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ReKoil September 28th, 2021 12:55 PM

The Glacial Gathering: Ice Types Fanclub
 
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This is a club for people who like Ice Types, be it in general or only some. If there is an Ice Type Pokemon you like, you will be welcomed with open arms!
Come talk about anything Ice type Pokemon =)

To join, simply choose the Ice Type Legendary that you would like as your Guardian:
https://www.pokecommunity.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=98679&stc=1&d=1632860857
(image is a collage of screenshots I took myself in the Crown Tundra and then edited together)

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Articuno: The Freeze Pokemon.
A legendary bird Pokémon that is said to appear to doomed people who are lost in icy mountains. It’s said that this
Pokémon’s beautiful blue wings are made of ice. Articuno flies over snowy mountains, its long tail fluttering along
behind it. This Pokémon can control ice at will.

Regice: The Iceberg Pokemon.
Regice's body was made during an ice age. The deep-frozen body can't be melted, even by fire.
This Pokémon controls frigid air of -328 degrees Fahrenheit.

Kyurem: The Boundary Pokemon: (you can pick any of it's 3 forms).
Kyurem: This legendary ice Pokémon waits for a hero to fill in the missing parts of its body with truth or ideals.
Black Kyurem: It's said that this Pokémon battles in order to protect the ideal world that will exist in the future for people and Pokémon.
White Kyurem: It has foreseen that a world of truth will arrive for people and Pokémon. It strives to protect that future.
(serebii lists the Black & White Kyurem dex entries the other way around, but I think that's a mistake on their end?)


Glastrier: The Wild Horse Pokemon.
Glastrier emits intense cold from its hooves. It’s also a belligerent Pokémon—anything it wants, it takes by force.
Glastrier has tremendous physical strength, and the mask of ice covering its face is 100 times harder than diamond.

Ice Rider Calyrex: High King Pokemon.
According to lore, this Pokémon showed no mercy to those who got in its way, yet it would heal its opponents’ wounds after battle.
It’s said that this Pokémon once moved a large forest—and all the Pokémon living there—to a new location overnight.
You are free to pick your Guardian any way you want. I copied some Dex entries in the quote above, if you wish to choose one based on lore, rather than which you like most.

A Couple questions to start us off:
-What is/are your favorite Ice Type Pokemon?
-Have you ever used an Ice Type on any of your playthrough teams? If yes, do you remember which one it was and/or in which game?

Edit:
Additional topics/questions asked in further posts (recapping them here for people who join later):
Spoiler:

Original Post: https://www.pokecommunity.com/showthread.php?p=10414561#post10414561 (there was/is a Quiz too for anyone interested)
Questions:
-Do you have any shiny Ice Type Pokemon? If not are there any Ice Type Pokemon who's shiny you like and would you consider shiny hunting them or not?
Feel free to share screenshots/photos if you have them!

-Do you nickname your Pokemon? If so do you have any nicknames you use for certain Ice Type mons or do you randomly pick nicknames for them?
-Are there any Ice Type Pokemon you think could use a baby Pokemon or a new evolution? Or perhaps there's an Ice Type Pokemon that you think needs a Middle Stage, because the gap between the first and final form is too big or awkward?
-For those that took the Quiz: Would you like to see more of these?

Original Post: https://www.pokecommunity.com/showthread.php?p=10416588#post10416588 (there was/is a prompt to draw a Regional Ice type for anyone interested).
Questions:
-What is your opinion on regional forms in general? Do you think they are a good idea or would you rather not have had them?
-Do you like the Ice Type regional forms? Do you prefer them over their originals?
-Are there any non Ice Type mons you'd like to see as a regional Ice Type in a new gen/game?
-Would you like any of them to gain a new evolutions? (SwSh gave certain regional forms a new evolution, such as Mr. Rime for Galarian Mr. Mime).
-Do you think or hope there will be any new Ice type Hisuian forms in Legends:Arceus?

Original Post: https://www.pokecommunity.com/showthread.php?p=10418996#post10418996
Questions:
-Are there any pure Ice Type Pokemon that you think should have a secondary typing? If so, which typing would that be?
-Are there any Non-Ice type Pokemon that you think should have been Ice Type? Are there any Ice Type pokemon you think shouldn't be Ice Type?
-Ice hasn't been combined with Normal or Poison yet. Additionally Ice has only been combined with Fire in a temporary form (Zen Mode Galar Darmanitan). Do you have any ideas for what an Ice Type Pokemon combined with any of these types would look like? (you can also use a new Regional form for this if you want)

Original Post: https://www.pokecommunity.com/showthread.php?p=10421717#post10421717 (this post announced the first Battle Tower Challenge too)
Questions:
-What are some of your favorite snowy/icy location(s) in any of the games? (Snowy routes... Icy caverns etc.)
-The Unova games had seasons. Did you like this mechanic? How do you feel about the Winter season in them?
-Deerling/Sawsbuck had forms based on the current season. Do you like the idea of mons having seasonal forms? Do you think one of their typings should be adjusted along with the season? Or perhaps a different ability or move they can only have/use in a particular season?
In SM/USUM a new Evolution stone was introduced for the regional Ice Types: the Ice Stone.
Before Sw/Sh Eevee needed to be in a specific location in order to evolve into Glaceon. In SwSh this has been replaced by the Ice Stone. If Crabrawler were to be in SwSh it would probably have received the same treatment.
-Do you think this is a good change? Do you prefer the location based evolutions for Ice Types such as Glaceon or the new Ice Stones?
-For those who watch the Anime: Are there any moments from the Anime that are set in a snowy or icy location that you find particularly memorable?
-For those who collect or play the TCG: Are there any Ice mon cards (I believe they are Water type in the TCG?) that you think have a great snow/ice locale on the background? Or perhaps you just like the picture as a whole?

Original Post: https://www.pokecommunity.com/showthread.php?p=10424306#post10424306 (there were some Puzzles too)
Questions:
Alola is the only region without an Ice Type specialist.
-If you could compose a Pokemon team for an Alolan Ice type specialist what would it be? Would you make the specialist a Trial Captain or have her/him replace a Kahuna? Or perhaps swap out one of the elite four?
-Which of the Ice Type Gym Leaders / Elite Four is your favorite? This can be the design of the character or how easy/hard they are to beat (or both). Or perhaps you have another reason.
-Which of the above Ice type specialists gave you the most trouble?
-Which of the Ice Gym Badges do you like the most?
-Which Ice Puzzle did you like the most? (doesn't necessarily need to be an Ice Gym... Sootopolis for example has an Ice Puzzle, but is not an Ice gym.).

Original Post: https://www.pokecommunity.com/showthread.php?p=10427231#post10427231
Questions:
-Is/are there any move(s) you find yourself using often? Any favorite moves?
-How about moves you've never even heard about?
-Freeze-Dry is an Ice type move that hits Water types Super Effectively. Do you like the idea of moves like this that allow you to hit something super effectively that you otherwise couldn't? Any ideas for other moves like this (for example an Ice type move that's super effective against Ghost types)?

Original Post: https://www.pokecommunity.com/showthread.php?p=10429905#post10429905 (there was a second Quizz too)
Questions:
-Do you have a favorite PokeBall you like to put your Ice Types in?
-If you think none of the currently existing PokeBalls fit (or just want a ball that works better on Ice Types =3), do you have any ideas for a PokeBall that's meant for Ice types? (you can tweak an existing PokeBall or come up with something completely new =3).
-Do you have any Ice Pokemon merchandise? Feel free to share photo's if you want =3 Also yes the Icy water types from TCG count too =3

Original Post: https://www.pokecommunity.com/showthread.php?p=10432799#post10432799
Question:
-Are you using/going to use an Ice type on your team? (BDSP related, this post also started of the rankings).

Original Post: https://www.pokecommunity.com/showthread.php?p=10435648#post10435648
Question:
-Are there any changes you'd like to see in the Ice type's Type match-ups? This could be defensive (for example give Ice type a new resistance) or offensive (give it a different or an extra type it's super effective against)

Original Post: https://www.pokecommunity.com/showthread.php?p=10467714#post10467714 (near the bottom of the post)
Questions:
-What ice Pokemon would be cool to have an encounter with?
-Also which ice pokemon would you never want to encounter?

Original Post: https://www.pokecommunity.com/showthread.php?p=10473580#post10473580
Question:
-Are there any Ice type Pokemon you think could be used as a starter?

Original Post: https://www.pokecommunity.com/showthread.php?p=10476702#post10476702 (post also had the first Ice type mashup silhouettes)
Question:
-Are there any creatures from mythology you think would make for a good Ice type Pokemon? (that haven't already been used)




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Active Optional Challenges/Events:
-Draw a Regional Ice type form for any Pokemon if you want =D (doesn't expire)
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Club Owner:
❄️ ReKoil ❄️ Guardian: Glastrier ❄️ Favorite Ice Type(s): Glaceon, Aurorus, Alolan Ninetales, Froslass and Mamoswine ❄️

List of Members:
❄️ VisionofMilotic ❄️ Guardian: Kyurem ❄️ Favorite Ice Type(s): Lapras ❄️
❄️ Sheep ❄️ Guardian: Glastrier ❄️ Favorite Ice Type(s): Alolan Vulpix ❄️
❄️ Megan ❄️ Guardian: Regice ❄️ Favorite Ice Type(s): Froslass❄️
❄️ Ash Ketchup ❄️ Guardian: Ice Rider Calyrex ❄️ Favorite Ice Type(s): Lapras, Froslass, Glaceon, Alolan Vulpix & Ninetales, Weavile, Cloyster and Aurorus ❄️
❄️ Eleanor ❄️ Guardian: Black Kyurem ❄️ Favorite Ice Type(s): Glaceon, Froslass, Weavile, Frosmoth and Aurorus.❄️
❄️ Ninetales ❄️ Guardian: Articuno ❄️ Favorite Ice Type(s): Glaceon and Alolan Ninetales ❄️
❄️ icycatelf ❄️ Guardian: Regice ❄️ Favorite Ice Type(s): Alolan Sandslash, Sneasel, Lapras, Frosmoth, Shiny Glaceon and Froslass ❄️
❄️ Rabinov ❄️ Guardian: Articuno ❄️ Favorite Ice Type(s): Articuno ❄️
❄️ Fairy ❄️ Guardian: Articuno ❄️ Favorite Ice Type(s): Alolan Ninetales, Weavile, and Lapras ❄️
❄️ Roni ❄️ Guardian: Regice ❄️ Favorite Ice Type(s): Dewgong, Frost Rotom, Snover, Snom, & Eiscue ❄️
❄️ Shilah Mae Grace ❄️ Guardian: Black Kyurem ❄️ Favorite Ice Type(s): Mamoswine and Black-Kyurem ❄️
❄️ Striscia La Magicienne ❄️ Guardian: White Kyurem ❄️ Favorite Ice Type(s): Snom, Arctozolt, Kyurem, Alolan Ninetales, Glaceon ❄️
❄️ _confused_piplup_ ❄️ Guardian: White Kyurem ❄️ Favorite Ice Type(s): Froslass, Alolan Ninetales, Spheal, Walrein, Glaceon, Dewgong, Lapras, Snom, Frosmoth ❄️
Club of the Month: October 2021!
https://i.imgur.com/4K7dp52.png

Club of the Year: 2021! =D
https://i.postimg.cc/hPP0yFvN/tenor-3.gif

PS: I made a bunch of Ice type Avatars that can be freely used on the forums here.
Dewgong and Crabominable are in the next post.


VisionofMilotic September 29th, 2021 4:54 AM

Yes! This looks like the beginning of a really cool club! No pun intended.

All of the guardian Pokemon look impressive. I think I will humbly ask that Kyurem watch over me. It's storyline was interesting in the BW2 games, and I also liked how Kyurem was presented in the Sword of Justice movie.

I was tempted though by Calyrex and Articuno as well.

What is/are your favorite Ice Type Pokemon?

Probably Lapras. It's is such an alluring pokémon that makes me think of the loch Ness monster, and I have tender memories of the baby Lapras that Ash rescued and reunited with it's family after traveling through the Orange Islands with it and using it in important gym challenges like the race with Blastoise and at the Orange League against Drake's gengar. I miss this precious Pokemon, and always look forward to getting a special gift Lapras in-game.

Have you ever used an Ice Type on any of your playthrough teams? If yes, do you remember which one it was and/or in which game?

Yes, I used a strong Beartic on my team in my last playthrough of Pokemon Black. I really like the seasons feature of the Unova games, and I was lucky enough to just so happen to be playing around the holiday season, and watched autumn become winter and was able to access areas of the game that only open when things over, and got a cute cubchoo who I raised into a fearsome-looking beartic. He really came in handy at the 8th gym vs Dryden's dragons, and he 1 hit k.oed everything with his powerful icicle crash.

I remember building a team around Cloyster in the old RBY games, and importing it into pokemon stadium. Having the special attack/defense all being one stat back in gen 1 was fun.

It's not for a main story run, but I have a Lapras in Oras right now that has been traded over to help me at the post game battle facilities. I am really enjoying it's current set, just basic basic thunderbolt, surf, freeze dry and ice shard. I am also raising up a nice thick fat Mamoswine.

I have grand plans to evolve my Eevee into Glaceon in my Sinnoh run.

ReKoil September 29th, 2021 7:28 AM

You have been admitted to the Glacial Gathering through your Guardian: Kyurem.
Welcome, VisionofMilotic!

Lapras is a fine choice! It's quite the elegant pokemon. It once was my favorite Ice Type too =)

It seems you are no stranger to using an Ice type on your team either =)
It's a shame how often Ice types get omitted from people's teams, due to Ice not having any resistances other than itself while having 4 weaknesses.

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I'll go and answer my own question too:
What is/are your favorite Ice Type Pokemon?

Glaceon, Aurorus, Alolan Ninetales, Froslass and Mamoswine are currently my top 5 Ice Types, in that order. Some newer Ice types like Glastrier and Frostmoth have been growing on me though, so they might push someone out of my top 5 at some point ^.^ Glaceon is also my favorite mon in general. It is both an awesome looking eeveelution and an Ice type as well!
Aurorus is just a majestic looking mon and I love it. Alolan Ninetales is beautiful. Froslass has some dark Dex entries, but it's design I find very appealing. Mamoswine is just cool and has grown on me over the years.

Have you ever used an Ice Type on any of your playthrough teams? If yes, do you remember which one it was and/or in which game?

The ones that I can remember:
-A Seel evolved into Dewgong all the way back in the original Red & Blue. And in the opposite game, after catching the legendary birds, I put Articuno on one of those teams as well. Both of these filled the final slot on those teams and were really late admissions due to them being catch-able so late in the game. As such, they weren't used very long, but Dewgong helped with Blaine and Giovanni and Articuno was quite helpful against Giovanni too.
-Skipping to gen 3 as I never had a GBC and skipped Gen 2 at the time. Didn't know until recently Gold/Silver were playable on the original GameBoy... oh well. I had a Walrein that started as a Spheal on my team in one of the RSE games. The gift Lapras from Silph in FRLG. Both of these are kinda late in the game too. Walrein was very helpful with Drake and Lapras very helpful for Lance iirc.
-Gen 4: I had both Diamond & Pearl. Tried out one of the new eeveelutions in each. I don't remember how late in the game the snow route where you could evolve Eevee into Glaceon was (or how late in the game Eevee was available), but it felt like I had to wait forever to get the chance. Once I had it though.... love at first sight 😍 It instantly became my favorite Pokemon.
-Gen 5: I don't remember much from gen 5. But I'm fairly confident I had a Cubchoo/Beartic on my team in one of the games.
-Gen 6: Used the sail fossil for a Amaura/Aurorus that I added to the team. It was... a struggle. I love it's design, but keeping it alive was not easy.
-Gen 7: Thought for a second I didn't use any this gen, but then remembered having a Crabominable on one of my teams, and a Froslass on one of the others (I got all 4 Alola games and do not remember which was used in what game).
-Gen 8: Shiny bred a heavy Ball Eevee and evolved it into Glaceon in Shield and then used it for my first Sword playthrough.
Remembering these is reminding me there are quite some Ice types I still need to give a shot on one of my playthrough teams!

As for my own Guardian, I was torn between them, but ended up picking Glastrier.

Sheep October 2nd, 2021 7:22 AM

Can I please join and make Glastrier my partner? :3c I am getting more and more attached to ice types lately, especially since I love Alolan pix so much..!

Megan October 2nd, 2021 7:47 AM

I'd like to join. Tbh. I think it's a shame that the Ice type feels so underrepresented. There aren't that many Pokemon of the type and most of the time you only get access to them fairly late in the playthrough. That means you can't really make much use of them until most of the game is done.

I'll go with Regice. I like its somewhat alien appearance and cry.

My favorite is Froslass and I actually used one back when I was still playing ROM hacks. I used in in my playthrough in Glaced. Another Ice Type I used on one of my playthroughs of Gold was Sneasel. Such a shame that it can only be accessed in Mt Silver, though. At least Crystal made it accessible earlier.

Starlight October 2nd, 2021 7:54 AM

Sign me up!!! I adore Ice types! I have one on nearly every team, and it's often Lapras, I love Lapras so much!

An ice horse is built to be my guardian so I almost picked Glastrier... but I'm going all in... Ice Rider Calyrex, I choose you :)

My favourite Ice types are Lapras, Froslass, Glaceon, Alolan Vulpix & Ninetales, Weavile, Cloyster and Aurorus

But to be fair, Ice is one of my favourite types, I love nearly all Ice Pokémon!

ReKoil October 2nd, 2021 11:08 AM

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Originally Posted by Sheep (Post 10412994)
Can I please join and make Glastrier my partner? :3c I am getting more and more attached to ice types lately, especially since I love Alolan pix so much..!

You have been admitted to the Glacial Gathering through your Guardian: Glastrier.
Welcome, Sheep!

Alolan Vulpix is super adorable =)

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Originally Posted by Megan (Post 10413002)
I'd like to join. Tbh. I think it's a shame that the Ice type feels so underrepresented. There aren't that many Pokemon of the type and most of the time you only get access to them fairly late in the playthrough. That means you can't really make much use of them until most of the game is done.

I'll go with Regice. I like its somewhat alien appearance and cry.

My favorite is Froslass and I actually used one back when I was still playing ROM hacks. I used in in my playthrough in Glaced. Another Ice Type I used on one of my playthroughs of Gold was Sneasel. Such a shame that it can only be accessed in Mt Silver, though. At least Crystal made it accessible earlier.

You have been admitted to the Glacial Gathering through your Guardian: Regice.
Welcome, Megan!

Great mon choice =)
Johto had more mons like that from what I've heard, like Houndour was only catchable in Kanto? And Larvitar was also Mt. Silver iirc. Johto had weird mon distrubtions.
Also yeah, while trying to recollect what playthrough teams I used Ice types on, I realized almost all of them weren't really there till the last couple gyms T^T

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Originally Posted by Ash Ketchup (Post 10413005)
Sign me up!!! I adore Ice types! I have one on nearly every team, and it's often Lapras, I love Lapras so much!

