This legendary is honestly disappointing. Lore and abilities are too vague for it's own good.
This legendary is honestly disappointing. Lore and abilities are too vague for it's own good.
This legendary is honestly disappointing. Lore and abilities are too vague for it's own good.
yeah I was honestly really looking forward to this little guy hopefully the anime does it justice
>they literally shaft the games just to pump up an anime season
they really did Zygarde twice, why? nobody liked when they did it the first time.
Zygarde got shoved into the anime because they decided to rush out Gen 7 for the anniversary, the same reason why Zygarde got shoved into SM.
Terapagos was the reverse, there was no need to shove it into the anime, but they chopped it from the games to shove into the anime to shill you the anime after you finish the DLC and still left with questions.
They both shoved into the anime but the reasons to do so are very different.
All of the /vp/ lore threads lead to nothing. Accept that Terapagos only exists to make Betaboy go through his puberty chuuni phase.
>All of the /vp/ lore threads lead to nothing
Well yeah, because those are headcanon threads.
What does this have to do with terapagos though?
>Lore and abilities are too vague for it's own good.
How are it's abilities vague when they went into more detail about what Tera energy can do than they usually do with legends?
What can Tera energy do? I played the game twice and still don't how changing types with crystallization, and interdimensional time travel correlate.
>how changing types with crystallization, and interdimensional time travel correlate
They don't. They are two unrelated concepts that happen to be in the same narrative. Why on earth would you ever think they must be linked?
Because I wanted cohesion. Every other third legendary is not this complicated or vague about their powers as Terapagos.
>Every other third legendary is not this complicated or vague about their powers as Terapagos.
>eternatus' energy makes pokemon big because...
>Zygarde is just cells scattered across the planet because...
>Necrozma's stolen light turned in to Z crystals that could power up moves because...
And then you have the totally "vague" terapagos who generates crystals containing Tera energy, the energy of pokemon types, that can be used as a massive power source and mutates plants and bestow a new type to pokemon depending on the type crystal it's exposed to.
Total mystery there you fricking moron.
You never adressed the time travel thing
With enough energy you can tear the universe a new one and guess what terapagos has to spare.
the only thing required for time travel under known laws of physics is an extremely large (infinite, actually) amount of energy. the crystals don't have time powers, they have energy.
>all the other legendaries simply have one function
>meanwhile, terapagos has multiple different functions despite being a small baby turtle
Yeah, that's dogshit.
Because they literally come from the same thing: terapagos.
Are you moronic ?
Terapagos' power at its core is the ability to store energy in its shell and convert it crystals.
Terastal is just unleashing the elemental energy that it absorbs from Pokemon moves. Everything else is just the product of its crystal being really powerful batteries.
Because in other legend's case their energy abilities aren't the focus.
But they are here.
>you know how we gave Ogerpon a backstory and let you interact with it before catching it?
>let's not do that with Terapagos
can't belive /vp/ has become too smooth brain for pokemon
Because it got shafted in the DLC due to two reasons.
One: Priority shifting to Gen 10 on Switch Successor Development, which involves learning an entirely new platform and basically starting 3D development for the third time.
Two: Revealing Terapagos' hand in full would spoil what Horizons is trying to do with its own Terapagos, which hinges on the mystery of this particular Terapagos, what its abilities are, and its relations to Liko, Lucius and the location of Rakua.
this. the anime is all narrative driven. terapagos is a walking plot device mystery that will be revealed later on
>Two: Revealing Terapagos' hand in full would spoil what Horizons is trying to do with its own Terapagos
Make them be different Terapagos
They are different Terapagos. The problem lies that you can't fully reveal what the species is capable of because that in turn would reveal what Horizons' Terapagos is capable of, therefore stripping away the mystery and intrigue.
>that you can't fully reveal what the species is capable of
They already did.
Alright, then lay out the full story of the Terapagos in Horizons, since you fully understand what it is capable of, and thus, why it's important to the narrative.
Are you fricking moronic?
Knowing Terapagos' abilities isn't the same as knowing how they're going to use it in the anime, dumbass.
We knew Hoopa could create wormholes and had a second form but did we know that the anime was going to have it split in two and summon five hundred legendaries? Frick no.
They'll do whatever they want in the anime with the abilities it has, it's already used it's time abilities multiple times even though it only happened once in game. Then there's Rakua that doesn't exist in game.
And before you reply, think hard about the difference between knowing abilities and applying abilities.
