Venipede was too.
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SPOILERS! Scarlet & Violet Leaks Thread - Data/Mechanics
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Venipede was too.
Oh yeah, that was technically a thing.
Technically, assuming you had BW2 and you accumulated 3,000 DP on that file to unlock Pleasant Forest and then got 5,000+ points in the Blow Out Candles minigame in Pleasant Forest at some point between October 10 2012 (when Blow Out Candles became available in Pleasant Forest) and January 14 2014 (when the Dream World shut down) and didn't get 10,000 or more points to get Natu instead.
Mind you back in the day people here didn't give nearly so much of a shit about legal combos, I remember using Contrary Serperior (and plenty of other Hidden Abilities never actually released during Gen 5) on the Smogon ladder during BW1.
Pokémon Online had a Dream World OU ladder you might be thinking of, where hidden abilities were fully unrestricted, but ability and movepool legalities were definitely a big deal - Hydreigon not getting Earth Power and Dark Pulse together before BW1 was a big deal, Azumarill not getting Aqua Jet + Belly Drum before XY was notable, and some Pokémon definitely missed out on new egg moves when they wanted to use transfer moves.
28 actually. The list went up to TM229
(Yeah, carry the two…) Can confirm, checked list, which is cool
He’s continued it with tweets about probopass, Wugtrio plus 2 wiglett, and falinks. So yeah if it is dipplin’s evo it’s probably an orochi type
Going off the Power Rangers reference, seems Paradox Entei is confirmed a triceratops.
Also Entei already has three horns, and the red and grey parts of the face armor can easily be redesigned into a frill and beak.
No strong reason at the moment to suspect that there is a chimecho evo. Only time Khu referenced chimecho iirc was in a poll about Lacey's ace, but more recent tweets point to a fairy tera Golurk:
What are the two-stage lines? I can't see the Tweet because of stupid business decisions from a stupid business man.
Skwovet and Greedent and Wooloo and Dubwool.
Someone pointed out that those are the only (non-regional form/evo) Pokemon from Galar available in Go, with Falinks missing. So presumably it’s a continuation of the countdown hints, with Falinks having six heads.
Dipplin2 could still be a caduceus. Just make the caduceus staff the third wyrm.
In the meantime, anyone taking bets on names? I maintain my Cadupplin guess for Dipplin2, and these are my guesses for the likely Paradoxes:
- Future!Terrakion: "Iron Boulder"
- Past!Entei: "Burning Lava" or "Blazing Lava"
The names of the jotho beast paradoxes have used generally "fancier" or less used/more specific words for the paradox names so far, like bolt instead of thunder or storm for example (boulder is also a bit too generic and unspecific, cobalion is iron crown for example, crown being one of it's physical traits and (one of) the main "quirk(s)" of the design, which is what most paradox pokemon use as a basis for their name)
Sorry if this feels harsh, see it as constructive criticism! (monkey see, monkey type whole argument on why something incorrect)
I personally think of Lava as too specific and therefore risky (weaving in a lava motif for Past!Entei seems hard to me). I actually just think that both Burning and Blazing are too good to pass up.
Boulder has just felt...perfect to me. Rides the 12-character limit in combination with "Iron ", but I've never thought of Cobalion as being crowned, so both Crown and Leaves actually seem overly specific to me. It's also tough to see the boulder in Terrakion, or at least it's at least as hard as finding the leaf on Virizion's neck.
Cobalion isn't "crowned", the crown in Iron Crown refers to the whiplike appendages it has on it's head that resemble horns (both leaves and crown have the thing their name is based on hidden by default and only materializes when attacking (which boulder doesn't really work with)), you might have misunderstood me (understandable, reading that section again i realize that it's easy to misunderstand what pokemon I'm referring to)
The name is not based on the traits of the "base" pokemon, it's based on the traits of the paradox "version" and only the paradox "version"
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It’s theorized by Lockstin and Goggnin it’ll be a Parasaurolophus
Iron Cliff
Burning Caldera
Breaks the 12-character limit
That’s kind of the tricky thing about ancient Paradox names; the first word is meant to characterize the second word, but it also needs to be short enough for there to actually be a second word. The future Paradoxes have it much easier by comparison.
Particularly with the Paradox beast trio, I feel like the first word also has less to do with their element and more to do with their behavior. Walking, Raging… those aren’t inherently linked to water and lightning, so Paradox Entei’s needn’t necessarily be something related to fire like Blazing / Scorching / Searing / Burning, although it certainly could still be something like that since fire-themed words are often used to evoke intense emotion that fuels angry or violent behavior. (Well, Scorching is probably ruled out regardless, as that’s bound to use up too many characters.)
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Noble Pyre? Entei's more lionized (both physically and in demeanor) than the other beasts.
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