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Gen 5 experimented where Ash had ten Pokémon in rotation while traveling through Unova. Some like the starters, Krookodile, Scraggy and Leavanny were developed enough, but Unfezant, Boldore and especially Palpitoad were underdeveloped and barely remembered.
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Jul 20, 2019 15:31
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I think about Ash's Palpitoad daily
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Jul 20, 2019 15:54
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Zuzie posted:Gen 5 experimented where Ash had ten Pokémon in rotation while traveling through Unova. Some like the starters, Krookodile, Scraggy and Leavanny were developed enough, but Unfezant, Boldore and especially Palpitoad were underdeveloped and barely remembered. Then post league he sends infezant (or boldore?) To oak in favor of Charizard.
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Jul 20, 2019 16:03
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SirSamVimes posted:I've got to say, while reusable TMs are objectively an improvement I kind of miss having to actually choose which Pokemon gets a move. It makes it feel less special when you can dump Shadow Ball and Psychic on all your special attackers and Earthquake on all your physical attackers, for example. I always believed that earthquake should be reserved only for pokemon that are either ground or rock or large enough that you can believe they can do that. Same with moves like hyper beam and psychic. Nowadays they give it out like candy. Luckily I stopped playing competitive in gen 4, somehow it got worse in competitive since then. (I used a trick room and explosion team)
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Jul 20, 2019 16:13
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Avalerion posted:Why would team rocket in the anime be limited to what's available in the games. Sure is going to be weird when the anime uses Pokémon that don't appear in Sword/Shield.
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Jul 20, 2019 17:00
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Like Pikachu and Meowth in the BW anime you mean.
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Jul 20, 2019 17:03
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less laughter posted:Like Pikachu and Meowth in the BW anime you mean. You could still import them into BW even if they aren't native, like Ash and Team Rocket did. In SwSh Team Rocket will have to smuggle their pokemon pass customs.
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Jul 20, 2019 17:47
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non-Galar native mons will blink out of existence the moment they cross the border 
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Jul 20, 2019 17:54
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less laughter posted:non-Galar native mons will blink out of existence the moment they cross the border No, they'll just go to a detention center called Home.
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Jul 20, 2019 19:29
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The Skeleton King posted:I always believed that earthquake should be reserved only for pokemon that are either ground or rock or large enough that you can believe they can do that. Same with moves like hyper beam and psychic. Nowadays they give it out like candy. Hyper Beam has always been passed around to everything. It’s gimmick was originally ‘great big super move that every final form can learn.’
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Jul 21, 2019 00:00
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Gruckles posted:You could still import them into BW even if they aren't native, like Ash and Team Rocket did. all except Mareanie are confirmed for SwSh already.
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Jul 21, 2019 00:48
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Nodosaur posted:all except Mareanie are confirmed for SwSh already. Mareanie's in as well since Toxapex makes an appearance in the newest trailer/commerical for the game.
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Jul 21, 2019 01:02
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Then there's really nothing stopping them from bringing them over. They just have to want to.
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Jul 21, 2019 05:15
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Nodosaur posted:Then there's really nothing stopping them from bringing them over. They just have to want to. There is one force that can stop them from bringing their old monsters to the new region: The need to show off the newest merch, in this case, the newest Pokémon. Team Rocket is now much like Ash in that they receive a reset button whenever both groups end up going to a new region. The only Pokémon exempt from this rule is Pikachu, Meowth and Wobbuffet. Team Rocket's Pokémon teams are used to show off Pokémon that are somewhat cute, but too "unheroic" or even "creepy" to make it onto a protagonist's team. That being said, since both Mimikyu and Mareanie are both so popular, I do hope I'm actually wrong and they'll expand their teams so they can both Mimikyu and Mareanie and whatever Gen 8 gives them.
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Jul 21, 2019 05:31
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Pokemon anime staff: this season, without legendaries or starters, we got 56 pokemon to last us 3 years.... Team Rocket has to share a yamper with this regions brock
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Jul 21, 2019 10:03
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Zuzie posted:A significant chunk of Pokemon probably don't even have blood to begin with, and if they do, they probably won't be like human's blood. Magneton's Bloodtype: Ferric Chloride.
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Jul 21, 2019 10:51
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Holy poo poo Team Rocket still has their Wobbuffet with them? That’s crazy for them to keep such a bad pokemon for so long!
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Jul 21, 2019 13:12
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Wobbuffet was Uber in gens III and IV, punk.
