#Pokémon gen ix

[the-iron-shoulder]

Old take, but I’m thinking about the differences between Pokémon SWSH and Pokémon SV and the way the world is presented, and I find it both hilarious and satisfying that in SWSH, the Pokémon League was a major sporting event with televised battles, giant stadiums packed with fans, uniforms, mascots (Ball Guy!), sponsorships, the whole thing, and then how could they top that in the next gen?

They couldn’t, so they went in completely the opposite direction: the Pokémon League is just a side thing. All the gym leaders have day jobs (and the task you have to complete before battling them often involves helping them with or pulling them away from those day jobs). The battle are public and a few fans show up but that’s kind of it.

I mean hell, the big post-game tournament that’s sponsored by the Pokémon League and personally attended/emcee’d by the Head Champion—in the largest city in the region, no less!—draws, like, maybe a couple dozen people to watch it. It’s a fun thing but it’s not, like, MAJOR LEAGUE SPORTS.

I just find the contrast to be very funny. Neither one is “better” in a vacuum; they serve the purpose they’re meant to serve in each game. But I still love that the decision was that they couldn’t make it bigger and flashier… so they didn’t try.

#Pokemon #pokemon league #pokemon swsh #pokemon sv #pokemon sword and shield #pokémon scarlet and violet #galar #paldea #pokemon gen viii #Pokémon gen ix

[astro-biologist]

Grafaiai can have a little political rebellion. As a treat

#my art #art #pokemon #pokemon scarlet and violet #grafaiai #artwork #my artwork #graffiti #digital art #pokémon #nintendo #nintendo switch #video game #video games #scarlet and violet #paldea region #pokemon gen ix #pokemon gen 9

[cyndaquilism]

#cyndaquil #pokemon #pokémon #johto region #johto starters #game freak #hinoarashi #pokemoncommunity #cyndaquilism #pokemon starters #pokemon propaganda #cyndaquil propaganda #pokemon scarlet and violet #pokemon scarlet #pokemon violet #scarlet #violet #montenevera #gen 9 pokemon #gen ix #gen ix pokemon #candles #nintendo #nintendo switch #shiny #shiny pokemon #shiny cyndaquil #cyndaquil shiny #pokemon shiny

[puppyeared]

Fucking DOGY

#I love the paldean legendaries but I am. not going to buy scarvi with all the bugs LMAO #whenever I look at them I’m grabbed with the urge to hug them. LOOK AT IT ITS A PUPY #I also dig tatsugiri and garganacl. LITERALLY just minecraft golem he looks so cool #ALSO i love how they let you bond with the legendaries from the start of the game compared to getting them at the end #I dunno I just like the idea of hanging out with god. feels more earned than like a final battle or smth #AND YOU GIVE HIM SANDWICHES. AND DO SICK WHEELIES #SQUEEZES HIM SQUEEZES HIM #my art #myart #fanart #Pokémon #scarvio spoilers #pokemon scarvio #pokemon scarlet and violet #pokemon scarlet #pokemon violet #Pokemon sv #sv #koraidon #gen IX #eyestrain #?

[front-facing-pokemon]

#blaziken #the original fire/fighting starter. the pokémon that started the trend that everyone henceforth despised #and then TPC‚ after learning that folks were tired of it‚ instead of changing the style of the fire starters #iust made incineroar a dark-type even though it's actually totally fire/fighting in spirit. and cinderace pure fire #even though it's totally fire/fighting in spirit. do you get it #i don't think i mind fire/fighting that much? i'm glad they started switching it up with skeledirge—i think fire/ghost is really cool #even though i'm much more of a fan of meowscarada. but i think everyone is #this post is not about gen IX though. this is about blaziken. which i guess when i start talking about other pokémon is when you know #i don't have much to say about a particular 'mon. but here they are anyway

[dorianbrightmusic]

i made more music

#pokemon #pokemon sv #pokemon the teal mask #teal mask #scarvio #sv dlc #scarvio dlc #pokémon #gen ix #gen 9 #generation 9 #generation IX #Pokemon #Pokemon SV #SV DLC #Youtube

[jollyyoshi]

Serena from Pokémon X&Y! (Journeys Outfit)

Another colored pencil drawing and this time it’s Serena! This is her Pokémon Journeys outfit from JN105. I actually have another one of her though I like the ears here a bit better.

I think the neck, ears, and body to head proportions are definitely wonky here. Notice how I drew the hands behind her back. I don’t feel like drawing hands right now lol.

Also, this is my current profile pic for @jollyreblogs which you should check out as I reblog many amazing artists there.

