- Location
- United States
That would be funny if we did get a Blissey. The entire class shall be taken care of. Whether they want to or not.
...Randomly think of ribombee.
Just imagine if it was Erika instead of Ostia.
Trails of Tera Steel (Kiseki-inspired Pokemon Academy Quest)
- Thread starter ArvisPresley
- Start date
...Randomly think of ribombee.
- Location
- Philippines
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- He/Him
Party about to get curbstomped by some crazy strong wild pokemon like a Tyranitar or something, and then Renne and whatever Ultra Beast Ostia has pop out to bail the party out.
- Location
- England
I could go for Flareon. They're so fluffy. Definitely the most huggable Pokémon of all. Soft and warm.
"I stumbled through dangerous noble schemes while also getting Manuel and Jacinto to speak civilly with eachother!"
"Oh yeah? Well I took down three different poaching rings and raided a lab that was conducting illegal experiments on Pokémon!"
Speaking for the Tinkatink lobby, hoping for Rookidee would only make you our enemy if they're in the same vote. The two could totally be friends. If Elise can get Manuel and Jacinto to not kill eachother, we can do the same with bird and bird-attacker.
It wouldn't even be hard mode. Hard mode is getting a Zangoose and Seviper on the same team.
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Wanna place bets on Erika being jealous that she's in Group 2 instead of Ostia?
Erika: How come Theodora gets to spend time with her oblivious crush while mine gets to babysit! And I have to deal with Manuel and Jacinto! I Hate Field Studies!
Ostia: Hehe, I get to spend time with Miss Mary!
Huh, honestly, this mention of the Ranger Stations is making me lean toward taking the West.
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A yes, the Act of Union of 1707.Here are some images I found if I end up going for both:
- Location
- England
Don't forget she also has to deal with her nemesis Nemona.
If there's one thing worse than dealing with a crush on a girl as oblivious as Mary, it's dealing with the girl she's crushing on who is equally oblivious.
So if Tinkaton are Scottish, would getting a bunch of them make Mary the Queen of Scots?
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- United Kingdom
We should've been at 35,000 Pokedollars at the start of the week, and I think both of these Bonds should be up by 1 (Bond 1 0/3 and Bond 2 3/5)?
Bloody*Vermilion
The newbie of newbies on this site
- Location
- Canada
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Ohhhhh... Let us hope that she wears bulletproof armour often.
(I know, Eugent let ash shoot him but still)
The protagonists being the last to find out about something is traditional.
Ha! Glad to see the best comedy show in existence exist here too! Though I would expect Tom to be a Persian instead.
Awww, that's so cute.
Please don't tell me she's the Rufus of the quest. There's no Magearna discovered yet!
Sara only used that method starting on the second field study.
KnownParadox
Not a sphere
- Location
- Canada
Oh poor Atticus. Poor Erika too, but I doubt she's going to be able to join the sane people club since she's in the same group as Nemona. Our poor boy here has his work cut out for him. At best he'll have her help only half the time.
On the other hand, our group could only be more ideal if we could also have Erika on our team. Family and friends outing to fight crime.
I think most of the thread has agreed on a third pokemon, a gym challenge, and changing a lightbulb for our field study. For specific pokemon? As said before looking for a specific pokemon right now is pure folly, but I'm hoping for a tank or some type of physical attacker. A rock or steel type would be ideal, but I'll accept something like a G-Yamask or other tanky ghost.
I suspect East will provide the best opportunity. It has minerals, ruins, and rare pokemon.
Perhaps she's hoping this is an ensemble anime cast and thus maybe they'll resolve their issues this arc. Or she's testing potential protagonists. Erika has the mysterious otome thing going for her, the thing with Jacinto and Manuel could be a Naruto and Sasuke thing, and Nemona could easily be a shonen protagonist. She's just making sure.
Hey maybe we'll roll extremely well/poorly and find a Spiritomb, I'm definitely sure we can deal with one at our level and won't just be extremely traumatized and wounded by a pokemon every new player mistakes for a legendary or pseudo-legendary pokemon.
It'll be very funny to see how salty and cold Erika will act around Nemona, and Nemona will never in a million years figure out why. Erika interlude when?
