#CAUGHT A LOT OF LEGENDARY POKEMONS???

[vaugarde]

One thing about my worldbuilding that isn't really important, I just think it's cute: the Pokemon anime is a TV show within the main gameverse and it's meant to educate kids about certain Pokemon while telling it's own story that's very, very, verrry loosely based on Red's journey.

[blvckquill]

Reminded of when that post was floating around asking what kind of partner pokemon people would have and my friend said that an Absol would be a good pick for me like a service dog (I had mentioned wanting something that could help me with my doom spirals back then). And while I said that would be nice the other factor of Absol's lore is people being kinda wary around them because of it being a harbinger of doom basically. So he'd also be a disservice dog...

[kafus]

how i caught entei in leafgreen in the most ridiculous way possible

SO last week i started a pokemon leafgreen file on my childhood cart i've had since my 5th birthday, and one my goals ended up being getting every owned dex entry possible in JUST the one copy of leafgreen without connecting to any other game… and i did. except i forgot one. ENTEI!!

like probably a lot of you reading this i COMPLETELY forgot that one of the johto roaming beasts is in every copy of FRLG. i never even caught any of them as a kid. which roamer you get is based on your starter (squirtle = raikou, bulbasaur = entei, charmander = suicune) and i happened to pick bulbasaur so my roamer was entei. it does actually ROAM in kanto, aka whenever you change locations, the pokemon moves to a new route. obviously this is a pain in the ass, but it gets even more painful because roamers can flee from the battle and they will the instant you encounter them. you get the chance to throw one ball or use one move and that's it… so like in most pokemon games, you would use a trapping move like mean look to keep the roamer in the battle and turn it into a normal legendary encounter, right? HAHA WRONG

raikou and entei are affected by the ROAMER ROAR BUG in FRLG, which means if they use roar to escape the battle (yes, even in mean look, it doesn't stop roar from working) they just disappear from the game. permanently. forever. you can never capture it. suicune is not affected by this because it doesn't have roar, but my roamer was entei, so uh. the odds were stacked against me. did i want to repetitively encounter the roamer over and over, never trapping it, just throwing one ball each time? or did i want to set up a mean look pokemon only to have to soft reset every time entei used roar? neither option sounded fun and i was going to just give up and master ball it despite REALLY wanting it in a luxury ball like all the other kanto legendaries i had already caught… UNTIL!

i am a moderator of the ribbon master discord (a different pokemon challenge) and i was just sorta liveposting my thought process about this annoying roamer when gen 3 rng manipulation extraordinaire ddeeffgg crashes into the chat and suggests this fucking bonkers idea. and his bonkers idea is galaxy brain LET ME EXPLAIN

ariados is available in leafgreen's post game by catching spinarak in pattern bush, and of course electrode is a fairly common kanto pokemon. ariados gets access to spider web, which is basically just mean look with a different name (and i completely forgot it existed), it traps the opponent in the battle. but IMPORTANTLY, it ALSO gets access to BATON PASS… which, in gen 3, passes the trapping effect! usually if you were to use spider web and swap out ariados, the opponent would no longer be trapped, but baton pass solves that! and then electrode has the ability soundproof which prevents roar from working, and it even gets thunder wave (paralysis) and sonicboom (consistent 20 damage with no chance of accidental crits) to assist in easier capture of entei! nice!! awesome!! but getting this setup in order is the most ridiculous shit i've ever done in leafgreen

PROBLEM #1: ariados gets baton pass through egg move. in gen 3, egg moves are only passed down by the father and not the mother, so i had to grab a male ledyba, grind it to a high enough level to learn baton pass, then grab a female spinarak and breed them together. unfortunately this means my ariados would be level 1 and i'd have to train it up quite a bit, which leads into my next problem…

PROBLEM #2: ariados is SLOWWW. its base speed is a measly 40 compared to entei's whopping 100! ariados needs to outspeed entei to use spider web first turn so entei can't just run away! i would have to get ariados to a very high level to outspeed entei, grinding all the way from level 1. the one plus side is that the roamers in FRLG are bugged to always have a 0 IV in defense, special attack, special defense, and speed, which means unless entei has a +speed nature, its speed would always be a predictable and relatively low 105 at level 50, which is what it's encountered at. so i had to get an ariados with a speed of 106 or higher.

to get around both these problems as efficiently as possible, while breeding spinarak, i bred quite a few to get one with a +speed nature, and ended up with a jolly spinarak. everstone doesn't work in FRLG unfortunately, so the nature was completely random each time. soon my DAUGHTER WAS BORN after like 2-3 hours of breeding because FRLG eggs are SLOOOW and i was being stubborn about the nature, which i was getting unlucky on LOL

then i maxed out her speed EVs real quick by fighting picnicker susie on route 13 over and over, who gives 12 speed EVs per battle, 24 with the macho brace, which i was using. this was just to make sure i would reach 106+ speed as fast as possible. then i grinded her levels by repetitively fighting the two trainers right outside the weird chansey dance guy's house in sevault canyon on seven island, right above tanoby ruins. using the vs seeker on them is the best grinding spot in the game since they give 20k experience per fighting both of them and there's a healing spot Right There. i was using exp share and leading with my level 100 jolteon named Egg who i adore with all my heart. ariados, now named koolaid, ended up crossing the speed threshold at level 62! yes this took a while lmao

as for electrode, i wanted one at as high of a level as possible so i hopefully wouldn't have to grind levels. i lucked out as electrode is found at a whopping level 64 in cerulean cave's bottom floor. a 5% encounter rate but as i had already caught numerous 5%s for the pokedex, i didn't really care. however it DOES have explosion and i'd rather not have the electrode explode on me before i could catch it which would then send me on a wild goose chase for ANOTHER 5% electrode… so i grabbed the random level 24 poliwhirl with the damp ability, which prevents explosion from working, out of my PC, and gave it a smoke ball from the celadon game corner so i could lead with her and easily run from each encounter that Wasn't Electrode.

