I found out there is TTRPG named PTR where humans fight Pokémon, and this is not even the weirdest thing about it. Indeed humans there have a solid 100/50/50/50/50/50 stat spread. It is literally stronger than Pikachu. So I made a Fakemon based on it.

Name : Human

Here the sprite for Human

https://preview.redd.it/i-made-a-human-pok%C3%A9mon-based-on-humans-from-a-ttrpg-where-v0-qnwi8e6rapsd1.png?width=179&format=png&auto=webp&s=bd4d447114e5f1e3ae00dabd55aa15418f54459c

Species : Homo sapiens

Type : Normal/Fighting

Height : 2,0 m

Weight : 96,0 kg

Ability : Adaptability

Hp 100

Atk 50

Def 50

Sp Atk 50

Sp Def 50

Spd 50

MOVES

Body Slam, Comet Punch, Dizzy Punch, Double-Edge, Double Kick, Double Slap, Focus Energy, High Jump Kick, Karate Chop, Jump Kick, Low Kick, Mega Kick, Meditate, Mega Punch, Pound, Rage, Rest, Rolling Kick, Seismic Toss, Skull Bash, Strenght, Submission, Tackle, Take Down.

Now let us find strategies to make this Pokémon viable in current ZU/PU, or in past lower tiers. NFE is excluded because Human can not evolve.

Here the set I would run

Jolly Nature

252 Atk EVs, 252 Spd EVs, 4 Def EVs

Meditate

Body Slam

Double-Edge

Double Kick/High Jump Kick

With no Sword Dance, set up efficency is limited, but if the chance presents itself such as if the enemy is predicted to switch out, then Meditate is better than nothing at all. Damaging moves let no coverage for Ghost types at all, but at least there are some good moves there. Body Slam is for a common attack, hoping paralysis will come and trigger a switch out, and a free setting up turn, Double-Edge is the finisher if Body Slam is not enough. For Rock, Steel, and also Ice, Dark and other Normal types Double Kick is the low risk, low reward option, and can break Substitute, while High Jump Kick is for power. All moves are powered up by Adaptability, will this make attacks from a 50 base stat viable ? It is still higher than Onix's base Atk !

Follow me on this journey. I realize the real Pokemon games have to basically have a lower difficulty because it's a children's game first. Fine. But I never see romhacks do crazy gauntlets of trainers just to mess with people.

Examples:

1. A dungeon full of trainers where every single one has "Pressure" as an ability. So all your Pokemon are draining their PP twice as fast. By the end, your entire team is basically using struggle to beat the final bosses.
2. A series of fights designed to piss off hardcore nuzlockers. Like, being forced to fight 5-6 trainers in a row with no means of healing yourself. You're encouraged to use Shell Bells or Leftovers, and after each "fainted Pokemon" your friends give you revives and full restores saying "just use these during the battle!" (Since Hnuzlockers can't use items in battle.)
3. A series of tough battles, but the final boss has nothing but Pokemon with Aftermath. So even if you have a full team, they'll be hurting after dealing with 6 aftermath Pokemon.
4. A series of trainers that always start with Perish song. Like, every Pokemon they have use that move first. Always.

I wonder, are there any romhacks that "troll" trainers or make it nearly impossible for "challenge" runners?

Hello there ! So, I'm currently playing a ROM hack that added a Pokémon that is not in the base game and was originally a Gen1 glitch Pokémon. Just by looking at its stats at level 50 (exactly how I caught it, no EVs or anything) I can tell it has wildly different base stats compared to what it had back in Gen1, and I was wondering if there was a way to find out what they are, approximately ? I have looked everywhere but could not manage to find anything.

I was searching for some controversial or creepy facts and stories related to the Pokémon franchising, like the 2000's Satanic panic, Burger King's Poké Balls, Mewtwo's origins and science ethics, the downfall of Takeshi Shudo, Porygon shock... Do you know any other?

Edit: it must be enough material for a video, not a short one.

