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

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Squawking Macaw said:
the final results of the Johto Times' favorite Pokemon poll
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They mention on their site that they planned to put the full dataset somewhere, but I couldn't find it.
If anyone does know where it is, please point me toward it and I'll do some real puzzle-piece shit.

But since they at least showed the top 90 Pokémon from their poll with some accompanying data, I used that to make a chart of which generations people's favorites came from by how many votes Pokémon from each generation got.
Hopefully, the top 90 make for a relatively representative sample of all Pokémon.

It seems quite balanced overall, so that's good for the franchise. There's a general trend of more votes as the generations get older, but it's far from a blowout.
Plus, there are some Pokémon in the top 90 that are probably getting votes because of their regional forms from later generations (Wooper, Ninetales, etc.), but I only counted them as part of the generation in which they were first introduced, so that's probably skewing the data toward the older generations a tiny bit, too.
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On a side note, I don't remember excel's chart-making tools being this bad. Holy shit. Maybe using SPSS in college just spoiled me.
 
Squawking Macaw said:
I wasn't expecting Sylveon to rank so high above Eevee and I didn't realize Absol was this popular, but besides that these are fairly obvious picks.
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Troons love Sylveon because the colors sadly. I think Absol is recent because ZA made people remember it exists.

One more week till porkyman day
 
Grayback said:
It seems quite balanced overall, so that's good for the franchise. There's a general trend of more votes as the generations get older, but it's far from a blowout.
Plus, there are some Pokémon in the top 90 that are probably getting votes because of their regional forms from later generations (Wooper, Ninetales, etc.), but I only counted them as part of the generation in which they were first introduced, so that's probably skewing the data toward the older generations a tiny bit, too.
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@Anonitolia actually made something similar a while back using votes from members on this thread:
Anonitolia said:
Stat autism demanded I break down all the answers to this question so far. LET THE NUMBERS FLOW
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The most interesting result was that mismagius won the sinnoh vote by individual votes, despite not being one of the "generic sinnoh mons," being a cross gen evo which were supposedly controversial back during gen 4's release and the kicker was that it wasn't even catchable in platinum (mismagius line is only in pearl and shining pearl).
Squawking Macaw said:
Greninja was insanely popular from the moment it was revealed. You've also got Sylveon (even without the tranny bullshit which barely existed in 2013), Mimikyu, Corviknight, Snom and Tinkaton. The only generation that doesn't have a definitive fan favorite is 5, but many fully-evolved Unova mons are fondly remembered like Excadrill, Golurk, Scolipede, Chandelure, Haxorus, Hydreigon and Volcarona.
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Imo Unova's designs are consistantly solid so that's why there isn't nessaerily a fan favourite, since everyone's choices regarding the unova mons are so different. There's no "general unova team" the way theres a generic sinnoh team for example.
 
The Cum Beast said:
Imo Unova's designs are consistantly solid so that's why there isn't nessaerily a fan favourite, since everyone's choices regarding the unova mons are so different. There's no "general unova team" the way theres a generic sinnoh team for example.
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I don't think the generic Sinnoh team meme has to do with what designs people like though. It's more to do with how fucked up the new Pokemon availability and viability was in DP. There's a handful of particularly useful Gen 4 Pokemon you can catch early on in DP, but everything else new was pretty much either a shitmon, a mediocre Pokemon only available like 5 badges in, or an evolution to an older Pokemon that you couldn't even catch until post-game. So most people gravitated to the same handful of Pokemon you can catch before the 2nd Gym. Most of Platinum's regional dex changes are just putting those old Pokemon lines with new evolutions somewhere in the game for you to actually use.
 
The Cum Beast said:
There's no "general unova team" the way theres a generic sinnoh team for example.
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What IS the "generic Sinnoh Team"? I'm assuming Garchomp is in it because everyone loves it.

Retarded Weeb said:
Most of Platinum's regional dex changes are just putting those old Pokemon lines with new evolutions somewhere in the game for you to actually use.
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i actually don't mind platinums dex change. From what little I remember about DP, the dex was the most disappointing thing about them, and the serious lack of fire types with the fire E4 member not using fire types was just downright retarded.
 