now you may be wondering how i was going to handle capturing electrode once i was actually in the battle because SURELY it would just use thunderbolt or something and instantly murder my poliwhirl. however funnily enough electrode only has two attacking moves at level 64, swift and explosion. explosion obviously doesn't work, and swift is a physical attack in gen 3 due to all normal type moves being physical, this was before the physical/special split in gen 4. electrode's physical attack stat is a garbage 50 and swift only has a base power of 60 so i honestly wasn't concerned. and best of all, poliwhirl gets the move hypnosis, so i could easily put electrode to sleep and start chucking ultra balls… and the smoke ball ended up being useless because i somehow ran into electrode first try what the fuck LOL

anyways i named them gatorade to match with koolaid. truly the dream entei capturing team. i didn't even feel the need to grind any levels on gatorade, level 64 was more than enough, so i just slapped the two moves i wanted on them - thunder wave through the one-use tutor in silph co, and sonicboom through the move reminder on two island, costing me two tinymushrooms which i thankfully already had and did not have to go out of my way to grind.

however the hours worth of prep ISN'T DONE YET! because uhh…

PROBLEM #3: ariados has to be above entei's level to outspeed it (yes, even if it had a 31 IV in speed AND a speed boosting nature AND maximum speed EVs, it still wouldn't be enough at level 50), which means the repel trick can't be used to encounter it. tracking down the roamer is practically impossible without using repels to cancel out all other wild pokemon, and in gen 3, unlike later gens, you can't put a fainted pokemon in the front of the party for the repel trick instead. and if i DON'T lead with ariados, entei will run away when i try to swap into it. SO i decided i would have to run into entei once first through the repel trick method, which marks it as "seen" in the pokedex, and then i would track its location through the pokedex to encounter it while leading with ariados.

to accomplish this, i simply ran in and out of the building on route 16, going in and out of the grass in the process, which would constantly be randomizing entei's location until it happened to randomize onto route 16. i caught a staryu with illuminate as an ability to raise the chance of entei appearing, which does work while staryu is fainted (wouldn't want to go in and out of the grass while entei was on route 16 without encountering it!) and otherwise led with my level 50 magmar that was on my elite four team named Torch for the repel trick.

i bought a whopping 100 max repels for this task but i ended up getting entei within just a few lol. torch was holding the smoke ball just to be able to run away safely without any shenanigans!

and now entei was in the pokedex and able to be tracked that way!

however, there was still ONE more problem...

PROBLEM #4: luxury balls are a pain in the ASS to get in this game! they can't be bought from any shop. the only way to repeatedly get luxury balls in FRLG is to show a pokemon to selphy, a rich girl who lives in resort gorgeous on five island.

i will mostly skim over this because it's boring, but TLDR i had to continuously talk to her, fly back to the pokemon center, get the pokemon she wanted to see out of the PC because the step limit is 250 before she gets sick of waiting which is like nothing (i already had a living dex of every mon obtainable in leafgreen otherwise so this wasn't hard), surf to her, then spam A through dialogue with her butler in which i had a 70% chance of receiving a luxury ball. i did this over 40 times until i had 30 luxury balls, and sold off all the nuggets and other items she gave me. good lord this took a while

and now with ALL of that setup i was FINALLY ready to capture entei in a luxury ball. this took me literally all day and i was really excited. to consistently encounter entei, i saved in cerulean city and tracked it in the pokedex from there, opening it over and over after changing to any of the four routes connected to the city, and moving to an adjacent route from entei's location when it was close in the hopes of walking onto the same route it moved to when i did. i was following a map made by hangarofroam, he has a video tutorial on how to shiny hunt the FRLG roamers and encounter them as quickly as possible, and i highly recommend looking it up if you want to capture these roamers yourself, but tldr this is the map i was using:

and once i encountered entei i was finally able to use the strategy i had prepped so long to do... and it worked without a hitch!! entei can't try to use roar first turn because it wastes a turn trying to flee, which is prevented by ariados outspeeding and using spider web... then if it tries to use roar the next turn, i've already switched into electrode to block it with soundproof. so from there it's just a matter of whittling down entei's HP to the red with swift/sonicboom and paralyzing it with thunder wave, then tossing luxury balls until success!

and i GOT IT after 3 encounter attempts and 73 luxury balls thrown. and FINALLY i have all 171 national dex entries possible in a single copy of leafgreen with no connection to other games, and all the legendaries are in fancy ass luxury balls. i am winning.

this was ridiculous. please be proud of my accomplishments. i've had this file for less than 2 weeks and i already have over 70 hours of gameplay in it after doing all this AAAAA

also barely related but look at Egg my jolteon he had like no purpose in this story but i took a pic of him in front of entei before going on to capture entei because i love him so much pleas

thanks for coming to my fucking ted talk i am SOOO normal about pokemonsdfjkfds (joke)

[xxtc-96xx]

Don't worry about competitive players complaining about anything lol. The anime makes all pokemon's strength wildly different than their game stats do anyway. Like most of the legendary especially in the anime are a lot stronger than they are in game

In game they r high stat but other competition pokemon can easily 1-2 shot them still. That makes no sense for the anime cuz why would a god be that weak to regular pokemon and not have been caught yet.

at least I don't use early anime logic where Pikachu can KO ground types and ghosts can hit normal types with shadow balls XD

[klayr-de-gall]

Day 2 - Pokemon

Save place.

