(Little) Things that annoy you in Pokémon

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Steam Siege is a TCG expansion with a steampunk motif and has Shiny Mega Gardevoir as one of the flagship Pokemon, making it my favorite expansion on looks alone. One flaw, however, is that only Mega Gardevoir EX cards are shiny, with Gardevoir EX being non-shiny. Same thing applies to Steelix EX.
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This wasn't the case with the previous BREAKthrough expansion, which had Shiny Gyarados as the flagship and had both EXs as shiny.
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Xaviere said:
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so in shining fates, the same morpeko card with identical stats gets printed twice. I normally don’t have a problem with this, as one of the cards is either a promo, or has different stats and attacks. But here, there’s just two morpekos in the same set, and they’re indentical aside from the artwork.
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Ironmage said:
It also seems really weird that all of the art is for the same form when morpeko's gimmick is that it changes form constantly.
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Especially with the first two cards shown, feels like the first one should be it in Hangry Mode as its stealing the Berries.
 
Imperial Magala said:
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Steam Siege is a TCG expansion with a steampunk motif and has Shiny Mega Gardevoir as one of the flagship Pokemon, making it my favorite expansion on looks alone. One flaw, however, is that only Mega Gardevoir EX cards are shiny, with Gardevoir EX being non-shiny. Same thing applies to Steelix EX.
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This wasn't the case with the previous BREAKthrough expansion, which had Shiny Gyarados as the flagship and had both EXs as shiny.
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The steam siege set, or rather it's japanese counter part, always made me raise an eyebrow because it feels like it was based on a version of the volcanion movie we didn't get

The japanaese set was a dual set, a volcanion set and a m-gardevoir set called Cruel Traitor. This was released the summer of the Volcanion movie's release, and there is indeed a character with a shiny gardevoir (who goes mega) but so far as I know she doesn't actually betray anyone.
 
R_N said:
and there is indeed a character with a shiny gardevoir (who goes mega) but so far as I know she doesn't actually betray anyone.
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My personal theory is that Gardevoir sides with Yveltal instead of being with fellow Fairy Xerneas.
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Between Gardevoir EX secret rare having Yveltal in the background and Mega Gardevoir sole move discarding teammates (which not even Yveltal does in any TCG card so far), Gardevoir feels like an absolute villain in the marketing.

Comparing this to Primal Clash's Gardevoir EXs really shows that Steam Siege has the first malicious Gardevoir seen in Pokemon.
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Don't worry though, Generations: Radiant Collection shows both Gardes as Gal Pals, so it all worked out well in the end.
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Imperial Magala said:
My personal theory is that Gardevoir sides with Yveltal instead of being with fellow Fairy Xerneas.
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Between Gardevoir EX secret rare having Yveltal in the background and Mega Gardevoir sole move discarding teammates (which not even Yveltal does in any TCG card so far), Gardevoir feels like an absolute villain in the marketing.
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Xerneas: But Why Gardevoir? You were best girl.
Gardevoir: Best girl... for the LAST time: I'M A GUY!
Yveltal: And we Dark-types are the ones called "evil"; look who is on the wrong side of history now.
 
NaturalTropius said:
In 2016, they had Sun and Moon.
In 2017, they had "We're making a Pokemon game for Switch!"
In 2018, they had Let's Go.
In 2019, they had Sword and Shield, and even revealed Nessa.

I mean, it's just a little longer of a wait, I'd think.
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to be fair, the ones from 2017-on have all been at e3. I don’t mind waiting, but it’s a little weird that we heard nothing today, when we know of two different pokémon games coming relatively soon.
 
Pokemon tends to do its own thing and run on its own time, so I imagine maybe something will come if they do an individual Pokemon news reveal at some point. It's not often they do big info reveals at E3 usually.

