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adobe-outdesign · 2 years

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If you still do pokemon reviews can you do my 4 all time fav pokemon magnezone, chesnaught, decidueye and serperior?

I already did Decidueye and Serperior, but as for the other two:

I like Magnezone better than Magneton on the grounds that Magneton is just three Magnemite stuck together and nothing else, whereas Magnezone is at least trying to do something. Don't even know how much it succeeds design-wise, but at least its trying.

It's also nice because you can still kind of tell it's three Magnemite, but the designs have been radically altered so they look like they're fused together. So it still conveys the same concept as Magneton, but with an original design instead that adds a bit of a UFO theme.

The design itself is good overall, but there are some questionable elements around the head. The antennae on top comes out of nowhere and adds another color for no reason; you could've dropped it and not lost anything. The "cap" that runs across the middle head is the same way; it would've been better just with a single round eye and dot like a regular Magnemite and nothing else. Other than that, however, it's solid.

Side note, I love its BW animation. Someone had way too much fun with it.

Chesnaught got a lot of dislike when it first came out, but honestly, I dig it? It has something things I'd change, but for being a warrior hedgehog chestnut it looks pretty slick. It's one of those Pokemon that does a good job at not being super literal with its concepts.

In terms of things I like, I love the pattern on the shell and the overall look of it, with the two giant spikes and four smaller spikes. The arms have a really neat look, with three claws and some extra spines on the back, and the color palette is really appealing.

However, there are some elements of the design that I feel could've used a bit of refinement. First, something about the body looks off to me; I think the legs and tail are a bit too long and thin for something so back-heavy. Compare it to the similarly-structured Blastoise and you'll see what I mean. The limbs don't have to be that short, but just shorter and stockier than they are here.

Secondly, the chestnut shell feels weird because it has a random green bit on the front cutting over the beard, seemingly for no reason other to make it look connected to the body. I feel like the green piece in front should've been removed, and instead have the shell wrap around the arms more. Same idea, just doesn't interrupt the other design elements as much. Also, shrink the front spikes slightly so they don't overlap the red outline and create tension.

Thirdly, it's got a bit of anime face going on. I would've dropped the random white section on top of the head and made the entire area brown, so the color is carried through more and you don't have so many random elements in there. Then give it a bit longer of a muzzle. Maybe add a row of spikes on the head as well, just to carry over the theme from the shell and arms.

And finally, while I like the colors a lot, it does make it feel very disconnected from Quilladin and Chespin. I'd argue that Quilladin isn't a good transition between the first and final evos in general, but the colors aren't helping. It's even stranger because the shiny is brown and green, and it does indeed match the rest of the line much better like this. I would've made the legs brown as well, or at least tan, but otherwise it feels like this should've been the main palette and the white should've been the shiny.

At the end of the day, though, I do like what it's going for, and it still has a pretty good design. It's just one of those Pokemon that's held back by a bunch of finicky details that keep it from quite nailing the landing as well as it could have.

#magnezone #chesnaught #pokemon #pokemon reviews #Ask

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thetwilightroadtonightfall · 3 years

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I’ve decided to share my funky pokemon team thus far! 7 badges in and I realized I never once showed them off or bragged about how much I like my own nicknames for them

Linguini - lvl 36 Dragonair (named Linguini because it’s got -ini like Dratini and is a noodle)

Rad - lvl 36 Gloom (named Rad as a reference to the Radish-Oddish connection and cause he’s just a rad lil guy)

DuranDuran - lvl 32 Nidorino (named DuranDuran because Nidoran sounds kinda similar; references an 80s band whose name I like)

Squire - lvl 43 Blastoise (named Squire because it’s similar to Squirtle and gives off the impression that he’s of nobility rising to become a knight)

Arcana - lvl 38 Arcanine (named Arcana because it sounds cool and is similar to Arcanine)

Musketeers - lvl 43 Dugtrio (named Musketeers for obvious reasons)

and a special shout out to my Raichu who got boxed a while ago with the best name imo, lovingly named Ellie after Ellie Chu from one of my fav movies The Half of It

#roadie plays fire red

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cityescape4 · 5 years

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thoughts on your fav pokemon?

i have alot of favorites out of the 800+ so i’ll keep it to a short team of 6

Espeon: best eeveelution hands down; shaped like a friend; would be the best travel partner, loyal as fuck, listen i love espeon a whole lot its my favorite pokémon

Lucario: has the best Pokémon movie; would be a great partner to calm down anxiety via meditation and focusing aura; seems like riolu would be rambunctious to raise but once it evolved to Lucario would calm down lots

Blastoise: best starter Pokémon family (Chimchar line and Litten line are a damn close second though); Coolest Mega Evolution ability; very huggable, i would kill a man to defend this; you would carry it as a squirtle and then they grow up and carry you when they’re a Blastoise? perf 10/10

Gyarados: KING OF THE SEA, BABY! Always buy that 500 Pokédollar Magikarp from the salesman guy in the Kanto games, its WORTH. As soon as you get a rod in any game go find you a Magikarp; listen imagine being friends with a goddamn pseudo-dragon, it letting you ride on the back of it while you travel through the water how fucking cool would that be

Gallade: One of the best Gen 4 evos added to a pre-existing Pokémon; learns moves that make him a crit beast, add a scope lens and turn him into a crit king; seems like it’d be good with kids despite the lancets on its arms

Roserade: Also one of the best Gen 4 evos added to a pre-existing Pokémon, Roselia needed it badly; also the best dual Grass/Poison type; probably smells REALLY good, like fresh roses on a summers day

#asks #lawwhooves #Pokémon

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poke-dot · 6 years

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Cyndaquil Remix!