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The Meowth line aren't native to Unova, though.
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Like I said. Fool Proof Plan.
Nothing can ever go wrong! I am always right even when I'm wrong! Heart of the
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Theoretically I should be trying to catch up on dissecting updates in chronological order.
However I'm doing this for fun and you're not my dad.
It is interesting she doesn't know how to cook, though, given that just about every Trails character at least knows a few dishes. Then again, Rean's shtick is being average at everything except a couple of Japanese-themed dishes (because he is, again, a turboweeb. Teriyaki Chicken Pizza come the fuck on dude).
Speaking of monarchs, it's interesting that thus far, the ruling monarchs of Paldea (Erebonia) and Galar (Liberl) have been the only Trails characters not to have their names changed in the translation to Pokémon OCs, barring Eugene here having a real name instead of a vaguely German-sounding fictional version. For the sake of completionism on my name meaning posting, Eugene comes from Greek and means "well-bred". Vasco actually comes from Basque and means "little raven" or "crow", as well as calling to mind Vasconia, one of the names for the region where the Basque people live - contrast the Trails family name "Reise", German for "travel" or "trip" (or possibly a misspelling of "Riese" - "giant" or "ogre"). Arnor is borrowed directly from Trails, which in turn borrowed it from Tolkien - Arnor was the defunct northern kingdom of Man during the events of Lord of the Rings, and in Tolkein's etymology means "land of the king".
Crown Princess Arcadia (as a Spain equivalent, it seems Paldea has no legal problems with a female reigning monarch, and may even have equal inheritance given the additional Basque/Navarrese influence) I can't get a formal read on, as her nearest ToCS character equivalent is a 15 year old kid. She's equally likely to be a reasonable authority figure who happens to agree with Reformist modernizations, or a fanatical supporter of Geeta. Arcadia was the domain of Pan in Greek mythology, and is historically used as a poetic name for the idealized form of untouched, unspoiled wilderness.
"some incident a decade ago" is probably this timeline's equivalent to the Hamel Tragedy, the town-eradicating false flag operation that formed a casus belli for Erebonia's invasion of Liberl and probably the worst thing Erebonia's ever done that wasn't Giliath Osborne's fault, as he was busy surviving a concurrent assassination attempt that killed his wife and oh hey look it's unnecessary Trails spoilers. That did not stop him from using the investigation into the matter to propel his career upward and into the Chancellorship and get his would-be killers justifiably executed for treason, though.
"Ten years ago" is going to be just as important as "3000 years ago", though. Based on the timing, I'm betting that the successful Paldean occupation of Porto Marinada is equivalent to the failed Erebonian invasion of Liberl in some ways, but we'll see how this subplot develops.
Bulbapedia informs me that "Geeta" comes from "Sagittaria", the genus of the three-leaf arrowhead plant. Heraclea obviously comes from the Greek hero Herakles, and is a common place name in modern Greece, Turkey, the Balkans, and southern Italy. If I had to guess though, this name is in honor of both Geeta's purported strength in battle, and the ancient name for the mountains on the Straits of Gibraltar.
Meanwhile I think it was literally just the Protagonists and maybe Ostia who didn't know, making Jacinto slightly worse at this than Alisa. Or Eliot (son of a general). Or Machias (son of the equivalently relevant Heimdallr governor). Or Elie MacDowell (granddaughter of Crossbell's long-serving mayor). Or...I'm gonna be honest the standards for incognito player characters in Trails really fell off after the two distinct, unrelated disguised royals in Sky. At least they had aliases. Even if Olivier's was terrible.
For the record, I will eat octopus irl, so I'm not gonna judge anyone who eats even pretty smart Pokémon, or I'd be a hypocrite.
*gestures frantically at everything wrong with Mariana's brain*
Good to see Renne able to relax though.
I hope no one in this thread is young enough to need an explanation of Tom and Jerry.
It's super effective!!
