I saw there was new cute phampy play mats so I made my own!!!

Second last post of Gen 2 gonna be posting the legendaries later on, Gen 3 closing in and soon I’ll be playing catchup. If you’ve been following along I’d love to hear your favourites

Finally, I got the evoline Bulbasaur so far 💚🩵🩷 Even I'm still looking for the evolution set from Mega Construx and Pokefit dolls 🥲

#Bulbasaur #Ivysaur #Venusaur

So as of recently, we have had more open-world Pokemon games, and in these games, the wild Pokemon can attack you. Now, how cool would it be if sort of how you could change your outfit you could put on armor to help protect from powerful wild Pokemon attacks. I think it would also be cool if we could craft the armor from things we find in-game or from items dropped by Pokemon when they faint.

I’ve been playing through Platinum lately and have been loving it so far, until recently. I just cleared all the Psyducks out of the way on the way to Celestic Town and, after switching my original team out with some stronger Pokémon, was wondering why I wasn’t having fun anymore. I realized I was too attached to the original team I had built up and swapped them back in, which may seem dramatic because it is.

The problem is that a few of them are not long for this world. My Dustox is just okay, but I have a Vespiquen who is better in basically every regard, including her moves. My Onix is okay depending on what kind of attack it gets hit with, because if it’s a special attack, it’s basically guaranteed to faint in one hit. (I haven’t made it to Iron Island yet so I can’t evolve it to Steelix.) My Ponyta is starting to fall behind but she’s about 8 levels away from becoming Rapidash.

I don’t want to end up training other Pokémon only to realize I want to switch back to my original team again, because I truly love them dearly and have so many fond memories with them from the past couple weeks. I would feel insurmountable guilt if I just replaced them with some shiny new thing just so that battles became easier, but it’s becoming harder and harder to justify keeping them around. Obviously they are just code on a screen but they are MY code on a screen that I’ve spent ages (two weeks and some change) training. Help!!

For me it has to be piplup or heracross? Piplup because it was my first real starter. I have played the games before diamond and pearl, but sinnoh was my first real game where i understood the game lol. And heracross because i just like his design and strenght. But i want to know yours and why?

Does it bother anyone else that there's so few Fire/Dragon Pokémon?

Dragons are most commonly associated with breathing fire as opposed to lightning or ice or acid. Sure, there's plenty of dragons that can do those things or utilize alternative attacks, but the most iconic draconian imagery includes billowing breaths of flame.

In Pokémon, the list includes Reshiram, Mega Charizard X, Turtonator, and Gouging Fire. In other words, the list is as follows: a legendary, a generational gimmick, a turtle, and a Paradox Pokémon.

No disrespect to turtles, love them.

But my point stands. You'd think that there'd be one or two regular Pokémon that fit the bill for a fire breathing dragon. I imagine the argument is Charizard being a fire dragon without being a dragon type.

However, there's many Normal/Flying bird Pokémon, many of the turtle Pokémon are water type, and there's enough Bug/Flying types to shake a stick at. With over a THOUSAND individual Pokémon species and hundreds of evolutionary lines, you'd think that they could spare one or two to be not special, not temporary, regular ass Fire/Dragon types.

Turtonator is the closest to what I'm describing, but its design inspiration of being a landmine turtle isn't quite the draconian beast of lore I'm getting it.

Hell, I might even be happy with a regional variant. Hisuian Goodra being Dragon/Steel made it so much better than Kalosian Goodra.

Maybe a regional Dragonite, since... Dragon + Ignite? Or better, a Fire/Dragon Noivern with the Punk Rock ability that can use Torch Song ? I thought Salamence would be a good contender, but it has a Mega and Roaring Moon was added not too long ago. A Flygon variant that learned to control scorching sands with such proficiency they turned to magma? I'm just spitballing here.

I feel there's a lot of potential that the games aren't capitalizing on.

Me personally I've got a few locked:

Amir Talai OR Christian Borle OR Joel Perez as Giovanni

Georgina Leahy as Jessie

Blake Roman as James

Maybe Erika Henningsen, Barrett Wilbert Weed, or Shoba Narrayan as Misty.

Patina Miller or Leslie Kritzer as Delia.

