#smusum

[souenkun]

Aether Family in Pokemas! ✨️

Pokemon Masters EX spoilers ahead:

They're FINALLY complete, and each of them has amazing glow ups and outfits compared to the ones in the anime!!! 🥳🥂🥺💖

Despite Lillie being the one paired with Magearna in the anime, I absolutely adore the idea of Gladion being paired with it too! His sygna suit for their sync pair is so fitting 🥺🫶💗

#legit this pulled me out of my fever. i thought i was making it all up in my feverish dream but then it's REAL... 😭😭😭💖💖💖 #gladion and magearna EVERYBODY CHEER!!!!! 🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🎉🎉🎉🎉 #rival gladion #trainer lillie #lusamine #aether family #pokemon #pokemon sun and moon #pokemon ultra sun and ultra moon #pokemon masters ex #pokemas #pokemon masters ex spoilers #pmex spoilers #smusum #alola #pokemon masters #i'm still feeling Awful so. i will think about whether or nawttt my gems will be enough to pull him for later 🫣🫣🫣 #i'm loving this gladion appreciation ever since he got into the trainer lodge! absolutely deserved! you go my emo king!!! ✨️✨️✨️

[sometipsygnostalgic]

"Why is Alola so hated?"

Someone asked this question on Reddit.

The original post:

"Other than too much dialogue what is the worst thing about Alola. Alola is my favorite Pokémon games and region for a multitude of reasons but all I hear about it is that it has too much dialogue. I can understand that but later titles have just as much dialogue especially in the beginning portions of the game. So why is such an issue in these games than any other in the series. Also you thought the GD games were dark, the Aether Family are very dark concept if you want to look into them. Anyways back on topic, why are Alola considered the worst games besides the dialogue of course"

I thought about this question and I ended up writing a lengthy reply, see below. For context I should mention that Sun and Moon were my favourite mainline stories:

"So everyone is mentioning USUM, but since I was around for the launch of the games, I may as well throw my hat into the ring and explain what went wrong:

Everyone was really excited for the games to come out, but there was generally something missing from them. Promotional material was overly vague.

When the original Sun and Moon came out they had the following issues:

The story was very handholdy. I am a GREAT FAN of the story mode, but I have never replayed these games because they are basically visual novels. If you were a Nuzlocker, someone who wanted to replay Pokemon games, or if you didn't like the story, then these versions would automatically become your least favourite because of how long it takes to reach each milestone. It's also easier than a lot of prior games, not as easy as Gen 6 or 8 but up there.

While the region is IMO one of the most cohesive, it's also one of the least expansive. The Alola Region is fucking tiny. There's not nearly as many side things to do as in generations 4 and 5, and the new things they put into the Alola games were a lot less fun gimmick-wise. I like that they abandon the grid system, it needed to go, but Pokemon team don't seem to work well in 3d.

The online multiplayer was total ass. Of course, the online only got WORSE From here on out. How you get worse than Festival Plaza is beyond me, but I think Gen 7 is definitely when Pokemon jumped from having the BEST multiplayer system on Nintendo systems in generation 6 to one of the worst. Personally I was also disappointed the Festival Plaza wasn't a bit more like the Wifi Plaza, which was already a broken terrible mess but at least had some minigames. It seemed to take the wrong inspiration from Wifi Plaza, and tragically Pokemon only went downhill with online compatibility after. Because while technically the online is more fun in gen 8 and 9, it doesn't work.

The games leaked before they came out. Everyone saw concept art of the starters' final evolutions and they were SO MAD that Litten became bipedal. But there were very few surprises in Sun and Moon for people who prowled the reddit, who also seemed to be the least excited about the games.

However, what I don't think you understand is how much LOVE they had. Of all the pokemon games I've been around for the release of, I think Sun and Moon were most unanimously loved. Everyone was talking about the story, and the incredible new designs of the alola pokemon, and yeah they were having a lot of trouble playing online, but people persisted.

When Ultra Sun and Moon came out, people were veeeeery disappointed for three key reasons:

This was a dual release "third version" instead of a sequel. Again, everyone LOVED the story of the original games, by this point it felt that the "third version" idea was dated, and people wanted a damn sequel with their favourite characters! I think BW2 set a very high bar for what the Pokemon team could offer, and unfortunately I don't think they ever met that bar again after they started making 3d games.

It was on the 3DS instead of the Switch. I was NEVER expecting USUM to be Switch games, I knew Pokemon team were not ready for Switch, but for some reason people expected Pokemon Stars to be a Switch game. Everyone was reaaaaally excited for Pokemon Switch after the console launched, but Pokemon has always belonged on the DS, and I felt it had more potential for growth on that console before moving up on the chain. Of course, after the negative reaction to USUM and the begging for Pokemon Switch, Game Freak HAD to start development on Let's Go and Sw/Sh.