As a guy who enjoys all types of competitive fighting games, like street fighter, Tekken, KoF, Guilty Gears and even smash.

I think the phase shift really did alot to Pokken to make it alot more original, even when the game is suppose to be just a crossover with Pokémon and tekken.

Back then it did work as a mechanic, actually making those shitty anime arena fighter an actual competitive game, it was also a fun way to prevent annoying crap like infinites or wobbles because of the constant phasing forcing to adapt, while also allows the other side to turn the tables.

Even back then FGC players like Maximillian dood even considered more fun than street fighter 5 at the time, before street fighter 5 got all is updates and Pokken tournament stayed the same years later

Problem today back then when you either play it at arcades then later Wii U, both of which has ways for both players always have their own screen to look at, with the Wii U gamepad or just playing besides you at the arcade.

Now on Pokken tournament DX on switch there's no guarantee, unless of course a friend of yours also just happens to also bring their switch and a copy of the game, or you played in that split screen mode which cut the frame rate in half, which for fighting game..is really gross.

For maybe tournament setups is fine to just make multiple setups with multiple Nintendo switches but for the average man..the most accessible setup is just horrible, crappy framerate or a gimped 2nd player.

I'm usually inclined to just have a sequel that just plays like Tekken except Pikachu is heihachi again, I'm also bit torn to because it is still an original mechanic that did helped make this game stand out, and was competitively viable even(it did have an EVO run, which you can't say the same for alot of other competitive fighters)

While the phase shift itself I think is unique to the series, I'm honestly not sure how could it work on a regular home console, unless the switch 2 is just slightly powerful enough to make split screen mode 60fps..but seeing how even other anime arenas like sparking zero still could solve this issue on the PS5 I'm not holding my breath.

I heard that you have to watch the symbols closely, but even when I do that I have absolutely zero luck. I’ve one maybe twice out of twenty times. It’s driving me insane and I’m starting to wonder if my game is glitched. (I’ve been exiting the game corner and walking back in as well so the chances reroll)

Is there anything I can do?

I want to start off by saying I know that some types are meant to be weaker, Normal and Bug being prime examples. But I feel that, with the power creep only getting worse as the franchise continues, some of these types should get adjusted to fair better on more pokemon without being reliant on abilities or stats to be meta-relevant, and I have some ideas how they could shake up the competitive scene and give some old mons new life.

I know I mentioned Normal, but really I feel like it's best to remain untouched. So many normal types either have an additional type to add flavor or strong movesets to give them some coverage. Plus too many special attributes would lose what makes Normal unique. The only possible suggestion I have would be an additional resist by Dragon types, but even that is a stretch.

Next up is Bug. I really feel that the resistance between it and Fairy should be mutual. Bug types are already incredibly weak overall, and exacerbate the idea of some types relying on outstanding pokemon to shine. Heracross, for example, has good stats, a great secondary typing, and good coverage in its movepool, making it a fine competitive Bug type. Spidops, on the other hand, has garbo stats, weak movepool... you get the picture. Giving Bug a mutual resistance would give it something unique compared to most other types, as well as more opportunities in the competitive scene.

Finally, Ice type. It is a great offensive type, hitting flying, dragon, and ground, but it is lackluster defensively. Bulky ice types are few and far between, and it doesn't take much to hard counter an offensive Ice type. My suggestion isn't a type interaction, but instead a special trait. I love when types have special traits that boost their viability, grass being immune to powders or dark being immune to prankster. I suggest adding a boosted evasion stat in snow or harsh sunlight. It would fit ice types well, and provide a unique defensive option outside of direct buffs. Not to mention it would boost the viability of snow cloak users.

Looking forward to hearing your thoughts!

