Give me the most obscure Pokemon fact that you know. Even if you think people already know it post it anyway.
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Give me the most obscure Pokemon fact that you know. Even if you think people already know it post it anyway.
one of the firebreathers in the burned tower turns soot-grey once beaten, but only in gold and silver, and only if played on a gbc (obviously)
is it a bug, or a joke about him getting covered in ash or something?
Its because of the roaming legendaries turning from grey to color when encountered. One of them is placed right underneath the firebreather
Some trainer classes like hikers have the appearance like their eyes are more oppent if you are a number of steps behind.
The pokémon with the greatest range of wild levels in Red & Blue is ditto: 23 to 67.
The pokémon with the greatest range of wild levels in Yellow is also ditto, even though the numbers are different: 12 to 65.
DPP has an unused script for spawning Darkrai as a roamer
Magikarp appears from level 1-100 in Platinum and BW2
Source on the darkrai roamer claim? Never heard that
There are dittos that are like level 71-76 in cerulean cave in pokemon yellow.
There’s a single tall grass tile in Floccesy Ranch in BW2 that doesn’t function properly and will never trigger a wild encounter.
the grass patch there is also shaped like a wiener (penis)
Nidorina/queen canonically become infertile for more power. This is old gen 1 lore and they are still programmed to not be able to produce eggs.
There's actually no Mew under the truck
You can use an escape rope to exit Sabrina's gym in FRLG, but you can't use it to exit any other gym
Red's mother is the only mother who doesn't have an official so we don't know how she actually looks
In RB, you could use a fishing rod on any of those statues in any gym.
Macro Cosmos logo appeared in Detective Pikachu movie, long before SwSh was released, in the facility that once housed, and conducted experimentations on Mewtwo. Implying that Rose was researching Mewtwo too for whatever reason (probably not for good reasons).
Or their company provided them with the software to analyze the DNA
most interesting
>Implying that Rose was researching Mewtwo too for whatever reason
Nah, it was foreshadowing Dynamax. Notice how your image says growth enhancement, and they later discover the gigantic Torterra garden. Macro Cosmos was likely just providing the facility with dynamax particles.
Well that's true. But why Mewtwo was in a research facility that was researching Dynamax?
The villain just seemed to be fricking around with Pokémon experiments in general, like his Ditto assistant. Mewtwo was just being held there until he could mind gas it.
So Bill Nighy was straight up full time villain who might use Dynamaxed Pokemon to level up Ryme City if he had to. Why no one in the city saw this coming?
Is it possible that the Mewtwo in the movie is the same Mewtwo we faced in that extremely hard limited-time Mewtwo Max Raid?
A Kadabra holding an everstone will still evolve when traded. Kadabra is the only Pokemon that showcases this phenomena.
Between 2005 and 2021, Kadabra had no major anime appearances aside from extremely minor slip ins like with Porygon, Porygon 2 and Porygon-Z in movies where they showcase all Pokemon at once.
Kadabra also had a drought of TCG cards despite Abra and Alakazam getting along just fine, who instead had cards which force Abra to evolve into Alakazam, skipping Kadabra outright.
This is all due to Kadabra's japanese namesake, Yungerer, being based off of a "real life Psychic", Uri Geller, who had sued Nintendo for using his likeness, resulting in Kadabra being essentially shadowbanned from most Pokemon media. It was only until 2020 that Geller finally let up and apologized, and since then in 2021, Kadabra had an anime appearance that wasn't stock art being shown with all Pokemon, and in 2023 finally had some new TCG cards printed.
I knew about the Kabara shadowban but I never knew Uri apologized.
He's a self centered knobhead.
It got a sticky here
>Between 2005 and 2021, Kadabra had no major anime appearances aside from extremely minor slip ins like with Porygon, Porygon 2 and Porygon-Z in movies where they showcase all Pokemon at once.
I thought Mira had one in the anime but she apparently only had an Abra. I remember watching that episode and them diving underwater and they saw some ruins.
I could swear she had a Kadabra in that episode but maybe it was a false memory?
She has a Kadabra when you're escorting her out of the Wayward Cave in DPPt, but they changed it to an Abra in the anime.
I don't even get how this was possible. Kadabra looks nothing like Geller and Geller didn't invent spoonbending.
Kadabra is literally named after him, there's no plausible deniability even though Uri Geller is still a litigious israelite.
based originalnamemind
The Japanese species name is derived from his name.
israel
Its original Japanese name "Yungerer" is a direct reference to Uri Geller, and the spoonbending while not invented by him was heavily associated with him. They probably could have claimed ignorance if not for the name
All they had to do was call it Esper2 and never would have been an issue.
Yungerer isn't Uri Geller though
Close enough that Kadabra got thanos snapped over it.
say it with a Japanese accent
In katakana it looks more similar
Kadabra - Yungerer - ユンゲラー
Yuri Geller - ユリゲラー
It's obviously a pun. The one different character is even 2 lines in a slightly different angle
They should have slit his throat and chopped him up into little pieces
How new are you, fren? This was a huge event on this board
came here about the B2W2 era
and stopped around religiously coming here around Gen 7
randomly decided to start using /vp/ again at the beginning of the year
personally i feel pretty disconnected from this board from how old i've gotten but it's funny seeing what is clearly the same shitposters from over the years waging gen wars and the new era of underaged feeding them
didn't know there was actually an announcement over kadabra so that's pretty neat
I have never catch them all, this is my obscure fact related to Pokemon
MOOOOODS
But you’re GOING to TRY, right? RIGHT?
