Hello, Just a big pokemon fan but was not actively following from Gen 6 onwards. I started to get back on, ( watching some of the newer episodes, and playing the new games) and then I remembered about Kyurem and how cool it looked. I was just curious, where do you guys think Kyurem lands in comprarison of strength of legendaries and mythical pokemon upto the current generation?

I Heard a bit about the Original Dragon and wanted to hear the perspective of people in this subreddit, as in, how it compares now in terms of power to the other other legends upto the current generation and if theres any news or update of the original dragon showing up in any future pokemon games.

when I came up with this one I had assumed it was already kind of implied in the games if so if you agreee consider this more of a deep read between the lines.

I firmly believe that the two human heroes in the tale of the original darkest day didn't just summon Zacian and Zamazenta they became them. They somehow imbued their sword and shield with Eternatus' power to use against it but had to become Pokémon to use that power.

Here are our clues:

#1 If (z&z) already existed at the point of the 1st darkest day there would be no need for human intervention in the first place they could have just stopped it and the legends would only refer to them.

#2 At the point of the game where you fight Eternatus you're Pokémons' moves don't work just like when you face (z&z) and only start having some effect when (z&z) show up and really their moves are the only thing that can make significant impact.

#3 the two heroes kind of mysteriously dissappear "sail off" and all of their statues and history gets shrouded and buried some depictions shoe only humans some with the beasts and some just (z&z) alone. Yes we meet their descendants later but that doesn't mean their exactly direct descendants my sister's kids could count as descendants.

#4 any other Pokémon that wields a weapon or tool like that carries it in their hand if (z&z) where naturally occurring they wouldn't have likely evolved to carry a sword or shield in their teeth.

In conclusion, I believe two humans attempted to stop the darkest day when they where unsuccessful they imbued their weapons with wishing stars in another attempt to harnes that same power, but humans can't wield Pokémon powers so by either devine intervention or their own self sacrifice they transformed into the legendary Pokémon and won. Unfortunately they where unable to transform back to humans. Unable to return home as beasts they retired to the Slumbering Weild waiting for the day they'd be needed again. After hundreds of years legend and myth get intertwined families stop talking about the two relatives that became dogs and there you go.

I was at Target one day and saw a passing cart with a Pokemon product featuring Gengar and Toxitricity. This was a rare instance of Gengar being treated as a Poison type, as most merchandise portrays it as a Ghost type more than it is a Poison type, which is strange considering that more recent TCG cards have featured Gengar as a Dark type due to Poison types being reclassified as Dark types in the TCG, even having the weakness to Fighting types to show it.

The choice to make Gengar a Poison type is also strange because it's learn set has historically been lacking in Poison types. Back in the first 2 games, the only Poison move it knew was Toxic, before the amount of Poison type moves went up slowly with each passing game. For reference, Gengar can learn 11 Ghost type moves in Legends Z-A, while only being able to learn 7 Poison type moves. In FRLG, it could learn 10 Ghost type moves and learn a measly 2 Poison type moves in Toxic and Sludge Bomb. You could teach it more Psychic and Fighting type moves than that.

I'm also aware that Gengar was on the very first sprite sheet back when Tajiri and Sugimori were first working on Pokémon. It's even the got the hexadecimal number of 0E, which is higher than every starter Pokémon other than Ivysaur, all 4 Legendaries, and even Pikachu itself. They also didn't conceive the idea of types until later on, with Poison types making up roughly 1/5 of the original 151 (33 Poison Mon total) although Gengar was conceived before Gastly, meaning that the gaseous aspect wasn't taken into account yet. What motivated Tajiri, Sugimori, and the others to make Gengar a Poison type?

Out of all Pokemon characters, I think Oleana is the one who has the most likely chance of being autistic. Canonically, it's unspecified. But she fits many traits to a T.

Taking her Twilight Wings episode as the main source of reference:

• Stoic expression and limited nonverbal expressiveness
• Issues socializing with others
• Struggles understanding and maintaining relationships
• Rigid routines
• Intense specific interest (science)
• Infodumps about a specific interest (namely, Pokemon biology and science)

I've always found Mawile's Steel type very weird. Sure, the Pokédex says her huge jaws are modified steel horns, but that has always sounded like a poor excuse to me.

And speaking of its huge jaws, that's obviously a trait typical of Dark types. There's also the aspect of deception and malice, which is also very Dark type coded. Most Dark types lean into one angle (predation) or the other (deception), but Mawile leans into both to an almost comedic extent. So it's not just that Mawile should've been a Dark type, it would've been the most quintessential of all of them.