This little guy, I’m telling ya. I love this Pokemon and it’s line so much. Everyone’s like “my fav starter is one of the lizards!” And I”m all like... Have you ever tried cuddling with one? With a cyndaquil (or it’s evolutions) I could go camping, and cuddle into the the warm fur. Don’t get me wrong, Blastoise is ma’JAM. But I’m a cuddler, and cuddling with a turtle shell sounds... Exfoliating.

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animalcrossingtownlore · 6 years

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Lillie’s Pokemon Team (In Both Pokemon Sun/Moon + Pokemon Ultra Sun/Moon)

lillie is perfect. best pokegurl. she makes me so gay. fight me on this. you’ll win bc im tiny but u can still fight me. and has anyone noticed how i update daily? i don’t want to update daily but Arceus/Silvally says that if i dont i’ll never be the very best. like no one ever was. i’ve made this joke two times already. i need to stop.

Lillie’s team in Pokemon Sun/Moon:

- Venusaur ( I hear a lot of people saying Bulbasaur would be her starter pokemon and i agree with that. i mean really. charizard is a huge dragon and blastoise is a huge turtle. that’s a huge turn-off for lillie i bet. she likes huge frogs. i agree with that. huge frogs are the bae. also i headcanon lillie has a deep love and appreciation for flowers, so this pokemon would be right up her alley.

- Clefable (well, yeah. she has a cleffa plush and lusamine, her MOTHER, has a clefable. why shouldn’t she have a clefable? it would probably be one of her favorite pokemon, honestly.

- Ninetales (instead of having the alolan ninetales, she has a kantonian ninetales, since she’s in kanto. yeah i based this off the anime. i love the anime. the anime has it’s shit episodes but its still good. dont be salty bc your fav waifu, mallow isnt getting enough screentime. i agree with that but still--)

- Dragonite (well lillie already has a fairy type. why not have a cute dragon type? i think lillie needs at least one super big pokemon on her team and dragonite fits that. and doesn’t dragonite appear in one of the episodes of pokemon? “Mystery Of The Lighthouse!” i think i can remember reading something like that, idk, but Bill was the one who saw it. lillie is actually going to kanto to see bill, right?)

- Vaporeon (Bill also gives away an eevee, right??? well, if bill gave lillie an eevee, i could see it evolving into Vaporeon. mostly because lillie already has a grass and a fire type, so she might as well have a vaporeon with her.

- Chansey (you know how chansey is nurse joy’s pokemon? you know how lillie is basically a walking pokemon center? yeah.)

Lillie’s team in Pokemon Ultra Sun/Moon:

- Primarina (since lillie stays in alola for this game, then her starter pokemon would be popplio. i mean first off popplio is a little babby that is in need of protection, mainly protection from the internet, so lillie would protect it. also primarina! has a ponytail! like lillie does! so why not?!)

- Clefable (you can catch cleffa in the alola region)

- Ninetales (but in alolan form!!!)

- Arcanine (she needs a big pokemon and this works perfectly as well)

- Lilligant (i’m not trying to rip-off lusamine’s team or anything, but it’s name is seriously Lilligant! her name is Lillie! and also lilligant comes from petilil, a small wittle babby. lillie loves small wittle babbies.

- Silvally (her edgy brother, gladion, gave her one of the three type:nulls. gladion kept the first type:null, he gave the second to the player, and he gave the third one to lillie.)

so there you go. that’s my opinion on what my pokewaifu’s team would be like. pokewaifu is a word. i know it is. i hear a lot of ppl saying lillie would have nebby on her team, like either lunala or solgaleo depending if you have pokemon sun or moon? idk, but in my opinion im not 100% sure if that makes sense. but whatever, that’s everybody else’s opinions.

#pokemon headcanons #pokemon #pokemon sun #pokemon moon #pokemon lillie #lillie #but really lillie does make me so gay #lillie x moonie #ahh that's the new ship lillie x myself

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hanasaku-shijin · 7 years

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I’m a sucker for customized Pokemon gyms in Pokemon GO so here are some I’d love to see/help create one day, (including gen3, not including legendaries, but imagine how sick it’d be if we could put THOSE in gyms...):

Eeveelution gym: Eevee, Vaporeon, Flareon, Jolteon, Espeon, Umbreon (I know it’s been done and I’ve seen them but I just love them)

Nidoran family gym: Nidoran male, Nidoran female, Nidorino, Nidorina, Nidoking, Nidoqueen

Baby gym: (any combo of) Togepi, Magby, Pichu, Smoochum, Azurill, Cleffa, Elekid, Igglybuff, Wynaut, Tyrogue

Regional gym: Mr.Mime, Tauros, Heracross, Corsola, Kangaskhan, Farfetch’d

Starters gym: (any combo of) the gen 1-3 starters and their families

Tiny gym: Weedle, Carerpie,Wurmple, Dunsparce, Spinerak, Ratatta

Butterfly gym: Butterfree, Venomoth, Beautifly, Dustox, Yanma, Beedrill

Bird gym: Pidgeot, Fearow, Noctowl, Xatu, Swellow, Pelipper,

Mouse gym: Pichu, Pikachu, Raichu, Plusle, Minun, Ratatta/Raticate

Turtle gym: Squirtle, Wartortle, Blastoise, Torkoal, Golem, Shuckle

Rodent gym: Ratatta, Raticate, Sentret, Furret, Zigzagoon, Linoone

Dog gym: Growlithe, Acranine, Houndour, Houndoom, Poochyena, Mightyena, Snubbull, Granbull, Electrike, Manectric (I know that’s 10 but shh)

Blob gym: Grimer, Muk, Gulpin, Swalot, Whiscash, Ditto

Dragon gym: Charizard, Dragonite, Salamence, Tropius, Flygon, Gyrados

And plenty of more are possible, like gyms full of all worms/bugs/birds/crabs/seals/dogs/cats and all certain kinds of the same animal, but a lot of those would all consist of the same type so they’d be easy to take down. But still, cool to see.

