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☆ This user's favorite Pokémon is Magnemite. ☆
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☆ This user's favorite Pokémon is Magneton. ☆
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☆ This user's favorite Pokémon is Magnezone. ☆
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GAMEZ!!
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This user likes to mess with glitches in the Pokémon games.
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When a man and woman love each other very much...
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Introduction
I am an Executive Policymaker of Bulbapedia, a Vice-Webmaster of Bulbagarden, and former Editor-in-Chief of Bulbapedia. I joined on December 9, 2007, worked hard enough to get nominated for a staff position, and clawed my way up from there. That's right, you too can be EiC. All it takes is hard work, dedication, and all those other inspirational things you hear about getting ahead in life. After being EiC for a while, I decided that I wanted to focus on the user experience. My main goal as EiC is to make everything easier to understand and help my fellow user find the page they want as efficiently as possible, and when they get there, I want it to be full of all the juicy info you need organized around some fancy and colorful templates.
I've been a fan since Gen I, but near the end of Gen II, I lost interest. After seeing Beautifly, I figured Game Freak had run out of original ideas, so I skipped Ruby and Sapphire, but the remakes of Gen I brought me back. Thanks to FireRed and LeafGreen, I also invested a little time checking out Gen III Pokémon, and came to the realization, that some of them were actually pretty original. As for Gen IV, well, I wasn't going to jump in, but after a friend of mine did first, I decided, why not? I had to try out the all new Magnezone and get in on that Wi-Fi action. While looking for info to educate myself on what I missed during my Poké-hiatus, I found Bulbapedia. The rest is history.
On December 9, 2012, exactly 5 years after joining Bulbapedia, I decided to step down from my position as Editor-in-Chief. You can read about my decision in this message from the editor. Thanks to all the staff and fans for helping out during my tenure. I'm not leaving though, so don't worry, I'll still be around.
On March 9, 2015, I published my first proper Bulbanews article regarding a retrospective of Ruby and Sapphire as well as Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire. I put a lot of effort into it and got a lot of positive feedback from people. You can check it out right here.
Contact
E-mail - [email protected] | Bulbagarden Forums - MAGNEDETH | Twitter - @MAGNEDETH
To Do list
- Pre-text (ongoing)
- Reform Pokedex pages
- Give the fans what they want!
- Welcome new users
- Lern tu spe9l
Interesting Stuff
Meanwhile, there's a less friendly sub-page sitting way down below...
Nifty
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Excerpts from random conversations. Flawless logic? Or outright stupidity?
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Trom: Well well well. If it isn't MAGNEDETH.
DETH: where? that bastard owes me money
Trom: He's on the other internet. Let me get him for you.
Trom: *smash*
Trom: *pow*
Trom: *crash*
Trom: He is now subdued.
DETH: has gone offline **
Trom: Another victory for the dark lord :D
DETH: has escaped your clutches **
Trom: WHAT? NO!
Trom: IF IT WEREN'T FOR YOU MEDDLING KIDS...
DETH: set your house on fire **
Trom: crap, i'm in my house.
DETH: has come online **
DETH: there we go, i stuck that bastard in a burning house
Trom: you idiot, that was my house
Trom: After all we've been through!
DETH: well what the hell was i doing in your house?
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Trom: That wasn't meant to show up again.
DETH: well then kill it
Trom: Oh, it's coz the window closed itself.
Trom: Or rather, I Ctrl+Wed it.
DETH: wheres the Wednesday button?
Trom: In between Tuesday and Thursday.
Trom: It turns everything a nice shade of green.
Trom: I think Wednesday is a green day.
Trom: (Thursday is orange)
DETH: so if it turned everything green, why did it close the window?
Trom: Because we didn't want the green getting inside.
DETH: Geo?
Trom: Precisely.
DETH: that green bastard
Trom: He gets a lot of places where he's not wanted.
DETH: well, maybe people should stop giving them to him
Trom: We try. It's all take-take-take with Mister Derako.
DETH: hes a crafty green fellow.
