#not a fully evolved team

[nell0-0]

Emmetober day 17: Sacrifice 

Emmet: Brother, stop fainting my pokemon. It’s verrrry annoying. 

Ingo: It was a necessary sacrifice for our victory, Emmet.

Emmet: No, it wasn’t.

[critterbitter]

Do you think you'll draw the nimbasa trio catching their first Pokemon that's not their starter on their journey?

Definitely! It’s just a matter of getting there, haha. I am but one vaguely man shaped blob with a hyperfixation. Mortal needs like sleep and hand pains stop me from vomiting every brain idea I have.

I actually got this question multiple times, so to answer! I am not going to be drawing the nimbasa trio getting another pokemon until their late teens unless a brainworm strikes. (So no new pokemon during the current snapshot series haha.)

Why?

From a canon perspective, well:

Most npc trainers you meet on route have 2-4 pokemon, so I’m gonna try to keep within that amount until the trio settles in Nimbasa and have the revenue/space to upkeep a full pokemon team.

From a meta perspective, wellllll:

Another caught pokemon means character development, and I, ah... right now, I just wanna draw a candle, a zebra, and an eel. I love painting. But fitting seven or more characters on a canvas is, er… Make me draw more guys and I’ll melt like a vanniluxe on a summer day.

If people are curious for some pokemon headcannons though (note that this is not canon— pokemon gave me a puddle of information, so I’m taking the shovel to dig an ocean.)

- ingo saw a colony of dwebble collecting rocks while in the desert, and he’s been enamored ever since. He’s been trying to convince a dwebble to join his team for a while. Unfortunately, Ingo’s very excited and dwebble are naturally shy. (It doesn’t help that litwick can get mean when jealous.)

- emmet loves double battles and teams up with a lot of wild pokemon— but he doesn’t click with anybody until much further in the future. Me thinks his expectations are a tad too high from having such a good start with tynamo. He’s worked with multiple growlithes and thinks Helping Hand is the coolest shit ever.

- emmet’s first “caught” pokemon would be archen. More like “lab grown” and “lovingly hatched”, but it’s the thought that counts. Thinking once again about squab archen…

- elesa found her two emolga in the trash. She was going to release them after fostering, but got attached.

For future plans:

(The pokemon the twins live with and are officially part of the team (named at what stage the twins meet them! Note that everybody becomes fully evolved at somepoint.)

Ingo— litwick, dwebble, drillbur, and axew.

Emmet— tynamo, archen(lint roller), joltik, and durant.

They also have pokemon coworkers that don’t live with them, but agree to help in battles for exp and wages— kliklank twins, garbadore, shelmet and karablast, boldore (atlas), and gurdur)

And for our favorite electric gym leader:

Elesa— blitzle, the emolga twins (em and molga), stunfisk, mareep

(She has pokemon coworkers Eelektross (eela), zebrastrika (motorbreak), and Galvulanta (Lanta) who have a similar set up to the twins— the pokemon agree to work with Elesa for exp and wages, but otherwise have their own lives.)

(Fun headcanon: pokemon who are raised by humans tend to keep human nicknames. It’s not always the case, but it’s a common enough trend for research studies.)

[primarinite]

here are the evos for my pmd hero and partner designs!

[ghostinghome]

more mystery dungeon doodles :3

they are silly :3

[shima-draws]

Have you been playing Red Rescue Team on the switch? :))

Hell YES I have, I started playing it the day it was released lol

Just got to Frosty Forest :) I’m impatient to get to post game so I can A. Evolve my starter and B. Try to aim for 100% Friend Area completion……it’s really hard to do that in R/B Rescue Team bc of the recruit mechanics but I really wanna tryyyyy

[tarn-ati0n]

Your pokemon's therapist after this playthrough:

Made this.

[macaroonkitti]

IRIS EVOLVED INTO HAXORUS!!!

[bionicboxes]

my brother let me snag his fire red so now I've been playing that on and off for the first time. Here's my team so far drawn from memory.

[the-evil-pizza]

I want to replay gen8 so bad and honestly since i didn't have online or pokemon outside of what i could find in there, i might.