Claydol only has two closed "eyes". The ones at the back are always open
"Seel" derives its name from "Sea" and "Eel".
In Gen 4 due to a programming error Fire Fang bypasses Wonder Guard. Even if you hacked Wonder Guard onto a Spiritomb or Sableye they can still get hit by Fire Fang.
You can have a Porygon evolve into a Porygon2 and then into a Porygon-Z and it can still be Level 1, it is the only Pokemon that can do this.
There was initially planned to be a counterpart game to Pokémon Yellow - Pokémon Pink, with Clefairy as the mascot.
What I find interesting about this is if Yellow hadn't been standalone, would the trend of the "third version" still exist? Would they have overreached and had counterpart games to Crystal, Emerald and Platinum too or would they simply have not made them at all?
Yellow was a fourth version you ignorant bawd. Blue was already the third version to Red and Green.
I've heard that Clefairy was originally planned as the mascot instead of Pikachu but it was seen too girly. That's why the Red from the Clefairy manga had a Clefairy and from what I know the first chapter of that manga came out even before Red and Green. But he also has a Pikachu.
They have abondened the idea long ago otherwise it would have been Let's Go Pikachu and Let's Go Clefairy instead of Let's Go Pikachu and Let's Go Eevee.
Yes, that's true. I prefer Clefairy as a counterpart to Pikachu tbh, they both evolve by stone/have a baby prevo. Eevee's only appeal is being able to evolve lots of different ways and Let's Go prevents you from doing any of them, moronic
It still has to overcome Jigglypuff
>I've heard that Clefairy was originally planned as the mascot instead of Pikachu but it was seen too girly.
I remember reading that Polywhirl was going to be Red's main after Clefairy got the axe.
I want to ASK about an obscure Pokémon fact. I know about the "badge boosts" in the early Pokémon games but how do they actually work? Does your team at the time of obtaining a badge get a boost to their base stats, or is there a passive stat boost applied to your entire team at all times?
Pretty sure it's a passive boost. Also I think it's one of those things affected by the broken G1 code that makes all boosts get reapplied under certain conditions and scale stupidly as a result (a status getting applied, I think?).
it's a modifier in the damage calculation equations. in gens ii and iii it works properly but in gen i it's fricked. good explanation here: https://www.dragonflycave.com/mechanics/gen-i-stat-modification
gen ii also has type boosts. when you beat a gym, all moves your pokemon use of the gym's type get a 12.5% damage bonus, which stacks. this makes normal-type moves incredibly powerful early on: beating falkner boosts your attack by 12.5%, and beating whitney boosts your attack when using normal-type moves by a further 12.5%, and you can get a pink bow on route 29 for a 10% bonus. all of this stacks for 39% extra damage, and if you're using a normal-type pokemon for STAB you're looking at a net 109% damage increase on a type very few pokemon resist.
And people still defend the first three gens.
>hard numbers
Thank you anon. I have always wondered about this and all people ever told me was "it boosts a bit" which means nothing
ekans is Snake spelled backwards
Muk is Cum spelled backwards.
Alomomola is alomomolA spelled backwards
Lana is anaL spelled backwards.
Sun and Moon have a sidequest where you deliver a message in a bottle to an Ace Trainer in Malie. The message is a challenge from Ace Trainer Arabella, who was an Ace Trainer in the Viridian Gym in HG and SS.
If you chose Rowlet as your starter in Sun and Moon there's a chance Hau's Primarina will attack your Pokemon when you team up with him in Aether Paradise. You need to have it so Hau loses enough Pokemon to send out Primarina, and then be in a position where Hau will want to use Sparkling Aria to both attack the enemy and heal your Pokemon. Hau will always choose to use his Primarina's Waterium-Z and it will target your Pokemon as Hydro Vortex.
Despite the claim that the Johto starters just copied the Kanto starters' stats wholesale, it's actually the other way around, as the Kanto starters did not originally have a split special stat.
Whoa
OH NO NO NO CHARIZARD BROS, HOW DO WE RECOVER FROM THIS ONE?
Elgyem evolves into Beheeyem at Level 42. The Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything in Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy is 42.
Elgyem and Beheeyem can learn Steel Wing via TM because in Generation 6 and 7 Steel Wing was TM51 as a reference to Area 51. Even though it has not been TM51 since, they can still learn it despite not having wings, as can Leavanny and obviously Mew.
Elgyem (LGM = Little Green Man)
Beheeyem (BEM = Bug Eyed Monster)
To be fair, the Steel Wing TM pun still works because of flying saucers and all that. That's probably the only reason why they still learn it.
I think something similar might've happened this gen, as instead of Great Tusk and Staraptor being able to learn TM053 and TM014 respectively (Smart Strike and Acrobatics), they instead learn TM054 and TM015 respectively, which are... Psyshock and Struggle Bug.
That sounds bullshi-
>Great Tusk can learn both TMs 053 and 054
>Staraptor can learn both TMs 014 and 015
Yet another case of Game Freak's incompetence while working on SV? Iron Treads can't learn TM054, but did get a patch to learn TM070 later.
In Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire, if you trade a Pokémon that knows Dive and skip getting the HM from Steven, when you go get the gift Beldum during the postgame, an extra line is added to Steven's letter urging the player to take the HM.
