect they wanted the megas in general to be less powerful than they were previously maybe?

[languid lichen]

definitely feels like that, based on the constant trend of wasted stats

in the new set

but defense stats aren't really a waste

[arctic dagger]

The fact you can mega evolve multiple times is also

A strong reason to keep them less insane

[languid lichen]

if it had been given 30 def and +5 atk

taking 5 from the 15 speed

and all 30 spatk

[arctic dagger]

Yeah that'd be pretty cool

[languid lichen]

it would have been in so much better of a spot imo

[arctic dagger]

Malamar being bulky AF would be a good thing for it tbh

Since its often so much setup

[languid lichen]

yeah, its best singles set is already like

resttalk

so making that more viable in a higher tier would've been much better for it

[umbral hound]

tera is a form change not a crystal, despite looking like a crystal. And I would argue that Dynamax is in fact a crystal.

[mellow robin]

I don't think this is a good meme it's just playing on the fact that z-crystals and tera types both use crystals

as a specific exception, I see the Legends Arceus move styles thing as essentialy a gimmick

[round perch]

https://youtube.com/shorts/9zBcY9hwCqk?si=Of2UCLka7FWn0LsH

[azure crane]

I wish we got the move styles in a new gen.

[manic kindle]

Would have made for a very different battle system for sure; would need to adjust a number of things to make it work as well as the current one does

[sudden spade]

Move styles are interesting but I'll admit I found them a bit underwhelming/they didn't work great for all moves.

[manic kindle]

I don't mind leaving them in ancient hisui

I think the mega power meter / plus moves works really nicely

[torpid pivot]

.. I do not remember Move Styles at all

[manic kindle]

Agile/Strong from Legend Arceus

[torpid pivot]

I beat Arceus! Still nothing

So my vote is they weren't interesting or impactful enough

[manic kindle]

they could break the game wide open when used correctly, prettttty nasty stuff

[sudden spade]

My issue was I felt like they fell hard into 'best option' quite often. You didn't generally use Normal, Fast and Strong.

[manic kindle]

Agile gave you better initiative/action speed in exchange for less power / less status effects, Strong slowed you down in initiative but packed a punch

Yeah, there were always ways to set up "okay if i use agile i can attack 4 times in a row!" sort of silliness

i did like that some evolutions were tied to it, that was neat

[timber vale]

my results

my stats are uh

kind of ass, huh...

I like these results though, I think

[azure crane]

90/115/75 Defenses and Serene Grace? You could probably do work spreading status.

[timber vale]

true, true

I'd need to know my moveset, but I think it'd be neat to be a pokemon like amoongus or indeedee that functions as a strong support pokemon that helps a sweeper reach its maximum potential

[arctic dagger]

Looks like i'm a defensive utility pokemon

Makes sense

[median stone]

Type to stall physical attackers, I guess.

[timber vale]

water fairy physical wall... is actually pretty solid, I think!

and you have something to clear status on switch

with the right utility tools, I think you might make for a solid assault vest support wall? I'm not too well versed in teambuilding but I think that'd be something

[arctic dagger]

Assault Vest only lets you use attacks

Not usually a utility pokemon

Natural Cure + good defenses is a traditionally good wall tho'

You're kinda a physically defensive Blissy instead of a SpDef focused

[timber vale]

I remember there being a decent amount of mons who can run assault vest as "support" because they have enough attacking moves more focused on their side effects

like uh... I think hatterene with like, mystical fire, nuzzle, etc. with assault vest is a thing

though generally I think walls also want recovery so yeah probably not assault vest now that I'm thinking about it

[manic kindle]

"Utility pokemon that wants assault vest" sounds like a fun CreateAPokemon project

[timber vale]

for doubles, there's moves like pollen puff!

for singles, stuff like nuzzle, uhhhh

mystical fire

[arctic dagger]

Scald

[timber vale]

scald yeah

[arctic dagger]

Doubles has like, Icy Wind

It's doable but you gotta be pretty specific

Struggle Bug sees usage sometimes

[manic kindle]

yeah, and its the neat sort of thesis a lot of the CAP projects work from

[arctic dagger]

Yeah

[manic kindle]

hmmm!

