POKÉMON CENTER

[soft isle]

Anyway, graveler made this fight much easier

[umbral hound]

It's kind of interesting that Mystery Dungeon is an isekai story, which is all about how You, Personally got turned into a pokemon based on your personality, and you're dropped in as a blank slate... but in the original PMD games (Red/Blue Rescue Team) the protagonist actually has a defined backstory and history. It was interesting.

There was also a strong implication that humans used to live in that world, since some of the friend areas are post-apocalyptic ruins of human structures. I feel like the later PMD games sort of smoothed some of that away, with a protagonist who's more of a blank slate, and humans being more vague as a concept. But I guess I don't know enough about the post-Explorers games, since they didn't enter the cultural zeitgeist anywhere near as much.

[languid lichen]

the protagonist kind of has a defined backstory and definitely has a defined history in Explorers, too!

and humans seemingly existed enough for them to like

be there as a human too

in Explorers

[umbral hound]

Oh, I guess I don't know enough about Explorers. That's on me. I was going to check an LP of it to learn more but kept getting distracted.

[languid lichen]

ah

[snow cobalt]

yeah Explorers mostly gives you a blank state protagonist inasmuch as 1) you're amnesiac 2) your spoken words are unrecorded for most of the game (but your thoughts are)

but you certainly get more defined as the game goes on

[umbral hound]

I always thought that especially with the silent protagonist, the Explorer protagonist was more of a blank slate, and much of their characterization was fan-invented.

[snow cobalt]

You are still seeing their thoughts constantly, is the thing

[umbral hound]

That is true. It's kind of weird to have a silent protagonist who still has thought bubbles, now that I think about it.

[languid lichen]

not even a little bit

minute 0 the character talks to themselves

and hour...6 or 10, maybe, they get pretty active with their agency

[umbral hound]

Then that's my bad.

[umbral hound]

idea: a fire/bug spider that weaves elaborate webs out of glass. It's said that ancient humans learned the secrets of glassblowing from watching this pokemon. (Or should it be a fire/ground type which isn't a spider?)

I almost feel like, if Heatmor didn't exist, you could conflate a long nose and a glassblowing pipe pretty easily.

[wispy yarrow]

I fuck with the idea of glassblowing spider

[sullen mesa]

more spiders please!!

[arctic dagger]

I would like to acquire additional spiders

[sullen mesa]

i'm saying this but i haven't made a fakemon spider yet

i gotta think of some ideas

[umbral hound]

imagine: Mega Musharna.

probably it's barely even visible inside the massive cloud of pink smoke, but you can just barely see one of its eyes barely cracked open. (Also the smoke is itself shaped like a tapir.)

[pliant violet]

Could alternatively play with the Baku inspiration

Make it more hostile, though that’s more hypno

[umbral hound]

Its brain is filled with so much energy that it's too restless to fall fully into a deep sleep. The overflowing energy billows out in a great cloud.

[round perch]

https://youtu.be/NDvXnBuam5M?si=MbdHpmRxEMIT5pqX

[umbral hound]

just gotten to the part in Explorers of Sky which replicates the most iconic segment of Rescue Team, but there it was harrowing and emotional and here it's "let's go on a fun trip yay"

[fickle thicket]

what is the most iconic segment of rescue team

[languid lichen]

the flight from town

where they're being constantly chased by a huge mob

[fickle thicket]

ah that part

[snow cobalt]

https://bskye.app/profile/pldhnet.bsky.social/post/3mdjtvmip2c2d

[iron lake]

did that personality quiz thing. interesting combination

[sudden spade]

Low Speed Rock Type. I am so sorry. At least prankster could be fun/let you get around that?

[obtuse ravine]

quiz link?

[arctic dagger]

4x steel vulnerability RIP

[iron lake]

we simply would not get attacked with a steel type move

[iron lake]

it was linked pretty far up we didn't grab it ... sorgy ...

[obtuse ravine]

found it!

[soft isle]

Slush rush sure is an ability to have with 35 base speed!

[obtuse ravine]

https://tenor.com/view/bunny-in-the-snow-peacful-bunny-gif-cute-bunny-bunny-gif-4884303926153606966

[arctic dagger]

I mean beartic makes it work with only fifty but... Yeah...

[mellow robin]

it actually still boots you to like the equivalent of a base 119.5 speed Pokemon, assuming max IVs/EVs
(338 speed at level 100 with neutral nature)

you won't outspeed the really fast mon but it's still quite fast

[sullen mesa]

i was thinking about my fakedex and thought "hey, ice dog is a good idea" but then remembered you had the idea first lol

[umbral hound]

If you stole it I'd be flattered

[sullen mesa]

i'd feel bad! if i were to add it in i would ask if that were okay though

[umbral hound]

honestly I'd love for any of my random rambling ideas to actually develop into anything.

[trail bridge]

poff...

[sullen mesa]

i was thinking snowdog would evolve into two forms, a fast ice type wolf that's more icicle-like and loses the snow, and a thick snow malamute/st. bernard that's bulky with self-healing (my game doesn't really have type matchups so ice can be good bulky, yay)

basically rockruff again

i'd probably make a third form

[arctic dagger]

TBH like, I feel like "Ice Dog" is generic and obvious enough I'm just surprised it hasn't come out yet

[sullen mesa]

it's been overdone in a lot of knockoff mobile games

[karmic imp]

Queerest woman

[round perch]

By 牛舮@原稿 (@Beko_rrMo) on Twitter.com.

[azure crane]

I'm reminded of how Ash could casually carry his Larvitar.

[round perch]

By leah★彡 (@luh_uhh) on Twitter.com.

[azure crane]

Rika is so gender <3

[fickle thicket]

Notably more feminine in this outfit

[near flower]

fell for it award x3

[karmic imp]

Coolest steel types?

[runic umbra]

Specifically coolest?

I do have many faves that are steel type, but they trend more towards silly guy than cool

[languid lichen]

one of my most basic bitch opinions is that lucario is really cool

[karmic imp]

Well, can be silly faves too

[languid lichen]

lucario and the honedge line

and mega mawile

which are all generic-ass opinions

was always a big fan of magearna, and its mega also goes hard

[runic umbra]

Scizor is an old fave. I do like Perrserkers shit eating grin and sword claws

[timber vale]

Scizor, Aegislash, Aggron, Metagross

Magearna, uhhh

[runic umbra]

I do really like Bronzong

it has a certain understated menace

[runic umbra]

It's a good design. Kind of a classic shonen protagonist vibe.

[languid lichen]

i think i prefer bronzor, but i'm scarred by the bronzor trainer outside mount coronet

that was like level 20 and spammed hypnosis

[jovial rampart]

Not sure I would call it the coolest, but I really like Ferrothorn.

[runic umbra]

I remember kinda struggling with the top 4 guys bronzong as a kid.

because guess what type of attack it's weak to I didn't bring with me

[languid lichen]

lmao

in fairness that's really easy to do as a kid

there are two fire types

[torpid pivot]

Ferrothorn rules, love a plant with malice

[languid lichen]

and kids don't love coverage

[azure crane]

A homophobic plant.

[runic umbra]

me as a kid: "why doesn't sword dance do any damage? garbage attack!"

"I use hyperbeam every time I can because it has biggest number"

Skarmory is interesting. as a kid growing up with the sprite only pokémon I thought it looks really cool. The 3d models with the generic bird rig animation unfortunately diminish the effect.

[runic umbra]

and I loved turtles and hated horses. so fire was never an option.

[languid lichen]

joever from the start

[azure crane]

I actually knew the value of nondamaging moves as a kid. I beat Claire's Kingdra using a Wobbuffet. I used Destiny Bond, and she attacked into it and died.

[languid lichen]

destiny bond says kill so it's a damaging move :)

[timber vale]

I used to use competitive sets when I played roms and then I remembered that no one has held items and knock off is just worse than stronger dark moves 99% of the time in gameplay outside of comp

[languid lichen]

yeah lmao

it's good in like, gen 5 world tournaments

but otherwise just use crunch

or even night slash

[manic kindle]

feint attack my beloved

fuck u sand attack

[languid lichen]

i'm still mad that they renamed it

from faint attack

there was already a move named feint

[timber vale]

do not use a fucking hazard setter in normal play

I just. god. I'm not even good at comp, I don't play it that much, why did I default to comp sets

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/m9tz6GNqqM4

[arctic dagger]

Mawile my favorite steel type for a long time

A lot of people don't like it, but I think Magnezone is pretty cool

[languid lichen]

i can respect a magnezone

i think it does magnet boi a lot better than its prevos

[mellow robin]

I like aggron

[torpid pivot]

I think I'd like Lucario more if he wasn't steel type

His little hand nubs aren't enough

[manic kindle]

stealth rocking the elite four is so much fun tho

[arctic dagger]

It did always feel kinda weird that they're Steel type to me. If anything they feel more Psychic to me with all the Aura stuff.