And now some personal, more creative fav ideas of mine (some have more than 6 sorry) my favs are starred and I wanna make them one day irl:

Toy Store: Swablu, Spinda, Castform, Pichu, Whismur, Teddiursa

Pet Shop*: Electrike, Skitty, Meowth, Growlithe, Houndour, Poochyena,

Garden: Sunkern, Gardevoir, Sunflora, Skiploom, Bellosom, Vileplume

Dojo: Machamp, Meditite, Medicham, Hitmonlee, Hitmonchan, Hariyama

Valentine: Clefable, Blissey, Luvdisc, Gorebyss, Wigglytuff, Flaaffy

Easter: Exeggcute, Chansey, Togepi, Mareep, Psyduck, Azumarill,

Halloween*: Misdreavus, Sableye, Haunter, Banette, Crobat, Duskull, Hypno, Murkrow, Cubone/Marowak, Noctowl

Zoo*: Aipom, Girafarig, Camerupt, Phanpy, Dodrio, Persian, Walrein

Forest: Stantler, Ursaring, Sudowoodo, Vulpix, Mawile, Kecleon

Farm*: Grumpig, Mareep, Miltank, Ponyta, Growlithe, Tauros, Torchic

Fishtank: Carvanha, Magikarp, Goldeen, Qwilfish, Feebas, Remoraid

Aquarium*: Cloyster, Seaking, Wailord, Sharpedo, Lanturn, Octillery, Huntail, Kingdra, Corsola, Mantine, Tentacool/cruel (i know that’s more than 6 but there’s a lot of good ocean guys)

Pond: Chinchou, Lotad, Surskit, Poliwag, Marill, Politoad, Croconaw, Mudkip

Tropical: Tropius, Exeggutor, Wingull, Pelipper, Crawdaunt, Kingler, Clamperl, Shellder

Planetarium: Lunatone, Solrock, Staryu, Starmie, Castform, Shuppet

Beast: Rhydon, Aggron, Armaldo, Magmar, Nidoking, Nidoqueen

Dinosaur*: Lapras, Meganium, Aerodactyl, Tyranitar, Relicanth, Nidoking, Aggron

Gigantic*: Snorlax, Slaking, Wailord, Tyranitar, Lapras, Steelix (can you imagine what this gym would look like holy crap)

Elegant*: Ninetales, Dragonair, Rapidash, Altaria, Milotic, Gorebyss, Masquerain

Anyway I had way too much fun thinking of these and it took way too long, but if you guys have any more cool ideas for a six-mon gym from gens 1-3 that could become reality in Pokemon GO, please do add them! Or better yet if you’ve seen some of these, add screenshots!

#im #so sorry this is LONG #pokemon #pokemon go #pokemon go shit #this took too long but it was FUN

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change-the-rules · 7 years

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FROM ONE PIKACHU TO ANOTHER sidenote do they play pokemon in the au do they have fave pokes. also i can't wait for alex and maggie to meet and realize they're soulmates and to be like "ok but i'm still mad about the trex and feathers thing" and then forl ucy to come in like "guys theyve been dead for years"

oh oh dude okay so I hadn’t really thought about it in context of the soulmate au specifically so it hasn’t been mentioned and it probably won’t be but they totally do and on valentines day when Magie is like 6 she doodles a pokeball and some cheesy shit like I choose you to be my soulmate and it’s adorable.

Also that is totally like an ongoing ‘fight’ Alex and Maggie have, like Maggie actually took some paleontology classes for funsies and as an adult she actually thinks it’s really cool the kind of strides we’ve made in science and the hows and whys T-Rexes probably had feathers but then there’s the little kid nostalgia and Alex gets so worked about science facts so Maggie just ‘nope 15 years later and it’s still lame’ and they bicker endlessly about it

And when Lucy is like ‘guys guess what? they’ve been dead for years, technically none of them have feathers anymore.’

Maggie looks up at her with the biggest saddest eyes and Alex pouts because she was going to get Maggie to see reason this time but now look at how sad she is and Lucy is just jfc how did I end up with such nerds for soulmates and she has to go put on Jurassic Park 2 and cuddle with them(Jurassic Park is Maggie’s go to comfort movie but Jurassic Park: The Lost World is Lucy’s ‘I fucked up by saying the dinosaurs were extinct to end an argument so now we have to watch a T-Rex rampage through San Diego to balance it out).

Sooooo….I got so carried away with various pokemon hcs that I had to put it under a cut….

I have so many poke hc’s for them in general but like I tend hc Maggie as a gamer, little Maggie growing up and she can’t afford to collect the cards but she loves the anime and eventually saves up enough to get a gameboy color. Her first game is red and she plays it so many times she practically wears out the cartridge. She’s the first person (and only for awhile) in blue springs to catch Mew. She eventually collects and plays all the games and she’s a complete expert on all the glitches and secrets.

Alex was more of a casual fan she watched the anime sometimes but Vicky liked playing the games so Alex asked her parents to buy her a gameboy color and trading pokemon on the playground is probably the most social Alex ever was without alcohol.

She did really REALLY get into collecting the cards though and at one point Maggie and Alex visit Eliza in Midvale and Alex’s room is as she left it. Maggie is having fun poking around and teasing Alex for her Xena memorabilia and Dana Scully and BtVS posters(seriously Danvers, Faith is practically eye-fucking the camera in that one across from your bed how did you not know) when she finds the three thick Pokemon card binders and freezes. Alex notices and grabs them like I totally forgot I had these and she starts flipping through one reminiscing and handing another to Maggie and Maggie almost shits herself because Alex has a first edition base set holo Charizard, she has all the starters, she has all the original 151 cards in various editions from different series and collections , She has holos, she has Japanese cards, she has shining cards. Kara ends up stopping by because I could hear Maggie’s erratic heart rate from National city and ‘holy shit is everyone okay?’