455 bst lmao that fits me

[soft isle]

One of these is not like the others

Zombyla 🌇🔔 ↩️

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[snow cobalt]

no two months option uwu

[soft isle]

Tempermental
😔

That said geez, that's a pretty interesting stat spread and ability lineup for a pokemon

[manic kindle]

:O rose-pokemon got hella defense lmao

[sullen mesa]

i wonder if i'll get fairy too

[azure crane]

(Source is wanderjegson on X.)

[deft path]

lol??? lmao???

the lower results were ice and fairy

[timber vale]

indeedee typing...

[soft isle]

I did it too! :3

Rose (It/Its/She/Her) | The Labrynth Doll ↩️

[Reply to:](#1160615504562638910 message) > Tempermental
😔 📎

[umbral hound]

oh that physical/special dichotomy is interesting. That stat spread + typing screams trick room sweeper, but Hospitality on top of that is interesting.

[timber vale]

ice is an incredible stab, and I think pairs rather nicely with fairy

[umbral hound]

I think it does. Ground/Fairy is technically better, but in a way that I'm glad there's no pokemon of that type.

[sullen mesa]

i am 4x weak to ice, which is true irl

[timber vale]

ground/fairy would be atrocious to fight, I think.

[timber vale]

huh... neat... I wonder if you could actually get use out of contrary with a stat spread like that

[sullen mesa]

my stats are so ass bro 💀

[timber vale]

couldn't do like... draco meteor/leaf storm double stab

that'd be broken...

[manic kindle]

it'd be fine on 35 spatk

[umbral hound]

Yeah I was going to say, any dragon type with Contrary is scary... but not with 35 SpAtk...

[manic kindle]

its ok we just have to evolve!!

we just have to find a trainer who loves and respects us!!

[umbral hound]

No even if you evolve, you probably won't be specially biased.

Though I guess I don't know for sure.

[manic kindle]

we just have to evolve and be loved and show off our true power and anything is possible

[sullen mesa]

i just need gamefreak to throw me a bone with a phys leafstorm or phys draco meteor

[soft isle]

This is what you get if you choose the bottom option on every choice

[deft path]

technician normal stab is also stupid

[sullen mesa]

holy defense stat

[sullen mesa]

(relevant because goomy pfp lmfao)

[manic kindle]

need to spritz you with a water bottle at all times!!

[sullen mesa]

i will dry out

[umbral hound]

I shared the quiz in another server and these are the first two results:

Remarkably similar.

[azure crane]

My GF has the same type, two of the same features, and two of the same abilities.

[karmic imp]

Got mono water or grass/fairy
The odd thing there is fairy secondary calls me extroverted

Huh high defense

Technician, hydration, contrary

Gonna post screenshots later

[timber vale]

hmmmm

how strong of a dual typing is dragon/fairy

[karmic imp]

The results are funny
Used to be big on water starters, but got into fire later

Well, I picked fennekin, but also grabbed squirtle later

[languid lichen]

lotta weaknesses, two of them brutally common, but also a huge pile of resistances

ice fairy poison steel

[timber vale]

the main issue I can think of immediately is probably getting walled by steel types if it lacks strong coverage

[languid lichen]

but dragon and fairy both have stellar resistance suites, and they don't overlap negatively with each other

[timber vale]

weak to ice, fairy, and steel kinda sucks

[soft isle]

https://www.pokemon.com/us/pokemon-news/earn-delphoxite-and-greninjite-in-pokemon-legends-z-a-ranked-battles-season-2-november-2025

Greninjite at rank Y, Delphoxite at rank S

[timber vale]

hmmmm

guts on a fire type isn't so great

but i could see it doing well on a normal/fighting mon with those sort of stats

[pliant violet]

bit slow unfortunately

[timber vale]

yeahhhhh

[pliant violet]

normal/fighting guts facade

gg shake my hand

[umbral hound]

95 speed is in that awkward speed tier where it's too fast for trick room, but not fast enough outside of it.

