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

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UntimelyDhelmise said:
Maybe even make it the long-awaited Normal/Ghost with the lore being the spirit of an animator possessed the very drawings they worked on or something.
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What even makes a pokemon "normal"? What defines a Normal type pokemon?

While a ghost type with a single weakness sounds great, I have trouble understanding what in-world logic would make it possible for a pokemon to be "normal", but also a "ghost".
 
Nauseated Courgi said:
What even makes a pokemon "normal"? What defines a Normal type pokemon?

While a ghost type with a single weakness sounds great, I have trouble understanding what in-world logic would make it possible for a pokemon to be "normal", but also a "ghost".
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Normal type Pokémon are usually ones based on an animal without any particular elemental affinity, or as the “default” typing to something whose gimmick is that it can have a bunch of types (e.g. Porygon, Type:null, Arceus)

The most popular idea for a normal/ghost Pokémon is something based on Schrodinger’s Cat, for obvious reasons. I think some sort of undead Pokémon could also work.
 
Gar For Archer said:
Normal type Pokémon are usually ones based on an animal without any particular elemental affinity.

The most popular idea for a normal/ghost Pokémon is something based on Schrodinger’s Cat, for obvious reasons. I think some sort of undead Pokémon could also work.
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Y'know, I kinda figured that.
 
Gar For Archer said:
Normal type Pokémon are usually ones based on an animal without any particular elemental affinity, or as the “default” typing to something whose gimmick is that it can have a bunch of types (e.g. Porygon, Type:null, Arceus)

The most popular idea for a normal/ghost Pokémon is something based on Schrodinger’s Cat, for obvious reasons. I think some sort of undead Pokémon could also work.
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I'd go with, like, a cursed immortality pokemon. Like AZ from Pokemon XY.

If I had to guess, the first ghost type will be a regional variant of one of those type-shifting gimmick mons.
 
Most everyone's suggested Schrodinger's Cat or some kind of spin on a bedsheet ghost, so I get the feeling that when they eventually do make the Normal/Ghost it'd be something off the wall. I mean, who would've thought the first Rock/Poison would be an extradimensional jellyfish made of malleable glass?
 
UntimelyDhelmise said:
Most everyone's suggested Schrodinger's Cat or some kind of spin on a bedsheet ghost, so I get the feeling that when they eventually do make the Normal/Ghost it'd be something off the wall. I mean, who would've thought the first Rock/Poison would be an extradimensional jellyfish made of malleable glass?
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Tbh, I feel like some of the legendary typings just seem kind of arbitrary and nonsensical. Nothing about Nihilego’s design suggests rock type at all - if I had to guess I would probably say it’s psychic/poison. Rock/poison would make an interesting typing for a regional Crustle whose shell is a chunk of uranium ore.

It’s the same with the Gen 5 dragons - like, why exactly are their second typings fire, lightning and ice when nothing about their designs really evoke those elemental properties?

Palkia too. I guess pearls are found in water, sure, but then why not give it a more water-inspired design? Making it an aquatic dragon/sea serpent wouldn’t hurt.

The one unused type I want to see is poison/steel. These two types initially seem at odds with each other but have a lot of potentially interesting concepts. The most obvious is something based on mercury, but you could also have some sort of machine/pollution based pokemon.
 
I all ways liked the idea for a normal/ghost type Pokemon being based off of a spirit medium or would that be better for a physical/ghost type?
 
Gar For Archer said:
It’s the same with the Gen 5 dragons - like, why exactly are their second typings fire, lightning and ice when nothing about their designs really evoke those elemental properties?
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I get Reshiram and Zekrom (well, sorta for the latter's case), but you don't see Kyurem's wings as ice?
 
