POKEYMANS thread

Shrapnel · Post by **Shrapnel** » Sat May 10, 2014 9:17 pm

Darth Rabbitt wrote:
AndreiChekov wrote:TL;DR Heartgold had best interface was the best Pokemon game.
Fixed that for you.

SoulSilver, too!

Koumei · Post by **Koumei** » Mon May 12, 2014 1:03 am

Oh man! They're reviving my least favourite* pokemon games! And I've already given all of my fucks for the month, there is not a single one left.

*Not including Black and White, obviously.

Koumei · Post by **Koumei** » Mon Jul 14, 2014 2:11 pm

Pokemon Shaming is a thing now

Prak · Post by **Prak** » Mon Jul 14, 2014 7:35 pm

Some of the better ones:

Shrapnel · Post by **Shrapnel** » Mon Jul 14, 2014 7:57 pm

Ah, if only I could draw... I definitely have a few that I would put up.

Koumei · Post by **Koumei** » Tue Jul 15, 2014 3:31 am

What did you have in mind, Shrapnel? I could scribble them up, perhaps.

Shrapnel · Post by **Shrapnel** » Tue Jul 15, 2014 2:23 pm

Well, here's some that I came up just now:

- Black Fog: I used Dream Eater to kill people and Pokemon by stealing their souls. Then I exploded to prevent Ash from catching me. No regrets!

- Regice: I froze my Trainer and his family solid just by being near them.

- Regigigas: I accidentally crushed my Trainer.

- Jellicent: I dragged the Royal Unova down to the bottom of the sea and ate all the crew.

- Ghost: I scare the bejeezus out of people.

- MissingNo.: I completely ruined my Trainer's save data.

- Elecmon: I painted myself yellow and tried to pass myself off as a Pikachu...

Koumei · Post by **Koumei** » Mon Jul 21, 2014 1:24 am

Okay, definitely going to attempt MissingNo. I'll also give Jelly and Gigas a shot. No promises, I'm not that great at reproducing existing things.

Anyway, pictures have been shown of shit to expect. So I herd u like mudki-MEGA MARSHTOMP. It looks pretty cool. We've already seen Mega-Blaze. Mega-Sceptile has a drill for a tail, looks kinda' like Dragonzord from the Power Rangers. And Diancee has two Mega-Evos.

More importantly, there's Pop Star Pikachu, Rock Star Pikachu... and PIKACHU LIBRE!

Darth Rabbitt · Post by **Darth Rabbitt** » Mon Jul 21, 2014 2:16 am

More Pokemon shaming:

Shrapnel · Post by **Shrapnel** » Tue Jul 22, 2014 3:28 pm

Koumei wrote:Okay, definitely going to attempt MissingNo. I'll also give Jelly and Gigas a shot. No promises, I'm not that great at reproducing existing things.

Heh. Neither am I, but I've tried drawing Pokemon before, and the end result looked like it was done by Rory Hayes.

I figure that you might be able to a much better job than I.

More importantly, there's Pop Star Pikachu, Rock Star Pikachu... and PIKACHU LIBRE!

That, indeed, was THE most awesome thing they've revealed so far about OR/AS.

Maxus · Post by **Maxus** » Tue Jul 22, 2014 5:29 pm

http://www.creativeuncut.com/gallery-28 ... libre.html

Koumei · Post by **Koumei** » Wed Jul 30, 2014 2:00 am

So I was discussing gym leaders with some people, and I'm wondering: what are crystals more aligned with? My first name is Krystal, because my dad liked fantasy literature and apparently I was supposed to be a stripper or something.

If Pokémon was actually scientific, it'd be Rock type, which would be a shame, because Rock type sucks, the gym is always one of the first few just to punish everyone for choosing the awesome Fire starter. But it really sounds like it'd be either an Ice thing (which is nice - a very weak defensive type, but there are some pretty Ice type pokemon and it's a good offensive type) or possibly Fairy if they're aligned with pretty shiny sparkly things (and Fairy is of course an awesome type).

What are the opinions?

Also, does anyone else here have a name that is obviously pointing towards them being a thematic Gym leader?

Prak · Post by **Prak** » Wed Jul 30, 2014 2:41 am

Could also be psychic, because new agers love their crystals.

My given name is Brencis, which is a latvian variation of Lawrence, which means "crowned with laurel," so I suppose I could be a plant type gym leader. On the other hand, my go by name is Korbl, which is short for Korbinian, and is a supposedly german name (by way of french, I guess) which means Raven. So dark or ghost type there, I suppose.

Maybe I'm just a grass type leader who uses shit like Shiftry, Cacturne, Trevenant and Gourgeist.

Or I'm a dark type leader who uses mur/honchkrows and yveltal.

Maxus · Post by **Maxus** » Wed Jul 30, 2014 3:34 am

Crystals would be Rock/Psychic, probably. Because New Age.

Although let's see....

Rock is good against Flying (really the big one there), Ice, Bug, Fire

And weak to Fighting, Water, Grass, Steel, and Ground.

That's not toooo bad a setup. Lots of offensive goodies, lots of weaknesses.

My name means 'Defender of the People'. I guess could make a case for Steel there. Something.

Shrapnel · Post by **Shrapnel** » Wed Jul 30, 2014 12:33 pm

Well, going off of Carbink, I'd say that you'd probably be a Rock/Fairy type gym.

Darth Rabbitt · Post by **Darth Rabbitt** » Wed Jul 30, 2014 2:26 pm

Wouldn't Koumei be a player character if her name is Krystal?