The things they'd added into the game were not as impressive as the other Third Versions. Pokemon Emerald and Pokemon Platinum were objective improvements from the original, though I have some things to say about Emerald's pacing. I like the minigames from Ultra, I fell SO in love with the Camera mode!!! Spent so much time fucking around in it and still have a folder in my computer to this day. HOWEVER, the people still yearn for a Battle Frontier! The Battle Factory they put in USUM seems to be based on community, which was already a pain in the ass, and as you know, it's now impossible to play online with others, so RIP to that as well. I like the changes to the Battle Tree, I love Rainbow Rocket, but while Platinum and Emerald were NECESSARY IMPROVEMENTS from the ground up, USUM only improved some of the battles and held down everything else with more, worse cutscenes.

The story was much worse than the original, choosing to cut and change content instead of improve upon what was there. The story of Platinum and Emerald doesn't come across as worse than DP and RS, but EVERYONE thinks the story for USUM is a downgrade. The reason for this is because if Lillie was the true protagonist of the games originally, the Ultra versions tried to cut her down, but only for a couple of her most important scenes. She and Lusamine basically have every scene intact except for their most important, climactic moments. It's like if instead of BW2, they made Pokemon Grey but it was split in half, and instead of being an evil fucko gunning for world domination, Ghetsis was trying to use the power of the two Dragons to stop Kyurem from freezing the world, except he still abused pokemon, and he still abused N from childhood, and N never showed up to become champion and N never realised the truth of pokemon or turned against his father. How terrible would that be?

No remakes or anything special at the end of the gen. For the past few generations we'd either had remakes or sequels, but Gen 7 released USUM and Let's Go. It's debatable whether the Lets Go games are part of gen 7, but I wouldn't consider them remakes the same way that HGSS or ORAS are, and they are CERTAINLY not a favourite with a hardcore Pokemon audience. At least Gen 8/9 had decent DLC and Legends Arceus as a halfhearted apology note, but unfortunately there was no swan song at the end of Generation 7.

I think ultimately that's what made people go from "Gen 7 could be the best yet" to "Gen 7 bad". The launch was very strong, but the followup was the poorest out of almost any gen.

My personal opinion of USUM is it is one of the best pokemon games for general battles, I think it would be a lot more fun to nuzlocke than the original Sun and Moon, but there's a lot of better pokemon games to replay than USUM, especially if you're taking modded into account. I think sun and moon were the most immersive out of the games I've played, at the very least because it had improvements like trainer models in battles without the uncanny as hell stuff you got in the next two gens. I remember the games fondly, even if I do feel bitter about the story changes."

I thought this reply was worth sharing on this blog. I put a lot of effort into it.

#pokemon #pokemon sun and moon #smusum #do they call it smusum

[teamshinyhunters]

How breeding feels in the games:

What it's actually like:

#pokemon #pokemon breeding #masuda breeding #shiny breeding #pokemon swsh #pokemon sword #pokemon shield #pokemon 8th gen #bdsp #smusum #xyoras #xy #oras #sm #usum #pokemon sm #pokemon usum #pokemon 6th gen #pokemon 7th gen #pokemon 5th gen #bw #b2w2

[rosiespokemontwitterau]

She had enough I guess.

#rosies twitter au #twitter au #pokemon twitter au #pokemon #pokemon masters #pokemon masters ex #pokemon ethan #pokemon hilbert #she has lost her shit indeed #I’m back from an unannounced vacation so hey lol #also I headcanon these two fuckers to be adults now at least #really the only protags who aren’t adults yet (aka the ones are under 18) are the B2W2 SMUSUM LGPE AND SWSH protags #oh and the masters protags as well because yes I forgot to add them there #and of course the SV protags too they are definitely baby #of course that’s all in my headcanon though so you know you don’t have to take it thats seriously- #anyways what was I talking about #yeah I’m here now suffer in my presence or whatever the fuck

[eviltwinlil-la]

His name is Tulip he is a criminal wanted in five regions and he is my best friend

#i haven’t seen anything majorly fucky yet but stuff sometimes takes a while to load in and the wall animation seems worse than SWSH #it’s like. closer in quality to SMUSUM o think #pkmn spoilers

[cosmosees]

congratulations to lysandre from pokemon for joining my club of horrible men i need under a microscope

#cosmo.txt #hes deranged. he sucks #im glad he died. good god could we have had a little more time with him #smusum isnt real to me btw<3

[ether-gearhead]

So now that Clay has a daughter and Drayden has a grandson, I think this calls for another look at the post-Unova timeline. Starting from BW1, we know that BW2 is two years later, XY was going on at the same time as BW2, and SMUSUM took place after BW2/XY. We have next to no clues when SwSh happens in relation to SMUSUM, so I’m just going to assume they happen in the same general timeframe. As for SwSh to SV, I for one feel comfortable using the eighteen months before the start of SV as the relevant timeskip, since that’d be enough time to add Sonia’s book to the academy’s library. So that’d be, I dunno, 3-and-a-half years between BW2 and SV? So not an outrageous timeskip by any measure, but it still feels a bit too small for a BW3 to reasonably happen, considering a new Team Plasma would have to be formed in that timeframe.