An ice horse is built to be my guardian so I almost picked Glastrier... but I'm going all in... Ice Rider Calyrex, I choose you :)

My favourite Ice types are Lapras, Froslass, Glaceon, Alolan Vulpix & Ninetales, Weavile, Cloyster and Aurorus

But to be fair, Ice is one of my favourite types, I love nearly all Ice Pokémon!

You have been admitted to the Glacial Gathering through your Guardian: Ice Rider Calyrex.
Welcome, Ash Ketchup!

Excellent mon choices as well!
You might actually have an Ice type on your team more often than I do then xD
I do use them a lot though ^.^

Sheep October 3rd, 2021 12:53 AM

I feel bad because I feel like I don't use them often, but that's more because my team usually fills up before I can find an ice type to catch aha. I did use Frosmoth in Shield though and it was useful even if it was catchable late enough in the game. n pretty too :3

Eleanor October 3rd, 2021 4:11 AM

Hello hello! As an avid utilizer of the emoji over on Discord, I'd love to be part of this club!
My Guardian shall be Kyurem Black, as Black 2 was one of the first Pokémon games I played (I still have the cartridge) and one of my favorites too.

My favorite Ice type is obviously Glaceon, but honorable mentions go to Froslass, Weavile, Frosmoth and Aurorus.

As for Ice types I've used...
- I remember using Glaceon a few times when I tried playing Pokémon Storm Silver (difficulty hack) because the creator was kind enough to let you access Glaceon before the first badge...
- I definitely remember the various Beartic I've used in the last Challenge I've done (as of now), the 2021 Get-Together Save Swap thing! They were definitely straight-forward Pokémon, but I can't complain when you can just click "Icicle Crash" and things die in front of you!
- In that same challenge I've also used a Mamoswine- thank you Sheep for catching that one, haha!
- I also remember having a good time with a Rotom Frost in the Halloween 2020 challenge... too bad that was the level limit challenge, where Pokémon never last very long...
- Sadly, I don't have that many experiences with Ice-types yet, especially outside of these challenges, because... yeah, they are rare and mostly placed near the end of the game. Oops :|

ReKoil October 3rd, 2021 9:52 AM

I made Avatars for all Ice types available in Sw/Sh from screenshots I took =)
Attached them to my latest post in my showcase thread in the art section.
Wouldn't mind submitting them for review for Forum avatars, but dunno how ^.^

Take a look if you want, and feel free to use one as your avatar if you want ^.^

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Originally Posted by Sheep (Post 10413308)
I feel bad because I feel like I don't use them often, but that's more because my team usually fills up before I can find an ice type to catch aha. I did use Frosmoth in Shield though and it was useful even if it was catchable late enough in the game. n pretty too :3

yeah the curse of the ice types, they are either found pretty late game or they gain the ice typing upon evolving (like Crabrawler), but need a late game location to evolve 😭

No need to feel bad lol, every type has some great mons! For a first playthrough at least, mons available early will usually go first ^.^
Every new generation I try to use at least 1 ice type if possible, but there are usually other tempting mons too ^.^

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Originally Posted by Eleanor (Post 10413357)
Hello hello! As an avid utilizer of the emoji over on Discord, I'd love to be part of this club!
My Guardian shall be Kyurem Black, as Black 2 was one of the first Pokémon games I played (I still have the cartridge) and one of my favorites too.

My favorite Ice type is obviously Glaceon, but honorable mentions go to Froslass, Weavile, Frosmoth and Aurorus.

As for Ice types I've used...
- I remember using Glaceon a few times when I tried playing Pokémon Storm Silver (difficulty hack) because the creator was kind enough to let you access Glaceon before the first badge...
- I definitely remember the various Beartic I've used in the last Challenge I've done (as of now), the 2021 Get-Together Save Swap thing! They were definitely straight-forward Pokémon, but I can't complain when you can just click "Icicle Crash" and things die in front of you!
- In that same challenge I've also used a Mamoswine- thank you Sheep for catching that one, haha!
- I also remember having a good time with a Rotom Frost in the Halloween 2020 challenge... too bad that was the level limit challenge, where Pokémon never last very long...
- Sadly, I don't have that many experiences with Ice-types yet, especially outside of these challenges, because... yeah, they are rare and mostly placed near the end of the game. Oops :|

You have been admitted to the Glacial Gathering through your Guardian: Black Kyurem.
Welcome, Eleanor!

Great mon choices =3
That's still some solid experience though! I've never done challenge runs myself, but I reckon as long as you're having fun with your Pokemon team, the experience should be good =)

Ninetales October 4th, 2021 4:01 AM

Ah! I’m so delighted at this club’s creation! I absolutely adore ice types!!

I’d love for my guardian to be none other than the indescribably elegant and majestic Articuno!! I adore the others, however, Articuno I find to be the most alluring, as it has been a long-time favourite of mine.

What are your favourite ice type Pokémon?

Glaceon/Alolan Ninetales!

I recall first seeing May’s Glaceon whilst competing in a contest in the DP series. It was the Wallace Cup if I’m not mistaken. From that moment onward I fell in love with the ice-type eeveelution. Glaceon sits among my top 5 all-time favourite Pokémon, and also is simultaneously my favourite eeveelution. It is truly a stunning Pokémon, and I cannot properly articulate my adoration for Glaceon. I utilized a Glaceon in Pokémon Pearl, named Kody, who brutally annihilated Cynthia’s Garchomp without breaking a sweat. I also main a Glaceon in PMD XD.

And Ninetales, well, I suppose if I haven’t made my love for this Pokémon abundantly clear, I will do so now. Ninetales is my favourite Pokémon, hence my username. Alolan Ninetales specifically has one of my favourite type combinations to date, and it’s reveal was tremendous, I’m sure you can imagine my excitement upon seeing it for the first time.


Have you ever used an Ice type on any of your playthrough teams?



Yes. As aforementioned, I utilized a Glaceon in Pokémon Pearl, who is a renown assassin. Sinnoh’s most wanted undoubtably.

I also had a Weavile accompany me during my playthrough of Heartgold. Akame, who I named after a character of the same name from Akame Ga Kill. Weavile is another favourite of mine that I’d always wanted to use, but never had prior to catching her. I certainly didn’t regret it, Akame far exceeded my expectations with her battling capabilities. On Soulsilver, I have a Lapras named Lucille, and describing her as a tank would be an understatement. Lapras is another Pokémon I simply couldn’t pass up the opportunity to use, as it’s a magnificent Pokémon in every aspect.

I also had a Vanilluxe on my team in Pokémon Black named Swirl, an Aurorus in Pokémon X named Aurora. (Aurorus is another favourite of mine!!)

Froslass and Frosmoth are on my list for ice types I plan on using in the future!!

icycatelf October 4th, 2021 5:46 AM

I've considered Ice my favorite type for some years, so of course I've gotta join!

Guardian: I think I'm going to go with Regice. I love how mysterious the Legenary Golems were in Gen. III, being so tucked away that one had to rely on a guide to unlock. (I was thinking Articuno at first, purely for aesthetics, but then I remembered how I used to find its RB sprite creepy and once had a nightmare about it eating my Pokémon and exploding my Game Boy...!)

What is/are your favorite Ice-type Pokémon? Alolan Sandslash, Sneasel, Lapras, Frosmoth, Shiny Glaceon, and Froslass

Spoiler:
  • Sandslash is one of my favorite and most nostalgic Pokémon from Gen. I, so I was completely on board when it got rebooted with my favorite type. Its Sugi artwork is admittedly a bit awkward, but its in-game models as well as some of its TCG illustrations are gorgeous.
  • Sneasel has a cool design, but what really makes it stand out to me was its OP Neo Genesis card, which I remember my cousin flaunting back in elementary school. I also learned in recent years that it's partially based on cats, as evidenced by a couple cat Pokémon products and a particular card, which makes me like it even more.
  • Lapras is just a really elegant looking Pokémon and I enjoyed using it in Stadium. It being one of the weekly events in GSC and trading my cousin for a Fossil Lapras card back in the day also make it nostalgic.
  • I adore moths and Ice-types, so Frosmoth is perfect for me! If it wasn't for it, there's a good chance that I would've passed on SWSH.
  • My MVP in Black 2 was a Shiny Glaceon. Despite disliking Glaceon up to this point, I opted to evolve a Shiny Eevee that I MM'd after a mere 8 eggs into Glaceon since I ran a mono-Ice team and came to love him. If it wasn't for me favoring full-odds Shinies these days, I'm pretty sure he'd still be on my main team.
  • I generally consider Froslass the reason I fell for Ice-types. A friend in high school traded me one and she was awesome! Got me into competitive battling for a while.


Have you ever used an Ice-type on any of your playthrough teams? If yes, do you remember which one it was and/or in which game? Lapras in LeafGreen (probably Red/Yellow and Silver too), Glalie and Walrein in XD, Vanilluxe in Black, Aurorus in X, Alolan Sandslash in Moon, and Frosmoth in Shield.

ReKoil October 4th, 2021 10:10 AM

There are more people joining than I expected tbh =D
But ofc, the more the merrier! 😊

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Ah! I’m so delighted at this club’s creation! I absolutely adore ice types!!

I’d love for my guardian to be none other than the indescribably elegant and majestic Articuno!! I adore the others, however, Articuno I find to be the most alluring, as it has been a long-time favourite of mine.

What are your favourite ice type Pokémon?

Glaceon/Alolan Ninetales!

I recall first seeing May’s Glaceon whilst competing in a contest in the DP series. It was the Wallace Cup if I’m not mistaken. From that moment onward I fell in love with the ice-type eeveelution. Glaceon sits among my top 5 all-time favourite Pokémon, and also is simultaneously my favourite eeveelution. It is truly a stunning Pokémon, and I cannot properly articulate my adoration for Glaceon. I utilized a Glaceon in Pokémon Pearl, named Kody, who brutally annihilated Cynthia’s Garchomp without breaking a sweat. I also main a Glaceon in PMD XD.

And Ninetales, well, I suppose if I haven’t made my love for this Pokémon abundantly clear, I will do so now. Ninetales is my favourite Pokémon, hence my username. Alolan Ninetales specifically has one of my favourite type combinations to date, and it’s reveal was tremendous, I’m sure you can imagine my excitement upon seeing it for the first time.


Have you ever used an Ice type on any of your playthrough teams?



Yes. As aforementioned, I utilized a Glaceon in Pokémon Pearl, who is a renown assassin. Sinnoh’s most wanted undoubtably.

I also had a Weavile accompany me during my playthrough of Heartgold. Akame, who I named after a character of the same name from Akame Ga Kill. Weavile is another favourite of mine that I’d always wanted to use, but never had prior to catching her. I certainly didn’t regret it, Akame far exceeded my expectations with her battling capabilities. On Soulsilver, I have a Lapras named Lucille, and describing her as a tank would be an understatement. Lapras is another Pokémon I simply couldn’t pass up the opportunity to use, as it’s a magnificent Pokémon in every aspect.

I also had a Vanilluxe on my team in Pokémon Black named Swirl, an Aurorus in Pokémon X named Aurora. (Aurorus is another favourite of mine!!)

Froslass and Frosmoth are on my list for ice types I plan on using in the future!!

You have been admitted to the Glacial Gathering through your Guardian: Articuno.
Welcome, Ninetales!

Excellent mon choices! Glaceon and Alolan Ninetales are fabulous mons =3
I still want to use a Weavile myself, never did. I'm thinking of using one on my team in the upcoming DP remakes ^.^
There are too many Ice types I haven't used yet xD
Also Lapras is definitely a mon every Pokemon player should try out at least once 😊

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I've considered Ice my favorite type for some years, so of course I've gotta join!

Guardian: I think I'm going to go with Regice. I love how mysterious the Legenary Golems were in Gen. III, being so tucked away that one had to rely on a guide to unlock. (I was thinking Articuno at first, purely for aesthetics, but then I remembered how I used to find its RB sprite creepy and once had a nightmare about it eating my Pokémon and exploding my Game Boy...)

What is/are your favorite Ice-type Pokémon? Alolan Sandslash, Sneasel, Lapras, Frosmoth, Shiny Glaceon, and Froslass

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  • Sandslash is one of my favorite and most nostalgic Pokémon from Gen. I, so I was completely on board when it got rebooted with my favorite type.
  • Sneasel has a cool design, but what really makes it stand out to me was its OP Neo Genesis card, which I remember my cousin flaunting back in elementary school. I also learned in recent years that it's partially based on cats, as evidenced by a couple cat Pokémon products and a particular card, which makes me like it even more.
  • Lapras is just a really elegant looking Pokémon and I enjoyed using it in Stadium. It being one of the weekly events in GSC and trading my cousin for a Fossil Lapras card also make it nostalgic.
  • I adore moths and Ice-types, so Frosmoth is perfect for me!
  • Glaceon was my MVP in Black 2. I’d actually disliked Glaceon up to this point, but when I MM’d a Shiny Eevee after a mere 8 eggs, I opted to evolve it into Glaceon since I ran a mono-Ice team and came to love it.
  • I generally consider Froslass the reason I fell for Ice-types. A friend in high school traded me one and she was awesome!


Have you ever used an Ice-type on any of your playthrough teams? If yes, do you remember which one it was and/or in which game? Lapras in LeafGreen (probably Red/Yellow and Silver too), Glalie and Walrein in XD, Vanilluxe in Black, Aurorus in X, Alolan Sandslash in Moon, and Frosmoth in Shield.

You have been admitted to the Glacial Gathering through your Guardian: Regice.
Welcome, icycatelf!

Great mon choices as well!
You seem to have used your fair share of Ice types too =)

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Guardian: I think I'm going to go with Regice. I love how mysterious the Legenary Golems were in Gen. III, being so tucked away that one had to rely on a guide to unlock. (I was thinking Articuno at first, purely for aesthetics, but then I remembered how I used to find its RB sprite creepy and once had a nightmare about it eating my Pokémon and exploding my Game Boy...)

I needed help with the Braille puzzle stuff back then too xD
Like, how are you supposed to figure that stuff out as a kid without outside help? @[email protected]
Also, that sounds like a pretty bad nightmare 😱

ReKoil October 6th, 2021 10:32 AM

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I'm not sure what the normal frequency is for this, but I will be attempting to put some new topics/questions up once a week (every Wednesday) for the time being.
I will also be randomly adding in other things that I think may be fun to do =3

Poking all members =3
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Do you have any shiny Ice Type Pokemon? If not are there any Ice Type Pokemon who's shiny you like and would you consider shiny hunting them or not?
Feel free to share screenshots/photos if you have them!


Putting my own answers in spoilers: =3
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Do you nickname your Pokemon? If so do you have any nicknames you use for certain Ice Type mons or do you randomly pick nicknames for them?

Putting my own answers in spoilers: =3
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I do nickname Pokemon, but in general go with whim. No set themes or anything. Glaceon though, I've been nicknaming all of them Aurelia ever since Borderlands TPS. Not because I like the character in that game (she's not a nice person lol). But, because I think it's a beautiful name =3


Are there any Ice Type Pokemon you think could use a baby Pokemon or a new evolution? Or perhaps there's an Ice Type Pokemon that you think needs a Middle Stage, because the gap between the first and final form is too big or awkward?

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Most Ice types already have smaller first forms, but personally I've always felt like a baby Pokemon for Lapras could be super adorable! Would love to see one. Found this nice fanart through google:
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As for new evolutions.... two mons come to mind. Cryogonal and Delibird. Delibird desperately needs an evo imo, it's so weak. Cryogonal has pretty good stats actually, but I'd just like it to have an evolution even if it's stats don't increase =3

Found some interesting fanart for these two:


Middle stages, personally I've always felt like there should be a middle stage for cubchoo. There are other Ice types that go from really small to big (like Bergmite to Avalugg), but those don't really bother me. For some reason Cubchoo -> Beartic does. Found this fanart through google:



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I also made a little Ice Type Quiz for those who are interested! 10 questions: 7 multiple choice and 3 True/False questions.
Taking it is completely optional, but after submitting your answers it will show you the correct answers/if you got any questions wrong, and give you a score. This is not so much about score though and more for fun! Test your knowledge =3

Click the spoiler for more info, if you are interested =)

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Professor Kyurem's Ice Type Trivia Quiz:

You can take the quiz by clicking this link: https://testmoz.com/10316024
The quiz site insisted on some sort of name input, so for 'Enter your forum nickname' just put what your username is on PC ^.^

The Password is on the blackboard below! (case sensitive)
(I'm reluctant to type it out due the bots).
https://www.pokecommunity.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=98872&stc=1&d=1633541570


I spend a lot of time in Forum Games and Poke Trivia (so a biased opinion), but I though this could be fun =3

For those that took the Quiz: Would you like to see more of these?
You can also post your score if you want. You don't have to though.

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Two utility questions for future possible challenges or events:
-Do you have access to a Pokemon game that allows you to Wonder Trade (3DS) or Surprise Trade (Switch)?
-Do you have access to a Pokemon game that has some variation of the Battle Tower? (3DS or Switch)

I may or may not be plotting things 😈

Sheep October 6th, 2021 8:31 PM

I have some shinies! Glaceon being one of them actually. :3 I forgot when I got her but it was early on, I think in the gen IV days...? Pretty sure it was through a trade from someone! She now sits comfily in my Shield file.

the quiz..

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Your score: 70% 70/100
I was so confused for some of them, figured I'd get those wrong. xD;;

icycatelf October 7th, 2021 6:39 AM

Do you have any Shiny Ice-type Pokémon? Are there any Ice-type Pokémon whose Shiny you like and would you consider Shiny-hunting them? I've got a full-odds Shiny Alolan Sandslash, Weavile and Froslass from Moon, Alolan Ninetales and Glalie from Ultra Sun, Frosmoth and Avalugg from Shield (assuming I understand the Shiny odds correctly), and Sneasel from Diamond and Virtual Console Gold. I'd still like to find a full-odds Shiny Vanillite someday!


I've also got some non-full-odds Shinies, most notably my Shiny Glaceon mentioned in my previous post. There's also Dewgong, Cloyster, Jynx, Lapras, another Sneasel and Weavile, Walrein, another Froslass, Vanillite, Cryogonal, Aurorus, and another Avalugg.


Do you nickname your Pokémon? If so, do you have any nicknames you use for certain Ice-type mons or do you randomly pick nicknames for them? I usually try to come up with something new (usually something I can link to the Pokémon's type, design or origin), but I did name all three of my female Shiny Sneasel/Weavile Talon.

Are there any Ice-type Pokémon you think could use a Baby Pokémon or a new evolution? Lapras could use a Baby for sure! I could see it looking something like a baby sea turtle crossed with a snail. I'd also love to see a baby Sneasel. As for evolutions, I agree that Delibird deserves something, but I also think it'd be cool if Dewgong got one since you hardly ever hear about it. Or at least a new form (Mega, etc.).

I also made a little Ice Type Quiz for those who are interested! 10 questions: 7 multiple choice and 3 True/False questions. I was not prepared for a pop quiz this morning! I got 80%, missing the questions about the Gen. with the least amount of Ice-types (only three of the Gen. IV Ice-types were coming to mind) and the one about unique moves.