It's next to Beldum's Pokéball.
Didn’t know this one and I KNOW Gen 3.
Game freak really truly cared back then. What the hell happened?
B/W underperformed, the shift to 3D went poorly, and the company has intestine problems
is a good video on that last point if you can put up with subs.
>and the company has intestine problems
With all the cooking minigames they've been shoving in the players' faces in SWSH and SV, I can believe it.
I never knew B/W didn't sell well, seems to me like Game Freak likely got fricked over by the game coming at the tail end of the DS' life. While Japan got a good half a year between B1/W1's release and the debut of the 3DS, for the rest of the world that gap was just a couple of weeks. It can't be a good look to be less than a month away from a new console generation and your new Pokémon game to be on hardware from over half a decade ago, but it's either that or pull a Duke Nukem Forever and throw all that work in the trash and start over.
This classic localization frickery humorously results in FLYgon not being able to learn AERIAL Ace while Dugtrio can, a fact I learned from Reverend's "(Usually) Useless Moves" video.
Also, for generations 2 and 3 the box art legendaries are in the wrong order in the Pokédex. For example, gen 3 is Ruby (Groudon) and Sapphire (Kyogre) but Groudon is entry 383 while Kyogre is entry 382.
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>I never knew B/W didn't sell well
it's not true. Look at videogamesales or any other site. Idk why people repeat this nonsense. GF stopped caring during BW already, thats why its hated.
>Idk why people repeat this nonsense.
Unovaborts desperately want to believe gen 5 wasn't the beginning of the end.
>the beginning of the end
that was gen 4's legendaries and their lore
true if you listen to the dev's idea for the gen 4 legendaries
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>Giratina-O has a beautiful design that feels familiar to things you might encounter like a caterpillar but is ultimately distinct
>Dialga and Palkia's supposed counterparts instead looked mangled and the whole "made of parts that can be combined to approximate Arceus" doesn't even use Giratina for anything more than the base to apply the parts on.
>Believing anything Shit Freak says past 2007
They're known liars you dipshit. They're constantly changing "beliefs"
GF did care during BW.
The problem is that they had too many bad ideas and couldn't make a good game despite being motivated.
One need only look at all their failed non-Pokemon passion projects to see that they are often simply incompetent developers.
>it's not true
BW sold less than DP on a wider install base. That is a fact.
>unovagay feels the need to shoehorn his genwars into the thread
you really can't help yourself, can you?
It's a fact that BW sold less than DP on a wider DS install base, and an almost fact that the next gen had clear pandering and issues. For what it's worth it's a fricking shame Pokémon Z or whatever it would have been was axed, because even with GF not being as good with 3D as they were with 2D G6 still had a lot of unrealised potential.
>the next gen had…pokemon in it! And issues! It’s not like [gen I like] had those same issues!
Yep. You can’t help yourself from starting genwars every chance you get out of sheer insecurity. Pretty sad tbh
We were doing so good until you were born
In Pokemon crystal, the tentacool doll and Pikachu bed were intended to be obtained through mystery gift in stadium 2, but the way the RNG is determined made it so that they would never be given to the player
>baselessly accusing them of being a bort
Pot meets kettle
They're so predictable
In DP only Arceus has a unique mechanic where it transforms in the middle of the battle if you steal, trick, knock off etc its plate, which is only possible if you hack it so it doesn’t have the multi type ability (it will still change type depending on plates but it will become affected by item stealing moves). In platinum and hgss it doesn’t transform and stays in the old plate’s form
In emerald there is a unused event for a surfing pichu, it was never distributed but can be triggered by ACE. The event itself is pretty well known by now, but this isn’t: if you have an empty slot first in your party, such as being in instant pomeg glitch mode or having 0 pokemon, the pichu will not have surf. This is because the way the game teaches it surf is it generates a regular pichu egg and puts it in your party, then it checks for it in your party and teaches it surf when it’s found. However since it’s normally impossible for it to end up in the first slot, it does check the first slot, only slots 2-6.
That’s really cool, I’d never even heard of the pikachu surf event!
Provided Game Freak doesn't change things again, if the Machamp line is present in the G10 games then it will probably be possible to have tradebacks No Guard Fissure Machamps in Sword and Shield.
All the mega evolutions and most other forms still have their stats coded into SV (unlike SwSh where they are coded in but without usable stats), so it's possible to hack them in and play with them, though they obviously default to the placeholder Pikachu model.
The Japan only radio drama made as part of the marketing for the original Pokémon movie, written by the same writer and effectively an expanded version of what the movie would be, is even more out there than the original dub of the movie. Mewtwo is implied to be a half human chimera, his "armour" is very explicitly a set of chains and shackles, and in general the tone feels a lot different.
Could just be a coincidence but it's still fun
Definitely not a coincidence. Although a little odd because I'm sure Veterans are explicity stated in-game to be grown-up Ace Trainers (who are grown-up Rising Stars)
Considering they did it before, it's likely on purpose.
Sex with Lass
why is the gen 2 lass so busty
cotton
Crobat has an underbite
Crocel
You can get Mareep in Violet City's Pokécenter.
elaborate
Nta, but there is an npc that gives you a mareep egg
The same NPC who gives you the mareep egg can also give you a wooper egg and probably most importantly a slugma egg.
