I already loved alt typed Pokemon but the fact that one of my favorite Pokemon, Flygon, got TWO Delta Species instantly makes those sets and Holon in general 10/10. Gamefreak could never treat him this well.
Assuming that mainline Pokémon games will keep having DLCs, I really hope that one of the DLCs in Winds & Waves takes us to Holon.
that whole era was amazing artwise, some of the best art was during this time. I wish the tera gimmick wasn't just ex buildup spam, hopefully they make a comeback.
The idea of leaning into the fact the TCG's mechanics were a layer of abstraction from the video games' was brilliant. Now the TCG is so rigid that people come into this thread confused to why their blue Palpitoad card is weak to lightning cards.
The DLC for Z/A is supposedly pretty bad, so it's no surprise discussion died pretty quickly.
Come onnnnnnnnnn!!!!!
Dragon/Bug could be an interesting type if it was done right. I thought for sure that's what Yanmega was going to be but it wound up keeping it's Bug/Flying typing instead.
If they had done it in Gen 6, it could have been decent. But the reason why they didn't in Gen 6 was, iirc stated in some interview, Flygon's design was already perfect.
Where the fuck was this mindset when they were making Megas for ZA?
I think what it was “ooooh we couldn’t make it because we got bad case of artist block” which is an absurd bullshit claim. This is the same dickheads who merely streched Starmie’s legs and called it a day
There's more than a decade between ORAS and Z-A and both games have different approaches to Mega Designs. Gen 6 wanted to revisit old Pokemon and improve their designs/performance with a not-quite-additional Evolution, Z-A just wanted to make torture porn of the mons it touched. I can believe 2014-era Gamefreak genuinely believed they couldn't improve on Flygon.
I like this video about the TCG on GBC because it likes to swing out towards problems that Pokemon fans had with the TCG, like how you can’t just play a deck of your favorites of various types and do well like the videogames. The modern game has that and while coin flipping is mostly not used, the card ratios and centering your deck around a main Pokemon with support Pokemon is pretty much a fulfilled prophecy from the Nintendo ex era.
TheKingNappy effect. Still has to be the most mainstream guy who fucked up the community.
What happened?
Fuck, when was that shit? Summer 2018?
I disagree
Tumblr brought up a lot how the lockdowns got people more online and feeling tedious and miserable... perfect time where queer people can hypnotise others.
