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Post by pantharya on Aug 17, 2008 16:27:51 GMT -5
Old School water Types kick butt! Golduck, Starmie and Gyarados are just plain awesome. *puts on sunglasses for dramatic emphasis* The old water types are neat.
And Eevee only has a 12.5% of being female? That's rather sad ... Although, it turns out the starter Pok?mon have the same percentage. Perhaps they're setting up Eevee in its "too cool to be a started Pok?mon, but it would make sense if it" position? I actually can't think of why theyd make the genders that imbalanced though =/
Did you know that Empoleon is the only Water/Steel type ever? I thought that was interesting.
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Post by Shariadarow on Aug 17, 2008 20:28:39 GMT -5
Actually, eevee was a starter in one game, which was an awesome thing to do. It's called Pokémon XD: Gale of Darkness, basically the sequel to the Collisuem game, as far as I know(haven't played the previous one, only know they have similar elements). Right at the start basically you get to choose between a fire stone, a water stone, a thunder stone, a sun shard, or a moon shard, since there were no day or night changes.
I personally think there are very few Pokémon that deserve to have a different gender ratio, and the starters and eevee are not part of that group. Now the abra and ralts families on the other hand, I'd say the abra line should probably get a higher male ratio, while the ralts line should probably get a higher female ratio.
Oh, also, I'm still surprised there are no Fire/Psychic Pok?mon yet at all.
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Post by Chloe on Aug 18, 2008 11:47:04 GMT -5
When I started XD, I got a female Eevee on my very first try. *sigh* Oh, well. My attention span is so small, I've already started concentrating on training my Kabuto instead.
The first-gen water types are the best. I almost had a Golduck on my team in Pearl, but at the last minute I chose to train a Wooper instead. It was good, though; my Quagsire is totally awesome.
They should have a fire/psychic starter. It could start out fire, like Torchic does, and then evolve into its psychicness later. That would be neat.
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Post by pantharya on Aug 19, 2008 16:26:10 GMT -5
Ah of course, Pok?mon XD. I always see that name and kind of smirk. Im so used to seeing "XD" as a smiley face type thing. But the game sounds good in the way that you start with an Eevee. They should use that idea again (its not like theyre against recycling old ideas), it'd be cool if it was on a game system I could actually try out.
And I'd say youre quite right about the Abra and Ralts family lines. They should definitely have bigger gender differences. I wonder who chooses that anyway? I bet they need to do it better.
^_^ The first water Pok?mon were truly awesome. They all seemed so much more elegant and detailed back then. Even Psyduck, he has uniqueness. But I realise there aren't actually that many water Pok?mon on the fourth gen. Which is fair, It was probably the biggest element group as it is. =3 Quagsire rocks. I had one in my Silver team. He kicked butt.
It's quite funny that they don't have any fire/psychic Pok?mon yet. I mean what ... they have: Grass/Psychic (Exeggcute) Ice/Psychic (Jynx) Water/Psychic (Slowpoke/Staryu) Normal/Psychic (Girafarig) Fighting Psychic (Meditite) Rock/Psychic (Solrock/Lunatone) Steel/Psychic (Beldum) Flying/Psychic (Latias/Latios) Ground/Psychic (Baltoy) ..but no fire? saaad.
...actually if you think about it, there aren't that many fire Pok?mon overall. o.o
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Post by SierraLou on Aug 20, 2008 5:29:25 GMT -5
...Which sucks, because everyone loves a fire type. ;o; I wholeheartedly agree that there should be a fire/psychic. It could be the nicer version of houndoom, or something. xD
I don't know what they're really playing at with the random gender ratios, other than reducing the female percentage they're a little harder to breed. I'm sure I read somewhere that was why all eevees were male. But if they're not all male...then never mind. xD But in Pok?mon Collosseum your starters, espeon and umbreon, are always both male. I don'tthink there's much point fiddling with the gender ratios unless they're exclusively female or male Pok?mon, like miltank and tauros. It's not...realistic? xD
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Post by Haku on Aug 20, 2008 15:53:54 GMT -5
There seems to be an inherint lack of fire Pok?mon. 0: Chimcharr and Ponyta/Rapidash(if you evolved it) were the only ones available before the international pokedex in Diamond and Pearl.
Well seeing as Poke!World is quite a flammable place, I'm not surprised there aren't many. XD
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Post by Shariadarow on Aug 23, 2008 1:11:23 GMT -5
Two things I'd like to see in new games, just for typing, is one: another Pok?mon that has many paths to choose from, but that it really fits for(it works for eevee because you can find foxes everywhere, from the sahara to the arctic), and two: Maybe a change of pace for the starters. What I mean is, they do often make a second type for starters, that they evolve into. But what about starting a starter off with two types? And to further that, why not make those types a reverse counter in a way.