I am surprised nothing about even Legends: Arceus has been revealed yet though. You'd think given how much of a big deal it is being such a unique and ambitious mainline entry in the franchise, and how much anticipation and questions there are for such a unique title that we have no idea what to expect from, there's gotta be stuff to reveal about that at least. Legends is such a game shrouded in mystery right now, that you'd think they'd say something about it or reveal some info about it at this point.

Or maybe, they really do want to surprise us with the game when we actually get to experience it and they don't want to spoil the experience too much. Who knows?

Either way, they ought to be careful about what they reveal. If Sun and Moon's pre-release period taught them anything (at least they seemed to learn from this with Sword and Shield), there is a such thing as revealing too much.
 
ScraftyIsTheBest said:
Pokemon tends to do its own thing and run on its own time, so I imagine maybe something will come if they do an individual Pokemon news reveal at some point. It's not often they do big info reveals at E3 usually.

I am surprised nothing about even Legends: Arceus has been revealed yet though. You'd think given how much of a big deal it is being such a unique and ambitious mainline entry in the franchise, and how much anticipation and questions there are for such a unique title that we have no idea what to expect from, there's gotta be stuff to reveal about that at least. Legends is such a game shrouded in mystery right now, that you'd think they'd say something about it or reveal some info about it at this point.

Or maybe, they really do want to surprise us with the game when we actually get to experience it and they don't want to spoil the experience too much. Who knows?

Either way, they ought to be careful about what they reveal. If Sun and Moon's pre-release period taught them anything (at least they seemed to learn from this with Sword and Shield), there is a such thing as revealing too much.
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Well there's a difference between "big info reveals" and "not showing anything, at all"

NaturalTropius said:
In 2016, they had Sun and Moon.
In 2017, they had "We're making a Pokemon game for Switch!"
In 2018, they had Let's Go.
In 2019, they had Sword and Shield, and even revealed Nessa.

I mean, it's just a little longer of a wait, I'd think.
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Going a little further.
2015 - technically had Super Mystery Dungeon but there also wasn't any mainline game that year, anyway
2014 - ORAS, specifically the first real trailer. As a reminder they had just revealed the titles (box art and artwork for the primals) like 2 weeks prior
2013 - XY
2012 - This one wasn't listed on Serebii so i had to track it down on a memory: the press conference actually did mention Pokemon BW2 though nothing was really shown, per say, just the presentation did talk about it coming.

2011 didn't seem to have anything in particular, but I don't feel like digging through that presentation and such. I'll just assume no.

So the only time there was no pokemon presence whatsoever at e3 since 2011 was 2020 (due to the whole "there literally wasn't an e3 or even a june direct" thing) and...now, for seemingly no real reason. It is kind of a brow raiser; even if they do their own thing later in the month it seems like it'd have been easy to show off a little game play or throw them in a sizzle reel or even just reshow parts of the first trailers and a reminder of "and dont forget, you can get these classic games later this year!"


In the long run it's not a big deal or anything, there will PROBABLY be a pokemon thing later this month, but it's odd to not have the bare minimum e3/nindir presence when this is one of their big tentpole titles.
 
Surprised how few people are bringing up the fact that July is Pokemon's designated month for Sinnoh celebration. We can probably set that month as our absolute waiting limit, heck even if/when we get a dedicated Presents this month we could still get info in July because of that

Anyways yeah the more I look into the old E3s people use as examples the more I realize how flimsy and sparse they often were. It might be totally possible that after the fiasco 2019 was Game Freak figured that it was no longer worth it, especially considering that out of the 2 upcoming big Pokemon releases one is a remake of an older title that by default has less things to show and a game that isn't even gonna release until 2022
 
I mean. Bdsp is just a close recreation of sinnoh, so the only relevant thing were the graphics, which we already saw
They'll probably dump legend news either july as dramps said or december when people already bought bdsp and its no longer a competing game.