Not that we need another Psychic/Fighting humanoid lmao

[torpid pivot]

Fighting/Furry

[languid lichen]

aura isn't at all psychic in pokemon

[arctic dagger]

Yeah, you got all types of aura, but like... Lucario was kinda the first one to be using it in the "modern" way, and at the time it was pretty much just psychic types who did that kind of thing.

[languid lichen]

yeah, but that's kind of the point

lucario was the introductory bridge of "the spiritual side of the fighting type"

[arctic dagger]

Yeah, and I'm uh, not objecting at all to Fighting, I'm going "The steel type feels weird"

[languid lichen]

medicham was the only other "mystic" fighting type, as the monk mon

[sudden spade]

'Look, we have a special/physical split now. We really need special fighting moves'

[languid lichen]

oh i'm just protesting the "aura is psychic" thing

[arctic dagger]

Shrug Aura feels more psychic than Lucario feels steel type

To me

[torpid pivot]

Should be pure Fighting

He's the spirit of it

[arctic dagger]

Yeah I'd be in favor of that.

[languid lichen]

i'm pretty sure the steel part comes from the deific inspirations

[torpid pivot]

I wasn't aware he had those

[languid lichen]

anubis and japanese wolf gods are the cited theories

[torpid pivot]

is.. anubis associated with metal

[arctic dagger]

Anubis is an underworld god

Which are commonly associated with metal for pretty obvious reasons

Same with Hades for instance

I do not know if Anubis is tho'

Nothing comes to mind offhand

[languid lichen]

anubis's metal associations that i'm aware of are the heart-weighing scale, ankhs (which i believe were a symbol of him), and his iron brand

oh i'm wrong, ankhs as a symbol of life were for like a dozen gods and also the pharaohs

[runic umbra]

It is a bit odd that lucario develops pants upon evolution

like, are they part of its body? are there veins in its pants?

anyway body horror aside I don't think any associations with anubis or egypt are all that strong.

My guess is that its design has its roots more in ideas of qi and martial arts. I think the dogface was more chosen with the reasoning of of "we wanna make a shonen protagonist with an animal face"

I'm not sure but wasn't Lucario also one of the early designs for Gen4 and had its own movie?

[arctic dagger]

Yeah I think so

[umbral hound]

yeah, Lucario and the Mystery of Mew.

It was a Big Deal before the games dropped.

[torpid pivot]

always trying to swipe the eternal staying power of Mewtwo Strikes Back

[runic umbra]

I'm not sure how the fighting type and the competitive aspect snuck in there. I do not have a competitive bone in me outside of wanting to work on myself.

I got that buitzel color scheme tho. and I like Buitzel.

[languid lichen]

https://youtu.be/6KOJ4KAVWV4

[azure crane]

A water type with Lightning Rod sounds cool though.

[sudden spade]

You'd think so but when was the last time anyone used Seaking? XD

...actually, these are very close to Seaking's stats, just with a notably better special attack.

(The stat totals for that generator do feel a hair low, considering Seaking is not exactly held up as an overstatted pokemon and is a good few below the average base stat total for fully evolved pokemon)

[runic umbra]

you callin' me a lowly goldfish?

[languid lichen]

in fairness, i think being a 410 BST filler mon is reasonable for me

[runic umbra]

I liked that the quiz had notes on how it worked and the evaluation process behind it.

I can see some issue with it conflating certain terms and interpretations that probably shouldn't have been.

Also the questions have a weird balance of serious and over the top.

Nonetheless it's a super impressive effort. I do like that the creator actually went through pokedex entries to look for commonalities. there's a lot if love put in this.

[fickle thicket]

im better at swords than u btw

i know more about them and the swords find me more attractive

[runic umbra]

that's wonderful. very inspirational.

[fickle thicket]

guess you were right

[runic umbra]

yeah because I'm more humble than you

[fickle thicket]

I'm the humblest actually, it's me

No one is humbler

[runic umbra]

oh now it's on buckaroo

[languid lichen]

always feels good

[pliant violet]

my beautiful boy

[languid lichen]

my beautiful boy reigns supreme

[pliant violet]

you killed mine

[languid lichen]

yours is brought low, down in the dirt by the dirt

succumb to the desert

[pliant violet]

pharaoh's curse etc etc

[trail bridge]

https://tenor.com/view/the-curse-of-true-true-morgan-freeman-true-the-curse-of-the-pharaoh-curse-of-ra-gif-7057681482643732938

[azure crane]

https://dewtacular.tumblr.com/post/64748726983/jawsome

A Dewtacular Experience

JAWSOME.

-# #gardevoir #pokemon #pokemon x and y #pokemon xy #tyrantrum #strong jaws #pokemon battle #comic #funny #kalos #Hoenn

Tumblr · Oct 22, 2013, 4:17 AM

[arctic dagger]

LMAO

[runic umbra]

fear

[karmic imp]

No ratata

[round perch]

https://youtu.be/JaKy4b-6Esc?si=PGKF9Pzeqqdv6071

[round perch]

I wish Golem didn't lost the extra arms.

[runic umbra]

yes

I don't even mind the lizard head that much

[fickle thicket]

I strongly suspect it's a blastoise situation

[snow cobalt]

https://bsky.app/profile/wascie.bsky.social/post/3mebresp3tk2x

Ms. Washywishes (@wascie.bsky.social)

-# ↩ Ms. Washywishes (@wascie.bsky.social)
Flex!!!

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Bluesky · Feb 7, 2026, 3:48 PM

[runic umbra]

the manga's kinda fun ngl. just doing its own thing.

I do like how much of a gremlin Gold is

ten years old and already cheating at billiards

[pliant violet]

when else are you meant to start

[wispy yarrow]

bring trainer skills into the video games, game freak

[runic umbra]

let my ten year old punch god

[wispy yarrow]

yes

or at least let me be better at breeding pokemon in exchange for some other downside

[runic umbra]

what about an equivalent to old fallouts Jinx

[wispy yarrow]

I thought about these a while back honestly

[runic umbra]

everybodys pokémon have a random chance of using explosion in a fight

[wispy yarrow]

Breeder: Faster egg hatching
Catcher: Higher catch rates
Collector: Slightly higher shiny odds
Charmer: Friendship goes up faster
Battler: Increased money from trainer battles
Trainer: Faster EV collection

Stuff like that

[round perch]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJxmSPlzxuY

I would think it was dark electric.

[manic kindle]

yeah a lot of people misunderstand luxray

or rather i guess its sort of a big misunderstanding on like, type-and-color correlations, what a Dark-Type Is, and what Luxray is

[languid lichen]

mmm

one of the things with luxray is that it does not, in fact, fight fair

dark as [evil type] is definitely the majority of what's going on with it, but luxray as a dark type isn't an insane statement

because its big gimmick is hunting with wallhacks

is that enough justification? not really, no

but IDing it off of color and activity isn't an unreasonable thing to do

[round perch]

Like... if we go off aesthetics alone, it looks dark.

The eyes don't help.

[arctic dagger]

Yeah, the eyes look evil as fuck, lmao.

[runic umbra]

wait it's not dark/electric?

[arctic dagger]

No

XD

Pure electric

[runic umbra]

ah, okay, that makes sense

for a second I thought it was only dark

It does learn some dark type moves

maybe that adds to the confusion

[languid lichen]

ehhh, so does literally everything else with teethies

bite/crunch, knock off, or night slash are on like 90% of mons

[sullen mesa]

maybe they didn't want another mightyena in the immediate next gen

idk

[languid lichen]

mightyena isn't ele/dark

[sullen mesa]

i agree luxray's dark coded tho

[languid lichen]

just mono

[sullen mesa]

its not but its dark

[round perch]

I think there are other ways to make it feel more electrical.

Like... a mostly black, big cat with thunder cloud fur is right there.

But I feel it's design leans a little more dark than electric.

[runic umbra]

it's a neat design but it's missing something

[arctic dagger]

Shrug I think it's fine, but like, it's a fine gen4 mid game pokemon. It suffers from that bit of a mixed attacker with neither strong defense nor high speed issue. I think if I were to redesign it, it'd be probably faster and more fragile with a lower special attack, and keep more of the bright blues and yellows from the earlier evolutions instead of quite so much black. More golden mane than black mane.