Gar For Archer said:
It’s the same with the Gen 5 dragons - like, why exactly are their second typings fire, lightning and ice when nothing about their designs really evoke those elemental properties?
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In the Japanese versions, Zekrom is known as the Black Yin Pokemon and Reshiram is the White Yang Pokemon. Both species catagories were changed in all other languages due to being reference to a concept from a still-existing religion. Yin and Yang are equal yet opposite forces, so I guess they went with two different "high energy" types, being Fire and Electric. Neither type has an advantage over the other, and both are weak against Dragon, the other typing both share

Kyurem is based off of Wuji, or the absence of Yin and Yang, and what better type to represent a lack of the "energy" that the other two have than Ice? And it completes a common Ice/Electric/Fire trio that is seen in both many pokemon and moves(which itself is common trio of elements in many RPGs in general).
 
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Gar For Archer said:
Palkia too. I guess pearls are found in water, sure, but then why not give it a more water-inspired design? Making it an aquatic dragon/sea serpent wouldn’t hurt.
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The closest explanation I've heard is the box trio represent states of matter. Solid (Dialga), liquid (Palkia) and gas (Giratina). Arceus plasma...?
 
Gar For Archer said:
Tbh, I feel like some of the legendary typings just seem kind of arbitrary and nonsensical. Nothing about Nihilego’s design suggests rock type at all - if I had to guess I would probably say it’s psychic/poison. Rock/poison would make an interesting typing for a regional Crustle whose shell is a chunk of uranium ore.

It’s the same with the Gen 5 dragons - like, why exactly are their second typings fire, lightning and ice when nothing about their designs really evoke those elemental properties?

Palkia too. I guess pearls are found in water, sure, but then why not give it a more water-inspired design? Making it an aquatic dragon/sea serpent wouldn’t hurt.

The one unused type I want to see is poison/steel. These two types initially seem at odds with each other but have a lot of potentially interesting concepts. The most obvious is something based on mercury, but you could also have some sort of machine/pollution based pokemon.
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Apparently the three Gen 4 legendaries are based on the 3 states of matter - Dialga being a Solid Steel, Palkia being Liquid Water, and Giratina being a gaseous ghost. Also, Palkia's design was somewhat contained by Dialga, so they could make the single most impressive piece of spritework in the entire series.

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Gar For Archer said:
It’s the same with the Gen 5 dragons - like, why exactly are their second typings fire, lightning and ice when nothing about their designs really evoke those elemental properties?
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Their tails light up in Overdrive with their respective elements.

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They're basically flying generators.
 
Disc said:
Apparently the three Gen 4 legendaries are based on the 3 states of matter - Dialga being a Solid Steel, Palkia being Liquid Water, and Giratina being a gaseous ghost. Also, Palkia's design was somewhat contained by Dialga, so they could make the single most impressive piece of spritework in the entire series.

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Oh...... oh man. That is simply ingenious how the different coloration completely changes your perspective (literally) on what different parts of the statue are supposed to be, to the point of making a quadruped somehow turn into a biped.
 
Disc said:
Apparently the three Gen 4 legendaries are based on the 3 states of matter - Dialga being a Solid Steel, Palkia being Liquid Water, and Giratina being a gaseous ghost. Also, Palkia's design was somewhat contained by Dialga, so they could make the single most impressive piece of spritework in the entire series.
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Even with the spoiler, I can only see a Palkia. Am I stupid?
 
Finished Shield last week.

It was okay, the gyms being actual stadiums was a cool design, and Dynamax is..better than Mega-evolution and Z-moves in that you aren't locked into them by items (Z-moves were fucking faggotry anyways, say what you will about Sw/Sh they are Sun and Moon, sun and moon were awful, I couldn't even finish Moon).

Cuck Bedede is a faggot though, as is Chairman Bugman, fucking get rid of the "Epic save the world bullshit" and make the game about the actual sports shit for christ sake.
 
Disc said:
Apparently the three Gen 4 legendaries are based on the 3 states of matter - Dialga being a Solid Steel, Palkia being Liquid Water, and Giratina being a gaseous ghost. Also, Palkia's design was somewhat contained by Dialga, so they could make the single most impressive piece of spritework in the entire series.

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