But yeah, guts on a physical normal type is always going to be something.

[pliant violet]

fighting and normal get decent priority moves at least

[karmic imp]

So, what do you all think?

[umbral hound]

Hydration is honestly probably the best ability of those three for either typing. A mono-water wall with hydration is entirely solid, even with poor attacking stats; a grass/fairy wall with the same stats would be slightly worse due to its quad weakness, but still good.

Alomomola energy, basically, and that somehow made it to OU.

[timber vale]

alomomola is mostly good for being a slow bulky regenerator pivot

it also kind of has scald

[karmic imp]

Oh, good

Didn't expect to get a wall, but it makes sense

[umbral hound]

Yeah, and this would need to use recover instead of healing off of flip turn, but hydration is genuinely a really good ability in its own right. It's less flexible as a pivot than Alomomola, but also harder to force out.

[karmic imp]

Well, for the grass/fairy typing
The wall-ness seems to mitigate the weaknesses

[umbral hound]

...it's more like the quad weakness mitigates the wall-ness. But it's not that bad of a typing!

four regular weaknesses and a quad weakness sucks, but five resists and an immunity is good.

[karmic imp]

Yeah, it's cool!

[umbral hound]

Grass/Fairy is, in my opinion, neither an especially good nor an especially bad type combo both offensively and defensively.

[timber vale]

the issue is being weak to fire is not great

as fire is a strong stab type

not that fire weak mons are bad, of course

[mellow robin]

I got, uh

Slush rush kinda helps the speed issue? But my stats aren't doing much other than that

I guess delibird's typing is cool, I could see myself in lower tiers on a hail team as a brave bird sweeper

but that base 45 defense is painful

[umbral hound]

Yeah, definitely a lower tier sweeper who's reliant on snow but otherwise probably OK.

[arctic dagger]

I think you just take the mono water type

Instead of the split ice/flying

[timber vale]

Not enough reliable flying physical stab

And also you don't want to be forced into heavy duty boots while also maybe wanting a choice band or something to supplement mediocre attack

[arctic dagger]

Invest in defense and be a water type slush rush for ice teams

Part of ice teams problem is that nothing that isn't ice tends to benefit

Although getting +50% defense is pretty good

Yeah, you just take the ice/flying

Invest in Defense and Attack

Probably

I think you might actually just take Thick Fat

Gives you ice resist and negates your fire weakness

Invest in defense and then the +50% from snow helps decently?

A rock type pokemon still going to eat you alive ofc...

Shrug

I think it's a better plan than being the sweeper.

Ice has so many sweeper options

[bright cargo]

Ice/Flying with Thick Fat is nutty

[arctic dagger]

You're... 4x to rock, 2x to steel and electric, immune to ground, resist bug, grass, and ice

Honestly not the worst

[maiden imp]

is this good

[arctic dagger]

Flying grass is a bit of a rough typing since you're 4x weak to ice

[bright cargo]

Goddamn, great abilities

Hard to choose

[arctic dagger]

I think speed boost with a baton pass set

Bulky baton pass utility

Your offense is rough so I think you skip Technician

I could see a meta-call for Lightning Rod tho'

[bright cargo]

Yeah, that all sounds about right to me

[arctic dagger]

But if Baton Pass isn't banned and you have access to it

A bulky baton pass with speed boost is like, good enough to be meta-defining as a concept

Not a great set of resists for it but you're bulky as hell generally

And just like, Tailwind/Leech Seed/PowderOfChoice is a pretty good set in a lot of formats

[mellow robin]

okay this angle does interest me actually
Another teammate will have to solve the rock problem I suppose

[arctic dagger]

Yeah, but "Solving the rock problem" is a pretty normal thing for a team to have to do somewhere

😄

[bright cargo]

Tohu, what's my strat? Feels like a stall and swing with self-debuff moves

[arctic dagger]

Oh god you're Moody

You take the pure fairy type and Moody and you just RNG your way to victory

[bright cargo]

https://tenor.com/view/lets-go-gambling-gif-4822326163116896763

[arctic dagger]