But at the end of the day, it's no worse than many other pokemon.

[languid lichen]

i don't think dropping its attack makes sense for any of its current design beats, but yes it is just too unoptimized in stat distribution

[arctic dagger]

Oop, sorry, meant special

[languid lichen]

ah

i can agree with that

it really would appreciate the dark typing, but mostly it just needs better bulk, speed, or both

[arctic dagger]

But also like, it's the 4th evolutionary line in the entire sinnoh pokedex, right after the route 1 bird, mammal, and bug.

Mind you, the bird is Staraptor who is AWESOME in power too.

Fast, hits hard, good movepool, intimidate, what's not to love

[languid lichen]

staraptor has been OU, UU, or banished to the shadow realm between for most of its lifespan

[arctic dagger]

Looks cool AF

[languid lichen]

unforchies it's been powercrept by gen 8-9 design, but

[arctic dagger]

Yeah but like

What hasn't

XD

[languid lichen]

it's a cool-ass bird

yeah...

ttar made it back!

no longer oppressed by the infinite donphans

[arctic dagger]

The only pokemon who arenj't powercrept by gen 8-9 are the ones who get fancy new things or just do something that isn't defined almost at all by their stats.

[languid lichen]

or are landorus-therian, whose power is doing everything at once pretty well and also having the hammer of god

shoutouts to the fact that darkrai is OU now

darkrai and deoxys

and greninja is UU

[soft isle]

(Only Deoxys speed it looks like, attack and base are still Ubers)

topple ↩️

[Reply to:](#1160615504562638910 message) darkrai and deoxys

[round perch]

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Bluesky · Feb 10, 2026, 12:03 PM

[timber vale]

I like Oleana a lot

Especially with some stuff from the anime

[sullen mesa]

excellent

[soft isle]

Hm. Well this seems bad.

[sudden spade]

The first two with Ice for picking off ground types is fun/well set up. Moreso than is normal for many gym leaders.

[snow cobalt]

https://bsky.app/profile/phantozone1.bsky.social/post/3menczvb2r226

💿 clo 💿 (@phantozone1.bsky.social)

-# ↩ Lori! (@sqkrushfuture.bsky.social)

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Bluesky · Feb 12, 2026, 6:03 AM

[soft isle]

https://bsky.app/profile/sphealposting.bsky.social/post/3meoq4uryx225

Spheal Posting (@sphealposting.bsky.social)

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Bluesky · Feb 12, 2026, 7:30 PM

[azure crane]

You could probably sweep it with a Lanturn.

[azure crane]

IT'S PIKACHU!

[runic umbra]

omg what a pikachu

[sullen mesa]

who's on the third cover? charizard?

[runic umbra]

it's partially yellow, has big mouse ears and a tail. behold, a pikachu

[red rampart]

\ https://bsky.app/profile/cyndaquilism.bsky.social/post/3mettssxnws2o @obtuse ravine

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Bluesky · Feb 14, 2026, 8:19 PM

[obtuse ravine]

all true!!

being a fireplace cyndaquil sounds so cozy

[umbral hound]

Did you see that one short about an elderly couple with a Slugma helping heat their house? It could rest in the fireplace or there was a whole series of tubes it could go through.

[obtuse ravine]

awwww

i didn't see that but that's adorable

[umbral hound]

I found it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tj-MuKoLTN8

[languid lichen]

would be based if he was

[pliant violet]

Tbh masters ex would

[runic umbra]

and he'd look amazing in it

[snow cobalt]

https://bsky.app/profile/retquits.art/post/3meylb3vrq22r

🌱 MK/RET (@retquits.art)

is this thing on. can anyone hear me

-# 🌱 MK/RET (@retquits.art)
seeing this without glasses on & thinking brock’s in a beautiful dress. Good For Her

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Bluesky · Feb 16, 2026, 5:30 PM

[languid lichen]

hey now, we can and should put boys in dresses too

[sullen mesa]

thank u mk/ret

[languid lichen]

throat chop having real text...

[round perch]

By Shu'la✨ (@Red_brb) on Twitter.com.
"Giving Gen 1 a modern look is difficult because you quickly lose the pkmn's "aura" especially when it comes to iconic pkmn like this, but I'm glad with the result, although there's definitely room for improvement."

[timber vale]

Zinnia from ORAS has so much aura in her design

[sullen mesa]

pikachu has shrunk

[runic umbra]

idunno most of these are losing me

[fickle thicket]

wow that pikachu is extremely gen 6/7, almost uncanny how well it hits the feel

I also like the others, though I'll add that that charizad doesn't look like a modern starter
then again I don't think you could do that and still have it be recognizably charizard

[round perch]

I like the charr on Charizard and but it does feel like a mega. My favorite is Vaporeon.

I kinda like it tho.

[fickle thicket]

I feel like the other two eeveelutions push is a little too far but that vaporeon really nails what it's trying to be

[peak island]

The Flareon and Jolteon redesigns feel more like Mega Evos

Which I think could still work in that context

[runic umbra]

I do like the stormcloud idea for jolteon.

[pliant violet]

if they went with evolutions for the eeveelutions to fill in types a storm cloud jolteon evo for flying electric would be up there for me

[runic umbra]

I like that vaporeon and jolteon are playing around the idea of what "if eeveelutions without the fluffy mane".

The mane has kinda disappeared in subsequent eeveelutions past gen1

I'd love to see what the inverse would look like. later variants with a gen1 type mane

[fickle thicket]

I like it, but it doesn't feel like "jolteon but modern gen" to me

[wispy yarrow]

Man, I'm having some thoughts about FRLG being made as standalone games on the switch

On one hand they're FINALLY doing what folks have asked for for years: Making their old games officially accessible.

On the other, it's twenty of god's own american dollars for the games that are most easy to emulate.

[fickle thicket]

I don't think it's really fair to compare prices to emulation

I do think it's fair to compare prices to the $8 GBA games on Wii U

[soft isle]

tbh we're just disappointed they aren't releasing RSE. FRLG are fine but they aren't exactly the games we're nostalgic for (it doesn't help that it's literally impossible to get an umbreon due to the lack of a clock)

Maybe we'll get lucky and they'll release more games later. :)

[timber vale]

spinda highkey needs to get an evo that adds like 200 to its BST and is like. normal/fighting. and is a drunken fist martial artist type thing

[azure crane]

Castform needs an evo as well.

[versed sand]

I hope we get some nice stuff out of friday's Presents (I have work, alas)

[fickle thicket]

they should give koraidon an evo that's exactly the same except koraidon can use eviolite now

[soft isle]

That's a terrifying thought

[sullen mesa]

lmfao

[peak island]

Split evos for each form?

[fickle thicket]

https://bsky.app/profile/brianpshea.bsky.social/post/3mfoxxvmt5c2u

Brian Shea (@brianpshea.bsky.social)

“Hey boss, are you sure Flamigo is more popular than Charizard, and people aren’t just misspelling ‘Flamingo’ on Google?”

“Don’t be ridiculous. Of course Flamigo is more popular than Charizard, Mewtwo, Eevee, and Snorlax. Send the email.”

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Bluesky · Feb 25, 2026, 3:16 PM

(what's grafaiai doing there)

[pliant violet]

that’s all me

[obtuse ravine]

what is a grafaiai

huh

silly lil guy

[timber vale]

...

suspicious glance.

[soft isle]

…what is flamigo anyway? It just looks like a flamingo but that can’t be it

Rich Greedman ↩️

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[umbral hound]

It's a lawn flamingo. Also its ability is called Costar.

what is grafaiai doing up there though?

[soft isle]

Ahh

Let me just- oh

Bananatron (She/He (Mix it up)) ↩️

[Reply to:](#1160615504562638910 message) what is grafaiai doing up there though?

Okay no that box hasn’t been scalped so that can’t be it

[umbral hound]

Is it like... ruining the meta?

[timber vale]

from what I can tell it's like

not a strong mon

like it's got prankster and technician but there are better users for both iirc

[umbral hound]

That was my impression, but I meant (but did not actually say) in the card game.

[timber vale]

OHHHHHHH

like budew

[manic kindle]

body shape also kinda looks like a boxing glove, esp in motion in the game

[soft isle]

Lawn flamingo boxing glove that looks like it wants to punch you in the face 😌

[pliant violet]

Absolutely true, but have you considered the funny little guy factor

[umbral hound]

I'm pretty sure being a Funny Little Guy is manditory for getting Prankster (unless you evolve from a Funny Little Guy or are Tornadus or Thundurus)

[fickle thicket]

Even if it were I doubt smogon and vgc players would all be googling grafaiai about it

[pliant violet]

I google grafaiai about many things

[umbral hound]

as I should have said but didn't, I meant for the card game.