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The Universe: It's basically Canon Genshin, but with Pokemon. Diluc still went away for a while and runs the Winery now, while Kaeya es captain of the knights. (Please ignore the way to modern clothing)

Who belongs to who?

Kaeya:

Arcani - He got it after Diluc left, because Kaeya missed him so much. It's named after Diluc Chien-Pao - Where the fuck did you get that, boy?? - or: Kaeya found it frozen solid on Dragonspine when he was younger and nursed it back to health. Empoleon - Gives great hugs Emolga - Small but string - it reminds him of Klee. Espurr - it just followed him home, so he kept it. (Everyone thinks Kaeya only has 5 Pokemon, but he has a sealed Pokeball that was given to him by his father, with a legendary Pokemon in it that was handed down through generations. Kaeya has never let it out)

Diluc:

Alola-Vulnona - Diluc encountered a Alola-Vulpix while he traveled in Snezhnaya and they became travel companions. Its evolution was triggered when Diluc was in great danger, and he owes it his life. Fiaro - The first Pokemon Diluc ever caught. Galloppa - Useful companion Turnopto - Starter Sengo - They stare at each other angrily a lot Litten - It caught itself by playing with a Pokeball - get owned, idiot

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Masterpost

[drawnecromancy]

Still on my Pokemon thoughts - I definitely think that, besides the fact that it's a video game and they needed to choose an appropriate number of moves for Pokemon to have, the "4-move" rule could be explained away in universe by the "Pokemon Trainer fights are a sport, with actual rules in place to make things as fair as possible considering we're dealing with magically overpowered creatures".

So, like, in the wild, Pokemon *might* know more than four moves. Hell, I think the gods legendaries probably have a lot more abilities than just The Four Moves they have in-game - the fact that they only use 4 before you catch them is only incidental to the fact that you're playing a video game, in real life they'd probably throw a bigger more destructive fuss - and I do wholeheartedly imagine a 10 to 14 year old protagonist just, sitting down with a legendary after catching them, explaining the rules of Pokemon Trainer Fights and if they want to join in on the fun, and also that they can only use Four Moves in actual Pokemon Trainer Fights.

Imagine being the 13 year old with the balls to tell, idk, Kyogre, a god who could flood the entire planet, that since Kyogre is caught now they're going to be besties and also can it please choose four moves to battle with ? Just the four. And as it gets stronger they can forget one to use a better move. And like. This is just hilarious to me okay, a very serious young teen explaining their hobby to a very powerful ancient being, and said being going 'this sounds like fun, sure'.

[leggerefiore]

cw: fluff, alternate idea for bw game ending where n wins kinda, drabble

pairing: N/Reader

You fell to your knees.

N stared down at you.

The legendary dragon stood menacingly at his back — Reshiram's wings spread out as it, too, glowered at the sight of you. You had put in everything you had to desperately convince the already doubtful man that his convictions were not going to help anything; not pokemon - not people! But, despite Zekrom awakening and coming to your aid, you had failed. Horribly, terribly — You felt like your throat had swollen closed. Tears burned your eyes. Was N's willpower simply more than your own? You felt equal, but he had still won out in the end.

Before your concerns swelled any larger, he knelt down to your level and brought a gentle hand to wipe away your tears. That eerie smile was on his lips again. His determined expression having faded with his victory in toe. You fought back an urge to sob. Ghetsis's cane on the floor brought you both to reality. His harsh glare at the sight of your closeness with N apparent. The dragon behind the green-haired man took a defensive posture and let out a cry. This brought the supposed king to alert as his eyes went wide. You knew somewhere deep down, N was just a ploy in the grander plans Ghetsis held for himself. Yet, even to protect him from this, you had failed.

Whatever concern you may have had for N was vanquished when the man defeated Ghetsis rather quickly in a battle. The weakness from their battle with you seemed to matter not. You swallowed as Ghetsis looked horrifying. For a moment, you feared that he would attack either you or N, but the dragon was steadfast in guarding you both — Even calling back its defeated brethren back from unconsciousness. You found yourself behind N as he stared down at the man he viewed as his father. Betrayal was etched on his face. How could it not be? A pure heart like N's own would not dare doubt those around him. Alder and Cheren's entry brought reality back. Despite your loss, the league was still making moves to protect the sanctity of the region.

Ghetsis was quickly detained by the two, leaving you alone with N again.

