If yall interested you can play it here: https://www.n-puzzle.com/en/nintendoku

Decided to redo my old top 5 and do a top 6 for every region. I do consider the entire pokemon line, if you're wondering why there's so many final evos, also honorable mentions are in region order. Feel free to pick apart my choices, and I hope ya'll enjoy.

>Goal: to stay true to the base Pokémon's identity as much as possible while giving them realistic-where-possible changes. Other buffs, including moveset additions, are not mentioned unless very specific.

Dugtrio

The more the merrier. Dugtrio is a fast one to get through: it’s supposed to be this blazing fast physical attacker, and that’s what it’s going to be. You cannot give defenses to a being with 35 base HP, so might as well go all in. 

Anyway, TL;DR: you’re not escaping Dugtrio. It’s landing a hit no matter what, that’s its goal. Unless, you know, it’s hit by any sort of priority move. You know how it is. For that purpose, it’s preserving Arena Trap. Once in front of it, there’s little you can do other than pray. Might be going overboard, this is a Dugtrio after all.

Alolan Dugtrio

Dugtrio’s Alolan counterpart will be getting a different treatment despite the fact the base forms are so, so similar. Main reason being each Pokémon must find a reason why to exist. Not saying it’s an easy task.

So Alolan Dugtrio has a bit more Defense, is a tad slower, and gets the signature ability Tangling Hair, which is its main feature and we obviously want to preserve if possible. So maybe Kantonian Dugtrio is an immediate trap-and-kill ‘mon, while Alolan Dugtrio becomes a more passive wait-to-catch-prey-then-attack sort of being. 

That translates to a seemingly unnatural stat distribution that focuses on its defenses, neglecting its Speed (as, once Tangling Hair affects the foe, Mega Alolan Dugtrio will be likely to outspeed it regardless). 

But, as we discussed earlier, there’s no way a 35 Base HP ‘mon works defensively, right? Well, sure! But it’s what I’ve got, man, what do you want me to tell you.

In sum, Mega Alolan Dugtrio is our third Ground&Steel mega: a Defense higher than Excadrill’s but lower than Sandslash’s, a higher Special Defense, an Attack slightly below Sandslash’s, and a Speed a few points behind Excadrill’s. Not amazing by any means, but there’s only so much one can do for this guy.

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Would love to know what you think of these!

I run a voting community ranking site for fun and one of the topics is mainline Pokémon games. The ranks were all pretty normal until one account named "Anonymous XD" voted for Let's Go Eevee over 2000 times in the span of 2 days.

Who are you? I just want to talk...

https://www.votelo.io/vote/pokemon-games

Snorlax won day one so now today it’s reddits favorite normal type from johto also if you would rather want me to finish the whole generation first before moving on to the next just let me know
Also a thanks to BeginnerWestern8733 for putting the website for this: https://cajunavenger.github.io/

Please respond with a gif or pic so we can glaze these fine specimens!

These in the pic are the ones i think arent hated by anyone, what others do you think fit this category?

Salamence won for the Gen III Pokémon that most feels like a Gen VIII Pokémon! Congrats to u/NightKeo0 for having the most upvoted comment!

Day 67: which Gen 8 Pokémon's design looks like they are from Gen 3?

IMPORTANT: When suggesting a Pokémon, you MUST also mention why their DESIGN makes you think of another gen. No need for a long paragraph, just a short reason why (shape, color palette, design influences, resemblances..., literally whatever). A comment without a proper design reason will NOT be considered. No repeats allowed!

Most upvoted (valid) comment wins!

So I’m starting this where people on Reddit decide the best Pokémon for every type in every generation today is Kanto with normal type the Pokémon with the most upvotes gets chosen for this the submission ends tomorrow like how these normally would be I’ll try to get this ready as soon as I can tomorrow.

>Goal: to stay true to the base Pokémon's identity as much as possible while giving them realistic-where-possible changes. Other buffs, including moveset additions, are not mentioned unless very specific.

Bellossom

I had a vision with Bellossom’s ability, and I truly have no other name for it. We’ll get there, but first, let’s get the obvious out of the way and give it the Fairy type, God knows it would have gotten it had it come out in Gen 7 (where it belongs, may I say).

Now, stat-wise Bellossom is, I think, a more defensive take on Vileplume?, an odd one at that. I do think it is a particularly different Pokémon to its counterpart and thus doesn’t need to stay defensive if it doesn’t want to — and believe me, it doesn’t. 

Its mega is thus going to be the fast sweeper version of Vileplume, for sure weaker (its base form’s SpA is 20 points weaker) but able to dance through the opposing team. And that’s Bellossom’s main thing: dancing. Dancer is a more than appropriate ability, I get it’s an Oricorio thingy but it baffles me they didn’t give it to Bellossom too; but I think it could use some extra stuff. My revelation. Here comes.

Mega-Bellossom receives Solar Ritual, an ability that makes it so any dancing move used (by the player or the opponent) while it is in the battlefield will automatically summon harsh sunlight. Bellossom does not automatically benefit from the Sun since it is not a Fire type (wouldn’t that be busted), but it means Quiver Dance also activates fire-type, 100BP Weather Balls and 1-turn Solar Beams… besides some nasty synergies that, I assume, would grant Bellossom an interesting niche as a different sort of Sun-caster.

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Would love to know what you think of it!

Weakness chart by u/Carn_Brea

I personally think Steel should be super effective against Dragon because the dragon always gets slain by a sword in stereotypical fairy tales. Maybe to balance this, Fairy could be resistant to Dragon instead of immune and neutral to Steel, and then Steel could drop a resistance? Fighting could be super effective against Bug because of the whole bug-squishing dynamic. Bug could be super effective on Fairy because nobody uses Bug types. Fairy could be super effective against Fairy, like how Dragon is super effective against Dragon. And Ice should definitely resist Water.

(I will literally take anything by the way, get creative, so long as it doesn’t get me in trouble or instantly end the game XD)

45-44. Weepinbell and Elgyem

43. Pidgey

[IMPORTANT TO NOTE: THE COMMENTOR DESCRIBES REGICE TO FALLING ‘like an anvil from Wile E. Coyote’. ANVILS IN WILE E. COYOTE ARE NON-LETHAL, SO RALTS LIVES.

I've been catching up on the old anime for a while now. Especially the Generation III episodes. When I got to the "Battle Frontier Saga," I was curious to see how they'd adapt the Frontier Brain challenges... And boy, did they do it poorly.

Now. I wasn't asking for a carbon copy of the video game because it would have been long.

But they could at least have kept the challenges. Namely: Exploring the Battle Pyramid, trying your luck inside the Battle Pike, choosing different Pokémon at the Battle Factory, etc.

Instead, we have Ash facing the Brains as if they were ordinary Gym Leaders.

The only thing I save is the challenge with Anabel, where she spoke telepathically with her Pokémon.

But otherwise, it's a huge disappointment. For me.

What do you think?