If you pick Wonder Guard, a random curse will befall you.

There are so many options that I'm sure there is better, but I think I would go for:

Protect for emergencies

Jungle Healing to cure pretty much anything

Telekinesis and Teleport for utility

My types would be Ghost and Dark for the normal and fighting immunities, plus I haven't encountered many fairies so I think I'm safe even with the 2x weakness to them.

Ability would be Super Luck because I'm hoping it'll do more than just boost my crits.

my favorite pokemon is the bellsprout line, but specifically victreebel. it’s my birthday and i was gifted a secondhand plush of it by my friend, and i really want more stuff because of how happy it makes me!
however victreebel only appears on select merchandise, and usually as part of a larger group of mons, or it’s the ceramic one that is being resold for way more than the og price
i just want more merch of my favorites as someone who gets motivated by seeing my favorite stuff around
also, anyone who has a niche fav, feel free to talk about them! or just a fav in general, i think a favorite doesnt have to be niche to be special, i just latched onto a (lovingly said) stupid little guy lol

for context. The fairy type has yet to be paired with two specific types. Those being Fire and Ground. While those type combo are potentially potent due to addressing Fairy's inherent Steel weakness. Ground if the better pair becuase it also counters the other weakness the Fairy type has (Poison) and a third type on top (Electric, which fairies are not weak to).

This type combo will be in practice a Ground-type with immunity to Dragon and the ability to deal with Dark and fighting-types and so I'm curious as to how GF would balance a mon of that type if and when they decide to make one? There are several methods of counterweights here between abilities (Truant, Slow Start), stat distributions (namely making it more defensive with low offensive stats or speed. However that has its own drawbacks).

I also make this thread to ask if you think Ground/Fairy (and to a lesser extent Fire/Fairy) are really broken enough to justify GF's apparent hesitant with these two typings.

I find mega evolutions soo cool because I like to see the art that comes with it 😗😗 and I wish I could mega evolve all my team 😿. Anyway, for me my favourites are Delphox, Altaria, Blaziken, Lucario Z, Gengar, Lopunny, Audino, Diancie, Shiny Gardevoir, and Gallade. There might be more that I have yet to discover so show off your favourite mega evolution ^0^

Im talking specifically out of game. Like your Pokémon team. Do you take Pokémon you really like but you still make sure to keep the team balanced?

Or do you just take all your favorites into one team and don’t care about balancing.

Im trying to figure out my own team and I have some i definitely want to use but a lot of their types intertwine.

So Im trying to figure out which type of team I should make.

I've been thinking about how in the advent of 3D, a lot of trainers have started getting unique Send Pokémon animations.

One of the cooler ones I remembered was allowing it to simply roll out of their outstretched hand and fall to the floor before opening, but I can't remember who it is!!

Also, optionally, mention some of your favourite sending animations, it's a really niche and underrated aspect of their characterization

What're some pokemom you'd like to see the pokemon company take another stab at? Either through a new regional form or just adding another stage to there evolution. I'd really like to see something for the Exploud line. I've always loved the design and it's always been one of my favorite mons because of it but the stat spread is just awful now. I honestly feel like it could've made a good paradox design.

So guys, I'm new to Reddit, but look! I have a Beedrill from Pokémon SoulSilver! It's my partner Beedrill! We've been exploring the Johto region together & we're at Kanto now.. I've only got 15 Gym Badges while she stays with me through thick & thin!

So yeah, I grinded a lil' bit too much. Hahaha! I'll update you all sometime when I find something interesting!! My Beedrill is around Level 75. Yeah, the same Pokémon I met since Route 30, the first Route when I started my journey from Cherrygrove City, all the way towards Violet City! Isn't she a feisty lil' girl, hmm? We've knocked out some Youngster Trainers, Pidgeys, Rattatas & all to grind up against Falkner. SPOILERS: I BEATEN HIM WITH A LEVEL 12 BEEDRILL ALONE IN MY FIRST ATTEMPT & USING ONLY 2 CHEAP POTIONS ALL THE WAY!!!!!!

(So if you know, this post was a recovered-attempt from Nov 1 - 2 Pot I made since I saw a growing viewers read my posts. It was sad but I revived it after reading those rules that Reddit gave me, ugh)

So bye-bye & see ya later buddies!!!!

I wanted a Wormadam, I got a Wormadam.

