Pokemon General [SFW, No NSFW]

@igotnopicks
 
True, but that’s clearly not what it’s based on. It very closely resembles an echidna, or some other spiky mammal like the hedgehog or porcupine. In fact, its Japanese name is based on the Japanese word for porcupine, which are even less like rodents than echidnas. Pikachu actually resembles a mouse way more than Cyndaquil does. Sandshew and Sandslash are also called “mouse” pokemon, but they are also clearly not based on mice, but shrews/moles, which are also not rodents.
 
Just because they call it a mouse in the games doesn’t mean it’s accurate. People do that all the time with animals. Koalas and orcas are called koala bears and killer whales, even though they are not bears or whales, respectively.
 
I don’t think it’s meant to be accurate anyway, since pokemon are just made up creatures that take on characteristics of many real world creatures, but why do we call the Torchic line chickens? Because that’s what they mostly resemble. Cyndaquil does not look like a mouse at all.
 

 
It looks more like an echidna.
 

@Stratus  
And Typhlosion is based mainly off honey badgers. No mice at all.

@Stratus  
Orcas are whales. More precisely, they’re dolphins which are a smaller form of toothed whales.

@Scrabbleman
 
You got me. I should have checked.
 
But still, calling an echidna a mouse is not the same as calling an orca a killer whale, as echidnas are not rodents, and it’s still like calling a koala a bear.

Well if this whole zodiac shit is true I hope the next Fire starter is a rabbit or a snake.

@Background Pony #9617  
Oops, that was me.

Anyone? Nobody is gonna share their opinion over what’s the best nature for a LGPE Pikachu? Ok, just leave me in the dark then.
 
Also, I’m gonna have to avoid coming to this thread for a bit until I finish the main story for LGPE unless everybody is gonna remember the spoiler tags.

@Red-Supernova  
You should probably not care about nature in a game like that, mate.
 
In fact, no one should care about natures ingame, but that’s just me.

@Red-Supernova  
Not sure, maybe Naive. Don’t know much about the Lets go meta or the unique partner pokemon and their moves yet.

@Background Pony #7836  
I can’t help it. Years of being part of the competitive side of Pokémon just come as natural instincts now.
 
@MadVillain  
They’re the few things I wanted to spoil myself about when it comes to any Pokémon game. I like to plan ahead with what Pokémon I want to catch along with how I should build them up.  
And thanks for the suggestion. If I get either Naive or Hasty, I’ll use those.

@Red-Supernova  
Break free of it then. You’ll have a lot more fun.

@Background Pony #7836  
Then how will I stand a chance against post-story modes?

@Red-Supernova  
I seriously doubt a nature will change much in these games.

@pixel  

 
This is why I think they should allow people to create fan games, their so god damn greedy and use copyright the wrong way 😡

@Takengrin Endmmar: Taken God King of Fear  
Jesus, those reviews are just nasty.
 
I mean, it’s probably not that great of a game but they seem to make too big of deal out of it.

@Meanlucario  
Lmao!

@pixel  

 
MASUDA BTFO! Good riddance and don’t come back! Morimoto FTW!

@Scrabbleman  
There’s a reason I say that the fandom is being too aggressive to LGPE. Helps that unlike Blizzard, Nintendo has stated that it’s not the direction the series is going, and honestly, it may even cause the gen 8 game to be less new-player friendly since LGPE is a thing, the very thing that people are complaining about. Case in point:  
@Background Pony #3102  

@Meanlucario
 
I feel that there is such a thing as being TOO newbie-friendly.
 
Also, I saw a clip of someone playing in Viridian Forest, and it had HUGE framerate drop issues. That’s… not a good sign.

@yelling_into_the_void  

 
Cute. That GIF alone is more worth my time than LGPE, but not as worthy as OR/AS or Platinum.

@Jarkes  
True.

So, since you HAVE to have a Water or Grass-type to fight Brock in LGPE, what Pokemon of those types did they add to the early areas to make that possible?

We would have gotten let’s go Psyduck if it was not yellow.