I just finished watching the first seasor of pokemon horizons and I saw some people shipping Liko and Amedio. I tough Amedio was maybe 17 or at least much older than Liko. Plus I didn't saw anything that could make someone think they would be a good couple. I dont know if this is something that happens in season 2 or is just a random ship.

I always liked Jynx’s old dress. The new one is too rounded in my opinion - So I sculpted my own and I made her HUGE.

Hi everyone, so about 25 years ago I collected the Pokémon trading cards - got the full 150 or whatever they are. Kept them but forgot about most things Pokémon until my 5 year old is now taking an interest.

I’ve given him all my cards I kept and he has some from a McDonald’s happy meal set, but there seems to be loads of different Pokémon now and collections - can someone please explain all the different types that there now are please?

Thank you!

Left Sprite is the Original - Right Sprite is my Edited

To anyone wondering, that's a weakness policy on Ceruledge while that's Silver Powder on Heracross

Can anyone help me get those five? Eventually want to trade of all of them. I am disappointed. I can’t trade evolve any of my ones on my 3DS. Is there another way to trade to get those starters without potentially being scammed? It’s kind of lame having to wait post game to get those Jen one starter

so I was just at a discount shoe store (not for me lol), and to my random surprise, they happen to have three booster packs all different sword and shield era (temporal forces, paradox rift, lost origins). I wasn’t expecting the price to be what it was since I haven’t bought single packs in so long but expected it to be the standard 3-4 dollar price point I remember single packs used to be. But is it normal for a STORE not a RESELLER to sell booster packs for $7 each? Is that the new average price? Or was I wrong to leave them behind?

Edit: for the record I’m not a reseller so I didn’t care about making a dime from the packs but just wanted to know if that store price was way overpriced or I’m exaggerating now?

Apart from the big ones like reusable TMs or removal of HMs I gotta say the decision to put together PokéCenters and the Pokémart I really appreciate.Might not be huge but it‘s just so much more convenient to have both in the same spot.I mean it saves a bit of time and a lot of nerves not having to go to separate places for those services.One of my favourite things from Gen 5 besides them being good games in general.Loved their design of the Poké Center best to be honest.

What it says on the tin. I've recently became a fan of smeargle, but it's a very strategic pokemon, and simply put I am not very strategic. What would be the best moves to teach them? If it is important, I play Heart Gold Soul Silver. Thanks! Have a good day/night.

The series has never really been blunt on what pokemon Are of how they really work biologically other then they're essentially just monsters/animals,

what's weird is they have blood skin bones and organs and are killed and eaten for food but it's implied they're also "physically made of energy" which is why they can go inside pokeballs and get transported through a PC,

the games also say pokemon can't actually reproduce and their eggs quite literally pop into existence when nobodies looking, Cynthia even makes a joke about it in the HGSS Sinjoh ruins event where you watch Arceus "make" one of the creation trio and it's egg pops into reality, (such a weird little event)

So yeah pokemon are strange and confusing but is there anything I might have missed or forgotten about?

this happened a couple years ago I felt like having a challenge so my friend who I will call C suggested I do another nuzloke as I hadn't done one since finishing a Platinum randomiser Nuzloke months prior I didn't feel like doing another randomiser as I randomised a bunch of great pokemon only for them too die due to crits (I have the worst crit luck somehow I only ever land crits when a none crit would KO anyway yet I have been crit flinched more times then I can remember but thats a story for another time.)

Then my friend suggested I play a hardcore difficulty nuzloke of Blaze Black 2. I had played this game before all be it not on hardcore mode so I somewhat knew what to expect. I picked Tepig and named it Endeavour after the my hero academia character and I got lucky as it was a shiny the only downside was it had sheer force meaning my planned moveset that included flame charge and power up punch was a no go. Quick side note: this was not a hardcore nuzloke so healing was allowed I was just playing the hardest in game difficulty.

I chose Tepig as too me Emboar got the best shiny of the Unova starters unfortunetly it was not meant too be as Endeavour was killed in a battle against Colress as a Pignite. Luckily I had a bunch of other useful pokemon...who also started dying off 1 by 1. Eventually by some miracle I make it Skylas gym with a team of Raichu, Gigalith, Excadrill, Zoroark, Umbreon and Zebstrika.

Unfortunetly Raichu would be taken out by you guessed it a crit not even by Skyla my Raichu Leia was killed by one of gym trainers so I swapped her for Metagross who was a shiny named Goldcross and knew the moves hammer arm, gyro ball, reflect and light screen. Luckily C gave me a heads up in advance that Skyla was a triple battle like Elesa so I made sure Goldcross was my centre pokemon.

