#shiny Haxorous

[jus-a-lil-mouse]

A Pokemon X and Y crossover for @crossoverdanuary Day 6: Video Games! I imagine that Danny, Sam, and Tucker take the place of Calem, Serena, and Shauna, with Dani and Val being Trevor and Tierno.

DANNY aims to be a Pokemon Professor one day; he is enjoying traveling with his friends to get hands-on experience with field research.

Greninja

Aegislash

Charizard

Aurorus

Jolteon (shiny) - you can see @this-is-z-art-blog ‘s drawing of them here!

Goodra

Aided by Yveltal to stop Team Flare

SAM wants to be a gym leader. She is traveling to gain more battling experience.

Delphox

Gyarados

Venusaur

Haxorous

Umbreon

Golurk

Aided by Xerneas to stop Team Flare

TUCKER dreams of being Champion. He’s completing the Gym Challenge in hopes of challenging - and beating - the Elite Four.

Chesnaught

Blastoise

Crobat

Flygon

Flareon

Magnezone

Zygarde enjoys his company, and Tucker enjoys finding its cores. On the rare occasion Zygarde wants to battle, it takes Flygon’s place.

DANI wants to work at the Pokemon Daycare, and has an interest in Pokemon Breeding. She is the source of everyone’s Eevees. (She will one day get a Mimikyuu; see art of them together by Z here!)

Furfrou

Ledian

Scrafty

Sylveon

Bisharp

Noivern

VAL loves to battle, and hopes to teach at the Trainer’s School one day.

Lucario

Malamar

Marowak

Vaporeon

Heliolisk

Dragonite

[strawbebbyy-shinies]

in my efforts to shiny hunt the starters I've been compiling a list of places you can use encounter power to basically guarantee seeing only starters. Here's my list so far:

litten - canyon, by static kleavor

turtwig - canyon, by static kleavor

treecko - canyon, by static haxorous

mudkip - torchlit labyrinth

sobble - marshes in savannah, particularly the large one in top right of map

chespin - chargestone cavern

froakie - grass near coastal plaza

torchic - tera metang cave in polar

If you know of any other spots lmk!!

[delphiniumarchangelmoon]

My pokemon hot takes (and an essay on ninjask getting done dirty)

Lopunny is for the girls and the gays and I’m tired of pretending its not

Me having a little crush on Mewtwo as a kid isn’t weird, what’s weird is that you DIDNT have a little crush on Mewtwo as a kid ok?

Swsh isn’t badly written you guys just completely ignore every non-required area and text box. You wouldn’t know environmental storytelling if it whacked you upside the head.

Paul was the best anime rival, no one stands up to him. His character arc was the best written, his battles had the highest stakes, and best of all he wasn’t fucking annoying!

Iris was the worst anime companion, by far. She did nothing but bully Ash the entire season despite being awful at her own chosen trainer path and it ruined it for me. Girl don’t sit around talking shit when you suck ass at everything!

Fairy should have been weak to bug. Fairy was introduced to be a balancing type by being weak to lesser used types and immune to the strongest type and then made bug WORSE? Fuck off. That makes no sense and it doesn’t even work that well in lore. It could go either way and make just as much sense.

Vanilluxe isn’t even ugly you guys are just haters for no reason AND I think it should get a really cool mega in Z-A based on a sundae and become extremely powerful and viable because FUCK YOU

The Machop line however IS ugly. You do not get to be mad about Incineroar or Meowscarada being too humanoid when that is literally just a man in his undies, and he’s not even cute. Machamp gets a half pass cause the extra arms make it less uncanny but the weird ring around the mouth needs to go, the shorts need to be better integrated into the design (I think gigantimax machamp does a good job of this by blending them down into the color of the legs) and the shinies of the entire line need to be literally any other color but puke green. Either make them all bright green like machamp or skip the green entirely and go dark red. Or a dark gray. Or blue!

Speaking of shinies, green shinies get too much hate. Espeon and teddiursa are cool. Meanwhile yellow shinies usually don’t look yellow at all they look chartreuse and sickly. Like Groudon! Groudon should have a goldenrod color not that abysmal eyesore.

Haxorous did NOT make the jump to 3D well. It just looks a little off and I can’t get over it.

And anyway here’s my regularly scheduled rant about some bullshit because I’m replaying Sword rn and tried to use more mobs I haven’t used before and came across some. Weird bullshit.

Did you know that in swsh ninjask doesn’t learn a single flying type move by level up once it evolves? What the fuck kind of decision was that???? give me SOMETHING I’m DYING OVER HERE.

It technically DOES get Aerial ace by level up but it’s one if those “level 1” moves that you have to get at the move reminder which I forgot was accessible from the start in this game. So I did a bunch of watt grinding yesterday to get a play rough TR for my Tsareena for my Bea fight for no reason and STILL nearly got swept?