#pokemon #pokémon #colored pencil #traditional art #pokémon serena #pokemon serena #pokémon xy #pokemon xy #pokemon xyz #pokémon xyz #pokemon x and y #pokemon X&Y #pokémon journeys #pokemon journeys #pokemon z #pokemon legends za #pokémon legends za #pokemon legends z-a #kalos #kalos region #hoenn #gen vi #Gen viii #gen ix #pokémon fanart #pokemon fanart #fanart #anipoke #art #trainer serena

[hello-frendo]

this new pokemon generation introduces two new ways of recycling old pokemon. pokemon’s past attempts have been largely more hits than misses. with regional variants beings its only current success story, other attempts have lacked the scope or creative variety necessary to grab players’ hearts. i believe one of the two new ideas has the potential to repeat regional variants’ success despite the mild confusion i’ve seen in some reactions to the premise. the other, although thematically consistent for this specific generation, suffers clear lack of effort. although i will proceed to fully go on a rant, im more just disappointed than anything.

i like the convergent evolutions as an expansion of the regional variant idea. Regional variants are pokemon’s best idea in years, but its only small constraints were that there still had to be a reason why it developed that way and that they were region locked by nature. convergent evolutions opens up the potential for reimaginings that don’t need to be bound by regions. they now can have typings and origins that are disconnected from their originals. the best example of my second point lies with gen 9′s reimagining of the tentacool line. there is no plausible explanation for how or why that line would diverge into that typing or turn from cephalopods to mushrooms, but with convergent evolutions no explanation is needed because they no longer need to share an origin.

paradox pokemon, however are just lazily designed pseudo-reskins. the idea of introducing past and future versions of pre-existing pokemon is an idea that had a lot of potential, to see it wasted like this is a shame. fossil pokemon have been a staple of pokemon since the beginning and theories have abounded about the potential relationships those pokemon could have to their modern peers. futuresque and lab-made pokemon have had a similarly long, albeit spottier, tenure with the franchise. all the paradox lines do with these ideas is slap on some frills and sharp edges for its vaguely primitive styled variants and metallic skins on it futuristic robotic variants. there is no genuine interest in doing anything with these concepts or playing with any worldbuilding potential. even mega evolutions and gigantimax forms at least had creative ideas to draw from “pokemon but more” and “pokemon but big”. those lines at least had good designs among them that were able to creatively expand on their base ideas, the closest this line comes are the great tusk and iron tread variants of donphan, brute bonnet could have been good with a bit more work, but even those barely cross that line. even within this generation i see the design team has greater capacity for interesting ideas, just not with these, these are nothing,

#pokémon #pokemon design #pokemon fan #pokemon fandom #paradox pokemon #gigantomax #gigantomax pokemon #mega evolution #pokemon review #pokemon critique #pokemon criticism #pokémon scarlet #pokemon violet #scarlet and violet #pokemon gen ix #pokemon gen nine #pokemon gen 9 #regional variants #rant

[the-rocky-of-naniwa]

Pokémon Scarlet and Pokémon Violet - 2022

#pokémon #gen 9 #gen ix #gen nine #sprigatito #floragato #meowscarda #fuecoco #crocalor #skeledirge #quaxly #quaxwell #quaquaval #morgana #phantom thief mona #persona 5 #p5 #persona 5 royal #persona 5 the royal #p5r #shin megami tensei #smt #megaten #crocomire #metroid #falco lombardi #starfox #star fox

[beaniebabyfrogs]

pokemon scarlet & violet is out and i have no idea which one i should get

like scarlet has better paradox forms and version exclusives but violet has miraidon and I DON’T KNOW WHAT TO DO

#pokémon #pokémon scarlet #pokémon violet #pokemon gen ix #pokemon gen 9 #pokemon scarlet and violet #koraidon #miraidon

[edgelord-of-the-day]

Edgelord of the Day #18:

Ceruledge

From: Pokémon (Happy Gen 9 day!!)

#ceruledge #soublades #pokémon #pokemon #pokémon scarlet #pokémon violet #pokémon scarlet and violet #pokemon scarlet #pokemon violet #pokemon scarlet and violet #pokemon gen ix #paldea #this design is so based #edgelord #edgy #edgelord of the day

[ponyregrets]

@former-portland-mando posted about what Pokémon teams we'd have if we were just using our favorites, and for me this would def change day to day, but today I'm saying:

1. Dratini

2. Eldegoss

3. Growlithe

4. Alolan Ninetales

5. Sylveon

6. Drifloon

#I'm enjoying a lot of the gen IX Pokémon #but I haven't had enough time with them for them to become favorites yet

[obligatebureaucrat]

Oh my god, I just realized that the Scarlet/Violet legendaries literally have “ride on” in their names. How did we not see this coming??

#pokemon #pokémon scarlet #pokémon violet #scarlet violet #koraidon #miraidon #pokemon presents #Gen ix

[lorenzs-technicolor-dreamland]

Pokémon © Game Freak and Nintendo.

#pokémon #scarlet and violet #sv #scavio #gen 9 #gen ix #fidough

[for3st-xx]

Fuck Geeta, all my homies hate Geeta.

