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[Pokemon] Sword and Shield: Out now. Mark your spoilers!

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  • ZundeZunde Registered User regular
    Chansey are pretty much big fat sacks of experience points. I got this pretty much every other chansey while i was hunting a shiny Chansey
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  • JimothyJimothy Not in front of the fox he's with the owlRegistered User regular
    I'm not 100% in on predicting the titles but those are the two I feel are the most likely.

    They were, along with Snubble, the ones getting push before Gen 2 actually dropped and Marrill was your friendly rival's Pokemon in HGSS, which makes me think they see it as one of the faces of the gen. Togepi is less certain because despite being an obvious Mascot push, it's also always been "the first Pokemon you hatch from an egg". Then again that entire bit of the story makes less sense in a future-facing remake so ???

    I'm betting on Pichu and Togepi, myself

    There's even a precedent for a non-evolving Pichu-- maybe they would actually use the Spiky-Eared Pichu herself

    On the other hand, they did say they intended to make Eevee a mascot on par with Pikachu, so maybe there's an outside chance the starters are Espeon and Umbreon?

  • The Escape GoatThe Escape Goat incorrigible ruminant they/themRegistered User regular
    Personally i would love let's go houndour but i suppose a demon doggo is not something gamefreak would put on a cover

    They put Murder Birb on the cover for Y, so you never know.

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  • OmnipotentBagelOmnipotentBagel floof Registered User regular
    Jimothy wrote: »
    I'm not 100% in on predicting the titles but those are the two I feel are the most likely.

    They were, along with Snubble, the ones getting push before Gen 2 actually dropped and Marrill was your friendly rival's Pokemon in HGSS, which makes me think they see it as one of the faces of the gen. Togepi is less certain because despite being an obvious Mascot push, it's also always been "the first Pokemon you hatch from an egg". Then again that entire bit of the story makes less sense in a future-facing remake so ???

    I'm betting on Pichu and Togepi, myself

    There's even a precedent for a non-evolving Pichu-- maybe they would actually use the Spiky-Eared Pichu herself

    On the other hand, they did say they intended to make Eevee a mascot on par with Pikachu, so maybe there's an outside chance the starters are Espeon and Umbreon?

    Pichu's definitely possible although I want to believe (despite so many reasons not to) that they wouldn't just make the follow-ups basically "Pikachu and someone else" again. Same reason I doubt it'd be Espeon and Umbreon

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  • Green LanternGreen Lantern Registered User regular
    Aipom seems like an pretty solid choice as an mascot

  • The Escape GoatThe Escape Goat incorrigible ruminant they/themRegistered User regular
    let's go: wooper and pineco

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  • LordSolarMachariusLordSolarMacharius Red wine with fish Registered User regular
    Oh no something went wrong in the transfer

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    I like how Golem and Machamp are basically this. Machoke gets Graveler's four arms, and Graveler gets some animal DNA from Machoke.

  • OmnipotentBagelOmnipotentBagel floof Registered User regular
    If we're going with my personal choices, it'd be Let's Go Mareep and Let's Go Cyndaquil. I wanna use those two in their base forms the entire game

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  • WybornWyborn GET EQUIPPED Registered User regular
    Let's Go Munchlax and Let's Go Teddiursa

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  • OmnipotentBagelOmnipotentBagel floof Registered User regular
    Munchlax is a Gen 4 Pokemon!

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  • WybornWyborn GET EQUIPPED Registered User regular
    Let me check my notes here

    Mhm. Mhm.

    I don't give a shit!!!! AND: I forgot

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  • The Escape GoatThe Escape Goat incorrigible ruminant they/themRegistered User regular
    honestly as someone who gave these games a miss a Marill & Mareep version would probably pull me in

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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
    Let's Go Magby and Let's Go Elekid

  • BlankZoeBlankZoe Registered User regular
    Let's Go Magby and Let's Go Elekid
    I would actually love this

    Team Elekid all the way

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  • OmnipotentBagelOmnipotentBagel floof Registered User regular
    Let's Go Magby and Let's Go Elekid

    These are also in the "I don't want you to evolve" camp for me, yeah.

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  • WybornWyborn GET EQUIPPED Registered User regular
    No version of this that doesn't include Teddiursa will be allowed

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  • Endless_SerpentsEndless_Serpents Registered User regular
    edited December 2018
    I know the rules are hardly set but I figure whatever Pokemon they pick has to be small enough to sit on the trainer, have limbs to be expressive with, a tail that wags for items, one elemental + one normal/other, have only one evolved form (that it won’t evolve into) and both are iconic/cute looking as it’s base form. Oh and hair you can frizz up I guess.

    So...
    Let’s Go Marill & Let’s Go Snubbull.

    But Yellow was the only game to give the player a Pokemon that wasn’t a starter by design. There is no second generation game to base it on so this might be the only Let’s Go game that follows this theme. The next one might be Let’s Go Johto, giving you the option of three starters as usual.