[fickle thicket]

Stop itttttt

[fickle thicket]

I think the point still stands

[pliant violet]

no

I love him

[runic umbra]

I'm sure they're there for totally normal reasons

[fickle thicket]

They were going to show up eventually. Gardevoir has the most hits out of any Pokémon on any relevant site I could think of.

(surprisingly (to me), Lopunny never even makes top 3 out of the 15 listed here)

[fickle thicket]

here we go

wild first announcement

special trailer to announce pokopia has music in it

why didn't they open with any of this other actually interesting news

[glossy umbra]

New Pokémon generation?

Yup

They just showed the new starters.

YES MY GIRL!

[signal glen]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/561746829264289792/1476948557306265682/Screenshot_20260227_062558_YouTube_ReVanced.jpg?ex=69a2fb08&is=69a1a988&hm=fd72149c2c4182967dfcdda2b623c00b3e6ec48dee1f3b7b38ec715159d26d7d&

[round perch]

It looks pretty!?

[glossy umbra]

My girl returns!

[pliant violet]

water type has me so far

[glossy umbra]

Decent graphics also (finally).

[fickle thicket]

my video feed was kind of blurry so I'll have to watch it in HD later

but could it really look like a game made this decade?

[glossy umbra]

2027 is the release date.

[glossy umbra]

We have the technology

[fickle thicket]

that dog is going to be everywhere this coming week

[glossy umbra]

Congrats to Tobi Fox for finally becoming a Pokémon

[signal glen]

The grass starter makes me think of an Angry Bird.

[fickle thicket]

also I thought that water starter was a fucking ugly salamander but now that I see it again it's a pretty cool gecko

[languid lichen]

i was thinking the exact same thing ngl

[glossy umbra]

But yeah the fire starter is straight up a Pomeranian

[pliant violet]

Water looks like it's gonna say mean things at me /pos

[glossy umbra]

I do hope its evolutions are better, but other than the leaf nose and eyebrows it's rather simplistic?

But yeah as expected the leaks seem to have been accurate on Wind&Waves

[signal glen]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/640252765347512322/1476950215373099100/HCK8N9cWoAA8zyV.png?ex=69a2fc93&is=69a1ab13&hm=505bb9aa5de41b87477953887b55413deb9f52f3d6acad13baacbbe40d211269&

[fickle thicket]

new gen starters have followed a long simplifying trend

[fickle thicket]

boy what the fuck are those

and what's THIS? 👀

[pliant violet]

same thing he's holding

hoverboard

[glossy umbra]

Are those means to be surfboards? I'm guessing probably the switch-equivalent Pokédex maybe, but they look like they could be very small hoverboards.

[pliant violet]

I did not watch the direct, do not correct me

[glossy umbra]

I will say that the design of the town we saw was very pretty.

[snow wren]

Hoverboards used to cross water could be neat

[trail bridge]

oh i like that

[round perch]

...Struggling not to squish tail.

[trail bridge]

its weird but still cute

[fickle thicket]

I refuse to get excited already. Not after the last almost seven years.
If it turns out good I'll find out after it releases.

But what a relief to not already be 100% sure it's another wash

[round perch]

It would be rude!!

[timber vale]

Oh I really like these designs

Also the starter designs are solid

[timber vale]

If the gecko or the pomeranian stand up on two legs I will cry

[fickle thicket]

the gecko will 100%

[fickle thicket]

the bird 90% will

[fickle thicket]

eight billion fanarts incoming

[signal glen]

https://bsky.app/profile/pldhnet.bsky.social/post/3mftwspgljs2i

PLDH (@pldhnet.bsky.social)

Pokémon Winds & Waves will introduce two new special Pikachu: Mr. Windychu and Ms. Wavychu (yes, that's actually their names).

"Just how could these Pikachu be involved in your adventure? Look forward to future announcements."

Bluesky · Feb 27, 2026, 2:38 PM

[glossy umbra]

I wish they tried to push for Pikachu less..

I know why they do it, but please.

[fickle thicket]

you can tell she's a girl because of the lashes and pink cheeks

[glossy umbra]

I thought it was because of the tail

[pliant violet]

ok but what about my guy alolan raichu

[fickle thicket]

normally it would be, and this design would've been better without the lashes and pink cheeks

[fickle thicket]

stuck in alola

[glossy umbra]

I will say that I'm glad these look like they're somewhere between the modern Pikachu and the original.

[fickle thicket]

only these two, the wild pikachu in the trailer was just the modern standard issue

[glossy umbra]

Yeah, but I'll take what I can get

Same with them reminding me of my old fave

[pliant violet]

my favourite pichu is the one in smash with the team skull hat

[fickle thicket]

tem skull you say

[pliant violet]

no?

team

[fickle thicket]

Huh? What was that?

Must've been the wind.

[honest cairn]

I think this is the first dog starter ever which is interesting

[fickle thicket]

first dog but not the first dog-related

[signal glen]

Oh so it looks like the starting outfit is version dependent

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/561746829264289792/1476954384108883989/01-en.png?ex=69a30075&is=69a1aef5&hm=910baafb4e68a012fea7c52a0e75808f4ba74e82307f254bd02f70a21390b820&

[fickle thicket]

...is that a hat with pouches

pouches?!

[snow wren]

Looks like it

[fickle thicket]

game ruined

literally unplayable

[pliant violet]

pockets

[round perch]

PREPARE YOURSELVES!!

NPC designs have hit!!

[fickle thicket]

preordered

[round perch]

Oh wait...

https://tenor.com/view/president-mr-gif-13289764

[runic umbra]

oh dear

[round perch]

These are for Champions.

[fickle thicket]

preorder canceled

[fickle thicket]

champions preordered

[signal glen]

Oh so apparently in Champions Mega Delphox has Levitate.

[runic umbra]

idunno man

granted I do not own a switch 2 anyway

[languid lichen]

...is it just me, or are these kids' proportions a bit off?

[runic umbra]

I'm tryin to think. Is this the first time we've seen a character in pokémon with tattoos?

[round perch]

By Mag (@magdraws) on Twitter.com.

[deft path]

No because we had the Yakuza character in AZ

[fickle thicket]

looks good to me. Maybe because their clothing suggests a bit older

[deft path]

And he has tats

[languid lichen]

hm. i think it might be that plus an exaggeration of the head sizes that i'm no longer used to

[fickle thicket]

gen 7 Kiawe before that

trying to think of anyone earlier...

all I can find is ya boy Guzma in the same games

[fickle thicket]

unless there's an NPC trainer class with tattoos

[arctic dagger]

The Pomeranian is killing me

Regarding the region: it's tropical and lots of islands, do we know if it's Caribbean or Indo?

[timber vale]

I'M ENDING IT ALL NO EXPANDING FORCE SPAM

[signal glen]

Leaks awhile ago I think said Indo?

[versed sand]

The dog is so friend-shaped

Good pupper

[signal glen]

https://bsky.app/profile/serebii.bsky.social/post/3mfuainbwds2t

Serebii.net (@serebii.bsky.social)

Serebii Update: It is confirmed that you get the Mystic Ticket and Aurora Ticket in Pokemon FireRed & LeafGreen after entering the Hall of Fame on Nintendo Switch www.serebii.net/index2.shtml

Bluesky · Feb 27, 2026, 5:31 PM

[deft path]

indo/filipino, has mangroves and the other starter is a local gecko to the region

[arctic dagger]

Nice.

I didn't actually watch the vid so I didn't know about the mangroves

[soft isle]

They’re so CUTE!!!

Leogon255 ↩️

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[versed sand]

Nice

[snow wren]

So;dark or poison?

[arctic dagger]

Dark, they're running Incineroar

Really clearly

IMO

We got our... Huh, woulda said normal, but the 3rd lady is clearly normal, maybe flying?? Cowlady, Dark Wrestler w/ Incineroar, Normal Lady w/ Tandemous, Electric Diva

Can anyone tell what the cowlady's tattoos are?

To me I'm reading cloud motifs with the hat and boots

Which is what makes me think Flying

But she has a Bouffalo belt which is clearly Normal

Maybe they're duo-type trainers?

Normal/Flying, Poison/Dark, Normal/Fairy, Electric/???