Ice/Normal is unfortunately bad typing but

It's hard to complain about pure fairy

[bright cargo]

Yeah, the dual type isn't really worth considering there

[arctic dagger]

Ice/Normal the only way I can see it being good is like, if you had Extremespeed/Ice Shard incredibly high attack stat or something

Just a pure glass cannon

Even then it runs into coverage issues

[bright cargo]

Quad fighting weakness is such a nightmare

[timber vale]

Just stall out for insane moody boosting and then sweep, especially since your stats are decently balanced and such

[arctic dagger]

Yeah

Hope you have some kind of recovery move

Decently likely as a Fairy type

[bright cargo]

Moonlight is a pretty common enough move, and I think some get recover

[arctic dagger]

Reflect/Screen/Stored Power/Moonlight or something

[timber vale]

Hard walled by a dark type

[arctic dagger]

Yeah

[timber vale]

But yeah sounds about right

[arctic dagger]

Cosmic Power/Stored Power/Recover/Moonblast maybe

Probably don';t get that perfect of a moveset so something like

Protect/Moonlight/Moonblast/Utility

[sudden spade]

Some things good. Some things...not.

[arctic dagger]

Huh.

[sudden spade]

'Oh god please let me have a priority move'

[arctic dagger]

Well, fire/fairy mixed attacker is in theory a good concept.

[bright cargo]

Oooh, Technician and Moxie with Atk like that is nice

[arctic dagger]

Decent moves in both to be technician

[sudden spade]

The issue is those defences + that speed.

[arctic dagger]

But I fear you just die with those def and spdef

[sudden spade]

I'm Fire Rampardos ;-;

[arctic dagger]

Yeah

Fire/Fairy Rampardos is a sick thing to be, to be fair. Like, you'll terrorize NU or ZU something fierce.

But it's really hard to see this seeing even UU play much

[sudden spade]

Game, give me a priority move for technician + that attack/sp attack 😛

[bright cargo]

If you get some sick setup from a passer, or Trick Room, it's sweeping time

[arctic dagger]

Ooo, Trick Room isn't a bad call.

Could be a nasty trick room sweeper

[sudden spade]

Don't ask me how Flower Veil fits in there. I'm shocked it's even an option for that type combo.

[arctic dagger]

Shrug

[bright cargo]

Kinda has 'burning incense' vibes

[arctic dagger]

But yeah, mixed attacking trick room sweeper sounds really nice

Fire/Fairy is really good stab combo

[sudden spade]

Yeah. It's good offensive typing with good offensive stats. It's mostly just That Speed that's an issue.

[arctic dagger]

Probably still not better than UU

Someone is gonna show up with Aqua Jet and ruin your day

XD

It's just a fairly common move

But getting to UU with a combined total of 120 in defenses and speed is honestly impressive

That giant hp stat lets it be surprisingly bulky with a little investment so people would have to gamble a little

You probably end up investing defense and then either attack, special attack, or spdef depending on strategy

Since basically all priority moves are physical

There's vacuum wave but you resist it

[bright cargo]

What was your 'Mon, Tohu?

[arctic dagger]

And then thunderclap/water shuriken are signature moves so

[arctic dagger]

Here

[bright cargo]

Damn. Ideal setup spread

[arctic dagger]

Psychic/grass has the big 4x bug weak problem so probably just taking Fairy

Just take Cloud Nine and screw weather teams and have good utility

Would be my goal probably

It's a bit boring but

Strategic utility vs weather teams is nice

[bright cargo]

They kinda just snowball unless you packed a handbrake, yeah

[arctic dagger]

Probably a lot better in doubles where you could see if the enemy is doing weather and bring me if they are or skip if they're not

Having a strong defensive utility pokemon that's also a safety valve vs a common strategy is like, a thing doubles likes a lot generally.

[bright cargo]

I never got into the doubles scene. Seems like a different world

[arctic dagger]

It's a lot faster

Only 4 pokemon and 2 actions per turn means matches end really fast

[bright cargo]

That makes sense

[arctic dagger]

But yeah I'm a pokemon probably no one WANTS to bring but you're always grateful is thereif you need it XD

As where like, that crazy trick room offense thing Ikiryo is? Someone is gonna LOVE doing that.