And anyway why is that the only one it gets? Why is talking to an npc a requirement to get the ONLY flying move in this Pokémon’s level up moves. Why doesn’t it learn a flying type move upon evolving or in the levels directly after like any normal mon would upon gaining the flying type? It feels really weird and unnecessary. Just swap out the agility level up move for aerial ace, this mon has speed boost it doesn’t need agility.

And then in TM moves it only gets aerial ace (which it already has anyway) air slash (special aka useless on this mom) and acrobatics, Those are its only flying moves which is its better offensive typing! It learns DIG but not fly, peck, wing attack, or pluck?

And in BDSP it’s tm moves get kneecapped! It LOOSES acrobatics and air slash! WHY???? FOR WHAT REASON??? Like sure, it has ROOST and DEFOG now but those DONT DO DAMAGE????

It would have been better for the tms to be roost and acrobatics in the first place. Those are actually useful. But it doesn’t ever get both in gen 8. I could build a seriously annoying ninjask with a focus sash/a berry, roost, acrobatics, leech life, and aerial ace. Pop the sash or berry so acrobatics is increased, aerial ace never misses, leech life and roost heal me. Leech life alone makes it much less of a glass cannon, could you imagine if it got ALL of these moves at once? We were robbed. You can’t give us improved leech life and then not let us build the most annoying asshole bug ever!

And most of its sound based moves are relegated to tm only which is weird considering it’s a CICADA, the bug primarily known for being LOUD. Like they aren’t useful cause they’ve special moves but it should get bug buzz by level up at least. Having screech be its only sound based level up move is just a weird choice, lore wise.

Also its other level up moves are trash. Mind reader is made completely redundant by aerial ace, and doesn’t even make much sense lore wise, it gets like maybe 6 moves between evolving and its last move which ends up being one move every 10 levels or so which is mid at best, and its best bug stab is learned at level 64… or tm which you’ll almost always be doing instead.

Mind reader should be replaced by bug buzz, and there should be another move at around 38-40 that should probably be a coverage move like shadow claw or night slash. It has precedent for learning grass moves too so leaf blade is an option as well though it’s a little bit more powerful so I’d swap its placement with Slash at lv. 50

Anyway quit kneecapping otherwise usable pokemon with nonsensical movesets.

Anyway rant over. Justice for ninjask. Justice for bug types in general.

[pooka-dragon]

Meet the Lupin! Pokémon team!

This is @mirthmire AU of the Pokémon team for Lupin the 3rd!

Unfortunately I could not name the Zorua since I got that one in the trade and could not rename him to Lupin.

But the other five I own and renamed them for the ones that Mirthmire chosen for the team.

Lupin- Zorua (I had no patient to find a Ditto that was on mirthmire’s list and all I kept getting was Meowths and Eevees than anything else, but mostly Meowths so I went with the next big thing since Zorua are known to be illusionist)

Jigen: Dragapult (I need to evolve him, because the dragon dart moves never miss just like Jigen’s gunshots)

Goemon: Seviper (I couldn’t find a Scyther in time and I was able to get this danger noodle)

Zenigata: Arcanine (He is fast so the fast puppo shall chase Lupin from dusk till dawn. And Officer Jenny always have either a Growlithe or an Arcanine)

Yata: Corviknight (me and Mirthmire talked about it when I mentioned about the raven Pokémon and they liked the idea and replaced Ekans for Corviknight)

Fujiko: Haxorous (I need to evolve her too, but I found this Axew just as the shiny sandwich method’s timer went out)

It was worth the hunt and time to get them all!

[magnuficent76]

No pressure but like. If you wanted an excuse to talk more about your ocs' (hypothetical) Pokémon (teams). This is it oooo ooo

(<- would really like to hear more if you have ideas for what mons your ocs would have bc I seem to now be so in love with the concept) (but no pressure)

Oh Beetle, you know me all too well and you just know I will absolutely talk more about random Pokémon on this blog. Here we have the Solar Years guys and their mons !

BALTAZAR (They don't have a main type because they're just a farmer, but back in their elite 5 days they were probably grass/dragon)

- Torterra [It's just a big fuggin lad !!!! A huge guy !!! It's nice and steady and good for a guy who's lived in a farm for most of their life. I like to think they would let kids ride it around too :]]

- Tangrowth [Its a huge guy with crazy hair. I just can see Balt with a Pokemon like this so clearly its insane. I love this Pokémon too so ofc im giving it to my favorite little guy !!!]

- Salamence [Probably was the symbol of his old elite 5 team, but once that crashed and burned.... yeah, they don't like talking too much about it. This guy brings back bitter memories, but Balt does his best to separate them from the team itself. Its better for both of them.]

- Haxorous (shiny) [Same as salamence, but even more so. It makes Balt feel bad that he ever put these poor guys in harm's way by battling with them as hard as he did, but he already apologized like a thousand times for it so they already forgiven him don't worry. Honestly probably a huge baby, given Hax was given to him when he was young <3 they grew up together !!]