Reality seemed to have hit him hard. His eyes went to the throne that he was to claim as his own and you. Finally, a hand was offered to help you back to your feet. Something twisted in those blue eyes of his. The sparkle in them was never there. An ominous void always lingered. He pulled you into himself, embracing you to himself. His long hair tickled you. Hands grasped tightly onto your shirt. A shaky breath left him. You perhaps would have expected tears, but nothing was to follow. He clung to you for the longest time in silence. It was a torturous moment of facing your own feelings for the man and what would follow.

Eventually, he pulled away, eyes meeting your own again.

“… I wanted you at my side,” N's words caught you off-guard, “Please, won't you support me? Don't you see the truth I bear?” He sounded desperate. His dream… To liberate pokemon from humans. There was truth that there could be positives… Cruel humans existed. But… You shook your head. There was no way you could help in good conscience. His eyes narrowed. Hands grasped your wrists tightly. He nodded. “… What follows this…?” His gaze turned to the light pouring in beyond the throne. You followed him as he walked to it. Somehow, your heart still called for him.

“… Will you join me then?” he held out his hand to you, “There is a lot out there to learn… I see now.”

You took it without hesitation.

The way his eyes lit up drew you in more.

You wanted to see it more.

~

Sunlight drifted in through the leaves above. It was spotty and distant under the shade provided by the trees surrounding you both. Your head rested on N's chest as his arm wrapped around your waist. The air swirled the smell of the late afternoon. Wild pokemon wandered around, unbothered by either of your presences. It seemed they almost viewed N as one of their own most of the time. A hand came to gently stroke your hair as you shifted around. You lifted your head to meet N's eyes. He gave you a gentle smile. Your lips met his own. The arm tightened around you.

If only this peace could last forever… The dragons rested nearby together.

Perhaps, in each other, you found the balance that Unova needed.

[chycoin]

HUGE SPOILER AHEAD!!!

Watch “TRASH FRIENDS” before reading. If you haven’t watched it and still read this, pls don’t say I didn’t warn you 🫠👍

Just watched “TRASH FRIENDS” and the thumbnail really made me think this was going to be an episode focusing on the way Mario has been treated by Smg4 and his friends (at least that’s how I see it) but I wasn’t expecting an episode about Smg3’s insecurities and fears (mostly insecurities)

I really was caught lacking because I was expecting something and I got the opposite lmao. I should be familiar with this guy’s content already and know that the only thing expected from these episodes is the unexpected xD, but anyways back to talking about the video.

In previous episodes we see that he gets a little bit of customers such as in the episode “You used to be cool” and “CEO OF RIZZ” but in this last mentioned episode he tries to advertise his café after Boopkins’s date works out in the end and so does the same in “SMG4’s NEWS.”

At first you think “Maybe he wants more than what he has” but after watching this episode you realize he’s actually struggling with his business and last weeks episode you change your view from his actions and see him as more desperate rather than greedy after watching this latest ep.

Constantly trying to get more people into his café and taking every single chance he can see to advertise no matter the place or time, like life depends on it.

And talking about chances ._.xD

(This goober losing the video to a basketball, I’m dead😭)

Smg4 comes to this guy’s café for his help to get his “Michael Jordan Endorsement Video” back because boi lost it and he wants Smg3’s help because their “FRIENDS”

Of course Smg3 saw this as a chance to advertise his café because HOLY SHIT MICHAEL JORDAD!!! A famous basketball player that anyone would want to have the chance to meet and that’s a chance that Smg3 is willing to take because it means his business would BLOW UP *someone throws them a chair*

Btw when Mario shows up to offer his help, I expected Smg4 to be more happy that he has his avatar buddy always trying to help him but instead…

Don’t get me wrong, I know they got a little weirded out about the fact that Mario is a regular around the Junkyard due to him eating at that location but still, that dialogue still sort of hurt me man qwp

But anyways back to my review of this episode and giving my acoustic povs that nobody asked for.

They arrive at the junkyard and after being there for 5 seconds, they find the legendary pokemon that goes by the name of “Michael Jordan Endorsement Video” (sorry for my weak ass jokes, I just woke up and my humor is a little broken rn)

After having the video on sight, Mario pulls a Yoshi and beats the crap out of the spaghetti plate where the video so happened to land on, in one go. Obviously, causing the other two to try and force the USB out of him but both failed as Mario did a BLJ through the trash and forcing 3 & 4 to dig through everything to find him.

Now… the part I was dying to talk about and hopefully I can let out my thoughts the proper way.

As the two spend an entire evening just digging through trash, they start a friendly conversation until Smg4 touches the Smg3’s CnB topic which causes Smg3 to get nervous and lie about everything being fine because he has something that every human being has unfortunately, ✨I N S E C U R I T I E S✨.

Which I understand because bruh, 3’s been seen as a bad copy of 4 who’s the total opposite of him for a good piece of his life, if not his ENTIRE existence and now that’s he’s going through a change in his life for the better, he’s going to face a lot of these insecurity episodes because he’s so used to being seen as the bad guy, the bad copy, The Villain. Always people seeing what 4 does and never looking what 3 does which got him into that dark path.

Is like the Sun and the Moon kind of thing. The Sun (Smg4) can shine the brightest while the moon (Smg3) is just a floating rock shining the least. I’ll bring this up again at the end of the review.

But yeah, Smg3 has insecurities and is more shown when they reach the entrance of Mario’s hiding spot.