For those that took the Quiz: Would you like to see more of these? Wynaut?

Do you have access to a Pokémon game that allows you to Wonder Trade (3DS) or Surprise Trade (Switch)? Yes to Wonder Trade, no to Surprise Trade.

Do you have access to a Pokémon game that has some variation of the Battle Tower? (3DS or Switch)? Yes.

Megan October 7th, 2021 7:23 AM

Do you have any shiny Ice Type Pokemon? If not are there any Ice Type Pokemon who's shiny you like and would you consider shiny hunting them or not?
Feel free to share screenshots/photos if you have them!

I don't recall having any Ice type shines. But I'm also not interested in shiny hunting, tbh. I'm pretty much past the point where I have goals that take a long time. I play the games mostly for the ride.

Do you nickname your Pokemon? If so do you have any nicknames you use for certain Ice Type mons or do you randomly pick nicknames for them?
I may use random names or themes or whatever is in my head at the moment. I also think that often times the other type in an Ice dual type mon is very overpowering in that regard. I'd usually end up basing the name on that second type. ^^"

Are there any Ice Type Pokemon you think could use a baby Pokemon or a new evolution? Or perhaps there's an Ice Type Pokemon that you think needs a Middle Stage, because the gap between the first and final form is too big or awkward?
Sneasel could have a preevolution, Delibird could have an evolution. Glalie I could see having an evolution. I'm not a huge fan of baby Pokemon and I don't really think there's any evolution that is a huge jump in strength. If anything, they need all the strength they can get given how late most of them can be found. ^^"

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I also made a little Ice Type Quiz for those who are interested! 10 questions: 7 multiple choice and 3 True/False questions.
Taking it is completely optional, but after submitting your answers it will show you the correct answers/if you got any questions wrong, and give you a score. This is not so much about score though and more for fun! Test your knowledge =3
I got 80/100 and I could have gotten 90. Pretty much messed up the last two questions. I don't know much about gen 8 moves and the last question I misread completely. xD

-Do you have access to a Pokemon game that allows you to Wonder Trade (3DS) or Surprise Trade (Switch)?
I have my gen 6-7 games and technically also Sword. However, for the latter I refuse to pay for an extra online service from Nintendo.

-Do you have access to a Pokemon game that has some variation of the Battle Tower? (3DS or Switch)
Same as above.

VisionofMilotic October 8th, 2021 3:17 AM

Do you have any shiny Ice Type Pokemon? If not are there any Ice Type Pokemon who's shiny you like and would you consider shiny hunting them or not?
Feel free to share screenshots/photos if you have them!


I remember shiny Pokemon being pretty easy to get in Pokemon XY, and may have some shiny shellder/Cloyster from my chain fishing days still on the 3ds. I also have access to an ice type friend Safari withd delibird, beartic and bergmite, and think it could be fun to hunt some of those and share if anyone is interested.

Do you nickname your Pokemon? If so do you have any nicknames you use for certain Ice Type mons or do you randomly pick nicknames for them?

I usually nickname all of my Pokemon because they have personality to me, and I feel that they should have names in recognition that they are something special, and also to acknowledge hoe they have helped me on my quest. I would like to think that we are friends. I try to put some thought into names, and use names that mean something. Ice Pokemon are no exception!

The Lapras I transferred over from my Crystal playthrough I named Scamander, which is the Greek name for a Turkish river Karamenderes. The ancient people thought the river had a divine personification called Xanthos, an immortal warrior who fought with the Gods.

My Articuno from Pokemon Yellow I named Yuki-onna after the ice yokai of Japanese folklore. Yuki-onna are said to be hauntingly beautiful maidens that appear during snow storms, leading those who get lost to their wintery grave. The reason I thought of these spirits when naming Articuno is because of a line in it's Pokedex entry in Pokemon Blue, describing it as, "A legendary bird POKéMON that is said to appear to doomed people who are lost in icy mountains."

Though the Pokemon that is most specifically based on the Yuki-onna is froslass, Articuno's story is still eerie and somber enough that I thought the name worked for this ice pokemon too.

Are there any Ice Type Pokemon you think could use a baby Pokemon or a new evolution? Or perhaps there's an Ice Type Pokemon that you think needs a Middle Stage, because the gap between the first and final form is too big or awkward?

That's an interesting question. Hmmm! Alolan vulpix already is awfully cute, so I don't see how one one could fail making a mini Vulpix by giving it a baby form. I think it would make a precious Pokemon.

I mentioned not long ago in the water club that I would like to see an evolution for Dewgong. Who knows? Maybe it's time will come in Legends Arceus and we'll meet a hisusian seel and dewgong, and a third stage will be added to the evolutionary line?

For those that took the Quiz: Would you like to see more of these?
You can also post your score if you want. You don't have to though.


I like the idea of optional quizzes like this. It was something different to do, and was actually fairly challenging.

My score: 80% 80/100

In my defense some of the questions were a little vague. I wasn't sure for instance how mega evolutions were counted for question #3, and if they should be added to the total of Pokemon introduced for a region, or not. On the 5th question I did not understand at all what the question was asking me by the phrase "unique moves". Are these moves that can only be learned by ice types, and not by any other Pokemon elemental types? Does it mean signature moves to specific ice species?

I'm still glad to have passed though, and thought it was a way to occupy some time and think the picture of Kyurem at the blackboard with his graduation cap on is priceless!

Two utility questions for future possible challenges or events:
-Do you have access to a Pokemon game that allows you to Wonder Trade (3DS) or Surprise Trade (Switch)?
-Do you have access to a Pokemon game that has some variation of the Battle Tower? (3DS or Switch)


Yes, access to wonder trade and yes post game battle facilities. I normally use the battle maison.

ReKoil October 8th, 2021 10:30 AM

Never really thought about a baby for Sneasel, but I googled for fanart on it and saw this:

Definitely on board for a baby for sneasel now! =3

I also wouldn't mind if Dewgong got a new evo either. This one is technically a fanart for a mega, but I think it could work for a regular evo too:


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For those that took the Quiz: Would you like to see more of these?
You can also post your score if you want. You don't have to though.


I like the idea of optional quizzes like this. It was something different to do, and was actually fairly challenging.

My score: 80% 80/100

In my defense some of the questions were a little vague. I wasn't sure for instance how mega evolutions were counted for question #3, and if they should be added to the total of Pokemon introduced for a region, or not. On the 5th question I did not understand at all what the question was asking me by the phrase "unique moves". Are these moves that can only be learned by ice types, and not by any other Pokemon elemental types? Does it mean signature moves to specific ice species?

For #3: Mega's and other temp forms weren't counted. Interestingly, I did originally add in between brackets that 'temp forms that don't last outside of battle didn't count', but then at some point decided to remove it again.... not sure why I removed it tbh 😳

Yea that move question in particular seems to have gone bad. Was wondering if it was a problem with the question or not.
I think I put the word unique in because for example: Subzero Slammer has both a physical and special version in the attackdex I was looking at.
But the question was meant to just refer to the amount of different Ice Type moves there are, so I should probably just have dropped the word unique altogether.

Well.... that was my first time making one of these, seems I need to pay more attention to phrasing in any future ones ^.^
Life's a learning experience after all ^.^

ReKoil October 13th, 2021 10:12 AM

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Sending the pokes again =3
(if you don't want to be poked feel free to say so btw)

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In the Alola games regional forms were introduced. Alola added regional forms for Sandshrew/Sandslash & Vulpix/Ninetales, which are Ice Types. Galar added Mr. Mime, Darumaka and Darmanitan as regional Ice Types and gave Mr. Mime a new evolution.

What is your opinion on regional forms in general? Do you think they are a good idea or would you rather not have had them?

Do you like the Ice Type regional forms? Do you prefer them over their originals?

Are there any non Ice Type mons you'd like to see as a regional Ice Type in a new gen/game?

Would you like any of them to gain a new evolutions? (SwSh gave certain regional forms a new evolution, such as Mr. Rime for Galarian Mr. Mime).

Do you think or hope there will be any new Ice type Hisuian forms in Legends:Arceus?

My own answers =3
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What is your opinion on regional forms in general? Do you think they are a good idea or would you rather not have had them?

I personally quite like the idea of Pokemon having different typings and appearances due to them living in a different area/climate.
I also actually like most regional forms.

I do wish all of them had regional base forms though. Like, there's no Alolan Exeggcute/Cubone to go with Alolan Exeggutor/Marowak. No Galar Koffing for Galar Weezing.
Kinda dislike not being able to breed, for example, an Alolan Cubone/Marowak outside of Alola.

Do you like the Ice Type regional forms? Do you prefer them over their originals?

Yes to both. I actually prefer all the current regional Ice types over their originals:
-Vulpix & Ninetales were nice mons already, but the Alolan forms are just amazing 😍
-Sandshrew/Sandslash were never really on my radar tbh. Used one once and never really did anything with the line again. Their Alolan forms sure changed that, I think they're great =D
-Darumaka/Darmanitan. Never really used the originals, so can't say that much on them, but I do prefer the Galarian forms aesthetically at the very least. Zen-Mode Darmanitan looks goofy as heck though xD Kinda wish that form would last outside of battle as long as it stays under 50% HP, but alas... no fiery snowman following me around the Crown Tundra for me.
-Mr. Mime. I find the original creepy and therefore think the Galarian form is a vast improvement!
The new evolution exclusive to Galarian Mr. Mime though... Mr Rime. I can't look at it without seeing an older person with a cane. It's kinda 'meh' to me.

Are there any non Ice Type mons you'd like to see as a regional Ice Type in a new gen/game?

Sentret/Furret & Spinda. I think these could make for a solid Normal/Ice Type design.
Wooloo/Dubwool are probably too new to receive a regional form in the next gen, but when I first saw these and their fluffy fur I was hoping they'd be part Ice Type =(

Mareep/Flaaffy/Ampharos! I think this line would make for a great Electric/Ice type regional form =3

Would you like any of them to gain a new evolutions? (SwSh gave certain regional forms a new evolution, such as Mr. Rime for Galarian Mr. Mime).

Both Spinda & Furret could use some love, would not mind a regional form evolution for them at all!

Do you think or hope there will be any new Ice type Hisuian forms in Legends:Arceus?

I'm keeping my fingers crossed hoping for one yes. Pretty please, GameFreak?
I kinda feel like Wyrdeer could've been Normal/Ice though, instead of Normal/Psychic. It to me looks like a Stantler that is more suitable for colder climates.


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For those who like to draw: try to draw a regional Ice Type form for a Pokemon you think deserves one.
if you don't want to draw/don't have time: google search for some fanart for regional Ice type forms!
(you can also do both I guess ^.^)

There is no real deadline for this tbh. Just give it a try if/when you have time and think it could be fun =D

Just thought this would fit in nicely with the topic this week =3
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I have attempted to draw a regional Ice Type form for Spinda:


It's a bit goofy, but I don't think it's horrible =p

Sheep October 14th, 2021 8:16 AM

(Whoops, me who lets my notifications sit for literally a week did not realize I got pinged lmao)

What is your opinion on regional forms in general? Do you think they are a good idea or would you rather not have had them?
I like them! I'm also biased since it introduced one of my favorite babies everrrr, Alolan Vulpix hehe. So cute. Sandshrew's Alolan form was also cute... and another ice type. :D Pretty sure I liked regionals since the start and that probably won't change.

Do you like the Ice Type regional forms? Do you prefer them over their originals?
As you can tell above, yes I 1000% like them. I like the originals too, Vulpix especially will always be cute, but ice regionals overall are just -chef's kiss-

Are there any non Ice Type mons you'd like to see as a regional Ice Type in a new gen/game?
Yes! I think an ice type flying regional would be cool. Ice type Skarmory would probably be absolutely gorgeous, and I can imagine ice crystals over its body in place of steel.

Would you like any of them to gain a new evolutions? (SwSh gave certain regional forms a new evolution, such as Mr. Rime for Galarian Mr. Mime).
One day I'd like to see an ice type evolution for Clamperl, since I think that would be a really interesting concept to explore. More elegant ice aquatic creatures please! I'd also love to say Delibird but I have absolutely no idea what they could do as an evolution for it??

Do you think or hope there will be any new Ice type Hisuian forms in Legends:Arceus?
Yesss. I know how biased I am towards the ice regionals and would love to see more. Anything really - surprise me. Bonus points if I get some precious ice Whimsicott or Altaria. :')

icycatelf October 15th, 2021 5:49 AM

What is your opinion on Regional Forms in general? Do you think they are a good idea or would you rather not have had them? I may not be a fan of every design, but I think the concept is a great idea!

Do you like the Ice-type Regional Forms? Do you prefer them over their originals? Yes to Alolan Sandslash, Vulpix and Darumaka, not so much Galarian Mr. Mime and Darmanitan. I think I prefer the original Sandshrew and Ninetales over their Alolan counterparts, but it's close.

Are there any non-Ice-type 'mons you'd like to see as a regional Ice-type in a new gen/game? Liepard would be cool, seeing as we don't have a proper snow leopard Pokémon yet (Suicune draws partial inspiration from leopards, possibly snow leopards given its association with the north wind, but it's only vaguely cat-like and not an Ice-type). Regional Purrloin could even play on the Canada lynx since they already have similar jowls, though I suppose that role could also be filled by Shinx and co. since they're believed to draw at least partial inspiration from lynxes.

I agree with Furret too, especially after seeing it in New Pokémon Snap. Hoothoot and Noctowl would also translate nicely into Ice-types.

Would you like any of them to gain a new evolutions? (SwSh gave certain Regional Forms a new evolution, such as Mr. Rime for Galarian Mr. Mime). Unlike Regional Forms, I'm not a fan of Regional Evolutions. They really did the old forms dirty with those IMO (poor Farfetch'd and Mr. Mime still can't evolve...).

Do you think or hope there will be any new Ice-type Hisuian forms in Legends: Arceus? As much as I'd love more, given the number of Ice-type regionals we've already got and Wyrdeer not getting Ice-type, they may be wanting to take a break from them. (Then again, there is a whole quarter of the region covered in ice and snow.)

VisionofMilotic October 16th, 2021 4:06 AM

Oh interesting questions this week!

What is your opinion on regional forms in general? Do you think they are a good idea or would you rather not have had them?

Yes, I think regional forms were a great idea, and would argue it's the best thing that gen 7 did. I was thrilled to see it continue as a feature of gen 8, and look forward to seeing the variants that future generations could bring us.

Considering how many variations exist within species of wildlife here on earth, I think it's conceivable that such diversity might also be found within the Pokemon universe, and it's a way to inspire new interest in pokémon that might be overlooked or underutilized by altering their aesthetics slightly, and giving them an entirely different competive life with changes to their typing, abilities and access to new moves.

Do you like the Ice Type regional forms? Do you prefer them over their originals?

Yes, I like the ice type regional forms, with the exception of Mr Mime. Whether it's a psychic, fairy or ice type I hate the fundamental concept for this Pokemon down to it's lazy name. I suppose the Galarian version is the lesser of the two evils because he has some shoes and a tie that looks like ice or crystal. This makes him seem a little less human, and I think is an improvement to the original Mr. Mime that had no details to set him apart from a regular circus clown and completely failed from a design perspective in my opinion. But even the icy inserts aren't enough to salvage this thing for me.

However, I think both Alolan and Kantonian Ninetales are fantastic designs, and their pre-evos are also delightful. I prefer the look of Alolan Vulpix, even though the Kantonian one also is charming, something about the snowy fur, cloud-like tails and mane just make this Vulpix look more ethereal. The opal color to the eyes also make them seem bigger and more expressive and vulnerable. When it comes to the more mature Ninetales though I prefer the original Kanto one. Alolan Ninetales is breathtaking, but what I like about the first Ninetales though is that I think her look is more complex, she's an elegant and dignified Pokemon, but she also can look fierce like a wolf can, yet has this hint of an devilish little smile that makes her unique. Both versions of Ninetales look otherworldly, but I feel like they come from two different plains of existence, and one is lighter and the other darker, and I just find the fire Ninetales a little more interesting, especially with it's backstory of the nine wizards that merged to create this Pokemon and the 1,000 year curse that pulling one of it's tails can trigger. The clencher for me though is the shiny, in the Kanto one the contrast between her normal and shiny form is much more dramatic, going from gold to silver, and those ultraviolet tips on the tail are just genius. It's one of my all time favorite shinies.

I think the Sandshrew line is also fun. I prefer the simpler design of original Sandshrew a wee bit over the Alolan one, but they're both cute. However, for Sandslash I have to go with the Alolan variation definitely. The spikes/quills on it's back being icy stalgamites are just so cool.

I guess both Unovian and Galarian Darumaka are sorta cute in a derpy way, and same with their evolutions and Zen Mode forms. When I saw Galarian Darmanitan I thought it was overdesign, but it also is starting to make me laugh because it's so whacky, and is starting to grow on me. So either the fire one or the fire/ice.

Since right now I am only interested in playing casually I don't need to make hard decisions like sheer force or gorilla tactics. I just pick the Pokemon that intrigues me and see what I can get out of it.

Are there any non Ice Type mons you'd like to see as a regional Ice Type in a new gen/game?

I bet an ice type Starmie would be beautiful. It has the big, stunning ruby core in it's center, called the gem of the sea, that's supoose to shine in a rainbow of seven colors. Instead of rainbow how about an ice/psychic Starmie that has a core inspired by the aurora bourealis? Perhaps it's darker, twilight-toned starmie with a glowing emerald for it's gem, swirled with other flecks of color to make it look more like a starry sky filled with polar lights.

The Hoothoot line is also waiting to be made into a an ice/flying type. It and Noctowl would make lovely snowy owls.

Would you like any of them to gain a new evolutions? (SwSh gave certain regional forms a new evolution, such as Mr. Rime for Galarian Mr. Mime).

Starmie is already strong and doesn't need an evolution, you could have something though I think with an evolved form for Noctowl. If you wanted get really unexpected and creative it's final form could be based on a creature from Russian folklore known as the sirin, they are enchantresses who have owl body parts and wings, they looked like beautiful angels with halos, and sang hypnotic songs. I would keep if firmly an owl and less hybrid, let the face stay more like Noctowl but give it big, glorious golden eagle/seraph wings after all that snow and whiteness of the pre-evos and keep the nimbus/halo over it's head.

Do you think or hope there will be any new Ice type Hisuian forms in Legends:Arceus?

I don't know if there will be, but I sure do hope so. I think it would be wonderful to have a new ice type Hisusian form, and think Legends Arceus has really done a terrific job with the different forms so far, especially the evolution for Stantler. It reminds me of the Deer God from Princess Mononoke, and I love it!

Megan October 17th, 2021 7:48 AM

What is your opinion on regional forms in general? Do you think they are a good idea or would you rather not have had them?
I'm probably one of the few people who focus more on the completely new Pokemon while leaving out the regional forms. I'm not against them. I just barely get to use them. I think they are an interesting concept and they work well to keep the Pokedex number low while also giving a new focus on Pokemon that already exist.

Do you like the Ice Type regional forms? Do you prefer them over their originals?
I like them, but I do think Ice/Steel is a very unfortunate typing in terms of weaknesses.