- Leavanny [I just think Baltazar deserves a buddy okay !!! Its a silly little lady !!! Also Sewaddle is adorable and I love the idea of Balt finding a grub in their garden and taking care of it instead of throwing it out okay. Grab that Grub]

LUIS (ice/fighting or ice/dark. Are you surprised that the angry ice guy is angry and ice. Probably training to be elite 5, and getting pretty fucking close to it)

- Walrein [This is Luis' starter simply because I just think the Vibes are fit. Probably just picked up a spheal in his youngin days and it stayed with him forever !... this sounds a lot sadder now, huh..]

- Sneasel -> Weaville [Angry and competitive little fellow with a fondness for stealing ? Why, that's just exactly like Luis !! He didn't even have to try to catch this guy, it just showed up one day and then stuck around because Luis kept giving it bacon bits. Now they're the bestest smuggest buddies...together ♡]

- Annihalape [No surprise here huh. This Pokémon follows literally the same premise as Luis' whole story: Got so fucking mad it dies and comes back wrong. Luis saw this Pokémon for the first time and is like you just like me fr (takes good care of it to project)]

- Krookodile [It has cool ass sunglasses and it kicks a whole lot of ass on the battlefield. Luis gets it primarily for aesthetics but secondarily for its sheer power. More than happy to kill for any of his mons but especially this guy]

ANDROMEDA (Fairy/Fire gym trainer !)

- Volcarona [That's her starter right here. It slays cunt and its also a gorgeous little thing !! Just like xem fr fr !!]

- Flareon [Matches with Sylveon because they were from the same litter ! Evolved to keep Andromeda safe because this fuckin idiot keeps getting himself in situations and shit. Extremely defensive of everything but mainly because of the first thing- just a really well trained guard dog that forgot how to have fun. Still very soft and silly]

- Sylveon [Matches with Flareon because they're from the same litter ! LOVES Andromeda to death and it is absolutely mutual ! Most spoiled ever !!! Also insanely brutal. don't worry about it though 🙏]

- Alcremie [Just a sweet lil thang. I like to think this one is mostly for aesthetics but its still really well cared for]

MARSH (FIRE FIRE FIRE FIRE FIYAAAAHHH]

- Quilava [Starter Pokémon. I think the angry looking and explosive personality just sold it to him. He wants to evolve it SO bad but they're both still working on it.]

- Houndour [Its a fire ouppy... he has to have the fire ouppy. They're both young and growing up together but they'll both be the most destructive hounds ever just you fuckin' wait <3]

[wooglebear]

Okay, I am just gonna do a full masterlist for the pmd au on who’s which pokemon because i’m in a rut! cool! its subject to change (especially for most of the Team RR characters)

Admins

Courtney: Skitty

Tabitha: Pikachu

Shelly: Shiny Eevee

Matt: Blastoise

Team RR

Giovanni: alolan persian

Archie: Primarina

Maxie: Eevee

Cyrus: Sneasel

Ghetsis: Slyveon

Lysandre: spritzee?

Faba: Hypno

and for some of the Gen 5 and 7 characters (most of them the gym leaders, the trial captains and the Aether Foundation)

Cilan, Cress and Chili: Pansage, Panpour and Pansear

Burgh: dustox (shiny)

Lenora: Furfrou (Pharaoh Trim)

Clay: drilbur

Skyla: Sensu form Oricorio

Elesa: Emolga

Byrcen: Snorunt

Drayden: Haxorous

Iris: Axew

Marlon: floatzel

Roxie: Toxicriticty (Low Key)

Illima: Diggersby

Lana: Frillish

Mallow: Lurantis

Kiawe: Alolan Marowak

Sophocles: Togedemaru

Acerola: Mimikyu

Ryuki: appletun

Mina: Ribombee

Lusamine: Clefable

Wicke: alolan muk

Colress: Rotom

[lavendertownfreak]

So I was getting ready for my shift and found my FIRST trainer card lol. So um… I’ll walk you through em like last time.

Honorary mention: Don

Don was my first Pokémon, who’s a Serperior. He lives with my mom lol. Left him back home when during the journey when we both realized he REALLY wasn’t into battling. He’s super affectionate, which is kinda scary when he’s a 20 ft long tube of muscle lol.

Nature: Modest

Ability: Overgrowth

Moves: Giga Drain/Leaf Blade/Coil/Leech Seed

Spike is my Simisear. He’s also my resident cut master. May or may not have given him a plastic scimitar for dramatic effect (yes, they allowed that, no I don’t know why). He was a little asshole at first who stole from me often, but eventually became just as loyal and friendly as Don. (We also MAY have burnt down a Plasma base for bonding, but i will neither confirm nor deny this). Didn’t evolve him till Icirrus btw. Don’t know why lol.