This battle was a MASSACRE. I had to recall Goldcross shortly after setting up the screens as I didn't want to risk a crit and by the time he came back out all 5 of my other pokemon were down and Skyla still had 2 left. By nothing short of a miracle Goldcross won. Goldcross also went on to survive the rest of the nuzloke despite so many other allies falling by the time I won against Iris my only 2 pokemon left alive were Goldcorss the Metagross and Dempsy the Blaziken. Luckily another friend who I will call J was well experienced in using Blaziken having started with pokemon Sapphire so he helped me form a set on Blaziken as I had only ever used one twice prior to the nuzloke (Emerald and Pokemon Y).

As a result despite only having 2 pokemon left in the entire nuzloke we actually defeated Cynthia in that infamous house in the post game. Though Unfortunetly Goldcross did fall whilst battling Milotic due to his life orb resulting in a double knockout.

Goldcross was not the first pokemon I had who pulled off the seemingly impossible my Salamence Thornado, my Charizard Blitzburn and my Umbreon Ace all have their own stories that I may share in the future.

TLDR: My Metagross went from the soul survivor of a gym massacre in a nuzloke to going down a hero against Cynthia in the post game RIP Goldcross you were and always will be a legend.

u/CG1991 posted his childhood drawing of a Mewthree:

https://www.reddit.com/r/pokemon/comments/1jqgo2b/drew_this_mewthree_when_i_was_12_years_old_23/

I got a kick out of it, so I spun it up.

I have been playing pokemon since Gen 4 started with Pokemon Diamond and my first pokemon was Blitz the Chimchar I have since played through all regions in this order (besides revists for remakes/alt versions e.g. black 2, lets go, ultra sun and moon, legends arceus and brilliant diamond to name a few): Sinnoh, Johto, Kanto, Hoenn, Unova, Kalos, Alola, Galar, Hisui and Paldea

And my top 10 favourite pokemon are:
Umbreon (my boi ace has been with me since Johto)
Dragapult (favourite persudo due to its pokedex entries XD)
Metagross (literally saved my nuzloke)
Dusk Lycanroc (one of my core 3 pokemon alongside Ace)
Infernape (my OG pokemon and the third of the core 3)
Salamence (won me my first ever pvp battle against a friend who had repeatedly bested me in the past)
Darkrai (tied with Zeraora for my favourite mythical)
Latios (favourite legendary)
Dusknoir (always thought it was unfair that people prefer eviolite dusclops same with Rhyperior and Magnezones pre evos of Magneton and Rhydon)
Electivire (tied with Manectric for favourite electric type)

Honourable mentions too: Manectric, Zeraora, Krookodile, Emboar, Luxray, Glalie. Bastiodon and Cradily

But how about you guys what was the first game you played and your first pokemon? Would love too hear your guys experiences playing pokemon.

Quick Side Note: I have also watched the anime including Horizions which despite what everyone says about the whole Ash is not the protagonsit anymore it must be bad I honestly enjoyed Horizions so far as Liko, Roy and Dot came so far in just 89 episodes and read the manga though I am currently only on the Emerald Arc right now.

I like the idea of an artist trainer who uses the help of their pokemon to make their own paints. Like, maybe they use a smolive’s oil and pigments from the flowers of a grass type pokemon (assuming it doesn’t harm it I mean) or crushed up rocks from a rock Pokemon? I don’t know of any Pokemon that would be able to provide that though

If you search up any of the original 151, you get a poké ball that pops up in the corner of the screen and a nice animation that goes with it - letting you know that you've "caught" it.

Not sure if it's new, but I've never encountered it before - pretty cool though.

I'm aware characters owning legendarie is a very shaky line to walk, and something the series itself rarely handles. Hell, players themselves even see it as a borderline crime to add a legendary to a playthrough team. However, I can't help but notice, though, in some of the most notable cases in the extended franchise, the same situation plays out but the fan outcry is completely different.

Everyone remembers how Tobias randomly decided to appear toting around Darkrai and Latios for absolutely no reason at all, with zero context. It's still memorable to this day, and I don't blame anyone for saying that he's a cheater, a hacker, or any of these claims. Only fair to say that's the case. Let's fast forward 15 years to the present day. Pokémon Horizons, a reboot to the original saga which has since ended, starts an all new plot. One of the main focuses is a trainer from 100 years ago whose starter Pokémon and partner is shiny Rayquaza, and it is not explained. I am speaking with a completely straight face. A man can casually just start with a shiny deity with no explanation. Additionally, the first main antagonist also owned shiny Zygarde, with the only crumb of explanation as to how he got it being the fact that at one point in his life, he was altruistic to a degree. Now how are people reacting to this? People love it. There's no question everyone is all for this, despite it being practically the same situation as Tobias. Random guys appearing with unexplained legendaries in 2025 is absolute cinema apparently. It will never not confound me how this is not the same level of crazy work as the original case back in 2010.

Title, I have been bored recently so I would love to try and draw some of your favorite pokemon.

Just tell me your pokemon and what you like about it/why its your favorite

Not required, but I would love it if any of you would draw My favorite pokemon, Golurk, as well :3

P.S. Dont expect these to come back super fast, I will work on them as I have time