Twilight wouldn’t have used that repel in the first place, had she known what was in it.

Zubat is adorable, Golbat is freaky, Crobat is okay. I like all the bat Pokemon, but I like Swoobat, Noibat, and Noivern way more.

@Background Pony #E7B9
 
@thps48
 
@FamusJamus
 
Oh.  
I just assumed the Pokemon names had been localized, and standard English rules were thus in effect.
 
“The More You Know . . .”

@thps48  
Foongus has no sweet moves. Venasuar and Rosearade are way better grass/poison types.
 
 
@Blissey1  
lol true, I assume you hate coming into a horde of them in gen 6?

@Toxicpinkiepie  
Since it’s weak to itself? Or, wait, that’s all damn Plant/Poison-Types. Do you mean it’s pretty much a Plant-Type Voltorb? X3

@Toxicpinkiepie  
Crobat is pretty cool, but zubat can go die in a fire.

Am I the only one who loves Zubat? granted, I love all poison pokemon, but Foongus

@FamusJamus  
It is true that plurals in English is a huge mess >.<

OH GOD FLASHBACKS

REPORT OMNIKNIGHT FOR NOT TIMING HIS REPEL RIGHT!

@Liggliluff  

 
Except that English “rules” concerning pluralisation are essentially an inconsistent mess that are sometimes based on a word’s origin or the subject.
 
Note how the singular = plural rule tends to apply both to hunted animals and certain words borrowed from Japanese (including samurai apparently).
 
Hunter: I shot a bunch of deer today.  
Bug Catcher: Check out these Pokémon I caught.

Also terms like “Pikachus” or “Lugias” or whatever is just as dumb/silly sounding as “Pokemons”. Note that this rule applies to even the anime dub, I haven’t watched every single episode, but I don’t recall ever hearing an S plural of a Pokemon species, or seeing it in any official media.

@Liggliluff  
Either way, you technically still can’t add an extraneously Roman letter to 忍者、侍、日本人、刀、ゲッコーガ、or プリン。You can if they’re typed in Roman. XD

@thps48 @Background Pony #E7B9  
ninjas, samurais, katanas  
When using a word in another language, that word now follows that language rules.
 
Just like how English (American) developers sometimes uses the answer ‘no’ for none, and the direction ‘left’ for remaining - making it impossible to translate to any other language.  
The Japanese developers of Pokémon didn’t include a function for pluralise Pokémon names, so translators didn’t have much of a choice.
 
(Another example: Google Translate contains a list of languages; this list is of nouns. For their OCR-function (reading text in real life), they used the same list of nouns, as an adjective. Doesn’t affect the English language, but do affect other languages).

@Reb4Ham  
Probably, unless we are already calling them something else but in any case we probably should have a tag for them and apply said tags to relevant images for search purposes.
 
To lazy to do it myself though.

@Blissey1  
Well, it’s applies the same rules as the plural for Ninja or Samurai. Try to pluralize these: Nihon-jin, Katana, Gekkouga; then prepare yourself for a fist thrust towards your face. X3
 
It obvious I know fewer Japanese names for Pokemon than a retired Civil War Re-enactor, yeah?… Wait, never mind, I’m forgetting Purin. XD

Should “bookbat” and “bookslug” be tags or not?

@Background Pony #E7B9  

 
wut

The plural of any Pokemon name does not end with an S.  
That being said, this is pretty fun, though Geodude is way worse.

*shudders*  
I remember being deep in one of those caves once after an important save (I think I caught something I had forgotten to catch) and then I realized I was out of repels and didn’t have an escape rope… irritating does not begin to discrib it.

Fucking zubats. Walk around for an hour looking for a single clefairy and there’s just confuse rays everywhere.

It seems Twilight does not like bad vampire books.