Nature: Lonely

Ability: Gluttony

Moves: Cut/Fire Blast/Dig/Flame Charge

Shuffle is a fuckin asshole. Like I love him, but he’s also a fuckin dick. Literally picks fights with my other ‘mons and attacks people. Good in combat tho, just kinda wish he had a personality beyond attack shit.

Nature: Adamant

Ability: Inner Focus

Moves: Poison Jab/Brick Break/Dig/Low Sweep

Yellowbell is a sweetheart… kinda. She’s a sassy bitch but she means well. Kept Shuffle in check. Think of her as… like a playfully dickish older sister, I guess. In other news, she can probably snap all you in half with her jaws lol. And she’s more than willing to if given a reason.

Nature: Sassy

Ability: Moxie

Moves: Crunch/Earthquake/Dragon Claw/Aerial Ace

Glory was my first shiny lol. Also my first rescue mon actually. Found her in Lostlorn chained to a damn tree. SOME CHAINED HER TO A TREE! WHO DOES THAT?! Anyway, she’s the obligatory baby of the team lol (every good team has one). She takes a lot from Yellowbell personality wise, being a sassy sausage, which is fun when she drools acid. Who doesn’t love sparkling garbage?

Nature: Sassy

Ability: Aftermath

Moves: Sludge Bomb/Thunderbolt/Stockpile/Toxic

Picklezard is a wild fuckin animal. I say this both affectionately and out of abject horror. My man broke the back of Drayden’s Druddigon over his knee and then put the damn Haxorous through the fuckin wall for trying to set up on him. He’s vicious, and if he didn’t have the obedience of a well trained Lillipup, he’d probably have killed many a man. Thank god he’s a lazy sack of scales outta battle. There’s a good reason I never taught him outrage…

Nature: Lax

Ability: Sheer Force

Moves: Dragon Claw/Crunch/Flash Cannon/Rock Climb

Raven was both a late and early addition to the team. Caught her before Glory, but didn’t add her to the team till after Icirrus. She’s a shy little babby, one, who is very full of love. Unfortunately, she’s also full of fire, given her affinity for Will O Wisp spam. Her and Glory are a deadly combination who did wonders together! She can also be credited for my ghost preference. (She’s also just immune to fainting, I swear!)

Nature: Timid

Ability: Mummy

Moves: Will O Wisp/Hex/Psychic/Protect

That’s it, that’s the team from my first ever gym challenge. Didn’t do the e4, instead did a little battle tournament thing (not the official PWT in Driftveil, that was still Cold Storage at this point). Placed in the Quarterfinals surprisingly. Mostly since Glory and Raven are stally nightmares.

[blackbird-brewster]

What are your favorite type of video games and which ones have you logged the most game time on? Do you play games on your phone or console? Do you have a favorite Pokémon? Who would you have as your team as a Pokémon trainer and as a gym leader (also what type of gym would you have)?

What are your favorite type of video games and which ones have you logged the most game time on?

I play a lot of RPG and sims. Not shown are the 500 hours I had on Pokemon: Shield & 200 hours on Pokemon: Sword before I got a new switch and that game data didn't transfer (FML). Also not shown my 130 hours on LEGO Star Wars and 100 hours on LEGO Jurassic Park (BEST GAMES!!!) I LOVE Breath of the Wild! I beat it in regular then decided to try and speed run Master Mode (not like the YouTube people who glitch it out and stuff) and went and beat Ganon with 10 hearts and only one Divine Beast. It was rad af. I just love running around and shooting things with arrows and soaring around! I usually played Switch every day, it's been such an important outlet for me over the past few years but when I started writing again in July, I sorta haven't played it AT ALL. I have the new Pokemon games but I haven't started playing them!! It turns out that if my hands are busy typing, they can't also play video games which is very sad for my ADHD brain that wants to do BOTH!!

Do you play games on your phone or console?

I don't have any games on my phone! I play on my Switch and sometimes on PC.

Do you have a favorite Pokémon?

Jigglypuff ( I have a Jiggly tattoo!!), Shiny Gyrados, and TRUBBISH!!!!

Who would you have as your team as a Pokémon trainer and as a gym leader (also what type of gym would you have)?

Okay my team depends on the game/gen (obvs). I think my winning team in Shield was something like: Haxor (ChipChop), Runerigus (Armsy), Garbador (Jerome), Shiny Gyrados (Jupiter), Alcremie (Cake Baby) and a grass type, but I forgot who! I'd 100% be a fairy type gym leader! My team would be 100% useless and would be: Sylveon, Jigglypuff, Slurpuff, Alcremie, Hatterene, Togekiss! Thanks so much for the ask :D

[bloody-britt26]

Britt's shiny team headcanons!

So... nobody asked for this, but I wanted to do it anyway since I'm happy to have completed my first shiny team for Sword and Shield.

