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Pokémon Gaming Central

For topics that aren't necessarily restricted to one game, Pokémon Gaming Central ranges from comparing and contrasting the differences in the gaming generations to discussing the gaming franchise as a whole.

Section Staff: Devalue, colours, Shooting Star

Pokémon Gaming Rules [Updated June 19th]

Sheep, Oct 2016: Pokémon Gaming RulesWelcome to the guidelines for our Pokémon Gaming forums! This includes the Previous Generations forum and Pokémon Gaming Central. Know that once you've read through these, you're good to post in all of those as long as your posts...

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Started by Sheep

What was the last shiny Pokémon you got?

Red1530, Aug 19: Mine was a Graveler in Legends: Arceus while I was doing the main story line.

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Started by Sheep

Ever made a team around a specific theme?

Sheep, Aug 19: Have you ever made a Pokémon team based around a certain theme? Such as colors, foods, animals (all cats or dogs, for example), just Pokémon with stripes, etc? What kinds of themes were they, and do you remmeber what you had on your team?

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Started by Sheep

Highest number of Pokémon you used in a single playthrough

Pyrax, Aug 18: About 9? Counting ones I've dropped and replaced, as well as temporary party members for the early game. I hate grinding so I just stick to whatever's in my final team as much as possible.

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Started by Sheep

Is the first starter you picked your favorite?

(2 pages)

LucarioBread, Aug 18: For me, yes. Picked Mudkip and it's still my favorite, though Rowlet came very close to dethroning it :P

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Started by Sheep

What was your favorite and least favorite game to train in?

Shooting Star, Aug 17: I've gone on paper before saying that I think levels are a bad design decision in 2022 year of our lord to begin with (and I stand by that) so the easier training is, the better. So I guess something like SwSh would be best. BW on the other...

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Started by Sheep

Have you ever tried to cheat in any of the games before?

LucarioBread, Aug 14: There are 2 types of people who have played Emerald for an extensive amount of time: - Those that performed the cloning glitch - Those that are lying

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Started by PageEmperor

Is battling your favorite part of a Pokémon game?

eishiba, Aug 13: I am a bit like Ash from the series. Ever since gen 1, my favorite Pokemon has been Primeape. I always enjoy taking one with me in each game. In the first several gens I would use some new and some old but now I prefer to restrict myself to new...

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Started by Sheep

How to get a Link cable working

Devalue, Aug 13: Depends on the price of the proper cable and Game Boy Color (+ different cable). Presumes the cable to be a fairly low risk purchase, in terms of cost. No worries about posting in the wrong place. Happens fairly often. Learned for any future...

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Started by Aidedfurball

When was the last time you played a Pokémon game?

(4 pages)

Megan, Aug 11: I played through Sword a month or two ago. Now I'm just biding my time to see if gen 9 offers something that interests me.

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Started by Sheep

Funny Dex Entries

Amore, Aug 10: That's why "Psychics" (who are shown to use Telekinesis, so could actually be wizards) are so rare! Every time somebody gives their Vulpix a Fire Stone 9 wizards die!

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Started by ReKoil

Thoughts on single stage Pokemon?

Samtendo09, Aug 8: I’m not generally fond of the execution overall, since too many I personally dislike (or used to dislike) are those that ends up being too gimmicky or weak to me for reliably use. It makes sense why single-staged Pokémon exists; they serves as...

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Started by strangerhypno

Why does Game Freak insist on doing this?

bez850, Aug 8: I don't know, this seems pretty simple. "Regigigas spends most of its time in deep slumber, so much so that moss grows on its feet and back." It's literally a Grey stone in the games and we awaken it from its slumber. It's based off a giant...

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Started by Sweet Serenity

Is there a sophisticated level measure?

Shooting Star, Aug 7: That doesn't track with my experience. Generally speaking PokéTubers will edit out blander parts like grinding yes, but I have yet to see a Pokétuber that does challenges that doesn't 1) explain the strategy, 2) show all the important and/or...

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Started by cloa513

Game Help

Naming my character?

