Recent content by QuentinQuonce

Shit. Was an error, apologies. Did it in a slight rush as I was heading out earlier, luckily just saw this in the interval. Have just added you - only one person has voted so far (if you're reading this and want to recast your vote, please lmk and I'll simply delete and make a fresh poll later...

I'm at the opera tonight (no, really) so closing this one a bit early. My apologies to the dozens of people who were probably waiting to post their teams two hours before the deadline. https://strawpoll.com/e6Z28MojEnN You have until April 29th, 9PM GMT to cast your vote! What am I...

The Digimon anime had a similar in-joke I've always liked - in s2 Kari's earnest dream is to be a teacher, which the season finale eventually shows her becoming. In s3 (which is set in a different universe) the voice actress who played Kari plays the group's teacher Ms Asaji, who by contrast...

Wait, he did? When did that happen?

Kind of irrelevant to my overall point but yes, quite possibly

We've got a pair of types that are mutually immune (Normal and Ghost) but I read recently that in Gen I Poison and Bug were super-effective against each other, making for the only type pairing where this was ever the case: obviously this was changed in subsequent games. Poison and Bug are a...

Fabulous, no danger trading shiny eggs then.

Fairly certain I know the answer to this but I don't actually think I've ever tried it: the glitch which can cause Pokemon in eggs to be shiny for player A but not player B isn't present in Gen II, right? Fairly sure shininess is solely determined by IVs in GSC so it stands to reason that an egg...

Oh absolutely! Crystal's animations are the best, they're so full of character. I love the way a lot of them only animate one part of the sprite, like how Arbok rotates its tail or how Spearow raises one wing while keeping its feet still. By comparison I found most of Emerald's animations...

Cherrim is an especially annoying one since, even despite the fact that you HAVE to see one at some point in DPP because every Pokemon in the Sinnoh Dex bar Unown is used by an NPC, I can never once recall seeing the Sunshine Form in-game. Gardenia uses one in rematches in Platinum but other...

I was mainly thinking about how Kanto and Sinnoh both - initially - have a Pokedex of 151 Pokemon (I've always thought that the Sinnoh dex in DP was made this number as an intentional callback to the Kanto dex) and how the level spread of opponents in Kanto and Sinnoh is broadly similar: the...

I'm planning on replaying FRLG soon so I'm looking at a lot of the game mechanics and I never realised - another creepy Kanto and Sinnoh parallel! - how appalling the selection of Fire-types is for the majority of the game. Because Magmar and Ponyta were removed from Cinnabar Island, if you...

Never used to be particularly crazy about any of Unova's mythicals but I watched some footage of Meloetta in Sc/Vi recently and I've gotta say I'm appreciating its design a lot more with the increased size and detail of the 3D games. It's funny how some designs work less well in their native...

The horse is a zodiac animal, so I'm holding out hope for a pegasus fire starter eventually (ducks for cover at the prospect of re-igniting that particular debate) But more seriously a pegasus Pokemon in general is a weird, weird omission after nine generations considering there's a fair few...

G-Ponyta was such a missed opportunity for a Fire/Fairy type, such a dreadful shame. Still, hopefully we do get an actual decent Fire/Fairy mon eventually. In my head I always picture it looking like a gay version of Hoopa Confined. (and I truly hope it lives up to that)