Anyway, though, this might be a turning point here because......this is patently insane. Like, Nemona can probably do it, and will likely quite enjoy it, win or lose. But what I mean is there's no purpose to it. Getting half the badges in the space of a month serves no actual purpose other than to say you did it, since moving further than 8 badges is gatekept behind an annual Conference tournament. Pushing Mariana to keep up with this level is going to destroy her both in-character in terms of stress and out-of-character in terms of action economy. We can still do it, but I expect the attempt to end in making hard choices between keeping up with our self-imposed goal and being like...a person. And I expect our friends will have things to say about it.
On the other hand...aiming for one badge a month, on the field exercise? That gets us to Conference in one school year, the same as Nemona does, while still letting us continue to be Mariana, instead of an unhappy copy of Nemona. She'll destroy us when we get there, but...I don't think that's avoidable anyway. But that's just my perspective.
Poppy is literally an eight year old child (as of our point in time in S/V's backstory) and objectively the strongest Elite Four member in any Pokémon game. Ever. According to some Youtube clickbait I watched, anyway. I'm not touching this with a ten foot speculation pole, beyond the idea that she might be picking up the aspects of Milium Orion's character that Ostia isn't.
All this is important exposition but I don't feel the need to really elaborate on it. Just bookmark it if you really do want to try and push Mary to compete with Nemona on the "one year Champion" scale. It's also pretty similar to the S/V championship mechanics, except for the Conference level being inserted to make things more anime-ish and tournament-y, as well as the annual time frame being added in. And also they actually televise the Elite 4 matches instead of it happening in a blank room. That was a bit disappointing frankly, although it made sense since everything is themed more around being a school exam than a sporting event there.
Sophia de Cascaraffa is just a name drop here, but she might be an equivalent to Jusis Albarea's older half-brother*, Rufus. A deeply important character who doesn't stop getting more plot relevant ever and I'm not going to get into it until we meet Sophia properly. Her name, of course, comes from the Greek for "Wisdom".
I wonder what she got up to in Rime City. It could have been the climax of Trails From Zero, though if that's the case the timeline got somewhat compressed, and I'd expect that to hit the news cycle sooner rather than later. Dammit Leaf, this was supposed to be the adorable interlude with whatever horrifying omnipotent superbeing the SSS picked up from the auction. Who'd you pick a fight with? Did you actually track down Surge? Get jumped by some Grunts hopped up on R? I don't need sleep, I need answers.
I'm probably going to vote West but I'll be happy with either.
However I'm doing this for fun and you're not my dad.
Doing this out of order does mean I can't quite go into Elise's deal yet, but I do find it worth noting that she and we are the early risers of the group: Mariana because we're from a working nomadic ranching culture with all that entails and haven't changed our habits yet, and Elise because she's the most into physical personal training of the group, being a swordswoman.
It is interesting she doesn't know how to cook, though, given that just about every Trails character at least knows a few dishes. Then again, Rean's shtick is being average at everything except a couple of Japanese-themed dishes (because he is, again, a turboweeb. Teriyaki Chicken Pizza come the fuck on dude).
He's a tsundere.
Theodora knows who Leaf is. My thought here is that she specifically knows about her connection to the ongoing Rocket plot in Rime City, if not the details of what's going on there. And she very well might.
I dunno if I need to specify this, but this is gonna be the main plot for the Field Exercise.
This is the first real detail we're getting on the imperial family in this setting, and it's surprisingly different from the one in Trails of Cold Steel. In that setting, Emperor Eugent III Reise Arnor is middle aged, and his kids range from early 20's (non-inheriting bastard Prince Olivert) to mid-teens (twins Crown Prince Cedric and Princess Alfin). It's actually a bit of a change from the previous 2 arcs, which had an aging monarch and head of state respectively, and a major part of the political plotline in both was imminent succession.
Speaking of monarchs, it's interesting that thus far, the ruling monarchs of Paldea (Erebonia) and Galar (Liberl) have been the only Trails characters not to have their names changed in the translation to Pokémon OCs, barring Eugene here having a real name instead of a vaguely German-sounding fictional version. For the sake of completionism on my name meaning posting, Eugene comes from Greek and means "well-bred". Vasco actually comes from Basque and means "little raven" or "crow", as well as calling to mind Vasconia, one of the names for the region where the Basque people live - contrast the Trails family name "Reise", German for "travel" or "trip" (or possibly a misspelling of "Riese" - "giant" or "ogre"). Arnor is borrowed directly from Trails, which in turn borrowed it from Tolkien - Arnor was the defunct northern kingdom of Man during the events of Lord of the Rings, and in Tolkein's etymology means "land of the king".