Since I love my virtual monsters a lot, I wanted to give them some personalities and share them with you.

My team includes some pokémon that I've hatched in SwSh and shinies from previous games.

I'm currently working on making a shiny team for everyone of my favourite types, so a shiny fairy team, a shiny dragon team and a shiny poison team.

Anyways... meet my sparkly squad!

♡ Lucian

• You're never sure whether you want to pet him or punch him.

• Lucian has attitude, and he's not afraid to use it.

• He's the kind of pokémon who enjoys the company of a very small elite group of individuals, and the rest of the world is absolute garbage to him.

• On one hand, he can be extremely loyal to those he loves and will fight with all of his pretty boy might.

• On the other hand, if he finds someone to be unworthy of his time, he can be downright aggressive and rude to them.

• His facial expressions don't lie. If he finds someone disgusting, it'll show. A lot.

• Britt had a hard time fitting him in a team. She had to figure out a group of pokémon where Lucian tolerated at least 50% of them, all the while making sure that the selected group could handle him and his marvellous attitude.

• Lucian is kind of a player.

• He loves hanging out with female pokémon and is very smooth with them, but he doesn't care for hanging with the male pokémon.

• He steers clear of Red Death as Lucian has had to deal with a few Waterfalls to the face for being an annoyance.

• He doesn't mind Snuggles as the little ball of fluff is very oblivious to his surroundings.

• Lucian is mostly seen hanging out with Nully. Since Nully is genderless, Lucian doesn't see them as a potential mate or rival.

• Although, whether they're friends or not is up for debate.

• Even when he was a small Eevee, he had a superiority complex, but that doubled when he evolved into a Sylveon.

• He's, thankfully, very supportive of his trainer and will always try to hang on even in the toughest of fights. He's constantly shaking off statuses and damage as to not worry Britt.

• He loves having Britt's attention and will demand head pats at all times.

• He's difficult to get through, but with a bit of patience, he's a good boy once you know the proper approach to his odd personality.

• The rest of the team respects him, but they know how to (and will) deal with his shit when things get too hectic.

♡ Shortcake

• Big girl, gentle girl.

• She looks threatening, but she's the softest dragon you'll ever meet.

• She's very shy and has a hard time mingling with other groups of pokémon, always being on the sidelines and watching others play.

• She wants to play too, but she's so timid, so she mostly stays by pokémon she knows or Britt.

• She likes playing with smaller pokémon better because she finds larger pokémon to be frightening.

• The exception is Red Death. He's big, but Shortcake seems to like him because he's pretty calm for a Gyarados.

• She plays ball with Snuggles the Wooloo quite often. Sometimes, Snuggles is the ball.

• Unlike most dragons, Shortcake loves sweet fruity dishes over spicy meat dishes.

• Very good girl. Will lay her head in Britt's lap to nap.

• Pat that head. She loves pats.

• She lacks elegance and is very clumsy. She trips over her own feet quite often.

• She's self-conscious, so please tell her she's adorable. We need to boost that confidence.

• She's very powerful in battle, packing moves like Outrage, Swords Dance, Earthquake and Poison Jab, but she's usually the last resort pokémon. She's aware of her strength, and she doesn't want to harm others.

• When she was an Axew, she had the habit of hiding behind Britt whenever strangers approached. She's a bit too big to do that anymore, but she still does it, even if you can plainly see the huge Haxorous behind Britt.

• It's cute, really.

♡ Nully

• Nully is very wary of others and still has a hard time trusting others.

• Unless another pokémon of the team comes up to them, they don't really talk to other pokémon.

• It's not because they don't like the others! They just prefer to keep to themself. They really do respect every other pokémon on the team and will absolutely defend them with their life.

• All other pokémon of the team treat them with respect and they have become the team leader, which is a title that Nully is rather fond of.

• Nully actually likes having a cutesy nickname over having a threatening name as they want to be seen as more than just a freaky fighting machine.

• They mainly run the Poison Disk. They know how much Britt loves Poison-types, and they wanted to make her happy. They ended up really liking the Poison Disk, however, due to how many resistances they have because of it.

• When Britt is running with her shiny team, Nully likes to stay out of their Poké Ball. They always want to be by her side and make sure that she is safe.

• Nully is extremely close to Britt. After all, she saved them and gave them a better life. They have a lot of respect, love and admiration for what she did for them.

• As a Type: Null, they were very difficult. They were always cowering in a corner in a very defensive posture and wouldn't hesitate to attack if Britt got to close.

• It took a lot of patience and empathy to reach out to them, but Nully is glad that she did.

• Nully genuinely gets upset when other trainers call them a freak. It's not their fault that they were created that way.

• It's okay. Britt will fistfight anyone who insults her baby.

• Britt doesn't want to play favourites, buuuuuut... Nully ♡

♡ Dumpling

• Dumpling is more elegant than you will ever be. Deal with it.