[snow wren]

Knew pom reminded me of something but couldn’t but my finger on it

Where are we getting npc info?

[round perch]

They're from Champions.

[azure crane]

Welcome back, Pombomb Cassette Beasts.

[round perch]

Are Pomeranian connected to any particular islands?

[snow wren]

No they’re European

[sullen mesa]

https://bsky.app/profile/byttenstudio.bsky.social/post/3mftwgxrzdc2a

lmfao

(cassette beast dev post about this reveal)

[obtuse ravine]

oh my god

[karmic imp]

https://bsky.app/profile/wanderjegson.bsky.social/post/3mftz3stiec2n

[pliant violet]

dark and fighting, gotta run incin and hawlucha

[versed sand]

Doing a Fire Red run with Bulba. Hoping to get a team raised up to transfer to Home.

[languid lichen]

lol

[worldly plume]

They gave them a tourist tan

[snow cobalt]

https://bsky.app/profile/retquits.art/post/3mfubdu4rm22j

🌱 MK/RET (@retquits.art)

multiple friends have expressed to me how much they don't want pombon to become bipedal

so i propose to you: pombonbonbonbonbonbonbon

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Bluesky · Feb 27, 2026, 5:47 PM

[bright cargo]

Unironically yes, please

Yappy fire Falcor would be sick

[arctic dagger]

That would be so fucking funny

[signal glen]

Ah the Dunsparce treatment

[round perch]

Someone had another thought based in SE mythology.

[sullen mesa]

pombon turning dragon type would be real interesting

[pliant violet]

they all become dragons

[pliant violet]

yes

[languid lichen]

sorry, this question doesn't allow a syncretist answer

you have to pick your doctrine

and defend it to the death

[trail bridge]

wait why is Rhydon there 🤔

[pliant violet]

first designed pokemon

[trail bridge]

ohhhhh

[runic umbra]

https://youtube.com/shorts/mBFOky5PEPc?si=Wz1BbfvzPqvNYLvr

I don't do a lot of shorts but I kinda like this guys takes (even when they're wrong).

but what I actually want to talk about is the designs of team magma in the Gen3 remake.

What the hell's up with all the corduroy on their uniform. It's kind of upsetting to look at.

It's not so bad on the grunts but it gets kind of absurd later on

with the lieutenants and the head honcho

I hate the way the different layers are connected here. Like, is he wearing a corduroy onesie under a shirt? Is the corduroy on his ...boots part of the outside or his socks?

[worldly plume]

I like his takes i followed him after his ff7 char design dive

[runic umbra]

I think he's backing up his stances well when it comes to design

[trail bridge]

i do like his design takes

[runic umbra]

you didn't need to post that and yet you did

[versed sand]

Goddamn, I forgot how brutal it is to travel in FRLG early on without running shoes

[manic kindle]

You do get them within the first hour or so at least

[signal glen]

https://bsky.app/profile/mrcheeze.github.io/post/3mfyxeisisc2q

MrCheeze (@mrcheeze.github.io)

-# ↩ MrCheeze (@mrcheeze.github.io)
The bug where roaming Pokemon using Roar deactivates them permanently, was patched. (The bug where they have poor IVs remains.)

The official bugfix was implemented differently from the community bugfix, and by comparing them, a new bug was found:

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Bluesky · Mar 1, 2026, 2:31 PM

[obtuse ravine]

[manic kindle]

oooh interesting

one of my favorite weird famous-y pokemon bugs

[soft isle]

The low IVs make it easier to grab 0 attack IV special attackers at least

Leogon255 ↩️

[Reply to:](#1160615504562638910 message) https://bsky.app/profile/mrcheeze.github.io/post/3mfyxeisisc2q 📎

[karmic imp]

https://open-sketchbook.tumblr.com/post/809943863551754240

Sesquipedalian Today

🔁 foone

mousegirlheart

if they dont announce za home compatibility tonight im going to end up on the news

mousegirlheart

Tumblr · Mar 2, 2026, 3:37 AM

[fickle thicket]

Love that people are going all in one this as if last generation didn't have the iconic Spanish cat, duck and crocodile.

[fickle thicket]

Those are his matching thigh highs

[worldly plume]

Maxie wants the absolute territory of the land

[pliant violet]

I mean they definitely made more sense in the later stages

[fickle thicket]

world famous hawaiian archer, siren, and wrestling heel

[pliant violet]

the owl is based on an extinct hawaiian owl

[fickle thicket]

my point is that a lot of eggs are being put into a basket that isn't very consistent

[pliant violet]

true enough

[manic kindle]

its part of the fun

we love to have fun guessing and theorizing and reading all the little lines between things

i would love to invite you into the fun space for fun

[pliant violet]

I also think it's not necessarily the things you expect that are where the regional inspiration comes from

like, would not have expected bond films for sobble

[fickle thicket]

with every single new gen, I've seen people claim this and then get mad when their predictions didn't come true

at least every that I've been aware of

maybe this never happened before gen 5

[pliant violet]

people will get mad for any reason, if they want to get mad

[manic kindle]

i just ignore mad people

Not worth my time

the exciting thing for now is seeing all the theories, the artist-drawn evolutions, all those goodies

[karmic imp]

Pokémon library of ruina edit
https://pokemoncoloursplash.tumblr.com/post/661790794705960960/presenting-magical-girls

Fun With Colours - BLM

Presenting: Magical Girls!

-# #pokemon #pokemon edit #trainer edit #decima edit #lobotomy corporation #library of ruina #project moon #knight of despair #queen of hatred #king of greed #servant of wrath #lillie #olivia #whitney #rosa

Tumblr · Sep 8, 2021, 8:28 PM

[soft isle]

Genuinely cannot tell who the knight of despair is supposed to be

[languid lichen]

i don't know who the Queen of Hatred is supposed to be either, she just looks like the Queen of Hatred

[signal glen]

Well the post lists Lillie, Olivia, Whitney, and Rosa in hashtags

So I think the blue one is Lillie, yellow is Olivia, pink is Rosa, and green is Whitney

Ok yeah the pink one is 100% Rosa

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/640252765347512322/1478472307365249087/SmartSelect_20260303_141331_DraStic.jpg?ex=69a88622&is=69a734a2&hm=27615e6295773be0d6ad58bfd3700fef062080d714a22cad976762da5c835a98&=&format=webp&width=822&height=621

[bright cargo]

Really enjoying my first run at Radical Red. It's actually difficult! Brock was a beast!

Fun to explore the sheer profusion of options with NatDex right out the gate

[pliant violet]

kowalski, report

[fickle thicket]

252+ SpA Piplup Bubble vs. 0 HP / 0- SpD 0 IVs Pyroar: 170-204 (54.3 - 65.1%) -- guaranteed 2HKO

[pliant violet]

should've said litleo for the little cup reference

[fickle thicket]

252+ SpA Piplup Bubble vs. 0 HP / 0- SpD 0 IVs Litleo: 206-246 (77.7 - 92.8%) -- guaranteed 2HKO

[pliant violet]

ty

[signal glen]

||https://bsky.app/profile/joemerrick.bsky.social/post/3mgaqjokm322n|| Pokopia stuff, putting it in spoilers just in case.

Joe Merrick (@joemerrick.bsky.social)

Ok I'm sorry, I am breaking my spoiler policy a little here but the connotations warrant it

Stereo Rotom (DJ Rotom) is Electric/Normal-type.

Why would they do such a thing if not for the future?

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Bluesky · Mar 4, 2026, 4:50 PM

[fickle thicket]

I wouldn't bet money on it. Spinoff variants and mechanics tend to stay in spinoffs.

[languid lichen]

not usually, tbh

we got melmetal from Let's Go out into main, even

[pliant violet]

dark lugia is the big one that didn't make the leap

[languid lichen]

i wouldn't be surprised to see dj rotom accessible somewhere with fucking boomburst

shadow lugia's the big exception, yeah

[pliant violet]

the rotom forms are really lame, they get what, a new type and one move for that type?

[pliant violet]

and it was early

[languid lichen]

yeah, their secondary type goes from ghost to [new] and they get one move

hydro pump/blizzard/leaf storm/overheat/air slash

[pliant violet]

honk shoo mimimi tbh

[languid lichen]

i mean, it's just supposed to be rotom

with a special move altered

the alt forms also give it like 100 extra bst though

[pliant violet]

oh that I did not know

still think they're lame

but explains why they're so much better than base, almost as a rule

do they get a new ability too or did I hallucinate that

[languid lichen]

no, they all still have levitate

they're not meant to be "new" mons

[pliant violet]

levitate is a good ass ability

[languid lichen]

just like

here's your rotom

here's it when it's safe and happy in its glock-19

with one extra move to represent what it gets

it's a pretty wild bst buff though

[pliant violet]

100 is a lot

[languid lichen]

normal rotom is 440 bst

[pliant violet]

that's a whole ass mega

[languid lichen]

when it's in its gubbins it gets +30 def, +30 spdef, +15 atk, +10 spatk, and -5 speed

so uh 80, not 100

[pliant violet]

still a lot

[languid lichen]

ye

[azure crane]

Electric/Steel with Flash Cannon?