Of course the power of branding is definitely the main reason, but at the same time, pokemon spinoff specifically made for switch, could barely hold the candle to the sales of mainline, we taking 3 million peak vs 20 million average.

you can say because they are RPG games, but at the same time why couldn't that be reflective to the RPG genre as a whole? the only other RPG franchise, i can only recall is considered huge is dragon quest but that's mostly in japan, and not really the rest of the world, and overall the world wide perspective i always been told is that the RPG series is considered the least evergreen game franchises you can play, espiecially turn base RPG.

i know people gonna say "but palworld is an rpg and it too sold like crack" but when you actually look at the game itself, that game is clearly more primarily a surival game like minecraft with some RPG mechanics, a game genre that universally just sells like crack.

the only time i seen a RPG game become huge is when the game itself is carried by word of mouth, because of good it is by the target audience, like baldurs gate 3, or final fantasy XIV, or WoW.(clearly not something pokemon can say they have yet)

of course pokemon is the bigger franchise overall, yet the mario series, another series that can equally sell the same amount of games, yet Mario's RPG games sold the same amount of numbers as a pokemon spinoff game on the switch.

and is also clear ""quality"" ain't even a factor, just by looking at the sales of scarlet violet vs the amount of "backlash" these games has.

the only theory i could give is simply marketing.
mainline simply just have the biggest marketing budget the pokemon company gives to their games that isn't a mobile. infact, pretty much everything pokemon merchandise/media that made up 90% of pokemon's profit is essentially a commercial for the current mainline games specifically, a commercial that is actually the one that makes most of your revenue.

so for the average everyday man, when they look up "pokemon game on switch" chances the game that they will find first and by default fancy them the most, is the one that stars the fancy new pokemon you seen plushes of them every day like the current mainline starters, or the legendaries of the current generation.

and they don't care what exactly the game is as long as it has the word "pokemon" in the title, regardless of the games quality.

in the same spirit that the actual best selling mario games are basically the most ""googlable"" mario games out there, because there is no way in hell paper mario the thousand year door is gonna be the first thing you find when you look up "mario games on switch"

I know about EV completely But I have always wondered Why are Ev total 510 Shouldn't It be 511 according to Bit logic Even tho now it will leave 3 EV which will still be useless but it should be like that no?

What if i decide to have 200 EV in 1 stat 200 in 2nd It never hit 255 And then the game should still be able to think as if there's still not any stat that is completed their max EV So it should still be able to send the maximum EV it can send to maybe the 3rd state or maybe 3rd or 4th splitting There should be 111 EV left Why can't it store the 511 ? We know the bit logic saves 0 as a digit also so 512 can't be But what is wrong with 511? Sorry if am not making sense.

So as title says this is my attempt to make a platinum version of Kalos but adding the challenge mode for players so both newbies people looking for a challenge or causal run anybody can get what they want. I already been fantasizing about remaking Kalos Gym Leaders for a while even replacing Gym leaders and at one point making Alain the champion instead however after taking checking out some other ideas especially on Okreactions or I am the Bookworm here is there video and post if you are interested https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYSErDNn4mE. https://www.reddit.com/r/pokemon/comments/18nvo1s/if_you_could_fight_the_kalos_gym_leaders_in_any/.

I think I can now manage a fair and balanced improvement to game.

Sorry for bad spelling and I will be allowing Pokémon to learn moves they don't know.

1st Gym Viola

Level 10 Surskit Level 12 Vivillon( Tundra/Ice if you picked Grass, Continental/electric if you picked Water Sandstrom/Ground if you picked fire)

1 potion

Level 12 Surskit Level 12 Butterfree Level 14 Vivillon(Oran Berry) Tundra/Ice if you picked Grass, Continental/electric if you picked Water Sandstrom/Ground if you picked fire

2 potion

TM Infestation(Base power 40)

Anyway I decided to have the game take advantage of Vivillon alternate forms to make it more different than an average Butterfree clone and to counter the player's starter pokemon but it's still early game where you'll depends quit a bit on it which is why I didn't make a grass water fire form plus this can teach newbies there are more problems for your starter than your rival's pick. Pikachu and Dunsparce will be moved to later in the game. Surskit gets Rain Dance which works the same way it did in earlier gens softening fire and strengthening water type moves and goes well with it's swift swim ability . Butterfree is pretty tough early game it's motive is too try and put your team to sleep or paralyze them and whittle as much health as it can with infestation(which is basically a much better Posionpowder) so Vivilon can take out what's left.