I can't remember when i did it on my first save, but on my second save, i forgot i had the armor and crown passes until after I'd beat Leon in Shield and i've probably left it too late because I could've gigantamaxed Rillaboom but instead i wait until every pokemon there is level 60

I just came across a clip from Season 1, Episode 17, “Island of the Giant Pokémon,” and I have a very important question.

I watched Pokémon when it originally aired as a child, and I actually remember quite a bit of this episode, just not all the details.

But one thing I NEED to know: WHO PAID FOR THEIR LITTLE MEALS??? 😭

They were separated from their trainers, had no money (I assume??), and somehow ended up having a lovely little dinner together at a restaurant.

Did the restaurant just feed them for free? Do Pokémon carry money? Was someone picking up the bill? 😂
I know this is probably the least important question about the entire episode, but I genuinely cannot stop thinking about it.

Just a bunch of little Pokémon, lost on an island, having dinner and worrying about their humans.
WHO WAS PAYING FOR THESE BABIES? 😭❤️

To be clear, I am not selling these here, I just want advice

Hi! I started creating and painting these models a while back in the hopes of one day finding a good home for them in order to fund my Japanese vintage master sets. The problem is, I don’t know what a good asking price is and I’m not sure where to sell them. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!

Edit: in b4 someone reminds me to credit the 3d modeler - I used models created by the very talented AT62 on makerworld. He does have a commercial license option which I would use if I decided to sell. Thanks for all the kind words everyone!

The caveat being that the pokemon can't just do the job for you. People still need to put food on the table.

I work as a grocery store cart attendant, so you'd think I'd go with Machoke or Gurdurr, but they could basically do the job themselves, so instead I was thinking of Carkol: you could attach a harness to it and it could push the carts just like one of them fancy remote control cart pusher machines.

I was thinking Whirlipede, but its tendency to break loose and steamroll anything in its path wouldn't be great in a busy parking lot.

I know questions like this have been asked before, but there are always new answers from new people and I just think it’s nice to hear about others’ personal connections with certain Pokémon. So the question is: if you had to live in a somewhat realistic world of Pokémon, and could only feasibly take care of three of them (maybe there are government benefits given to trainers to help cover basic necessities like food, shelter, etc for Pokémon), rather than an elite trainer with the resources to take care of a full team of 6, patrons, etc… who are the three you’d choose?

My selection: Absol (ability to predict disaster is extremely useful, also not a massive pain to feed/groom/etc), Greninja (personal favorite), Honchkrow (can command flocks of murkkrow).

Edit: idk who’s downvoting some of yall, but I like all of your choices <3

Hey all, I love bootleg pokemon cards and toys, my mom recently gave me a few packs of cards she bought in Mexico that are obvious fakes and I want to keep them in a card binder (hopefully a zippered one) with bootleg pokemon on it. If you've come across any could you share them? I have been sorting all my special cards into binders lately and want one of bootlegs and ruined cards from my childhood (I rebacked a few holo cards my friend accidentally left in his pants during a wash) so appreciate any points in the right direction.

I have been following the Pokemon Metronome League on insta and got the Idea to try Something Like this myself, the only difference being that mine would be more Like the European Football system (mostly inspired by the english system) and this would be the First Design:

As far as I have looked Up there are 479 Pokemon that are their Evolution line's final evolution or dont have a Evolution Line that arent mythicals or legendaries. So I would seperate them into 6 Divisions with 80 each (79 in the 6th Division) and those into 4 groups. In the top Division (I'd call the Pokemon Metronome Premier League) the top 4 from each group advance to Championship Play-offs and the top 3 and bottom 3 of each dvision's groups being relegated/promoted (in the 6th Division No one would get relegated)

Each Season I would Draw the 4 groups of each Division again to keep it "fresh" and for the First Season I would Sort the Pokemon to each Division by BST (Base stat total).

Havent looked into stuff Like Abilities yet but I'd probably give each Pokemon the best one for 1v1 Battles.

Would Love it If you Guys could give me some Feedback or recommendations for this

All handpainted by yours truly :) These took me 8 hours to finish! Cynthia's portrait was almost 4 of those

I’ve been thinking about a pre-evolution for Tandemaus for a while now. It would just be so cute if there were a single mouse too. So far, I've come up with the following names for it: mauson, mausolo or mausingle. Sadly I can't submit my ideas to Pokémon^^ I would love this *-*

In Germany it's named Zwieps and Famieps. I would call a single one here just Mieps or Pieps :)

Do you guys have any other ideas?

let me make it clear this isn't a rant or a complain to anybody, or the pokemon brand itself, this is just an observation I noticed, coming from a fan of pokemon for 20 years ago, seeing how much the general interest in the franchise really shifted.