-Part 2 🫠👍-

[clanwarrior-tumbly]

NWhile you're doing pokemon, might i ask, for a platonic headcanons ofseeiven, Penny and Nemona x reader,

where reader's showing them the snowy cat weasel legendary pokemon that was sealed away(i forget names atm-), i can picture arven at least being concerned seeing the dex's entry for it as reader's just all "oh but it's a sweetheart! Don't be so worried!" as theyre giving the pokemon that no doubt would absolutely cause a devastating avalanche if the reader wasnt there scritches and pats/lh

feel free to ignore just thought it could be amusing!/lh

-salt anon(stay safe btw!)

This is perfect timing bc I caught Chien-Pao today (and also Ting-Lu, my fav) after struggling and restarting the game a lot

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After Ms. Raifort piqued your interest in the "Treasures of Ruin", you set out to free them from their confinements, knowing these poor things were taken advantage of centuries ago.

You believe they could still be helped. It wasn't too late! All they needed was love and friendship, things you were more than happy to provide.

Of course, pulling the stakes that sealed the Icerend Shrine and challenging Chien-Pao afterwards was no cakewalk, but you caught it after convincing it to come with you, promising to give it a better life.

The feline ice-type was surprisingly quick to warm up to you after you gave it a bath during a picnic, figuratively melting its icy heart. 

You took great care in shining its sword fangs, smiling when it purred in thanks before taking a nap in the grass, curled up.

It becomes harder to believe this sweet creature had a hand in destroying an entire kingdom.

Soon after, you decided to call your friends so they could see it for themselves.

As expected, Nemona was the first to arrive, psyched to see a Pokémon she's only heard about in books. 

She could immediately tell it was quite strong (despite it being cuddled up to you when she got there).

"..and you're gonna let me fight it one day, right?" She dares to ask, taken aback when Chien-Pao wakes up and looks at her in disdain.

You just laugh and shake your head, giving the Ruinous Pokémon chin scritches. "Unless you wanna be swept away by an avalanche..I don't think so. Besides, I think it's been through enough fights in its life."

Not long after her arrival, Penny and Arven show up, completely shook(tm) at the existence of this bizarre Pokémon.

Penny’s surprised it was just stuck in its own little cave all these years, while Arven’s curious about what the Pokedex says about it.

But when he finds out..well...to say he’s just “concerned” is a huge understatement.

He’s downright scared for you, having no clue how you tamed it and fearing the repercussions of freeing it.

“...[y/n], this thing is more than just a Pokémon..it’s...it’s got a bunch of souls in it--angry souls of people who hated that “king”. It also causes terrible avalanches and-”

“Oh give it a rest, Arven...does this look like the face of someone who’d cause terrible avalanches?” You pouted, holding either side of Chien-Pao’s face as you stared at him. “Do you see any hatred here? Because I don’t.”

When he has no answer, you resume patting its head, treating it like a big ol’ kitty that was simply misunderstood.

Even Penny becomes brave enough to pet its back, only to freeze when it sends an icy gaze at her. “Uh....sorry...?”

She thinks she did something wrong and is about to invoke the wrath of this ancient beast....

Until Chien-Pao purrs and nuzzles her cheek, invading her personal space just like Koraidon/Miraidon did all those times, causing you to chuckle and shake your head.

You could only hope to nurture the other three in the quartet into sweet and cuddly creatures like this one.

[phlurrii]

Out of curiosity, what does the psychic cat fam exactly do out there? (This doesn’t have to be exclusive to just now, also could have been just Meau, Noe, and Mew) Aside from vibing. They live in a paradise where food isn’t a concern and nothing with a brain would try to hurt them. Do they play fight? Teach the youngin’s their future jobs? Have games? Maybe some swipped books to read? Explore the world outside of their tree for funsies? See who can steal as many goodies from human society without getting caught?

I know it’s silly but I like the “filler” of things. To think about what characters are doing when the “plot” isn’t being progressed. It’s part of why I like the slice-of-life genre from time to time. Life isn’t always an adventure or fight against some opposing force, but it can still be fun!

I agree, I’m honestly a bit upset with myself, given how long each update takes I never noticed I wasn’t adding in enough filler. Something I plan to fix once we’re in Noe’s arc, as we are sadly, or luckily? Way too close to beginning it to shove any sudden filler in. For now I’m blaming it on first time story telling and having to do art school on the side X3

As for the gang, Meau did fly a little bit off the handle due to not having a lot of stimulation when she was younger before Noe showed up. As for what they did/do, for reasons that’ll become clear later; they mostly talked in the early days!

She would show off her creations, abilities, transformations, and forming ecosystems to him. He would ask about as many questions as one would with a new world and she thrived off it. They would watch other Pokémon’s life in secret like it was a soap opera, sometimes intervening to make it more interesting or admittedly have it lean towards the ending they wanted. Usually betting and taking opposing sides as to what would happen.

Battling is a particular big one for Meau, she loves to get down and dirty with other legendaries and mythicals even if she has the power advantage. Most often fighting with her brothers, she wouldn’t be above transforming into the Pokémon she was fighting to even out the playing field, or even change her type so she was inherently weaker to it. It’s why she’s never been against human with their Pokémon battles, battling is an innate part of her creations and herself.

