#but his first evo was kinda goofy too

[faithlike-potatoes]

Hehe it's Pokemon Conquest design ranking part two

(spoilers for Warlord final evos? Is that a thing?)

[tacobellebandit]

New pokemon coming up in Scarlet and Violet and my thoughts on them. TDLR; they're all hits for me.

Sprigatito, we've all seen him! Literally so cute, you can't fuck up a cat pokemon

Fuecoco is so cute and doofy. A great spiritual successor to totodile honestly, I love these guys so much. The middle and final evos will decide for me whether I get him or sprigatito.

Quaxly isn't a favorite because I don't really like pokemon that look like they're wearing clothes and the feathers on his head look like a Waluigi cap to me. BUT he is still pretty cute, I wouldn't be sad about having him on my team.

Koraidon, tbh, at first I wasn't thrilled with the legendary designs, but they've really grown on me! I know the motorcycle thing is kinda goofy but that's fine. I don't mind a little goofiness in a game made for children tbqh. Koraidon's head design is VERY nice tbh

Miraidon, I like his vibe tbqh. Nintendo loves airplane looking pokemon??? It's funny. The engine legs ruin it a little bit for me, I think it'd actually be really sick if Miraidon was a serpent, you know? Top half is good tho, no notes.

Armarouge, this is my first time seeing this guy. I like him! I like the hair-made-out-of-fire thing he's got going on with the top of his head, it's always a very good design thing to me. Not that I know much about design, but I vibe with it anyway! Mask is very nice too. Ik I said I don't like pokemon that look like they're wearing clothes but I think because Armarouge is so humanoid it gets past that for me.

Ceruledge's design fucking SLAPS. Dual arm swords are SO good and the blue fire hair, MWAH! Looks like a playable character in a fighting RPG and I would choose him in a heartbeat. A very good counterpart to Armarouge and honestly the better one for me.

Cetitan, LOOK at him! He's such a huge boy, a great boy, I love him!!! His mouth has such a fucked up shape but I literally love him for that.

Cyclizar, I'm going to cry, look at him. I do wish he didn't have the wheel neck pouch and just a normal looking one and then he'd be perfect for me, but over all! Very cute. A little goofy, but it's ok.

Fidough, absolutely NO NOTES. Such a cutie. A little close to yamper because of the color, but not bad. I love fairy types. I want to gnaw on his doughy ears.

Grafaiai, based of the Aye-aye, going off the name? Yes looks like so, anyway, I love him! Cute little gremlin design, very very nice.

Klawf, oh my GOD Klawf. He's such a weirdo. I don't want him on my team but I can appreciate a doofy design.

Lechonk, perfect, beautiful pokemon that's prolly gonna evolve into one of those absolute units. As soon as I get the game, I'm gonna form a party of 6 with little names like "Chonkers" and "Lil Chonks" and "Babe".

Paldean Wooper, just look at him! Cute as wooper already is, not much to say. I like him a lot.

Pawmi, the pika-cousin of the Paldea region. Tbh I love all the pika-cousins, they're very cute and very friend-shaped. Pawmi is no exception.

Smoliv, perfect, no notes. I'll take 20. Did you know that Spain produces almost half of the world's olive oil?

Wiglett, I love for his shape AND for what he represents. At first he looks like a regional diglett form, but actually he's a completely separate species, so I really enjoy the implications for pokemon adaptation and the nods to real-life evolution, how sometimes animals form similar characteristics even though they're completely unrelated, and sometimes when animals are separated for long enough, they change into completely different species. Wiglett is a LITTLE unnerving the way he stretches out of the ground but, since he's based off a garden eel, if you look at pictures of those things, they're ALSO a little unnerving actually. I love him. I want to kiss his smooth head.

[quirkyquilava]

My hopes and predictions for Pokemon Sword and Shield:

Bare in mind I haven't seen any footage of the gameplay from E3 that people were allowed to take, so I'm not sure if any of this was confirmed yet.

Grass/Fighting or Grass/Dark final evo Grookey. Fire/Ground or Fire/Fighting for Scorbunny, and Water/Dragon or pure Water for Sobble

Pokemon following you around like in Let's Go Pikachu/Eevee

Both random encounters and spottable wild encounters

Probably a given at this point but I'll say it anyways: character customization. Lets get some super cute outfits and haircuts this time, gamefreak. You did pretty good in Ultra Sun/Ultra Moon. The male options could use more work than the female this time around. Actually could we scrap the exclusiveness of the designs and let people wear what they want regardless what gender they're "meant for"? If ACNL can do it, so can Pokemon

Speaking of customization, can we dress up our pokemon like in Let's Go Pikachu/Eevee? Or at least the first member of our party.