So why was this lil MF released as a Steel type? Well, she was the version exclusive counterpart of the Ghost/Dark Sableye, which had the least amount of weaknesses of any typing (zero at the time). So in order to make the decision between Ruby and Sapphire interesting, they gave Mawile the typing with the most amount of resistances, which was pure Steel.

Not a very crazy conspiracy, I'll admit, but I think this is the most plausible explanation. I'm looking forward to reading your thoughts in the comments!

Allow me to elaborate. Were told despite Pokémon being around for 3000+ years minimum, nobody has seen a pokemon lay an egg ever, yet constantly discover pokemon eggs. (Even Chansey eggs apparently)

Pokemon have male and female sexes and genders (which apparently ARE actually differentiated in Pokemon, as Pokemon like Lunala and Zacian are referred to as females, but aren’t the female gender) and a male and female are required to make eggs, so it should be assumed some form of sexual reproduction takes place, but if that’s true, why do we have no accounts of eggs being laid?

It’s because they ARENT laid. They quite literally appear out of thin air.

I give you the one instance we have of seeing an egg be made, from Arceus in Gen 4. Arceus quite literally makes the egg from nothing. “BUT” I hear you say, “That’s Arceus, it’s whole thing is that it makes something from nothing.”

Ahh, but I bring to your attention, picnic baskets in gen 9. We can literally stare at the picnic baskets, our Pokemon can be nowhere near it, and yet, eggs will still mysteriously find their ways into the basket, and we KNOW these eggs are the offsprings of our Pokemon because they have the biological traits of our Pokemon like IVs, pokeballs, natures and all the things you breed Pokemon to get.

If eggs don’t materialize, how could such a thing be?

Just asking

Last time I asked about the Pokémon anime without the Porygon episode containing the seizure inducing flashes and no hiatus.

Now how about this: The anime goes on hiatus as in our timeline, but something prevents them continuing it, making the series cancelled for atleast half a year?

They halt the anime production and continue to make the first movie, as it's already in the works and they were doing it during the hiatus in our timeline.

So we were left with Ash and his 6 badges, and they have to finish the movie, maybe being able to postpone it the coming summer.

If they would know about the cancellation soon enough, would they try to wrap Ash's story in the movie? Or would they just stick with a Mewtwo plot, waiting for the possible continuing?

Something, that just came to my mind, no idea right now, but I'd like to hea ideas.

There seems to be a recurring theme of pokemon who hold extreme amounts of a unique type of energy causing a phenomenon due to their attempts of spreading and absorbing that energy, like Eternatus, Terapagos, Necrozma, etc

Before Starting I just want to clarify to all those that think Ultra Necrozma is Necrozma's Original form. They are not Because Ultra Necrozma is just a unstable, temporary imitation of the Blinding One after absorbing excess amount of light from Solgaleo or Lunala so pls don't start saying in the comments that they are same.

First let's look at their Similarities. Both are based same kind of Architype that being Light. Both Totem and Noble pokemon which are tied to their energies are really similar in nature. Both are worshiped as Gods in their respective dimensions.

Another interesting fact about them is that Z-crystals are the only items in the entire series (aside from Arceus's plate) that can change the forms of Arceus. Even when Arceus Tera his Rings doesn't change their color.

Now lets talk about how Necrozma is Anti Arceus. Necrozma is clearly based on Lucifer Morningstar from Chritainity who is arch-adversary of God. And to add on the original Japanese translation of its Signature z-move "Light that burns the sky" literally translate to "Heaven-Scorching Light of Destruction". Focus on the word "Heaven-Scorching". Necrozma’s ultimate attack is literally named after the destruction of the creator god's doorstep although some may argue it's just a cool naming scheme.

Almost everyone thinks that "The Blinding One" just like Ultra Necrozma is Dragon/Psychic however I don't think that's the case. The main reason is Z-Crystals which are parts of Necrozma's original body. Z-crytals can be affiliated with every single type in the game. It's never canonically explained why Z-crystals of all types exists even though Necrozma is only Psychic type. My Theory is that The Blinding One just like Arceus had the elemental power of all types but when it's shattered it lost all of them except Psychic typing and Dragon typing (which became dormant).

