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

[Dysnomia]

Cringed at looking through the comments and so many people exclusively call Chikorita a girl. I actually checked and there's only a bit over a ten percent of it even being a girl.

It might be because of Ash's Chikorita.

I had Serperior for my unova starter, and Venusaur is my husband's favorite.

I picked Sprigatito because I love cats. I was disappointed that it became furbait just like Litten did. Can we please have a cat starter that isn't made to appeal to degenerates?

Treeko - Yes absorb sucks, but you should be using bullet seed. Always gamble. Grovyle is fantastic and gets extra browny points for PMD, again Sceptile is... mid design wise.

Grovyle is cool looking. I think Sceptile is a bit derp on the face. I do like that it's modeled after a yew tree. They should have made it look cooler. They kind of fixed it with the mega. At least the tail looks better.

 

[X-avier cuck]

My favorite of the generation 5 starters is retroactively Samurott and that is largely thanks to its PLA regional form bringing all of its concepts together for me.
The original one always felt a little awkward to me and it felt odd that it never had a secondary typing, but now that it's part dark and has ceaseless edge it's become an absolute menace.

Emboar might be coming into his own as well given the information about his Mega giving him a spear and turning him into a Chinese general.

I give a game freak a lot of flack, but I do think they are good at going back and touching up specific Pokemon and making them come to life.

 

[Retarded Weeb]

Late, but I literally cannot remember a time when I didn't like Pokemon, or not know of its existence.

As for my favorite Pokemon overall, that's Espurr. I grew up on farm with a lot of cats, and the fact that Espurr is essentially a tiny suicide-bomber trapped in the body of a kitten reminds me of a group of cats we had on it that my dad nicknamed "The Taliban" because they were so aggressive, and would often just randomly explode into violence, and start attacking anything near them. Sometimes even inanimate objects like the lawnmower.

Also, because it looks like this.
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[Archeops]

I've got some good news on the Shiny Treasures of Ruin raids, TPC officially announced that over 3 million players beat the Shiny Wo-Chien raid and we'll be getting an online event for it on the 8th.

If this is the kind of response that the shittiest member of the quartet gets then I have no worries about the other three getting over a million wins.

And some of us like pokemon not for their usefulness or stats, but because they look cool. Like, I fucking love Xatu and Sigilyph.
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I love the native aesthetic for Xatu, and I adore the nazca line inspiration on Sigilyph (and its funny lil unown head)!
But they don't have a competitive niche, afaik, and they're kinda mid in the stats dept.

Funnily enough both of those Pokémon have had decent runs in the TCG: Sigilyph was a popular anti-EX tech back in the late BLW-era and Xatu currently has a print that, at least functionally, has the same Ability as Shadow Rider Calyrex VMAX does and was used as an Energy accelerator in Dragapult ex decks until Crispin was printed.

 

[30+GameOvers]

Late, but I literally cannot remember a time when I didn't like Pokemon, or not know of its existence.

As for my favorite Pokemon overall, that's Espurr. I grew up on farm with a lot of cats, and the fact that Espurr is essentially a tiny suicide-bomber trapped in the body of a kitten reminds me of a group of cats we had on it that my dad nicknamed "The Taliban" because they were so aggressive, and would often just randomly explode into violence, and start attacking anything near them. Sometimes even inanimate objects like the lawnmower.

Also, because it looks like this.
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I tried using this thing in the Battle Tree in Gen 7. Not that good, unfortunately, but it does have potential. Never really used it in XY.
Problem with psychic types is that Alakazam exists. Why would you need anything else? It helps that it is available in almost every single pokedex too.

 

[Metallic Blood]

I've been replaying and finishing Pokemon TCG 2 for GBC, and man, sometimes I forget how kino this game is. This replaythrough made me realize that this is definetly my favorite spinoff of the entire series.



My favorite thing about it is how much content you can experience even after postgame, especially the ghost masters (pic related).

I went with the "Do the Wave" Wigglytuff deck for most of my play time, but I also had to switch my deck a few times to counter some opponents, which is something that I feel a lot of "TCG videogames" don't do. Kinda wish we had another Pokemon TCG RPG... but then again, having another entry with the current rules and cards would be very (and being real, TPC would probably release it in an unplayable state anyways like SV)

Soundtrack is still very high quality like TCG 1, so that's also nice.