EDIT: Typo! XY does in fact happen during BW2, not BW1.

#pokemon scarlet and violet #the indigo disk #gym leader clay #gym leader drayden #elite four lacey #elite four drayton

[oncillaphoenix]

if they're bringing mega evolution back do you think they're gonna try to walk back the weird mega-evolution-is-evil stuff from smusum

#pokemon #pokemon legends za #oncilla speaks

[battlelegendsredandblue]

💩 - What is a pokedex entry you wish would be removed from Pokemon canon altogether?

//OOC: Honestly I’m pretty good with Pokédex canon even if it’s ridiculous. It’s monsters I don’t think you’re getting really melted by a Macargo by standing next to the little buddy. Probably cannot pet it though.

“This thing is in immense fucking pain if it Mega Evolves long” is pretty :( though to me. Like I do get it it’s a temporary transformation pretty common trope but I don’t want my guy to be like Wolverine or whatever

Like SMUSUM were pretty intense with the entries which can be funny but also like

Sweet Pokéjesus

#pokemon irl #irl pokemon #pkmn irl #ask to tag #ooc

[isoldescurse]

So I’m finally playing Pokémon X&Y and good god they are horrible games WHY AM I BEING GIFTED SO MANY POKÉMON!? WHY ISN’T MAWILITE AVAILABLE BEFORE HALL OF FAME!? WHY ARE THE GYMS SO EASY AND SOME RANDOM TRAINERS IN SOME ROUTES SO HARD (a fighting girl in glittering cave obliterated my Vivillion, Fletchlinder and Braixen)

at least it’s not so hard to catch the Pokémon that I want for my team like in Sun & Moon with SOS battles (it took me like a whole day to find a Corsola to get Mareanie), but SMUSUM are far superior games (I hope ORAS is better than XY, though, but I’ll finish my Y play through first)

#pokémon #ramblings

[crystalelemental]

You know what I never understood? Why Game Freak included the female Kanto Trainer in Let's Go but didn't bother with that for SMUSUM. I mean, between all of Gen 7, you could at bare minimum canonize the name Green for the FRLG girl, along with most of her team (Clefable, Gengar, Victreebel, Ninetales, and Cloyster, maybe even taking over Red's Gen 2 Espeon), and even if you don't want her to be fightable, just stick her as a Battle Tree Partner with Espeon and Umbreon because Sun and Moon!

Oh, that's a super easy answer. It's because they don't respect Leaf. Only Red and Blue matter.

#ether-gearhead

[lorekeeper-backset]

Other funny thing about Pokespe Anabel is that during the description of her role in the SMUSUM arc, Bulbapedia starts three consecutive paragraphs with "Later," as a sentence starter.

#pokemon #backset blabbers #pokespe #anabel pokemon #salon maiden anabel #bulbapedia

[jadeazora]

One of my biggest disappointments with SMUSUM is just how little relevance Gladion has after the Aether raid, especially leading into the postgame.

Like, it's just really off he never really gets any scenes when we're seeking out the UBs his mother released even tho he's basically acting head of Aether Paradise while Lusamine's away recovering (it would be cool to see him interacting with Anabel and Looker at least), but then there's getting shunted off to train in another region just before the RR arc starts, and his mother is literally drugged by a mob boss and almost brainwashed, wtf? 😕

#pokemon sun and moon #pokemon ultra sm #gladion #pokemon usum #aether foundation #pokemon rivals

[sharkface]

I genuinely forget they didn't make Red in his 30s a fat bear so when I see his SMUSUM model I'm like. Who the fuck IS that

#talk

[teamgamble]

PMD AU for the whole team.

A bunch of rowdy basic stage Pokemon! They would exclusively go through rescue missions and outlaw missions. Team Gamble would be in good terms with the protagonist team, they're far from being a bully team like Team Meanies or Team Skull (the EODTS one not the SMUSUM one) in spite of how stereotypical teenagers they are.

#ooc post

[gundamcalibarney]

Like Volcarona is literally called the Sun Pokemon first while Solgaleo is called the Sunne Pokemon

Which leads me to believe that Solgaleo and Lunala are In-Universe late comers to the Legendary schtick because they came straight from Palkia's toybox and during the events of SMUSUM.

So I Do genuinely believe that Volcarona had some sort of Sun Deity following because it's likely that it was considered a Sun Deity before Solgaleo showed up

#/see prev post #corejo talks #pokemon #pokemon headcanons #Volcarona #Solgaleo