What I mean is, say they make a fire/psychic starter. Then they'd want a water/fighting, and grass/dark, or another set that counters the other. Naturally that example is problematic because psychci doesn't effect dark to begin with, usually, but still, it is balanced for the most part.
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Post by pantharya on Aug 26, 2008 16:01:50 GMT -5
I think I read somewhere that the explanation behind the inherent lack of fire Pokémon in Diamond/Pearl was that the climate was a lot colder on that continent, thus making it far less suitable to fire types. I think it was a contrast to Hoenn, which was the hottest region, and thus had the most fire types out of all the regions.
I thought that was rather interesting.
And I think Shariadarow's idea on the double elemental triangle thingy is pure awesomeness. It'd add so much more interest to the starters.
And just something interesting. Weedle is the only Pok?mon out there that can't learn a normal type move. ^_^ Neat huh?
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Post by SierraLou on Aug 29, 2008 18:25:51 GMT -5
And I think Shariadarow's idea on the double elemental triangle thingy is pure awesomeness. It'd add so much more interest to the starters. And just something interesting. Weedle is the only Pokémon out there that can't learn a normal type move. ^_^ Neat huh? Agreed about the starters. ^^ And...really? That's so weird. Not even Tackle or something? How strange. xD I never noticed that before. Bulbapedia isn't working for me right now or I'd look it up, but am I right in thinking that Gardevoir has a male alternative? I was thinking that Alakazam should really have a female alternative. If it doesn't already and I'm being slow? xD
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Post by Haku on Sept 1, 2008 20:16:46 GMT -5
Yeah, Gardevoir has Gallade. xD; And Roselia has Roserade, I think. oo; That might be wrong.
Alakazam needs... Alakazade!
That sounds like Gatorade. I need some sleeep. >>
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Post by pantharya on Sept 1, 2008 21:04:13 GMT -5
^_^ Mmhmm. Weedle can't learn any normal moves. It learns Poison Sting instead of tackle, and String Shot is bug type. So Viola! Weedle is on its own in the corner being the ONLY Pok?mon EVER to not know any normal moves. ^_^ Poor guy.
And they totally do need a female Alakazam alternative. Heck, Id be happy just calling it Gatorade. ^_^ Easy to remember.
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Post by Umby on Sept 26, 2008 20:14:19 GMT -5
And Roselia has Roserade, I think. oo; That might be wrong. Roselia evolves into Roserade, regardless of gender, as far as I know. And technically, Eevee was also a starter in Pok?mon Yellow, but your rival will always get it, because he gets pissed Professor Oak lets you pick first and takes the ball before you can. And later on, depending on how you interact with your rival, he will evolve the eevee into either Vaporeon, Jolteon, or Flareon. Basically, the worse you do against him, the easier it is to kill his starter (ie, lose all one-shot battles against him nets Vaporeon, losing one nest Flareon, winning all nets Jolteon; Pikachu is good against Vaporeon, neutral against Flareon, and weak against Jolteon.) On a lighter note: Shiny Ninetales! ;D NatureStatsMovesRibbons (Cookie to anyone who can name the other two!) <3 Silver. I so wanna battle someone now <.<
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Post by Chloe on Sept 27, 2008 12:38:56 GMT -5
I am so jealous of you right now. You have no idea how long I've spent trying to get a shiny Vulpix. Shiny Ninetales are pretty... Did you chain for it? I'm terrible at chaining; I've never even seen a shiny.
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Post by Umby on Sept 28, 2008 6:02:55 GMT -5
No, I got it in my Sapphire like... damn. I wanna say four years ago. I literally one day said, "I'm gonna hunt for a shiny vulpix", since Vulpix/Ninetales was and is still my favorite Pok?mon. Within 2 hours I had found and caught a shiny Shuppet, but I really wanted the vulpix, so I kept going for another... 6 or 8 hours? Then I found the vulpix <3
Since then I also caught myself a shiny Swablu (While looking for Zangoose in Ruby), shiny Pidgeotto (While looking for Growlithe in Fire Red), and shiny Graveler (While doing the story mode in Pearl; I was at work one morning playing while waiting for everyone to come in. I was doing Victory Road... and it popped up. That was the first time I've ever caught a shiny without actively looking for it.), and of course, every shiny hunter has a story about the one that got away. It's possible that it was scripted, but I've never been able to see it again because the trainers are random... but I ran into a shiny Baltoy on a trainer in the Battle Pyramid in Emerald. Obviously since it was on a trainer... can't catch. It might have been scripted, which would mean I wasn't so unlucky. But I don't have and will never have any way of knowing whether it was or not.
Moral of the story: If you really want it, take it. Hunt till your fingers bleed. I didn't stop for ~10 hours while looking for that vulpix, and it could have taken me a lot longer than that, but I was prepared to keep on looking.
Second Moral: If you don't get the shiny you want, don't despair. Keep looking, or be content that you've expanded your collection.
And don't worry, I'm terrible at chaining too. =P
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