In the basic mode. It will be having weak moves like Powder snow thundershock Sand tomb. Challenge mode gives it Charge beam Icy Wind Mud Slap(Base 35).

2nd Gym Grant

Level 19 Onix Level 20 Amaura Level 20 Tyrunt

1 Super potion

Level 20 Onix(Quick Claw) Level 21 Relicanth Level 22 Amaura(Oran Berry) Level 22 Tyrunt(Oran Berry)

2 Super Potions

TM Rock Tomb

Also Riolu and Hawlucha will be moved to later in game to prevent too many easy counters to grant's team. You don't get the super rod yet so Relicanth Luvdisc or Wailmer(if this game has it). Carvanha can be caught by an old rod though. Also the levels will be smaller because of the cites and caves will be added to later in the game over 9 routes and caves from 1st gym to second gym is kinda of ridiculous. Onix in both versions has sturdy its's purpose is as a set up Pokemon meant to get off at least a stealth rock and maybe a sandstrom, With Quick Claw it has luck to try and pull off both maybe with chip damage. Relicanth was picked for the same reason Okreactions mentioned it's really underrated and Binacle evolution will already be used by Siebold. Relicanth ability rock head will allow it to use Double Edge(Yes I know Take down is an option but it's a challenge mode for a reason) with no issue and Work up to boost it's physical and special moves at the same time. Amaura gets Body Slam instead of Take down going while with refrigerate and Dazzling Gleam instead of Psybeam in challenge mode to deal with Fighting type Pokemon. Tyrunt will be getting Dragon tail since it learns that already by Level 20 even in the game in both versions however I will also be giving it Fire Fang to deal with any geinsues using their Chespin evolved or not and Steel Pokemon and Ice Fang to deal with Ground Pokemon especially the ones you find in caves and Geninsues using Chespin or it's evolution. Yeah I don't have any super effective moves for Froakie or anyone bringing water types but I think the next gym will be hard enough for them. In the normal version Tyrunt will just be using Hyper Fang and Bite.

3rd Gym Clemomnt

Yeah I'm taking inspiration from Platinum and having you fight the 5th earlier which makes sense it won't take too long to travel back especially with the changes I plan to the map and/or having a guy who can easily transport you there just for a few bucks. Plus both of their aces evolve with a stone so there are still very strong but make sense.

Level 26 Emolaga Level 26 Raichu Level 28 Heilosik(Sitrus Berry)

1 Super Potion

Level 27 Emolga Level 27 Raichu(Air Ballon) Level 28 Rotom(Mow if you picked Water Heat if you picked Grass Wash if you picked Fire) Level 30 Heilosik(Sitrus Berry)

2 Super Potions

TM Volt Switch

Sturdy will be more of an uncommon ability. Heilosik will have Parabolic Charge as it's electric move in both versions. Emolga will also be using rain Dance in both so Heilosk can take advantage of it with it's dry skin ability. Heilosik will be using water pulse in the normal version and Surf in Challenge mode. Swift in both versions.

I was going to give him an underleveled Magneton but Raichu has a lot less weakness and a better movesets can use Double Team Body Slam(Mega Punch in Normal version) Grass Knot and Volt Switch. Emolga can use thunder wave in both and has Acrobatics(Instead of Aerial Ace) in challenge mode. The Rotoms fill the same purpose the Vivilon plus having a strong pokemon with little to no weakness and you can't use your starter just works. Also in a future gen Rotom can learn electric terrain so why not introduce a few gens early good luck.

