The Central Pokemon Topic

[Arcadeotic]

44 minutes ago, Makudomi said:

Are you saying the Gen 6 Fire lion and the Gen 7 Fire lion (legendary!!) are already enough for you?

Please Arca. Next, you'll be telling me there are too many Bug/Flying Pokémon...or perhaps Fire/Fighting starters.

I actually don't mind the Fire/Fighting starters

And Bug/Flying is just redundant

But Dark is my favorite typing and I really can't stand it if they do that to this starter

Literally garbage

[Makudomi]

1 minute ago, Arcadeotic said:

I actually don't mind the Fire/Fighting starters

And Bug/Flying is just redundant

But Dark is my favorite typing and I really can't stand it if they do that to this starter

Literally garbage

Just wait. It'll be Fire/Ghost. Ghostcat!!

-- Which would be fun for me, because I don't like Chandelure despite how very much I love those two types.

[Arcadeotic]

9 minutes ago, Makudomi said:

Just wait. It'll be Fire/Ghost. Ghostcat!!

-- Which would be fun for me, because I don't like Chandelure despite how very much I love those two types.

Ghostly fire cat would be fucking amazing

And please, Chandelure is one of the best designed, most powerful and one of my most favorite Ghost pokemon

I'll fite you

[Makudomi]

3 hours ago, Arcadeotic said:

Ghostly fire cat would be fucking amazing

And please, Chandelure is one of the best designed, most powerful and one of my most favorite Ghost pokemon

I'll fite you

fite u IRL m8

ill stick my team of shiny lv 100 Arceus on u!!!!!

[TexasDice]

None of those predicted starter typings seem immediately amazing in the only format that actually matters; VGC

Rowlet is allegedly 4x weak to ice and normally weak to Rock and Flying; All of which are very relevant. And since it's not great offensively either, Rowlet would need a very good hidden ability and movepool/stats to complement it. Intimidate, Shadow Tag, Serene Grace, Prankster, all of those could work.

Litten is probably the most promising out of the three, but being weak to ground and rock is always a very relevant factor in VGC and losing the resistance to fairy for an immunity to psychic and more weaknesses doesn't seem all that great either. In VGC, Fire types need to be bulky and hit hard, otherwise they don't do much good. Intimidate as a hidden ability would once again be a great to have, while the dream is Levitate or Storm Drain.

Popplio is in a weird spot; Being weak to Fairy and Flying is very awkward in formats dominated by Hyper Voice, but that never stopped Pokemon like Conkeldurr or Machamp to perform reasonably well in 2015. If Popplio has reasonable stats to perform well with an assault vest, it might be a great rain-check, where as simply adding Wide Guard to it's movepool would make it a consideration as well.

 

Honestly, stats and abilities can be more important than types. There's a reason why we don't see Spiritomb at all, but things like Rhyperior and Abomasnow can pop up infrequently. And who knows; maybe Rowlet ends up with an Ice immunity, for some reason.

[Makudomi]

Really, I don't see a whole lot of logic behind why Popplio would be part Fighting to begin with. It's supposed to be based on a performance sea lion, isn't it? I don't understand why anyone would assume it'll be yet another part-Fighting starter with a playful design like that.

Personally, I'm crossing my fingers for Fairy. A whimsical circus performer à la Mr. Mime.

Edit: Reconsidered mentioning partial Flying typing when I realised there are no "bouncing" non-avian flyers as a precedent.

[Arcadeotic]

I'd be happy with Fairy or Flying, just don't let it be Ice

Pretty please? I'm begging you, Game Freak.

[Makudomi]

Popplio learns Disarming Voice at Level 8. WATER/FAIRY MAYBE CONFIRMED

[TexasDice]

An official Free For All mode. Not all of you might realize this, but that is big news for Poketubers. Probably the most important reveal; who gives a damn about that ugly rat pokemon? 

[Makudomi]

37 minutes ago, TexasDice said:

An official Free For All mode. Not all of you might realize this, but that is big news for Poketubers. Probably the most important reveal; who gives a damn about that ugly rat pokemon? 

I was a little disappointed that the match ends as soon as the first 'mon goes down, TBH.

[Novel21]

I'm so looking forward to Pokemon Sun and Moon comes out

It's so much to do in Pokemon Sun and Moon, I love the new starter Pokemon as well.

I like the new region since I have always dreamt to visit Hawaii someday

[Arcadeotic]

A FFA mode?

All of my yes

[kyrt]

At least the pokemon this generation have been pretty solid and even Popplio looking like a clown seal from the circus makes sense especially if it ends up being fairy or psychic. I just hope the litten does not turn into a fire/fighting. I rather like the design of the bug, bird, and rodent pokemon and then both the dog and bear pokemon look pretty good as well. 

I imagine the FFA mode will have different specifications where you can choose 1st round knockout, or last one standing, etc...

[Makudomi]

Mimikkyu (right) is probably my favourite so far

Kiteruguma (left) looks cute too but I just can't resist Mimikkyu's adorable charm

[MasterTreecko]

Well, this was already 1 week late, but nobody had posted this, so...
Alolan Exeggutor.

[kyrt]

Might as well continue the tradition in posting videos late. This introduces one of the (or the only) new enemy(?) team.

 

[Makudomi]

Team Skull is great. I hope they're consistently as funny as they appear to be in these videos; I'm freaking tired of the edginess that has persisted since Gen4.

[CeruleanGamer]

Cant wait.... So roughly 3 months left eh? I'll probably ditch Pokemon Go to play this game once it's out.

[Makudomi]

2 hours ago, CeruleanGamer said:

Cant wait.... So roughly 3 months left eh? I'll probably ditch Pokemon Go to play this game once it's out.

I wonder if SM sales will surpass XY sales following the success of PoGo and all the normies it brought into (or brought back into) the fold.

[Arcadeotic]

10 hours ago, Makudomi said:

I wonder if SM sales will surpass XY sales following the success of PoGo and all the normies it brought into (or brought back into) the fold.

All the hype surrounding Alola-forms of generation 1 pokemons is insane, coupled with the new mega-evolutions and such

I'm almost sure it'll surpass XY's hype by a mile

[Makudomi]

http://xy12.pokemontcgxy.com/en-us/home.php

cool