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Pokémon Thread: New starters REVEALED - Get your Winners' Path in HGSS

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  • Speed RacerSpeed Racer Scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratchRegistered User regular
    edited May 2010
    I'd be fine with the HGSS system if they just replaced the Pokegear button with a Poketch button that doesn't make you pause the game to use.

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  • RockinXRockinX Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    RockinX wrote: »
    I love real otters, but I don't like this one all that much. Mainly because of the nose. They should have given it anotter kind of nose.

    Though I love its expression and the shell on its belly.

    Reposting because of pun that no one cringed about due to people not reading it.

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  • Last SonLast Son Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    RockinX wrote: »
    RockinX wrote: »
    I love real otters, but I don't like this one all that much. Mainly because of the nose. They should have given it anotter kind of nose.

    Though I love its expression and the shell on its belly.

    Reposting because of pun that no one cringed about due to people not reading it.

    It was too subtle. Truly horrible puns should be obvious. :)

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  • AaronKIAaronKI Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    The pig's final evolution has so much potential for being awesome, but we'll probably get this instead..
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  • RamiRami Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    Pig final evo
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  • CouscousCouscous Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    I have no clue why that grass type strikes me as British.

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  • OpiumOpium regular
    edited May 2010
    Couscous wrote: »
    I have no clue why that grass type strikes me as British.

    According to CoroCoro it is supposed to be a snake (with legs, somehow?).

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  • XyyzXyyz Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    The water starter would have worked much better if the body was white and it lost those extra bits around the neck.

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  • JarsJars Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    I'm not hating on the otter yet, how many of us expected piplup to turn into a totally boss metal pengiun?

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  • Mostlyjoe13Mostlyjoe13 Evil, Evil, Jump for joy! Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    Or Squirtle to turn into a tank.

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  • BlackjackBlackjack Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    The water starter is adorable, I think.

    The fire starter is kind of disappointing, but I'll wait to see its evolutions before judging completely. Still, it's definitely no kung-fu chicken/kung-fu monkey like the last ones.

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  • Gennenalyse RuebenGennenalyse Rueben The Prettiest Boy is Ridiculously Pretty Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    Opium wrote: »
    Couscous wrote: »
    I have no clue why that grass type strikes me as British.

    According to CoroCoro it is supposed to be a snake (with legs, somehow?).

    Snakes used to have legs far into the past. At least one still does.
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  • Professor HydronProfessor Hydron Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    Hmm, if they give the starters types that give them an advantage against the opposite type as they have in Sinnoh (Ground, Fighting, Steel respectively) I wonder if they'll repeat this secondary typing again (though I'm all for Pure Grass/Fire/Water starters.

    Grass and Fighting? Dark? Flying?
    Fire and Steel? Psychic? Normal?
    Water and Ice(lol!)? Flying(what? wings would totally make that design better, it already has everything else)? Fighting?

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  • KayKay What we need... Is a little bit of PANIC.Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    You know who's getting me through the Elite 4 in HG/SS?

    This motherfucker.

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    Badass as hell. Also, terrible pun was terrible, Rockin. No-one wanted to read it.

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  • CouscousCouscous Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    Opium wrote: »
    Couscous wrote: »
    I have no clue why that grass type strikes me as British.

    According to CoroCoro it is supposed to be a snake (with legs, somehow?).

    Snakes used to have legs far into the past. At least one still does.
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    That is a skink.
    http://wherelightmeetsdark.com/index.php?module=pagemaster&PAGE_user_op=view_page&PAGE_id=40

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  • Sangheili91Sangheili91 Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    My first impressions were that the grass starter was awesome, the fire starter was cute, and the water starter was fugly. Looking at them again, I think they all look pretty good, even the otter. It's gonna be hard to choose, methinks...

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  • Professor HydronProfessor Hydron Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    True, we should withhold judgments until they digivolve into their next digivolution

    or at least until someone throws down a Dark Ritual Magic Card and that Sea Otter becomes the feared King of Otters so covered in blood the waters of the world's rivers is not enough to wash it clean....

    in attack mode

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  • BlackjackBlackjack Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    I just want there to be a pure flying type, really.

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  • CouscousCouscous Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    Blackjack wrote: »
    I just want there to be a pure flying type, really.

    I don't really get why normal/flying pokemon aren't just flying pokemon. It is kind of like how there weren't any pure rock pokemon in the original generation for no real reason.

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  • JarsJars Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    mudkip is a fish yet has legs, magikarp can walk around on land.. who cares if it has legs.

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  • KorKor Known to detonate from time to time Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    Or Squirtle to turn into a tank.

    But... that was what was on the box.

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  • Gennenalyse RuebenGennenalyse Rueben The Prettiest Boy is Ridiculously Pretty Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    Couscous wrote: »
    Opium wrote: »
    Couscous wrote: »
    I have no clue why that grass type strikes me as British.

    According to CoroCoro it is supposed to be a snake (with legs, somehow?).

    Snakes used to have legs far into the past. At least one still does.
    image001.jpg

    That is a skink.
    http://wherelightmeetsdark.com/index.php?module=pagemaster&PAGE_user_op=view_page&PAGE_id=40

    Well, huh. Learn something new every day. Whatever the case, snakes used to have legs and are occasionally born with them due to genetic abnormalities and mutations and whatnot. The genes are there, they just aren't active.

