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So, one of the challenges is to TKO or KO Don Flamenco in a round where he has not thrown more than 3 punches. I know that the game is trying to encourage you to try the infinite combo trick, which I wasn’t really all that good at, but I somehow won said challenge despite not trying it. I think I just intercepted almost every single punch he threw because I was trying to find all the ways to earn stars, and as a result, he never got to throw more than three punches. Task failed…successfully?

(This is meant to be a crosspost from r/pokemon, but apparently this subreddit doesn’t allow images, so I’ll just copy and paste)

This is for a project I’m working on. If the concept of male and female Pokémon was introduced in Gen I, what would the Nidoran line look like/be called? I’m pretty sure the only reason they’re two separate lines is because gender distinction didn’t exist before Gen II, so I’m curious if their line would go by different names. Here’s my take, but I’d love to hear your feedback and ideas:

Nidoran (without the ♂️or ♀️)

Nidonite (from “knight”, subordinate to “king” or “queen”), or just “Nidorin” (without the “a” or “o”)

Nidoreign (from “sovereign”, the gender-neutral term for “king/queen”. Originally I thought “monarch”, but I couldn’t get it to work, plus it sounds similar to Nidoran)

This is for a project I’m working on. If Kanto and Johto decided to share an entire Pokémon League of 8 Gyms total, which Gyms would they keep to represent the region as a whole? Who would be the Gym Leaders? Who would the Elite Four and Champion be? This isn’t limited to current Gym Leaders, for example, Kiyo could turn the Fighting Dojo into the new Saffron Fighting Gym, since he would have been the Gym Leader had he not been beaten by Sabrina. I’m curious to see what ideas will be discussed. For example, given that Blaine’s Gym was destroyed between the Kanto and Johto games, leading him to have a makeshift Gym in the Seafoam Islands, I’d imagine he’d just retire from being a Gym Leader at that point if a new League was being reconsidered

Imagine a Legends-style game set years before the Kanto games, where you must help set up the first Pokémon League, similar to Alola. The protagonists? Oh, just two characters named Samuel and Agatha (Yukinari and Kikuko in Japanese). Whoever you don’t pick becomes your rival, as the two battle it out to become the first ever Pokémon Champion

Remember when the Johto games rearranged the Dex to put evolutions together and mixed the Kanto and Johto lines to make the two regions feel more interconnected? Well, with Unova being the first region to not have evolutions for previous Pokémon (after Sinnoh completed a lot of evolutionary lines), almost giving a feeling of a fresh start, what if they had revealed a brand new National Dex as well? It could start with the Unova Dex, then that same mixed Kanto-Johto Dex (with new evolutions from Hoenn and Sinnoh placed with their evolution line), then the Hoenn Dex (again, with any Sinnoh evolutions like Gallade placed next to their corresponding evolution lines), before ending with the Sinnoh Dex. Not only would this make everything much cleaner going forward, but it would make the Dex thematically clean as well, beginning with #000 (Victini) and ending with #648 (Arceus). Especially given that B2W2 was the last game in the 2D timeline before XY branched out into a new timeline, it would have been a nice way to cleanly wrap up the 2D games, in my opinion

This isn’t really a serious theory, I know there’s a bunch of holes in the theory, more of a “Consider the Following”. Steven is the Champion of Ruby & Sapphire, but Wallace is the Champion of Emerald, with Juan replacing him as the Sootopolis Gym Leader. In HGSS, Steven says he’s the Champion of the Hoenn region, with no mention of Wallace, while in B2W2, they’re both Champions, with Juan returning as a Gym Leader

I propose that the events of Ruby happened, with Team Magma taking over the region, before a Trainer (let’s call him Landon) defeated them and forced them into hiding, falling back to Jagged Pass. This Trainer then goes on to battle Steven, succeeding him as Champion. In between games, Team Magma plots their revenge, while Team Aqua uses this opportunity to further their own plans, taking over Magma’s old hideout. Juan then returns to Sootopolis, allowing Wallace to battle Landon and become Champion. The events of Emerald then happen, Team Magma and Team Aqua are on the loose, and another Trainer (May) foils both their plans, battles Wallace and becomes the new Champion. Maybe she then leaves, causing Steven to take back the mantle in a manner similar to Lance after Red left

Like I said, I know there are many flaws with this theory, I’m just suggesting it as an interesting little thought experiment

I’ve picked up Three Houses recently and I wanted to figure out the best order to play the routes. I have the DLC, so I can play Cindered Shadows whenever, but I’ve heard conflicting opinions on which routes to start with and which routes to play after that, as well as when to add the DLC into the mix. Keep in mind, this is my first ever Fire Emblem game, so I have nothing to go off of. Also as the title says, please no spoilers

Edit: So far it seems that Verdant Wind and maybe Azure Moon are the top picks for a first route

Edit 2: It also seems that Silver Snow suffers from repetitiveness, namely having a similar start to Crimson Flower and a similar end to Verdant Wind

Whenever I see Junkan being talked about in discussions related to Junko or Mikan, everyone is so quick to label it as toxic as hell, it shouldn’t exist, shouldn’t ever be brought up, worst ship for Mikan, etc. However, everyone seems to love Naeshima, praising it for its angsty/cutesy rivalry, even though it’s way more toxic than Junkan. At least Mikan loved Junko, and Junkan is an interesting look into Mikan’s mind and her insecurities

The way I see it, her obsession with Junko is partly her wanting to be with Junko, and partly her wanting to become Junko, or someone as confident and popular as she is. Makoto just looks genuinely uncomfortable around Junko. You want to ship Makoto with a Despair Sister, ship him with Mukuro. You want an angsty rivalry ship where Hope and Despair collide, ship Junko with Nagito or something, at least that ship incorporates some mutuality into the rivalry, with Junko needing the hope she hates to bring about a bigger despair, and Nagito needing the despair he hates to bring about a bigger hope

TL;DR: Junkan is an interesting ship thematically to showcase Mikan’s insecurities and obsessive nature, Naeshima is uncomfortable and has nothing to show for itself other than being an unrealistically angsty toxic pairing. We have Nagito for that, let Makoto have a better ship, like Mukuro, or Kyoko, or Chihiro, or Hina, or even Sayaka. I’m not hating on anyone who ships Naeshima, I just don’t see the appeal at all