Fix the EXP share. At least make it a choosable option whether we want it to effect the whole team or just one party member. It's not as great when it's an all or nothing kind of thing

Great post-maingame content. Stuff that'll have players busy for a long time. Like what we had to do in ORAS, but, yknow, better and longer. I want something to do after knocking the "undefeated" champion off his throne. What's the point of being champion if you don't get to go around doing good amd helping out, after all?

I wonder if we'll get a pokemon contest thing again. Ngl I kinda liked that but I know it's not everyone's cup of tea

Possible evil team names: Team Knight or Team Plauge. They'll either have a kind of chess aesthetic and have a snobby attitude to them or they'll be a fucking soccer team and just as goofy as Team Skull. Or or- if there is a chess theme maybe there'll be 2 evil organizations??

Ok so. I know we didn't get the queen as the champion so allow me to propose: the queen as the leader of the game's evil organization

Really really really want wooloo to either evolve into something equally as cute, or have it become a black wolf/werewolf type creature wearing a white wool cape/shawl. So it'll be a "wolf in sheep's clothing". That'd be awesome. Make it change to dark type upon evolution

There's gonna be a Big Ben pokemon, there's gotta be. Maybe a gargoyle too. Not talking about Impidimp, that's different. Actually maybe have Impidimp evolve into a badass looking gargoyle

Wouldn't it be cool if there was a Peter Pan-like pokemon?

New evolutions/pre-evolutions maybe? Especially pre-evolutions for pokemon like Miltank and Lapras given where the location the reigon is based off of

Give me a beluga whale pokemon Gamefreak I'm begging you. Or a right whale. Or a humpback. Or an orca that isn't a legondary. What I'm saying is give me a good whale pokemon that's possibly water/ice.

Maybe a polecat too that'd be cute. Can we get a scottish wildcat while we're at it? Oh! And Coatis!!

Perhaps a Curlew for the Route 1 bird?

Give us a pigeon. One that stays a pigeon even as it evolves. Pidove us not a pigeon you guys its a dove

Puffin pokemon!! I think it'd be best as a single stage pokemon. Make it ice/flying, that'd be neat. When I say puffin though, I actually mean a puffin. Like how Toucannon is basically just a toucan in design.

There's bound to be some new dragon type pokemon based purely off the European style dragons cmon that's a given. Bet it'll be the pseudo-legondary.

I'm thinking there'll probably be a teacup pokemon, and then it'll evolve into a teapot. It'd be cool if it were Fire/Water, but then again Steel/Water would be good too

A shield pokemon to go with the Honedge line. Look, I know one of the evolutions holds a shield but that's not the same

I was doing some research for this post and discovered mythological creatures called Faerie Dogs from the British Isles. please I'd frickin love that. It might make a good mythical pokemon

I'm out of ideas. Feel free to add to this post!!!

[thiswebsiteisbooty]

On the EVO donation drive

If you’re reading this on Tumblr and still following me you probably know that I pretty much only come around to post about EVO and then peace out a few days later. I’m not sure how many of you that is because Im not 100% on how the new dashboard works but if you are here then you know I’m around a little early. But I’m posting *about* EVO anyway so there ya go.

If you’re reading this on Facebook then I know a lot of you guys probably only have at best a passing knowledge of what EVO is but you’ve seen me post about it, particularly Ultimate Marvel vs Capcom 3 a lot, so I’m just gonna ask if you guys have any spare money please consider donating here:

https://www.generosity.com/fundraising/evo-2017-player-vote-ultimate-marvel-vs-capcom-3

Your money goes to the Make-a-Wish foundation, and you make a guy you know personally really happy as well.

And as a final pretense before I really get into this I’m just gonna be honest this is gonna be pretty rant-y, so it might not be a super focused read and will probably contain a few expletives so just be pre-warned.

Originally I was gonna come here and I was going to break down the poll game by game, essentially breaking down why I felt like each game shouldn’t be voted for and why Marvel should. But as it stands right now the winner is going to be either Marvel or Pokken, so this is mostly going to be centered around why I think Marvel is the most deserving game, and why I feel Pokken just might be the least deserving, or at least one of the least deserving.