4th Gym Korrina

Level 30 Mineffo Level 30 Hawlucha Level 31 Pangoro(Sitrus berry) Level 33 Mega Lucario

1 Hyper Potion and full heal

Level 32 Mineffo(Rocky Helmet) Level 32 Hawlucha Level 33 Pangoro(Sitrus Berry) Level 35 Mega Lucario

2 Hyper Potions and full Heal

TM Powerup Punch

Being the one who introduces mega evolution to the player I think it would make much more sense if it was incorporated into the gyms and she was the first to use it against you. I think you can fully understand why I put Clemont 3rd now. Sigilyph is moved to later in the game. You will however be getting a Riolu after this gym battle.

Mineffo gets reganator(an ability that heals some hp for switching out) Fake out Baton Pass Rock tomb Powerup punch I agree with him here except I'm giving Mineffo the rocky helmet instead. Hawlucha is going to get acrobatics in challenge mode instead of flying press and in the normal mode it would be aerial ace. Both versions will have Shadowclaw to counter Physic since Lucario is already part steel that takes care of fairy. Pangoro will be using Night Slash Powerup Punch Rock Tomb Bullet Punch in normal version. However it gets Ice Punch instead of Rock Tomb in challenge mode to counter Pokemon including someone bringing their starter Chespin which is most likely evolved by now and the ability Iron Fist but Pangro is already pretty strong but something boosting all it's fist attacks with it's already high attack stat will make it a nightmare.

Lucario is weak to Fire and Ground pokemon I was going to give it a water type move but figure I stay fair it can beat most pokemon in the game up to this point pretty easily even without the mega. It will have Swords Dance in both versions. Rock tomb and Metal Claw in the original in challenge mode it will be using Rock Slide and Iron head. I was going to give it a ground type move however most people will probably be using the new fletching or could get charmander to it's full evolution and since numel isn't in the game(I don't think so this makes the most sense).

Anyway that's half of the game let me know what you think in comments if I'm being too hard or easy.

Yes I know the studio that made it is not actually from the US entirely, as the animation is primarily done in china, Malaysia, Korea etc.

But the writing, the tone, setting, is clearly targeted to a western audience.

But even with that, plus detective Pikachu the movie, I never factor until how much we missed out from Pokémon media, when you actually give the IP to someone who likes Pokémon, and can actually write/animate things, outside of Japan a chance make a cartoon of the IP.

If I could wish for one, I kinda wish we could see wanime like cartoon for pokemon, animated kinda in the same spirit of avatar, Voltron, castlevania, my adventure with superman etc.

So I never played any Pokemon games and i want to start playing Pokemon’s I have delta sim but how can I get the files for the Pokemon’s games and what starter friendly Pokemon game? (iOS btw)

(This might be my final major post on this subreddit)

Joseph Stone said during the Delta EP that his grandfather invented Devon Corp's infinite energy, and Bro knew that it was inhuman to use the life force of the Pokemon who died in the war because their souls would never be at peace.

Yet we later know he goes on to mass-produce/take advantage of the mass amounts of life force and uses it to put Devon Corp on the map. Nearly everything in ORAS (the rockets, the submarine, and the device Zinnia destroys) is powered by infinite energy.

He chose being rich and famous over being the well-being of life.

Seems like the perfect villain for Pokemon, another wealthy business owner being a complete asshat to the world for their gain.

Giovanni, Cyrus, Lysandre, and USUM Lusamine...no?

It works well with synergy with ORAS, which was synergizing with XY's lore while filling in the gaps.

The idea I want is to just see actual building size Pokémon, Just casually roaming the field like any other animal would.

But I don't want to be like a scripted boss fight, like the titan battle or dynamax battles, and just fight like any other Pokémon.

The game I know had a similar experience, is xenoblade chronicles, how even at the early game area like gaur plains you already start seeing these building size monsters casually roam the land like any other animal, that can go up to level 80..when you are still barely in your level 16s, with some of said giant monsters actually attack on sight or just barely noticed you walk on their toes.