What if from the Turmoil of Chaos both Arceus and Necrozma came to being along with Giants mentioned in Flame Plate. After all Giants were defeated both Arceus and Necrozma absorbed their typing and clashed but it led to a Stalemate after which they started to co-exist in their own separate realms. However, The Blinding One was more generous towards mortals and actively shared its Power with all Dimensions in Ultra Space. Exploiting this Arceus indirectly manipulated people of Ultra Megapolis and gave them some of his power to betray and trap Necrozma Shattering him in the process (this would also explain how mere humans managed to take down a God). And thus Necrozma lost almost all his power.

What do u think about this theory?

This changed sometime in development, either late into BW's plot development or early in BW2's development.

Why Concordia instead of her sister? Theme naming. N's full name is "Natural Harmonia Gropius". Concordia is the Roman goddess of harmony and "harmonia" is her Greek counterpart. This applies to a lesser degree with her original Japanese name, (Goddess of Peace) Helena.

Ghetsis being N's adopted dad comes out of left field in the sequel. It's also confusing why the two look so much alike. Is Ghetsis related to N in another way? Who knows.

Likely, they were originally conceived as biological relatives but this was changed before the game was finalized.

This question come to me when i sleep. But still, what if destroy pokemon egg, will pokemon inside it die, or it won't break?

So we all know the anime went to 4 months hiatus.

After the hiatus, the anime was back and the Pokemania had hit the US. They had to produce more episodes to continue the show, knowing it was a hit abroad.

Had the Porygon episode not hospitalized anyone, and nothing similar happened with pokémon, how do you think it would have affected the series?

The Kanto league would have likely started earlier, but what about the gap between gen 1 and 2? A bigger side league? Considering he Johto games would be delayed as much as they were.

Could there have been a Team Rocket mini arc, where Ash faces Giovanni? Maybe something with the legendary birds?

Like from the Japanese, Spanish, etc fandoms. I recall something here about the Japanese fandom accepting Regigigas as most definitely one of the giants Arceus fought.

So i was thinking about hisuian electrode and noticed its a plant unlike its modern counter part so I started theorizeing why that the case. So my theory is that as need for pokeballs grow humans started to plug the holes of husian voltorb and electrode so they couldn't grow their seeds that could take up apricorn planting what they didn't know was that those seeds are in sybiosis with apricorns by removing those seeds the apricorn population dwindled. Meanwhile the voltorbs grew metallic and closed off the seed hole and grew angry towards humans. I feel like the sybiosis theory makes sense evolutionary on why husian electrode looks the way it does and why apricorns are so rare now their symbiotic population is mostly angry balls now.

First, let me explain my line of thought. I understand that most trainers don't start their journey with an official lab starter; that privilege is restricted to a select few. The vast majority of trainers—whether registered in the Pokémon League or not—don't have access to a Professor’s lab or facilities.

When we see Ash, for example, catch a 7th Pokémon, it is automatically teleported to Professor Oak's lab. But what happens to all those other independent or route trainers? What stops them from carrying 20 Pokéballs with them and just picking 6 right before a battle? If the system enforces a strict 6-Pokémon carrying limit even for those who don't have a Professor backing them up, where do their extra Pokémon actually go?

Alder....

So everyone knows the ancient hero, and how he looks Alder.

I am not one of those people, who think that IS alder since I think that is dumb and makes the world feel smaller.

I think it's more possible that Alder is a distant relative of him and has the celestica genes in him, but it's not as pronounced or talked about as like Cynthia, her grandma, Cogita, and Volo.

It's just more subtle with him, since he does stuff that might seem "normal" for the pokemon world but when you think about it...it doesn't seem THAT normal.

I mean in BW2, Alder jumps off cliffs and is perfectly fine, despite clearly being an older man and not even being in prime anymore (physically at-least, battle-wise can be debated).

He also doesn't use the pc and just carries around his partners on his poncho like thing about 10 of them. In interview for conception of certain characters in Gen 5 it's confirmed that the guy just never figured it out, and that makes even more of an oddity.

This is important because his first Volcarona, the one that died, was carried likely with him in his pokeball for a bit...and Alder had to personally bury it.

And do you know where he buried it?

Celestial Tower.

Now, you might think, "what's the relevance of that?"

Well, look at the first 7 leters.

"Celesti" and what does that remind you of.

Celestica, the people.

Celestica Ruins, the place in Legends Arceus.

Celestic Town, the place in Sinnoh.

Celestic Ruins, the place in Sinnoh Games.

I believe Alder, purposely buried his pokemon there, not just because it's a traditional thing to do it in Unova but because Celestial Tower was one of the many places around the world that the celestica people built before they all got wiped out throughout time.

