The Last, Only, and Very Final X% Hype Thread

[Monochrome_Complex]

The house battle has people using their pokemon to directly attack too. Sirius has his seviper poison fang Flobot and julia has her electrode attack Sirius in return. Also Amaria has Lapras attack the grunts to clear a way for you in Blackstream.

 

Of course we can't forget the Torkoal in the beginning and Lin vs Ame.

[Logan_the_balalaika]

And Sigmund shocking people, Kiki getting garchomp'd, Titania swinging her aegislash, Cal & Heather attacking Blake on the mountain peak, Saphira raiding meteors on the lake and in their base (although off-screen), Sirius' chandelure burning Eclipse..  the list goes on.

[Samtale]

8 hours ago, Lone Karvanha said:

I was thinking more about the fact that Blacksteam is the only instance in the game where someone commands their Pokemon to use a 'move' on a human (right?) (Dragon Rush on the player character and Superpower on Amaria). Cuz like if that's possible, a lot of events could happen very differently.

To be clear, I don't actually care about this stuff (making the game more 'logical') (but maybe Ame does).

Of course, we have to make our own interpretations of a lot of stuff in fantasy works. For example, when Gardevoir creates a 'black hole', I think of it is as some advanced Shadow Ball that can send people into the 'shadow realm'.

 

Anyway, in the latest devblog post, since people are actually taking the 807 number to heart:

- First of all, 807 is the number of mons in the dex upto Zeraora. That doesn't include Megas, Alolan variants or Formes (e.g., Cherrim has 2 Formes, Lycanroc has 3, Furfrou has 10). The number goes up to 984 including these.

- Second, all of the above actually have 2 icons instead of 1, which they alternate between on the party screen. Most of them might just go up and down in position, but there are also some like Crobat:

Also the number of eggs for these mons is 364, so that's 364 egg icons, then 364 shiny egg sprites, and then 364 shiny egg icons; even then there are those that have been redone.

So what I'm saying is, Smeargletail actually scores an 11 out of 10 on the madlad scale

if you want a exact number it's 2,826 which took 4 months mostly due to off and on drive and the tedium of messing with icons. The base party icons were ones I found online with slightly different colors than rejuvs and I made the outlines darker so black shinies could work better, then of course shinied them. I already had the egg icons done forever ago but made them better by using party icons to better match tone and there were a few shinies that have changed since ep18. TL;DR I like pain

[Karvanha]

10 hours ago, Monochrome_Complex said:

The house battle has people using their pokemon to directly attack too. Sirius has his seviper poison fang Flobot and julia has her electrode attack Sirius in return. Also Amaria has Lapras attack the grunts to clear a way for you in Blackstream.

 

Of course we can't forget the Torkoal in the beginning and Lin vs Ame.

 

6 hours ago, Logan_the_balalaika said:

And Sigmund shocking people, Kiki getting garchomp'd, Titania swinging her aegislash, Cal & Heather attacking Blake on the mountain peak, Saphira raiding meteors on the lake and in their base (although off-screen), Sirius' chandelure burning Eclipse..  the list goes on.

Well I was only trying to think of instances where the Pokemon use an actual Pokemon move on a human in the overworld, so yeah there's Seviper using Poison Fang too. But I guess many other instances without explicit move usage are also similar to that, especially Chandelure.

Whatever man, Ame must have thought about all this way more than us. I'm excited to see how stuff goes down

[Draconis]

17 hours ago, Monochrome_Complex said:

The house battle has people using their pokemon to directly attack too. Sirius has his seviper poison fang Flobot and julia has her electrode attack Sirius in return. Also Amaria has Lapras attack the grunts to clear a way for you in Blackstream.

 

Of course we can't forget the Torkoal in the beginning and Lin vs Ame.

What Torkoal? I don't remember anything like that.

[RocketOSullivan]

Speaking of that, weird that Sigmund survives a Hyper Beam from Saphira's Dragonite at the Belrose Mansion. It is not a great special attacker but still, a damn Dragonite.

[Bananacake887]

12 minutes ago, Draconis said:

What Torkoal? I don't remember anything like that.

When you leave the Grand Hall for the first time after receiving your starter, a cut-scene shows Ame and some officials interrogating a meteor grunt and using a Torkoal to heat up the metal chair to which the grunt is strapped onto.

[0ris]

2 hours ago, RocketOSullivan said:

Speaking of that, weird that Sigmund survives a Hyper Beam from Saphira's Dragonite at the Belrose Mansion. It is not a great special attacker but still, a damn Dragonite.

He's kind of a mysterious character, and we know that in at least one scenario Lin can survive an otherwise-fatal sword wound.

 

Ol' Siggy Balls Sigmund Fraud might be a similar superhuman, especially if he's a link to the Lin/Terra conundrum.