• Seriously, she never misses a beat in whatever she's doing. She's the complete opposite of her trainer where she's absolutely not clumsy and Britt is, well... Britt.

• She acts like she's too sophisticated to battle, but no one is fooled by that. Everyone knows that she enjoys a good ass-whoopin'.

• Dumpling enjoys high-quality food and is a very picky eater. She won't accept anything lower than a Copperajah Class dish.

• Dumpling has good taste in fashion and has a very strong opinion on Britt's fashion choices. She's often out of her Poké Ball whenever Britt is shopping for some help on choosing an outfit.

• Since Britt's fashion sense is... fairly lacking, Dumpling often blows a bit of snow/ice in her trainer's face to voice her disapproval whenever she judges that the chosen outfit is ugly and/or unfit for the occasion.

• However, Dumpling and Britt are very close and share a strong girl's bond. Their bond can rival the one that Britt and Nully have.

• After all, Britt raised Dumpling from an egg, so she's practically a mother to Dumpling.

• Speaking of which, she gets along very well with Nully. She's one of the few pokémon that Nully will voluntarily speak to.

• She's often seen perched on Britt's head or on Nully's back.

• When she was a baby Snom, she used to tuck herself in Britt's pockets, but she's obviously too big for that anymore. That's why she goes for Britt's head instead, which is fine as she weighs nothing.

• She's a night owl and will often wander about at night when everyone is sleeping.

• If Britt is travelling at night, she'll follow along outside of her Poké Ball to enjoy the nighttime with her trainer.

• She's very fond of music, especially soft piano tunes.

• It doesn't come as much of a surprise that she loves a good singing voice, her cry is very melodic.

• If she was human, she'd most likely sing like an angel.

♡ Red Death

• Don't let his name fool you, he's very calm and very difficult to annoy. It really takes a lot to phase him.

• Well, unless you're battling against him, of course.

• Unlike Britt's other Gyarados (Wrath), he's very obedient and easy to control.

• Red Death and Wrath do not get along. At all. Their personalities are much too different.

• Wrath sees Red Death as a rival that he needs to dethrone, while Red Death sees Wrath as a childish brute.

• He's much more mature and wiser than a good portion of Britt's pokémon.

• He's often meditating or practicing his Dragon Dances in a lake.

• 100% has a crush on Shortcake.

• He's extremely protective of the shy dragon. He's constantly staring at her or playing with her.

• They always look so happy to be in each other's company.

• They're probably secretly together.

• He doesn't hate Lucian, but RD's patience is always on thin ice when it comes to the arrogant Sylveon.

• He's usually the one to put Lucian back in his place. A few Waterfalls never hurt anyone, right?

• Right?

• Since Gyarados are notorious for being violent, people are usually very wary around him.

• He doesn't understand why. He's calm and clearly not displaying any form of anger, so what's the issue?

• He doesn't notice that his face is naturally contorted into an expression of pure fury.

• It's okay, those who are close to him know better.

• He's a good boy who will give you piggyback rides along bodies of water and genuinely enjoys playing in the water with his trainer.

• Sometimes, he'll use his tail to splash Britt, forgetting that he's 6.5 meters long and absolutely sends her flying across the water.

• It's all in good fun though. No offence taken or harm done.

♡ Snuggles

• The baby of the group.

• Everyone loves Snuggles.

• It's impossible to dislike Snuggles.

• It's illegal to dislike him.

• Even Lucian likes him.

• Snuggles is very oblivious to his surroundings and will bump into everything whenever he's rolling around.

• He only has one brain cell that pings around his head like a windows screen saver.

• He's cute, so it's forgivable.

• He's pure and untainted by the ugliness of the world. The team wants to keep him innocent.

• He has never shown interest in evolving, so he's an overpowered level 100 ball of fluffy destruction.

• He actually loves to battle and thinks that they are very fun!

• Britt loves to use him in battle to add salt to the stinging wound of defeat.

• Not many people can keep their pride intact after being yeeted to the next century by a dopey-looking Wooloo.

• Leon still has nightmares about Snuggles.

• Loves to cuddle his trainer at night to keep her warm.

• He really is the best blanket.

• He needs to be brushed at least twice a day. Gotta keep that wool nice and shiny!

• He wears a soothe bell around his neck outside of battle but has an eviolite during battles. Bulky and friendly ball of floof!

• Don't you dare insult him!

• It's not that you'll hurt his feelings, insults fly way over his head.

• But you'll personally offend an angry short stack of a trainer, a sea serpent, a dragon, a frozen moth, a man-made fighting machine and a pretty boy.

• Snuggles is loved. Very much.

[theultimateultimateweapon]

Look guys if you aren't going to name any of your Pokémon in Sword and Shield after Nexo Knights then what's the point?