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  • Goose!Goose! That's me, honey Show me the way home, honeyRegistered User regular
    I feel like Togepi is guaranteed since they were a big part of the anime for so long. Maybe Togepi and Marrill is probably the other one because Pikablu

  • OmnipotentBagelOmnipotentBagel floof Registered User regular
    Goose! wrote: »
    I feel like Togepi is guaranteed since they were a big part of the anime for so long. Maybe Togepi and Marrill is probably the other one because Pikablu

    Yeah going by historical representation of that era the obvious picks are among Togepi, Marrill, and Snubbull

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  • Endless_SerpentsEndless_Serpents Registered User regular
    edited December 2018
    Togepi seems like a plot point both games would share. You’d get given an egg early on, before you get to the breeder, which hatches into Togepi. Thus showing the player the egg hatching mechanics.

    Getting it from the start would miss the point of its horrifying existence.

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  • The Escape GoatThe Escape Goat incorrigible ruminant they/themRegistered User regular
    I know the rules are hardly set but I figure whatever Pokemon they pick has to be small enough to sit on the trainer, have limbs to be expressive with, a tail that wags for items, one elemental + one normal/other, have only one evolved form (that it won’t evolve into) and both are iconic/cute looking as it’s base form. Oh and hair you can frizz up I guess.

    Most of these are sound, but the bolded ones seem like it's way more likely to be coincidence just because they realized Eevee things were selling like hotcakes and decided to give it a co-star role. Also eevee has, like, a million evolved forms :P

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  • OmnipotentBagelOmnipotentBagel floof Registered User regular
    I'm pretty sure the Eevee/Pikachu dichotomy is entirely because these games started life as a pitch for a remake of Yellow and those were the two Pokemon you and your rival started with. From here on out it's uncharted ground.

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  • The Escape GoatThe Escape Goat incorrigible ruminant they/themRegistered User regular
    hell, it could even be single stagers

    let's go dunsparse and girafarig

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  • Endless_SerpentsEndless_Serpents Registered User regular
    And give them both mega evolutions!

    I love those two. Perhaps my most dear second generation ‘mons.

  • KwoaruKwoaru Confident Smirk Flawless Golden PecsRegistered User regular
    hell, it could even be single stagers

    let's go dunsparse and girafarig

    Lets Go Dunsparce and Lets Go Shuckle

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  • NiryaNirya Registered User regular
    Let’s Go Eevee and Let’s Go Also Eevee

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  • OmnipotentBagelOmnipotentBagel floof Registered User regular
    Kwoaru wrote: »
    hell, it could even be single stagers

    let's go dunsparse and girafarig

    Lets Go Dunsparce and Lets Go Shuckle

    Please

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  • GnomePotionNo9GnomePotionNo9 Registered User new member
    Sorry if I missed it in the thread, but as someone who generally can't make it through the remakes, do you feel like there's a enough new content to justify buying the game? I think my issue is that if it's the same general story I get bored, since the added gameplay gimmicks usually aren't enough to keep my attention.

  • PaperLuigi44PaperLuigi44 My amazement is at maximum capacity. Registered User regular
    My favourite little detail about Blaine in this game
    Is that an npc tells you that his antics are to keep the bored families on the island entertained.

    Blaine is rad.

  • ChincymcchillaChincymcchilla Registered User regular
    Sorry if I missed it in the thread, but as someone who generally can't make it through the remakes, do you feel like there's a enough new content to justify buying the game? I think my issue is that if it's the same general story I get bored, since the added gameplay gimmicks usually aren't enough to keep my attention.

    no, not if thats explicitly what youre looking for

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  • Mx. QuillMx. Quill I now prefer "Myr. Quill", actually... {They/Them}Registered User regular
    Let's Go Ralts/Skitty
    Let's Go Riolu/Pachirisu
    Let's Go Emolga/Axew
    Let's Go Dedenne/Goomy
    Let's Go Mimikyu/Togedemaru

  • OmnipotentBagelOmnipotentBagel floof Registered User regular
    Ralts and the Poochyena that chases Prof. Birch

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  • Rorshach KringleRorshach Kringle that crustache life Registered User regular
    give me let's go trubbish or go to hell

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  • OmnipotentBagelOmnipotentBagel floof Registered User regular
    Pokemon Let's Go Trubbish/Pokemon Let's Go to Hell

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  • TurambarTurambar Independent Registered User regular
    Guess I'm going to hell

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  • OmnipotentBagelOmnipotentBagel floof Registered User regular
    Honestly Let's Go Trubbish/Let's Go Vanillish would be the way to go there. Just really stick it to the people who hate those designs

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  • The Escape GoatThe Escape Goat incorrigible ruminant they/themRegistered User regular
    I don't think you can put Ralts on a cover and reasonably expect to sell any number of the other version

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  • OmnipotentBagelOmnipotentBagel floof Registered User regular
    I think you're vastly overestimating the mass appeal of Ralts

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  • PaperLuigi44PaperLuigi44 My amazement is at maximum capacity. Registered User regular
    Let's Go Skiddo and Let's Go Gogoat for advanced players.

  • OmnipotentBagelOmnipotentBagel floof Registered User regular
    They should abandon the generational remakes and do their own thing so we can get stuff like Let's Go Mareep/Let's Go Skiddo (it takes place in a rural setting)

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