Are there any non Ice Type mons you'd like to see as a regional Ice Type in a new gen/game?
Some that would be interesting are the Ralts line, the Marill line, maybe some pseudo legendaries like Tyranitar or Salamence? I could also see the Hoppip line getting something new out of an Ice Type. (or some love in general)

Would you like any of them to gain a new evolutions? (SwSh gave certain regional forms a new evolution, such as Mr. Rime for Galarian Mr. Mime).
Maybe an evolution to Relicanth or Tentacruel that allows them to survive in colder waters? I suppose Noctowl and Swellow could also use some more power. I think there aren't that many Ice/Flying Pokemon besides Articuno, are there?

Do you think or hope there will be any new Ice type Hisuian forms in Legends:Arceus?
Isn't is a region considered to be a little bit colder? A region with lower temperature should have more Pokemon accustomed to the temperatures. And if it is open world we may even be able to use them earlier in the game!

ReKoil October 20th, 2021 10:54 AM

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Are there any pure Ice Type Pokemon that you think should have a secondary typing? If so, which typing would that be?

Are there any Non-Ice type Pokemon that you think should have been Ice Type? Are there any Ice Type pokemon you think shouldn't be Ice Type?

Ice hasn't been combined with Normal or Poison yet. Additionally Ice has only been combined with Fire in a temporary form (Zen Mode Galar Darmanitan). Do you have any ideas for what an Ice Type Pokemon combined with any of these types would look like? (you can also use a new Regional form for this if you want)

No optional thingy this week, but I intend to start a Battle Tower challenge next week as the optional =3

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Are there any pure Ice Type Pokemon that you think should have a secondary typing? If so, which typing would that be?

Galar Darmanitan should've been Ice/Fighting imo. It just looks like it would be a fighting type to me.
Eiscue should've been Ice/Water. In CT you literally find it in the water.
Glalie should've been a dual type. What type is a bit harder. Ghost/Dark or Rock all fit based on Dex entries:
Rock: "Glalie has a body made of rock, which it hardens with an armor of ice. This Pokémon has the ability to freeze moisture in the atmosphere into any shape it desires."
Ghost or Dark: "Glalie has the ability to freely control ice. For example, it can instantly freeze its prey solid. After immobilizing its prey in ice, this Pokémon enjoys eating it in leisurely fashion."
Ghost or Dark: "Legend says a boulder on an icy mountain absorbed the distress and regrets of a stranded mountaineer, giving rise to Glalie."

Cubchoo/Beartic could've been Ice/Normal, but that's more wishful thinking rather than something I think actually should've been =p

Are there any Non-Ice type Pokemon that you think should have been Ice Type? Are there any Ice Type pokemon you think shouldn't be Ice Type?

Deerling/Sawsbuck Winter Form!
I've always wished this Pokemon line would change types based on what season it is. Either the Summer or Autumn Form would be Normal/Grass, with the other one becoming maybe Grass/Bug or Grass/Ground. Spring form could be Grass/Fairy. Winter form would definitely be Grass/Ice though!

The Piplup line is based on Penguins and could've been an Water/Ice type. not sure I'd say it should've been an Ice type though.

For Ice type pokemon that shouldn't have been Ice Type... I'm mainly thinking Jynx/Smoochum. None of it's Dex entries explain in any way why it's an Ice Type. This line could've been pure Psychic imo. It is usually found in cold areas in games, but that's about it I think.

I'm also wondering why Cloyster is an Ice type tbh. None of it's dex entries refer to anythin cold/ice related.
Like Dewgong has multiple Dex entries referring to cold weather/temperatures. I just don't see how Cloyster is an Ice type tbh. Could've easily been just a Water type imo.

I don't really mind that they are Ice types though, Ice needs any mon it can get atm xD

Ice hasn't been combined with Normal or Poison yet. Additionally Ice has only been combined with Fire in a temporary form (Zen Mode Galar Darmanitan). Do you have any ideas for what an Ice Type Pokemon combined with any of these types would look like? (you can also use a new Regional form for this if you want)

Personally, I like to look at Fakemons when thinking about unused type combinations or regional forms (because often someone already made one =3).

For Ice/Poison I found this Ice snake I think looks pretty cool:


For Ice/Normal I found this Snow Hare that looks good:


For Fire/Ice I found this one:


This person actually has multiple fakemons with these typings, here's a link to the Ice types in their Fakemon Pokedex if you wanna take a look: https://darkandwindiefakemon.fandom.com/wiki/Ice_(type)

For the Fire/Ice one I felt like there should be better ones out there (not that it's horrible), so I kept searching and found these:
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https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ES66keEU8AAcseQ?format=jpg&name=900x900

Frostfire is what I'd picture for an Fire/Ice type, so that frostfire kitty looks amazing to me =3


icycatelf October 21st, 2021 6:05 AM

Are there any pure Ice-type Pokémon that you think should have a secondary typing? If so, which typing would that be? I used to be convinced that Glalie was half Dark. Also, Cryogonal seems like it should be Ice/Steel with its almost mechanical appearance.

Are there any non-Ice-type Pokémon that you think should've been Ice-type? Piplup line and Suicune, though I guess the latter wouldn't have fit the legend of the Burned Tower had it been.

Are there any Ice-type Pokémon you think shouldn't be Ice-type? I don't really get Cloyster being an Ice-type, but I'm cool with it.

Ice hasn't been combined with Normal or Poison yet. Additionally, Ice has only been combined with Fire in a temporary form (Zen Mode Galar Darmanitan). Do you have any ideas for what an Ice-type Pokémon combined with any of these types would look like? (You can also use a new Regional Form for this if you want.) Obviously some kind of pun on "frostbite" for Ice/Poison. Maybe a Regional Zubat/Golbat/Crobat or a brand new bat Pokémon?

Starlight October 21st, 2021 5:18 PM

First up, sorry I've been a bit of a cold club member of late ;)


Are there any pure Ice Type Pokemon that you think should have a secondary typing? If so, which typing would that be?

Glalie should definitely be Ice / Dark imo, especially with Froslass being Ice / Ghost. I agree that Eiscue should have been Ice(d) / Water!


Are there any Non-Ice type Pokemon that you think should have been Ice Type? Are there any Ice Type pokemon you think shouldn't be Ice Type?

I think the Horsea line could have been Water / Ice, just look at them! Dratini and Dragonair always looked icy too, Dragonite obviously less so. Sign me up for a regional Altaria that is Fairy / Ice pls :)


Ice hasn't been combined with Normal or Poison yet. Additionally Ice has only been combined with Fire in a temporary form (Zen Mode Galar Darmanitan). Do you have any ideas for what an Ice Type Pokemon combined with any of these types would look like? (you can also use a new Regional form for this if you want)

I would love to see a an Ice / Poison branch of the Nidoqueen/king line!


Btw, Jynx is half Ice type because it is at least partially based on Yuki-onna!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuki-onna

Sheep October 22nd, 2021 6:21 PM

Did anyone else expect the new Hisuian Zorua and Zoroark to be Ice type? I was surprised to see it was normal/ghost! Either way it really looks like something that is a cute little icy boy and I love him. ;w; Is it just me?

ReKoil October 23rd, 2021 9:46 AM

It looks like one to me yes, but Wyrdeer looked like an Ice type to me too so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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I like the new Zorua, dunno how to feel about zoroark yet.

Arcaneum October 23rd, 2021 6:53 PM

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omg... can I join? Ice types are like one of my favourites in the series and have been since Gen 1!!!! So much so, that I'd love to pick Articuno as my Guardian! I'll go ahead and answer the first post questions:

-What is/are your favorite Ice Type Pokemon?
Articuno hands down.

-Have you ever used an Ice Type on any of your playthrough teams? If yes, do you remember which one it was and/or in which game?
Aye aye aye, I've played so many runs of most of the games that I've probably used them all minus like Gen 8 ones, so I'll go moreso with the favourites I've used, which are 100% Cloyster and Sneasel in my Gen 2 runs, I almost always used one if not both of the critters!

Fairy October 24th, 2021 5:00 AM

Hey Icy fans! I’m here on behalf of VPP to ask if you’d like to be involved in our section collaboration! You don’t need to do anything special, just any club members here who participate in VPP get a 25 post reduction when they ask for a new Icy Type virtual Pokémon! :)

Also, sign me up! Favorites are Alolan Ninetales, Weavile, and Lapras!

ReKoil October 24th, 2021 6:27 AM

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omg... can I join? Ice types are like one of my favourites in the series and have been since Gen 1!!!! So much so, that I'd love to pick Articuno as my Guardian! I'll go ahead and answer the first post questions:

-What is/are your favorite Ice Type Pokemon?
Articuno hands down.

-Have you ever used an Ice Type on any of your playthrough teams? If yes, do you remember which one it was and/or in which game?
Aye aye aye, I've played so many runs of most of the games that I've probably used them all minus like Gen 8 ones, so I'll go moreso with the favourites I've used, which are 100% Cloyster and Sneasel in my Gen 2 runs, I almost always used one if not both of the critters!

Of course you can, there is no deadline for signing up =p
Nor for the questions btw if you saw any more you want to answer 😉
I've gone and added them all to the opening post in a spoiler, figured it would be more convenient for people who join later on than sifting though all the posts =D
Not that you absolutely have to answer each and every question or anything =p

Anyway, you have been admitted to the Glacial Gathering through your Guardian: Articuno.
Welcome, Pumpkin Spiced Memes!

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Hey Icy fans! I’m here on behalf of VPP to ask if you’d like to be involved in our section collaboration! You don’t need to do anything special, just any club members here who participate in VPP get a 25 post reduction when they ask for a new Icy Type virtual Pokémon! :)

Yes please 😊

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Also, sign me up! Favorites are Alolan Ninetales, Weavile, and Lapras!

I've already filled most of it in, I just need your choice for a guardian and you'll be a member =3

(Guardians are: Articuno, regice, Kyurem (can pick any of it's 3 forms), Glastrier or Ice Rider Calyrex)
(can also check the first post for an image and some dex entries if you don't know who to pick)

Fairy October 24th, 2021 8:21 PM

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Of course you can, there is no deadline for signing up =p
Nor for the questions btw if you saw any more you want to answer 😉
I've gone and added them all to the opening post in a spoiler, figured it would be more convenient for people who join later on than sifting though all the posts =D
Not that you absolutely have to answer each and every question or anything =p

Anyway, you have been admitted to the Glacial Gathering through your Guardian: Articuno.
Welcome, Pumpkin Spiced Memes!



Yes please 😊



I've already filled most of it in, I just need your choice for a guardian and you'll be a member =3

(Guardians are: Articuno, regice, Kyurem (can pick any of it's 3 forms), Glastrier or Ice Rider Calyrex)
(can also check the first post for an image and some dex entries if you don't know who to pick)

Articuno please!

ReKoil October 25th, 2021 6:45 AM

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Articuno please!

You have been admitted to the Glacial Gathering through your Guardian: Articuno.
Welcome, Fairy!

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Articuno please!

Another tasteful Ice Type fan, I see ;)

ReKoil October 27th, 2021 9:59 AM

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What are some of your favorite snowy/icy location(s) in any of the games? (Snowy routes... Icy caverns etc.)

The Unova games had seasons. Did you like this mechanic? How do you feel about the Winter season in them?

Deerling/Sawsbuck had forms based on the current season. Do you like the idea of mons having seasonal forms? Do you think one of their typings should be adjusted along with the season? Or perhaps a different ability or move they can only have/use in a particular season?

In SM/USUM a new Evolution stone was introduced for the regional Ice Types: the Ice Stone.
Before Sw/Sh Eevee needed to be in a specific location in order to evolve into Glaceon. In SwSh this has been replaced by the Ice Stone. If Crabrawler were to be in SwSh it would probably have received the same treatment.
Do you think this is a good change? Do you prefer the location based evolutions for Ice Types such as Glaceon or the new Ice Stones?


For those who watch the Anime: Are there any moments from the Anime that are set in a snowy or icy location that you find particularly memorable?
For those who collect or play the TCG: Are there any Ice mon cards (I believe they are Water type in the TCG?) that you think have a great snow/ice locale on the background? Or perhaps you just like the picture as a whole?
Feel free to share any pictures if you have any =3
Also, you can ofc reply to these last 2 questions even if you don't actively follow the Anime or TCG if something came to mind =3

Also, I stumbled on a short article on the 'evolution of Ice' places, linking it in case anyone wants to read it: https://pokejungle.net/2017/12/19/ice-appreciation-frozen-places/

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What is/are some of your favorite snowy/icy location(s) in any of the games? (Snowy routes/cities... Icy caverns etc.)

Route 17 (Mamoswine Road) in X/Y! I really liked plowing through the snow riding on Mamoswine's back =D
I sometimes just used Repels so I could keep playing around in it without being hit by random encounters ^.^

I also liked being able to sink almost all the way into the snow in DPPt (route 217 I think? 216?).
And the Shiver Snowfields in New Snap just look really pretty. ^.^

The Unova games had seasons. Did you like this mechanic? How do you feel about the Winter season in them?

Yes! There were even some areas you couldn't access unless it was the right season iirc.
I really loved the idea and wish it didn't immediately get scrapped next gen to never return (except for maybe in gen 5 remakes I guess).
I really liked seeing everything covered in snow too when it was Winter =D

Deerling/Sawsbuck had forms based on the current season. Do you like the idea of mons having seasonal forms? Do you think one of their typings should be adjusted along with the season? Or perhaps a different ability or move they can only have/use in a particular season?

I do like the idea, but feel like the amount of mons you could do this with would be limited.
I've always wished this Pokemon line would change types based on what season it is. Either the Summer or Autumn Form would be Normal/Grass, with the other one becoming maybe Grass/Bug or Grass/Ground. Spring form could be Grass/Fairy. Winter form would definitely be Grass/Ice though!
A Seasonal move to match the typing could definitely fit too!
I don't think there's a need to swap abilities based on seasons, if that's even possible in the first place.

In SM/USUM a new Evolution stone was introduced for the regional Ice Types: the Ice Stone.
Before Sw/Sh Eevee needed to be in a specific location in order to evolve into Glaceon. In SwSh this has been replaced by the Ice Stone. If Crabrawler were to be in SwSh it would probably have received the same treatment.
Do you think this is a good change? Do you prefer the location based evolutions for Ice Types such as Glaceon or the new Ice Stones?


I do like the idea of certain Ice types evolving in certain cold areas only. Unfortunately these areas are usually pretty late into the game D=
Which is where I'd personally like the Ice stones to come in. An early game alternative for location based evolutions, rather than a complete replacement. Sadly Ice stones so far aren't accessible all that much earlier either.
So basically I like their addition, but would prefer to have them as an alternative rather than a complete replacement.

For those who watch the Anime: Are there any moments from the Anime that are set in a snowy or icy location that you find particularly memorable?
For those who collect or play the TCG: Are there any Ice mon cards (I believe they are Water type in the TCG?) that you think have a great snow/ice locale on the background? Or perhaps you just like the picture as a whole?


Can't really speak for the Anime as I don't watch it anymore and the only Ice related thing I can remember is Ash and crew riding on the back of Lapras... but, for the TCG I just googled and saw these:



I like the pictures on the cards as a whole: nice icy/snowy backgrounds and the mons on them have nice poses =D


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Optional:
Battle Tower Challenge #1

Time for a Battle Tower challenge for those who are interested!
You can do this on any of the gen 6, 7 & 8 games that have a variation of the Battle Tower.

This first challenge is kind of to test things out tbh as I'm not sure how high or low to set the goals atm =D (or if people are interested)
I'm pretty sure some Battle Facilities had a choice between level 50 and level 100, but they've been changed bit by bit over the gens so I'm not sure when/what game this was anymore xD

Anyway at your game's Battle Tower facility: pick Single Battle and then Level 50 (if you even have the choice between level 50 and 100).

Rules:
-Mono Ice type team (all your pokemon need to have Ice as one of their typings, this is the Ice Type club after all =3).
-Held items ARE allowed.
-IV/EV Trained mons ARE allowed if you have them.
-No Dynamax/Megas etc. if the Tower allows them (gen 8 tower allows Dynamax for example).
-No legendaries. (I feel like these weren't allowed at Battle Towers, but when I checked in gen 8 Battle Tower they were, so...)

The Gen 8 Tower doesn't have the win streak system the previous Towers had, so I'm kind of forced to alter what I had in mind a little for gen 8.

For Gen 6/7 Battle Tower:
-Start a new streak with your Mono Ice team.
-Get a win streak of at least 30 to be eligible for prizes =D Preferably take a photo of your win streak if possible when finished (not a hard requirement though).

Once you've reached the required numbers you can keep going if you want to see how far you can get =D

For Gen 8:
-Write down your current amount of victories so you don't forget how many you started with (you see this number on the right on the screen where you pick between Single and Double Battle). Preferably take a screenshot or photo too (again, not a hard requirement).
-Get at least 50 wins with your Mono Ice Team to be eligible for prizes (since they don't need to be consecutive in this battle tower, the number is higher). Preferably take another screenshot/photo when done (not a hard requirement).

Whichever gen you're doing this challenge in, be sure to post the Team you used! Be it a screenshot/photo or just text.

As for Prizes, I have a bunch of excess legendaries I can give away. The following legendaries are prizes this time (1 Prize Legendary Per Participant atm):

ORAS (I have Bank so these can go to XY and SM/USUM too):
-Raikou, Entei, Suicune (all x 2)
-Regirock, Regice, Registeel (all x 2)
-Cobalion, Terrakion, Virizion (all x2)

SwSh/Home:
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-Poipole
-Raikou, Entei, Suicune
-Zapdos, Articuno, Moltres
-Cobalion, Terrakion, Virizion
-Ho-oh (x2)
-Heatran

Kinda wish I could hand out only Ice type legendaries, but I just don't have enough of them to do so xD

You have a month to attempt this challenge, so deadline would be 27 November.
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icycatelf October 27th, 2021 2:11 PM

What are some of your favorite snowy/icy location(s) in any of the games? (Snowy routes... Icy caverns etc.) Gen. II's Ice Path is the most significant for being where I found my first ever full-odds Shiny (a Golbat), but my favorite visually would probably be the Crown Tundra's Frigid Sea.

The Unova games had seasons. Did you like this mechanic? How do you feel about the Winter season in them? I do enjoy it, especially since it reminds me of one of my favorite GBC games (Oracle of Seasons), but I would've preferred if we had more control over them (aside from changing our clock) or if they changed more frequently. I don't think I did much post-game exploring back them, spending most of my time breeding and EV-training, so I don't think I was really able to appreciate this feature in full.

Deerling/Sawsbuck had forms based on the current season. Do you like the idea of mons having seasonal forms? Do you think one of their typings should be adjusted along with the season? Or perhaps a different ability or move they can only have/use in a particular season? I would LOVE more Pokémon to have seasonal forms. Honestly wish this was the case for Sandslash (Alolan Sandslash being its winter form). Of course, it'd be nice if there was an item/feature that let us lock forms in case we wanted to use them out of season. ("Sandslash resonated with the Winter Crystal. Sandslash changed into its Winter Form!")