Giving you access to Slugma before you even fight Falkner, a far cry from it being locked all the way to Kanto in GSC and HGSS.
DP (and I assume Pt and HGSS) will either boost or decrease encounters on certain days (like holidays or tragedies), this was previously unknown until the gigaleak dropped
Golem is the only Pokémon in Red/Blue not encountered in the wild or used by any trainer. In other words if you battle every wild Pokémon and every trainer in the game, your Pokédex will have exactly one empty space where Golem would be.
Isn't Clefable in the same boat?
To lean off of this. The only way to get Scisor and Porygon 2 as "Seen" in Gen 2 is to Mystery Gift with Carrie in Stadium 2 and fight her team that has said pokemon in Viridian's Trainer House.
I was slightly mistaken; Clefable can be seen in Yellow, so Golem is the only one across all of R/B/Y
Correct me if I'm wrong but I don't think this is true as someone who actually did a complete Pokedex run a few weeks ago.
You never see Kabuto or Omastar either, only their evolved forms - unless I'm misunderstanding the prompt here since I guess you technically can find both of them in the wild?
Omanyte*
Oh forgot about those, technically yes the fossil you *don't* pick you never see. So you won't ever have both at the same time.
I should have worded it that Golem is the only one you can never *possibly* see
Can't you see them both at the museum?
Thanks to the virtual console games you can have high level evolution Pokémon at a very low level and use them in your Gen7+ playthroughs (assuming the Pokémon haven't been dex cut)
If a pokemon with sheer force attacks Golisopod and puts it below 50% HP, emergency exit won't work and Golisopod will stay in.
Ash and Misty were supposed to get married and have a daughter before the franchise got so big.
not that obscure given that Misty literally mentions it in the "The Heartbreak of Brock"
That's actually only a dub thing: in the original Japanese version, Misty merely comments that Temacu fell for Brock rather than the other way around.
Yeah, but I am free to choose the dub as canon
The move "Splash" is called "Hop" in Japanese. Which is why in gen II the only other Pokémon to learn it is Hoppip (in Japanese its name still contains a 'hop' pun)
It's also the reason why it's normal type rather than water (except for Go because Niantic knows jack shit)
You can trade secret base decorations in gen 3 and through an incredibly convoluted series of steps you can legitimately get the Regi dolls in any version of RSE, among other things.
The master ball is a pun on the japanese name for the pokeball (monster ball)
Super Repels are more cost-effective than Max Repels.
Max Potion will be useless in 99% of all playthroughs, Full Restores too since you can just use a Full Heal and a Hyper Potion
Full Restore saves a turn in battle though.
It can still be worth buying Max Repels in any pre gen V game if you value having to go into your bag to reapply them more than the extra cost.
I've found Max Potions very helpful in the DLC in Scarlet with how high level you are. And since Hyper Potions got nerfed to healing only 120 HP instead of 200 in gen VII.
In Gens 2 and 4 when you defeat Clair she makes you go to Dragon's Den to find a Dragon Fang to show her before she gives you the badge. If you trade in a Dragon Fang from another game and show it to her, she will accuse you of cheating and won't give you the badge. You'll still have to pick up the one in Dragon's Den.
In gen 2, wild mewtwo are programmed to have the berserk gene
Weedle is the only pokemon that doesn't learn a normal move in any capacity
>In gen 2, wild mewtwo are programmed to have the berserk gene
What's interesting is that the item instantly activates on the first turn of battle and is used up, so if Mewtwo had been a fixed wild encounter the Berserk Gene would have been impossible to obtain
I'm not sure what you mean "fixed encounter" but also the berserk gene can be found on the ground behind the house at the top left of cerulean. It is an invisible item.
Yes but that was likely dumped there because Kanto was heavily compressed and Cerulean Cave got blocked off. If wild Mewtwo were programmed to hold it then that indicates that they planned to have one available, and likely that would've been in Cerulean Cave (as HG/SS ended up doing it).
>Weedle is the only pokemon that doesn't learn a normal move in any capacity
Unown technically :^)
raichu glow in the dark
is he a CIA Black person?
In JN017, when James enters Team Rocket's base, he enters 634526 on the phone's number pad. Using Goroawase, it can be translated as "mu-sa-shi-ko-ji-ro". Musashi and Kojiro are Jesse and James' Japanese names.
Now that’s trivia goddamn
And Aerial Ace japanese name is reference to Kojiros secret move where he could cut a swallow mid flight
Yeah its Japanese name is Tsubame Gaeshi which means swallow reversal. Ironically I don't think any of James' Pokemon have ever known Aerial Ace.
Also his Japanese actor plays Kojiro in Fate too.
Musashi should have been voiced by Megumi Hayashibara!
In every game up to Fr/Lg Exeggutor's backsprite (and some official art) depicted it with at least one extra head on its back
If it had more heads originally, doesn't that mean instead it lost back head starting with FRLG?
That's what I said, yes
Female Indeedee pre-DLC is the only Pokemon in Scarlet and Violet to have a raid exclusive move
If you catch an Indeedee at the end of a 5* raid, it will know Trick Room, which could normally only be learned by the male version of Indeedee
This had a significant impact on VGC since female Indeedee's support moveset makes it an excellent Trick Room setter, and Game Freak made it so that she could learn it by TM when the Teal Mask DLC was added so that a desirable team member wasn't gated behind such an event, which to my knowledge makes Indeedee the only Pokemon to be patched in this way
Only two evolution lines gain sexual dimorphism and then lose it.