And is that intentional imbalance of monster encounter composition across the game world, I think adds alot to the overworld to make it feel more like a real living and breathing world, rather purposely scaling normal Pokémon to be smaller and not needing to reserve big Pokémon to their own sub boss battle.

and the fact that these are monsters you can fight right aways means these are not pointless decoration either.

Imagine seeing stuff like a correctly scale 40 meter steelix casually passing by on your way to the next city, or a small hill size torterra by the forest sleeping away.

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Hi guys, im planning on doing a travel to japan the next year and try to buy at least one game of each generation and try to have them completed (all the pokedex and such). Do anyone knows how many consoles of each i will need? I was thinking 1 of each because you can play gbc games on a gba and gba games on a dslite. But can you trade between them? I completle forgot that gba and gbc uses link cable to trade. Do i need to buy two link cables or its impossible to trade between consoles even with the same game?

Like, isn't Orgepon like...THOUSANDS of years old. Like remember how Kieran couldn't even tell you how many grandpas his ancestor was that was the mask maker.

So she has to be at least 1000+ years old, right?

Yet people treat her like she is a baby? The design?

I blame the design. 10/10 in the cute factor and a solid design, but without the mask on, Orgepon is only cute...nothing more.

In hindsight...I wish they had gone with something a bit more menacing, you know.

It's the same with Pecharunt, but I hate that Pokemon way more than I do Ogrepon for obvious reasons I won't go into it.

By this I mean some kind of tournament where you battle a gauntlet of AI-controlled Pokemon. It can be something included in either a separate console game or within the core games themselves.

Gen I: Pokemon Stadium

Gen II: Pokemon Stadium 2

Gen III: Battle Frontier (Emerald), Pokemon Colosseum, Pokemon XD ?

Gen IV: Battle Revolution, any others?

Gen V-IX: ???

Thanks for the help...

The above question. What do you think is the best designed Gen 3 Pokemon? Emerald was my first Pokemon game and I have many favourites from the Hoenn region. Mightyena, Flygon, Metagross, and Aggron to name a few. Also, if you can make any improvements to any Gen 3 Pokemon design what would it be? I would love to hear your thoughts.

Something so oddly hard to comprehend, always seem to be the salties of Pokémon fan to say this.

Yes Nintendo is not a sole owner of the Pokémon brand, 1/3 of the brand, but saying is third party because of It is anything but true.

Being 1/3 still means Nintendo is a board of director of the Pokémon brand, in fact the current CEO of Nintendo WAS a bored of director representative of Nintendo.

Every project, like plushies and phone apps has to be approved by Nintendo before published, even if said apps has no correlation with Nintendo, them publishing it, or their consoles, aside being the one who runs the game server which is also provided by Nintendo.

Nintendo co-published every release on Nintendo consoles, spinoffs, mainline etc.

The Pokémon company we know today, the one said to be the third party, was kick-started by satoru Iwata.

If you wanna be angry about anything before hand, please see the facts first before claiming shit like this.

Now first off, I know that OVERALL he is most known in the My Little Pony community, the unholy Tri-Force you could say.

But as a Sonic fan, who’s fairly well versed in the Sonic community, I’d say that we do get fairly lumped in with Chris Chan in the general public views of Sonic fans.

But I’ve always wondered if Pokemon fans get the same flack by the general public as Sonic fans do (as in, do Pokemon fans have a stereotype of being like Chris Chan)

Because I’ve never seen a Pokémon fan talk about Chris Chan and I’m curious to know if we have that in common. Chris is most known for Sonichu afterall, the Sonic-Pikachu hybrid.

Rather the goat form we are seeing is essentially one of the infinite arms and is merely a stand in for the real arceus for all mortals and Pokemon to comprehend, while the real arceus is observes and dwarfs the Pokemon's infinite multiverse, as it's real form is incomprehensible for the people to witness.

When we catch arceus, it's essentially nothing but a stand in avatar of the real arceus, and how we can battle it at all, is nothing more than a trial from arceus itself.