In SM/USUM a new Evolution stone was introduced for the regional Ice Types: the Ice Stone. Before Sw/Sh Eevee needed to be in a specific location in order to evolve into Glaceon. In SwSh this has been replaced by the Ice Stone. If Crabrawler were to be in SwSh it would probably have received the same treatment. Do you think this is a good change? Do you prefer the location based evolutions for Ice Types such as Glaceon or the new Ice Stones? I don't mind the Ice Stone, but I don't like that they broke the consistency with the Eeveelutions by making items that were ineffective on Eevee before work in SWSH. (I also don't get why they didn't change Espeon, Umbreon, and Sylveon to stone evolutions as well while they were at it, as we've got stones that fit all of them.)

For those who watch the Anime: Are there any moments from the Anime that are set in a snowy or icy location that you find particularly memorable? Snow Way Out, especially Ash's Pokémon staying out of their Poké Balls to keep him from freezing and Jessie's "snowgesbord."

For those who collect or play the TCG: Are there any Ice mon cards (I believe they are Water type in the TCG?) that you think have a great snow/ice locale on the background? Or perhaps you just like the picture as a whole? I may have missed some, but my favorite after skimming through some Ice-type cards is probably still Alolan Sandslash from Rising Guardians.


Sheep October 28th, 2021 11:49 PM

I'm considering the Battle Tower quest but I don't have enough ice types trained up to feel confident doing it yet, but when I get my team all prepped up (maybe even during BDSP) I'll definitely show some progress ~

The Unova games had seasons. Did you like this mechanic? How do you feel about the Winter season in them?

Just want to jump in here and say I loveddd winter in Unova and it made me so happy. Winter is such a gorgeous season in most games, and I tend to love all the winter-inspired locations in every Pokémon game. I really wish they'd bring seasons back permanently so I can see more pretty snow!

Megan October 29th, 2021 7:57 PM

Are there any pure Ice Type Pokemon that you think should have a secondary typing? If so, which typing would that be?
Beartic could be Ice/Water and Glalie could be Ice/Dark. I think having some pure Ice Types is pretty ok, though. Those two I just felt they are the ones would be ok with having a second one.

Are there any Non-Ice type Pokemon that you think should have been Ice Type? Are there any Ice Type pokemon you think shouldn't be Ice Type?
I don't know why Jynx is an Ice Type, tbh. Every other is ok. No non-Ice types that should be Ice that I'd recall.

Ice hasn't been combined with Normal or Poison yet. Additionally Ice has only been combined with Fire in a temporary form (Zen Mode Galar Darmanitan). Do you have any ideas for what an Ice Type Pokemon combined with any of these types would look like? (you can also use a new Regional form for this if you want)
Ice/Normal would fit to a Pokemon that's meant to fit in icy and non-icy regions. Poison is somewhat hard to match up with Ice because in icy regions you don't really see animals requiring poison.

What are some of your favorite snowy/icy location(s) in any of the games? (Snowy routes... Icy caverns etc.)
Ice Path in Johto is pretty much the only one that sticks out to me. I do still remember Frost Cavern from XY but I'm very much indifferent on it.

The Unova games had seasons. Did you like this mechanic? How do you feel about the Winter season in them?
Tbh. Winter was the season one I found not particularly interesting. :(

Deerling/Sawsbuck had forms based on the current season. Do you like the idea of mons having seasonal forms? Do you think one of their typings should be adjusted along with the season? Or perhaps a different ability or move they can only have/use in a particular season?
It's fine. But it's sad that seasons where just a one off gimmick and as a result we're very much stuck with the forms as they are.

In SM/USUM a new Evolution stone was introduced for the regional Ice Types: the Ice Stone.
Before Sw/Sh Eevee needed to be in a specific location in order to evolve into Glaceon. In SwSh this has been replaced by the Ice Stone. If Crabrawler were to be in SwSh it would probably have received the same treatment.
Do you think this is a good change? Do you prefer the location based evolutions for Ice Types such as Glaceon or the new Ice Stones?

I like having the option to interact with the environment. Replacing them with a stone, while making stuff easier that way, also takes away something from a game that already doesn't have too much left.

For those who watch the Anime: Are there any moments from the Anime that are set in a snowy or icy location that you find particularly memorable?
I remember that one episode during the first season where Ash was stuck on a mountain cave and was only able to survive due to his Pokemon helping him. Afaik, we even get to see Articuno for a moment...

For those who collect or play the TCG: Are there any Ice mon cards (I believe they are Water type in the TCG?) that you think have a great snow/ice locale on the background? Or perhaps you just like the picture as a whole?
The only card I remember is that very early Lapras card. Idk if it was the base set or the fossil set, though...

Not sure if I'm gonna attempt the challenge. I don't particularly like the battle facilities in the games. ^^"

VisionofMilotic November 1st, 2021 10:36 AM

Are there any pure Ice Type Pokemon that you think should have a secondary typing? If so, which typing would that be?

I think glalie should probably also be an ice ghost type like froslass, instead of a pure ice type, possibly an ice/dark combo. Glalie is essentially a disembodied head. It has this angry, bloodthirsty facial expression with demon-like horns, and it's Pokedex entries portray it as a stone cold killer, instantly turning those who cross it's path to ice, and delighting in the process of slowly eating it's frozen victims. It doesn't seem like your typical ice pokemon, it sounds like some kind of malevolent yokai.

Are there any Non-Ice type Pokemon that you think should have been Ice Type? Are there any Ice Type pokemon you think shouldn't be Ice Type?

Pretty much all of the ice pokémon discovered so far look convincing to me as ice types. Some I think could be a dual typing, see above, but I can't think of anyone that I would say doesn't look like an ice type at all, and shouldn't be this typing.

Now there are a couple of Pokemon that are not ice types, that I think could have easily been ice too.

When I first saw the beautiful new Hisusian Zorua and Zoroark I also was tricked into thinking that they were going to be ice types as well since their fur had become this glorious snow white pelt like arctic foxes, and they were shown roaming through these cool blue-toned environments that looked like an icy mountainside. Ice/fire was my guess because I thought the curling tips on their mane and ruff looked like little flames, and the glowing golden eyes also fit firelight. Ghost/Normal is still an interesting and unique type though, so I don't mind them not being ice, and i think this combo makes sense too the more I look at it.

What came as a greater surprise to me was Cursola not being an ice type, I still can't believe it's not even part ice. To me it looks less like coral, and more like a dormant tree in the winter season, barren of it's leaves, coated in heavy falling snows.

Ice hasn't been combined with Normal or Poison yet. Additionally Ice has only been combined with Fire in a temporary form (Zen Mode Galar Darmanitan). Do you have any ideas for what an Ice Type Pokemon combined with any of these types would look like? (you can also use a new Regional form for this if you want)

How about a striking snow leopard for a normal/ice typing. There are also a lot of magnificent dog breeds suited to the cold that could a nice basis of inspiration for a normal ice Pokemon like Russian wolf hounds, a Great White Spitz one that is close to my heart the Great Pyrenees-- my own dog. Wherever these alluring dog Pokemon walk let it leave a trail of icicles behind!!

What are some of your favorite snowy/icy location(s) in any of the games? (Snowy routes... Icy caverns etc.)

Snowbelle City in XY is a charming winter village. I love the delicate chime-like music it uses as a theme, it has a magical beauty about it that lifts the soul and makes you want to curl up in front of the fireplace and relax with a cup of hot chocolate, and watch the falling snow.

The seafoam islands, and hunting for Articuno in this icy domain is also a place that holds nostalgic value for me, and finding Kyurem in the giant chasm.

The Unova games had seasons. Did you like this mechanic? How do you feel about the Winter season in them?

I adored the season mechanics, having time visibly pass with seasons changing as you play the game over time really contributed to a sense of feeling like I had gone on an epic journey, especially with the larger scope of the story the Unova region had. It really felt like you had gone somewhere and explored. It was a really nice detail that made the visuals more dynamic and I liked that some Pokemon could only be accessed at certain times of the year--that made it feel more realistic since a Pokemon can be adapted to certain types of weather and surroundings just like animals in our world. It also was a reason to keep playing the game over an extended time as a collector to find locations of Pokemon you might have missed in summer for instance, but would be there in winter. I liked how the same environments would look very different depending on the time of year you visited i.e autumn, spring, and just really made this region a very textured and part of the Pokemon world, Unova is probably my favorite region after Hoenn. So yes, I absolutely loved the seasons as a mechanic, it was ingenious and should never have been removed! Having time of day, weather and seasons are a must.

As for winter? I fell in love with winter, and it's the season I enjoyed the experience of the most in game. It was such a pleasant surprise when I first started playing the game in autumn, and midway through my gaming experience winter came, and Unova became this majestic winter wonderland overnight. I try to replay Pokemon Black in fall and winter months.

I liked the deerling line, and how it was introduced to teach kids about the seasons through it's changing fur colors and antlers, and think it's winter form is the most beautiful one of all to collect, and Sawsbuck alone is a reason for me to play in winter.

Deerling/Sawsbuck had forms based on the current season. Do you like the idea of mons having seasonal forms? Do you think one of their typings should be adjusted along with the season? Or perhaps a different ability or move they can only have/use in a particular season?

I think it could have been interesting if Deerling/Sawsbuck's forms were not just aestethic, but functional, with a typing and ability swap to fit each season. I would lose the normal typing like Rotom loses it's ghost typing in the different appliance forms and make spring Sawsbuck grass/fairy, summer grass/fire, autumn grass/ground and ice grass/winter. It would have ×4 weaknesses, but would make up for that by gaining the awesome weather and terrain activating abilities like drought, grassy surge, snow warning and misty surge. They would also get some new moves with their new typing.

In SM/USUM a new Evolution stone was introduced for the regional Ice Types: the Ice Stone.Before Sw/Sh Eevee needed to be in a specific location in order to evolve into Glaceon. In SwSh this has been replaced by the Ice Stone. If Crabrawler were to be in SwSh it would probably have received the same treatment.Do you think this is a good change? Do you prefer the location based evolutions for Ice Types such as Glaceon or the new Ice Stones?

I think location-based evolution is a little more imaginative, and like the idea of taking that extra effort to travel to a special location to help a Pokemon that's important to you reach it's full potential, more than just picking up a stone. I think it's an underrated form of evolution, and I would have liked to have kept it in and maybe gotten a few more Pokemon that evolve when they level up near an icy or mossy rock or magnetic field. On the bright side though, having the method of evolution change to a stone-based one is easier than other methods they could have used like having to touch trade holding items as they did with Milotic, and better than not having access to the evolution at all the way Espeon and Umbreon weren't in the gen 3 games that didn't have the night and day mechanic. I would in that instance much prefer their method of evolution just become the sun and moon stone respectively to still unlock them, even though I think the night and day mechanic was the coolest.

For those who watch the Anime: Are there any moments from the Anime that are set in a snowy or icy location that you find particularly memorable?

Snow Way Out is a nice episode from the first season when Ash and his team are trapped in a snow storm, and spend the night on a cliff. It's heart-warming how all of Ash's Pokemon huddle together with him against the elements, him and Bulbasaur, Squirtle, Charmander, Pidgeotto and Pikachu. It was a simpler time, but still sweet.

The Kyurem and the Swords of Justice movie has several mysterious and foreboding ice environments that Kyurem stalks. It's pretty cool to watch him battle Keldeo in his lair, especially the crossing of his ice gate.

I might just attempt this battle facility challenge, stay tuned!

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There are quite a few Ice type specialists in the games:

Ice Type Gyms:
-Johto: Pryce
-Sinnoh: Candice
-Unova: Brycen (B&W only; not B2W2)
-Kalos: Wulfric
-Galar: Melony (Shield only)

Elite four:
-Kanto: Lorelei
-Hoenn: Glacia

Meaning Alola is the only region without an Ice Type specialist.
If you could compose a Pokemon team for an Alolan Ice type specialist what would it be? Would you make the specialist a Trial Captain or have her/him replace a Kahuna? Or perhaps swap out one of the elite four?

Which of the Ice Type Gym Leaders / Elite Four is your favorite? This can be the design of the character or how easy/hard they are to beat (or both). Or perhaps you have another reason.

Which of the above Ice type specialists gave you the most trouble?

Which of the Ice Gym Badges do you like the most?


Which Ice Puzzle did you like the most? (doesn't necessarily need to be an Ice Gym... Sootopolis for example has an Ice Puzzle, but is not an Ice gym.).


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If you could compose a Pokemon team for an Alolan Ice type specialist what would it be? Would you make the specialist a Trial Captain or have her/him replace a Kahuna? Or perhaps swap out one of the elite four?

Personally I think I'd swap out one of the Elite four. The top of Mount Lanakila is a cold environment after all!
Also, since 3 of the E4 in SM and 2 of the E4 in USUM are repeats of Kahunas/Trial captains I'd prefer to just swap in a fresh face with a type that hasn't been used yet =D

As for their team... gonna base this off USUM rather than SM. Hau has Crabominable so I think I'd omit that. Acerola also already uses Froslass.
So I'm thinking: Alolan Ninetales & Alolan Sandslash + Frost Rotom, Weavile & Jynx to round out the team. Also a Walrein.

Which of the Ice Type Gym Leaders / Elite Four is your favorite? This can be the design of the character or how easy/hard they are to beat (or both). Or perhaps you have another reason.

The first one to come to mind when I think ice type specialist is Lorelei so I'm gonna have to go with that.

Which of the Ice type specialists gave you the most trouble?

I think Glacia actually. Her Snow Cloak Froslass can be a real nuisance, and recently while replaying AS she just Froze me so dang many times xD

Which of the Ice Gym Badges do you like the most?

I like the Icicle Badge most myself =3

Which Ice Puzzle did you like the most? (doesn't necessarily need to be an Ice Gym... Sootopolis for example has an Ice Puzzle, but is not an Ice gym.).

I liked Sootopolis' step once on every tile puzzle the most. Wulfric's gym puzzle has nothing to do with Ice.
Most of the other ones are Sliding puzzles. Melony's puzzle was obscured pitfalls that stay open once you fall through which are given away by the dowsing rod you get. Not a bad puzzle, but not a fan of the blinding snowstorm you get as you move up the stages of the puzzle tbh.


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Icy Puzzles for anyone interested =3

I attempted to make some Ice Puzzles, two of which are based of Gym Puzzles and the other is based on the Ruins of Alph puzzles where you have to put the right puzzle piece in the right spot.

Sootopolis Gym style Puzzle:
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There are 4 paths, each path is possible. Minor variations along the correct path may occur. There are pre-cracked tiles (to separate the lanes) that do not need to be stepped on.
Can you find the path each of the trainers at the bottom needs to take to cross to the other side while stepping on every tile once?

You can answer this in text (along the lines of 3 Steps Up, 1 Step right, 3 Steps Up, 2 Steps Left, etc.) or you could download the image, open it in an Image editor and just draw a line and then attach it here as your answer. The latter is probably easier.

https://www.pokecommunity.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=99190&stc=1&d=1635967883


Ice Sliding Puzzle:
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Your generic Pokemon Ice sliding puzzle. Your goal is to find two paths; a path from each of the stairs at the bottom to the center where the Hiker and Black Belt are.
There are multiple variations along the way that will lead to the center, you just need to find 1 starting from each staircase at the bottom.

You can answer this in text too or you could download the image, open it in an Image editor and just draw a line and then attach it here as your answer. The latter is probably easier.

https://www.pokecommunity.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=99191&stc=1&d=1635967883


Ruins of Alph style Ice Mon Puzzle:
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You need to fill in all the numbered spots in the middle in between the thick yellow lines with the puzzle pieces at the sides indicated with letters. The end result will be an Ice Type mon!

3 Pieces start out revealed/correctly placed. Orange letter V pieces are blank background pieces I couldn't give individual letters to due to there not being enough letters in the alphabet =p The black pieces with an X were just leftover space due to filling in the 3 starting pieces in their correct spots.

For answering this, the easiest would probably be to just type it out like so:
1 = A
2 = B
3 = C
4 = D
etc. etc.

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Here's an image without the letters, in case you want to open this in an image editor and drag and drop the pieces in place:
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Sheep November 3rd, 2021 9:26 PM

Omg.. I actually feel like Ice type users in the game deserve a buff! Pryce was one of the easiest Gym Leaders in the game and really deserved more for being the 7th gym leader. That battle was so easy to me, even when I was 9, and I can't help but feel bad for him aha. But he is a cool character himself even if he's so easy to battle. xD;;

I love Lorelei most personally, but she's probably pretty popular so it's no surprise. <3

If you could compose a Pokemon team for an Alolan Ice type specialist what would it be? Would you make the specialist a Trial Captain or have her/him replace a Kahuna? Or perhaps swap out one of the elite four?

Ice type E4 pls!! Maybe a male this time, since we've had Lorelei and Glacia already. I say replace Hala in SuMo, he already had a role as a Kahuna and it would've been better to introduce a new character in his place.

Team
Alolan Ninetales (Ace) Lv. 54
Weavile Lv. 52
Abomasnow Lv. 52
Dewgong Lv. 50
Frosmoth Lv. 50
Aurorus Lv. 50

I'd totally enjoy battling this. \o/

icycatelf November 4th, 2021 7:26 AM

If you could compose a Pokemon team for an Alolan Ice type specialist what would it be? Would you make the specialist a Trial Captain or have her/him replace a Kahuna? Or perhaps swap out one of the elite four? I'd have honestly loved to had seen a trial reminiscent of Danny's challenge from the Orange Islands, so Trial Captain. Limiting myself to the USUM Dex, I'm picturing him with Weavile and Alolan Sandslash for carving ice, plus Dewgong for some reason. Tempted to throw in some non-Ice Pokémon for the rematch though, like Mienshao and Midday Lycanroc (Shiny) since stoats and wolves seem at home in the snow. There are some Pokémon in the games that know "illegal" moves, like Lance's Dragonite with Barrier, so why not give these two Ice Punch and Ice Fang?

Which of the Ice Type Gym Leaders / Elite Four is your favorite? This can be the design of the character or how easy/hard they are to beat (or both). Or perhaps you have another reason. Probably Lorelei, tbh. Especially in Pokémon Adventures.

Which of the above Ice type specialists gave you the most trouble? Also Lorelei, from the original games. Always had trouble getting past her until my most recent playthrough of Yellow.

Which of the Ice Gym Badges do you like the most? I think it's really cool how the Iceberg Badge is filled with water/liquid, but my aesthetic favorite would have to be the Freeze Badge.

Which Ice Puzzle did you like the most? (doesn't necessarily need to be an Ice Gym... Sootopolis for example has an Ice Puzzle, but is not an Ice gym.) Never really thought about it, but I'm going with Gen. II's Ice Path since it's the only one I've memorized.

Might try at least one of your puzzles later. My brain just isn't ready for that right now. @[email protected]

Ninetales November 6th, 2021 9:23 PM

If you could compose a Pokemon team for an Alolan Ice type specialist what would it be? Would you make the specialist a Trial Captain or have her/him replace a Kahuna? Or perhaps swap out one of the elite four?