[sullen mesa]

my friend rolled up a mono grass and dual grass/grass lmfao

[bright cargo]

They get one turn in the sun to annihilate someone with a solar beam and then...well, their ass is grass

[sudden spade]

Zoomy

[umbral hound]

115 HP is not trivial, but you're probably using solar power. ...unless you have spore. If you have spore, you're a different, much worse menace.

[bright cargo]

Oh I didn't even think about that. Yikes

[umbral hound]

I just have to assume no spore. Honestly even spamming sleep powder, which is more plausible, would be annoying but managable.

[sudden spade]

I might try this again but with a character of mine in mind rather than just 'me'

[sudden spade]

Tried it with my current RPG character and...no Aininur. Stop that. You're powergaming.

Entertainingly for someone who got Dragon and Fire, she's a Vampire character.

'Good news Aininur: You're Infernape with less stats and a better ability'

[arctic dagger]

Eh

Part of what is good about infernape is it's a strong mixed attacker

[sudden spade]

That's fair

I wonder how long it will take the game to eventually get a Ground/Fairy. As it's a disgusting type combo that is one of the few that hasn't had a showing yet.

...also: Man, I've been out of serious playing for too long, checking the pokemon that can't even make OU any more. I don't know when Salamance and Latios dropped to UU but man, I feel old now.

[languid lichen]

mence has been uu since ~gen 6, latios has hovered between ou and uu since about that long

gone back and forth, depending

the real fucking It's Joever moment

is ttar and chomp in uu

[sudden spade]

turns into dust

[arctic dagger]

The paradox Pokemon kinda pushed anything that was high just because it had good stats out

[languid lichen]

ttar, garchomp, greninja, pex, washtom

it's the end of an era

[arctic dagger]

Since they have really good stats and a strong ability

[languid lichen]

salamence is in RUBL now

as is mamoswine

my poor child

[languid lichen]

it being a scarf that can't be knocked off and doesn't lock you for the sweepers is brutal

[arctic dagger]

Yeah

Also just the qty and mix of types

Means that if all you want is something that hits hard

There's probably a type combo that does it for you

[cerulean dune]

I have no idea if these stats are usable. Monotype Water, or Water/Ice with high HP, and high Speed looks obnoxious to fight at the very least.

[arctic dagger]

Potential really good doubles utility pokemon with Friend Guard

But your odffense stats are so bad that you have to make up for it with utility

[umbral hound]

Mono water would be stronger than water ice fo that stat spread. Otherwise, you'd just be friend guard + icy wind spam, probably. Maybe setting weather or something?

[arctic dagger]

Really depends on moveset

Too many possible ways to be a good utility pokemon

[sudden spade]

Yeah. Technician with that sorta attack/sp attack doesn't really have too much it can go with and illuminate is...legally...an ability.

So Friend Guard Support sorta ends up my thoughts.

[umbral hound]

Also, good HP, but those defensive stats are very dubious.

[azure crane]

I think Illuminate does something in battle now.

[bright cargo]

Apparently it prevents accuracy from being lowered

[umbral hound]

That is, in fact, technically something. That's all I can say about it.

[arctic dagger]

If it ignored evasion too it might even be useful

[bright cargo]

Seriously, why not add that on top? It's not like any of the 'Mons with Illuminate would upend the game

[manic kindle]

Very funny potential development in ZA ranked shenanigans: Stunfisk might have a place in the meta because beam attacks tend to miss it

[bright cargo]

Wait, hit-box shenanigans???

[snow cobalt]

finally

[manic kindle]

its easy to just Not See Him as you focus on looking at Mega Charizard and Mega Gyarados from your other two opponents and then suddenly Stunfisk is There, having gotten under all the flamethrowers, spamming discharge to deal with the best pokemon in ranked, Skarmory

[bright cargo]

https://tenor.com/view/stunfisk-gif-20662251

[languid lichen]

HOLY SHIT?