DETH: never know what hes up to
DETH: how did we go from an away message to discussing Geo being green and his apparent theivery of anything and everything
Trom: That's how crafty he is.
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DETH: nifty
Maverick Nate: tubular!
DETH: radical!
Mav: Way out!
DETH: far out!
Mav: Extreme!
DETH: excellent!
Mav: Fantastic!
DETH: totally!
Mav: Hi-Larious!
DETH: Reaganomics!
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electAbuzz: You guys have a very strange country, you know?
DETH: very
Buzz: *sigh* Colombus and his silly ideas.
DETH: well, i guess it all started with the crazy Spaniards. and thanks to them with help from the English, theyve created a monster.
Buzz: and yet you'll probably never consider living elsewhere.
DETH: when you get accustomed to it, its hard to leave.
DETH: well, a guess accustomed is the wrong word.
DETH: surely, i could get accustomed to living anywhere, be it England, Japan, Israel, Australia, or even somewhere as disgusting as Canada.
DETH: but when you grow to LIKE where you live, surely, theres no reason to leave.
Buzz: xD what is it with you guys and Canada?
DETH: its a love/hate relationship. we love to hate them.
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DETH: we can dance.
DETH: we can dance.
Glinn: Everything's out of control.
DETH: we can dance.
DETH: we can dance.
Glinn: Doing it from pole to pole.
DETH: we can dance.
DETH: we can dance.
Glinn: Everybody look at your hands.
DETH: we can dance.
DETH: we can dance.
Glinn: Everybody take the chance.
DETH: DAAAAAaaaaannnnnnccccceeeee.
Glinn: Do the Safety Dance.
DETH: all my systems work, whats your excuse?
Glinn: Hammertime.
DETH: good answer
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DETH: i was sort expecting you to smile and give me a Vegemite sandwich
Glinn: I had a slack jaw, not much to say.
DETH: are you trying to tempt me?
Glinn: Because I come from the land of plenty?
DETH: so you come from a land down under?
Glinn: Where woman glow and men plunder (damn convicts!)
DETH: cant you hear? cant you hear the thunder?
Glinn: You better run, you better take cover...
Glinn: Well, let's just say everyone that's annoying never existed, we would never know what annoying people are like, hence not knowing what annoying is.
DETH: would that be a bad thing?
Glinn: We wouldn't know!
DETH: given the fact humans have different personalities, and different variations on "annoying" itd be literally impossible for it to not exist.
Glinn: Is that a good thing?
DETH: we wouldn't know!
Glinn: Exactly.
Glinn: Wait, what?
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...and this my friends, is how we get things done.
...but not like that. (see more at Explosm.net)
Different Nifty
This picture was made by Tina☆♫ . HOWEVER. That doesn't mean you can go bug her to make YOU one...
This picture was made by me!!
....I don't think I need to worry about people bothering me.....
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Teams
My teams follow a simple pattern.
- Starter
- Flyer
- Magnemite
- Surfer
- Earthquake-er
- HM slave/Powerhouse
Certain Pokémon get placed in the same position. However, Flygon on my Sapphire team is a good example of how this isn't always the case. I don't know why or how I started doing things this way, but, it's nice to be organized. It should be noted though that this doesn't mean I'm going to send the same Pokémon out first every time if you battle me online.
Gen I
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Blue
Back in the day when legendaries we're the only way to go and if you didn't have a Mewtwo, you were a nobody. I had an Articuno (named "Icy") which was mostly for Flying, but, also good for beating Lance. Megamite is a Level 100 Magnemite, and the rest are what you'd expect.
Level 255
Thanks to the Missingno. glitch, You can get one hell of a team by trading with friends.
Red
THIS GAME HAS BEEN LOST. I started with Squirtle.