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Jul 21, 2019 13:28
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Yeah, Wobbuffet has been Team Rocket’s longest running Pokemon for some reason (unless you want to count Meowth that is).
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Jul 21, 2019 13:46
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Wobbuffet is rad because you either have memories of it being the strongest pokemon of all time in competitive or you can't understand how its good because your Charizard has fire punch, flame thrower, leer and belly drum and there is basically nothing inbetween.
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Jul 21, 2019 14:06
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Wobbuffet's still there because of its running gag... Which only works in Japanese and possibly French due to how it's name was localized.
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Jul 21, 2019 14:29
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Zuzie posted:Wobbuffet's still there because of its running gag... Which only works in Japanese and possibly French due to how it's name was localized. What does its Japanese name mean?
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Jul 21, 2019 14:36
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Larryb posted:What does its Japanese name mean? It's supposed to sound like "That's the way it is", hence why it pops up whenever Team Rocket recite their motto. It's a reference to a Japanese comedian (who also used to do that salute hand gesture that Wobbuffet does). I can guess it does that since its whole gimmick revolves around sending stuff back at the opponent in battle. Wynaut sounds a bit like "Why Not?", so that part of the family's pun was kept in localization.
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Jul 21, 2019 14:42
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Zuzie posted:It's supposed to sound like "That's the way it is", hence why it pops up whenever Team Rocket recite their motto. It's a reference to a Japanese comedian (who also used to do that salute hand gesture that Wobbuffet does). I can guess it does that since its whole gimmick revolves around sending stuff back at the opponent in battle. It’s a reference to a famous Japanese comedian, whose schtick is essentially copied in Wobuffet’s name and pose. It’s just that it doesn’t translate at all.
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Jul 21, 2019 15:06
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Tbf how many Japanese kids are gonna know some comedian from the 90's themselves
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Jul 21, 2019 15:42
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I think the reference to the comedian is just a bonus for the oldies, the name joke is timeless. I also never understood what they were going for with Wobuffet's name but I looked it up and it turns out they were going for "wobble" plus "buffet?" And they did not hit that mark.
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Jul 21, 2019 15:52
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Cipher Pol 9 posted:I think the reference to the comedian is just a bonus for the oldies, the name joke is timeless. To be fair, is there another way to localize the Japanese name you can think of that would keep the pun intact?
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Jul 21, 2019 15:58
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what part doesn’t make sense
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Jul 21, 2019 15:59
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Larryb posted:To be fair, is there another way to localize the Japanese name you can think of that would keep the pun intact? Something like Yesitis, I guess? Keeping the "pun" intact is easy; the hard part is not sounding too lame. By the way, I like how the English closed captioning transcribes Poke-speak based on tone, and almost everything Wobuffet says is "[Affirmative]." Silver2195 fucked around with this message at 16:09 on Jul 21, 2019 |
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Jul 21, 2019 16:07
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Cipher Pol 9 posted:I also never understood what they were going for with Wobuffet's name "gee, I wonder what this thing that wobbles when it gets buffeted's name could ever mean  "
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Jul 21, 2019 16:14
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Silver2195 posted:Something like Yesitis, I guess? Keeping the "pun" intact is easy; the hard part is not sounding too lame. I've always liked "Soitgoes" as an alternative English name for Wobuffet. That's the way it is. So it goes.
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Jul 21, 2019 16:15
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the best is the sandcastle that's name means like "that's a sandcastle, yeah??"
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Jul 21, 2019 16:19
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"that's a sandcastle, yeah?" and "castle death sand" because Japanese is like 90% puns
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Jul 21, 2019 16:43
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Fushigidane.
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There's a point in the anime where a Wynaut and Jessie's Wobbuffet have a conversation and it's basically the punchline to both their names.
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Jul 21, 2019 16:47
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So the rest of the battles in the top 16 for the Manalo Conference aired in the anime and... James and Mareanie beats Jessie (who used Wobbuffet). Sophocles beats Mina, Kiawe beats Acerola, and Gladion beats Lillie.
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Jul 21, 2019 18:40
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And then they have the gall to not pair Lana against Kiawe so he can FINALLY get one over on her for a change So many opportunities tossed straight out the window with the bathwater...
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Jul 21, 2019 20:38
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Zuzie posted:So the rest of the battles in the top 16 for the Manalo Conference aired in the anime and... I'm noticing a pattern right off the bat here I don't like....
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Jul 21, 2019 21:18
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Vinylshadow posted:So many opportunities tossed straight out the window with the bathwater...
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Man for a member of the game elite four Acerola was nerfed.
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