De-throne her ass.

#Pokémon #pokémon violet #pokémon scarlet #pokemon #pokemon gen ix #paldea #pokémon gen 9 #champion geeta #Geeta #pokémon geeta #fuck Geeta #hate this bitch

[drkineildwicks]

Okay so let’s talk about Palworld

Because I really do gotta talk about it this thing blew up

Apparently the guys who made it were expecting to sell like 300K the first week and ended up selling two million

They’re having to run damage control on the servers because the servers legit cannot handle the traffic

Last time I saw a game look like this it was Temtem on its first days

Because literally everybody underestimated how much game freak ticked off its fanbase

Which brings us to the Donphan in the room

Pokémon VS Palworld

Look we all knew going in that this was going to be a meme factory, whenever we talked about it the game is Pokémon: Gun

But it was also one of those games that popped up when GF started its stunts with dexit, reused assets, releasing half-baked games, etc.

People made fun of it and it’s stayed off the radar until this year, when it released

And yes caution should be exercised because this developer’s other game is still in early access so people are on the lookout for a scam

Not to mention the whole thing about using Pokémon assets, apparently aping Legends’ UI, the AI stuff, NFTs, a ton of other stuff

There’s apparently a whole thread on Twitter comparing and contrasting Pokémon designs with Pal designs and you can easily pick apart where assets were, if not outright stolen, were closely copied

So going in there’s a lot of weighing of pros and cons and some actual moral dilemmas as opposed to the whole fabricated BS of Hogwarts Legacy

Yes it was terrible that Rowling said *checks notes* that biological women exist and that victimized women should be allowed to dictate who is allowed in their safe spaces, these are obviously reasons to cancel somebody please don’t slip on the sarcasm there

But I’ve been watching streams of Palworld and…I want to play it???

You can look at it and 100% name that Pokémon and go okay they got THAT idea from THIS game (watching it I can list BotW, Sunkenland, and a couple others) apparently it’s the Pokémon ripoff version of Once Human

Which also ticks me off because after watching videos of that one I want to play that one too

And originally the big reason for looking more seriously at Palworld is…game freak needs to suffer

They’ve been releasing trash games for years now, the only good Pokémon game as of late is Legends Arceus and do not get me STARTED on the state that ScarVi released in

And then them having the gall to charge the price of a full game for DLC

So in order to play the ‘full game,’ you have to pay for BotW, TotK, and possibly a Mario game on top of it

Ain’t nobody got funds for that

Also the shills

I was telling Mom about all this earlier and when it came to discussing Pokémon games, even comparing them to previous Pokémon games, discussions online go like this anymore: “Well it’s not MADE for you!  It’s for kids!  Go find something else to do and quit picking on the poor multibillion dollar franchise! uwu”

And thus the people who grew up with Pokémon move on to other games, like Nexomon, Temtem, Cassette Beasts, Kindred Fates, Coromon, Palworld, etc.

Shills: “Wait no that’s illegal”

Honestly it’s like the YouTube vs Rumble or Twitter/Tumblr vs Conservative/right-wing websites thing—if you chase them off, what did you think they were going to do?

And then the design thing…a big fat part of me does not feel sorry about that

Because every single other game I listed?  The shills will look at those designs and go “what ripoffs they’re obviously Pokémon but not friend-shaped so ugly!”

So basically anything’s a ripoff, you might as well go full ripoff because the ‘fans’ are going to hate on it anyway

Also if anything even remotely shaped like a Pokémon is a ripoff, then Flamigo angers me even more because that is such a lazy design yes I’m still mad

Most of Gen IX legit looks like they asked an AI to spit out some Pokémon-shaped stuff and called it a day maybe a quarter of the ‘dex is salvageable and that’s being generous

And having spent the past year or so designing ‘mons for the DA group I help mod…three people doing designs have no problem filling a ‘dex out, the most time-consuming part of creating new Pokémon ought to be modeling the thing and once that’s down you’re good

Which means that Pokémon…has honestly asked for Palworld

Because let me tell you something—when I look at this ripoff of a game, this scam game that comes from people who think that NFTs and AI scraping and plagiarism is a good thing, that claims that every Pal that escapes from a ball had parents that never married, and I STILL want to play it over Pokémon?  When the scam game released in a better state than ScarVi?????

Pokémon drove every single customer to Palworld and because of it Palworld deserves every single one of those two million purchases

#palworld #pokemon criticism #pokemon salt #part of me really hates how good this game looks and how bad Pokemon has been #the other half wants game freak to suffer dearly for their sins #like yes palworld deserves some critiquing #because yeah these are obvious pokemon assets being used #but you can't also in the same breath be defending a company that has been releasing pre-alpha garbage and calling it a game for years now #game freak does not care for you #I'd rather be playing a ripoff game that I actually have fun with than being dragged along on yet another 'consoom product' game