Oddish->Bellossom and Teddiursa->Ursaluna
There are NPCs outside the walls of some buildings in Pokemon Ranger Shadows of Almia with there being one special NPC outside a mountain
Not obscure, but the Elite 4 in Red and Blue follow the same reasoning as the Gym Leaders of teaching a move that isn't the default level of movement to their final one. Blizzard, Fissure, Toxic, are also TMs, but Lance's Barrier isn't. There was a Barrier Dragonite as Lance's for giveaway in the future.
Also I have no idea why Bruno used Fissure instead of Rock Slide or Earthquake. It isn't going to be outstanding shit.
>isn't in their default move list
>same reasoning as the Gym Leaders of teaching a move that isn't the default level of movement to their final one
Huh, never noticed that was a thing.
Also, I wonder if that indicates Barrier was a TM at one point?
Cradily never had correct default sprite. It is supposed to have long, thick pink tentacles on its head, with its shiny having orange tentacles. In gen 3 both sets of sprites have orange tentacles and are long and thin. Gen 4 did not address this. Gen 5 actually fixed the colors on the non shiny sprite, but committed the far greater sin of having 7 tentacles on the front sprite and 9 for the back. Cradily has 8 tentacles. In gen 6 they finally increased the thickness and reverted the 7/9 mistake from gen 5.
The FRLG Pokedex has a habitat feature, no other game has it and it serves no gameplay purpose. It only exists to categorize Pokemon and give them a little flavor, I just think everyone should know even if it's not as obscure as all the interesting things posted so far.
I thought this was in Gen 4 too? Didn't it determine where you encountered Pokémon in the Pal Park?
They are similar but not the same, there are only 5 areas in pal park and the Pokemon don't all match.
Pretty cool, I wish the games would add more biology data to the Pokedex even if they don't affect gameplay.
It's nice when deciding who to spawn where.
I used this categorization a lot for my rom hack.
These habitats originated in the 1996 book Pocket Monsters Encyclopedia with some differences.
The book had Sky, Enigmatic, and Extinct habitats and Rare was referred to as Legendary, whereas FRLG had Cave and Rough-terrain.
Obviously, some Pokémon had different habitat classifications between the two sources, such as Arcanine classified as a Legendary far away from the Grassland Growlithe or the Waters Edge habitat in the book containing the Oddish and Bellsprout lines where they're Grassland and Forest respectively in FRLG.
what sort of Pokémon were in the 'Enigmatic' habitat?
Abra line, Clefairy line, Ditto, Mr. Mime, Jigglypuff line, Drowzee line, and Jynx.
>1996 book Pocket Monsters Encyclopedia
L'Chaim, thanks for information.
Theres no excuse for Pokémon Home not having this feature. What a cursed timeline we live in
Too many Pokémon don't have a plausible environment they live in.
In FRLG a lot of them seem misclassified or a stretch. It doesn't need to be perfectly accurate because the Pokedex is filled with things that don't make sense. It's just an interesting classification.
Azurill most likely had its stats copypasted from Cleffa as a placeholder and was never changed properly before release. It is normal type and has the same gender ratio, the latter of which changes upon evolving to Marill.
Well well well... That would explain why the frick it is normal type. Brilliant if true
As a result of its gender ratio not matching Marill's, it's the only Pokémon that can potentially change gender upon evolving
They fixed that in XY.
Proves that it was unintentional to begin with then
>Same Type in Gen 3
>Same Gender Ratio
>Same Catch Rate
>Clefairy and Marill share the same Egg Cycles and EXP Rate
Interesting theory.
Skarmory dex number is 227
It can be found in DP route 227
On route 23 in FRLG you can use the item finder and it will locate the hidden potion by the weedle trainer on viridian forest
Pokémon Pinball's theme for the catching and evolution modes is a remix of the anime's Japanese OP
If I'm not mistaken it's the only time an anime song is used in a game
You can only get one Deep Sea Tooth or Deep Sea Scale per game in Ruby, Sapphire and Emerald. If you only knew one other person with the games and you picked the same choice as them, you were screwed out of one of Clamperl's evolutions unless you restarted your save file or bought another cartridge. Nothing in FRLG or the GameCube games can give you one. This makes them two of the most finite items in the series, for their debut generation at least.
>If I'm not mistaken it's the only time an anime song is used in a game
Puzzle League's music has instrumental arrangements of songs from the dub (2BA Master and the like) or just arrangements from the OST (Dragonite Takes Flight). As far as I know, none of it originates from the anime's Japanese OST.
No clue if this counts, but the GBA e-Reader has a few songs you could play by scanning specific Pokémon e-Cards. A promotional Suicune card is programmed to play Born to Be a Winner from Johto League Champions.
>trademon item shenanigans
Buying gale of darkness should have been at least a way to obtain these possible missing things instead of craming like 80% of kanto dex
Unless some meddling with Vitamins and Stat XP, if the Odd Egg from c
Crystal hatches into a Shiny Tyrogue it will always become a Hitmonchan. (I think normal Tyrogue becomes a Hitmontop)
To add to your post about weird distributions in Gen 3. In this generation the only way to capture a Slowpoke is to play LeafGreen. The evolution line does not appear in the wild in any other game, including Colosseum and XD.