It feels like theyre replicating the silence of gen 8 announcements, but with no new pokemon to fill the gaps for a while, it makes it even more quiet
 
Yung Dramps said:
Surprised how few people are bringing up the fact that July is Pokemon's designated month for Sinnoh celebration. We can probably set that month as our absolute waiting limit, heck even if/when we get a dedicated Presents this month we could still get info in July because of that
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Apparently that's a TPCi-only thing, not TPC, making it unlikely to be a reason that GF would be holding out for July to drop news.

There is also a HOME update tomorrow, but since as far as we know the update is little more than some mobile features and nothing to do with the switch version, that seems unlikely to portend any news, especially given that unite news is dropping tomorrow.
 
(sorry for posting about the tcg again)
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the eyes on the full art glowking v.
remember when glowking was revealed, people were talking about how it’s eyes looked plastered on like stickers?

yeah it looks really bad here.
it’s probably the fault of the outline around the eyes, but they look really ‘stickery’ on this card.
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the alt art doesn’t have the eye outlines and it looks fine! not really sure what the point of the full art outlines were
 
R_N said:
So the only time there was no pokemon presence whatsoever at e3 since 2011 was 2020 (due to the whole "there literally wasn't an e3 or even a june direct" thing) and...now, for seemingly no real reason. It is kind of a brow raiser; even if they do their own thing later in the month it seems like it'd have been easy to show off a little game play or throw them in a sizzle reel or even just reshow parts of the first trailers and a reminder of "and dont forget, you can get these classic games later this year!"
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I'm curious if them announcing Pokemon Unite news a day or so later had anything to do with there being no Pokemon news in E3? Tencent wants all eyes on their game so Pokemon Company agreed to let them have June concerning Pokemon game news. In TPC's eyes they still have a few months to show stuff off and I can see them wanting to be more controlling of the games as they both feel like new experiments for GF.

Yung Dramps said:
Surprised how few people are bringing up the fact that July is Pokemon's designated month for Sinnoh celebration.
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Right, that too.

RocketSurgery said:
Apparently that's a TPCi-only thing, not TPC, making it unlikely to be a reason that GF would be holding out for July to drop news.
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Eh, both sides of the company could be working together.

TPCi: Hey, we're doing this thing where we're giving each region it's own month, Sinnoh is in July so could we have some major news to release then?
TPC: Eh, sure.
 
Why, exactly, was Feint Attack spelled Faint Attack in the games before Gen 6? TCG always had it right, the move's flavor purpose was clearly spelled out in descriptions as early as Stadium 2--

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The move catches the opponent off guard, so it never misses.
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--so misspelling it has never made sense. Not even to avoid confusion with Feint, which arrived two generations later.
 
jordanthejq12 said:
Why, exactly, was Feint Attack spelled Faint Attack in the games before Gen 6? TCG always had it right, the move's flavor purpose was clearly spelled out in descriptions as early as Stadium 2--


--so misspelling it has never made sense. Not even to avoid confusion with Feint, which arrived two generations later.
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Now imagine you are someone whose main language is NOT english, and knowing that Pokémon uses "faint" as "KO", you discover a move called Faint Attack.

I'm talking from experience.
 
jordanthejq12 said:
Why, exactly, was Feint Attack spelled Faint Attack in the games before Gen 6? TCG always had it right, the move's flavor purpose was clearly spelled out in descriptions as early as Stadium 2--


--so misspelling it has never made sense. Not even to avoid confusion with Feint, which arrived two generations later.
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To be fair, the Pokemon animation for Feint Attack has always shown the Pokemon vanishing before attacking, or in other words, fainting from sight. Check any dictionary or dictionary website and one of its definitions (if not the first) is (from Merriam-Webster): "hardly perceptible".
 
Pikachu315111 said:
To be fair, the Pokemon animation for Feint Attack has always shown the Pokemon vanishing before attacking, or in other words, fainting from sight. Check any dictionary or dictionary website and one of its definitions (if not the first) is (from Merriam-Webster): "hardly perceptible".
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I'm honestly willing to believe it was just a typo that they never though to fix in subsequent games until gen 6
 
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