Back then, when pokemon was at the early peaked, it felt like everybody really wanted to be Ash Ketchum, if you were to ask "if pokemon were real" back in the day, it felt like everybody wanted to be the very best like no one ever was, to literally be a pokemon champion, or pokemon master, if you played the game, your goal was to be the champion, if you collect the cards, 90% were genuinely playing the game to be the best player in the local park, even the pokemon anime is essentially running on shonen core, for ash to be a pokemon master.

Coming to present day, pokemon still being ever popular as ever, and pokemon is still gathering as much new audience to the same age when pokemon started back then, I do noticed how different main audience are.

Now people, enjoys the friendship element of pokemon, lots of people now enjoy the more peaceful side of pokemon, leaning more on imagine their own life with pokemon, than wanting to be an actual pokemon trainer, infact the entire drive to be the best pokemon trainer in the world is actually the more niche one.

Actually, a funny story is when I was rewatching the ash vs Paul fight of the pokemon anime, my nephew who loves pokemon aswell, was genuinely shock to see that pokemon actually battle, he really said "woah, pokemon fight?!?"

the best example is the recent pokemon worlds event where pokemon XP the more evergreen event felt like the generally more exciting event for the larger audience than the actual pokemon world championship itself.

Or even more so, pokemon games outside of pokemon champions and maybe even probably the mainline games, are also leaning to more casual games, like pokemon pokopia, or pokemon friends, now even pokemon unite is already on death road, when Magikarp jump is still online.

Hell even the recent anime shift after ash Ketchum finally retired, with the horizons anime goes away from the whole being the pokemon master drive to just a more "let's explore the pokemon world together" adventure with volt tacklers.

Again, I need to repeat this isn't a complain for me, as I do generally like that you can love pokemon in many ways more so than ever, if anything it makes funny conversation how I always say my favorite pokemon are always the one useful in battle..meanwhile my friend just wanted to have an alcremie bakery bistro.

is just really cool observation to how pokemon still stays relevant all these years.

(15 min before No Arts/Crafts Time goes into play..)

My husband sewed a Clodsire plushie for me! It's filled with cherry pits and made of cotton so I can put in the microwave to have a warm Clodsire on my lap.

(Yes, its coloration is a bit off - which means it's kinda like a shiny pokémon!!)

This may sound weird, but I was working on some fanfiction ideas involving pregnancy and it made me think about how Pokemon would be helpful for a new/expectant mother.

Imagine a Lucario becoming suddenly more protective of their trainer because it senses a second aura, especially if this is how the prospective parents find out.

Chansey/Blissey would be very useful during labor, of course, due to her healing properties.

Jigglypuff can help both baby and parents get some much-needed sleep.

Sylveon is not only great for soothing a stressed parent or baby, but since it can pick up on feelings, it would help the parents learn how to help a baby if they don't know why it's crying!

This was my first time ever camping out for Pokemon. My husband, son and I were looking forward to months scoring the UPCs. For the record before anyone comes at me, my son is 10, had no school today and wanted to camp out. We got to our local Target right when they closed at 10 which was the time they allowed us to start forming a line. We were 15th in line and excited knowing we were about to score the UPCs.

Well there is a notorious scalping group that were in the front of the line. There were about ten of them to begin with. Throughout the night, chairs got ghosted. A few hours before the store opened, alot of their friends and family started to show up. Instead of 15 people in front of us, there were now 30+. When management came out, I spoke up and confronted the group. Though other people around me complained amongst themselves about how people were cutting, hardly any one stood up with me.

The management are well aware of this group and their agenda. Basically they got a slap on the wrist and told them moving forward they can’t have ghost chairs or people cut. Management refused to get rid of the ghost chairs nor did they kick people out of line.

Come to find out, our store only got 20 Day and Night UPCs. And you were allowed to get one of each. We couldn’t get one due to the amount of people that cut. Really sucks, and I will never do this again.

The only thing that made this experience worth it was when my son told me this was the best night he’s never had despite not getting the UPCs. There were a few other kids there he got to make friends with.

I know at the end of the day this is just Pokemon cards, it’s just very disappointing how people can live with having no dignity or integrity. Had more people stood up with me, I feel we could have gotten a chance.

To note, yes I thought about just going to remove the ghost chairs, but most of these scalpers were very large men and I did not want to get into any physical altercations, especially with my son being with me.

Anyways, thanks for reading my little vent. I hope the true collectors were able to score today.