I’d swap out an elite four member!!

Team:

Alolan Ninetales
Weavile
Alolan Sandslash
Lapras
Froslass

Which of the Ice Type Gym Leaders / Elite Four is your favorite? This can be the design of the character or how easy/hard they are to beat (or both). Or perhaps you have another reason.

Candice without a doubt. I loved her contribution in the Pokémon Pearl and Diamond anime, I found her personality to be refreshing and contagious simultaneously! Furthermore, I adored her relationship with Zoey!! I feel like this dynamic truly brought her character to life. She feels like a trustworthy big sister, a character type in which I can appreciate. Moreover, I am fond of her design overall. She’s highly memorable to me, more so than other ice type specialists. I might add that her gym is quite troublesome and I had to watch a plethora of YouTube tutorials in order to efficiently navigate it. Brycen is my next choice, I’ve always loved his eclectic personality and design. He’s certainly an exceptional actor as well!!

Which of the above ice type specialists gave you the most trouble?

Candice, most likely. Though I can’t say any of them were immensely difficult to face in battle.

Which of the ice gym badges do you like the most?

The freeze badge without a doubt. Though, the icicle badge is the runner-up.

Which Ice Puzzle did you like the most? (doesn't necessarily need to be an Ice Gym... Sootopolis for example has an Ice Puzzle, but is not an Ice gym.)

Pryce’s. Perhaps it’s the nostalgia from playing HGSS, but I enjoyed that one the most.

Megan November 6th, 2021 10:20 PM

If you could compose a Pokemon team for an Alolan Ice type specialist what would it be? Would you make the specialist a Trial Captain or have her/him replace a Kahuna? Or perhaps swap out one of the elite four?
Probably Elite Four. Ice always comes way late in the games and gen 7 does something similar by keeping the icy region to pretty much the end, as well.

I'd probably just give them the Alolan versions of Sandslash and Ninetales, as well as Crabominable. Irognically enough, that's all new Ice types we got in gen 7. xD
Maybe add Lapras, as well.

Which of the Ice Type Gym Leaders / Elite Four is your favorite? This can be the design of the character or how easy/hard they are to beat (or both). Or perhaps you have another reason.
Tbh. most of them end up being fairly forgettable. I've not played Shield (only played Sword) and I've only played Platinum once and have no positive opinion of it. ^^"
Wulfric and Brycen I barely even remember. Glacia exists. I think the reason why I even remember Pryce and Lorelei is because everyone makes fun of Pryce being weak and Lorelei just happening to be in one episode of the anime, as well as having some minor plot involvement in FRLG.

Which of the above Ice type specialists gave you the most trouble?
Idr anyone of them giving me trouble. Even Candice with her Snow Warning shenanigans didn't end up giving me as much trouble as I thought she would.

Which of the Ice Gym Badges do you like the most?
Glaicier and Iceberg, probably.

Which Ice Puzzle did you like the most? (doesn't necessarily need to be an Ice Gym... Sootopolis for example has an Ice Puzzle, but is not an Ice gym.).
All the gen 2 puzzles probably. They're just very memorable.

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Below are all Ice Type moves:
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Normal Moves:
-Aurora Beam
-Aurora Veil
-Avalanche
-Blizzard
-Freeze Shock
-Freeze-Dry
-Freezy Frost
-Frost Breath
-Glacial Lance
-Glaciate
-Hail
-Haze
-Ice Ball
-Ice Beam
-Ice Burn
-Ice Fang
-Ice Hammer
-Ice Punch
-Ice Shard
-Icicle Crash
-Icicle Spear
-Icy Wind
-Mist
-Powder Snow
-Sheer Cold
-Triple Axel

Max & Z-Moves:
-G-Max Resonance
-Max Hailstorm
-Subzero Slammer


Is/are there any move(s) you find yourself using often? Any favorite moves?

How about moves you've never even heard about?

Freeze-Dry is an Ice type move that hits Water types Super Effectively. Do you like the idea of moves like this that allow you to hit something super effectively that you otherwise couldn't? Any ideas for other moves like this (for example an Ice type move that's super effective against Ghost types)?


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Is/are there any Ice type move(s) you find yourself using often? Any favorite Ice moves?

Blizzard, Ice Beam, Icicle Crash & Hail are moves I often have on Ice types. After that it varies a lot.

How about moves you've never even heard about?

Would've never known about Freezy Frost if I hadn't played LGE lol
That said I couldn't remember what Ice Hammer and Ice Burn were and had to look them up.

Freeze-Dry is an Ice type move that hits Water types Super Effectively. Do you like the idea of moves like this that allow you to hit something super effectively that you otherwise couldn't? Any ideas for other moves like this (for example an Ice type move that's super effective against Ghost types)?

It's a nice move to have and I definitely wouldn't mind more moves like this.
How about an Ice type move called Brain Freeze that hits Psychic types super effectively? 😛

I'd aim this sort of move to types that you hit neutrally. Electric types have only 1 weakness and ice is neutral to it. How about:
"Polarize - Changes the opposing Pokemon's polarity. This is super effective on electric types."

Fairy November 10th, 2021 1:37 PM

Oh my god I spent like a year trying to get Ice Punch on 4 gen 4 Weavile. There’s no TMs for it and no move tutor teaches it so the only way was to get a Medicham, heart scale Ice Punch onto it, get a Smeargal, have it sketch Ice Punch in a double battle and breed with a female Weavile.

I know now there’s any better moves for Weavile, but I had my heart set on Ice Punch and I gotta admit, it’s become endeared to me.

Sheep November 12th, 2021 6:53 AM

Is/are there any move(s) you find yourself using often? Any favorite moves?
Outside the obviously reliable Ice Beam, I've always thought Ice Ball was cute and loved using it on my lil Spheal when I was training it! Powder Snow is also good, but mostly for the cuteness factor. I like thinking of little baby Snom and Alolan Vulpix with it. <3

How about moves you've never even heard about?
Heard of them all! Though how many I forget the names of sometimes... probably enough lol. I'm not as good at remembering some of the more recent ice moves, I feel like the attack names have gotten a bit more complex. Or maybe I've just become less smart lol.

Freeze-Dry is an Ice type move that hits Water types Super Effectively. Do you like the idea of moves like this that allow you to hit something super effectively that you otherwise couldn't? Any ideas for other moves like this (for example an Ice type move that's super effective against Ghost types)?
Absolutely yes - it's unique and I wish they'd go similar routes for new moves. Sure, it's confusing at first, but it really shakes things up in competitive and is fun to learn about.

An ice move that is super effective against fighting types would be cool, because who can move and use their muscles as well if they're cold and stiff? :D

Megan November 12th, 2021 9:25 AM

Is/are there any move(s) you find yourself using often? Any favorite moves?
I use Ice Beam and Ice Punch the most. Others more rarely used are Ice Fang and Icy Wind. It really depends on the game and how accessable the moves are.

How about moves you've never even heard about?
Idk? There are moves I've never even heard of them. Especially in the later generations there are a bunch of them that might have gone under due to there being a lot of moves exclusive to certain Pokemon and only at certain level ranges, etc. Still couldn't tell what "Triple Axel" is supposed to be without looking it up. xD

Freeze-Dry is an Ice type move that hits Water types Super Effectively. Do you like the idea of moves like this that allow you to hit something super effectively that you otherwise couldn't? Any ideas for other moves like this (for example an Ice type move that's super effective against Ghost types)?
They're fairly niche and I rarely get to care about them. They're either very exclusive so I rarely run into them or I just have other moves that already do the type coverage. That being said: I think Ice is a good offensive typing and I don't really see the need for other moves that reverse the effectiveness. Freeze-Dry is a nice move to have, don't get me wrong. I just think if we got more of those moves they would stop being special.

icycatelf November 12th, 2021 10:15 AM

Is/are there any move(s) you find yourself using often? Any favorite moves? Good ol' Ice Beam. I usually try to stick it on any special-attackers that can learn it!

How about moves you've never even heard about? I'm not sure if I'd heard of G-Max Resonance. Never used/battled G-Max Lapras on account of playing Sword and I sort of forgot about it after the DLC...

Freeze-Dry is an Ice type move that hits Water types Super Effectively. Do you like the idea of moves like this that allow you to hit something super effectively that you otherwise couldn't? Any ideas for other moves like this (for example an Ice type move that's super effective against Ghost types)? It's great for coverage, so I love it. How about an Ice-type move so cold that it can freeze fire? Not that that's actually possible, but the concept has been used before in anime/manga.

Starlight November 14th, 2021 5:27 PM

Is/are there any move(s) you find yourself using often? Any favorite moves?
Ice beam is probably my single most used move since I started playing Pokémon way back when!

Special shout out to Aurora Beam for sounding so beautiful ❤


How about moves you've never even heard about?

I've heard of most of them, but haven't used anywhere near all of them. I tend to be an attacking player, I don't use an awful lot of defensive moves.


Freeze-Dry is an Ice type move that hits Water types Super Effectively. Do you like the idea of moves like this that allow you to hit something super effectively that you otherwise couldn't? Any ideas for other moves like this (for example an Ice type move that's super effective against Ghost types)?

I actually really love this idea, but I would like them to be rare or hard to earn, otherwise there is the potential to make type matchings pointless.

icycatelf November 16th, 2021 4:14 PM

Did the fossilmon puzzle!


The Alph puzzles make different forms of Unown appear. What Unown will appear now? Snowflake form?

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Do you have a favorite PokeBall you like to put your Ice Types in?
If you think none of the currently existing PokeBalls fit (or just want a ball that works better on Ice Types =3), do you have any ideas for a PokeBall that's meant for Ice types?
(you can tweak an existing PokeBall or come up with something completely new =3).

Do you have any Ice Pokemon merchandise? Feel free to share photo's if you want =3 Also yes the Icy water types from TCG count too =3

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Do you have a favorite PokeBall you like to put your Ice Types in?
If you think none of the currently existing PokeBalls fit (or just want a ball that works better on Ice Types =3), do you have any ideas for a PokeBall that's meant for Ice types?
(you can tweak an existing PokeBall or come up with something completely new =3).

With the currently existing balls: I like to put my Ice type mons in Premier and Heavy Balls.
Definitely wouldn't mind a ball that works better at catching Ice types. For the design the Premier Ball could just be redesigned. I mainly dislike the red stripe on it and would make it an icy blue. Then put an Icy blue snowflake on the top half and maybe some icicles attached to the bottom half and done =3

Do you have any Ice Pokemon merchandise? Feel free to share photo's if you want =3 Also yes the Icy water types from TCG count too =3

You bet I do @[email protected] xD

Plushies:


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I made a second optional Quiz =3
This one is all about the PokeDex: Dex entries and Classifications.
15 questions: 10 Multiple Choice and 5 True or False.

Spoiler:
Professor Kyurem's Ice Type PokeDex Quiz:

You can take the quiz by clicking this link: https://testmoz.com/11106958
The quiz site insisted on some sort of name input, so for 'Enter your forum nickname' just put what your username is on PC ^.^

The Password is on the blackboard below! (case sensitive)

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Did the fossilmon puzzle!


The Alph puzzles make different forms of Unown appear. What Unown will appear now? Snowflake form?

https://i.imgur.com/bGS8CpY.gif

Obviously it's the Unown Lord:


I quite like that Snowflake Unown =3

icycatelf November 17th, 2021 6:03 PM

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I had a hunch that the first answer was Alolan Sandslash, but Slush Rush being its Hidden Ability threw me off. Also missed the cellular structure one, but I surprisingly got everything else!

Do you have a favorite PokeBall you like to put your Ice Types in? I usually use whatever ball suits the Pokémon's appearance rather than its Type, but the Dive Ball looks fairly icy. The only thing letting it down is the splash animation. I agree that the Heavy Ball also works and has a much more fitting animation (at least in SWSH, not sure about other Gens). Personally, I'd like to see something along the lines of those crystal Poké Balls from the third movie!

Do you have any Ice Pokemon merchandise? Feel free to share photo's if you want =3 Also yes the Icy water types from TCG count too =3 Ahh! I didn't know there was already a Frosmoth plush! Too bad I'm poor. T_T

Outside of trading cards, I believe my only Ice-type merch includes a Lapras Poké Ball keychain, an Articuno power card from Burger King's second movie promotion, and an iridescent Dewgong marble. My most notable Ice-type Pokémon cards are probably Fossil Lapras and Sneasel ex (the latter being a Dark-Type card). The non-FA Shiny Frosmoth card is high on my wishlist!

EDIT: Oh! I've also got a mini Lapras figure from one of those Polly Pocket-like sets.

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Optional:
Battle Tower Challenge #1

Time for a Battle Tower challenge for those who are interested!
You can do this on any of the gen 6, 7 & 8 games that have a variation of the Battle Tower.

This first challenge is kind of to test things out tbh as I'm not sure how high or low to set the goals atm =D (or if people are interested)
I'm pretty sure some Battle Facilities had a choice between level 50 and level 100, but they've been changed bit by bit over the gens so I'm not sure when/what game this was anymore xD

Anyway at your game's Battle Tower facility: pick Single Battle and then Level 50 (if you even have the choice between level 50 and 100).

Rules:
-Mono Ice type team (all your pokemon need to have Ice as one of their typings, this is the Ice Type club after all =3).
-Held items ARE allowed.
-IV/EV Trained mons ARE allowed if you have them.
-No Dynamax/Megas etc. if the Tower allows them (gen 8 tower allows Dynamax for example).
-No legendaries. (I feel like these weren't allowed at Battle Towers, but when I checked in gen 8 Battle Tower they were, so...)

The Gen 8 Tower doesn't have the win streak system the previous Towers had, so I'm kind of forced to alter what I had in mind a little for gen 8.

For Gen 6/7 Battle Tower:
-Start a new streak with your Mono Ice team.
-Get a win streak of at least 30 to be eligible for prizes =D Preferably take a photo of your win streak if possible when finished (not a hard requirement though).

Once you've reached the required numbers you can keep going if you want to see how far you can get =D

For Gen 8:
-Write down your current amount of victories so you don't forget how many you started with (you see this number on the right on the screen where you pick between Single and Double Battle). Preferably take a screenshot or photo too (again, not a hard requirement).
-Get at least 50 wins with your Mono Ice Team to be eligible for prizes (since they don't need to be consecutive in this battle tower, the number is higher). Preferably take another screenshot/photo when done (not a hard requirement).

Whichever gen you're doing this challenge in, be sure to post the Team you used! Be it a screenshot/photo or just text.

As for Prizes, I have a bunch of excess legendaries I can give away. The following legendaries are prizes this time (1 Prize Legendary Per Participant atm):

ORAS (I have Bank so these can go to XY and SM/USUM too):
-Raikou, Entei, Suicune (all x 2)
-Regirock, Regice, Registeel (all x 2)
-Cobalion, Terrakion, Virizion (all x2)

SwSh/Home:
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-Poipole
-Raikou, Entei, Suicune
-Zapdos, Articuno, Moltres
-Cobalion, Terrakion, Virizion
-Ho-oh (x2)
-Heatran

Kinda wish I could hand out only Ice type legendaries, but I just don't have enough of them to do so xD

You have a month to attempt this challenge, so deadline would be 27 November.
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Gave this a try myself in Gen 8 since it's where all my better/good stuff is =3
I shiny bred for a Cloyster, Galar Darmanitan and Eiscue. Two of which I already had with a good nature so I locked those in, the other I got a good nature for while shiny breeding so I swapped that one into the breeder =p After I had them all shiny, I used Vitamins for EV training and Hyper Training for IV Training.
I actually somehow managed to get all 3 in time to attempt the challenge myself without having to hurry @[email protected]

My team:


Cloyster:
-Ability: Skill Link
-Held Item: Never-Melt Ice
-Nature: Adamant
-Moves:
. -Icicle Spear
. -Liquidation
. -Shell Smash
. -Hail

Galar Darmanitan:
-Ability: Gorilla Tactics
-Held Item: Choice Scarf
-Nature: Jolly
-Moves:
. -Icicle Crash
. -Earthquake
. -Flare Blitz
. -U-Turn

Eiscue
-Ability: Ice Face
-Held Item: Muscle Band
-Nature: Jolly
-Moves:
. -Icicle Crash
. -Zen Headbutt
. -Belly Drum
. -Substitute

Started at only 3 victories in Single Battles at the gen 8 Tower. Lost 5 times along the way, which has the Tower deduct a victory from your total once. If you lose multiple times in a row it doesn't seem to keep decreasing your total victories past that though. Ended up with 57 Victories:


This team was pretty dang strong, but the gen 8 Tower is nothing to scoff at. They got whatever ability is best, whether it's normal or Hidden. They got held items. They are IV/EV trained. They got annoying as HECK coverage moves. That said I only lost 5 times, usually when my Cloyster died too soon.

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Basically I'd start with Cloyster. Possibly switch out if the starting opposing mon is too unfavourable.
If not I'd Shell Smash once and then just watch the Skill Link Icicle Spear kill my enemies. The main nuisance here were mons that would resist Ice attacks and have an ability like Water Absorb meaning I'd have to try and whittle them down or switch out (I had an extremely lengthy fight with an Arctovish rofl). The opposing mons with special Grass attacks were also unfortunately numerous and killed my cloyster multiple times.

Galar Darmanitan has Gorilla Tactics meaning I'm locked into whatever move I use first, meaning I had to switch it often. At one point it was the last mon standing, I opted for earthquake, but hadn't seen the third mon yet. Ofc the AI turned out to have a flying type, which it immediately swapped into after I got locked into earthquake and I was just powerless and rode out my loss xD
Galar Darmanitan is a glass cannon and pretty much just dies to any STAB attack from an opposing mon even if it isn't super effective xD

Eiscue shined best as the mon to switch into when forced to take a hit as out of the three it was the best at taking them.
Eiscue was also my main answer to Fighting types since its ability let's it survive a physical attack guaranteed. It also becomes faster when it loses it's Ice Face, so I'd usually be able to move first after being physically hit (and it knows a psychic type move =3). The problem for Eiscue were the hard hitting Special attackers since they bypass Ice Face and can 1 hit kill if they crit.

Basically, Cloyster and Galar Darmanitan were my heavy hitters. Eiscue was far from useless though! It actually once clutched out a win when the other two got killed fast due to annoying coverage moves and single-handedly whooped the other team after losing it's Ice face and scoring Flinches like mad with Icicle Crash xD

As for Leon who repeatedly shows up as you keep winning.... my victory over his G-max Charizard was dependent solely on my Cloyster's survival (since I can't Dynamax myself). If Cloyster could Shell Smash it would basically sweep his team. If the starting mon was too unfavorable though, it would likely die, leaving me helpless against G-Max Charizard. 2 out of my 5 losses were because of this.
I did also at some point bump into a League Staff trainer who used a G-max Rillaboom, but... I had already Shell Smashed so that poor monkey just died xD


Anyway, this was quite fun. I've never really spent that much time in the Tower in Pokemon Games. I picked the Galar Darmanitan randomly, because it was literally the only one amongst the 6 random Ice mons I tried beforehand that could actually lay down some punishment in there.
(basically I tried beforehand to see how some random Ice types from my boxes that weren't IV/EV trained would fare... 2 wins out of like 6 attempts... yeah xD)

TL;DR I used 3 mons I've never used before and all managed to pull their weight in their own way so I've got newly acquired fondness for these 3 =D

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I might just attempt this battle facility challenge, stay tuned!