Then we don't fully understand how Terapagos works.
That's what I mean right there. They're gimping Terapagos' showcase of powers in the DLC in order to pull as many "WOW, SO INCREDIBLE!" twists and turns in Horizons.
>Then we don't fully understand how Terapagos works
This is why I told you to think before you reply and you clearly didn't. You're probably going to act like Terapagos has some uber secret ability when they animate Tera Starstorm with a bigger explosion in the anime.
Only if they explicitly state it does something different from a normal Tera Starstorm beyond "it explodes stronger", yeah.
>Its name was created by Heath during their first meeting
>It has been slumbering in the depths of Area Zero for around 2 million years, causing the creation of the Terastal phenomenon
>It has the power to transform energy into hard crystals
>It’s thought that this Pokémon lived in ancient Paldea until it got caught in seismic shifts and went extinct. In reality, one Terapagos remained and was just sleeping for a long time.
>Upon sensing danger, it prepares itself for battle by creating a sturdy shell of crystallized Terastal energy. When struck by a move, this shell absorbs the move’s energy and transfers it to Terapagos.
>In it’s Stellar Form, Terapagos resembles the world as the ancients saw it, and its Terastal energy is abnormally amplified.
>According to the Professor, Terapagos Normal form is used when it is not battling.
>When in its Stellar form, it can manipulate Tera energy around, even absorbing the energy from Tera Orbs or Pokémon
>With Tera energy, Terapagos can manipulate Pokémon types and even time and space
There you go OP. Pulled all this info from the game. Hope things aren’t confusing anymore.
>>With Tera energy, Terapagos can manipulate Pokémon types and even time and space
>It’s thought that this Pokémon lived in ancient Paldea until it got caught in seismic shifts and went extinct.
so.. how the frick did an entire species of Reality bending, type changing, crystal shitting turtles die exactly? earthquakes and fissures? volcanos? this thing is so fricking adaptable and strong as a singular pokemon that its crystal poo can advance technology and alter pokemon, let alone itself. I call bullshit on the extinction I bet there are hundreds of these little fricks crawling around beneath the crust of Poke Earth.
They're not as smart as humans anon. They're generation of tera crystals is only done to protect themselves and time travel at Crystal Pool just seemed like it was doing it for fun with its trainer. I doubt they have the cranium to think "oh, there might be a sudden collapse of a layer of where we live while we sleep, or a sudden lava overflow smothering us, maybe we should time travel somewhere away from here"
>thinks that it is just time travel
>doesn't think that instinctively out of self preservation it would warp itself or it's environment on the drop of a dime to stay alive
>so.. how the frick did an entire species of Reality bending, type changing, crystal shitting turtles die exactly?
You skipped a few steps. The Terastral phenomenon developed because of ONE Terapagos, the one we meet. It sleeping in the underdepths caused the energy it gave off to crystallize, becoming the Tera phenomenon in the process. The other Terapagos were just regular Pokémon before that.
The Terapagos that we caught is the one that created the Terastral power. The professor says it was sleeping for a long time and eventually the energy it emanated took shape into what we know now. No doubt the species beforehand were just a bunch of innocent turtles.
Headcanonically, it's the same one from different time periods meeting up and hang out together as a group from time to time
The Terapagos from 2 million years ago were normalgay shitters.
But this one after sleeping for 2 million years ago was slowly ever so slowly building up it's powerlevel until it became the center of Tera bullshit.
So basically all Terapagos' could become Tera bullshit but they needed 2 million years of sleep to recharge to become it in the first place.
slow and steady wins the race
The same energy/creature can change Pokemon types and kind of time travel, two apparently unrelated things. Its moronic but we gotta just accept it.
best legendary since mewtwo
True but the Raidons, Treasures of Ruin, Ogerpon, Pecharunt and Loyal 3 all pick up the slack anyway as far as being interesting goes and i guess something had to be the boring and disappointing one for the gen.
>and i guess something had to be the boring and disappointing one for the gen.
The source epitome and center of fricking everything being the most boring and literally who of the bunch is kind of a big frick up to happen. It being so underwhelming also indirectly affects the others.
The real problem isn't that Terapagos is boring it's that people wanted it to be like a traditional legendary story where it's just in your face and everywhere rather than being the cause of just about everything under the surface.
I absolutely love this little guy, his lore and influence is massive and he just chills in his crystal, being a lil cute crystal source of reality warping magic
i want to eat the forbidden gusher