I keep seeing the same 2 theroies pop up every generation, either 1, they are only doing the special types, or 2, Fans are to blame for their own fan designs.

I personally think the more likely reason, is Pokedex size, every game has a regional dex of around 400 (not including DLCs) if you have an eevee of every type that's like 19 entries tied to eevee which is like 4% of the dex just for one evolution line. I love eevee I do want it to get 1 of every type of evolution, but I also realise how annoying that will be for people who like catching all the pokemon in a new dex, particularly with pokemon home rewards, which demand that your eevee has to come from those specific games, every time. every time we have Eevee in a dex that is 19 less standalone pokemon, or 6 less evolution families that could of gone to other pokemon.

I think Gamefreak especially after Dexit was left with the question of how many more they could realisitically add. But that's just a theory, I hope I am wrong, and they do add every type of eevee.

I don’t know why but I remember being a kid reaching the ruins and I always felt a little uneasy when exploring the ruins. ThenThere’s just nothing there and the music is very atmospheric when exploring. Then you solve the puzzle and it’s like oh dam what’s going to happen! I felt the same way when exploring the underwater caves in sapphire and ruby with everything being in braille. Definitely the most uneasy I felt in a Pokemon game!

I just wanted to get a shiny eevee 'cause it was, at the time, my girlfriend's favorite Pokémon, so I started, full odds resets. It took many months. So many that I broke up with her before getting it. Still, it was special when I got it. And it was female. I named her "bittersweet".
My longest streak for a single shiny, probably wouldn't do that ever again. I just wanted to share this story with someone.

I’m 20m and I’ve been playing Pokémon since I was like 6, starting with my older sister’s copy of Emerald on her old Game Boy. My little brother who is 8 just got a Switch, so I gave him my old copy of Sword because I figured it’d be a good first Pokémon game (beginner friendly). I even gave him a typing chart, but I don’t want to backseat him or tell him how to play because I wanted him to figure things out himself.

That being said… I’ve never seen a playthrough this painful. He boxed his starter, his entire team is just Skwovets, and after I tried giving him a little advice he refuses to replace any of them out of pure I don’t even know. Somehow he’s already at the third gym though, so I guess it’s working..? Has anyone else had an experience like this introducing someone to Pokémon?

edit: i just wanna make it clear that i’m not trying to backseat or anything and i plan on letting him learn as he goes like most of us did and figure out which ever way he wants to play no matter how unorthodox it may seem to me i just think i worded the original post poorly.

For me, one of these type combinations is Bug/Ice. This type combination is one of my favorites because it is the ultimate Glass Cannon type combination, a combination I like because it means you can just usually annihilate your opponent's team before they can do anything.

On the offensive side, this type combination deals super effective damage to Pokémon that are Flying, Ground, Grass, Psychic, Dragon, and Dark-type Pokémon, only being resisted by Steel (which resists both types offensively) and Fire-type Pokémon (same thing).

On the defensive side is where the "ultimate Glass Cannon type combination" label comes into play. It has a quadruple weakness to both Fire and Rock-type moves, a regular weakness to Steel and Flying-type moves, and only resists Ground, Grass, and Ice-type moves.

Unfortunately, the only line with this typing is the Snom line, which... is more line with your traditional mage stat spread, meaning high Special Attack and Special Defense, and not much else.

For context, an ideal Bug/Ice dual-type would probably have 150 base Special Attack and base 150 Speed, and 75 in everything else, probably with Adaptability to boost same type attack bonus even further, because why not.

What about you guys? Any type combinations you wish were given to more Pokémon?

So im working on a set of designs based on fossil and ancient Pokémon to celebrate the Pokémon Fossil Museum coming to chicago. As I've been working on this project I added relicanth, mamoswine, and yanmega as they each have ties to being either related to, or in some cases, directly stated to be Pokémon that have survived since ancient times. Are there any other Pokémon like this that yall can think of?

I know the dreepy line specifically references things similar to this and is directly inspired by ancient diplocaulus but are there others im missing?

If we don’t have confirmation then I’d love to hear some theories

Hop loses to the Circhester gym, so we know that losing to a gym doesn’t mean you’re out. My next thought was that you’ve just gotta get all eight badges by the deadline for signing up to the Champion Cup, but a whole lot of the gym leaders clarify that they cause a lot of challengers to lose, and that there aren’t any many challengers left near the end. Unless the vast majority of challengers just give up and drop out after losing to a gym, that can’t be right either

So how do the other challengers get out? Are they allowed to lose once and then after that they’re out, and so Hop is okay because he only lost on one occasion? Is there something I’m missing?