[relicsongmel]

I FINALLY HAVE HER

you’ll never guess who she’s named after 🩷

[loki-ioki]

very late to the party, but i finally did my take on Modern Era Immortal Volo! Da world’s saddest bastard.

[sirfetchd]

DROWZEE PLEEEEEASE the awesome tapir pokemon

POWERFUL TEAM OF LITTLE BABY FRIENDS FOR SWEET DARLING DROWZEE!!! tynamo's levitate gives this team perfect defense!

[riftrive]

Playing Pokemon, time to make a pokemon team for everyone. This is the rules.

Chaos

Renzo

More under the cut

Clubs

Cube Assassin

Blacklight

Willow

Catrina

Teef

[torchickentacos]

Reasons I should/should not be allowed to name everyone's pokemon: a list that could be viewed eitehr pro- or anti- me nicknaming things.

-Lasagna the Makuhita

-Blink-182 the hoppip (hoppip. mark hoppus. Blink 182. yeah)

-Pete Wentz the toxicitry. Immensely funny when the game tells me i'm sending out my trusty partner pete wentz. I didn't even plan on keeping him on the team tbh, hence the shitpost name, he was SUPPOSED to immediately go to a box after the water gym, but turns out he stuck around and now I just ended up with the fall out boy guy on my team.

-Enoby the Gothitelle. Enoby Dark'Ness Dementia Way did not fit. My Immortal better last longer than the source material.

-Steve the Skeledirge. Steve Irwin you're a legend

[haru-n-harkel]

A Brief Summary of my PKMN Scarlet playthrough so far:

A Baby!

Wait, entering a battle teleports you? 

FREEDOM!

Oh, shit, buff ladies!

“Huh... Y’know? I should probably get back to the tutorial...

Huh. I wonder how this is gonna go... Oh.

[regallibellbright]

… You know, I kind of DO want to play the 3DS Virtual Console version of Crystal using my original name, the Pokemon I remember of my original team (but more competently than when I was eight by virtue of… not being eight,) and finally be able to transfer *A* version of my original Pokemon up into Bank and from there Home before it shuts down. I’ve never confirmed to myself that the originals are lost on a dead internal battery on the GBC cartridge, but there is realistically no way whatsoever a game cartridge from 2001 still has a working one and I was in no way tech-savvy enough to do the elaborate workarounds to change those batteries when I realized they needed it and I was, like, twelve OR perform the elaborate hack someone figured out a few years back to somehow transfer Gen I/II Pokemon into Bank. I’ve made peace with their loss. I rarely use my past teams once I’m done with their games, but I appreciate knowing I still have my old Pokemon and can put them in Amie or picnic to play with them whenever. Recreating my originals on an emulation of their original game would be nice.

The problem is, this would require some fairly significant savescumming, because one of the Pokemon I had? Was a shiny Smoochum from the Dizzy Punch egg, which significantly raises your odds of shinies but does not have a set species. THAT’S the one I’ve really never gotten over, especially since I have perennially garbage shiny luck everywhere but Go. (My only other wild shiny encounter up until Sun/Moon was a Wooper in Platinum… in the Safari Zone, who fled. Then a Pineco in either Moon or Ultra, and I think a Mankey in Let’s Go Eevee who finally broke the streak of me getting unscripted shinies LITERALLY once a decade.) If I had the patience for shiny grinding via eggs, Smoochum’s my top priority. (And obviously a shiny from another species with the Dizzy Punch egg would make me cackle and maybe sob as I had to decide between resetting a shiny from a species I like out of existence or fully restarting the playthrough, but it would not be what I’m looking for.)

It took me like, at LEAST a year or two to realize she was shiny, is the hilarious part. Smoochum in the anime were pinker than the Crystal sprite and you don’t really encounter other Smoochum in that game so it took me WELL AFTER BEATING THE GAME, GYARADOS AND ALL, I’m pretty sure AFTER Gen III was out, maybe after FRLG even, to go “wait… do I have a shiny?” Yes you do, tiny not-yet-Regalli. Yes you do. And it will be your white whale ever after.