Yellow
I had never played Yellow version before 2010. Namely because I hate Pikachu. Well, a friend was cleaning his place, and found 3(!) copies. I gave away two of them, and decided I might as well beat Yellow. Of course, I had to find a way to ditch Pikachu...so I did, by making him an HM slave and Submission user on any weak Normal-type I came across. I traded a Vulpix in as my new starter. Back in Gen I, before the Special split, some Pokemon were a lot more powerful than after the split. If I was gonna run Gen I, I wanted in on that, so I decided to grab Ninetales and Tentacruel, both of which got really screwed in the Special split (more Ninetales than Cruel). And it shows. Tentacruel is a beast, and Ninetales is totally usable (and huggable). Magneton is standard, although now packing a tank-worthy 120 Sp.Def. I chose Dodrio and Dugtrio for 2 reasons. I don't use them as much as I'd like, but more importantly, in Gen I, Speed is key, and they have it (also, the Gen I Tri Attack animation is AWESOME!).
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Gen II
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Silver
With the introduction of a new generation, we got the opportunity to play with 100 new species of Pokémon. Buuut, I was a naive young boy who still insisted on using legendaries...however, I did move up to a Magneton. Ho-oh had Fly and T-tar was pretty crappy. But he was cool looking.
Gold
This game was lost for the longest time, but I found it as of February 15th. But, sitting under the dresser for a few years hasn't done it any favors. So I restarted it! You wouldn't think restarting and playing an ancient Pokémon game would be fun, but, it seems to have really shown me how good these older games were.
Aerodactyl and Horsea were traded in, and Heracross kinda-sorta has a hacked moveset.
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Sapphire
This is actually the second team, as this game was restarted. The first time around was pretty bad, but I made sure I knew the score this time around. I planned the team ahead of time, and then left a spot open for a Crawdaunt knowing 4 HMs. They all do their jobs quite well, even Walrein, the weakest.
LeafGreen
Like above, there was a second team. This was my first Pokémon game since Silver, three years prior. I knew nothing about natures and EVs, so, it was a mess. Second time around, I had Blastoise, a hacked Scyther with Fly, Magneton, Arcanine, Nidoking, and a Kingler with any HM I didn't want on the main team. Super hacked Scyther bothered me a little, and I wasn't really satisfied with Blastoise or Arcanine either, so I restarted it again!
This is the new team. Would you believe its 100% legit? Well it is! I guess it evens out the hacked Emerald team... This team is great. I could have used Hitmonlee instead of Primeape, but i just used Hitmonlee in SS, so I decided to give Primeape a go. Also, as a sort of boycott, I had never used a Charizard before (granted, his special stat in Gen I was abysmal) so I gave him a go here.
Emerald
A friend of mine has been shipped off to Iraq. Godspeed to him. He gave me his Emerald. This team was used to beat his game and harvest legendaries: Sceptile, Xatu, Magneton, Golduck, Dugtrio, Machamp.
Hoenn sucks in terms of Pokemon choice. I milked it for all it was worth with my Sapphire team, but when I was given an Emerald, I had to quick think of a team to fill it in. Very few of the Gen III Pokemon flow well enough with Swampert to make a good team of them. Granted, that's a giant opinion, but either way, I cheated a little. First, Swampert can't effectively use Water-type attacks, and secondly, there's too damn many Water-type HMs in Gen III, so Ludicolo is used to handle that stuff and Swampert is used as the Grounder. Ninjask is hacked with Fly and Signal Beam (why didn't they give it to him in the first place?), Breloom is used as Fighting only, and Typhlosion was imported because Fire-types don't exist in Hoenn (aside from Blaziken whom i already used).
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TEMP TEAM - Game is slated for restart.
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Gen IV
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Diamond
This is my team for used in the story. Beating gyms, E4, etc. I have rarely used it in battles against anyone. Magnemite and Porygon had to be traded over because they aren't in the Sinnoh Dex. I don't really like any of the Sinnoh starters (Torterra is cool, but, I'd never use him) but I chose Infernape simply because it was useful and fit into the team. However, thanks to that annoying monkey sound, I almost replaced him. Very annoying. Magnezone and Garchomp are used in other teams and Porygon-Z does see occasional online use.