There's still 8 day to go for the original deadline, but I'm just poking you two to ask if you want more time if you're actually going to try the challenge =3
I could add 1 or 2 weeks if you want ^.^
I'd prefer not to add more than that though as I feel it will then just drag on too long.

Megan November 20th, 2021 3:23 AM

Do you have a favorite PokeBall you like to put your Ice Types in?
Not really. I'll just catch them with whatever ball I have available.

If you think none of the currently existing PokeBalls fit (or just want a ball that works better on Ice Types =3), do you have any ideas for a PokeBall that's meant for Ice types?
Maybe a Hot and Cold Ball that works well on anything that is Ice, Fire or Dragon would be fun. I actually don't know how a Poke Ball for Ice Types would work. Aesthetics is one thing but I also like to wonder what such a ball would be like in the inside. Would it be very cold inside, for example and how would that work? (yeah, I'm making it more difficult than it needs to be xD)

Do you have any Ice Pokemon merchandise?
I probably still have some cards with Ice Type Pokemon on them but nothing explicitly being about an Ice Type Pokemon.

ReKoil November 24th, 2021 2:44 PM

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Don't know how many of us have BDSP, but for those that do: Are you using/going to use an Ice type on your team?

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Are you using/going to use an Ice type on your team?

I want to use a Weavile, but fear the item for it is going to be extremely late game. So I will instead add on a Snover whenever I bump into one =D


I've burned through all the question I had prepared beforehand tbh 😅
So if anyone has any topics they wanna bring up go for it =3

There is something I think we can still do weekly atm though =3

There are lots of people making Pokemon related Tier lists online, so I was thinking maybe we could all rate the Ice Type mons and make a 'Ice Types Club Ice Type Tier list? =3
Not sure how to spread this (as I think all at once is probably off putting), but I was thinking a random group of 5-6 Ice mons a week? The batch of mons will be drawn randomly, but if it's part of a line then the entire line goes up for judging (so if I draw Piloswine, Swinub and Mamoswine would be up for judging too)
You can also discuss anything you want about the mon while rating it =3

As for how we'd be rating them I thought we could do something a little bit different and go with the Contest categories: Beauty, Clever, Cool, Cute, Tough.
You'd rate the mon by whatever standard you want. You can just rate them by design (might be hard for Clever though), or based on moves/abilities they have etc.

For each of the categories you'd say which rank the mon would have: Normal Rank (bad/dislike), Super Rank (meh/okay), Hyper Rank (Good), and Master Rank (Great/Amazing).
When finished I can then make Tier lists for each contest category and put the mons in accordingly =3

So for example, if you think a mon is very Beautiful, Cute and cool, but not that Clever or Tough, you fill in something like this:
https://www.serebii.net/pokedex-bw/type/beauty.png: Master
https://www.serebii.net/pokedex-bw/type/clever.png: Super
https://www.serebii.net/pokedex-bw/type/cool.png: Hyper
https://www.serebii.net/pokedex-bw/type/cute.png: Hyper
https://www.serebii.net/pokedex-bw/type/tough.png: Super

As for the first batch of mons to Judge:

Spheal:


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Sealeo:


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Walrein:


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Cryogonal:


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Eiscue:


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Roni November 25th, 2021 3:48 AM

Hope it's not too late to join! I'd love to have Regice as my Guardian <3

Do you have a favorite PokeBall you like to put your Ice Types in?
Not really. I don't care much about Pokeballs my mons are in.

If you think none of the currently existing PokeBalls fit (or just want a ball that works better on Ice Types =3), do you have any ideas for a PokeBall that's meant for Ice types?
Frost Ball? Winter Ball? Arctic Ball? There's a plethora of names to give to specialty Pokeballs that work better on Ice Types hehe. Not sure why GF wouldn't just make a specialty ball for every type at this point.

Do you have any Ice Pokemon merchandise?
Not at the moment, but I've been eyeing a Snom plush for a while now...

Are you using/going to use an Ice type on your team?
I don't have BDSP atm, but if I eventually do, there's a good chance I'll give Snover a chance. I always loved that wijoo wijoo boy

I also got 70/150 on that test. Pretty cool questions! (pun absolutely intended)

icycatelf November 25th, 2021 6:20 AM

Don't know how many of us have BDSP, but for those that do: Are you using/going to use an Ice type on your team? I don't have either and don't plan on getting them, unless LA doesn't get Mothim since I'm eager to use my most cherished full-odds Shiny again (he's trapped in HOME atm).

In the event that I actually do end up with them... I kind of doubt I would tbh. They're pretty late in-game and, after getting the final Badge, I'd probably transfer in my "Shiny team" from SWSH/HOME (which, looking at the BDSP roster, I'm thinking would include Wartortle, Mothim, Dunsparce, Leafeon, Porygon2, and maybe Shedinja). (No Ice-types here, but Wartortle and Porygon2 do know Ice Beam!)

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ReKoil November 25th, 2021 10:21 AM

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Hope it's not too late to join! I'd love to have Regice as my Guardian <3

Do you have a favorite PokeBall you like to put your Ice Types in?
Not really. I don't care much about Pokeballs my mons are in.

If you think none of the currently existing PokeBalls fit (or just want a ball that works better on Ice Types =3), do you have any ideas for a PokeBall that's meant for Ice types?
Frost Ball? Winter Ball? Arctic Ball? There's a plethora of names to give to specialty Pokeballs that work better on Ice Types hehe. Not sure why GF wouldn't just make a specialty ball for every type at this point.

Do you have any Ice Pokemon merchandise?
Not at the moment, but I've been eyeing a Snom plush for a while now...

Are you using/going to use an Ice type on your team?
I don't have BDSP atm, but if I eventually do, there's a good chance I'll give Snover a chance. I always loved that wijoo wijoo boy

I also got 70/150 on that test. Pretty cool questions! (pun absolutely intended)

It's never too late to join =3
Any favorite Ice types I can jot down for you or shall I leave it blank?

Anyway, you have been admitted to the Glacial Gathering through your Guardian: Regice.
Welcome, Roni!

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Not at the moment, but I've been eyeing a Snom plush for a while now...

You're not the only one =3
I didn't have enough money for both Snom and Frosmoth at the time so I ended up only buying Frosmoth...
I need to check the store that had them soon and see if they still do @[email protected]

Roni November 25th, 2021 11:57 PM

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Any favorite Ice types I can jot down for you or shall I leave it blank?

Ooh Dewgong, Frost Rotom, Snover, Snom, & Eiscue for me!

Sheep November 26th, 2021 7:36 AM

Are you using/going to use an Ice type on your team?
Don't have one currently, but so so interested in using Froslass!! But I always have to have an ice move on my team regardless.. such good coverage. Empoleon and Ice Beam go hand in hand. I just don't have room for Froslass right now (and already used Weavile). ;-;

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Spheal
Beautiful: Hyper
Clever: Normal
Cool: Super
Cute: Master
Tough: Normal

Sealeo
Beautiful: Hyper
Clever: Super
Cool: Super
Cute: Super
Tough: Hyper

Walrein
Beautiful: Hyper
Clever: Hyper
Cool: Master
Cute: Super
Tough: Master

Cryogonal
Beautiful: Hyper
Clever: Super
Cool: Hyper
Cute: Normal
Tough: Super

Eiscue
Beautiful: Super
Clever: Normal
Cool: Super
Cute: Normal
Tough: Master

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Are there any changes you'd like to see in the Ice type's Type match-ups? This could be defensive (for example give Ice type a new resistance) or offensive (give it a different or an extra type it's super effective against)

For this week's Rankings, first a short recap:
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Rate the mon by whatever standard you want. You can just rate them by design (might be hard for Clever though), or based on moves/abilities they have etc.

For each of the categories you'd say which rank the mon would have: Normal Rank (bad/dislike), Super Rank (meh/okay), Hyper Rank (Good), and Master Rank (Great/Amazing).
And the new batch of mons up for Judging/Ranking:

Sneasel:

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Weavile:

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Bergmite:

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Avalugg:

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Alolan Sandshrew:

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https://www.serebii.net/pokedex-bw/type/clever.png:
https://www.serebii.net/pokedex-bw/type/cool.png:
https://www.serebii.net/pokedex-bw/type/cute.png:
https://www.serebii.net/pokedex-bw/type/tough.png:

Alolan Sandslash:

https://www.serebii.net/pokedex-bw/type/beauty.png:
https://www.serebii.net/pokedex-bw/type/clever.png:
https://www.serebii.net/pokedex-bw/type/cool.png:
https://www.serebii.net/pokedex-bw/type/cute.png:
https://www.serebii.net/pokedex-bw/type/tough.png:

My own answer & rankings:
Spoiler:

Are there any changes you'd like to see in the Ice type's Type match-ups? This could be defensive (for example give Ice type a new resistance) or offensive (give it a different or an extra type it's super effective against)

Personally I'd really like Ice to resist Ground. Additionally Ice could resist Dragon, but I kinda don't consider that as necessary tbh
As for offensively.... I think it's fine the way it is? I mean I guess Ice could be made super effective against Bug types.... but, it's really not necessary imo.

Apparently I forgot to do the rankings myself last week 😅

Spheal:
https://www.serebii.net/pokedex-bw/type/beauty.png: Hyper
https://www.serebii.net/pokedex-bw/type/clever.png: Normal
https://www.serebii.net/pokedex-bw/type/cool.png: Super
https://www.serebii.net/pokedex-bw/type/cute.png: Master
https://www.serebii.net/pokedex-bw/type/tough.png: Normal

Sealeo:
https://www.serebii.net/pokedex-bw/type/beauty.png: Super
https://www.serebii.net/pokedex-bw/type/clever.png: Super
https://www.serebii.net/pokedex-bw/type/cool.png: Super
https://www.serebii.net/pokedex-bw/type/cute.png: Hyper
https://www.serebii.net/pokedex-bw/type/tough.png: Hyper

Walrein:
https://www.serebii.net/pokedex-bw/type/beauty.png: Normal
https://www.serebii.net/pokedex-bw/type/clever.png: Normal
https://www.serebii.net/pokedex-bw/type/cool.png: Master
https://www.serebii.net/pokedex-bw/type/cute.png: Normal
https://www.serebii.net/pokedex-bw/type/tough.png: Master

Cryogonal:
https://www.serebii.net/pokedex-bw/type/beauty.png: Super
https://www.serebii.net/pokedex-bw/type/clever.png: Hyper
https://www.serebii.net/pokedex-bw/type/cool.png: Super
https://www.serebii.net/pokedex-bw/type/cute.png: Normal
https://www.serebii.net/pokedex-bw/type/tough.png: Super

Eiscue:
https://www.serebii.net/pokedex-bw/type/beauty.png: Super
https://www.serebii.net/pokedex-bw/type/clever.png: Hyper
https://www.serebii.net/pokedex-bw/type/cool.png: Super
https://www.serebii.net/pokedex-bw/type/cute.png: Hyper
https://www.serebii.net/pokedex-bw/type/tough.png: Hyper

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Sneasel:
https://www.serebii.net/pokedex-bw/type/beauty.png: Super
https://www.serebii.net/pokedex-bw/type/clever.png: Master
https://www.serebii.net/pokedex-bw/type/cool.png: Hyper
https://www.serebii.net/pokedex-bw/type/cute.png: Super
https://www.serebii.net/pokedex-bw/type/tough.png: Super

Weavile:
https://www.serebii.net/pokedex-bw/type/beauty.png: Normal
https://www.serebii.net/pokedex-bw/type/clever.png: Master
https://www.serebii.net/pokedex-bw/type/cool.png: Master
https://www.serebii.net/pokedex-bw/type/cute.png: Normal
https://www.serebii.net/pokedex-bw/type/tough.png: Hyper

Bergmite:
https://www.serebii.net/pokedex-bw/type/beauty.png: Normal
https://www.serebii.net/pokedex-bw/type/clever.png: Super
https://www.serebii.net/pokedex-bw/type/cool.png: Normal
https://www.serebii.net/pokedex-bw/type/cute.png: Hyper
https://www.serebii.net/pokedex-bw/type/tough.png: Normal

Avalugg:
https://www.serebii.net/pokedex-bw/type/beauty.png: Normal
https://www.serebii.net/pokedex-bw/type/clever.png: Super
https://www.serebii.net/pokedex-bw/type/cool.png: Hyper
https://www.serebii.net/pokedex-bw/type/cute.png: Normal
https://www.serebii.net/pokedex-bw/type/tough.png: Master

Alolan Sandshrew:
https://www.serebii.net/pokedex-bw/type/beauty.png: Hyper
https://www.serebii.net/pokedex-bw/type/clever.png: Super
https://www.serebii.net/pokedex-bw/type/cool.png: Super
https://www.serebii.net/pokedex-bw/type/cute.png: Hyper
https://www.serebii.net/pokedex-bw/type/tough.png: Super

Alolan Sandslash:
https://www.serebii.net/pokedex-bw/type/beauty.png: Hyper
https://www.serebii.net/pokedex-bw/type/clever.png: Super
https://www.serebii.net/pokedex-bw/type/cool.png: Master
https://www.serebii.net/pokedex-bw/type/cute.png: Super
https://www.serebii.net/pokedex-bw/type/tough.png: Hyper


Roni December 1st, 2021 7:49 AM

Are there any changes you'd like to see in the Ice type's Type match-ups? This could be defensive (for example give Ice type a new resistance) or offensive (give it a different or an extra type it's super effective against)
In my mind it makes sense to have Ice be super-effective against Water (it freezes them) and Bug (just like how it's strong against Grass). Ice also needs more resists other than itself. Would love if it resisted Water (it should make them stronger no?) and Normal type (punching a block of ice is just as painful as punching a rock/smth made of steel).

And here are my rankings. Didn't get to do it last time so I'll include those as well.

Spoiler:
Spheal
Beauty: Super
Clever: Normal
Cool: Master
Cute: Hyper
Tough: Normal

Sealeo
Beauty: Normal
Clever: Normal
Cool: Normal
Cute: Normal
Tough: Hyper

Walrein
Beauty: Normal
Clever: Hyper
Cool: Master
Cute: Normal
Tough: Master

Cryogonal
Beauty: Normal
Clever: Master
Cool: Master
Cute: Normal
Tough: Hyper

Eiscue
Beauty: Super
Clever: Super
Cool: Hyper
Cute: Master
Tough: Super

Sneasel
Beauty: Super
Clever: Master
Cool: Master
Cute: Hyper
Tough: Hyper

Weavile
Beauty: Normal
Clever: Master
Cool: Master
Cute: Normal
Tough: Master

Bergmite
Beauty: Normal
Clever: Normal
Cool: Normal
Cute: Hyper
Tough: Normal

Avalugg
Beauty: Normal
Clever: Hyper
Cool: Master
Cute: Normal
Tough: Master

Alolan Sandshrew
Beauty: Hyper
Clever: Super
Cool: Hyper
Cute: Master
Tough: Normal

Alolan Sandslash
Beauty: Hyper
Clever: Hyper
Cool: Master
Cute: Super
Tough: Master

ReKoil December 1st, 2021 8:21 AM

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The Gift of Surprise Event

Today marks the start of an event in collaboration with 3 of the other type clubs: Dragon Ascent, The Fairy Type Club & the water pokemon club!.
You have the whole of December to participate in it and try to get a new badge created for this event! =3
The goal of this event is to spread some Pokemon love through Wonder/Surprise trade during the season of giving =D

You do not have to be in any of the four clubs to participate!
You just need to go to one of the 4 participating Type clubs and indicate that you are there for the event when posting your box of mons. You will then be 'Honorary members' of that type club. And who knows, maybe you'll like the club and stick around? =3

https://www.pokecommunity.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=99446&stc=1&d=1638373252

For anyone who is in multiple type clubs or no type club at all: you can just pick the type you wish to lend a hand and participate for!
If you have enough time, you can participate with a box of mons for each the other clubs too if you want! (one box max per club)

Special thanks goes to VisionofMilotic for her help getting additional type clubs on board and for her help getting a badge for this =3

Rules:
-You can Wonder/Surprise trade ANY legitimate mon for the type club you want to participate for, as long as it has the typing of that type club!
If, for example, you're participating for the Water Club, your mons need to have Water as one of their types!
Beyond that, the mon choice is completely up to you! Just make sure you're actually okay with trading it away if it's something special like a shiny, legendary or has PokeRus etc.
If you don't have enough mons you can go breed or catch them!
-Make sure you post your submission in the corresponding type club's thread!
-Deadline is midnight on December 31st to January 1st.
Edit, as there was some confusion
In the following order:
-Try to gather a box full of mons (30) to trade away for the type of your choice.
-Don't forget to take a screenshot/photo before you send them off!
-Then Wonder/Surprise trade them all and keep what you first receive for your mon! So no endlessly trading till you have a full box of same type mons back.
-Take a screenshot/photo again.
-After completing the Wonder/Suprise Trade, provide a list of how many mons of that Pokemon Type you got back again.
-Don't forget to include the screenshots in your submission!

Quote:

Example of a submission:
(Which would be posted in the Water Club in this case.)

"Here to submit my box of mons for the Water type and to get the badge.

Before the Surprise/Wonder Trade:


After:


As you can see I got 3 Water types back (Wingull, Pelipper & Cramorant)."
If you managed to Surprise/Wonder Trade 30 mons of your chosen type club's type away and provided the before & after screenshot then you're eligible for a brand spanking new BADGE!!
You get a tier for the badge every year you manage to complete this event (Bronze -> Silver -> Gold). Don't forget to polish it!
Also, if you didn't manage to complete the event this year, you can try again next year! =)

People who do not reach the goal of 30 can still add to their type club's same type received back totals. Just post what you did get done!
You won't be eligible for the badge, but you might still be able to help the club win =D

Whichever club receives the most mons of it's type back will be the winning club and receive the Generous Gifter Trophy:
https://www.pokecommunity.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=99450&stc=1&d=1638374890

Full size:

Fairy December 1st, 2021 10:48 AM

Question! As a member of the Fairy, Dragon, and Ice Clubs, do we have permission to be super ambitious and do trades for every club?

ReKoil December 1st, 2021 11:20 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Fairy (Post 10435776)
Question! As a member of the Fairy, Dragon, and Ice Clubs, do we have permission to be super ambitious and do trades for every club?

I've been wondering that myself for some time now. I don't mind allowing it if the other owners of the participating clubs don't mind.
I do feel that if we allow it, people who aren't a member of any type clubs should be allowed to participate for multiple clubs too if they have the time for it.