Alex’s attachment to the cards is more nostalgia than anything so she’s like you can have them if you want, Maggie almost has a heart attack. Of course she refuses those cards are worth more than she makes in a month but Alex brings them back to National City and they just kind of end up ‘Maggie’s’ anyway.

Lucy collected the cards too but she actually played the trading card game. Being an army brat could be isolating but pokemon in the 90s was inescapable and it was something to do on any base, in any school she ended up in for awhile. Lucy played to win and for keeps and she ended up with her own pretty decent collection of cards even though hers aren’t nearly in the kind of mint condition Alex’s are in. Maggie still hyperventilates sometimes if she catches sight of the 5 card binders on the bookcase(Alex organized Lucy’s collection from an old shoebox into binders of their own).

For her birthday Lucy and Alex get Maggie an unopened special edition pokemon gameboy color from the yellow bundle. She cries because she had wanted that one more than anything as a kid but couldn’t afford it and they spend the night cuddled up together playing pokemon on their gameboys like the nerds they are.

Maggie and Winn stay up all night outside gamestop for the 20th aanniversary red and blue 3ds bundle.

Maggie’s ultimate fav is Bulbasaur she remembers watching the anime and wishing she had one to protect her from the bullies and eventually she gets older and decides she may never have a Bulbasaur but she can be one for others.

She has a bunch of favorites though including pikachu (she will physically fight anyone who says something about anyone not being a ‘real fan’ because pikachu is too famous or popular a pokemon), Aerodactly, Kabuto(her first body on the beach she sees a horseshoe crab and has to try really hard not to lose her shit because she’s from landlocked nebraska, and she is looking a kabuto and basically it’s an effort to remind herself that she is a newly promoted detective that needs to get her shit together) Tauros, Nidoqueen, Donphan, Tyranitar(basically if it’s vaguely dino-like she has a soft spot but dragons can go either way stemming from her childhood belief they arent as cool as dinos), Mightyena, Groudon, alright I’m going to stop but she develops favorites in each gen.

Alex meanwhile is staunchly first gen and she and Maggie bicker about constantly.

Alex tended to favor water pokemon but not exclusively some of her faves Lapras, Vaporeon, Porygon, Starmie, Dratini, Ninetails, Abra/Alakazam and Onix. She also has a secret soft spot for Togepi as well as Espeon and Umbreon who she thinks of kind of like her and Kara, sun and moon and argues that they still technically count as 1st gen because they’re eevee evolutions.

Lucy is mostly only really familiar with the first gen and some of the second but she doesn’t really care either way and will choose sides based on maximum amusement for the moment. Some of her favs include Squirtle/Blastoise, Arcanine, Pidgeot, Nidoking, Machamp, Lickitung, Gyarados, Flareon.

And well Alex is a BIOengineer and she studies alien physiology and genetic engineering and if anyone was going to ‘accidentally’ create real life pokemon it would be her okay.

(mostly I just really think J'onn needs a Ditto…..)

And I was talking about this with nerdsbianhokie ages ago and they pointed out that Alex has seen Jurassic Park enough times to know to not create large creatures that can kill humans and would probably go with the mini-zoo variety and then they blessed me with the mental image of a tiny little Ditto riding on J'onn’s shoulder.

Vasquez would end up making obligatory pocket size jokes that they don’t even pretend aren’t about Maggie and Lucy. They’d only stop when Alex threatens to withhold the actual mini pocket monsters from them and even then only when They’re within ear shot of Alex.

The spacefam ending up with mini-pokemon protectors. Maggie gets her fucking Bulbasaur and everyone cries.

And then my dude I have not even touched on pokemon go hc’s

Kara blowing an entire paycheck on upgrading her pokemon storage because she can’t bring herself to turn any of her duplicates into candy and she needs to catch every single pokemon she sees. She has like a thousand pidgeys at this point.

Nerdsbianhokie was like but Kara being upset that she flies too fast for the app.

And Alex/Maggie/Lucy? Pokemon go would be terrible and awesome for those competitive nerds. They have zero shame.

Lucy exploits her military contacts, her and Alex abuse DEO resources, Alex makes Kara fly her around the world to get the region locked pokemon.

After Lucy came back from a ‘work trip’ in Asia with a Farfetch’d, Alex made Kara take the day off and wouldn’t let them go home til she had multiple Farfetch'ds, Kangeshkans, and Mr. Mimes.

Maggie tries to keep up but detecting only gets her so far. She does have a network of ppl who are the type to text the location of a Lapras at 3am.When Kara realizes the edge Lucy and Alex have she starts exclusively helping Maggie.

Alex is completely overdramatic like my own sister, MY OWN SISTER pretending to pretend to make a huge production about loyalty. And Kara’s just like ‘I’m just being fair besides Lucy and Maggie are my sisters too at this point’ and Alex just melts. She also gets Winn to build her a long range Jet pack into the kryptonite suit in an attempt and get back on top of the game but she’s melty while doing it.

Winn Mr.tech genius manages to get himself banned from ‘suping’ up his account and has to start over at level 21. He cries.

As repayment for not commenting upon the melty-ness during the jet pack building Alex takes his phone with her on flights since he had to start over. Of course, being Alex she doesn’t actually say this she just sort of punches his arm in thanks, steals the phone and drops it back into his lap later with a few eggs hatched, some new pokemon and a full items inventory.

Lucy realizes she’s the only one currently unable to fly which oh hell no so she starts scheming.