Platinum
Being that I'm not a "third version" sort of person, so, Pt isn't a super by-the-books affair. I don't like any of the of the Gen IV starters outside of Torterra, but, he just didn't fit well into this team. So I chose Piplup because Empoleon is a great HM whore. Vaporeon takes the place as my "starter", Gliscor pulls double duty as the Flyer and Quaker, Zone is Zone, Gallade shows up to kick some ass, and Houndoom gets a spot as a solid Fire-type, because he didn't get enough exposure in any other team I have.
SoulSilver
For the record, HGSS are awesome. Yea, there's some stuff here and there that could be better, or maybe some stuff that was removed from the originals that shouldn't have been removed, but it's still awesome. Started with Totodile, just like my old Silver, and with the Phys/Spec split, he's even more awesome than ever. I wanted to try some "new" guys, so I finally decided to try a Crobat, and surprisingly, training a horrible little Zubat was actually pretty fun, and Crobat is proving very useful. Swinub was quite a challenge, but all in all, Mamoswine is strong enough to make you forget. Hitmonlee is also proving very useful. Meanwhile, Houndoom in Johto? Feels good. Magneton can't evolve? Not a problem.
Titanium Gym
This is my old IPGL gym team. When I left the league, my overall tally for this team is an awesome 65 wins, and only 6 losses. I always lead with a Steel-type, but it changed depending on who I was facing. Now that I'm not battling anymore, I can openly say that both Lucario and Scizor run Swords Dance sets (although, I had alternate sets in my early matches) and when they were on the field, they nearly guaranteed me at least one, probably 2 kills each. Magnezone was a revenge killer, Steel trapper, and generally used for killing anything that was already damaged. It may sound weird, but basically, everyone knew I had Zone, but no one knew when they would see him. And as they pondered this, that's when he would surprise them. Metagross was just brute force. No real strategy on him except an unconventional moveset. Worked awesome. Skarmory and Empoleon rarely proved useful and were rarely used as a result. Our rules allowed 2 non-Steel-types allowed, so I chose Gliscor and Gyarados because they resisted a lot of the types that are strong against Steel. I didn't have much time to give them proper movesets, but they proved confounding enough that even with fairly straightforward attacking sets, they did exactly what I needed them to; cause the opponent to switch.
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Gen V
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Gen V is here! WHAT?! NO MAGNEMITE?! It's true. For the first time since Gen I, I didn't use a Magnemite (before Megamite, I had a Raichu). Galvantula is pretty damn cool though, and with Compoundeyes it throws a mean Thunder. Granted, its a hell of a lot less powerful than Zone, and noticeably more frail. In this gen, I don't really like any of the starters. Game Freak really screwed this all up making Emboar another Fire/Fighting because really, Samurott should absolutely be Water/Fighting. Not to mention Samurott's really stupid stat spread, but regardless, he did a pretty good job. Sigilyph is just plain cool. He looks, sounds, and acts ridiculous, and with Magic Guard, he just doesn't care what you think. Good stat spread and great movepool. Chandelure and Mienshao were Pokemon I wanted pretty bad, but you only get late in the game. Thankfully, Umeko and Jo The Marten respectively traded me a bred Pokemon. Specially bred IV made them both killing machines. Then there's Excadrill. As soon as he was revealed I wanted one, and I searched FOREVER in Wellspring Cave for a good Drilbur. Can't tell you how long it took, but it payed off. By the way, in the interest of learning names, I didn't nickname anything. The nicknames listed are simply names they I called them myself.