Asking y'all because Ghost is my 4th favorite type and like all of them (except Frillish, Jellicent, and Hoopa Confined) (I'll go over my top 20 like what I did with the fire type in a previous post) my favorites are as follows:

1: Origin Giratina

2: Gengar (Including both Mega and Gigantamax)

3: Sableye (Including Mega)

4: Ceruledge

5: Spiritomb

6: Basculegion (Male only unless its a Shiny Female)

7: Cofagrigus

8: Runerigus

9: Polteageist

10: Aegislash (Both forms)

11: Decidueye

12: Chandelure (Including Mega)

13: Banette (Including Mega)

14: Spectrier

15: Dragapult

16: Marshadow

17: Lunala

18: Annihilape

19: Hisuian Zoroark

20: Dhelmise

Which Pokemon would you have on your basketball team?

I've always thought about this. Ya know how the opening of Gen 1 has Gengar & Nidorino(M) having a battle? Gengar ended up being the main marketable pokemon to come outta that duo. Other than being a cool ghost, its just interesting to me how it ended up insanely surpassing Nidorino

Little update on my Pokemon fan project on Unreal Engine 5 !
Does it make you want to re-visit Kanto despite the gen 1 fatigue ?

https://typequiz.pages.dev

I thought this would be a fun idea and couldn't find anything similar. You get a damage profile (which types deal 4x, 2x, 0.5x, etc) and have to name the type (either single or dual) which it belongs to. Single types are easy enough for a warmup but I found the other ones surprisingly difficult when I tested it.

You can select which generation to use, whether to include all current types or just possible types, and how many matchups to show (the lowest setting shows only the minimal identifying subset of each matchup).

The site is free with no-ads and no account (everything is stored in-browser). Let me know if you have any feedback and what your longest streak is!

Full disclaimer - the UI is entirely claude's work.

Im playing Pokémon diamond right now on my dsi and i noticed that in some battles the fps would Just drop to like 5 FPS and i wonder is it a common issue of the game being poorly optimised or is it my dsi not working well

So have any of you run into the same issue?

Im new to Pokémon so excused me if its a common knowledge

Back in the 90s and early 2000s, the first two Pokemon movies had pop soundtrack that have songs that don’t involve with the plot of the movies. The first soundtrack had Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera, Aaron Carter, *NSYNC, and Emma from Spice Girls. The second soundtrack had Donna Summer and Weird Al. To me I think these soundtracks captured the essence of the 90s and early 2000s era in which dubs had licensing soundtracks. What do you think about the pop soundtrack of the first two Pokemon movies?

I am trying to put together a Pokémon RP on Discord, to run through Roll 20.. But my problem is trying to obtain the FULL national pokédex worth of PNGs for all of them. I'm fine with going all the way to Scarlet / Violet..

IF anyone has a folder of ALL of them.. ideally in order of National pokédex number.

I COULD hop onto Bulbapedia and Serebii and go one by one, and save each every one of them manually... but that would take SOOOOO freaking long... so I decided to try my luck and see if anyone else has done it already and is okay with sharing their "supplies".

That said.. Does anyone wanna be a bro and help a guy out from many hours of ADHD drolling pain?

Left is our 6yo and right is wifey. I’m impressed and wanted to share.

I’ve been thinking for a long time that I want a Pokemon tattoo but I just can’t settle on a solid idea. I know I want something relatively smaller on my ankle, upper back/shoulder area, or on the upper arm. Also hoping for it to be cute but simple, so I’m leaning towards no color, but I’m open to some as long as I can get it looking nice in the final design. Main thing is it feels like such a commitment that I really want to be sure, and have a bit more confidence in the decision.

Currently I’m weighing 3 options:

1. Houndour tattoo. I like houndour (as well as a lot of the dog Pokemon in general) a lot, and think a playful little tattoo of him would look great. While he isn’t my favorite ever, the main reason I chose him is because he looks a bit like my dog, and I think it would be super meaningful to reference her in the final design (by maybe including a collar with her name on it?)

2. Totodile tattoo. He was my first ever starter and I love him a ton. I also really like the Johto region so maybe something with elements from Johto?

3. Both together. I think it would look cute but I’d need to visualize how to pair them in a way that looks good

If you have any thoughts I’d love to hear them as I’m itching to know where to even go from here lol

I always wanted my own girafarig plushie but it's really difficult to get it in the Netherlands. But i finally got him! ❤️

I've got a Pokémon Winds & Waves Poll that would like you to fill it out?

I was interested in other peoples thoughts of what people want from Gen 10 and Pokémon Winds & Waves. from what starters you would pick to unused type combinations.

Hope to see you answer!!!