And every time I look at that generosity page my stomach does flips because it’s literally like a best/worst case scenario. But the funny part about this entire situation is I feel like Marvel shouldn’t even be on this poll. Marvel absolutely *should* already have its spot. Regardless of how you the individual might feel about Marvel 3 in particular, Marvel vs. Capcom has been practically synonymous with EVO. Up until only last year Marvel, be it 2, 3, or Ultimate 3, has always been sort of the penultimate game for EVO, only behind whatever Street Fighter was out at the time. I don’t know if I agree with IFC Yipes in that Marvel made EVO (mostly because I haven’t been around *that* long), but I do agree that without it EVO never would have reached the point that it has. And you look at Marvel 3 specifically, and that game has been a staple of EVO through damn near every iteration of Street Fighter 4, even lasting long enough to share the stage with Street Fighter 5, outlived who knows how many Netherrealms games, Soul Caliburs, Tekkens, Personas, you name it. And that’s not to knock (most) of those games but to make a point that not even taking into account 2, Marvel 3 specifically has been a prefixture of this event for a long ass time

And never mind the countless moments that the game has given us. Back in 2013 what was one of the top things people talked about when EVO was over? Justin’s absolutely incredible run, beating odds on favorite Chris G and going on to nearly defeat Floker to win his first Marvel 3 EVO. Then there was the following year when he clutched it out against F Champ and beat Chris G once more to finally actually do it.

Hell even last year, Chris G, despite being the odds on favorite to win several years in a row, *finally* went ahead and took the one tournament that had alluded him for years. And the year before that when KBR (even though I dont much care for him) became the first non-American to win Marvel at EVO.

People have known for a minute with MvCI on the horizon that this was probably going to be Marvel 3′s last year at EVO, and so people were gearing up for it’s proper final sendoff and now you’re telling me that Marvel might not even be *at* EVO?

And I know there’s a lot of people who agree with me on this because every where I go, even from people who voted for different games, even for people who voted for Pokken, I keep hearing the same thing: “I’m voting for Pokken, but Marvel absolutely deserves to be there”

“Marvel shouldn’t even be a part of the poll”

“There shouldn’t even be a poll, Marvel should take that 9th slot”

And don’t even get me started on how tight I am that there are not one but TWO Smash games, games that barely even qualify as fighting games, games that a good chunk of the FGC never wanted around in the first place, at EVO, but Marvel might not. Especially since y’all are a good chunk of the people pushing for Pokken (which we’ll get to trust me). If I hear one more Melee player complain about Melee being on Saturday and not Sunday while Marvel might not even *be* at EVO I honestly might lose my shit.

And I mean no disrespect to my Smash 4 community, particularly the local Nebraska scene cuz y’all know I have nothing but respect for you guys. My problem really mostly is with Melee, that relic of a game that people just cant seem to let go of. But it’s so funny to me at how often the Smash crowd, particularly Melee, talks about how much they don’t need the FGC and yet they won’t leave.

But it isn’t even really about that. I could sit here and talk shit about Melee all day long but you know whatever. They have there spot and that’s fine. But suffice to say that if it were up to me, Melee would get booted in favor of Marvel in a heartbeat.

But let’s talk about this poll for an honest minute though. If you remember the donation drive they did a while ago and compare it to this one, the last one blows this one way out of the water. Every single game on that list was at least, you know, a fighting game, with actual communities that would absolutely show up to play. I mean there was Melee and Brawl of course but again shit, at least those two games are closer to fighting games than shit like Windjammers, and Nidhogg. There wasn’t goofy meme-y shit like those two, and ARMS. And dont get me wrong I’m excited to play ARMS but THAT GAMES NOT EVEN OUT YET (and before anyone brings up “Injustice 2 isn’t out either” just know that in my book that game can go fuck itself for about the same reason. BUT EVEN THEN, that game at least has a known community that will come out and play it). We don’t even know what community, if any, is gonna come out for ARMS, by that point, since it’ll be coming out 1-3 months before EVO (I’d remind you that ARMS doesn’t even have a set release date. Just “Spring 2017″), that game isn’t even gonna have any real advanced tech discovered yet, if there even is any to discover. Not that any of those stand a chance at winning at this point but the fact that they were included kinda pisses me off. I can kind of see Windjammers since a lot of the FGC likes that game but Nidhogg? Do most of yall even remember that game? And ARMS? REally?

I know someone’s gonna be like, “Well the last donation drive had Divekick, and Fighting is Magic”. And I was one of the first people to say that FiM was probably the weakest, meme-ist option put up there but you know, that was happened because the FGC is filled with trolls. If you remember, the only games that made the donation drive were games that got at least 500 votes on the Facebook poll and I’m pretty confident that 490 of FiM’s votes were trolls being trolls. And at least in Divekick’s defense, that game was made by a dude from that community, for the community. Divekick is basically one massive FGC in joke anyway so if Divekick had made it, it basically would’ve been a big thank you to one of the FGC’s own.