[languid lichen]

hmm

steel beam

it would be worse, but funnier

[azure crane]

Guns don't shoot beams.

Also, why are there so few special Steel attacks?

[languid lichen]

not really their wheelhouse, mostly

same with the low rate of special rock and ground moves

[azure crane]

At least Ground gets Earth Power.

[languid lichen]

well yeah

flash cannon, power gem, earth power

the One Good Move of their type in special

steel also used to have mirror shot, but that got beaned with gen 8

and ground just got scorching sands

[azure crane]

Man, I wish Play Rough had 100% accuracy.

[languid lichen]

i wish accuracy wasn't a mechanic

and they just did something better

but yeah, same

90% is mad tilting

[arctic dagger]

Mmm.

I think there's stuff like Sleep that needs accuracy

But also like, maybe that means it shouldn't exist as a mechanic.

XD

[languid lichen]

i liked temtem's balance on that

stronger moves had a charge mechanic where they'd need to be out in battle for x turns to use em, resetting

sleep moves basically universally had that or low prio + massive stamina costs (stamina also helping with move spam), topped off by sleep popping on damage taken and providing a turn of a Can't Fall Asleep status when it does

everything being deterministic was just so much fucking nicer to play with

[arctic dagger]

Low prio would help a lot

[languid lichen]

ye

[arctic dagger]

That's basically the reasoning on why almost no one who isn't super low speed gets Spore access

Which mostly works out

[languid lichen]

they cheated with toedscruel

who has 100 speed but always moves last with status

[azure crane]

At least it ignores stuff like Good as Gold :V

[snow cobalt]

https://bsky.app/profile/narfnra.bsky.social/post/3mgeccw4x222l

Narfran Collation 616-737 "Galgagim" Spite Accumulation Form (@narfnra.bsky.social)

got reminded of diglett and so had to find my diglett theory

Bluesky · Mar 6, 2026, 2:47 AM

[sullen mesa]

mole

fakemon that's just diglett out of its hole

[snow cobalt]

digging out of my hole
and i'm doing just fine

[runic umbra]

honestly? don't like it.

the evolution's rad tho

[spring hedge]

gotta, gotta dig down because i want it all

[fickle thicket]

Unova does have a few lines that I feel like could have one or two stages trimmed off

Shoutout to Kling line the second worst evolution line in the series

[languid lichen]

i am god's only klinklang enjoyer

i do not, however, respect klink (the first stage) klang (the middle stage), or its name

[runic umbra]

howdareyou I love klinklang

Also a great evolution line, working on the same logic as magnemite

[languid lichen]

i think klinklang's design is neat, but the name sucks, and the prevos are exactly as sinful as magnemite/magneton

they're just...boring

it's Machinery With An Eye

but magnezone and klinklang do something with that

[runic umbra]

Hard disagree. I love the magnemite/magneton evo for its simplicity. magneton being three magnemites stuck together is funny and cute and magnezone (while looking cool) drops the ball by not pushing the concept further

klinks evolution building on itself is equally fun.

[deft path]

because normal is already the sound type

[arctic dagger]

What? I think they meant that it's in that game so it'll probably be in gen10, not questioning why it was normal type

[spare wing]

(Thought of this while considering selling my copy of Explorers of Sky to afford a tumble dryer)

[fickle thicket]

when I say "worst evolutionary line", I mean as a whole

there's much worse designs than kling, klang, or klingklang in a vacuum

pawmi, pawmo and pawmot don't look that bad on their own either

[languid lichen]

oh god

fucking pawmi line

[fickle thicket]

but combine them and you get the worst to ever do it

[languid lichen]

i need to push them in a locker and hurl it into the sun

why are the first two evos literally the same thing twice

it's not even similar like the fucking gear bozoids

it's just the same fuckass creature

whymst

[fickle thicket]

they're slightly different

aside from pawmo being desaturated

[languid lichen]

it's like. 5% bigger and a slightly darker shade of yellow

[fickle thicket]

lighter shade of orange

pawmo has larger arms

[pliant violet]

literally just remove the middle evo and that line is excellent is my take

[fickle thicket]

honestly, pawmo with pawmi colours would've made a perfectly good regional electric mouse

[pliant violet]

top tier pikachu clone

[fickle thicket]

no, no, the other two

[pliant violet]

bad take

I think it was good it was a 3 evo line, if they differentiated them more

[fickle thicket]

but they didn't

with the designs as we have them, I think re-saturated Pawmo would be the best option

[pliant violet]

I like the third stage

[arctic dagger]

I like the third stage too

It's actually my favorite pikaclone

Maybe unless you count mimikyu

But I feel since mimikyu isn't electric type it doesn't really count

[languid lichen]

it's the region's clone

[pliant violet]

nope that's togedemaru

[languid lichen]

togedemaru isn't real, can't hurt me, and isn't as cool

[pliant violet]

but I am right

[timber vale]

Mimikyu gets to be something other than a pikaclone

[azure crane]

Pachirisu, Emolga, Dedenne, and Togedemaru need to get evolutions.

Morpeko needs to go into a tumble dryer.

Plusle and Minun need to "evolve" into Plusle&Minun, which is literally just both of them.

[pliant violet]

tandemaus would like a word

[arctic dagger]

Tandemaus is great but isn't a pikaclone?

[wispy yarrow]

Plusle and Minun evolve into Aysee and Deesee

[sullen mesa]

already done (joking joking, coromon)

[fickle thicket]

Fuck it Pichu evolves into all of them

This solves no problems and creates more but I'm going to act like it's a solution anyway

Problem solved

[languid lichen]

I'm firmly ambivalent toward most of these, but i would like an emolga evo...

[obtuse ravine]

https://bsky.app/profile/caffeinerabbit.bsky.social/post/3mgh33qkhsc24

Espresso (@caffeinerabbit.bsky.social)

Happy Buneary Day 2026!

#art #pokemon #buneary #pmd #pokemonmysterydungeon #benji #ミミロルの日

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Bluesky · Mar 7, 2026, 5:15 AM

[azure crane]

https://www.fxfuraffinity.net/view/53435299/

[snow wren]

pokopia has some concerning lore implications huh

[azure crane]

There was a conversation with a Paras that was heartbreaking.

[worldly plume]

Wait whats going on in pokopia

I hear its post apoc??

[manic kindle]

yeah

its post apoc, humanity-leaving-the-planet, rebuilding after an environmental collapse kind of thing

[languid lichen]

oh wow

[sullen mesa]

i think the bit about humans is a spoiler

at the very least, i haven't gotten to that point yet

[torpid pivot]

They at least mention they arent around early but idk details

Also trying not to spend 70 dollars on it but bluhhhh

[snow wren]

Maybe the Pokémon killed them all
Charmander knows what it did

[sullen mesa]

i applaud gamefreak for not making charmander capable of doing everything

i know it took a lot of courage

[wild prairie]

A friend playing the FRLG port convinced me to dust off my old cartridge copy and man I had forgotten how janky the level curve could be in that era

[manic kindle]

There is an expectation to hit all your normal optional trainers, but also youre 'meant' to be a little underleveled into the late-game since you get badge boosts and better item use.

[snow cobalt]

https://bsky.app/profile/sinnohsterling.bsky.social/post/3mgn5l2dvqk2g

Sterling (@sinnohsterling.bsky.social)

Good morning

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Bluesky · Mar 9, 2026, 3:16 PM

[peak island]

Wb for Zoroark?

[sullen mesa]

legtails are such an odd design to me

just stick to one or the other lol

[arctic dagger]

They uh, want the V-shape but want to keep the tail. XD

It's lewd-optimization.

[sullen mesa]

my herpetology brain is screaming

[umbral hound]

There is, to my knowledge, only one animal with a tail and a visible pelvis/hips like that, and it is the manatee.

[pliant violet]

champions drops for the switch next month

[arctic dagger]

o.o

[pliant violet]

do not know what date, just remembered it was coming out this year so I searched when

and apparently it's april for the switch

[arctic dagger]

I am extremely cautiously extremely excited.