Crown Princess Arcadia (as a Spain equivalent, it seems Paldea has no legal problems with a female reigning monarch, and may even have equal inheritance given the additional Basque/Navarrese influence) I can't get a formal read on, as her nearest ToCS character equivalent is a 15 year old kid. She's equally likely to be a reasonable authority figure who happens to agree with Reformist modernizations, or a fanatical supporter of Geeta. Arcadia was the domain of Pan in Greek mythology, and is historically used as a poetic name for the idealized form of untouched, unspoiled wilderness.
"some incident a decade ago" is probably this timeline's equivalent to the Hamel Tragedy, the town-eradicating false flag operation that formed a casus belli for Erebonia's invasion of Liberl and probably the worst thing Erebonia's ever done that wasn't Giliath Osborne's fault, as he was busy surviving a concurrent assassination attempt that killed his wife and oh hey look it's unnecessary Trails spoilers. That did not stop him from using the investigation into the matter to propel his career upward and into the Chancellorship and get his would-be killers justifiably executed for treason, though.
"Ten years ago" is going to be just as important as "3000 years ago", though. Based on the timing, I'm betting that the successful Paldean occupation of Porto Marinada is equivalent to the failed Erebonian invasion of Liberl in some ways, but we'll see how this subplot develops.
And here we get some important politics, in particular, the ways in which Geeta's Top Champion position crosses over with the position of a Chancellor, that is, a head of government appointed by the head of state (in this case the Emperor). Like Osborne in Trails, she's the first commoner-born person to hold the position. Osborne's title was "the Blood and Iron Chancellor", as a historical reference to Otto von Bismarck. Here her title is the same as it is in Scarlet/Violet, albeit with a different meaning. The details of the "Champion Rank" vs. "[Top] Champion" position are otherwise the same as in the game version of Paldea.
Bulbapedia informs me that "Geeta" comes from "Sagittaria", the genus of the three-leaf arrowhead plant. Heraclea obviously comes from the Greek hero Herakles, and is a common place name in modern Greece, Turkey, the Balkans, and southern Italy. If I had to guess though, this name is in honor of both Geeta's purported strength in battle, and the ancient name for the mountains on the Straits of Gibraltar.
Interesting that a hyperactive battler like Nemona isn't also an early riser. Must be a night owl. ADHD do be like that.
Erika and Nemona tag-teaming Jacinto with their usual levels of tact. Come on, Mariana, how do you look at this conversation and come to a conclusion other than "Nemona is just kind of insensitive".
Meanwhile I think it was literally just the Protagonists and maybe Ostia who didn't know, making Jacinto slightly worse at this than Alisa. Or Eliot (son of a general). Or Machias (son of the equivalently relevant Heimdallr governor). Or Elie MacDowell (granddaughter of Crossbell's long-serving mayor). Or...I'm gonna be honest the standards for incognito player characters in Trails really fell off after the two distinct, unrelated disguised royals in Sky. At least they had aliases. Even if Olivier's was terrible.
Atticus is a bro and a ninja.
I don't know where this particular subplot is going but it is interesting. Likely ties into the divergent and arguable cultural dynamics over to what extent Pokémon are people and to what extent they are animals suitable for service and/or food sources.
For the record, I will eat octopus irl, so I'm not gonna judge anyone who eats even pretty smart Pokémon, or I'd be a hypocrite.
*gestures frantically at everything wrong with Mariana's brain*
Good to see Renne able to relax though.
I hope no one in this thread is young enough to need an explanation of Tom and Jerry.
Argy seething: >D. Singular squinty eye. Glad Ostia got another friend. Looks like they might be monotyping Psychic? We'll see, though - I still stand for having a diverse, flexible team, but I'm sure Ostia will manage through brute strength anyway.
Wow, that escalate--quick. GO, NEMONA!
Nemona used Hyper Fixation!