[magicalgirlmindcrank]

Gen 5 was around the time I stopped playing Pokémon, genuinely what's wrong with it?

One of my main gripes was The originals Lacked any pokemon from previous generations for the main game, as they were intended to be a soft reboot of the series. Both games are awful about pacing and level scaling, even battling most trainers will still have you grinding for some time and theres a big lvl jump in one of the early gyms. The early route mons are boring and you are stuck with them for ages due to this. I also just wasn't fond of any of the starters- Snivy is the only okay one and it's move pool is dogwater. Evoloutions are set way too high in many cases, The early route birds dont even evlove until like post league levels. Its also by far the weakest pokedex design wise, while their are a few bangers (Joltik, Moeletta, Haxorous to name a few) all the starters are meh to awful, all the Legends are straight shit (Moeletta is a mythical its DIFFERENT) and the bulk of the dex is room temp at best.

However personally what I found most egregious was the villain team, Team Plasma. Aesthetically Diet Team Galatic. Philosophically they operated on the grounds that training pokemon and letting them fight is bad and wrong which anyone thats played a game before could tell you is antithetical to pretty much every inch of lore. Outside of bad Trainers who are abusive towards their pokemon or uncaring (Canonically this has been seen in Blue to a small degree and in Silver to much larger degree, as well as with team rocket in general) this relationship is mutualistic. Pokemon want to be the strongest they can, and only approach trainers they think could help bring out their potential. Trainers become Trainers to partner with and bring out the best in their partners. Claiming this is inherently abusive goes against everything Pokemon has ever stated.

So this SHOULD be an interesting team. These SHOULD be interesting villains. What we get is Sheltered Dumbass and the Diet version of team rocket mixed with team Galatic. They completely flubbed an interesting idea for their villains cuz they couldn't actually write any convincing argument for them. Maybe N's arguments could fool a child who hadnt played more than one game before, but I was a gen 1 vet. I Knew pokemon. I knew what it was about already. IT was well established to me that this was the dumbest shit a team could form around and the idea they had anyone on board who wasnt turbo sheltered + lied to constantly (N) was laughable at best. All I could do when N blabbed was try not to black out from rolling my eyes so goddamn hard.

I have played Every single pokemon game multiple times, as few as five and as many as a couple dozen, With but two exceptions. I have only completed BW2 once. To this very day I have never been able a finish a single playthrough of Black and White. They are so utterly boring, so devoid of anything i find enjoyable about pokemon that even I, a hardcore pokefan with thousands of hours in challenge runs and thousands more shiny hunting, the literal most repetitive thing you can do in the series, just cannot stomach it. The greatest sin of Gen 5 however? The games were so bad I thought I had outgrown pokemon. Thank GOD I gave XY a chance and discovered that it was just one particularly shit gen they doubled down on for some godforsaken reason. How they went from the Zenith that was Platinum and HGSS to... THAT is beyond me. I'm just glad I gave my favorite game series one more chance and that XY was actually fun.

[dino--draws]

My luck with getting wondertrade shinies is a blessing and a curse. You fools. You’re fueling my hubris. I will not stop now. I have a Y run to finish but I will not stop. 

List of shinies I’ve been wondertraded:  slyveon, haxorous, aggron, hippodown, blaziken, surksit, manetric, vivillion (2 of em), Arceus, Latias, Mespirit, Heatran, Lugia, Rayquaza

[ranger-katie]

Monthly check-in of the Nature Preserve today!

To anyone who doesn't know, the Nature Preserve here in Unova is a all platue set somewhere in the middle of the forest where endangered Pokemon are tended to- primarily Nuzleaf, but there are Girafarig, Noctowl, and Keckleon.

Though I think my favorite resident there is the older shiny Haxorous! He has a bunch of different names- my group calls him Bob- but he's like a grumpy old man. It's kinda funny.

Anyway, we have to go for a bit of population surveillance- see if any species are struggling, if any are booming, what environmental factors lead to what. I'll update later!

[lytefoot]

Can you tell us abt the college AU pls?

For the WIP ask game

So the College AU is, “Harry goes to his dad’s old college and gradually finds out what a tremendous dork his dad and his friends were.” Also there are aliens. Also I think Dumbledore is probably the bad guy, because in this AU there’s really no excuse for leaving Harry with the Dursleys for 18 years.

Harry is a l33t haxor and general delinquent. Ron’s his room-mate and probably a math major--he’s there on a chess scholarship. Hermione’s studying linguistics. Luna is there and spends most of the story suggesting aliens as an explanation, but is as surprised as anyone else when there are actually aliens.

I cannot decide if this is a Rarry fic or a Hinny fic.

I’m playing with what enormous dorks the Marauders were--they has previously contacted the aliens--Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot and Prongs present - the Marauders Starmap.

[Edited to add: I do have the first three chapter titles.

