Pokémon (Not-So) Griefing Thread - Scarlet and Violet Released with 10 Million Copies in First 3 Days in Buggy States

Sneak 'n' Snore said:
The existance of specifically the prehistoric Paradox mons makes me wonder why they didn't make more Ancient Power cross-gen evolutions like Gen 4 did.
It led to things like Mamoswine or Yanmega and those designs were great, especially the latter.
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Because it's Game Freak who can't reuse good ideas to save their lives.

To be honest I want to do my own take on Raikou because the design pisses me off that much. The silver lining to this is I've never felt so vindicated for abandoning pokemon now. There's a strange sense of satisfaction knowing that whenever I boot up Pokemon Crystal I got to experience the glory days and nothing can take that away from me.
 
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SSj_Ness said:
Warning, mini rant incoming: There's no way anybody can look at these Pokemon designs and convince me they're good. That Raikou-looking...thing...is the most dogshit monster design I think I've ever had the displeasure of viewing in any game ever, let alone just Pokemon or its clones.

There's no words for how bad this shit is. Some Pokemon loyalist is going to point to Grimer or Jynx with tears in their eyes and say the series always had weaker designs here and there, but no. Grimer is an artistic masterpiece and work of creative genius compared to the AI generated filth they're spewing out here.
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...I kinda like it. I'm a Violet bro so I can't get it and I don't care enough to trade for it, but yeah it's weird I kinda like it. Maybe it's because ever since I was a child I hated Raikou's face and hair for some reason.
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Now this freak has a thunder cloud to cover that shit. I'll say this though I wish there was more to the Violet Paradox Pokémon besides being a robot. You can look sleek but if everyone is a robot it makes it less special.
 
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Sneak 'n' Snore said:
The existance of specifically the prehistoric Paradox mons makes me wonder why they didn't make more Ancient Power cross-gen evolutions like Gen 4 did.
It led to things like Mamoswine or Yanmega and those designs were great, especially the latter.
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Team globohomo takes no prisoners.
*Picture of TPC CEO from the recent Pokemon Presents stream*
 
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Sundae said:
I'm just going to leave this here:
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Okay, hear me out.

This design sucks hot sweaty donkey balls. It sucks dick. It is awful.




But I don't hate the premise.

It has the same problem (almost) every single gen 9 mon has, where it's actually a pretty great idea with the most god-awful, almost-intentionally-bad, horrendous execution that they could ever think of.

Raikou as a sauropod with its literal head in the clouds as a Past Paradox? A Legendary with its head in the clouds to symbolize a possibly-fictional older time period? That's really clever! I really like that! It's kind of stupidly literal, and it'll look goofy just by virtue of looking like a Sauropod, but I think it's pretty creative!

Now, fellow sneeders, how exactly do you think such an idea could be messed up?

How about by... copy-pasting Raikou (a feline)'s existing head and claws onto it (a reptile/avian) with no change to the facial structure or paw structure whatsoever outside of making the feet bloated and exaggerated?
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How about... emphasizing this mismatch by extending the whiskers for no real reason other than to hammer home its typing?
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How about... by adding random accessories that don't emphasize or add to anything to clutter up Raikou's already-cluttered design (nothing against Raikou, it's just that the stripes make its design busier than most like it)?
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Or by making the colors of an already-bright design even brighter to the point of oversaturation?
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You could also mess up the body shape for whatever reason, making the neck stick out like a sore thumb and the legs look completely broken...
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...you probably get the point by now.

Honestly, part of me almost admires the audacity this thing's designer had to present it as a properly thought-through and finished Pokemon. I'm also not certain this frankenstein approach isn't intentionally-done to make the thing look abnormal.
But considering how extremely lazy the rest of the Paradoxes are, and the philosophy behind most of them seeming to be "QUICK GIVE AN OLD POKEMON ONE NEW TRAIT AND WAY BRIGHTER COLORS" instead of "frankenstein monstrosities meant to look intentionally out-of-place and prehistoric", I highly highly doubt this thing was thought about long enough for all that shit to be intentional.
 