Sheep, Aug 7: Neri or Faeble for me, Neri works best for female imo but Faeble is cute for both!

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Started by UnknownTrainerX

Favorite pokedex entries

Squirtkipfan01, Jul 31: I can sea(hah) this being the classic sonic vs modern sonic debate of pokemon. Both are good, just with different appeal

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Started by Squirtkipfan01

Game Help

Can't transfer

Angelic777, Jul 24: @Devalue THANK YOU I also found this pic from a forum's Discord

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Started by Angelic777

Game Help

Which pokemon do I put in my team's empty spot?

Corveone, Jul 24: You can look at the E4 movesets to help you decide: https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Appendix:FireRed_and_LeafGreen_walkthrough/Section_15 I mean, many of them garbage, look at that physical Jynx with not even a Psychic type move. ...

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Started by Ggpokerbiel

The most Underpowered type?

Sweet Serenity, Jul 23: I couldn't have said it better myself! Many Bug-type Pokémon are still good, loveable, and adorable, especially Butterfree, which is one of my favorites, but overall, they have the lowest base stat totals, common weaknesses, and are resisted by...

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Started by Squirtkipfan01

Are there other characters you think would have made interesting Champions in the games?

Palamon, Jul 22: Anyone would be good to replace Diantha. She literally did nothing the entire game. But, I honestly can't think of who would have worked more since almost all of the X/Y characters are incredibly forgettable as a whole. But, I think some of the...

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Started by Sheep

I calculated and sorted the percentages that every possible type-combination can hit Pokémon super effectively with STAB

Sweet Serenity, Jul 21: Nice one! You did a really great job

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Started by Sweet Serenity

Remakes vs originals

(2 pages)

Koraidon, Jul 21: Firered / Leafgreen It's their first remake of this game and nothing much after catching mewtwo, you are just barebone dead due to lack of postgame contents. We still stuck at Gameboy era Heartgold/ SoulSliver It was quite alright content just...

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Started by Sheep

What was your favorite remake?

AuroraVulpix, Jul 21: In terms of main series, either HGSS or ORAS. Both have plenty of great aspects, but also some shortcomings (HGSS not really fixing my problems with Johto and ORAS excluding some noteworthy Emerald content like gym rematch’s and Battle Frontier). ...

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Started by Sheep

The unused type combinations

Sweet Serenity, Jul 18: Fire/Fairy would actually a good type though. Fire is already a great type itself, both offensively and defensively, and Fairy just makes it even better.

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Started by Palamon

Most Recent Mechanics (Re)Discoveries

Shooting Star, Jul 17: To be fair to Game Freak, that's a translation issue. The original Japanese literally means "evil". Nintendo of America (or whoever was responsible for the translation) probably didn't translate it literally because of image concerns (GS launched...

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Started by Devalue

Opinion on the Grass/Dark typing?

Shooting Star, Jul 16: While we understand that threads discussing subjective stuff like this will inevitably get a little heated - after all, if you're in this forum, you likely have strong opinions about Pokemon - we'd like to remind you all that this is still no excuse...

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Started by PageEmperor

Best PokeBall ever is a Love Ball

Amore, Jul 16: Despite my own Emerald-caught-and-evolved-and-EV’d contest-conquering Dive Ball Milotic probably being a top three most proud captures, I have to generally agree with all the love (no pun intended) for the Apriballs. As a marginally less obvious...

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Started by ShinyCinderace335

Types you think deserve more attacks?

Palamon, Jul 14: More Physical Psychic type, Electric type moves. Maybe some more powerful moves for the Bug type that aren't X-Scissor would be amazing. Maybe some more Pokemon moves in general that do dual type damage like Flying Press. I don't like how...

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Started by PageEmperor

The Surf Sprite

Sheep, Jul 14: I saw it as Seel in RBY, Lapras in GSC, and Wailmer in RSE. As for DPPt... it seemed to me like that's when they started making them harder to identify so you could better imagine your own Pokémon surfing instead. Not that a weird blob that looks...

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Started by Palamon

How many Random Full-Odds Shiny Pokémon have you found before?