THE PROPHECY HAS COME TRUE

R/STUNFISK REAL

[soft isle]

Greninjite acquired!

The online mode is actually really fun, even if there's not a ton of depth

[manic kindle]

HE IS REAL

[snow cobalt]

https://bsky.app/profile/puffyrin.bsky.social/post/3m4g4ntwehk2a

Rin ✨🌈 (commissions open) (@puffyrin.bsky.social)

*Furrifies your Jacinthe*

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Bluesky · Oct 30, 2025, 1:59 PM

[arctic dagger]

So

Like many

I have not really paid much attention to Delibird

But today I learned that two of its three abilities are sleep immunity

Which is just

So sad

[torpid pivot]

Delibird is an earnest working poke, wants to courier, not dofighting.

[snow cobalt]

https://bsky.app/profile/ausshawott.bsky.social/post/3m4kepppacs2k

Aussy 🌱 (@ausshawott.bsky.social)

coming back to a morrigan cynthia drawing i did a couple months back (a day late oops)

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Bluesky · Nov 1, 2025, 6:34 AM

[sullen mesa]

[soft isle]

Today we learned you can encounter ||alpha eeveelutions in wild areas.|| possible postgame spoilers since we found this in a postgame area

[manic kindle]

yup! its how im finishing my dex

[karmic imp]

Retaliate does not seem good

[manic kindle]

the move? Its very conditional

you'll never see it for any pvp purposes

[karmic imp]

Yeah

[manic kindle]

Its nice for your early game normal type to have something with some oomph behind it early on, which fits with where you originally get it (2nd gym)

[arctic dagger]

Yeah it's worth remembering a lot of Pokemon was initially designed as an adventure resource game first

A lot of early design is supposed to be useful when you get it and replaced later

[snow cobalt]

Retaliate was introduced gen 5

[arctic dagger]

Yeah

That was fifteen years ago

[karmic imp]

Is ingrain good? Have it on my roselia

[timber vale]

ingrain is... hrm

[exotic garden]

Ingrain is okay on bulky pokemon

[timber vale]

iirc it heals you a little bit each turn and keeps you from being phased out or switching

[exotic garden]

Roselia... might be a stretch

[timber vale]

I think best on bulky set-up sweepers

[karmic imp]

Pokemon Y replay
Grinding a bit on the route from lumiose to laverre town
Had a funny moment where I thought a pokemon didn't see necessary to catch, then remembered I can "beat" trevor by having a fuller pokedex than him
Crushing Calem isn't enough, Trevor needs to be defeated too

[karmic imp]

Oh damn

[manic kindle]

the big thing is that the answers will vary heavily because a [story playthrough] has a lot less difficulty and stakes

[karmic imp]

Evolving inkay is a bit troublesome to evolve due to forgetting to flip 3ds at end of battles
I decided to just keep it flipped in fights when the exp bar is close to full
A bit harder to fight, but an interesting challenge
Also seeing the battle upside down is cool

[karmic imp]

I can get by with giga drain and black sludge

Ingrain is inconvenient, yeah

Even if a story playthrough is easier, I like to learn a bit more antway

I finally got malamar, abd decided to explore laverre town, while leaving the gym for later
There's a nice variety of weirdos in here, including a few hex maniacs
A kid gives me torment. And old man thinks short phrases are stories, his wife collects arbok shed skin to make things
An hex maniac gave me a gengarite and comments she has no friends to trade with
A dude likes small pokemon, and gives me a doll upon seeing my roselia
Another dude distributes effort ribbons to pokemon, which I forget what they are
An hex maniac can read badges to know which pokemon you beat a gym with

Also the guy who says pokemon and humans were once the same, with a story of a froakie turning into a human

[azure crane]

Effort ribbons are what you get when you fully EV train a Pokemon.

[timber vale]

I wanna be friends with the hex maniac who doesn't have any friends to trade with :(

[worldly plume]

Here in my country, the food sellers dont give a fuck about copywright
We have dan from bakugan selling hotdogs and 2D from gorillaz selling spicy peanuts

And then we also have this

[karmic imp]

Same

Saw an incredibles themed food thing

[worldly plume]

Super meals...