White 2
With the unexpected changes brought by B2W2, I finally had myself a Magnemite in Unova! But what about the rest? I insisted on staying with Gen V Pokemon for the rest of the team. Emboar proved to be powerful, but lacking a friendly movepool. Rather aggravating having to gain BP to earn Brick Break just to give him something to use. Archeops had to be traded in (thanks Jo the Marten), but he is a beast. Give it Acrobatics and it will tear teams apart. His defenses are terrible, but he was usually fast enough to OHKO anyway. The moveset changes were kind to Magnemite, giving him Flash Canon, but the TM changes meant Shock Wave was no longer available. Volt Switch is annoying to use in single player. Simipour had to be traded in (thanks again to Jo) because there's no way I'm going to wait for the tiny chance for one to pop-up. She proved to be just fast enough and just strong enough to provide the power I needed. Krookodile is awesome. Defenses were terrible, but he didn't care, he would rock the earth or just eat his opponents. The last spot changed hands a few times, but I eventually settled on Leavanny. I used her for a while, but I didn't want to saddle anyone with Cut and Dive. Basculin initially rounded out as an HM slave and never saw battle, but once I found out that Dive wasn't necessary at all, I brought Leavanny back. She is quite handy for dealing with Water/Ground Pokémon and is classy as hell (while she tears opponents in half).
Black 2 Nuzlocke
After much prodding, I finally got around to doing a Nuzlocke challenge. It went very well. Too well in-fact... I only lost ONE Pokémon (which you can read about in the next section).
Rules used:
- Can only catch the first encounter of every route
- If a Pokémon faints, it is dead and placed in the PC
- Dupes clause (can't catch anything that has already been caught, including evolution family members)
- Shiny clause (any encountered shiny may be caught and used, regardless of area catch)
- No legendaries
- Challenge Mode
The run got off to a rocky start. My first catch was Purrloin, which died in the gym battle against Cheren. After that loss, which was carelessness on my part, I decided to focus more. I must have done a good job because aside from a close call here and there, it was business as usual. The main issues were gym leaders. On challenge mode they have more Pokémon and better tactics. Easily, the biggest challenge was at the very end. The Elite Four each put up their own challenge, but Iris gave me a heart attack with her Haxorus with a damn Focus Sash. It used Dragon Dance which could have been a big problem. Thankfully, Iris (for whatever reason) opted not to heal, so one Aqua Jet and it was all over.
Samurott was solid, but I still don't think it's a very good Pokémon. Crobat was SHINY. Yes, I encountered a shiny Zubat in Castelia Sewers. I used a Zubat in SoulSilver and she was just as solid here. Magnezone was awesome (see below). Magmar was a nice addition that I didn't expect to go all the way, but he did, quite nicely. Sandslash proved to be just powerful enough, and just tanky enough to become a real clutch here and there. Scrafty was a bit of a pain. Very slow and very weak, but mine had Moxie which helped. Not sure I'd use one again though.
- A quick side note: There's a pattern among Nuzlockers of Magnemite failing to make it to the end. I chose to run B2W2 so I could have a good chance at getting an early Magnemite. I did, and it proceeded to essentially be an MVP. Tanking hits, dishing damage, and Thunder Wave support. If you lose a Magnemite during a run, then you are doing something wrong.
Notable members
- Poor Purrloin got smashed by a +2 Tackle from Cheren's Lillipup. I got overzealous and figured Cheren wouldn't be an issue, but after a few Work Ups, Lillipup brought me back to reality.
- Herdier was an early catch that proved very reliable. STAB Normal moves early in the game and solid stats had me thinking I may keep her, but when I got Scrafty, I decided that STAB Fighting-type moves would prove more useful and Herdier was put on the bench.
- As a Sewaddle and Swadloon, Leavanny was an early game tank, surprising as it may sound. But, not only had I already used one in my main W2 run, but it didn't really fit into the team, and I swapped him out for Sandslash.
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Gen VI
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Well, after the disappointment that was Gen V, Gen VI came to life in 3D!! However, what they gave us in fancy graphics and inappropriate Pokémon touching, they forgot to actually give us some Pokémon to play with. Building an all Gen VI team proved nearly impossible with my requirement to have a Ground-type, and there only be TWO....TWO released, one of which was legendary, but I found a way around it. More on that in a moment. Unlike Gen V where all the starters sucked, Gen VI has three great starters (even Grass!). After much hemming and hawing, I chose Froakie. I later regretted it after deciding a liked Delphox more, but Greninja proved to be a worthy team member. Fast and just powerful enough. Next was Hawlucha who was pretty fun, albeit a little underpowered. Heliolisk is a bit of a mess, but it works. Decent stats and Dry Skin is very handy for an Electric-type, but why is it part Normal? Why not part Ground or Rock? Anyway, Pyroar is awesome, if limited in its purpose due to a shallow movepool. Diggersby is one of the ugliest and most useless Pokémon ever created, BUT I nabbed one with Huge Power which makes it a complete beast. Then there's Aegislash whom I think is kinda cool, but gimmicky and a real pain to use. Overall, this team is pretty meh (three Normal-types!) but I had a pretty limited list to work with. Really Game Freak? Only 69 new Pokémon? C'mon...
