I'm just going with "you". Who knows, maybe this story is even written by a mawile.
Well of course it is - I'd think I've made that rather obvious by now, don't you think?
Well, this point is moot now. Still curious why you didn't check your own entry though.
The real reason is mostly just because the chapter needed to move along, and I didn't want to deal with the hassle of writing that out along with Chimchar's scan. Besides, Me!wile knows most of that information already anyways, so there wouldn't have been much point to it.
They also should have made a Galarian Misdreavus that's Ghost/Fairy, based on banshees.
Ooh, I'd have definitely approved of that idea! It is the "Screech" Pokemon, after all...
Are they still limited to 4 moves or is that just a coincidence?
It's just coincidence - I'm going off of what moves Chimchar has actively shown to be part of his repertoire in the episodes up until this point, which just happen to only total four at the present moment.
The Chansey line aren't Fairy-type to maintain pattern with the Clefairy and Jigglypuff line. All three started in Gen 1 as rare pink normal-types. All three got baby forms in gen 2. Then, when the Fairy type was added, Clefairy's line became pure Fairy, Jigglypuff's line became Fairy/Normal, and Chansey's stayed pure Normal. I think I would probably have switched which type assignments Jigglypuff and Chansey got, because both Chansey and Clefairy are consistently rarer than Jigglypuff, but I can see why they gave each line a different typing.
I suppose that could make sense, yeah. I'd definitely agree with you on giving Chansey a Fairy typing over Jigglypuff though - maybe they just didn't want to make Chansey and Blissey even more potentially useful in the meta than they already are? Not that Gamefreak has ever really cared about that before so far as I'm aware, but it's all I can think of for that reasoning.
Bulbapedia very helpfully says that in Diamond and Pearl, the Pokedex can check a Pokemon's level, but then provides no episode where this is done. Very frustrating. It mentions this in the Pokedex article.
Yep, that article is why I added levels to the Pokedex scan to begin with. The way it phrases things is why I thought it was revealed that it can check levels and moves in the same episode, which turned out not to be the case.
Anyways, MORE TRANFORMATIONS!
I would honestly mark this as an omake, but at this point, I think I'm practically obligated to gather all of the previous ones + my various responses into one post and mark
that as the omake, just so that no one's contributions are left out. I'll respond to all these new ones a little later, if you don't mind - seventeen more of these is going to take me
quite a while to reply to. ^^;
For reference, I just looked up the most Miserable Pokedex article. Being a Pokemon suuuucks.
*pouts* Why are you so determined to make sure my stay in Pokemon World is as unfun as you can possibly make it? I can't even call that cruel, because it's not like I'm being all that much nicer to myself in the fic proper, but still...
(I kid, though it really does seem like most of the various Pokemon!me's are not having a very nice time of it. Apparently, even in
other people's "inserts" of myself I just can't catch a break.
)
Interesting point, that. How do they know it's their own face? Is it an intuitive sense, or are they actually different shapes and we just can't see it because of art limitations? I'd find it extremely difficult to recognize a bronze mask of my own face.
I imagine it's both, really. Though, there's also just common sense to take into account - we know that Yamask supposedly retain their memories of being human from the ORAS Pokedex, and when you wake up as a Pokemon, having emerged from your own grave, and find yourself clutching a bronze mask of someone's face in your newly-existent tail, one's natural inclination is most likely going to be
'That's ME!'
…Man, what the hell Gen 5?
Funny thing, I actually quite liked most of Gen 5's designs when I first saw all of them - the worse ones sort of faded into the background, while the better ones stuck out, and as such I was pretty darn excited about Black and White. When I got around to actually playing the game however, not only had that initial luster faded, but I somehow found it to be much more
boring than I'd expected. I didn't even mind that it didn't have old Pokemon in it, but somehow it just completely failed to suck me in. Maybe it's just because Unova has more emphasis on big cities and such than previous games, but it just felt...
dull to me. I still do like some of the individual Pokemon designs, but to this day, the Gen 5 games remain some of my least favorites, sitting just above Gen 2 (which I never even finished until HG/SS came along) in my personal rankings.
That would be cute and existentially concerning.
Yeah, that's about how it feels on this end too.
They even fit in as a weird little trio with Koffing and Weezing to have solid/land pollution, liquid/ocean pollution and gas/air pollution.
Huh, hadn't thought about it that way. That's actually an excellent point; I'll have to keep that in mind from now on.
I guess it's about appearance. Grimer and Muk don't look like pollution to me, they look like blobs. Koffing and Weezing are balls. But Garbodor is lovingly detailed, and it does look like rotting garbage. Maybe also personal experience; I've never had to deal with toxic sludge, but I know how awful a split garbage bag is.
Yeah, I think it's just how much more viscerally
gross looking Garbodor is compared to the other "pollution" Pokemon. Trubbish I can even see as maybe being kind of cute, if unlikely to smell all that great, but Garbodor is just flat out repulsive, and looks stupid to boot. Ironically, it might have benefited from a more simplistic design (even though a lot of gen 5 was criticized for that exact issue), or even just a slight color change in some regard. Anything to make it look slightly less like a roving pile of... well, quite literal shit. I'm sorry, I have no other way of phrasing that.
mutliple blatent r34 bait
Don't kid yourself - with how determined the internet is, that's literally
every Pokemon.
I'm curious about what the mortality rate of trainers is. Based on your experience in the wild, it seems like it would be high, but based on how Paul acts around his pokemon, it isn't or else he would be more cautious even as he continues to be abusive.
This fic will...
probably not get into that, if just because Me!wile isn't particularly likely to come across a situation where the topic would come up. I will say however that it is definitely a concern many parents of aspiring trainers have to face, and may have something to do with why there aren't more proper "trainers" running around to begin with.
@Flairina I can't remember whether this has been discussed already: do you have a plan for dealing with how Ash's Pikachu gets depowered at the beginning of each new region?
That has not been discussed, no, and I don't really have a plan to "deal" with it at present moment. It shouldn't really be an issue until Me!wile actually encounters Ash anyways (that is, assuming I actually succeed in that endeavor), and I just removed the concept of levels from this fic regardless, but if it still ends up needing to be addressed, I'll figure something out before that point.