Also the unown are essentially the eyes of arceus, and is how it observe the entire Pokémon multiverse as a whole.

Essentially, real arceus works like marvel's one above all.

I would love to know what you hope to see in the remake, new game, or Legends title in the upcoming four years...?

I hope 2028 shines bright on Unova!

The next poll will include the improvements that I come up with

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This theory might sound crazy, but hear me out; if you read Starmie's pokedex, it's heavily implied that it is an alien that has come to space. It even has the name of the "Mysterious Pokemon," which fits the bill with how odd this thing is in the dex entries.

Crystal: It is said that it uses the seven-colored core of its body to send electric waves into outer space.

Dppt: At the center of its body is a red core, which sends mysterious radio signals into the night sky.

BW2: "Its core shines in many colors and sends radio signals into space to communicate with something."

Ultra Moon: It rotates its geometrically shaped body to swim through the water. It always seems to be sending out mysterious radio waves.

Sword: "This Pokémon has an organ known as its core. The organ glows in seven colors when Starmie is unleashing its potent psychic powers."

Starmie's core/organ thing in the middle of its body looks OFFLY similar to the Deoxy Meteorite Form that it takes when it sleeps and rests.

And if we know Deoxys's lore, from the dex, of being a meteorite that got hit by a laser that was retconned to be AZ's in XY...

The DNA of a space virus underwent a sudden mutation upon exposure to a laser beam and resulted in Deoxys. The crystalline organ on this Pokémon's chest appears to be its brain.

What if it was a Starmie that the meteorite infused with life energy, and undergone a mega evolution transformation and became Deoxys!

I mean, Deoxys does look kind of like a fish Pokemon...when it extends its tentacles out like we see in ORAS's legendary Delta EP cutscene.

Grand Meteor Delta Cutscene

Maybe core itself was able to finally create a humanoid body, and that is the actual pokemon!

What do you think?

I simulated the results of over 2 billion single battles in an attempt to determine what the best dual-types are. Fairy/Steel ranked 13th.

What did this simulation look like?
I started with 10,000 simulated players using completely random teams of 6 Pokémon. After each played 20 or so battles, the worse performing players had their teams changed to mimic the ones the better performing players used. Rinse and repeat. Pokémon were not defined by species, rather by their 2 defensive types, and each had a moveset of 4 different types of moves. No stats, abilities, move powers, etc. were taken into account, only types.

How were battles simulated?
For each battle, I determined the most amount of damage each team would be able to deal to the other before all their Pokémon fainted, and whichever team was able to do more was declared the winner.

What made a dual-type better than another one?
I ranked dual-types by total usage throughout the simulation. Whichever one was used on the most teams was declared the best. This same metric is used in competitive tournaments.

So, which is the most used dual-type?
Flying/Electric. Followed in order by Poison/Dark, Steel/Flying, Dark/Ghost, Grass/Fire, Ground, Fairy/Normal, Dragon/Steel, Dragon/Water, Ghost/Normal, Ground/Water, Rock/Grass, and then Fairy/Steel.

What are those Grass types doing there? Why were they more used than Fairy/Steel?
Short answer: Ground is a really good offensive type, and the metagame caught on to that. Long answer: more Pokémon running Ground type moves meant Fairy/Steel would often be hit super-effectively - it also meant Fire and Rock types fell out of use pretty early. Fire and Rock are pretty good offensive types, and the 2 Grass dual-types listed became the premiere Fire and Rock move users due to them being neutral to Ground, and Grass also being a decent offensive type with the steady presence of Water and Ground types.

Why the asterisk in the title?
Fairy/Steel is pretty much the best dual-type if it's going up against completely random teams. While its incredible defensive potential still makes it one of the best dual-types in a competitive environment, it's capabilities are somewhat countered by the best offensive and defensive types.

Please let me know what you think and if you have any questions about all of this.