‘Director Lane, did you requisition military resources for a video game?’ 'Of course not, it’s an app.’ (via nerdsbianhokie)

Vasquez is the first to get the original 151….All of them… no one understands, they have no obvious hacks, seemingly haven’t left North America, Ditto is still a spoty rumor at that point and Mewtwo is confirmed as not yet available or even programed and yet… Vasquez has them. When anyone asks They deflect and says you should see my wife’s.

Erin is level 48 way too early in the game.She has a Mew. Everyone is kinda of scared of them after learning about it, the true power couple.

No one ever figures out how they did it.

J’onn just wants his agents to behave like professionals and bans non-related phone use during working hours after seven agents ran away from their posts to catch a Charizard. He’s in the middle of lecturing them when Lucy and Alex stroll in like did you guys see that Charizard?!

(Kara downloaded the app to his phone and J’onn totally caught the Charizard)

James takes pictures of the gang doing absolutely ridiculous things while trying the catch pokemon and it becomes a meme.

There’s a gym (The D.E.O was also accidently made a gym what no Vasquez and Winn had nothing to do with that what are you talking about) accessible from Alex’s apartment and it’s a bloodbath because they’re all on different teams, Maggie-Instinct, Lucy-Valor and Alex-Mystic.

Just yea……uhmmm this all got away from me *shrugs sheepishly*

#yokothetypo #asks #skin canvas soulmate au #hcs #holy shit this ran the fuck away from me #director sanvers #pokemon nonsense

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fearofpop · 7 years

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Tagged by @stephenmalkmusofficial for a ten questions thing.

Nickname: Katie

Star Sign: Virgo

Height: 5′1″

Time rn: 2:40 pm

Last thing I Googled: Oscar winners

Fav music artist: Ben Folds

Song stuck in my head: Redbone by Childish Gambino

Last movie I watched: Hidden Figures

Last tv show I watched: Late Night with Seth Meyers

What I’m wearing rn: white sneakers, black sweatpants, pink church camp t-shirt, Ben Folds Five hoodie

When I created this blog: Oh boy... um, in 10th grade. So like, 2012/2013. I don’t remember exactly.

Kind of stuff I post: movies, tv, music, comedy

Do I get asks regularly: No :(

Why I chose my url: it’s the name of an experimental album by Ben Folds

Hogwarts House: Hufflepuff

Pokemon team: Don’t get me started!!

Sun: Incineroar, Solgaleo, Lycanroc, Lurantis, Bewear, and Alolan Ninetales

Moon: Incineroar, Ribombee, Mismagius, Mudsdale, Toxapex, and Tsareena

AlphaSapphire: Swampert, Mightyena, Pikachu, Seviper, Ninetales, and Latias

OmegaRuby: Blaziken, Latios, Gardevoir, Manectric, Sharpedo, and Groudon

X: Blastoise, Crobat, Jolteon, Houndoom, Abomasnow, and Xerneas

Y: Delphox, Blastoise, Vileplume, Granbull, Lucario, and Yveltal

Black2: Samurott, Volcarona, Cobalion, Virizion, Terrakion, and Kyurem

Black: Emboar, Simisage, Swoobat, Bisharp, Reshiram, and Kyurem

Fav Colors: red, lime green, purple

Average hours of sleep: about 8 probably

Lucky number: 11

Favorite Characters: Tony Stark, Sam Winchester, Abed Nadir, Freddy Newandyke, Gary King, Leia Organa... and more!

Dream Job: Editor-in-Chief

Number of blankets I sleep with: One sheet and one comforter like a goddamn adult.

Following: 225

Tagging @chungkingforest @americanpsycho1991 @gwendolinechristie @laserkats and @deadwright

#tag game #me

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mulleister · 7 years

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ask meme

thank you @thomasmxller for tagging me!

nickname: mmh don’t rly have one height: 166 cm

last thing I googled: “fallout 3 vs 4 ghouls” (i don’t even know)

fave music artist: my fav band is def coldplay but i love muse and the killers as well and so many more artists

song stuck in my head: i’m currently vidding it so it’s 80 millionen by max something last movie I watched: les mis with my one friend last tv show I watched: this random british investigation thing on netflix what are you wearing right now: pjs when did you create your blog: around 2010 what kind of stuff do I post: my blog is a m ess and i’m so sorry for my followers-- i post football but then comics and bethesda games with movies and shows i like i do you have any other blogs: i have some collab blogs and my new art blog :D @leawanderer do you get asks regularly: sometimes??? mostly when i reblog ask stuffs

why did you choose your url: because thomas is a weltmeister

gender: female hogwarts house: huffepuff :v

pokemon team: okay this is my pokemon x team it’s a jolteon, a gallade, a scizor, a blastoise, a salamence and a meganium (i love my team so much i)

fave color: red average hours of sleep: i’m a mess lucky number: 11 has always been special :v fave character: !!! i have too many!!! i can only think of clark kent rn, and harry from hp, but honestly i have a fav character in every fandom lmao how many blankets do you sleep with: with two because my room is coldish dream job: .... sports translator :v following: 152

#ask meme #this was fun yay

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prismportrait · 7 years

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My Pokemon Teams

Hey IDK I’d like to write about the partners I’ve had through my life and what they meant to me! Cause yanno, they’re unsung heroes too, what with how important Pokemon is to me.

Kanto

I was lucky enough to be the target age group right as Pokemon came to the United States as Pokemon Red & Blue, a classmate of mine introduced me and then we became best of friends over it.

Because I can’t access my Stadium with a busted N64 I... have no idea what my OT name was, and I seem to recall my first playthrough file got corrupted somehow physically. I remember being devastated and making a... don’t laugh... a Geocities webpage in memorium to my Raichu. I also wrote 9/10 year old “poetry”.