Alpha Sapphire
Instead of my usual mini-review of the game, I went full on and wrote an actual article on Bulbanews which you can read right here. I got a ton of positive feedback from people. Even those that disagreed with me. I'm really happy with how the review turned out, but a big thing I forgot to mention is the lack of character customization. Masuda says it's because Brendan and May have set designs, but I don't see how at least offering skin, hair, or clothing color changes would have been out of the question. But anyway, the review can be heavily summed up as, the game was disappointing for me. It's a near 1:1 remake with very little changed.
As for my team, I carefully chose this team around a lack of Flying-type, because Hoenn lacks any good ones. It also contained three Pokémon I had never used before. I was curious how it would turn out. Well, it turned out...ok. Not great, but not bad. Blaziken lead the team as awesome as always. I was planning to use a Flygon, so Jo_The_Marten hooked me up with a really well-bred Trapinch. A really great team member. In my recent attempts to use other Electric-types, Manectric was put on the team. He turned out ok and did his job, but Speed aside, couldn't compete with the power and durability of Magnezone. Sharpedo was a gift from SharKing and was the biggest problem member of the team. He was beastly in attack power, but the super low defenses were an issue at times. However, the biggest issue was simply being a Physical Water-type. Rock and Ground-types have high Defenses, and a lot of Fire-types have Flame Body. Sharpedo can be fun to use, and is awesome to Surf on in ORAS, but by no real fault of his own, proved to be a bit of a hassle. I'm really going to lessen my use of Physical Water-types in the future. Next was Gardevoir. After finally evolving from Kirlia, Gardevoir was just a monster, killing most things in one hit. Not much else to say. Gardevoir rocked. Also, Roserade was a beast. I rarely find places for Grass-types on my teams, but I wanted a Poison-type to handle the new Fairy-types in the game, and Roserade was awesome. Fast, powerful, and even able to take some Special Attacks.
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Favorite Pokémon
TRAINER TIPS
As of January 12, 2014, the following section is UNDER CONSTRUCTION!
There is no set date for completion, but you can follow me on Twitter where I will post updates!
Gen I
I actually like a lot of Gen I Pokémon, but I fully admit that it's based heavily on nostalgia. Listed here are my top favorites in order of Pokédex, not what I like most.
Gen II
Similar to Gen I, I like a lot of Gen II Pokémon based on nostalgia, but you can tell that some of the Pokémon inclusions were starting to walk the line between originality and gimmicky.
Gen III
Here we have the first Generation that I had no nostalgia goggles on. While I like far fewer in general, I still like a solid amount overall.
Gen IV
A weird generation that gave us a mix of all new and refreshed classics. There's not as many here that I like in terms of the completely original additions, but the new evolutions gave some much needed help to classics while also complimenting a fair number of the new Pokémon.
Gen V
The first Generation since...the first to include enough new Pokémon that they didn't need outside additions. This was a huge thing and with it a lot of cool new Pokémon. Some people take issue with the originality of some revealed in this generation, and I understand that, but look past them and at the real gems of this generation.
Gen VI
The infamous Gen VI. A pitiful, and frankly embarrassing amount of Pokémon introduced in this generation. But to be fair, it's a case of quality over quantity because there are some awesome Pokémon in here. Just not a lot of them.
Full list coming soon.....
If you enjoyed all of that, they why not check out my least favorite Pokémon? -- MAGNEDETH
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