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    Little things you like about Pokémon

    I ask the following purely with love: But why?
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    (Little) Things that annoy you in Pokémon

    Starting in Generation II, the Psyduck line has access to Psychic as an Egg move. Starting in Generation I, Psychic is a TM. Despite this, it is not until Generation IV that a Psyduck or Golduck can actually learn the move via TM29, despite Psychic otherwise being part of its learnset. Events...
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    The dumbest thing the AI has ever done?

    Yep, one of those. In which case why not simply force the Double? The game does do this in a couple of other spots, it's not as if they can't position people where you either go around both or fight both at once. But that's a game design thing, not an AI thing. And this is a Cooltrainer, the...
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    The dumbest thing the AI has ever done?

    Emerald, fighting a Claydol. Claydol Skill Swaps, then proceeds to spam Earthquake. Against the mon that is now immune to it.
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    Pokémon you had fun using in in-game runs

    Literally the rarest possible Odd Egg (alongside Shiny Tyrogue, 1% each) you can get. I'd be proud too. Odd Egg DVs are fixed at 2/10/10/10 for the Shiny and 0/0/0/0--yes, the absolute worst possible--for the normal coloration. I normally don't even bother with it anymore since it's too much of...
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    (Little) Things that annoy you in Pokémon

    Oh, I totally don't have the specific combination of Return/Dig/Rock Tomb on every member of my current White team. No, not at all. (For context, I've just cleared Cold Storage and am currently training for Clay, so the team's about lvl. 28-29.) The homogenization of coverage is not a downside...
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    Little things you like about Pokémon

    Are...are we stanning ORAS to shit on BDSP, or do we actually like ORAS now? Because if the latter, good job on the fandom finally abandoning "Gen V was the ABSOLUTE PEAK and everything after is complete trash, no exceptions".
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    (Little) Things that annoy you in Pokémon

    You know how BDSP went back to single-use TMs but gave you multiple copies? What's annoying is that this method would have unironically been good had it been present in original DP.
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    Little things you like about Pokémon

    If you duck out of the Castelia Gym to heal, return, and trip this switch, this Harlequin calls you out for not remembering you've already hit it. Very rarely does a Pokemon game call you a dingus to your face.
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    Pokémon you had fun using in in-game runs

    On the subject of HGSS, Heracross. Turned Whitney into a complete joke, and then proceeded to put the team on his back, taking down such difficult opponents as Clair, the Elite Four rematches, and Red mostly unaided. Mostly just raw power here, I didn't even need Guts, just click Close Combat or...
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    Shiny Pokemon Experiences

    If I had a nickel for every Shiny I found during endgame grinding on Mt. Silver, I'd have two nickels. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice. A Golbat in Crystal and an Ursaring in SoulSilver. The former sent me over the moon--it was my first ever wild Shiny. Yesterday...
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    Little things you like about Pokémon

    Why don't I back up a game and talk about arriving in Castelia for my first time? Because let me tell you, I am blown away. From the constantly-changing camera angles and passing trains as you make the long trek across Skyarrow Bridge, to the passersby on every street, to the sheer number and...
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    (Little) Things that annoy you in Pokémon

    I went to check this because I was pretty sure they didn't start changing text on E4 rematches until Gen V and...well, whaddya know, Blue has one line changed to hint that this isn't their first go-round. A grand total of two text changes between the five, BTW (the other from Lorelei, who...
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    (Little) Things that annoy you in Pokémon

    Here are a few level gaps between the fourth E4's ace and the Champion's weakest. Red/Blue: Lance's Dragonite 62, Blue's Alakazam 59 GSC: Karen's Houndoom 47, Lance's Gyarados 44 FRLG Round 1: Lance's Dragonite 60, Blue's Alakazam 57 FRLG Round 2: Lance's Dragonite 72, Blue's Heracross 72...
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    (Little) Things that annoy you in Pokémon

    HGSS: Adds the Pokeathelon, a fun series of minigames that also fixes one of (particularly GS) Johto's major issues, the difficulty in accessing evolutions. (And you can even get them before the E4, if you're playing on the right days!) Also HGSS: Cuts off other evolutions for seemingly no...
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    Little things you like about Pokémon

    It's such a goofy thing, but...good reminder.
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    (Little) Things that annoy you in Pokémon

    Would it be so hard to, I dunno, put a cave-in at the entrance to Mt. Moon or something? Especially when Route 3 is so dense that it's hard to imagine any team not being ready for Brock after clearing it out. (Gen I gets a pass because Gen I. By this point, there's no excuse. Especially in the...
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    Hilarious NPC Quotes

    Um... Um... EDIT: Although to be fair, her after-battle is legitimately pretty funny in context: She has a Slowking. Have fun with that mental image.
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    Little things you like about Pokémon

    Roxanne actually seems, better than anybody else in Pokemon, to understand her proper role as a Gym Leader: A test. Not an insurmountable obstacle, but a demonstration of...basic competence, really, given she's the first one you face. (Also: Alt timeline where Norman is Gym 1 and Roxanne's...
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    Unpopular opinions

    And then there's Trace, who busts out the Mega immediately. I respect it. (A pity Let's Go has no Abilities, because opening with No Guard Hurricanes would be extremely baller.)
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