Missingno. on the other hand loves to explore, even with his age, he knows the world is in a constant state or change and ventures off on his own to explore it. He’s not nearly as against humans as Meau and has explored their cities and settlements. Most intrigue by their computers/technology nowadays and how he’s able to to interact with them. Meau has explored with him on occasion, but prefers to stay away.

I’d also imagine they like to race in very difficult conditions. High up in the atmosphere or just outside in the actual vacuum of space. Deep in the ocean, forcing them to make their own path through rock and stone. Which probably pisses off the weather trio invading all 3 of their areas, but that leads perfectly into the next one.

They love to piss off the other legendaries, because… well, what can they do?

There has been more then on tropical storm, tsunami, volcanic eruption, and general disaster caused by the Ancients pestering another powerful legend. Lastly, they sleep, if the current time is too boring, peaceful, or simply there is nothing to do that interests them… they’ll sleep for a couple thousand years.

As for more current day stuff, it’s much tamer since Bucket was taken, Meau woke up from a much needed thousands years nap to a very different world. Humans had well established themselves even further, technology exists, and they can clone/create pokemon. So she is staying in the tree with her suddenly growing family, just to watch. She wants to know what everything’s up too from a distance given they’ve somehow managed to trap and almost kill another mew, make a Mewtwo, and possibly a second one.

So she’s just always watching human society from the tree, whilst also teaching and nurturing Odysseus. He spends more of his time exploring the tree and occasional testing out powers. With Meau’s assistance. The trees massive and filled with Pokémon, so he’s got quite the endless bit of entertainment. Decamark is the newest edition and thus follows a lot of what Ody does! Though Noe has been poking them, figuratively, with a stick to figure out what he’s capable of.

[pokemonshelterstories]

Heyyy, greetings from Alola! I’m a somewhat-newbie trainer here on Poni Island, and I’ve been trying my best to raise my own team. Right now I have a Froakie my mom got me while she was in Kalos, a Dartrix professor Kukui gave me, and a Vulpix I caught last month. I’ve been doing my best to take care of them, and I love my team dearly, but I noticed something today. Scales of Hakamo-o and Kommo-o are pretty common around my area, and most of the time people are advised to stay away from them, but I saw that the scale had left an egg behind when they moved. I got the egg to a Pokecenter to get it a proper incubator, but now I’m worried what’ll happen when it hatches. The lady at the Pokemon center reassured me the egg was healthy and that it would hatch properly, but I’m more worried about raising it. My dad is a doctor on Ulaula Island, and he’s told me to grab a few books on caring for Dragon types, but I’m just not sure. I don’t know if I’m ready to take care of a future Psuedo Legendary. Should I release it once it hatches, or should I follow my dad’s advice and try my best to take care of it?

to be honest, if you aren't fully prepared to take care of and train a pokemon like a jangmo-o, it'd be better to release the baby. they're really difficult pokemon to care for, and some of the best trainers with one of the jangmo-o line are people who prepared for months for their high energy needs. they're loud, energetic pokemon that need a lot of opportunities to train to be happy, and they train by headbutting each other. if you have a single jangmo-o, you have to be prepared to handle all of the scale-clanging and attempts to take your shins out.

jangmo-o are able to walk around and eat from birth, so they can be released pretty much immediately. however, they won't survive in the wild without the protection and socialization that a scale of its peers provides. i'd recommend talking to your local rangers about getting their help releasing the baby when it hatches, since they should have an idea of where the scale is hanging out and can facilitate a safe, low-stress release.

[a-natural-illusion]

Hello. My name is N.

There is a high probability that you know of me, whether that be from word of mouth, or because you were present for the reign of Team Plasma.

There are people who hurt Pokémon. But there are also people who love Pokémon, and who work with them as loyal partners. It is my hope that, one day, the Pokéball will be rendered obsolete. That humans and Pokémon will simply trust and help one another. But that world does not exist, yet. I hope that through this account I can show people the ideal future.

Not only that, but I hope that I will learn more of this world, as well. I have been living separately from Plasma for a few years now, but I'm still uneducated in the truths of our home.

Currently, I will be attending Blueberry Academy as both student and teacher. One of my dear friends recommended the idea, and I found it intriguing. I hope that my friends and I's presence won't be alarming.

If you have any questions, do not refrain from asking them.

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Yo yo yo it's Lane from @the-drayster (That's the main blog) again! BUT! This time the blog is actually relevant to his. Both him and N are in the same universe. They sent N to BBA for socialization. He's getting foster dog'd.

Disclaimer!

This is an N blog. There will be some themes of child abuse, animal abuse, ableism, and cults. I will tag anything that I think is worthy of it, but I may not always catch everything. You are ALWAYS welcome to ask me to tag something.

There isn't a lot of important information you need to know to understand this. But, what is good to keep in mind will be put under this.

N is currently around 21-22 years old. In my little universe, the indigo disk takes place about two years after the events of B2W2. N was twenty in those games. He was eighteen in the original Unova games.

His main group of (human) friends are Hilbert and Hilda, Cheren, Bianca, and Iris. They are all about two years younger than him. The youngest compared to him is Iris, who is currently nineteen.

N has come a long ways from what Plasma has taught him, but he stills dislikes pokeballs. He is willing to use them, but only because they do make life generally a lot easier. He does still avoid it when possible, though. If he were to hear a pokemon that was caught unwillingly, there is a very high likelihood of him trying to free it.