You're correct. The shiny one has 2 attack DVs and 10 for everything else, and the regular one is 0s across the board.
Pinball also has an early version of Azalea Town as the theme for the blue boards. Getto Da Ze! plays during catch mode only on the same board. Red board just uses Gen 1 music.
The name entry screen uses an original theme that is very reminiscent of both the GSC end credits theme and Sootopolis City (with different instrumentation and tempo).
This is cool, it's like a remix of those GSC tunes before yhe games came out.
I play pokemon pinball religiously as a kid, I'm surprised I didn't put together that the tunes were similar.
But I was a kid who adored Pokemon, so, y'know, my brain wasn't... all there.
Similar to how Zeraora was introduced mid gen in USUM. Magearna was going to be introduced in gen 6's 3rd version before it was shelved
Meltan's body is Ditto's model 1:1
We don't know who made Meltan but we know it was a lazy bastard (or genius)
I remember when Meltan leaked and everyone here was "debunking" it as a placeholder model by pointing out stuff like this lol
Probably because it's still extremely believable that it was just some test pokemon created by Niantic that got canonized after it was discovered to save face.
Literally a fricking ditto with a nut on it.
I wouldnt buy it. The creator is actually known, a Japanese guy
They made it Ash pokemon on the anime and it was used to promote Go, Let's Go and then given a Gmax form in SwSh. Plus the animated shorts for the Melmetal reveal. Crearly not a mistake
Also the concept of metal melting together was chosen because it reflects better how pokemon evolve in Go, so it designed with porpuse
Sus
So, a lot of people know that you can use cut to cut grass, but did you know that a pokemon with the ability Hyper Cutter will cut more grass?
Mr Fuji is implied to have worked as a scientist at the Pokémon Lab at Cinnabar during Mewtwo's creation, and may be the one who discovered Mew, as text in the Japanese version of Emerald hints at his presence on Faraway Island, the event location where Mew can be caught.
When Rillaboom gigamaxes it fuses with the drum
here's a really fricking weird one.
if you count shinies outside of the games as being a part of the rarity, then kingdra technically has the rarest shiny ever that actually existed, as a prototype for the battle dome playset contained a shiny kingdra on one of their segments in the prototype, but not on the released version. so somewhere out there exists a singular shiny kingdra that probably nobody owns.
Like this?
nope, that's not it
that's not it, sadly, as it looks more like this.
still, that's pretty dang cool 😮
in PMD red/blue rescue team, despite being entirely unobtainable, munchlax is programmed to be able to evolve into snorlax at level 40.
this is notable because it's a level-based requirement rather than requiring IQ like all other evolutions that are based on friendship in the main series.
Chimecho was the very last Pokémon created for Gen 3, so when people mistake it for being a Gen 4 mon they're really only one digit off
In gen 3, the move Icicle Spear is programmed as an egg move on a bunch of pokemon, however, no pokemon can learn it through any other means outside of Shellder at level 8, and only in FrLg. This means that when ruby and sapphire came out this move was entirely unused just like the elemental hyper beams. And the only way to get it in Emerald is to trade from FrLg.
Forgot to mention, Volt Tackle was also an unused move until Emerald.
The 500 pokemon is Emboar.
The 1000 pokemon is Gholdengo.
Combine them and you get a piggy bank.
I'm pretty sure Wugtrio is the only Pokemon with three heads that can't learn Tri Attack.
Exeggutor and Combee. I also considered the following, Hydrapple (5 heads), Maushold (3 or 4 bodies), Dragapult (1 head + 2 Dreepy), Falinks (6 individuals), Barbaracle (7 Binacle).
But ignore all that, they should give it to Beedrill because of the 3 stingers.
Posted this in another thread but it's applicable here.
As far as I'm aware, pic related is the only time they didn't use the standard blue and yellow Pokémon logo on something official in the west.
Does Legends Arceus count? Same logo but different color
Mabosstiff is based on a Spanish mafia guy that was a bouncer for Messi (Dani el Rojo).
Guy has a huge jowl
Kevin Nash got raped by a pack of Bulbasaurs
Less obscure fact: Team Rocket's "blasting off again" gag is actually not present in the Japanese version: there they just scream 「やな感じ!」("This feels bad!"/"What a bad feeling!").
Wonder what the trusty frying pan line was originally
If you don't have enough money after taking a taxi in Pokemon X/Y, the cab driver (a Punk) will battle you.
now this is REALLY obscure considering how fricking easy it is to get money in Pokémon
In Red/Blue there is actually a Bulbasaur that you can choose at the beginning, but most players never realize this.
You can get the National Dex before ever stepping foot in the Pokemon League, in Platinum at least. I completed the Sinnoh dex by trading with myself, and then Professor Oak showed up, I got the National Dex and pokeradar. I was even able to encounter mons that you only get by inserting GBA carts in your DS. I was able to use Pal park too. Pretty neat that the game doesn't require you to beat the Pokemon league to gain access to all that stuff.
In Explorers of Sky, the ability Forewarn has a random chance of activating, during which it'll make the pokemon dodge ANY attack, even moves like Swift. This even goes as far as being able to accidentally dodge Mime Jr's "Healing Beam" in the Secret Bazaar, leading to missing out on a full hp/pp/hunger restore.
Ghetsis' battle theme is based on the tritone interval. Almost the entire track is centered around this interval, including the timpanis. That's why it sounds so evil. His name is also derived from the German (I think? Someone correct me if I'm wrong) sounds for the two notes the track uses (G and C#).