My name means "godlike" which indicates I'd be the leader of the criminal organization of the day. (If I'm really cool, I do get a Gym like Giovanni does. But I lack his Mentos-Level Coolness.) Which means I probably have a lineup loosely pertaining to my Team's portfolio (possibly very loosely), with at least a Dark pokemon or two thrown in. Because ever since there's been a Dark type, the BBEG has had at least one Dark Pokemon on their team. I might get to control the version legendary as well. It's very likely that I have either a Honchkrow (sp?), Gyarados, or Golbat/Crobat (possibly 2, and maybe even all 3, because seriously, fucking every villain has at least one of those on their team except Ghetsis. And fuck Ghetsis. Cyrus has all 3, and I think the dude from X/Y has both Honchkrow and Gyarados.)

The real trick is coming up with a name and portfolio for my team, and that builds the remaining 1/2-1/3 of my lineup. I think I'm calling my team Team Vortex and my portfolio is just using non-legendary Pokemon who do fucking insanely metal things according to their Pokedex entries (like generate black holes, or steal people's souls, or just laugh in the face of known physics) to take people's shit for the lawlz, and possibly world domination if I get bored. My other dudes are probably Ghosts, because they are generally the most metal Pokemon.

Koumei · Post by **Koumei** » Wed Jul 30, 2014 3:08 pm

You just seek out all the Mega-Stones and feed them to Mawile.

"Hahaha! Billions of pokedollars, chomped away!"

Prak · Post by **Prak** » Wed Jul 30, 2014 3:14 pm

assuming your name is Michael (the only name I know of which means something close to "god-like," though a baby naming site tells me Deo and Ram are also possibilities), given that it is an angelic name, I could see a fairy team (seeing as that's the closest pokemon has to "Light" or "Angel" pokemon). If you go instead with the warrior part of Michael, that gives you steel and/or fighting types.

Of course this interpretation can still work for a villain org, too, since Japan's relationship with christianity is hilariously very similar to America's relationship with Buddhism and Shinto, ie, "that really weird religion from over there that we trot out when we need weird religious stuff." So your org might be something like Team Galactic, except instead of trying to control Arceus, you're crusading in Arceus' name. Which is just crazy enough to be a respectable Pokemonland villain motivation. In this case, you probably use fighting types, and possibly a lot of steel type moves. The game might even have new fighting/steel types specifically for you to use, because that's a surprisingly under-utilized type pairing.

Darth Rabbitt · Post by **Darth Rabbitt** » Wed Jul 30, 2014 3:51 pm

Electricity could also work for God-styled Pokemon, because of Yahweh and Zeus' love of smiting fools from the sky, and of course there's Thor. Or Flying, because of the heavens.

But the last time Pokemon did Crusaders, we got Team Plasma. Now Team Plasma would have been much better if they were actual Knights Templar (with worship of Pokemon instead of the Abrahamic faiths) instead of strawmen for an issue that had been dropped outside of the occasional joke among fans (strawmen for a fictional issue is ridiculous, and not in an amusing way), but still I'd rather eat a Toxic Orb than adopt imagery uncomfortably close to Black/White (seriously, fuck that game.)

So I guess I'm a Gym Leader, then. I think I'll go by Darth and be a Dark-type dude. Or if that's too close to Prak's portfolio I'll go back to heading Team Vortex, because Darth is a totally respectable name for a BBEG, and more importantly we totally need another villainous team that doesn't use the version legendaries. As it is Team Rocket is the only one that doesn't do that.

So are we going to compile a list of Denizen Gym Leaders? I'm totally game for that.

Maxus · Post by **Maxus** » Wed Jul 30, 2014 4:12 pm

If we're doing this, I suppose could justify mine into Fighting types. Unless anyone has any better suggestion for 'Alex'.

Prak · Post by **Prak** » Wed Jul 30, 2014 4:28 pm

There's a tumblr that's creating a region by committee. We could do the same for our own disparate purposes.

Shrapnel · Post by **Shrapnel** » Wed Jul 30, 2014 4:50 pm

Not all Gym Leader's names are related to their theme or type of choice. To name a few:

Sabrina/Psychic, Chuck/Fighting, Jasmine/Steel, Clair/Dragon, Tate & Liza/Psychic, Maylene/Fighting, Roxie/Poison, Marlon/Water, all the Gym Leaders in Gen VI.

@Prak: I'd TOTALLY be up for designing a region.

Maxus · Post by **Maxus** » Wed Jul 30, 2014 5:09 pm

What's the theme for names? Fruit? Candy? Geologic features? Prominent weather? Metals?

"Calcium Town!" (renowned for its fossils)

Actually, why isn't there a Fossil-pokemon themed gym leader?

And the final gym can be in "Plutonium City".

KERBOOM.

Avoraciopoctules · Post by **Avoraciopoctules** » Wed Jul 30, 2014 5:50 pm

My name is basically Irish for Rock. But I'm also named after a crater on the Moon and at least one major storm, so I think I could make a decent bid for surprising gym visitors with a roster half-filled with Voltorbs. Surprise explosions are the best kind.

Prak · Post by **Prak** » Wed Jul 30, 2014 6:17 pm

No no, you chuck voltorbs onto the field at random.

The tumblr (omnisregion.tumblr.com) basically had a giant list of stuff to determine for the region and used voting.

...it'd be obnoxious on the forum (since each poll would need to be a different thread, or need to be edits of the same thread, maybe), so I could look at setting up a tumblr for any Denizens who want to design a region.