What I do remember was I had a Blastoise, Raichu “Sparky”, and a Vileplume that I was angry I couldn’t name “FlowerChild” because of character limits so I stubbornly named her F.C.. I still tag Vileplume stuff as F.C. haha.

More in recent memory, my FireRed/LeafGreen playthrough consisted of:

FireRed: Trainer Usagi, touting Arcanine “Arzu”, Dugtrio “Dugzu”, Wartortle “Tlezu”, Dragonite “Drazu”, and Meowth “Owzu” No idea why I didn’t evolve Eevee to Jolteon but I do recall walking into the E4 and saving post Lorelei on accident while TOTALLY not ready for the rest. :’> I was... determined not to evolve the ones I liked more in their pre-evolution. My stubbornness caused me to... never successfully beat Champion Blue but I loved my team and that was what mattered! And I still have all of them in Bank today! (knowing about “naming themes” I went with an easy one based on old Pokemon Stadium suggestions- part of the Pokemon name + “zu” suffix)

LeafGreen: Trainer Tokeiko, using Charizard “Okuribi”, Dragonite “Ryu”, Raichu “Rakurai”, Butterfree “Kaoru”, and a Victreebel, no idea why I didn’t nickname, I didn’t intend to originally use Victreebel but it helped my team a lot. I was in the weaboo phase and looking up badly translated Japanese works- or Japanese sounding words- to name these Pokemon. -_- This was my main and full completion playthrough though! I restarted for OT Risu.

Johto

This broke my trend in starting with the “secondary” because my SoulSilver was put on hold until the WalMart special game bundle came through with the Lugia figure. I couldn’t help myself and beat the game with HeartGold and into Kanto... I never finished getting the Gym Badges though and going off to Red. I don’t recall much why besides lack of interest.

HeartGold: Trainer Shanon, based on my first OCT run! Now her character was a bug enthusiast but she had a team mostly inaccessible to me without hacking at the time as no way to trade from Sinnoh. So she started with cyndaquil, my fav of the Johto starters, Typhlosion “Tressia”, Poliwrath “Hans” (like in canon), Gengar “Alex” (like in canon), Forretress “Cone’en” (like in canon), and then Ampharos “Current”, Dragonair “Talisman”, Jumpluff “Cottonball”, Togetic “Sunny”, and Kangaskhan “Gambit” (later INSPIRING a continuation to canon, even before Mega Kanga!). Tangela “Myriad” (from canon) I painstakingly caught in Kanto but never bothered to level up too much without a way to evolve her... I forget how I got Alex evolved herp. I loved Shanon’s naming style which was slightly meta, almost too-normal, or very silly for a pretty straight faced, “too serious” player character. It gave a personality to even boxed Pokemon, making them even worth transferring through gen 5 to gen 6 and Bank! Shanon came up with some of my favorite-most nicknames- Sandslash “Minesweeper” and their Sandshrew daughter “Rawhide”, Mantine “Missile”, Scyther couple “Papercut” and “Doublecut”, Paras “Parapa”, Weedle “Dillan”, Beedrill “Honey”, Butterfree “Radar”, Spinarak “Arack”, Venonat “Radar”, Farfetch’d “Dinner”, Misdreavus “Annibella”, Sudowoodo “Treeface”, Larvitar “Tartar”, Umbreon “Omlet”, Tentacool “Virginia”, Quagsire “Smiley”, Gyarados “Vicious”, and Arbok “Silvia”.

SoulSilver: my “hack” game with an AR, trainer Yanni was Shanon’s “rival” in the OCT so it seemed fitting this disabled hitman was the rival game play. Key Pokemon: Hitmonlee “Luger”, Nidoking “Theseus”, Dewgong “Menthe”, Fearow “Pyrite”, Arcanine “Waffles”, (so his official team from the rp!), then... my shiny Electrode “Lex” (yes, hacked and based on the RP one from Dresca), shiny, totally hacked Lugia, Lance’s Dragonite I illegally caught and named “Hamlet”, and the EXTREMELY RANDOM appearance of Entei “Vulcan” while I was waiting for a manager one morning in the parking lot of work, forcing me to use a Masterball for my lack of time (I seriously turned on the DS to get somewhere in 5 min...)

Hoenn

Ohhh boy it’s my favorite most and most played games! Really guilty confession... I haven’t finished ORAS. :’( Wally broke my spirit too badly so I quit and tried a fun idea on a Nuzlocke... lost interest, and then I wanted a shiny soft reset so I have my OmegaRuby indefinitely... at a starter selection screen... for years...

So all of the below will be Ruby, Sapphire, and Emerald!

Sapphire: Starting with my most precious and longest played single game, Trainer May has well over 400 hours of gameplay alone. Her team was a Swampert “Kudmip”, Plusle “Pro-Bunny”, Mightyena “Maxi” (named after my Uncle’s dog which looked just like Mightyena!!), Latias “Nemo” (NOT named after Finding Nemo...), Rayquaza “Rayza”, Kyogre “HydroKing”, and Banette “Salonde”... not the best at naming at 12 years old. Special shoutout to my shiny Dodrio “Takisho” I found and CAUGHT in the Safari Zone!