But I think what makes me the most upset about the whole situation isn’t even just that Marvel might not get the proper sendoff that it deserves, but that it’s Swan Song stands a strong chance of being snatched away by Pokken. And just, let’s review Pokken for a sec.

First off, this was the game that was being removed from Japanese arcades in droves because nobody gave enough of a shit to play it. And we’re talking about a culture that loves both Pokemon AND fighting games, and they wanted absolutely nothing to do with that game.

And then, when it came stateside, those of yall that watched tournaments saw that pretty much ever ad breakthere was a little vingette for Pokken. They tried their hardest to get people to actually care about this game, and yet... you pratically had to dig through the Twitch trenches just to find Pokken tournaments. People weren’t watching, and people weren’t entering. Then it got to EVO because Nintendo money, and it had one of the lowest entrants and viewer rates of any of the games there.

Then post EVO, a lot of majors didn’t even run the game because people weren’t entering or watching. And speaking of Nintendo, I would remind you that Nintendo themselves have since dropped Pokken from their Pokemon Championship Series. So not even the parent company gives a fuck about the game at this point.

So with all that being said, never in a million years did I think that Marvel would be neck and neck with Pokken. KI, maybe. MKX, maybe. Shit I figured even Windjammers had a better shot than Pokken and yet here we are.

And you might wonder where the fuck the money is coming from if nobody gives a shit about Pokken. Simple, its coming from Smashers (and you can go check smash websites, most of them are advocating super hard for Pokken), and people who are just fans of Pokemon and will throw money at anything Pokemon. And look I love Pokemon too. It’s top 3 favorite Nintendo franchise and might be top 5 favorite franchises of all time. But I have no doubt in my mind that a lot of the people throwing money at this, barely know what EVO is, probably don’t even know the dates of EVO, and have 0 intentions of watching that game at EVO much less showing up to play the game. Case in point, Shofu is out here on Twitter advocating and donating to this game, and you would think that Shofu, who runs one of the biggest Pokemon related YouTube channels, would probably have a lot of Pokken content right? Well guess when the last time he even posted a video about the game was. I’ll save you the search, it was 6 months ago. One of these videos were, ironically enough, entitled “time to come back”. And then there were two more videos within the same time span, and he hasn’t touched the game since.

And this is kind of the additude that I’m talking about. I read a tweet earlier that summed it up perfectly. About how people never want to watch or come out to support Pokken, and then want to wonder why there aren’t any Pokken tournaments. That game died forever ago. You might even argue that that game was dead on arrival but even if you don’t, then you have to agree that there hasn’t been a game that died out quicker than Pokken did. For all the shit people gave SFxT at least that game lasted a couple of years as opposed to about 3 months. And at least that game had some potential at release, instead of being booted from Japanese arcades Y’all are throwing money at this game and I have no doubt in my mind that it’s going to once again have abyssmal turnout/viewership.

And that’s to me, is the most upsetting thing. That Marvel stands a shot of being robbed by a game that people don’t actually care about, but has a fanbase that will throw money at anything with Pikachu’s face on it. If it were KI, I wouldn’t be super happy, but it would be ok. MKX, kinda upset because I hate that game but you know what, fine. Or even Skullgirls which to me would be best case scenario, if your top two games were SG and Marvel because easily and measurably those two deserve it. Skullgirls is a fantastic game with an ultra dedicated community that only got treated like shit by EVO. I have no doubt in my mind that had SG’s won the last donation drive that game would be one of the biggest in the FGC right now and might even still to this day be a mainstay at EVO. And so if *any* game was gonna be Marvel, I’d wish it to be Skullgirls. But at least I can say of any of the games I mentioned above, people would come out to play it, and support it. In the example of MKX, it would be the exact same people that would be playing Injustice but fuck, at least it’s *someone*.

And I know someone’s gonna be like “well what did you ever do for Marvel?” and yeah, I’ve never been to a major, because I don’t have money like that. But at least every time there is something local for the game, I go out and play. I took time off of work and drove an hour out one time just to get 0-2′d in Marvel on a couple of occasions, but at least I went out there. And I’m out here watching the streams, watching the VoDs; 90% of my “watch later” playlist is Marvel shit that I didn’t get to watch live.

And with that said, yeah I’ll admit that a bit of it is personal for me. Marvel is absolutely my favorite game out there right now. Without Marvel 3 I probably would not care about EVO and the FGC as a whole. But that’s why I don’t want to see it get robbed of a proper sendoff by a game that’s just gonna die out again the minute EVO is over.