It's super effective!!
Anyway, though, this might be a turning point here because......this is patently insane. Like, Nemona can probably do it, and will likely quite enjoy it, win or lose. But what I mean is there's no purpose to it. Getting half the badges in the space of a month serves no actual purpose other than to say you did it, since moving further than 8 badges is gatekept behind an annual Conference tournament. Pushing Mariana to keep up with this level is going to destroy her both in-character in terms of stress and out-of-character in terms of action economy. We can still do it, but I expect the attempt to end in making hard choices between keeping up with our self-imposed goal and being like...a person. And I expect our friends will have things to say about it.
On the other hand...aiming for one badge a month, on the field exercise? That gets us to Conference in one school year, the same as Nemona does, while still letting us continue to be Mariana, instead of an unhappy copy of Nemona. She'll destroy us when we get there, but...I don't think that's avoidable anyway. But that's just my perspective.
Alright, Saguaro and Poppy. Saguaro's name keeps changing spelling in this update (sorry Arvis you might want to just Ctrl+F "Sagu" and check that way), but by all indications he's meant to be the character from Scarlet/Violet who, in that timeline, would become Naranja/Uva Academy's Home Economics instructor post-Operation Star. There, he has the reputation of a cool and skilled trainer, which is somewhat at odds with his (extremely obvious) natural personality of an effusive lover of all things cute, including his quite dangerous team of cute and pretty Pokémon which seems to be the basis for his tournament team here. Saguaro's name comes from the Saguaro cactus, and it's interesting that neither he nor Poppy gets a surname here, although it could just be because there wasn't a good place to mention them.
Poppy is literally an eight year old child (as of our point in time in S/V's backstory) and objectively the strongest Elite Four member in any Pokémon game. Ever. According to some Youtube clickbait I watched, anyway. I'm not touching this with a ten foot speculation pole, beyond the idea that she might be picking up the aspects of Milium Orion's character that Ostia isn't.
All this is important exposition but I don't feel the need to really elaborate on it. Just bookmark it if you really do want to try and push Mary to compete with Nemona on the "one year Champion" scale. It's also pretty similar to the S/V championship mechanics, except for the Conference level being inserted to make things more anime-ish and tournament-y, as well as the annual time frame being added in. And also they actually televise the Elite 4 matches instead of it happening in a blank room. That was a bit disappointing frankly, although it made sense since everything is themed more around being a school exam than a sporting event there.
Mesagoza, it's worth noting, is in the foothills of the Great Crater of Paldea, and this indicates that League Headquarters is further up the mountainside to the north.
Sophia de Cascaraffa is just a name drop here, but she might be an equivalent to Jusis Albarea's older half-brother*, Rufus. A deeply important character who doesn't stop getting more plot relevant ever and I'm not going to get into it until we meet Sophia properly. Her name, of course, comes from the Greek for "Wisdom".
Rufus: "Crow? That guy thinks he's the Char Clone of this story? He doesn't even have a complicated relationship with a younger sibling! I will show you a fucking Char Clone."
*technically his cousin but no one knew that to start with. Like I said, no Albarea can remember which woman he's supposed to be having sex with.
*technically his cousin but no one knew that to start with. Like I said, no Albarea can remember which woman he's supposed to be having sex with.
The rest of this is fairly basic Pokémon Battle commentary, although it's interesting to note Saguaro's gambit in controlling the terrain to his mons' advantage. We should keep a look out for moves that set up terrain, since both that and weather can be really relevant here.
We continue the ToCS Class VII's tradition of being way more responsible than our instructor.
I wonder what she got up to in Rime City. It could have been the climax of Trails From Zero, though if that's the case the timeline got somewhat compressed, and I'd expect that to hit the news cycle sooner rather than later. Dammit Leaf, this was supposed to be the adorable interlude with whatever horrifying omnipotent superbeing the SSS picked up from the auction. Who'd you pick a fight with? Did you actually track down Surge? Get jumped by some Grunts hopped up on R? I don't need sleep, I need answers.
Kinda fortunate that the two protagonists are also the muscle girls. Also Elise is calling us Mary too, now.
