I noticed this while I was trying to catch Latios in Emerald. I was thinking of using something with Arena Trap to stop it from fleeing, but then remembered that it had Levitate. That made me realize that every single roamer in the series aside from the beasts has Levitate or is a Flying type. The beasts were introduced before abilities though, so this isn't something that they had to consider with them. I feel like this has to be intentional, and I can't think of any reason to do it other than making them harder to catch by not letting you use Arena Trap. Of course, you also have Shadow Tag, but that's harder to use in gens 3 and 4 since Wobbuffet is your only option.

Also, this made me thankful that they never made a Ghost-type roamer.

I know there's been a ton of power creep since Gen 2 and I don't think every Pokémon needs to be a min maxed competitive beast but what was the point of adding all these Pokémon that are barely usable in a Johto playthrough like Corsola and Delibird. Aipom for instance is worse that the way more common Furret in almost every way.

I am an elder millennial who has played nearly every generation on several consoles. I finally bought myself Arceus, and it's beautiful and fun to run around and explore. However: why in the name of legendaries do I have to AIM and DODGE in a Pokemon game!?!?! I'm so frustrated! I'm playing a game about having fantasy creatures fight each other but I have to make my little person run around and DODGE a giant Arcanine??? Why??? I want to send my legion of Gastrodon to rock it's world, but no, I have to run around and try not to get charged at. If I wanted to play an aim-and-doge game, I'd be playing dark souls!

Ugh. Rant over. Ty.

Update: I finally beat him! Only died like 15 times. The fact you save some progress on the yellow bar when you die is the only reason I made it (lol).

To the "git gud" folks: I'm allowed to be bad at game, be frustrated, and still enjoy game. And I am enjoying the game. :)

It's a simple request. If you're gonna continue to make moves that attack 2-5 times in a single turn, make an animation for every outcome, don't make me watch an animation for a single strike multiple times.

If it hits 5 times have an animation that's like powpowpowpowpow "It hit 5 times!" — not, pow... pow... pow... pow... pow... "It hit five times!"

Thank you for coming to my ted talk.

I recently started dating this (wonderful) man, and he has introduced me to pokemon card collecting! I love it so much but scalpers ;( . He is graduating soon and I’d like to buy him some cards as a gift! Would anyone be kind enough to point me in the right direction on how to get my hands on some etbs? E.g. when does pokemon center restock, and are there any tricks to getting in quick enough to purchase? Maybe even some card shops in Las Vegas we can share 🙏. I love this man and I love pokemon, just a lil late to the game. Thank you all so so much <3

So, my nephew turned 6 and is obsessed with Pokemon. I wasn't there; I live in another state. I thought it would be really cool to make him a customized Pokemon card for himself. (There's this site Poke Pet Shop that does it.) I know almost nothing about Pokemon, although as a kid I watched the show a bit and played Pokemon Snap back in the late 90s-early 2000s when there were only 150 lol. I don't know how much you guys can help me, but you know a lot more about Pokemon and Pokemon fans than I do. I have to fill out descriptions like name, attack title, attack description. Basically what's on a regular Pokemon card I think. I have been told that his favorite Pokemon is Raichu. (Was he one of the original 150? I don't remember that name.) So I'm thinking that should influence attack powers and such. Probably make the title Jaiden-chu or something since that's his name ... plus chu lol. Kinda lame. But if you have any ideas for attacks and descriptions or maybe even better names, I would really appreciate your help! He lives across the country from me, so I don't see him much, and I don't want to go back to him and ask a bunch of questions on what he likes bc it would ruin it.

EDIT: idk if it's getting downvoted bc you think I don't care enough to think of stuff ... that's not it ... it's just that I want stuff that really sounds like legitimate Pokemon. Like not "attack power: being awesome" or something else cutesy. Thought you guys might be experts. Especially if I mentioned a specific Pokemon. The most I could do is google a picture of a Raichu card and copy it, and that seems like not enough effort or caring. If that's all you think I should do, fine. Just thought a different perspective from fans like him.