Ruby: I reset and replayed this game a lot so I’ll be brief. I wanted to replay but not sacrifice May’s file in Sapphire so I used Ruby and decided I would do a real playthrough with 1 of EVERY evolutionary family in Hoenn. I didn’t fully succeed my plans but I had a very fun time trying to use new Pokemon I passed over in runs usually, using naming themes, and trying to still make a successful balanced team. OT Allen (name theme -as suffix for male gender Pokes, -y suffix for female gender): Trapinch “Flygas”, Wailmer “Orby”, Lileep “Cradas”, Torkoal “Torgas”, Manectric “Trixy”, Skarmory “Skartas” (aborted run- Trapinch is waayyy hard to level naturally in playthrough, waiting for EQ is suffering) OT Amy (suffic ends in -um): Marshtomp “Kippum”, Grumpig “Pokkum”, Spinda “Spindum”, Magneton “Magnum”, Nuzleaf “Seedum”, Magcargo “Mamum” (aborted run- I think... I lost interest) OT RW (based on RP characters with NeoYami): Blaziken “Ybaso”, Manectric “Taishi”, Flygon “Aisu”, Shedinja “Yakubi”, Absol “Amazora”, and Golduck “Atariya”. Completed run and damn is Shedinja hard to use in a playthrough... OT Baku (uh... special spelling?): Sceptile “Draihkoe”, Minun “Electrolyt”, Hariyama “Kinaco”, Cradily “Rootnut” I think this was my first playthrough of Ruby! No idea why I only had 4 Pokes transferred.

Emerald: 1 playthrough because why abort when I have an AWESOME Battle Frontier to challenge??? I based this really blatantly on SD Gundam Force... Trainer Shuten (my female Shute) using Aggron “Captain”, Gardevoir “Zero”, Ninetails “Bakunetsu”, Raichu “Xoki” (an old nickname I tried once), Swampert “Amakaze” (based on a fic I was writing prior to Season 2, establishing the history of Ark), and Breloom “Haro”. This was a good damn team and we earned 2 frontier emblems! My favorite to challenge was Spencer but Lucy was great to beat. Special shoutout Pokemon: Flygon “Fijikaru” and Trapinch “Tokudan” who I somehow leveled both to 70.

Sinnoh

My least favorite games next to B2/W2 but Platinum grew on me. Weirdly, I’m VERY attached to my team from this gen but this was my first “full internet experience” gen so I feel... that actually soured the experience, and enhanced other elements. Eh.

Pearl: My main playthrough as... Shanon! Yes, the same one from HG. I loved this team so much for it’s weird dynamic “different” feel and how well they did, I even made an ID for them. I should keep doing that... These names were different from normal RP Shanon in that they were combining Japanese words with parts of their name. Girafarig "Kirinfarig", Garchomp "Kurauchomp", Mismagius "Yumegius", Floatzel "Itazel", Crobat "Shikobat", and Luxray "Hikaray". Notice no starter? Nope. I refused to use a starter for my main play of DPPt! Partly cause I didn't like any of the options at the time of starting too... As usual with Shanon, some interesting PC Poke names: Porygon “Rongopy”, Rotom “Motor”, and the Raichu “Rinku” and “Rayna”.

Diamond: I had 2 playthroughs. The first I had planned the team meticulously much like the aborted run of FireRed, except I had eggs made and sent over so I could specifically use this team. This was under Trainer Anrui (based on an OC). Typohlosion “Kasaiquil”, Aron “Eteron”, Bronzong “Douzong”, Murkrow “Kagerow”, Shiny Umbeon I won in a giveaway as an Eevee I had named “Kurokon”, and Empoleon “Awaleon”. Trainer Adelais was made in a similar hope I could have more fun like I did in Ruby with using Pokes I don’t like as much to explore- naming themed to mundane color names based on the Pokemon’s color and dual meaning! Pikachu “Straw”, Grotle “Thicket”, Lopunny “Pecan”, Vespiquen “Honey”, Cranidos “Umber”, and Whiscash “Phthalo”. This was an aborted run.

I don’t even... know if I transferred my Platinum team... or remember it for the life of me. ._. I just know I have never used Infernape. Hiss.

Unova

Ahhh the “Dresca” years, where I eventually reconnect with my girlfriend. I had the full internet at my disposal at this time so instead of busying myself with video games as an adult, I spent my time better (...rping Pokemon instead lol).

White (Japanese): I was SO EXCITED for this game, I actually imported my first and only import! After this gen, they stopped releasing in Japan before America, lucky for me, so for the first main series game I was aware of before release, and I was deeply involved in the community before release, importing was a big deal to me and my first exposure to Gen5 involved a lot of new firsts! It was really challenging to play a foreign language, luckily my deep grasp of Pokemon mechanics is really what saved my bacon but the biggest challenge was figuring out which moves were going to be offense ones “I could use” when a Pokemon was prompting to learn a new mystery move. Trainer DC used a Victini, Emolga “Momo”, Excadrill “Star”, Serperior “Suzy”, Bisharp “Saga”, and a Scrafty. Another new first: having a legendary to grow on my team before even the 2nd gym battle. Fuckin Nice™

Black: I decided to break conventional wisdom and go for an an all-steel type team for my first run through in English Black, finally coming to America. Luckily, Gen5 gave me lots of options! Trainer Olivier (named after another admired OC in our group, Oliver), used Excadrill “Douglas” (based on my OC), Klingklang “Kog” (based on coco’s OC), Bisharp “Ryohei” (brother to Saga- my OC- but played by vern) which I bred METICULOUSLY to get defiant nature and boy leveling him in 1st/2nd gym is h a r d, Ferrothorn “Seth” (based on another’s OC) who was actually caught and transferred from White(JP) so he leveled way faster than everyone else- that crusty bastard, Durant “Anthony” (based on my OC), and... last but not least, the namesake, Cobalion “Oliver”. Using an all-steel team on my “first” playthrough (in English) was super challenging but super fun too! I remember how exciting it was to finally read and understand what was happening. Having my Unova experience broken into “being impressed by the changes to rendered spriting and beautiul design” game and then“following the plot and the emotional turmoil” game, two separate experiences that would normally make a whole. Could anything be more fitting to Black and White? This was easily my 2nd all time fav region/game before... Sun and Moon ruined my life... Special shoutout Pokemon: Dewott “Honda” who saved my butt the first 2 gyms as I struggled with Seth and Ryohei, and Kangaskhan “Gambit” (yep, like Shanon’s), Scizor “Archimonde” (my OC), and Musharna “Chevy” for being my kick-ass team for the Battle Tower stuff!