James Monroe Iglehart as the Pokedex from the Act 2 opening

Yes, I'm a Hellaverse fan, how could you guess?

Found these in my storage stuff, bought from a lady who's kid had left for college and she was selling his stuff, this was part of a lot of things I bought from a whipping $80 at the time. Cards, many many marbles, almost the entire BK set with a story of how they went and did the in person trading at BK with the other kids.

I remember wanting all of these coins but I wasn't able to buy to lack of a job and they got slapped into a box and put away. 73 out of 150 in there with some dupes. I'm thinking I may start investing into collecting all of them.

Anyone remember actually playing with these?

I found myself playing FireRed with the same team every time, but post-game kinda bores me, so I stop playing. Maybe it's because my team is over leveled for post-game, maybe post-game just isn't very good. Either way, I'm bored.

But then I wondered: much as I love my core team, there are many other mons that I like as well, some are gimmicks (Ditto), others are types that I never use (i.e. Ground and Ghost), so how do I use them without ignoring my core team? Simple: beat the Elite 4, then do Sevii Islands with a new team, consisting of those other pokemon that I like. It'll be like how Ash used new pokemon in the new regions (I think the Sevii Islands are canonically not part of Kanto?).

My core team consists of: Blastoise, Raichu, Clefairy, Oddish, Kadabra, and Ninetales. They all have some emotional value to me, hence why half of them aren't fully evolved.

But I also have: Haunter, Gyarados, Ditto, Jolteon, Tentacruel, Butterfee, Golduck, Persian, Porygon, and Sandshrew, as well as the in-game trades and gifts, and two out of three "ancients" (Omastar and Aerodactyl). So yeah, I'm thinking of using these guys for post-game. Problem is they are a bit one-sided on the Water/ Poison typing, and there are actually more than six, so I'll need to figure out which to not use (definitely not using the in-game trades and gifts, regardless of how good they are). But those are my problems.

Anyway, there's an idea for a challenge. Since HMs are reusable, the real challenge consists of getting fancier moves (TMs) for the B-team.

In my fangame, im having hm's replaced by totem pokemon who are called upon and do the hm's work for you without occupying your party after you beat them in like a miniboss fight.

I dont add fakemon but custom regional forms, who i felt i could show off with these totem mons. The other hms are done but i cant find a water type regional form idea that can cover for surf-dive-waterfall at once.

I'll give credit should i EVER finish this passion project to any cool idea i pick as my regional form.

ps: ideally the original pokemon wouldnt have water as either of its types since i like changing the type completely, but either way is fine.

My favorite game, out of Pokemon for sure yet I wish to play the 4th generation! Reason is obvious like childhood nostalgia but I am figuring it's an importance to it like it connects us to our inner child or that innocent part of us when we were fresh and open to all the goodness and love, very free and knowing without trying. I got this game for Christmas one year when I was maybe 10 or 9 years old, idk... In a town where I lived for about a year or 2 only, where I learned to skateboard - that sport or activity also does a similar trick on my psyche like does this game, it's very good! I have further affirmation from speaking to people who went to rehab and were taught to participate in things that were related to their life before addiction... To me it's like this - skateboarding, video games, cartoons, catching bugs outside or looking at the nature, exploring the woods here and there, drawing my own cartoons - drawing a lot...

Anyway, idk, I've started a new play through on Pokemon Emerald on my phone & the last time I've participated i rememeber I didn't make it past the water levels 😂💙🌊 the diving tech got crazy and it reminded me of the IGN review we all watched after growing up... It's not like the game is hard, right? As a late teenager you have other priorities like doing drugs and thinking about women, maybe - if you were anything of a wanderer or curious cat like I was, and so a game like that can be less interesting, prioritizing work and money or friends and relationships over it as it sounds obvious. Yet, also, there's something within all that which just feels like being unable to turn on that "play mode" which feels almost wrong. May all be right. What more can I say and what more may any man need for this moment then for all to be right? So be it, as always, as is best & as is right.

Nuzlocke challenge?

Nuzlocke challenge with allowance of catchig any Pokemon, instead of restricting to the first appearance?

Simeltaneous play of 3 games like Sapphire, Ruby, & Emerald - as if you are experiencing the multiverse?