N's final battle theme is based on prime numbers. The arpeggios at the beginning are in intervals of prime numbers, as if the white keys on the piano were assigned to numbers. The track's individual sections are introduced when the bar number reaches a prime number. This was done to show N's high intelligence. "N" literally comes from "number".
>Accuracy and Evasion are hidden stats
YOU DON'T SAY????????
moron-kun you tagged the wrong post
I'm so glad you've noticed
Someone had to
It's almost like his reply missed
>Can't even reply to the right post
What a gay.
>This was done to show N's high intelligence
*autism
Accuracy and Evasion are hidden stats in gen 2 games.
; AI_SMART knows these moves are usable all-around.
UsefulMoves:
db DOUBLE_EDGE
db SING
db FLAMETHROWER
db HYDRO_PUMP
db SURF
db ICE_BEAM
db BLIZZARD
db HYPER_BEAM
db SLEEP_POWDER
db THUNDERBOLT
db THUNDER
db EARTHQUAKE
db TOXIC
db PSYCHIC_M
db HYPNOSIS
db RECOVER
db FIRE_BLAST
db SOFTBOILED
db SUPER_FANG
db -1 ; end
> Hyper Beam
...
more fun
https://github.com/pret/pokecrystal/blob/master/docs/bugs_and_glitches.md#single-player-battle-engine
there are a lot of hiddem gems in the code
>Berserk Gene confusing for 256 turns
I'm too much of a codelet to really look at how it's programmed, but is that really a bug? Because that always seemed like a deliberate decision.
Well depends on the specification.
The item's menu description defines:
"Boosts Attack but causes confusion."
In all other context, confusion usually lasts for 2-5 turns not 256 (and I think there is a status effect move version of that item which applies the usual duration as well in later games, forgot the name though). So it would be reasonable to assume it's a glitch/unintended.
Swagger
If the player departs from Slateport City to Lilycove City, going to any porthole on the back wall and pressing A allows the player to see the ship sail through the currents on Route 134; if watched for the whole route, the captain will give the announcement that occurs halfway through the journey. The same can be done via Lilycove to Slateport, albeit only after the captain has announced that the ship is halfway to Slateport; if watched to the end, the ship will arrive in Slateport.
no way
I knew about this cause since red I learned to press A at any not so common sprite
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Buzzwole is the only Bug type Pokemon with a base HP stat higher than 100, and Centiskorch is the only one with base 100.
The name of the website "Bulbapedia" is derived from the words "Bulbasaur" and "Pedophile", which the creator is famously known for being.
The only Pokémon to originate in Pokémon GO is Meltan.
In Ruby, the game lags really hard for a second every time the overworld harsh sunlight effect starts. It's only really noticable when walking across map connections in the overworld though, such as by walking in and out of Lilycove's left exit, and not when you go in and out of doors or land after flying.
The same lag doesn't happen with the heavy rain effect in Sapphire, and I don't remember if it happens in Emerald.
Despite seemingly being banned from ever making an appearance in the animated series, the Porygon line has made a cameo in a scene transition in episode 47 and 69, as well as been seen in the movies' openings 4Ever, Heros, and Keldeo.
The russian pokedex is something else huh?
Chi-yu is a popeyed goldfish
Another fun fact for G1/G2:
Despite many pokemon not catchable during normal gameplay (for example, there are no wild encounters for, say, Alakazam), they all have a static catchrate defined regardless - alongside a default level1 moveset (which would make sense for eggs since g2)
Hitmontop learns it's signature move Triple Kick at level 19 from Gen 4 all the way to Gen 6. Tyrogue does not evolve into a Hitmontop until level 20.
Same with Alolan Marowak and Shadow Bone
That was so annoying when I tried to use one in Moon. Then USUM let you use it with the Totem Marowak.
Hitmontop is just a total joke of a pokemon anyways and this just further proves it. Only two hitmons exist and this b***h isn't one of them.
OP here, Hitmontop slander will NOT be tolerated in this thread.
I never understood impossible level-up moves. I DO get why they're there, for the move reminder, of course, but I don't get why they aren't always level 1. Using Hitmontop as an example, why the 4, 8, 12, and 16? Why aren't those all just 1?
I think it’s so trainers using default moves on the pokemon at a level close to its evo level use those moves instead of all the level 1 reminder-only moves. As if a custom moveset isnt defined, the game defaults to the 4 latest moves in its learnset to its level
This might be it. I think I recall reading something about that before, and it explains why a lot of npc encounters have moves they don't know how to properly use like odor sleuth and assurance.
Speaking of Assurance
>it doesnt matter how the damage is dealt
Rocky Helmet, Stealth Rocks, you name it. As long as damage is dealt that turn before Assurance happens, it will deal extra damage. It isnt just other moves as the description implies
Zorua and Zoroark's illusion ability cancels if you use a Z move.
illusion cancels on any kind of damage. do status z-moves (e.g. z-splash or extreme evoboost) count here too?
It gets cancelled if the mon with Illusion uses a Z-move, not gets hit by it.
Pokemon is actually the least popular franchise according to /vp/
wasted quads
Torchich is the only starter with a gender difference. Males have a tiny spot on their butt
Both Pikachu and Eevee in LGPE have gender differences as well.