Palamon, Jul 12: All my Pokemon are full odds except Skwovet that I actually hunted & wormhole shinies. So, definitely ^8 in my Pokemon lifetime.

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Started by Fritz

Have you ever bought any Pokémon games on release day?

Trainer C, Jul 12: Every game so far.

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Started by Sheep

Is Pokémon the best monster catching/collecting game you've played?

Dawn, Jul 9: Nope. Digimon Story: Cyber Sleuth and Hacker's Memory - the latter especially - earn that prize, for having a far more intricate and interesting gameplay system, an actual narrative to speak of, and monster designs that are...well, at least on par...

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Started by Sheep

Battle facilities in your Pokémon games

Devalue, Jul 3: Oh, right. Forgot about the other Battle Facility in Ultra Sun/Moon: the Battle Agency. Reached maximum grade for the ridiculous number of Festival Coins. Liked the idea. Hopes to never see that precise implementation again, though. Rarely saw...

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Started by Sweet Serenity

Legendary Pokémon and their signature moves

Sweet Serenity, Jul 2: Yeah, I agree with you about the major legendaries having more than one signature move. As for Victini, well, he's a mythical Pokémon, so I wouldn't count him anyway. Mythical Pokémon are meant to be mysterious and even rarer than normal...

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Started by Sweet Serenity

Humans in Pokemon you feel could possibly be secretly real Pokemon?

ZeoStar, Jul 2: I could picture Giovanni being a Weavile who has structured his own mafia type band of thieves.

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Started by PageEmperor

Item Buffs/Nerfs

Koraidon, Jun 30: You know there are certain berries that depending on nature might like or dislike the berry if pokemon eat the berry like say like spicy berry they should heal more health and if they don't like spicy, it should decrease heal value. Don't know if it...

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Started by Devalue

Any Poké Balls you don't like the designs of and avoid using?

Gardevoir1, Jun 28: Beyond Great balls, I also just don't like the look of timer balls.

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Started by Sheep

What's the oldest Pokémon game cartridge you own?

(2 pages)

Janp, Jun 27: Pokémon Sapphire. I got it alongside my Game Boy Micro. Sadly, the saving isn't working anymore, so I've lost my original team.

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Started by Sheep

Do you remember the first glitch/bug you experienced?

Sheep, Jun 25: MissingNo for me too! Obviously very intentionally, wanted those items like others haha. Also the infamous 1/256 move glitch - each move in gen 1 had a built-in miss chance and I was so confused when some of my moves missed despite having 100%...

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Started by Sheep

Worst Game Freezes you've ever experienced

Sweet Serenity, Jun 24: Thankfully, I don't think I ever experienced any game freezes.

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Started by Palamon

Ever regretted starting a new file?

Sweet Serenity, Jun 23: Not at all. Whenever I felt the need to start a new game, it was for a good reason, no doubt.

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Started by Sheep

Early route Pokémon - do you use them?

Adam Levine, Jun 22: In playthroughs with HMs, more often than not I would have an early-game bird up until the end of the game (mainly Staraptor and Unfezant). Nowadays, pretty much the only early-game Pokémon I keep in my playthroughs in Charjabug (and Ampharos in...

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Started by Sheep

News

Original Pokémon games initially planned with 65,535 versions, buying Pokémon, no multiplayer battles

Sheep, Jun 22: Honestly, I find the idea of things being randomly generated like this fun - as a kid who knew a bunch of others that played, it would have been fun to see how our copies differentiated. But that plan does seem massively complex and something I’m...

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Started by bobandbill

Should the maximum level cap be decreased/increased?

(2 pages)

Fairy, Jun 20: I could take it or leave it honestly. 100 is sorta the penultimate number when it comes to being "leveled", but if GF wanted to shake up the formula -- I'd invite them to try raising/lowering the level cap! Lord knows we've been getting the same...

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Started by Vielleroue

Pokemon Game marketing disasters

Janp, Jun 17: Ultra Sun and Moon reveal was a failure in my opinion. The reveal trailer was tucked behind Pokkén (or some other spin-off) trailer with no introduction and barely any coverage after that. And it didn't help there was barely any follow up...