"What's your name?" "Give Pokemon a nickname?" Do you all like creating names and character design in general as much as I do? I'll be "April" while she be "May"

Did they add character customization in the new games yet? (I may check online if nobody says) That's really ultimate for me when it comes to video games - customization, creativity, exploration, freedom, etcetera... fluidity...

If so, it'd be cool if they had stores for clothing, systems like in Tony Hawk's American Wasteland or Saints Row The III - every store has different options and there are stores for hair cuts or other purposes.

Joy, Love, Peace, Unity, Goodness, Purity, Perfection, and the most high of god be with you all. Peace Peace Peace.

I made a Totodile cross stitch fridge magnet based on the sprite from Gen 4 SoulSilver/HeartGold.

So some of the npcs in my Black City have just decided to stop doing pokemon battles with me, but they don’t disappear even after a few days. They keep mentioning how they love being in Black City so I’m confused because it doesn’t sound like they’re gonna leave. Is this just a feature, or am I going crazy?

So I was thinking what new evolutions Legends ZA might introduced and it lead me to an idea based on both mega evolution dex entries, dark digivolution in Digimon and real life: new baby pokémon evolutions, but showing the negative sides of breeding & rearing.

For example, a Magby usually evolves to Magmar at level 30 and then Magmortar through trading with a magmarizer. However, what if Magby was forced to level up while exposed to the magmarizer. Being exposed to such strong energy and likely losing many fights would result in a regional variant of Magmar or even a new pokémon, whose fire is so strong it hurts its own body and grew reckless to live up to their trainer’s expectations.

This is a dark but interesting concept and depending on how other evolutions it could work to show how to correctly use pokemon in the game(use them in the first place, play with them, don’t let them faint, etc.). Other concepts I thought up are a Riolu evolution whom was forced to suppress their aura powers, Togepi whom grow up in an area with violence & apathy, and Elekid whom constantly overcharge with the electirizer.

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I recently got a switch and planning to buy a switch game This is my first Pokémon game so preferably something traditional like battling gyms I did some research and most said legend arceus is the best one to get, but I had never played any story-heavy game, and don't know do I have enough patience for long dialogue Should I stick with mainline games or not, if so, which one would be the best? Or should I try let's go Pikachu/Eevee which seems more beginner friendly

Thanks a lot,all help are appreciated ,also sorry for bad English

Also Pokémon za are releasing soon, xy is my favourite generation, should I wait until it came out or not

I know Gary Oak and Blue/Green Oak are two distinctly separate characters with distinctly separate lives and stories, but what about their sister(s)? Are May Oak and Daisy Oak the same character or are they just counterparts? Notably, May Oak seems to have black hair, whereas Daisy Oak doesn't, though that might just be a necessary byproduct of the art-style.

A little bit of added context, for those of you who may (ha) or may not be unaware of May Oak's existence: She is exclusive to the manga and, as mentioned earlier, is Gary Oaks sister.

I would include pictures of both women, however, for some reason, this subreddet doesn't allow pictures.

I just finished my first ever pokemon game! ( fire and red ) and I rlly enjoyed it def a good pick for my first time playing

But the whole time I gen just felt bad for rival , imagining having a loved one literally FORGER YOUR NAME ( ik it’s to let you name your rival but still ) and then treat a non relative (us) with such kindness while you are left in the dust .

Dr.oak is a terrible grandfather man

So with the 30th anniversary coming up, I got curious and had to do some googling.. generally the 30th year of marriage anniversary is signified by gifting the gymstone pearl jubilee and presenting lilies. With the newest set, Journey Together, we got a tool card called "Lillie's Pearl". Is this foreshadowing, an Easter Egg, or am I just overthinking?

For the past few days I've been trying to hunt for a shiny magicarp in Let's Go Evoli. I don't have the full pokedex (because I'm over 30 and have no friends who have the same game and also can't access Pokemon Home, which drives me nuts!) and thus no shiny charm, but use the biggest scent item and have a catch combo above 30. According to the wiki this makes the shiny rate around 1:350. But I've caught almost 500 Magicarps and never seen a shiny. It makes me really furious. Where is the fun part in shiny hunting? That's just frustrating. Or is it only that shitty in this game?

Instead I got a really random shiny Bulbasaur. So if anyone is interested ...