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

Massively Strong Greed said:
Meet Bellibolt! This Electric-type frog is Iono’s favorite and it really is quite cute.
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You guys realize that this thing is basically Pokémon's take on a basilisk right?
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I think it's main inspiration is the cut Jhoto frog from the unused Pokedex for Gold & Silver.
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I mean they already got some other Pokémon from that thing like the Farfetch'd & Girafarig evolutions. I also wonder if that is the final evolution or not?
 
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Nauseated Courgi said:
Not to mention the fact that Lucario and Goku unfortunately share the same voice actor (English VAs anyway).
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Fixed that for you.

Oooh Froslass, Gardevoir, Liligant, where is Jynx goddammit

Torn. Scarlet I like the professor but not sure about caveman ascetic. Violet......theyvr done Future too much already lol.
 
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Nauseated Courgi said:
I don't see what's so "out of place" about Bellibolt's design. Don't we already have pokemon that are pretty much amorphous blobs Like wigglytuff, Azurmarill, ditto, and so on?
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I actually disagree that it's a bad pokemon design. I think it's an abomination that's lures kids into a false sense of security so it can paralyze them with a hug before dragging them to its nest hidden in the ball pit.
 
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I like Bellibolt. Not like he's going on my team, but he's still a perfectly cromulant Pokemon.

Iona is gonna have me open worlding it though.
 
Massively Strong Greed said:
Oh you don’t know about the chimera fossil mons? Funny stuff.
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Yup, they exist because you stick 2 incomplete fossils together and revive them at the same time.
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They're horrific abominations in constant suffering and I love them.
Not to mention that some of them have been broken as shit. They have a move based on their head that hits harder if it attacks first (they have middling speed, base 75/55) and they work with Strong Jaw, which fishhead can have. so Dracovish gets to shit out something like 230 bp moves on anything with the misfortune of being slower than it.
 
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Disc said:
They're horrific abominations in constant suffering and I love them.
Not to mention that some of them have been broken as shit. They have a move based on their head that hits harder if it attacks first (they have middling speed, base 75/55) and they work with Strong Jaw, which fishhead can have. so Dracovish gets to shit out something like 230 bp moves on anything with the misfortune of being slower than it.
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Choice Scarf Dracovish is terrifying. I'm not big on Choice items because I'm a indecisive autist who doesn't like being locked into a move, but Fisheous Rend is so powerful it doesn't matter if the target resists or not. Click the button to win 90% of matchups.

I'm still disappointed though that the "real" versions of the fossils weren't part of the DLC. An abandoned fossil lab dungeon with the returning fossils inside, then ending in a battle against a completed Galar fossil would've been sick.
 
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Thiletonomics said:
A teaser poster of the Ash vs. Leon battle has been posted:

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I'm kinda mixed about Leon having the 3 Galar starters, for some reason.
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So they make Champion-level characters get wrecked by him to avoid spoiling his whole team and this is what they choose? Should've just chosen the Rillaboom team.
Pretty sure the new generation anime has launched around the release of the games. I wonder what they'll do this time since Ash already went to a Pokemon school of sorts in Gen 7.
 
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Jean Lafitte 1812 said:
Choice Scarf Dracovish is terrifying. I'm not big on Choice items because I'm a indecisive autist who doesn't like being locked into a move, but Fisheous Rend is so powerful it doesn't matter if the target resists or not. Click the button to win 90% of matchups.

I'm still disappointed though that the "real" versions of the fossils weren't part of the DLC. An abandoned fossil lab dungeon with the returning fossils inside, then ending in a battle against a completed Galar fossil would've been sick.
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While it is a shame, I've come to assume that's so they can pull on that particular thread later. Fossil pokemon aren't as easy to revisit as most pokemon, as the existence of regional variants kinda stumbles with fossils. I mean, you could make it so all the Claw and Root fossils unearthed in this region revive into a different Pokemon, but it could still feel very clunky.

Moreover, Cara Liss can only really do what she's doing when she's unchallenged in her theories. If people know that that's not how this works, she'd be outed as the mad scientist she is.

Lastly, eight fully evolved-tier pokemon with Mix and Match stats and types would probably feel like a LOT of sameness in any regional dex, let alone the more lean recent ones. By nature, each fixed form would share half it's stats with it's two half-forms. That's a lot to introduce all at once. Makes more sense to space it out a bit.
 
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Wooper said:
I think it's main inspiration is the cut Jhoto frog from the unused Pokedex for Gold & Silver.
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I mean they already got some other Pokémon from that thing like the Farfetch'd & Girafarig evolutions. I also wonder if that is the final evolution or not?
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That fucking Ditto face lol. I can see why Belibolt might be based on that beta artwork. Someone drew up a frog Pokemon for Gold and Silver and another guy got confused on the nostrils being eyes.
 
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Focken Kiwi said:
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That fucking Ditto face lol. I can see why Belibolt might be based on that beta artwork. Someone drew up a frog Pokemon for Gold and Silver and another guy got confused on the nostrils being eyes.
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Apparently it might also be based on Avocados (which have great electric potential for a fruit... apparently),
Though, it should be noted that his research completely missed the Galvani experiments which had twitching frog legs with electric power, so there's at least one major factor he completely missed.

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Disc said:
Apparently it might also be based on Avocados (which have great electric potential for a fruit... apparently),
Though, it should be noted that his research completely missed the Galvani experiments which had twitching frog legs with electric power, so there's at least one major factor he completely missed.

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You know I mainly listen to YouTube videos & his is one of the only theory channels I listen too because he tries to use real world influences to explain why the funny Pokémon creature does what it does. Harmless, not lying or pulling shit out of his ass. However this guy has a real problem just dropping pseudo-intellectual takes out of the blue & he'll do it at least once a video. Like there's a Jolteon video & he said something along the lines of "People keep voting for oil executives to personally kill polar bears & minorities."
1. Nigger you are talking about Jolteon how did you get to this point?
2. Yeah personally, I'm sure all the oil business executives are out there hunting down all the polar bears & POCs of the world, personally.
He's almost a stereotype, a hyper consumer, overdosed blue pill, influencer who isn't as smart as he thinks he is.
 
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Wooper said:
You know I mainly listen to YouTube videos & his is one of the only theory channels I listen too because he tries to use real world influences to explain why the funny Pokémon creature does what it does. Harmless, not lying or pulling shit out of his ass. However this guy has a real problem just dropping pseudo-intellectual takes out of the blue & he'll do it at least once a video. Like there's a Jolteon video & he said something along the lines of "People keep voting for oil executives to personally kill polar bears & minorities."
1. Nigger you are talking about Jolteon how did you get to this point?
2. Yeah personally, I'm sure all the oil business executives are out there hunting down all the polar bears & POCs of the world, personally.
He's almost a stereotype, a hyper consumer, overdosed blue pill, influencer who isn't as smart as he thinks he is.
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Lockstin is one of two youtubers that I actively watch despite putting in bullshit like that into their videos (the other being HTD, a cocktail youtuber). I don't know if he's paying lip service to the woke cathedral as part of his contract with mammon or if he honestly thinks the quips are funny, but its usually only one eyeroll per video which hasn't been enough to turn me off yet.

I almost feel sorry for the guy, he seems pigeon holed into Pokemon content, but some of his alternate videos about other subjects are damn entertaining. He has some talent to make good infotainment, but is stuck on that Youtube treadmill because he thinks the alt sites are for the evil far-right. Real shame.
 
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