Doesn't quite line up with ToCS's Field Study 1, but then again it's already a bit different since both teams are going to the same town. I guess if you generalize it to "Protagonist, Blonde Weirdo, Small Bean, Looks Like She Could Kill You But Actually A Sweetheard" group A matches...the important thing is that Jacinto and Manuel are someone else's problem, though. I do note that if you only count Starters, we've got a balanced team in Group A for any 4vX boss battles: A bulky Ghost/Steel-type, a fast Ghost/Dragon-type, a bulky Psychic/Steel-type, and a fast Fire...soon to be /Psychic-type. We've got good rapports with Elise and Ostia so we should be on the look out for opportunities to engage in teamwork between Roland and Rin or Roland and Argy/Poly.
This is gonna be the fulcrum of the direct conflict between Noble and Reformist, albeit not necessarily where the bulk of the plot is happening. If there's one thing Reactionaries hate, it's land reform, and the lake is also the best place to publicly disrupt that. I'd also expect more Water types in these biomes, along with an assortment of Normal, Flying, Grass, and Bug common to both sides.
This is more likely to see parts of the plot that tie in to ancient weirdness and mysticism, though I'm sure we're going to fight the poachers or their backers either way. I'd expect some Rock and Fighting and maybe Steel types, as well as the Normal/Flying/Grass/Bug quartet.
I'm probably going to vote West but I'll be happy with either.
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Yeah see, part of me wants to do this (or attempt to, more like) specifically because it's going to be a horrible train-wreck and I expect, more or less, an intervention scene by Ostia and Erika and I just kinda live for that sort of drama.
On the other hand, actually getting to that point is likely to be miserable, sad to read about, and likely to leave Mary a burnt-out shell of a person and I don't think I have that in me.
Idk. I'll have to think about it.
Personally, I know what pokemon I'd like for our team. A pokemon to completely block ground and ghost mons. To that end, I'd actually prefer getting a Starly, not only does it give us a flier, it is also just a generally good pokemon to have in general. Especially works if we're also going to get a Tinkaton; then our final team'd be (purely off of a four-mon core) a Dragapult, a Meowstic, a Staraptor, and a Tinkaton. Although, I'd happily get a Drifloon or Fletchling too. Basically, I'm very tempted to vote for West Cortondo to get more flying types, but East Cortondo has more mons I'd like to get in general.
Even if we don't get another mon (although we probably want one to take a bit of stress off Roland), this probably advances our mystical plotline more.
Even if we don't get another mon (although we probably want one to take a bit of stress off Roland), this probably advances our mystical plotline more.
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And I cannot blame you for this, because it is a fun scene and cool narrative.
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I would like to grab a flying type, but I think it will be pretty easy to get one whenever we want if we befriend Jacinto, they seem to just throw themselves at him. The East side has access to seemingly rarer mons and a higher chance of steel, rock, and ground types at the mines. Pokémon that we might not get as many chances of encountering in Mezagoza.
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it could also be maybe referencing the Tower of Hercules in A Coruña, Galicia. that tower is also associated with a medieval irish story where the soon-to-be irish saw ireland from the top of the tower and then went and conquered it from the tuatha de danann
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It is isn't it? But from a Quest/AP perspective it could very well end up being a lot of time, actions and updates spent on Mary essentially pushing herself to the edge and wearing herself down little by little while she shuns everyone away and chases Nemona's shadow, until the Big Break happens. No socials or fun stuff. Only training and fighting.
That just sounds depressing lol.
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Our macro choices in the Nemona plotline are definitely gonna be "damage ourselves trying to keep up", "give up" or "justify using Nemona as a guiding star while maintaining our own identity" every single week. The real question is how long do we want to keep doing the first before moving to 2 or 3 and how dramatic we want that shift to be.
KnownParadox
Not a sphere
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- Canada
Also pokemon that might do better than average against bug and normal type pokemon. Mostly from resistances mind you, although a fighting type would handle normals and rock would handle bug on the super effective front.
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People love hitting the button labelled "Nemona" but button labelled "Nemona" is bad for our mental health.
Unfortunate situation!
Unfortunate situation!
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I'm in this post and don't like it.