Official Pokemon Discussion Thread

Post by **Silver** » Thu Jul 17, 2008 7:17 pm

Honestly, must we look at this in such a dirty way? It says that no one's ever actually seen a Pokemon lay an egg in D/P. That's because when they sneak off into the bushes, they're actually performing an alien summoning ritual in which they pray to the moon rabbits to deploy reinforcements for their conquest of Alternate Pokemon-Earth. If they have increased their power level thanks to the guidance of the Day Care Training Robots, they are rewarded with a young sidekick, deployed in a space-travel pod that just happens to look like an egg. The pod also has a Pokeball inside, so if the young alien proves dangerous to their plan, it can be captured and subjugated.

It's all very simple, see?

Post by **Josiah** » Fri Jul 18, 2008 11:14 am

Pokémon breeding groups tend to defy logical explanation. As for the pokeballs though, I'd say that the daycare guy gives you one along with the egg to use once it hatches.

Post by **Blastotoise** » Sun Jul 20, 2008 6:50 pm

I have another question...well Three actually:

1)In platinum, how do you think they'll implement the ability to catch BOTH Dialga and Palkia. Like, how in Emerald, you would talk to this guy and a road with heavy rain had Kyogre, and a road with a heavy drought had Groundon. You think in Platinum will have Palkia on a road that has it's space distorted, and Dialga will be on a road that time has slowed down?

2) Why are Shiny pokemon so rare? I mean, is it like a disease or something? are they like the lepers of the pokemon community?

3) What ARE Entei, Suicune, and Raiku? I mean, the pokemon boards said they were gerbils, but I think they're reincarnations of a Flareon, Vaporeon, and Jolteon respectively.

Post by **Doodleshark** » Sun Jul 20, 2008 7:19 pm

I believe I have an answer for #3. Appearently, a long time ago in Ecruteak there were two towers. One of these towers burned to the ground, killing three Pokemon. Ho-Oh, who resided in the other tower, used it's powers to cause these dead Pokemon to be reborn as Suicune, Raikou, and Entei. At least, according to the manga. That answer your question?

Post by **terra5** » Sun Jul 20, 2008 7:21 pm

Blastotoise wrote:I have another question...well Three actually:

1)In platinum, how do you think they'll implement the ability to catch BOTH Dialga and Palkia. Like, how in Emerald, you would talk to this guy and a road with heavy rain had Kyogre, and a road with a heavy drought had Groundon. You think in Platinum will have Palkia on a road that has it's space distorted, and Dialga will be on a road that time has slowed down?

2) Why are Shiny pokemon so rare? I mean, is it like a disease or something? are they like the lepers of the pokemon community?

3) What ARE Entei, Suicune, and Raiku? I mean, the pokemon boards said they were gerbils, but I think they're reincarnations of a Flareon, Vaporeon, and Jolteon respectively.

1) I think that's what they're going to do, but it'll be interesting to see how they pull it off.

2) Hum... I think it's because they are trophy pokemon, to show how lucky you were, or they may have been glitches in the first game and the programmers decided to keep them.

3) WHAT THE HECK ARE YOU TALKIN' ABOUT OF COURSE THEY'RE GERBILS

Post by **Doodleshark** » Sun Jul 20, 2008 7:28 pm

Actually, Shinies were introduced in Generation II. There weren't any shinies in the first games because the first games were for the original Game Boy, which is only capable of showing two colours...

Post by **Blastotoise** » Sun Jul 20, 2008 7:28 pm

Doodleshark wrote:I believe I have an answer for #3. Appearently, a long time ago in Ecruteak there were two towers. One of these towers burned to the ground, killing three Pokemon. Ho-Oh, who resided in the other tower, used it's powers to cause these dead Pokemon to be reborn as Suicune, Raikou, and Entei. At least, according to the manga. That answer your question?

No, I knew THAT already. I'm saying that the the pokemon in the tower where The three eevee-lutions, and where reincarnated as the legendaries. I always thought they were dogs, but a lot of other people think otherwise.

Post by **terra5** » Sun Jul 20, 2008 7:51 pm

Doodleshark wrote:Actually, Shinies were introduced in Generation II. There weren't any shinies in the first games because the first games were for the original Game Boy, which is only capable of showing two colours...

Actually, I've heard of people trading some of their pokemon from RBY to GSC and them being shinies. You just couldn't tell because of the monochromatic color scheme.

Post by **Sora_Chaos** » Sun Jul 20, 2008 9:00 pm

most info places just have the Entie, Raikou, and Suicune as beasts, kind of like how people classify Articuno, Zapdos, and Moltres

Post by **Josiah** » Mon Jul 21, 2008 10:35 am

terra5 wrote:Actually, I've heard of people trading some of their pokemon from RBY to GSC and them being shinies. You just couldn't tell because of the monochromatic color scheme.

That could happen...but there was nothing to mark them as shinies in R/B/Y. It's just that when you traded old pokémon to G/S/C they were randomly determined to be shiny or not shiny, the same way they were randomly assigned a gender (R/B had no genders). There really were no shinies in R/B.

I think being shiny is just a rare genetic thing, like albinos.

Post by **Sora_Chaos** » Mon Jul 21, 2008 11:02 am

that works, it better then having some creepy white pokemon with red eyes...

Post by **Simsmagic** » Mon Jul 21, 2008 3:23 pm

Blastotoise wrote:I have another question...well Three actually:

1)In platinum, how do you think they'll implement the ability to catch BOTH Dialga and Palkia. Like, how in Emerald, you would talk to this guy and a road with heavy rain had Kyogre, and a road with a heavy drought had Groundon. You think in Platinum will have Palkia on a road that has it's space distorted, and Dialga will be on a road that time has slowed down?

2) Why are Shiny pokemon so rare? I mean, is it like a disease or something? are they like the lepers of the pokemon community?

3) What ARE Entei, Suicune, and Raiku? I mean, the pokemon boards said they were gerbils, but I think they're reincarnations of a Flareon, Vaporeon, and Jolteon respectively.

1. I think that Dialga will remain at it's place at Spear Piller, while Palkia will possibly move to Giratina's former spot.

2 I've already answered this. Sometimes, when pokemon are born, they are attacked by a mad Smergle who paints them different colors. The mothers abandon the babies due to this, and most die out. However, some live enough to become adult pokemon.

3. Wait, thay're NOT gerbils?

Post by **Giga-Gar** » Mon Jul 21, 2008 5:37 pm

Wait, I though Ente, Suicune, and Raiku were legendary dogs, not legendary gerbils. I certantly don't see any buck teeth.

Post by **Blastotoise** » Mon Jul 21, 2008 6:49 pm

Sims...Dialga is at the spear pillar in DIAMOND. Palkia is at the spear pillar in PEARL....

Post by **Simsmagic** » Mon Jul 21, 2008 7:07 pm

Blastotoise wrote:Sims...Dialga is at the spear pillar in DIAMOND. Palkia is at the spear pillar in PEARL....

I'm fully aware of that. I'm saying, maybe Dialga will be catchable ONLY at Spear Piller in PLATINUM, and Palkia will be catchable ONLY at that one place in PLATINUM. As in, they BOTH appear, but are catchable in TWO SEPERATE PLACES.

Also, CAPS LOCK IS FUN.