[pliant violet]

yes

[obtuse ravine]

👁️

do you slap a team together and battle

[pliant violet]

I'm more keen for mobile release which is later this year

[obtuse ravine]

in that game

[snow cobalt]

https://bsky.app/profile/likelylikey.bsky.social/post/3mgzscdflgs2k

Likey (@likelylikey.bsky.social)

I like ponchos

#OC

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Bluesky · Mar 14, 2026, 3:59 PM

[pliant violet]

ye, it's a game purely for the competitive battling side of pokemon

[obtuse ravine]

[arctic dagger]

I hope it's that anyway.

I think we're uh, not super aware exactly what it will be

But it's definitely SOLD as "Slap a team together and fight"

We'll see how much Nintendo/Pokemon Company actually holds to that concept.

[arctic dagger]

So Platinum Kaizo exists now, and it appears to have "Attract" work on any gender. Which the community is referring to as "Woke Attract" which I think is really funny.

[manic kindle]

Does it work on the genderless mons

[arctic dagger]

I think it works on everyone

[manic kindle]

Hell yeah super woke

[manic kindle]

curious what new hells await in Plat Kaizo... i dont know if i have the soul power to try a brutal mod for a while after trying run&bun

[fickle thicket]

the silliest thing about the fucking expensive kanto starter lego set is that it really is three sets

you already build the base in three pieces

with minimal alteration, they could be three separate sets

[languid lichen]

riveting gameplay

[earnest nacelle]

What tier is this?

[restive gyro]

https://tenor.com/view/armaldo-pokémon-armaldo-anorith-pooemon-anorith-fossil-gif-26752742

[runic umbra]

anorith is perfect

[round perch]

https://bsky.app/profile/rhymewithray.bsky.social/post/3mheinycfac25

Ray₍ᐢ.‸.ᐢ₎ (@rhymewithray.bsky.social)

🐿️🍳 Chef Dente is COOKING 🔥🔥🔥

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Bluesky · Mar 18, 2026, 10:05 PM

[soft isle]

That's a very cool design for a chef Greedent! Love the pot as a pesudo chef's hat and using their tail to hold everything 😌

...oh and the girl is hot too I guess

[timber vale]

Pokebilities AAA is fun

But I wish there was like

Pokebilities AAA Ubers or something

AAA ubers in general

Cuz I know for a fact Water Bubble Ogerpon Wellspring wouldn't be strong enough to work in Balanced Hackmons, too easily cheesed

But it'd be a fucking menace everywhere else

[languid lichen]

in my experience, triple cross mashups are the point where they start getting too unbalanced to be consistently fun

esp. since the problem with any AAA mashup where water bubble is free is that it necessarily means the banlist is gone, i.e. wonder guard, huge power, orichalcum pulse, imposter chansey, etc. are present

[arctic dagger]

Well, no. You could start a format like that if you wanted to. There's ntohing stopping you. The hard part is getting people to play it.

[timber vale]

Why does tornadus therian not get brave bird

[azure crane]

Because changing forms doesn't change its moves.

[timber vale]

Yeah fair enough

[fickle thicket]

Why does tornadus not get brave bird

[snow cobalt]

not a bird

[pliant violet]

not brave

[manic kindle]

Not storm related

[timber vale]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwA6QLA6NzQ

[round perch]

https://www.tumblr.com/superiordutchsauce/794709778668617729/nidora-batch?source=share

Special Summon

Nidora batch.

-# #pokemon #beequeen #primeape #clodsire

Tumblr · Sep 14, 2025, 11:58 PM

[pliant violet]

I do hate lando-t

[obtuse ravine]

😭

[arctic dagger]

The lando memes are always a bit funny to me

I stopped playing before Gen7 and I always remembered it as being a good but not super impressive ou Pokemon

I always favored the more defensive options like hippowdon and gliscor for similar roles

[pliant violet]

Gliscor is one that even now is like on the cusp of an idea

[arctic dagger]

Yeah I'd be surprised if hippowdon had aged gracefully but gliscor is just great defensive typing, immune to status, and heals like crazy

Yeah still ou ranked

Damn hippowdon still in uu

Kinda impressive TBH

[pliant violet]

kinda necessary for sand teams

[pliant violet]

even in doubles there's an idea with gliscor, even though the format largely is not kinda to stalling defensive tools

[arctic dagger]

I mean the nice thing about Pokemon like gliscor is they can always just hit eq

Which can only be so bad

[pliant violet]

true!

[languid lichen]

it also has other glue traits in access to knock off, defog, and rocks with all of those other advantages

and hippo is relevant because it has huge phys bulk and recovery

it's crept its way back next to great tusk and iron treads because those mfs can't heal

and die to a couple other big things that matter

[earnest nacelle]

I thought Landorus-T usually ran Rocky Helmet sets

[arctic dagger]

It can run a lot of stuff

Choice is particularly good as a counterpick to certain things IIRC

[near flower]

just acquired perhaps the most insane thing ever
massive, absolutely huge totodile plush from the shibuya pokecenter

the craziest part? it was only 8k yen which is around 50-60 dollars US
greatest purchase of my life and the only problem is figuring out how im gonna get it back home

[arctic dagger]

Iirc shipment by boat is usually the cheapest for volume if you're willing to wait a bit

[fickle thicket]

Wasn't lando T at its most oppressive in gen 6?

[torpid pivot]

It was popular and strong enough to make me bored of the line forever

Every team had one

[fickle thicket]

I'm remembering it wrong

It's gens 7 and 8 yeah

Not just 50-60% smogon usage, but the #2 most used is always around 30% in those same periods

[pliant violet]

left out the rest of the appletun line

[trail bridge]

they wouldnt fit 😔

[snow wren]

That might be a bit difficult depending on where they live given current events

Poor torterra; love that Pokémon but it’s not the greatest

Shame ice is so weak too; I like ice thematically

[runic umbra]

it's the greatest starter in my heart

[arctic dagger]

Ice is a fantastic move to have for coverage

You just mostly don't want to be ice type itself

😄

[timber vale]

unless it's a fast sweeper

[snow wren]

Yeah ice is such a messy type

And paradoxically one of the reason water is so good because they all get ice beam; and the excellent defensive typing while also having a counter to one of their few weaknesses

And since most ice types are the sort of large fatty animals that comprise a good chunk of artic animals, they get the worst stat line for the typing

[winged elbow]

i often wish ice was better defensively
also yay cloud birb :D

[obsidian stump]

Is it time for me to get back on my "ice should resist dragon and fairy (and be strong against fairy)" soapbox

[quaint hollow]

At least ice did get buffs in sv

With removal of hail and addition of snow

[pliant violet]

that was legends arceus, wasn't it

[soft isle]

https://www.reddit.com/r/NintendoSwitch/comments/1s2eldu/pokémon_champions_releases_april_8/

[pliant violet]

soon

[timber vale]

"Dragonize"

...didn't have anything more interesting? Nothing?

[torpid pivot]

I mean i had the same thought about the Form itself so this tracks

[sudden spade]

...I wonder if mega sol lets partners use sunny moves too

Of if it's just personal

Still most interesting ability there

Time for Solar Beam

[soft isle]

Mega Sol doesn't sound terribly useful. Yeah it's great for Solar Beam, but what other moves does Meganium get that benefit from Sunny Day?

[manic kindle]

Weather Ball is always Fire now, Synthesis always heal+, off the top of my head

[timber vale]

Growth always does 2 stage stat boosts instead of 1 stage

[soft isle]

Oh right Meganium gets Synthesis. We somehow completely forgot that

[manic kindle]

Meganium does not get Growth, sadly

at least as of rn

[timber vale]

Damn.

[manic kindle]

but always having fire Weather Ball is really nice for coverage

[timber vale]

Mhm

Steel, ice, bug, other grass types

[manic kindle]

Solar Beam / Weather Ball / Synthesis / Dazzling Gleam is a basic 3-attack set that now just Works

[arctic dagger]

That's pretty good coverage and utility yeah

I think it's probably not enough to make it good but it's probably enough to make it playable

And good was always gonna be a stretch

[umbral hound]

I wonder what happens if Mega Meganium is in weather other than sun and how that interacts.

[snow wren]

hope torterra gets a mega with solid rock one day

[arctic dagger]

I would guess it just doesn't care what weather it is in.

It Is Always In The Sun

[umbral hound]

If it uses Weather Ball in the rain, will it be a fire-type move whose damage is then reduced by the rain?