1 - The Delinquent

2 - The Lawyer

3 - The Chess Master

Chapter 2 includes Hagrid (as Dumbledore’s lawyer, wearing the hairy brown suit) declaring, “You’re a legacy, Harry!]

The only really written part is the intro--which I’m probably going to have to cut if I ever actually finish this thing, so I’m putting it below the cut here.

To begin, imagine a house.

No, larger than that. And indeed a little larger. It sits on a cul de sac, between two other houses built to the same plan. This house is perhaps a shade tidier than its already-tidy neighbors. Not for this house the flowerbed awaiting a sunny weekend to be refreshed for spring, the bicycle abandoned in the driveway, the hose carelessly stretched across the lawn; as the night slowly slides around toward morning, everything is carefully stowed in its proper place. The taupe vinyl siding is as immaculate now as the day it was installed, and the white wood trim has been repainted recently.

Inside the house, the ground floor is as orderly as the outdoors. The kitchen is gleaming white and stainless steel, smelling faintly of bleach. The sole sign of life is the bowl of fruit, red apples and yellow bananas and unblemished oranges, all fresh and untouched. Two cars are parked in the garage, shiny, new, so large the two abreast barely fit in the space; the third, a little smaller but newer still, has been banished to the driveway. Inside again, the master and mistress of the house sleep soundly in a bedroom that is neither too large nor too small, its white carpet and bed-coverings immaculate. He is a large man, heavyset and neck-less, the deficit of hair on his head made up in the lushness of his carefully-maintained mustache. She is tall and carefully, meticulously thin, blond hair set in curlers for the night, overnight face-mask carefully applied. He snores loudly, heartily, while her snore is thin and reedy. The television on the wall above the dresser is smaller than the one above the electric fireplace in the large, white living room. Beside the front door is a guest room, closed now, but frequently inhabited by his sister and her dogs; the tooth marks marring the bedstead and the well-chewed dog bed hidden in the closet are the first hints of untidiness in the house.

Upstairs, a pervasive smell that suggests that the couple have an adolescent son with an interest in athletic pursuits. In the front bedroom sleeps the son, heavy and neck-less like his father, blond and watery like his mother, only part of his bulk muscle, a large letter jacket hastily thrown over the back of a chair. The room shows evidence of having been thoroughly cleaned in the recent past, but not routinely tidied, various dirty clothes, sports magazines, electronic devices, and suspiciously crusty socks drifting in heaps across the furniture. The rear bedroom holds the debris of athletic pursuits, a punching bag and boxing gloves, a set of dumbbells. There is another bed here, but it has not been used; the son’s guests slept here, when his friends visited, but the boy is clearly an only child.

In the ceiling of the hall is a trap door, and above the ceiling, an attic. The attic hasn’t been finished, its ceiling low and hanging with insulation, the trap door giving access for repairs and nothing more. But someone has made an effort to make the attic livable. Sheets, slightly torn or unacceptably stained, have been tacked to the rafters, covering the insulation, in a little space around the trap door and toward the rear of the house. A thin mattress sits against the rear wall beneath a small window, covered by another worn sheet and a much-patched and faded blanket. A cardboard box holds neatly patched and folded clothes that might once have belonged to the boy downstairs.

Watch the small attic window. Slowly, slowly, the window is creeping open. A brown hand grips the windowsill, knuckles tensing, and then is joined by another. A head comes into view, green eyes striking in a thin, angular face. Slowly, careful to make no noise, the owner of his hands pulls himself in through the window, lowers himself onto the mattress, and sits still, breathing great silent gulps of air. Not waking the family downstairs is important.

Imagine a boy, a teenager. No, smaller than that… a little smaller. Not quite that small, perhaps five foot three, and bone thin, all sharp angles and awkward limbs. His hair is thick and black and perpetually messy, and he has embraced it, allowing wild curls to stick up at all angles. His skin is a warm terra-cotta brown, and his eyes a bright green that is striking even behind thick glasses. He wears old clothes that are much too big for him, having once belonged to the much larger boy downstairs, the T-shirt washed gray and thin, its over-stretched neck sliding off his shoulder, the jeans held up with a belt and badly frayed at the knees and the cuffs. The glasses are cheep plastic ones, held together with scotch tape at the bridge and dental floss at the hinges where they’ve been broken. Above his right eye, a jagged scar cuts from his hairline down to split his eyebrow; a relic, he’s been told, of the accident that had killed his parents. A careful observer sees a half-healed bruise on his cheekbone and the faint yellow ghost of another on his neck, though the shadows under his eyes are more likely exhaustion.

The boy’s name is Harry Potter. He will be seventeen for seventy-six more days. He is counting.

[wordproblemapoligist]

got the static encounter shiny Haxorous!!!

[kristalkitsunedesigns]

Chilling with a Shiny Haxorous. Commissioned by DisastrousMimi as a gift for slimmck