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Started by Palamon

"I absolutely refuse to evolve my Wartortle!"

fawnpetal, Jun 16: I never evolve Yamper! I love it too much exactly how it is. Boltund is cute too but I just adore Yamper. I also rarely evolve Pikachu, even though it can be frail I just think it’s cute and probably have years of attachment thanks to the anime lol....

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Started by Sheep

Soft-Reset 'Stories'

Amore, Jun 16: Oh god, that maths is demoralising! I briefly considered figuring out the probability when resetting for Charmander and Kubfu (3/6 perfect IVs guaranteed, but I need a specific combo, plus the nature) but felt by the time I'd done it I would quit...

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Started by Amore

Ruin Pokemon with a Single Change

Megan, Jun 16: I was so tempted to say "bring back HMs" but people have already said that a couple times. So, here's another one: remove the EXP-Share. I'm not saying that you can turn it off and I'm also not saying that it becomes a held item: no, just remove...

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Started by Devalue

Insane movepools and sucky movepools

Amore, Jun 14: God, Luxray was a disappointment in Gen IV. Felt like they were doubling down on the betrayal of Manectric (Electric + Dark, Crunch only as an Egg Move) from Gen III with these cool Electric designs with good stats but abysmal moves. I actually EV'd...

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Started by ZeoStar

I want a pokemon game that takes the lead from the anime but expands and exceeds the previous limits

Sheep, Jun 14: I've always really, really wanted an anime-style Pokémon game. Things like what Pokémon you can use and how strong they become being based on the field (fish/sea creature-inspired water types have an advantage in the water and can't be used on land,...

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Started by cloa513

News

James Turner leaving Game Freak to start own studio

Retek, Jun 12: Plucky Squire looks soo good. :') Art style looks neat.

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Pokémon Gaming Rules [Updated June 19th]

What was the last shiny Pokémon you got?

Ever made a team around a specific theme?

Highest number of Pokémon you used in a single playthrough

Is the first starter you picked your favorite?

What was your favorite and least favorite game to train in?

Have you ever tried to cheat in any of the games before?

Is battling your favorite part of a Pokémon game?

How to get a Link cable working

When was the last time you played a Pokémon game?

Funny Dex Entries

Thoughts on single stage Pokemon?

Why does Game Freak insist on doing this?

Is there a sophisticated level measure?

Naming my character?

Favorite pokedex entries

Can't transfer

Which pokemon do I put in my team's empty spot?

The most Underpowered type?

Are there other characters you think would have made interesting Champions in the games?

I calculated and sorted the percentages that every possible type-combination can hit Pokémon super effectively with STAB

Remakes vs originals

What was your favorite remake?

The unused type combinations

Most Recent Mechanics (Re)Discoveries

Opinion on the Grass/Dark typing?

Best PokeBall ever is a Love Ball

Types you think deserve more attacks?

The Surf Sprite

How many Random Full-Odds Shiny Pokémon have you found before?

Have you ever bought any Pokémon games on release day?

Is Pokémon the best monster catching/collecting game you've played?

Battle facilities in your Pokémon games

Legendary Pokémon and their signature moves

Humans in Pokemon you feel could possibly be secretly real Pokemon?

Item Buffs/Nerfs

Any Poké Balls you don't like the designs of and avoid using?

What's the oldest Pokémon game cartridge you own?

Do you remember the first glitch/bug you experienced?

Worst Game Freezes you've ever experienced

Ever regretted starting a new file?

Early route Pokémon - do you use them?

Original Pokémon games initially planned with 65,535 versions, buying Pokémon, no multiplayer battles

Should the maximum level cap be decreased/increased?

Pokemon Game marketing disasters

"I absolutely refuse to evolve my Wartortle!"

Soft-Reset 'Stories'

Ruin Pokemon with a Single Change

Insane movepools and sucky movepools

I want a pokemon game that takes the lead from the anime but expands and exceeds the previous limits

James Turner leaving Game Freak to start own studio