White 2: All aboard the train to Disappointment City! It’s not worth the discussion but I got so pissed at this game I actually refused to pursue it to the end rather than just abandoned the game. But my team I still loved, I decided the naming theme would be to constellations. Trainer Cavoli used Samurott “Orion”, Lucario “Pyxis”, Magnezone “Fornax”, Volcarona, Flygon “Circinus”, and Espeon “Caelum”.

Kalos

Y: Kalos had SO MANY great options, and with newer advances in easy leveling, this was my first success at raising more than 6 Pokemon through my normal playthrough without prior planning. My team was massive and swapping them around at whim was quite fun! I don’t really get the Kalos hate, I thought the game was pretty solid and damn it WAS enough with all the new features. Maybe less “X/Y” megas and less pandering to Genwunners woulda been nice tho. Trainer Reina had a naming style based on my interest in Transformers at the time! Chestnaught “Rumbleside”, Blastoise “Breakdown”, Aegislash “Daggerback”, Raichu “Thundersound”, Salamence “Predaking”, Pangoro “Starburst”, MeowsticM “Pathwind”, Heliolisk “Nitrospark”, Aurorus “Carbyte”, Snorlax “Metroplex” (the hardest of all of them to keep up to level), and Talonflame “Starscream”.

X: ...actually I never finished my X run. Why do I buy games I don’t play? It is a mystery. Anyway, shoutout to my current unfinished run of it, where I am playing as Trainer Yaku and have a shiny Froakie I painstakingly bred and hatched at the dentist’s office.

Alola

Here we are present day up to date!

Moon: Trainer Méta because I had a flash interest in Meta Knight just before picking up my new game, used Decidueye “Treize”, A.Persian “Nyasume”, Minior “Popolohua”, Ribombee “Flutter”, A.Raichu “Kahula”, and A.Sandslash “Haukoa”! Honestly all the Pokemon I SUPER wanted on this team were the problem children in obtaining but I got em anyway! Persian and Ribombee I NEVER expected to keep but... I couldn’t take them off, they were too strong a force. Special shoutout to Slowbro “Dopey” and Toucannon “Pinii” of whom I never imagined I would continue to train from Melemele island on the side. RIP Salandit “Nikelas” my male Salandit that took forever to even find and then forever to train only to learn males don’t evolve. :) :) :)

Sun: Haven’t finished 1 playthrough yet but I did loan it to a coworker to try and get her to play. She started with Litten!

I might try Primarina in USUM... who know!

#game talk #pokemon #damn i love my pokemon #these are my friends who helped me beat the game #do this too if you want... lol...#my god i need to finish some games dang #my teams

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adobe-outdesign · 3 years

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Oh what are your thoughts on Shuppet and Banette?

One thing I wanna point out here is how weird the English translation is with these guys. Namely, they're named after puppets and marionettes respectively, despite clearly being neither of those things. Even their categories change, despite there being nothing wrong with the Japanese ones.

In Shuppet's case, the name change comes because its Japanese name references what it's based off of, a teru-teru bozu; but that doesn't explain why they added a theme that wasn't there when other Japanese Pokemon are left alone. Banette's Japanese name was just a combo of curse and doll, which makes it even weirder!

Anyway, design wise, Shuppet is fine. Like I said above, it's a teru-teru bozu, which is neat because it means it's going from something meant to bring good weather and feelings to something that feeds off of negative feelings. Neat!

Design wise, it's pretty straight fowardly a black teru-teru bozu, just with a horn (which oddly looks like its covered in fabric, despite the fact that it doesn't seem to be covered in fabric at all, that's just its body). The most interesting part is the eyes, which are really neat looking and add some much needed color.

I've always felt that Shuppet and Banette felt a bit disconnected from each other. The colors are a little similar, but the complete change in body shape, combined with the change in eyes, makes them look a bit too separate. Kind of makes me wonder if they were two separate lines that got merged togetehr like Blastoise in gen 1 (esp because some speculate that Banette's a reworking of the scrapped straw hour-of-the-ox doll from the beta; not sure how much I believe that though).

Banette is fine, but it's also a little plain. The zipper mouth is great, but I would've liked to see the zippers played with more, maybe appearing in more places. The tail also looks... weird, I'm not sure what's going on with it and it looks tacked-on. The expression is good though, and I like the "hat".

But holy shit, I love Mega Banette. It fixes all my problems with the original--not enough zippers? Now there are more. colors are a little plain? Now it has some sweet pink accents to match its eyes. Tail looks weird? No worries, it's gone now!

But I also adore the concept behind this, with the doll opening its zippers to reveal some sweet demon appendages. Most megas are just "original Pokemon, but More", so it's great when we get an actual concept behind one like this.

I do have one single problem with it, however, and that is that it's a mega in the first place. I'm not opposed to 1 and 2-stagers getting megas if there's a reason for it, but why not just give Banette a regular evolution? I've heard people argue it looks too much like Banette to be an evolution, but it looks like that because it was designed as a mega. Take the same concept and design and give it a different body type and you'd be set. Plus, the body almost changes enough to be an evo; just alter the head a bit and you'd be set.

I only point this out because if this was its own evolution it might've just made it into my top 10 favs. As is, it's fantastic, but it's really a shame you only get to use it briefly in two gens and nowhere else.

#shuppet #banette #pokemon #pokemon reviews #Ask

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