As I already said I am an old Pokémon gamer and I played from gen 3 to 7. I did not play and do not want to play gen 8 and 9, but I recently found out I would have liked to play gen 1 and 2. I do not own a GB or a GBC, so I can not, however I still learned a lot about it. As I said in the past, I believe gen 1 and 2 were set in a different Multiverse were Pokémon lived in our world, Arceus did not exist and had no role in it indeed, and the first Pokémon were meant to have appeared a mere 2 million years ago and have been studied by humans only in the last few decades.

Here is what I think about them

Pros

At the time it was released, Pokémon RBY were the first of their kind, a true and huge revolution in the world of gaming.

The gen 1 designs were the best. All actually strong Pokémon looked badass or at least appropriate, and they looked like what they should be, elemental animals and monsters.

The monochromatic world of gen 1 may seem underwhelming today, but to me it looks like a psychedelic dreamscape.

Sprites were really off model, and yet I find them great because they look like horror creatures, especially Exeggutor, emerging as nightmares from the dreamscape.

The gen 1 metagame was so fast and funny. No stall, no complex strategies, just setting up and sweeping for the most part. Critical hits being tied to speed and accurate moves still being able to fail makes it even more thrilling. I also love how good Hyper beam was when if you used it as a finisher it had no drawbacks. Afterall it is the Kamehameha of Pokémon Universe, and all the Legendaries always spam it in the Anime, it needs the due respect.

Mewtwo was ridiculously overpowered but I believe it is still nowadays the most interesting Pokémon of all, so it deserves it.

GSC were great as a sequel, and gen 2 is not really even a different generation, it is the completion of gen 1.

Cons

Mewtwo needed to be used more in the storyline. Giovanni should have captured it with his Masterball and should have used it in his team in the final battle in a post Elite 4 event.

No postgame in gen 1. However, there was no space, the only thing they should have done is make trainers rematchable.

Gen 2 is not, as I said, a different gen. Most Pokémon are either evolutions of gen 1 ones, either they are super weak, and they are quite few overall. Yet this is both a Pro and a Con because I really love gen 1 designs.

No semi competitive player VS AI battles until Crystal. Even then, Trainer Tower from gen 2 is pretty subpar compared to Battle Tower from gen 3. But trainers were rematchable at least, even already in GS.

Overall

While they are definitely not the best in absolute terms, relative to their time RBY were the best ever. No other videogame before Pokémon even vaguely resembled it. Nowadays games are getting worse so much I would rather play gen 1 and 2 than 8 and 9.

I think what they really lacked was giving to Mewtwo a more active role and making trainers rematchable from RB. I still believe, even then, gen 1 storyline is the embodiement of Pokémon as a gaming franchising, and is the best mainline storyline, after gen 5.

What I can do is playing Pokémon Showdown in its gen 1 format.

I’m rewatching Destiny Deoxys, and during a conversation they refer to rayquaza as, “… a rayquaza …” while during the same conversation they refer to deoxys as just deoxys. This heavily implies there’s multiple rayquaza throughout the real pokemon world, right?

I may be overthinking it as it is a dubbed version, and they change the wording based off the character’s mouthes and movements, but has anyone considered this?

Remember that fake water starter platypus Pokemon that went viral (along with the fire rabbit and grass lemur fakemon from that “supposed” leak)? What do you think of that blue water platypus specifically? Do you like its design? Do you wish it was added to the main series? I would like to hear any and all thoughts about this adorable platypus Pokemon.

Hello reddit,

as my 3DS bricked recently I have no more use for these games. Also as I am moving soon, so I could use some money.

About the games:

US/UM Box is complete with all cases and the Steelbook. However I am missing the Ultra Sun game, but have the ultra Moon one.

The Soul Silver Box is complete and in good condition. The game is running and works. The pokewalker was never used.

The Heart Gold box is not complete and in a rougher condition. I have the game, it works and is running. But as you can see on the Image attached below I am missing the original packaging of the pokewalker.

Image for estimation:

https://imgur.com/a/RLtZUjx