N's only consistent pokemon are Zekrom and a young Zorua. This is not the same Zorua that he grew up with! This little guy's name is Pepper. Otherwise, N will use whatever willing pokemon are in the area. He only uses Pepper on rare occasions, or where he's sure she won't get hurt.

You're free to try and get angst out of him. I reckon it wouldn't be too difficult.

Pelipper mail is ON!

Sapient/legendary pokemon are VERY on! Like. This is literally the talk to pokemon guy. Feel free to interact.

Magic anons are OFF! (If you really wanna try something, shoot me a message, and I'll be happy to discuss.)

No NSFW period. There's a certain level of middle school humor type stuff I'll allow, but don't get weird about it. Please.

AND AS ALWAYS PLEASE SEND ASKS AND WHATNOT!!!!!!!!!!!! INTERACT!!!!!!!!

[kafus]

please let me introduce you to NeverHappy, my most beloved pokemon ever.

i found her as a budew on someone else’s save file after buying a used copy of pokemon platinum. the name “NeverHappy” was a pretty obvious joke about how budew evolves from happiness, and since the previous owner was going to keep her in a box forever, never use her, and never evolve her, she would never be happy. this activated some feral response in my brain and i decided no. she WOULD be happy. i was still replaying through all my old gen 4 games at the time but i traded her off to my other gen 4 files for safekeeping until i could do stuff with her.

oh trust me game. i would.

so you might have thought my plans were to simply evolve her and beat the game with her, get her to level 100, maybe even EV train her - but i had much bigger plans. i was going to ribbon master her. the ribbon master challenge, or the process of “ribbon mastering” a pokemon, is getting every single ribbon possible on a pokemon from the game it was caught in to the most recent game it can be transferred to. if you weren’t aware, that’s a LOT of ribbons. there are 40 in gen 4 alone. i had a lot to do.

(the above clean screenshot was taken by backing up my cartridge save and screenshotting a battle video in emulator. however, i did all of this on my actual DS! i don’t like playing on emulator. not as fun)

i had to beat every contest (normal-master rank in all 5 categories) and do a bunch of other random stuff but my favorite part of the process was defeating the battle tower... 6 times. the battle frontier contains the most challenging battles in gen 4 by far, as opponents have good stats and competitive movesets. there’s 6 battle tower ribbons in gen 4 - two for singles at different points in the win streak, one for doubles, one for multis /w NPCs, one for multis /w another player (i just played with myself on two dses), and one for ranking up in the wi-fi room, which is now accessible again due to fan servers restoring internet functionality for gens 4 and 5.

NeverHappy was randomly caught in the wild and did not have a competitive nature or stats, so i figured that she would just be tagging along in the back while i took out all the win streaks with 2 good pokemon, but she ended up clutching out wins in times of dire need... multiple times. she even ended up being necessary in the wi-fi room to stall out prevalent hacked pokemon like no guard sheer cold machamp, which hits 1 hit KO moves every time, with a gimmicky and convoluted leech seed + substitute strategy.

i could go into all of my team members and the excessive lengths i went to get them all (don’t even get me started on my shiny competitive latias from pokemon emerald) but that’s a story for another day.

by the end of gen 4 i was extremely emotionally attached and she was already becoming one of my favorite pokemon, now with 40 whole ribbons after days and weeks of effort.

i have ribbon mastered pokemon before, so all of my save files in gens 6, 7, and 8 were already set up to transfer neverhappy into and grab all of the ribbons. i had a lot more battling and little tasks ahead of me. it’s really cool how ribbon mastering forces you to interact with pretty much every feature of every pokemon game.

and so i transferred her! gen 5 doesn’t have any ribbons, so it was just an intermediary to transfer into gen 6. at this point, i had also acquired a shiny luxray from pokeradar chaining in platinum named Nightlight, and i was ribbon mastering them together, but once again, a story for another day.

first into gen 6... getting the super training ribbon was really annoying but the battle maison was pretty easy. i had a team in multis with terrakion and a whimsicott with beat up that could 1 hit KO all of the boss battle’s legendaries in one hit LOL

then gen 7... this one went by pretty quickly but i opted to get the best friends ribbon here instead of in XY or ORAS because it was really simple to get with rainbow pokebeans, since all you have to do is max out affection and it only takes a couple rainbow beans to do that in USUM.

and gen 8! you can see nightlight to the left in this picture. by far the hardest part of gen 8 was getting the ribbon awarded for winning a battle in master rank in online VGC against other players. i definitely had to grind that one for a while.

then, she even got an award in BDSP for being a pokemon originating from the original diamond/pearl/platinum games, which was really cool.

oh, and since i had cloned neverhappy back in gen 4 with a glitch so that i would always have a copy of her in her origin games, i was able to take this neat picture! how the times have changed LMAO

luckily she was even a part of PLA’s roster and i was able to take a picture with her there, too... which actually might end up being important since there’s an invisible flag somewhere in the game’s code that gets turned on when you take a picture with your pokemon in the photo studio, which could potentially become a ribbon in the future in another game.

so, trainer Platina from 2016, you were wrong! NeverHappy is in fact happy now and has done more than most people’s pokemon have seen in their entire lifetime. she is my most cherished pokemon and i love her more than i love myself. i think i would die for her

i abbreviated this story a lot because i didn’t want to make this post longer than it already was but i was randomly inspired to talk about this today since SV is coming out soon and there will be more ribbons to collect for any of my ribbon masters that can be transferred into SV, which got me thinking about her. my journey with ribbon mastering has taught me more about pokemon games than any normal person should ever know and if you were interested in any details i left out or how i accomplished certain ribbons (including battle frontier strategies) feel free to shoot me an ask! :D i love talking about pokemon at any time any day of the week.