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Inafune Fanfiction said:
Would it be worth it to get a booster box or at least a trainer box of a current TCG set? I like Giratina and intend to keep any cards I get.
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I'm not super well-versed on the TCG, I'm just replying to say that they bumped up the price of the SV stuff by like a buck so that they had an excuse to add another holo to each pack and replaced the yellow borders surrounding the cards
don't know if that applies to the boxes but it does to the booster packs so I'd assume that would affect the boxes
frankly I think trainer boxes are overpriced the minute after you get your first and have the tokens you need to play whereas booster boxes are for fanatics but that's all the help I can give
also wait are you referring to Lost Origin? That's the last set I remember that spotlighted Giratina and it's nearly a year old
 
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Dildo_SHwaggins said:
Finally, people are recognizing how great Torterra is.
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He was the standout from his starter group for sure. As much as I love gen 2 as my favorite, I've always thought Meganium was a bit weak in design compared to Feraligatr and Typhlosion (still good but not outstanding). Then Sceptile was just decent... Torterra was a win for Grass starters.

Now that I think about it, there's never been a full set of starters I loved outside of gen 1.
 
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Bunny Tracks said:
It's the umbrella frill that does it for me. It'd look so much better if it was just a mane, or not even there at all.

Edit: Calling it now. Entei's form is going to be some sort of horrifying triceratops, pterodactyl, or hadrosaurid (duck-billed) abomination.
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I saw someone go through the past Paradox 'mons on Pokébeach when they revealed Raging Bolt and Iron Crown and they mentioned that none of the saurian body plans were reused, that kind nixes the possibility of a pterosaur-themed Paradox Entei.
Inafune Fanfiction said:
Would it be worth it to get a booster box or at least a trainer box of a current TCG set? I like Giratina and intend to keep any cards I get.
Maybe in the near future there will be an Eon Pokemon themed set so I've been holding off.
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That depends on which set you want to get and why you want to get ‘em. The SWSH-era sets are terrible when it comes to pull rates for a few reasons (Secret Rares/Alternate Arts aren’t guaranteed in a box, some boxes are expensive due to them being out-of-print) but are good resale-wise. Here’s an example of one of the more recent SWSH-era sets.
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A word of note here: the Trainer Gallery cards are basically Alternate Arts prints of older cards (The Pikachu V/VMAX combo here is technically from Vivid Voltage, a good 7+ sets behind the one listed here) that feature a Pokémon and a key human character associated with ‘em. Another thing is that they‘ll replace the reverse-holo in a pack Rather than being in the rare slot.

The SV-era sets are pretty damned good pull rate-wise (Alternate arts and Secret Rares take up one of the reverse-holo slots rather than being in the rare slot) but are terrible when it comes to resale.
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And yes you’re seeing this right, the only expensive card is the Secret Illustration Rare Iono. The Magikarp is an outlier since it’s supposedly really hard to pull.

And for reference, these are the most expensive Charizard cards printed in between Sun & Moon and Crown Zenith on the top and the most recent set featuring Charizard (they on presale now but the prices will more than likely drop as more cards are pulled).
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There’s another set where Charizard is featured coming out in September but that one has a delayed drop.
 
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The Pokémon World Championship has been live for several hours now, and the stream has had several hiccups, and even game drops on-screen. I do wonder if these issues will get sorted out by tomorrow, or if TPCi is trying to one-up last year's DOTA 2 The International, for the worst production values in an E-Sports World Championship. Last year's TI did set the bar very high (or low in this case), in the sheer number of ways they screwed up the production.
 
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SSj_Ness said:
He was the standout from his starter group for sure. As much as I love gen 2 as my favorite, I've always thought Meganium was a bit weak in design compared to Feraligatr and Typhlosion (still good but not outstanding). Then Sceptile was just decent... Torterra was a win for Grass starters.

Now that I think about it, there's never been a full set of starters I loved outside of gen 1.
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When Gen 4 first came out, Torterra was the least popular out of the three from what I saw. I was the only one I know that picked him.

From Gen 5 and onwards, I feel like the quality of starters has dropped significantly. I'm lucky if I actually like one of the starters. Where in Gens 1 - 4, I usually liked 2 or all 3 of them.
 
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