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Pokemon Discussion Thread - Red & Blue arc

Woah, sounds crazy! Source, please?

& here I thought Brendan/Pillar falling down Sky Pillar's huge floors -on bike or not- was wild.

Also, shoutouts to G/S/C Chuck chucking a boulder so hard it shatters. Why did HG/SS do him so dirty by just making him sit under a waterfall?!
The episode A Trip Down Memory Train!.
 
Can someone gimme a quick tl;dr on how Pokémon canon works on this site? I plan on contributing to the verse now (mainly the manga but I may also work on the anime and some of the games as well)
I see a new face here! I'm the main profile maker for the Pokemon verse, having 39 profiles (and more uncredited) under my belt. We'd love to have you here, and if you have any questions you can ask me directly.
 
This is not always true in the anime, they might even be more consistently regular humans (or street level)
Yeah, the anime treats May as fairly fragile compared to Ash, Brick and Misty, for example.
I somewhat recall moments early on in Journeys where Goh was less physically capable compared to Ash. I haven’t touched the anime in years though.
 
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Thanks, I guess I'll get to asking some questions then

1. Do fully evolved Pokémon scale to 7-A off Tyranitar's Pokedex entry or 6-C scaling to Abamasnow?

2. There are some instances where trainers in the manga are seemingly able to bypass immunities; Red's Pikachu has been shown twice to be capable of harming ground-type Pokémon like Brock's Onix and a Team Rocket grunt's Rhydon with its electric-type attacks; Victreebel could also poison a Nidoking despite its poison typing. Would these showings grant these Pokémon resistance negation (Pikachu with its electric-type attacks and Victreebel with its poison-type moves) or would we dismiss this as just P.I.S.?

3. What do you think would be the best way to separate red's keys? At first, I thought it was gym badges, but now I'm thinking it might be through cities or maybe chapters? I'd like to hear your thoughts on this.
 
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It only exists for a single lightningbolt I assume. So I don't know if we would consider it an actual powerful storm cloud.
 
It only exists for a single lightningbolt I assume. So I don't know if we would consider it an actual powerful storm cloud.
The thunderclouds were already present just prior to this. What pikachu did (at least based on what I could tell) was either move them or make more

either way I think it's possible to calculate this feat somewhat high

Edit: actually considering the fact that the context is red using these clouds in some way to hit spearow pikachu is more than likely moving them rather than just making it's own
 
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Thunder has been shown pulling clouds from out of view as well as just making them appear out of nowhere so I think it could be creating clouds to pull together.
 
1. Do fully evolved Pokémon scale to 7-A off Tyranitar's Pokedex entry or 6-C scaling to Abamasnow?
6-C officially, but we have a LOT more High 7-A calcs than the Abomasnow one, so many people feel safer scaling to them instead.
2. There are some instances where trainers in the manga are seemingly able to bypass immunities; Red's Pikachu has been shown twice to be capable of harming ground-type Pokémon like Brock's Onix and a Team Rocket grunt's Rhydon with its electric-type attacks; Victreebel could also poison a Nidoking despite its poison typing. Would these showings grant these Pokémon resistance negation (Pikachu with its electric-type attacks and Victreebel with its poison-type moves) or would we dismiss this as just P.I.S.?
Pokemon immunities are frequently bypassed by attacks that are just... that strong. It happened a lot in the anime and even in the stage play where MechaMew2 somehow oneshotted a Venusaur with PoisonPowder.
3. What do you think would be the best way to separate red's keys? At first, I thought it was gym badges, but now I'm thinking it might be through cities or maybe chapters? I'd like to hear your thoughts on this.
Pretty much any time he's displayed to be visibly much stronger than his previous Key. In Pokemon this is often done after considerable amounts of training.
 
6-C officially, but we have a LOT more High 7-A calcs than the Abomasnow one, so many people feel safer scaling to them instead.

Pokemon immunities are frequently bypassed by attacks that are just... that strong. It happened a lot in the anime and even in the stage play where MechaMew2 somehow oneshotted a Venusaur with PoisonPowder.
Huh, I thought that only happened with resistances (That makes sense though considering the fact that reds pikachu one shots brocks onix in the same scan)
Pretty much any time he's displayed to be visibly much stronger than his previous Key. In Pokemon this is often done after considerable amounts of training.
I think I'm on the right track then (thanks for the clarification though)
 
I mean in regards to Abomasnow getting its tiering just for creating a hail storm naturally...i dont really think that translates to its AP since its literally just a status move.
 
Though I would assume the hailstorm comes from Abomasnow’s Snow Warning ability rather than it using Hail (unless it was specified it comes from the move). Idk if that changes the point, but still.
 
If it's Abomasnow's passive ability that implies two things. First, it tells us that Abomasnow canonically has that ability since it is directly tied to it rather than just being a move it can learn, and second it tells us that it causes the effect pretty much passively, same as Groudon and Kyogre. This does help it to scale to Abomasnow's ice power.
 
Whats even the space of the hailstorm that gets Abomasnow to that level? Was it the 8th Gym ice city from Pokemon XY?

Cause like...there are multiple Abomasnow in that area that could all be accumulating to that level. Either way i see no reason to scale it to its physicals, especially if its the only case of its kind. I would say the Abomasnow that gets the focus in the story at the time by Team Flare is likely a special case too even then (its where you get the Abomasite and theres a whole story arc with it and a Mammoswine that suggests its somewhat the protector of the area?)
 
ZA DLC Pokedex statements are kinda crazy

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That's a lot of volts
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Clonejutsu is pretty cool
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One strong birb
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Space Manipulation is neat
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THAT'S HOT. VERY VERY HOT.
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Unsure if dex is impressive, but if I'm not mistaken, he created Hyperspace Lumiose (or at least created part of it) in the story, and should scale to it, which is a hyperspatial dimension (it's literally in the name)
 
That Heatran dex entry could benefit from a look into the Japanese raw of it. It says 1.8 M degrees Fahrenheit, but Japan uses Celsius.
 
Im so torn about
Mega Golisopods
design

It looks fine, its not bad in any sense, but the direction is confusing and theres so much better you could do with it
 
1.8 million degrees Fahrenheit is just about 1 million degress Celcius.
Okay, but we know the translation isn't a 1-1 otherwise it wouldn't say Fahrenheit. Maybe they adapted the temperature accurately, maybe they just lazily changed Celsius to Fahrenheit without changing the numbers, and maybe the number is completely inaccurate or didn't even exist in the Japanese raw.
 
Okay, but we know the translation isn't a 1-1 otherwise it wouldn't say Fahrenheit. Maybe they adapted the temperature accurately, maybe they just lazily changed Celsius to Fahrenheit without changing the numbers, and maybe the number is completely inaccurate or didn't even exist in the Japanese raw.
Where would we find the raw 😭
 
If it's too hard to get, the third option where the temperature isn't mentioned at all is unlikely, so using the English version might be a fairly safe bet. I was just wondering about accuracy given Japan doesn't use Fahrenheit, nor do the vast majority of countries.
 
Okay, but we know the translation isn't a 1-1 otherwise it wouldn't say Fahrenheit. Maybe they adapted the temperature accurately, maybe they just lazily changed Celsius to Fahrenheit without changing the numbers, and maybe the number is completely inaccurate or didn't even exist in the Japanese raw.
Pokemon is actually really diligent about converting Celcius to Fahrenheit.
 
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