Pokémon goof thread - “Game Freak is really bad at world building"

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Kari Kamiya said:
Sometimes I wonder if Game Freak really wanted Bug-type Pokémon to be super effective against Psychics because if true, they'd have given more Bug-type moves than Twineedle, Pin Missile, Leech Life, and String Shot. The glitch making Psychic Pokémon OP is pretty funny, but Bug Pokémon were really underwhelming in Gen I. Hell, I don't think Bug Pokémon got the respect they deserved until Gen IV.
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What was in g4 except for burmy and mothim again? I thought g5 was really the start of good bugs because you had the clothes making one and the roly poly bug one
 
Fat Pikachu said:
What was in g4 except for burmy and mothim again? I thought g5 was really the start of good bugs because you had the clothes making one and the roly poly bug one
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G4 had Vespiquen which was honestly pretty based imo but that's about it. G5 was the one with the real chad bugs. Fire moths, cyborg bug, giant centipedetaur, ninja bug, knight bug, etc.
 
Honestly, all they had to do was have Ice resist Dragon, problem would've been solved right then and there. Maybe make Steel SE on it too if they really felt like Dragon was that broken (spoiler, it wasn't).

But no let's make up this new, completely broken-ass type that shits on Bug just when it started to get good a generation before and completely replaces Psychic as a type worth using. Only positive is it gave Steel and Poison moves a reason to exist beyond STAB.
 
Why is Ever Grande a city when there's no population outside of the Pokémon Center? The Indigo Plateau at least lives up to its name, it's in a plateau. (It's a beautiful location with a beautiful soundtrack, but it's not a fucking city, Game Freak, unless the actual city's underground, making the residents mole people.)
 
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Kari Kamiya said:
Why is Ever Grande a city when there's no population outside of the Pokémon Center? The Indigo Plateau at least lives up to its name, it's in a plateau. (It's a beautiful location with a beautiful soundtrack, but it's not a fucking city, Game Freak, unless the actual city's underground, making the residents mole people.)
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even sadder is the Pokémon League in Sinnoh, that place doesn’t even have a name besides “Pokémon League”.
 
Why are there wild Steelix in Sinnoh? How can these wild Onix evolve without trading?
 
Why do Gen 1 Pokémon look poorly drawn and looking like a potato?
 
Cod of War said:
Not a goof just a question, why are trade evolutions even a thing? Seems stupid to me.
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Similar to different versions, it is to encourage trading. The idea of Pokemon sprung from Satoshi Tajiri first learning about the then new Gameboy gamelink cable. While version exclusives give a reason to trade with the other version, trade evolutions can give a reason to even trade with people that have the same game as you. It is also encouraged with there being non-version exclusive Pokemon you had to choose between. For example in Gen I there was the starters at the beginning, the fossils at Mt. Moon, What you evolve your Eevee into(since breeding didn't exist you couldn't get more Eevee), and the Hitmon in the Fighting Dojo.
 
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Dunsparce said:
Similar to different versions, it is to encourage trading. The idea of Pokemon sprung from Satoshi Tajiri first learning about the then new Gameboy gamelink cable. While version exclusives give a reason to trade with the other version, trade evolutions can give a reason to even trade with people that have the same game as you. It is also encouraged with there being non-version exclusive Pokemon you had to choose between. For example in Gen I there was the starters at the beginning, the fossils at Mt. Moon, What you evolve your Eevee into(since breeding didn't exist you couldn't get more Eevee), and the Hitmon in the Fighting Dojo.
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And the initial implementation of the Link Cable battles were pretty late in development as well. The link cable was only used for trading at first.
 
Dunsparce said:
The idea of Pokemon sprung from Satoshi Tajiri first learning about the then new Gameboy gamelink cable.
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I'm pretty sure trading exists because Tajiri is a literal autist and got the idea from imagining little bugs crawling from one Gameboy to the other through the link cable, too. Or maybe that's a gaming folktale, like the story about George Washington fessing up to cutting a tree down.
 
Version exclusives were fine back in the day to make people interact, but they're pretty obsolete now. There's shinies, event legends, starter trios, box legends, dream world/hidden abilities, apricorn balls, egg moves, IVs, really obscure pokemon like those only caught in a specific game and transferred, ribbons, and any combination thereof--all things that people don't need encouragement to trade for.

Also I think it would be cute if there was a way to gift pokemon to someone instead of having them trade you junk because that kinda ruins the surprise.
 
I never seen a pokerus before; however, why does it make pokemon stronger?
 
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Still supprised this thread hasn’t been merged with the other Pokémon thread.
 
Cod of War said:
Not a goof just a question, why are trade evolutions even a thing? Seems stupid to me.
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It’s rumored that Machamp and Golem would only evolve by trading for each other, which explains why Machamp gains Graveler’s 4 arms and Golem gets a lizard head, but that this mechanic was eventually abandoned in the story and eventually reworked in Gen 5 with the snail and beetle Pokémon I can’t remeber the names of.
 
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