[phopollo]

Would you maybe tell us a little(OR A LOT)about the Hilda Pokémon au????? Please?????

Akfnsk

I'd love to!

Truth be told though, there's not actually a whole lot to tell yet,,,

But! Here's what I can tell you;

Johanna was well on her way to champion status when she had Hilda, but she stopped and stepped back from pokemon battling to focus on being a mother

The elves are normal sized real people-- Hilda and Johanna still had absolutely no idea they lived right next door until the attempted eviction for scaring all their little pokemon

I wanna say their house got stepped on by an absolutely massive, ancient sleeping legendary pokemon that Hilda woke up instead of a giant. My brain's first thought is "primal groudon," but my heart doesn't feel it, so idk what it actually was yet

There's no Trolberg Gym leader when they first move in, but it's later Erik Alberg, but he steps down after a short time and Gerda Gustav is the current gym leader of Trolberg

Hilda helped David and Frida catch their first pokemon (yes the Dhelmise and Cutifly)

Hilda herself has not ever actually caught a pokemon, Twig was caught by Johanna

Tildy's familiar Cornelius is a Swablu sized Altaria

I think that's about it?

If there's anything or anyone in particular you wanted to know about though, feel free to ask, if I don't have an answer I'll make something up on the spot and then you can make fun of me if I decide I don't like that later /j

[vo-kopen]

So fun fact about me, I have been playing Coromon (a monster collecting game that got ported to IOS last November) and I am enjoying it. It’s the first of its style of game I have played, and I like how their equivalent to shinies work. Basically it’s stat based, low to middling stats have the Standard color scheme, good stats have a Potent color scheme, and max stats have Perfect. Included above are the sprites to all my Perfect Coromon, turns out when you go hunting for ones with good stats you occasionally get multiple members of the same family line. (In my party I currently have Jff LndShrk, Thermight (named for an OC of mine) Killer Croc, and Owlcity (new name pending))

I got stalled at the Sand Town for a bit (it felt stereotypical) but I recently resumed and I am now in the Ice town. It’s funny how different the elements work from other monster hunting games, a Coromon can only be one of seven elements, but moves can be from an additional six I believe. Also no Coromon have multiple elements, and the Titans (basically legendaries) can’t really be caught, only battled against. Which fits their raw power. And the starter trio are Ice, Fire, and Water.

Also I recently ran into a cameo in the game by one of my preferred Twitch Streamers? I knew Hannah had played Coromon (I did not watch because of spoilers) but she’s in the Fire area with her cat Libby (technically Libby is her partner’s cat but Libby cameos a lot of streams) It took a good minute after I fought her for it to sink in, look I am not great at social skills.

Closing thoughts, Pokemon step up your game. If Coromon can fit fully onto my tablet, you definitely could fit some of the older Pokémon games on mobile. You aren’t selling them anymore, it would not compete with the GameCube 2 or whatever, so why not put them on android and iOS to print money? I never have played a proper Pokémon Game just Pokémon Go, and it’s because I can’t justify a console or vintage handheld. I really like Coromon, but I would like to try out the og monster catcher too. Get on it.

@thefingerfuckingfemalefury @highly-radioactive-nerd @lewistheruinmaniac look at these good fellas. I particularly love that Nibblegar’s line keeps its ring as it evolves, makes it really feel like a treasure it loves. Also much as it’s final form looks, it’s got the best defense and special defense of the three starters. It’s a beefy boy.

[pkmncenterguy]

Heya! Call me X (they/them), I’m just a dude who works the front desk at a pokemon center in Alola. DISCLAIMER: I know a lot about pokemon and I love answering questions about them but I am NOT A NURSE JOY if you have a serious problem Please go to an actual center

My pokemon:

Pips my (pom pom) oricorio, she’s been with me since I was a kid. Yes she’s mute and very small but Ive checked and she’s perfectly healthy I promise

Milkshake my clefairy, no he is NOT for sale and you ask HIM before you pet him. Hes also a total goober

//OOC:

Hello! I’m the mod that runs this blog (he/they and an adult), don’t be afraid to say hi! Blog has swearing and potentially some dark topics but no NSFW content

Banner is an edited panel from the manga, icon is the global link artwork for the heal ball

Important lore and interaction guide:

* No sapient pokemon, pelipper mail or magic anons

* Canon based on a mix of the games, the anime, and my headcanons. pokemon are magical creatures and generally more intelligent than your average animal

Ultra beasts: extremely dangerous, uncatchable, unidentified pokemon. This blog starts before the UB crisis

Mythical pokemon: extremely powerful, rare, lots of folklore around them. Possible to catch them but they can and will break their pokeballs and leave at any time

Legendary pokemon: most are some kind of god, cant be caught. Rarely seen and when they are it makes national news

Everything else will be tagged under ‘lore’!