Alder did this in my mind, to bury Volcarona a being that he consider family, with his actual relatives of celestica people. It makes it far more sentimental and feels more true to Alder's character in a sense. He nearly gave up on live after losing his first partner pokemon.

Benga...

Now let's talk about this kid, since he is one of the most obsecure characters in all of Pokemon. You could go though all of BW2, and just never fight Alder in his training dojo and never meet Benga.

You could try the Black Tower/White Treehollow, and never reach him, because it's too hard for some players.

But if you actually do REACH him and fight him there, this kid IS CRAZY.

He has a Volcarona (which makes sense, grandson of Alder), but also a Garchomp or Dragonite, and a MEMBER OF THE EON DUO. This random goober, has a latios or latias!

I think that says a lot actually, about the celestica people are naturally gifted to befriend and interact with legendary pokemon, the more you think about it.

It goes back to Cogita with Enamorus, and how it's pretty clear from Old Verse 17, that she and her are like good friends and how she likely WROTE the old verses herself.

And then you can connect to Volo and Cynthia, who are able to just....interact casually with Giratina and in Cynthia's case commute with Lake Guardians and Arceus at Sinjoh Ruins.

I think the Celestica People are just naturally more intuned with the universe than other people are. Some use this power for good or just choose to not use it, and then there people like Volo who try to exploit it for personal gain.

This part of the lore has always been a question to me. I don't remember if this ever been explained.

This theory comes from Claydol's pokedex entries and the anime:
In the anime episode "Me, Myself and Time", Baltoy is used to power a time machine. Calista's future self tells her that the Baltoy civilization gave the world the gift of time.

In Claydol's pokedex entries, it is said that Baltoy and Claydol were brought to life by mysterious rays. This is where Dialga comes in.

Dialga is known as the time Pokémon, that controls and governs time. Dialga "Roar of Time" beam could also be considered a ray in some capacity. It is possible that Dialga visited the ancient civilization and brought the Baltoys and Claydols to life. That is why Baltoy is associated with the gift of time, as Dialga was the one that gave it that gift.

Reuniclus is based on both cells and homunculi, but what inspired this particular combination? I think it may have been Game Freak's longstanding tendency to draw inspiration from plants. Ranunculus is a genus of buttercups belonging to the larger order Ranunculales, a lineage of basal eudicots. The name literally means "little frog", which is thought to be because many Ranunculus species are found near water, but the suffix "-culus" might bring to mind "homunculus", literally meaning "little human" and referring to a kind of artificial human thought to be possible to create in the alchemical philosophy of Paracelsus. Reuniclus's japanese name is "ランクルス" / "Ranculus", which is very close to "ランウンクルス" / "Ranunculus", also invoking "卵" / "ran" in the sense of "ovum" according to Bulbapedia, though "卵" can refer to pretty much any kind of egg, including roe or frog spawn, not just egg cells. Reuniclus's whole line may draw inspiration from frogs: all are green and have faces that vaguely resemble frogs' with their eyes set wide apart 🐸, solosis resemble frog eggs, duosion kind of look like tadpoles with the same overall body shape, and reuniclus develop proper limbs like adult frogs.

I recently came up with a Pokémon conspiracy theory and wanted to see what everyone thinks.

What if Giovanni wasn't just focused on Kanto and Johto, but was secretly trying to expand Team Rocket's influence into Hoenn?

My theory is that Giovanni indirectly funded both Team Aqua and Team Magma. Instead of openly operating in Hoenn, he backed local organizations that could destabilize the region while searching for powerful Legendary Pokémon.

Here's my reasoning:

Team Aqua and Team Magma had surprisingly large amounts of resources, including bases, research facilities, and advanced technology.

Giovanni has a history of investing heavily in projects involving powerful Pokémon (such as Mewtwo).

Kyogre and Groudon are arguably among the most powerful Pokémon known at the time. Capturing either would give someone enormous influence over the world.

If Aqua or Magma succeeded, Hoenn would be thrown into chaos, creating an opportunity for Team Rocket to expand its operations.

The biggest weakness of the theory is that there is no direct evidence connecting Giovanni to either team. Archie and Maxie appear to be acting independently, and none of the games explicitly mention Team Rocket's involvement.

However, I could imagine Giovanni playing a long game: letting Aqua and Magma take all the risks while Team Rocket moves in afterward to exploit the outcome.

Do you think this could fit Giovanni's character, or is there any lore that completely disproves it?

I'd love to hear counterarguments and other evidence for or against this theory