Celebrate Nite said:
What IS the "generic Sinnoh Team"? I'm assuming Garchomp is in it because everyone loves it.
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Since base DP had awful pokemon selection, people were forced to use the same douzen or so pokemon from the early game, assuming they didn't want to reuse old mons like gyarados. Especially since the majority of cross gen mons were limited to the post game and was only fixed in platinum.
Celebrate Nite said:
i actually don't mind platinums dex change. From what little I remember about DP, the dex was the most disappointing thing about them, and the serious lack of fire types with the fire E4 member not using fire types was just downright retarded.
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Retarded Weeb said:
Most of Platinum's regional dex changes are just putting those old Pokemon lines with new evolutions somewhere in the game for you to actually use.
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Thinking back on it, it's still astonishing how on paper small changes (faster game engine, back button on poketch, 50 or so extra pokemon) made platinum a great game compared to the genuinely horrendous Diamond and Pearl. Said 50 or so mons were from cross gen evo lines, and like with trainers like the fire type elite four member flint, it went from 2 fire types only to an actual team of all fire types.
 
Celebrate Nite said:
What IS the "generic Sinnoh Team"? I'm assuming Garchomp is in it because everyone loves it.
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Starter
one or two out of Floatzel, Roserade, and Rapidash to cover types your starter doesn't
Staraptor for your Flyer you can catch on the first route
Luxray because good Electric-type you can catch on the first route
possibly Bibarel for HM slave
possibly box legendary, Garchomp, Lucario, or some other free space "cool" Pokemon you caught later for show

Celebrate Nite said:
i actually don't mind platinums dex change. From what little I remember about DP, the dex was the most disappointing thing about them, and the serious lack of fire types with the fire E4 member not using fire types was just downright retarded.
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I wasn't implying you should mind. Platinum's dex change was an objectively good thing. DP has the most weirdly anemic regional dex in the series. Which made it extra bullshit that BDSP is based on it without anything Platinum.
 
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In a somewhat-surprising turn of events it seems TPCi has acquired Excell Brands, a well-known distributor of various TCGs (including Pokémon).
TPCi has announced it will soon acquire Excell Brands, a leading U.S. distributor of trading card games and collectibles. Excell, along with other distributors, helps deliver products from TCG manufacturers to retailers.


Owning Excell will allow TPCi to gain greater control over product allocation and retail pricing. In its announcement, TPCi cited "increasing expectations around fulfillment and customer experience" as a motivation. This acquisition represents further vertical integration for TPCi, adding retail distribution to its existing publishing and printing operations.

TPCi is expected to continue distributing the Pokemon TCG through other U.S. distributors as well. Excell operates in the same mass retail space as MJ Holding and others, meaning the acquisition gives TPCi greater influence over how product flows to big box retailers and their shelves -- though not full control of the entire U.S. distribution network.

Excell's retail partners include Target, Walmart, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, CVS, Walgreens, and more. The company distributes all major trading card games, including Pokemon, Magic the Gathering, Lorcana, Yu-Gi-Oh, and One Piece. As with TPCi's Millennium Print Group continuing to print other TCGs, Excell should continue to distribute other TCGs as well.

This acquisition follows December's announcement that TPCi's Millennium Print Group will open a massive printing facility in the coming years. Increased production combined with tighter oversight of retail distribution should ultimately result in more Pokemon TCG products reaching fans -- and less scalping shenanigans.
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I'm not 100% sure this'll actually fix what's wrong with the TCG in terms of distribution, stores will still see people lining up at the crack of dawn or earlier just to score products.
 
Archeops said:
I'm not 100% sure this'll actually fix what's wrong with the TCG in terms of distribution, stores will still see people lining up at the crack of dawn or earlier just to score products.
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between this and buying the huge ass warehouse for printing it might help a bit if there isnt another scalping wave.
Besides ascended heroes the next few sets are small as fuck and kinda shit outside of Graninja but then the set after that is a Rayquaza but given Phantasmal flames wasn't exactly massive hyped up despite being the Charlizard set makes me hopeful.
 
Rinyuu is my EX said:
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Pay up, you filthy gaijins
It’s real btw, bro just confirmed it and there are 3 languages
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Official trailer

I'm genuinely surprised they're going to release at least the gen 3 games. In my mind I was like "re-releasing old games is too good of an idea for game freak to implement" I guess I was wrong (but in a good way). AND they're not even full priced (though $20 USD is still quite lot of a 20 something year old game.
 
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I mean it's unironically the best version of the (arguably) best game in the series. I'm probably picking up FireRed on release and maybe picking up LeafGreen at some point in the future if they ever do a discount (lol).

Yes I can emulate it (and have, dozens of times) but I'm likely only ever going to buy one Pokemon game for the Switch so it might as well be this so I can grind out levels on long train journeys.

If it was $10 it'd be easier to swallow but whatever.
 
Meanwhile Capcom released every version of every Mega Man Battle Network (minus the obscure Japan-only stuff and 5’s DS port) with online ranked battles and trading for $40, assuming you don’t get it on sale for $20.
 
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