If you count fully-evolved forms, Venusaur and Meganium have gender differences too.
lol
Only if you count base forms. Venusaur and Meganium have gender differences as well.
you are being regarded to be a Black person if you carry more than 6 mons
Well canonically your character is a Pokemon researcher, at least early on.
Nowadays the dex is just a formality I guess.
In Lance's room in Gen 1, you can surf in the rows of statues on either side of the room.
Isn't that every statue in the gym tileset? They have the same collision as water.
Yes that's why you can fish in the gyms, but only Lance's room has them set up in a path allowing you to surf up to him and challenge him.
Male tauros produce milk
It’s thick and chunky.
And I'm addicted to it, that's the major difference
ditto is a failed mew
Jynx has actually been edited in rereleases of old episodes to have its current design. However these episodes have never been dubbed over so these scenes are still cut and/or those episodes are still banned stateside.
The first version of the Indigo League box set did include Holiday Hi-Jinx, but I don't know if it used the edited footage or not.
No, these edits were made in the 2010s. By then US had stopped circulating these episodes even edited. Such a shame too, knowing there's a perfectly safe version ready to use (they'd just need to put the dub audio over it, I assume)
Gen 1 is such a buggy piece of shit how did it get released like that
The vast majority of bugs aren't actually apparent if you don't know about them. People wouldn't even know what the frick focus energy did, let alone the fact that it had literally the opposite of its intended effect.
The 1/256 glitch had me thinking for years that Flamethrower had 95 accuracy.
Pokemon Green and japanese Red were even more glitchy.
They fixed a lot of things for Pokemon Blue.
I love them for that. G1+G2 get a freepass in that regard. Yes, I am not applying the same measure for every game, cope about that
Also helps that back then, Pokémon wasn't huge to the point of being the highest grossing media franchise in the world, so it's more excusable compared to now.
The only glitch I encountered was Missingno, and that was when my brother taught me it.
I never used Focus Energy cause I was a little kid and only used attacking moves.
That being said, despite my obliviousness, those games are so wankily made compared to gameboy games at the time that I'm still shocked they took off like they did. Gen 2 was when I really, truly, by my own volition without Fad Fever, got into pokemon.
>why yes I'm a zoomer who has never played gen 1 how could you tell
Trainers were originally supposed to fight alongside Pokemon using their whips
Trainers were also supposed to whip their Pokemon for training, using the belts won in gym matches (belts were eventually replaced with badges)
Porygon learns tri attack as a pun on 3d models being made out of "tris" (triangles)
This is more evident in the gen 1 animation of tri attack, wherein the pokemon just projects a triangle at the opponent
I honestly adore trivia like this. Its like "Beeheeyem learns Iron Win cause its tm51"
if you evolve your starter in R/G before getting the pokedex from oak, instead of giving it to you he evaluates the pokedex you don't have, effectively softlocking you
Zangoose can't learn Cut.
Zangoose don't cut, they SLASH
Ŵĥô ŵôûĺđ ŵĥêň ŷôû ĉâň ĺêâřň Ŝĺâŝĥ?
Many Legendary Pokémon in ORAS have the inexplicable ability to make their battlefield different from where you encounter them in the overworld to the point that it affects moves that depend on the environment.
For example, in Southern Island, the Multi Battle that takes place during the story turns Nature Power into Energy Ball whereas using Nature Power in the battle against Latias or Latios, which happens in the same spot, turns it into Tri Attack.
Cramorant is constantly on the hunt for food along riverbanks. It loves Arrokuda—when it finds them, it swallows them whole without a thought.
charmander is spicy AF
>eating Pokemon
Loathsome team rocket fingers typed that post.
EAT BERRIES, YOU PSYCHO
I wont eat ze bugs or ze berries, klaus.
I just want my tasty tauros or miltank -.-
VERMINK
Speaking of Gen 1's schizo programming, due to how the RNG is called, it's impossible for random pokemon encounters to generate a pokemon with a DV combination that would result in Shininess when traded to gen 2.
I'm pretty sure gift pokemon, legendaries, and I think maybe fishing rod pokemon, can have any combination of DVs however.
the guy infront of mewtwos cave is wearing a big hat and that isn't a huge afro
I could be wrong about this, but I'm pretty sure that Dahlia is the only character with a piercing not on her ears. Well, calling it a piercing is a stretch, it's more just like a gold nugget lodged in her belly button.
Forgot the file.
that's an amulet coin cause she's a gypsy theif
sex with dahlia
@55430677
Isn't squirtle's body made of water?
no it's made of squirt, hence the name
There's a Mew under a truck near the S.S. Anne in Vermillion City.
that's fake, my uncle works at nintendo and he said that you're a liar.
Nemona expresses a rare moment of regret if you lose the first battle with her. Its obscure because its such an easy fight.
Nob Ogasawara, responsible for the western localization, is responsible for much of the censorship without any directive from Nintendo.
Starts as early as Gen1:
Drunk man -> Man didn't have his coffee yet
Hiker high on mushrooms -> Hiker have a bad feever
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one last bump. good thread op
nevermind we're already in autosage, disregard that
From gens I to V, Johto is the region that allows you to catch the most amount of different species prior to the first gym with 20 (in Pokémon Crystal), only half of them are native to the region. Least is Unova (in BW) with 6.
Hoenn (in Pokémon Emerald) is the one that lets you catch the most natives with 13 out of 15.