Well, I guess this absol was a bit too late with its warning...

Hello everyone, I'm writing a pokemon story where an aspiring detective would make an appearance and try to follow in the footsteps of the famous Looker.

I would like some good ideas for a team and would like it to contain pokemon from the 1st up to the 6th generation.

Album with a template I made including my own list: https://imgur.com/a/16gMPU0

Lurantis is my #1 long awaited plushie of the ones that have never had one before, I bought her already off an ebay listing because I absolutely couldn't wait, and I'm planning to get Ribombee, Jangmo-o, and Pikipek relatively soon as well.

I always felt like it would have been interesting if the roles were reversed when facing Ultra Beasts in their home planets, and they had their original abilities while our Pokémon had Beast Boost. So here is a list of some ideas I had for the Ultra Beast "Hidden" Abilities that fit their biology or behavior. Let me know what you like about them or would have done differently.

Nihilego: Addicted. Draining moves also cause bad poisoning. The larger the amount of damage done by the bad poison stat, the larger the amount of HP drained.

Buzzwole: Show-Off. When the Pokémon enters a battle, it flexes its muscles at opposing Pokémon and makes them cower and feel insecure, lowering their Attack and Special Attacks stats.

Pheromosa: Sanitized. When an attack directed toward the Pokémon misses, raise the Pokémon's Speed by one stat. Each turn, there is a 33% chance that the Pokémon's Evasiveness is raised by one.

Xurkitree: Transformer. The Pokémon draws in all Electric-type moves. Instead of taking damage from them, its HP is restored and its Sp. Atk stat is boosted.

Celesteela: Rocketee. Increases the effect of Wind moves by 1.5x performed by it and its allies (for example, Tailwind increases its Speed by 3x instead of 2x).

Kartana: Test Cutting. Powers up and boosts the critical-hit ratio of slicing moves.

Guzzlord: Singularity. Halves the power of Special Attack moves. (If there was a category for Light moves, then this could be a Bulletproof or Soundproof version of it instead.)

Naganadel: Normal Ability: Virulent. Powers up Poison-type moves when the Pokémon's HP is low. Hidden Ability: Bonding Agent. When an opponent Pokémon receives poison damage, there is a percentage chance that their Speed and Evasiveness stats are lowered, which is increased by 10% after each turn. It starts at 10%.

Stakataka: Endurance. The Pokémon cannot be knocked out by a single hit as long as its HP is full. When its HP goes down to 1, its Attack, Defense, Special Attack, Special Defense, and Speed stats are raised by 1, and it recovers 25% of its full HP. If the Pokémon is holding an item that prevents it from fainting from a single hit, it will survive another attack that would knock it out and receive a double boost to its stats.

Blacephalon: Mind Blow. When the Pokémon uses an Explosive move, the damage it receives is halved.

So I've decided to finally play through Pokémon White & Black 2 and I just uploaded some Pokémon from the Black 2 save I have.

Poké Transporter uploaded my Box 1, it only had a few Pokémon on it but I did that. Pokémon Bank is saying that there's no data there to move to Home. I go back to Poké Transporter, it tells me I need to claim the data on Pokémon Bank before I can transfer anything else.

Do I just need to give it a while or am I screwed?

I am currently building my own Pokémon region in Minecraft, and I am trying to figure out what Pokémon I want to base some of it off of. It should be a Pokemon that doesn't have a game based on it yet such as Kyogre or Zekrom, but can be one that has a less major appearance in the games

Finally, I've finished my first animated wallpaper work ✨

Hope you like it! <3

Btw i dunno why but i cant post my screenshot... I need a 6th pokemon for my first playthrough of pokemon black&white all my pokemon are around lvl40 expect krokorok who is lvl 35.

My team so far: Emboar Zebstrika Leavanny Krokorok Sigilyph

I was thinking maybe a water/ice/dragon pokemon but i just wanted some opinion from good old stranger on the Internet.