    And Grass-starter's limbs look pretty underdeveloped and weak, too. Maybe it'll lose them upon evolving. It'd be cool to have a limbless snake starter final form.

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  • CouscousCouscous Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    Maybe it will turn into some sort of dragon looking thing with short legs like eastern dragons?

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  • Professor HydronProfessor Hydron Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    guys obviously the snake will evolve into the Midgard Serpent
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  • Sangheili91Sangheili91 Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    guys obviously the snake will evolve into the Midgard Serpent
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    That is the scariest fucking thing I have ever seen.

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  • undeinPiratundeinPirat Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    grass flying

    quetzalcoatl

    calling it now

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  • ArchArch Neat-o, mosquito! Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    True, we should withhold judgments until they digivolve into their next digivolution

    or at least until someone throws down a Dark Ritual Magic Card and that Sea Otter becomes the feared King of Otters so covered in blood the waters of the world's rivers is not enough to wash it clean....

    in attack mode

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  • BlackjackBlackjack Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    I love everything about that picture.

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  • King RiptorKing Riptor Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    I had the genius idea of using a focus sash endeavor ratata to catch all my legendaries.

    And then I discovered that the focus sash disappears if its used and I was all like D:

    No it doesn't. It's effect is once per battle though.


    On the Starters

    Collected Lizard is cool. I will name him Simon and he will battle with his unrestrained rednecky Treecko brother also named Simon. Also they will solve crimes It would be hilarious if it becomes a boxing Grass Fighting.

    Fire Pig. Ahaha! Maybe a fire ground for it's final?


    Water Otter. WASTE OF AN OTTER.

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  • StericaSterica Yes Registered User, Moderator mod
    edited May 2010
    I find something unsettling about the boy getting normal pants and yet the girl gets short shorts that are so short the pockets are longer.

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  • undeinPiratundeinPirat Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    I had the genius idea of using a focus sash endeavor ratata to catch all my legendaries.

    And then I discovered that the focus sash disappears if its used and I was all like D:

    No it doesn't. It's effect is once per battle though.

    it does disappear after it is used

    not in battle frontier or anything

    but it does in the normal game

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  • Mx. QuillMx. Quill I now prefer "Myr. Quill", actually... {They/Them}Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    Screw the haters, Otter and I will have so many fun adventures and be the best of buddies and get ice cream.

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  • King RiptorKing Riptor Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    Couscous wrote: »
    Blackjack wrote: »
    I just want there to be a pure flying type, really.

    I don't really get why normal/flying pokemon aren't just flying pokemon. It is kind of like how there weren't any pure rock pokemon in the original generation for no real reason.

    Flying in Japanese is Wind or something. So a pure flyer would be air.

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  • shadydentistshadydentist Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    I had the genius idea of using a focus sash endeavor ratata to catch all my legendaries.

    And then I discovered that the focus sash disappears if its used and I was all like D:

    No it doesn't. It's effect is once per battle though.

    it does disappear after it is used

    not in battle frontier or anything

    but it does in the normal game

    I was like you once, thinking that I could just use the same focus sash over and over again in-game.

    How joyfully naive (+Spe -SpD) I was.

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  • RockinXRockinX Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    If you want to go with that strategy, you need to learn how to Recycle.

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  • StericaSterica Yes Registered User, Moderator mod
    edited May 2010
    I always choose the water starter, so I will be The Lone Otter.

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  • King RiptorKing Riptor Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    I had the genius idea of using a focus sash endeavor ratata to catch all my legendaries.

    And then I discovered that the focus sash disappears if its used and I was all like D:

    No it doesn't. It's effect is once per battle though.

    it does disappear after it is used

    not in battle frontier or anything

    but it does in the normal game


    Huh. In retrospect I guess I never did use it outside of PvP.

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  • CouscousCouscous Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    Couscous wrote: »
    Blackjack wrote: »
    I just want there to be a pure flying type, really.

    I don't really get why normal/flying pokemon aren't just flying pokemon. It is kind of like how there weren't any pure rock pokemon in the original generation for no real reason.

    Flying in Japanese is Wind or something. So a pure flyer would be air.

    But don't we have pure fire pokemon like Charmander? The same thing would apply. You would at least think there would be some kind of air elementalish pokemon.

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  • RestartRestart Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    Couscous wrote: »
    Blackjack wrote: »
    I just want there to be a pure flying type, really.

    I don't really get why normal/flying pokemon aren't just flying pokemon. It is kind of like how there weren't any pure rock pokemon in the original generation for no real reason.

    Flying in Japanese is Wind or something. So a pure flyer would be air.

    They'd save time on sprites.

    Restart on
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  • King RiptorKing Riptor Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    Couscous wrote: »
    Couscous wrote: »
    Blackjack wrote: »
    I just want there to be a pure flying type, really.

    I don't really get why normal/flying pokemon aren't just flying pokemon. It is kind of like how there weren't any pure rock pokemon in the original generation for no real reason.

    Flying in Japanese is Wind or something. So a pure flyer would be air.

    But don't we have pure fire pokemon like Charmander? The same thing would apply. You would at least think there would be some kind of air elementalish pokemon.

    I guess. Maybe that's our Legendary in White?

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