[deft path]

Spiritually similar to mexican taquería

[worldly plume]

such is the commonality between two survivors of spanish colonization

[deft path]

no one survives Spanish colonisation. We just all get a little more taquería Goku with it

you're Filipino yeah?

[worldly plume]

yes

we got that medievalising disconnected from the mainland colonization

[deft path]

my spirit is telling me Mindanao but that's probably wrong

[worldly plume]

its Mindanao yes

[deft path]

nvm I'm the goat

I've seen plenty of cafeteria Pikachu but nothing truly out there sadly

ive seen axew once hit that the nichest it got

[worldly plume]

whoaw axew
good taste on the food stall's part

[deft path]

carnival axew

truly an

[worldly plume]

amazing

[deft path]

Intersting mix

[languid lichen]

i saw a sealio at a doctor's office once

like, art on the waiting room wall

and in new york i saw a kebab dude with a grubbin plushie

those are the only odd ones i can think of

[near flower]

NoriZC (who also does character illustrations for Arknights) fanart for a mega porygon concept

[languid lichen]

dorothycore...

[runic umbra]

be not afraid

Porygon evolutions feel like a bit of a letdown because the base form is perfect and also such a relic of its time.

arguably even for its time a little retro

[near flower]

i think theyre cute
pory2 being from gen 2 is such a nice little time capsule to me, when 3d modeling was evolving so quickly

[runic umbra]

they're not bad

but they lose the weirdness

for me at least

PorygonZ is cool but

eh

can't really explain my issue it without waggling my arms and saying "it's missing the thing"

[near flower]

porygon is the first 3d model you make
pory2 is the 100th or so 3d model you make
poryZ is when you go too ham on the smoothing option in zbrush and fuck fuck fuck go back shit

[languid lichen]

yeah i love that they're all different kinds of shitty and dinky

[runic umbra]

I do like the fanart one for the y disk

it's like
barely recognizable as a bird

[arctic dagger]

Wait was it supposed to be a bird to begin with?

Because I had no recognition of it as a bird art any point

If anything it was like, a head on tank treads or something

Huh, yeah, I can kind of see it.

[timber vale]

I adore porygon

[runic umbra]

I have a soft spot for pokemon with the "oh no" expression

[near flower]

it's more obvious starting with pory2 but even base porygon can be read as duck-like

it isnt super obvious though

[deft path]

porygon is supposed to be a malformed duck where someone fucked up the modelling and misplaced the limbs

[near flower]

i like this part on the x-variant

a trace of the past self exists in the current self

[deft path]

Porygon z is a malformed injection lmaooo

[near flower]

oh i just noticed
porygon is shaded to look pretty matte
but pory2 is shiny and reflective
the base material in maya (current most popular industry 3d modeling software) is matte
and the fancier materials (phong, blin) are shiny and reflective

[wild thorn]

They also did Pokémon designs for some of their OCs

https://preview.redd.it/y6q6v023r7j41.png?width=1755&format=png&auto=webp&s=70cb51d7acfd7201170e5979cd2408601a951770

https://preview.redd.it/pc3qt8p5r7j41.png?width=1661&format=png&auto=webp&s=b984f7587d4e40ad2957e940adabf243ac161cfc

https://preview.redd.it/j5qacdo7r7j41.png?width=1661&format=png&auto=webp&s=b874f363f9d322fd4e9253a61eb2a5ac29dac85d

[languid lichen]

regional decidueye silence...

[near flower]

yeah i love those ones , especially sariagon

[trail bridge]

hmm

would the HORUS Balor be a Dark/Fire type?

[arctic dagger]

Steel/Fire

Nothing particularly Evil about its metaphysics I think

There are mechs that probably deserve Dark type, but I don't think the Balor is one of them

If you want to skip Steel, I'd say Water/Fire

[languid lichen]

i would support fire/water, yeah

[arctic dagger]

My thoughts on the Dark type for Lancer mechs would be to reserve it for the ones whose NHPs go uh

A bit murder happy