[arctic dagger]

That sounds like what should happen, yeah.

Meganium thinks it's in sunlight using the fire move, the move then effects an enemy who is in rain, doing less damage

[umbral hound]

Does it have any of the effects of sunlight, or do its moves just act like it’s in the sun without the extra effects like stronger fire and weaker water?

[arctic dagger]

"Uses moves as if sunndy day is in effect"

It is not effected by sunny day

So I'd just assume it ONLY changes the effects that Sunny day has on Moves rather than the generic effects that Sunny Day applies

[pliant violet]

trailer also revealed pokemon we didn't know were in champions

also is the cowgirl in the trailer on the recruit icon the first pokemon character with a tattoo?

new rotom form

[languid lichen]

guzma

and plumeria

[pliant violet]

I forget they have those

[languid lichen]

they're surprisingly subtle parts of their outfits

[pliant violet]

I'm plotting a team core that is not good but it is a bunch of pokemon I like with sneasler, hydrapple, and mega kangaskhan

[languid lichen]

you're in luck, those are all broken-strong mons lol

well, not hydrapple

[timber vale]

iirc the tattoos show up in some art and don't in others which if I'm not wrong is actually the tattoos being temporary tattoos rather than permanent ones

[languid lichen]

hydrapple is only pretty strong

[timber vale]

it's a good tank in UU and solid in OU so it's pretty good

[pliant violet]

for doubles, and yeah I know they're strong, mega kang is my fave mega and has historically been grossly busted

[wild prairie]

I'm going to run Mega Alakazam psyspam and no one can stop me

[pliant violet]

the nefarious incin

https://tenor.com/view/incineroar-default-dance-pokemon-fortnite-dance-emote-gif-2545029317203136789

[timber vale]

saddened by mega delphox levitate

[arctic dagger]

Huh, I just assumed... Everything was gonna be in champions, honestly?

[pliant violet]

one thing I'm interested in seeing is how predatory the monetisation will be

[pliant violet]

nah, like so far we've not seen any legendaries for example

[arctic dagger]

Weird.

[pliant violet]

and the pokemon home stuff always has disclaimers saying you can only transfer pokemon from home that're in champions

[obtuse ravine]

they better have cyndaquil there so nobody can use it

☺️

[pliant violet]

we've also only seen pikachu in terms of not fully evolved pokemon

[fickle thicket]

making a game that's built entirely on "hey look it's got all the battle mechanics in one" and then not including the full dex would be the joke of the year

[pliant violet]

I think the idea is curating the formats since, for example, I'm pretty sure megas are the only mechanic in from launch

that was not what the game was built on, to be clear

was always sold to me as "purely competitive pokemon experience"

[fickle thicket]

they've shown teras off too

besides, they've already confirmed that it's all going to be in there

[pliant violet]

I don't remember seeing teras, though that doesn't mean they didn't, and they confirmed with the ring but they didn't confirm they'd all happen at once

I actually hope not everything is in, so we can have a reasonable lower power format

[fickle thicket]

you're acting like those are somehow mutually exclusive

[pliant violet]

I mean yeah by including every pokemon the format will be higher power

[fickle thicket]

such a shame gamefreak hasn't invented options yet

[pliant violet]

I'm opposed to multiple formats since that'll split the player base

[sudden spade]

Reggie speaks out against Little Cup.

[timber vale]

A singular format will alienate more of the playerbase than multiple formats could split them, I think

Like, i dunno if this is just me, but if Showdown didn't have multiple tiers, I don't think I would really do anything with it

The variety is nice. Being able to have a place to use my D tier mons in an actual format is enjoyable for me

[peak island]

Don't some of the Team Aqua admins have tattoos too?

[fickle thicket]

Especially if that singular format is built on a rotating set of mechanics you're not allowed to use

[pliant violet]

I think it's far more permissible in fan run stuff

[fickle thicket]

You'd think so, but no

[manic kindle]

splitting queues is always tricky

[timber vale]

It's not like the different VGC regulations have completely split the community, no? At least not to my knowledge. Some people just prefer some over others, and that's just how it goes. I think having options is less divisive than having only one format regardless

[pliant violet]

they don't happen at the same time

[timber vale]

I mean yeah but some people only play in some regulations and not others aiui, so even if not one to one I think my point still stands

[pliant violet]

also considering the game is going to be used for official tournament play I'm assuming that ranked will tie to the current vgc format

[fickle thicket]

As it never has before

[pliant violet]

if you're refferring to ranked within the games that kinda supports my point, for only having a single format

[fickle thicket]

Yeah only doubles and also singles and also not tied into the current regulation but otherwise it's just like formal competitive

[pliant violet]

regardless, I'm keen to see how champions is when it comes out, very dependent on how predatory it is but also I'm keen for the mobile portion to release

[fickle thicket]

And triple/rotation in the gens that have it

[pliant violet]

oh there's gonna be doubles and singles in champions

[fickle thicket]

And iirc some gens have options for playing at 100 and 50?

[pliant violet]

that much is confirmed, I'm just more concerned about different mon pool formats

[fickle thicket]

If they release the everything game and immediately come out the gate saying "by the way you can't use everything actually. Because we say so." I think that might have some kind of impact on the playerbase maybe

For people who care enough about competitive for these things to really matter, they've already got smogon to do essentially the same but infinitely more and for free

[manic kindle]

they never said it was the everything game?

[fickle thicket]

They absolutely announced all battle mechanics are going to be in there

[pliant violet]

eventually sure but that never was presented as the core focus

atm mechanically the focus is sadly on megas

[fickle thicket]

And I really really think the more casual playerbase won't appreciate being locked out of things because that's how tournaments do it

[manic kindle]

smogon also has its own fair share of problems im happy to avoid

i like playing on Cart and outside of some monetization issues im also hoping for fewer queues and such

good chance to rotate modes and such

[pliant violet]

also if I can be honest, I'm mostly interested for me, as someone looking to get into more competitive stuff

[pliant violet]

yeah or like formats with multiple mechanics or a pool of pokemon that hasn't had a mechanic

[timber vale]

Fair enough yeah

[pliant violet]

lots of cool stuff that they can do

[manic kindle]

mostly worry that people will try going into this hoping this is the 30 format everything game with no problems and bounce off it hard when its not that

[pliant violet]

I'm hoping it starts with something similar to reg h, a post nat dex no legends type format

also off structural issues, does dragonize seem kinda bad to anyone else?

like dragon is not a good offensive type

[languid lichen]

it's a nearly unresisted type

fairy had to be added because dragon was the most powerful offensive type in the game

nearly unresisted STAB extremespeed is fine.

[fickle thicket]

Does Feraligatr even get good normal moves to enjoy the dragon STAB with

[languid lichen]

feraligatr? i thought this was for dragonite

[pliant violet]

rich has more hit on what I meant to say

mega feralifatr

[fickle thicket]

Feralifatr

[languid lichen]

but yes feraligatr gets body slam and double edge

depending on whether it wants to be a stallbreaker or a nuke button

[timber vale]

Nothing ground-breaking but also pixilate hyper voice worked fine and hyper voice has no secondary effects and only 90 bp

[languid lichen]

i don't know whether doubles cares more about the nuke button or not, but

144 bp stab moves are, historically, pretty fucking good

[timber vale]

85 with para chance or 120 with recoil should probably be fine

Oh yeah 1.2 multiplier

[languid lichen]

was 1.3x in gen 6 lmao

had to be nerfed because pixilate hyper voice was broken

and aerilate return

...and aerilate quick attack

mostly aerilate quick attack, but all of it

[timber vale]

The -ate abilities are quite strong yeah

[pliant violet]

I'm trying to think how to complement the core I wanna build, but not knowing what's in the game is making it a little difficult

[languid lichen]

it's kanga, sneasler, hydrapple

you can make a dragon fairy steel core

it's not The Meta anymore, but it'll never be bad

[pliant violet]

that's probably a good idea yeah

[languid lichen]

i imagine that at least every mega and most gen 9 mons will be present

which lets you run like, base scizor or some shit if you want

as an attacker

or corviknight/gholdengo/heatran/kingambit

[pliant violet]

oh I could run the awful string cheese man you're right

[languid lichen]

and then your team is the applejacks men, mkanga as a wallbreaker, and sneasler

[arctic dagger]

Dragonate seems very good to me

[languid lichen]

and you're weak to enemy sneaslers, so you run like

[arctic dagger]

Like at worst you can just use Thrash as Super-Outrage

[languid lichen]

i dunno, great tusk and a psychic type?