[andracass]

https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Suspension_of_disbelief

[Vulnona]

5 hours ago, RocketOSullivan said:

Speaking of that, weird that Sigmund survives a Hyper Beam from Saphira's Dragonite at the Belrose Mansion. It is not a great special attacker but still, a damn Dragonite.

Well, that reminds me of this comic gem: https://external-preview.redd.it/x3xGGFfxu-Fa7ubUDbH5z2CeH_bQlmOi8CsINdKnkBU.jpg?auto=webp&s=64a4dcfec12327dc131e06d53c7341bd05f1d416

Edited January 18, 2022 by Vulnona

[Draconis]

5 hours ago, Bananacake887 said:

When you leave the Grand Hall for the first time after receiving your starter, a cut-scene shows Ame and some officials interrogating a meteor grunt and using a Torkoal to heat up the metal chair to which the grunt is strapped onto.

Oh right, I forgot about that bit lol

[Monochrome_Complex]

I'm still thinking about the "Lin violently  blows up into pieces" on Shade's monitor. As satisfying as it is thinking she dies like that, I feel like it won't be as it appears. Considering we see light bursting out from behind her, I think it's either

 

-ditto, disguised as Lin

-Lin revealing her body to be a vessel of some sort and the actual entity inside/controlling her unveiling itself in spectacular fashion(giratina perhaps?)

-Lin actually getting blown up, but then appearing unharmed afterwards because she's like, immortal.

 

One of the scenes I'm looking forward to most is seeing the full context of this scene. I'd prefer if she really did die like that but then that begs the question of where that light is coming from.

[Draconis]

6 hours ago, Monochrome_Complex said:

One of the scenes I'm looking forward to most is seeing the full context of this scene. I'd prefer if she really did die like that but then that begs the question of where that light is coming from.

Perhaps it'll involve Arceus somehow?

[Dark Legend]

2 minutes ago, Draconis said:

Perhaps it'll involve Arceus somehow?

Certainly, it will.

[RocketOSullivan]

Maybe it could be her New World being blown up around her, with the light coming back?

[Dark Legend]

2 minutes ago, RocketOSullivan said:

Maybe it could be her New World being blowed up around her, with the light coming back?

I don't think so. In fact, I don't believe that the New World will achieve creation. We will somehow stop that from happening. If not, then your theory could be the correct one. Actually, it probably is, because I stand corrected as of now. The New World Field... How could I forget??

[RocketOSullivan]

9 minutes ago, Dark Champion said:

I don't think so. In fact, I don't believe that the New World will achieve creation. 

I think it will, because it's impossible to believe that we won't fight her on the New World Field. That might happen for a very short time at least.

[The Swordsman]

16 hours ago, RocketOSullivan said:

Speaking of that, weird that Sigmund survives a Hyper Beam from Saphira's Dragonite at the Belrose Mansion. It is not a great special attacker but still, a damn Dragonite.

Might be a reference to Lance's dragonite, the Rocket grunt didn't die there either.

[Green Bean 501]

2 hours ago, RocketOSullivan said:

I think it will, because it's impossible to believe that we won't fight her on the New World Field. That might happen for a very short time at least.

I'm thinking the same thing. Looking from the field notes it's made specifically for her ace Hydreigon. Other powerful pokemon benefit too, like metagross, victini, and arceus

[Dark Legend]

41 minutes ago, Green Bean 501 said:

Other powerful pokemon benefit too, like metagross, victini, and arceus

... That could be her team...

[Evi Crystal]

I would say aside from potential legandaries

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and some stolen Pokemon from Ame, Gossip Gardevoir and the PULSE- Arceus (rip)

I would bet, she gets some strong Dragon type Pokemon like Garchomp (because she used to be the 1st Dragon Gym Leader in Online League of Season 1 back then) or Dark types. Even better yet Pokemon that fit her personality (like Gengar for example) or Pokemon with moves benefitting on the New World field.

 

That's my assumption for Lin's team.

 

 

[Green Bean 501]

14 minutes ago, Evi Crystal said:

I would say aside from potential legandaries

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and some stolen Pokemon from Ame, Gossip Gardevoir and the PULSE- Arceus (rip)

I would bet, she gets some strong Dragon type Pokemon like Garchomp (because she used to be the 1st Dragon Gym Leader in Online League of Season 1 back then) or Dark types. Even better yet Pokemon that fit her personality (like Gengar for example) or Pokemon with moves benefitting on the New World field.

 

That's my assumption for Lin's team.

 

 

Noivern, Flygon, and Salamance all seem like good candidates since they don't suffer from the speed loss. I'm betting gardevoir will have a magical seed and stored power

[Dark Legend]

Will Sandy make an appearance?

[RocketOSullivan]

Hope so, would be hype to fight her on the Desert Field.

[Dark Legend]

What if she comes into the story? Like, something to do with Terra?!