I'll quote Megan and VisionofMilotic to draw their attention =p

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Originally Posted by VisionofMilotic (Post 10411956)
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VisionofMilotic December 1st, 2021 6:36 PM

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Originally Posted by ReKoil (Post 10435796)
I've been wondering that myself for some time now. I don't mind allowing it if the other owners of the participating clubs don't mind.
I do feel that if we allow it, people who aren't a member of any type clubs should be allowed to participate for multiple clubs too if they have the time for it.

I'll quote Megan and VisionofMilotic to draw their attention =p

Interesting, I am open to letting participants trade Pokemon for more than one type club, if they so desire. I think it should be optional, because it means doing more, but I think it could be interesting to allow players the opportunity to trade Pokemon for either just 1 club of their choice, 2, 3 or even all 4 participating clubs.

I have a question. If you give away pokemon on behalf of multiple clubs, would you still have to trade 30 Pokemon of the same typing to get a badge i.e a box of 30 water types? Or could you mix-and-match the types, and still be eligible for the badge by trading for instance 10 water types, 10 fairy types and 10 dragon types to total 30?

Megan December 1st, 2021 9:04 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ReKoil (Post 10435796)
I've been wondering that myself for some time now. I don't mind allowing it if the other owners of the participating clubs don't mind.
I do feel that if we allow it, people who aren't a member of any type clubs should be allowed to participate for multiple clubs too if they have the time for it.

If we do that we should probably restrict every Pokemon to one club only. If someone wants to trade a bunch of Water/Ice dual types, they should only count them towards one club and not both. Other than that it's alright with me. Ultimately it means that people have to keep better track of what they trade and if they are willing to do so then I don't see any issues.

Sheep December 2nd, 2021 2:42 AM

Welp, time to get breeding for eligible mons to wonder trade - this will be exciting :3

ReKoil December 2nd, 2021 8:28 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by VisionofMilotic (Post 10435956)
Interesting, I am open to letting participants trade Pokemon for more than one type club, if they so desire. I think it should be optional, because it means doing more, but I think it could be interesting to allow players the opportunity to trade Pokemon for either just 1 club of their choice, 2, 3 or even all 4 participating clubs.

I have a question. If you give away pokemon on behalf of multiple clubs, would you still have to trade 30 Pokemon of the same typing to get a badge i.e a box of 30 water types? Or could you mix-and-match the types, and still be eligible for the badge by trading for instance 10 water types, 10 fairy types and 10 dragon types to total 30?

Yes, doing it for multiple clubs would be optional.

For the badge you need 30 of the same type for the club you participate for. So no mix-and-match there.

Once you have completed that though, and if you still have time left, you could do anywhere up to 30 mons (there is no minimum, but 30 per club is definitely the maximum) for other clubs too. So for example you would do 30 dragons to get yourself the badge and after that you could do say 15 each for the Fairy, Water and Ice clubs.

So once you've already qualified for the badge you could then mix-and-match a box of 10 for the other type clubs if you want.

One thing to keep in mind though:
If you plan to participate for multiple clubs, say for example the Water & Fairy clubs. Say you have 1 box full of Water types, and possibly another box full of fairy types. Any fairy types you receive back when Wonder/Surprise trading your Water Box do not count, only the Water types do. Meaning only fairy types you receive back when you are actually Wonder/Surprise trading your box of Fairies count (during which any Water types would ofc not count).

So basically, for the mons you receive back, the only type that counts is the one that is of the Club that you are currently Wonder/Surprise trading for.
It's gonna be a bit more to keep track of, but definitely possible.

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Originally Posted by Megan (Post 10436008)
If we do that we should probably restrict every Pokemon to one club only. If someone wants to trade a bunch of Water/Ice dual types, they should only count them towards one club and not both. Other than that it's alright with me. Ultimately it means that people have to keep better track of what they trade and if they are willing to do so then I don't see any issues.

Your main issue is someone counting the same box for both in case of dual types right? That would not be allowed no.
But someone trading two boxes of dual types and counting the first box for one type and the second box for the other should be fine imo.

As far as dual types are concerned, I'd say if someone trades away two boxes of the same mon for two different clubs, as long as 1 box is counted for 1 club, and the other box for the other, there shouldn't be a problem?
So for example someone loads up two boxes full of Lapras. The first box is Wonder/Suprise Traded away for the Ice Club. They only count Ice types received back for their totals. The second box is Wonder/Surprise traded away for the Water Club. Now they only count the Water types received back.



*hopes this all makes sense... kinda tired atm lol, been a long day @[email protected]*

Fairy December 2nd, 2021 6:39 PM

Okay, I’ve already got my box of 30. I’ve decided to go with Milcery and attach a few random Sweets to some for fun and to be extra nice. Should I supply a screenshot of all the Milcery?

ReKoil December 3rd, 2021 7:16 AM

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Originally Posted by Fairy (Post 10436454)
Okay, I’ve already got my box of 30. I’ve decided to go with Milcery and attach a few random Sweets to some for fun and to be extra nice. Should I supply a screenshot of all the Milcery?

If you mean all individually, no that's not required.
If by all you mean your box that contains all your milcery then yes.
The screenshots/photos requested are a before and after screenshot of the box that contains the mons you surprise/wonder trade.

Perhaps an example would be clearest:

Quote:

Example of a submission:
(Which would be posted in the Water Club in this case.)

"Here to submit my box of mons for the Water type and to get the badge.

Before the Surprise/Wonder Trade:


After:


As you can see I got 3 Water types back (Wingull, Pelipper & Cramorant)."
Think I'll edit this example into the event announcement post later on =3

Duck December 3rd, 2021 9:09 AM

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Originally Posted by ReKoil (Post 10436673)
If you mean all individually, no that's not required.
If by all you mean your box that contains all your milcery then yes.
The screenshots/photos requested are a before and after screenshot of the box that contains the mons you surprise/wonder trade.

Perhaps an example would be clearest:



Think I'll edit this example into the event announcement post later on =3

Oh, shoot.

I've already done like 112 Pokémon and while I'm always taking pictures of the "Before" Volleys, I'm not always taking pictures of all the "after" pokémon - some were hacked, there were the ever present rain of Skwovets and Rookidees, so I'm mostly preserving the fairies and a few interesting Pokemon that I want for later use but I haven't been saving the derps or the 50th Charmander I get as it's 1) space consuming, 2) would stop the rolling release system to save time.

Do I really need to throw that progress away? (I say progress like it wasn't 9 Fairies.)

I think I already know the answer but there's no harm in asking, do Pokémon that aren't $TYPE, but evolve into $TYPE count? For example, Eevee counting for Water, Ice or Fairy, Koffing and Vulpix counting for Fairy or Swablu counting for Dragon.

ReKoil December 3rd, 2021 10:21 AM

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Originally Posted by Pikaboo (Post 10436734)
Oh, shoot.

I've already done like 112 Pokémon and while I'm always taking pictures of the "Before" Volleys, I'm not always taking pictures of all the "after" pokémon - some were hacked, there were the ever present rain of Skwovets and Rookidees, so I'm mostly preserving the fairies and a few interesting Pokemon that I want for later use but I haven't been saving the derps or the 50th Charmander I get as it's 1) space consuming, 2) would stop the rolling release system to save time.

Do I really need to throw that progress away? (I say progress like it wasn't 9 Fairies.)

Gonna split this up into two things:

1) Since you started before the clear example was up, I think I'd allow you to keep what you have now. Just provide what screenshots/photos you do have, as long as there is at least one before and one after shot/photo for the badge itself. Be sure to include the Fairy mons you got back in text form that are not represented on the screenshots/photo's.
Also make sure you start taking the after screenshots/photo's from this point on.

2) Did you do 112 all for the fairy type? or across all 4 participating clubs?
The box of 30 was intended as the maximum for a single type, because not everyone has as much time to spend on this.

That said if someone wants to be more avid about it, I don't want to discourage it.
I also want to prevent a situation where one person trades away like 1.000 fairies and gets 300 of them back to skew the results though.
I might already have a potential solve for this by limiting the amount of same type mons you can get back to a maximum of 30.

Edit:
nvm - Apologies for the harassment to my co-conspirators ^.^
I'm sowwwy T^T
(guess I just jumped the gun trying to help lol)


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Originally Posted by Pikaboo (Post 10436734)
I think I already know the answer but there's no harm in asking, do Pokémon that aren't $TYPE, but evolve into $TYPE count? For example, Eevee counting for Water, Ice or Fairy, Koffing and Vulpix counting for Fairy or Swablu counting for Dragon.

They don't. They need to have the typing before the Wonder/Surprise trade.
The only potential exception might be a trade evolution that acquires the type, if you actually give it the item so that it evolves. (mainly thinking of Kingdra here who gains Dragon type)

Duck December 3rd, 2021 10:28 AM

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Originally Posted by ReKoil (Post 10436768)
2) Did you do 112 all for the fairy type? or across all 4 participating clubs?
The box of 30 was intended as the maximum for a single type, because not everyone has as much time to spend on this.

Oh, I'm dumb. You see, I understood "gather 30 Pokémon of the same type" to mean after trading.
That is, keep trading until you receive 30 Pokémon of your desired type.

If what you mean is "Get 30 Pokémon of the type, trade and post the before and after", that's easy enough to do again, yeah. I got a highly efficient farm by now.

ReKoil December 3rd, 2021 10:37 AM

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Originally Posted by Pikaboo (Post 10436769)

If what you mean is "Get 30 Pokémon of the type, trade and post the before and after", that's easy enough to do again, yeah. I got a highly efficient farm by now.

That was what I meant yes.
First Gather 30 mons of 1 of the 4 types.
Then take a screenshot and Wonder/Suprise trade them all away.
Then take another screenshot/photo from what you received back.

I'm glaring at the post now wondering if I can indicate the order more clearly =p

Fairy December 3rd, 2021 7:37 PM

Haha for some reason I thought I had to trade all one Pokémon. Honestly tho, like most of these can Gigantamax and have Sweets so I don’t feel that bad for picking only Milcery.

Anyway, my Switch has always had problems with screenshots, is it okay if I take a picture of my Switch? I’ll write a little note with the date and my username so you know I’m not just faking my Milcery box. That cool?

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Originally Posted by ReKoil (Post 10436773)
I'm glaring at the post now wondering if I can indicate the order more clearly =p

Oh no, you actually did a great job explaining and with examples and whatnot. I just have poor reading comprehension sometimes lmao.

ReKoil December 4th, 2021 9:13 AM

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Originally Posted by Fairy (Post 10436914)
Haha for some reason I thought I had to trade all one Pokémon. Honestly tho, like most of these can Gigantamax and have Sweets so I don’t feel that bad for picking only Milcery.

Anyway, my Switch has always had problems with screenshots, is it okay if I take a picture of my Switch? I’ll write a little note with the date and my username so you know I’m not just faking my Milcery box. That cool?


Oh no, you actually did a great job explaining and with examples and whatnot. I just have poor reading comprehension sometimes lmao.

Of course. It's basically what I meant by photo and why I kept saying screenshot/photo.
For those who are doing this on the 3DS or those who are doing it on the Switch, but can't get screenshots off their Switch: a photo is the other option.
Just take a photo with your camera or phone of your Switch or 3DS with the box open, I don't think the note with username is necessary =)
Just try to get the box on the photo as clear as you can ^.^

Also, it's not a requirement, but if you wanna provide additional photos or screenshots to show something off, you can!
For example, boxes have a filter that makes it highlight the items the mons are holding, but hide the mon a bit. If you want to show off all the items you sent out you could do an additional photo or screenshot of that and add it.
Again, that would be optional.

Fairy December 5th, 2021 10:02 AM

All done!
Before:

After:

Standouts include:
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- Shiny G-Max Sandaconda
- Shiny Eevee holding a Master Ball
- Shiny G-Max Butterfree
- Shiny G-Max Corviknight
- Shiny Moltres holding a Choice Scarf
all 100% legit I’m sure!

ReKoil December 5th, 2021 11:06 AM

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Originally Posted by Fairy (Post 10437475)
All done!
Before:

After:

Standouts include:
Spoiler:
- Shiny G-Max Sandaconda
- Shiny Eevee holding a Master Ball
- Shiny G-Max Butterfree
- Shiny G-Max Corviknight
- Shiny Moltres holding a Choice Scarf
all 100% legit I’m sure!

Not that I mind submissions for the other 3 clubs being posted here, but:
Quote:

Originally Posted by ReKoil (Post 10435685)

Rules:
-Make sure you post your submission in the corresponding type club's thread!

This rule was mainly there so that all the participating clubs get activity out of this event =3

If you, Megan and VisionofMilotic are okay with it I guess we could also just accept submissions for all clubs here as well.

Quote:

Originally Posted by ReKoil (Post 10435685)
-After completing the Wonder/Suprise Trade, provide a list of how many mons of that Pokemon Type you got back again.

Also you forgot to list what Fairies you got back, but not that big of a deal because of the screenshots ^.^
I spy two fairies in your return box (the two Ralts).

At any rate, you do qualify for the badge, so I imagine you'll see it awarded sooner or later =3

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As for myself I'm busy prepping a box full of mons for each of the four type clubs lol

Fairy December 5th, 2021 1:03 PM

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Originally Posted by ReKoil (Post 10437510)
Not that I mind submissions for the other 3 clubs being posted here, but:


This rule was mainly there so that all the participating clubs get activity out of this event =3

If you, Megan and VisionofMilotic are okay with it I guess we could also just accept submissions for all clubs here as well.



Also you forgot to list what Fairies you got back, but not that big of a deal because of the screenshots ^.^
I spy two fairies in your return box (the two Ralts).

At any rate, you do qualify for the badge, so I imagine you'll see it awarded sooner or later =3

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As for myself I'm busy prepping a box full of mons for each of the four type clubs lol

It would seem I did not… actually read the post. Even though I did like five times! But I shall make a post in the Fairy club! And I’ll also be back to do the Ice challenge as well.

ReKoil December 6th, 2021 2:24 PM

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My own submission for the Ice Club =3

I ran into a bit of a snag while Surprise Trading for the Ice Club, but the originally intended box was as follow:
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6 x Love Ball HA Alolan Ninetales
6 x Moon Ball HA Alolan Sandslash
6 x Moon Ball HA Froslass
6 x Moon Ball HA Weavile
4 x Heavy Ball HA Glaceon
1 x Kyurem Level 75
1 x Kyurem Level 70

All holding Icy Rocks and Never-Melt Ice's.

https://www.pokecommunity.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=99502&stc=1&d=1638828732

https://www.pokecommunity.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=99501&stc=1&d=1638828732


But as already said I ran into a snag:


Idk why the heck it wouldn't let me trade the 2 kyurem's. I Surprise traded 2 water legendaries and 2 fairy legendaries for the Water and Fairy clubs with no problem afterward, yet my kyurem's aren't allowed D=

Anyway I replaced the Kyurem's with 2 Heavy Ball HA Galar Darmanitan's:


End result:
Spoiler:
3 Ice types: Sneasel, Smoochum, Glalie.

Standouts:
-The smoochum mentioned is shiny
-The Eevee is shiny, has Pokerus and is holding a masterball.
-The Zubat is in a Love Ball

https://www.pokecommunity.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=99498&stc=1&d=1638828732

I did also receive 2 water types, but wasn't trading for the Water Club so they don't count =3

icycatelf December 8th, 2021 9:56 AM

Are there any changes you'd like to see in the Ice type's Type match-ups? I'm not sure how balanced it would be, but it definitely seems like Ice should be more effective against Water rather than less effective. Or at least neutral.

I participated in the Surprise Gift event! Traded a whole box of 5+ IV HA Jolly Moon Ball Alolan Sandshrew. Named 'em all Claus (get the pun?) and gave all but two of them Bottle Caps to hold (#24 and #25 had Gold Bottle Caps). Didn't get any Ice-types in return.

https://i.imgur.com/ftU2sM6.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/tnTJoYE.jpg

Devalue December 8th, 2021 4:52 PM

2 Attachment(s)
Reports in for Ice-type Wonder Trading in Ultra Sun.
Attachment 99525
- Ten level 1 Alolan Ninetales with Snow Warning. Timid nature. Filled their moveset with egg moves. Gave all of them Jaboca Berries for fun. 4-5 perfect Individual Values.
- Ten level 14 or 17 Glaceons with various abilities. Modest nature. Limited their moves to egg moves as well. Chose Custap Berries as their odd hold item. 4-5 perfect Individual Values.
- Ten level 50 Avaluggs with Sturdy. Impish nature. Knows two egg moves (Recover and Mirror Coat). Decided on Enigma Berries for these. 4-5 perfect Individual Values.

(Wondered how viable sending Ninetales over Vulpix would be. Checked the pack for Ice Stones. Had 93. When did this happen? Remembers trying to get various stones before. Usually searched for Brilliant Stones in Poke Pelago. Even so...)

Watched countries. Wrote down Portugal, United States, France, Spain, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Japan, Italy, Germany, South Korea, and Northern Ireland. Cast a wider net than with Water.

Results:
Attachment 99524
Zero Ice-types. Would have been great for Water (8). Eclipsed Dragon (2) and Fairy (0) easily. Did not even rely on a flood of Magikarps.

VisionofMilotic December 9th, 2021 9:03 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ReKoil (Post 10436768)
They need to have the typing before the Wonder/Surprise trade.
The only potential exception might be a trade evolution that acquires the type, if you actually give it the item so that it evolves. (mainly thinking of Kingdra here who gains Dragon type)

I just so happen to have a seadra holding a dragon scale. I wanted to confirm whether I can place it on wonder trade, and count it as a dragon trade, since it's evolves into a dragon type during the trading process? I realize that we don't usually count a Pokemon towards a certain typing because of it's evolution, if that Pokemon does not possess that typing on it's own, but it seems like we're into a grey area with trading seadra because of the special way it evolves. It appears that an exception might be made for this Pokemon and others like it, but before I trade mine I thought it best to ask you for your final verdict, just to make sure. Can it be used for the dragon club?

ReKoil December 10th, 2021 10:02 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by VisionofMilotic (Post 10439534)
I just so happen to have a seadra holding a dragon scale. I wanted to confirm whether I can place it on wonder trade, and count it as a dragon trade, since it's evolves into a dragon type during the trading process? I realize that we don't usually count a Pokemon towards a certain typing because of it's evolution, if that Pokemon does not possess that typing on it's own, but it seems like we're into a grey area with trading seadra because of the special way it evolves. It appears that an exception might be made for this Pokemon and others like it, but before I trade mine I thought it best to ask you for your final verdict, just to make sure. Can it be used for the dragon club?

Seadra with Dragon Scale can be counted as a Dragon type imo, since it will reach the other side as a Dragon type. So yes you can trade it for the Dragon club.
Seadra without Dragon Scale would not count.

icycatelf December 11th, 2021 10:53 AM

Forgot my rankings for Sneasel, etc.!

Spoiler:
Sneasel:
https://www.serebii.net/pokedex-bw/type/beauty.png: Normal
https://www.serebii.net/pokedex-bw/type/clever.png: Super
https://www.serebii.net/pokedex-bw/type/cool.png: Master
https://www.serebii.net/pokedex-bw/type/cute.png: Normal
https://www.serebii.net/pokedex-bw/type/tough.png: Super

Weavile:
https://www.serebii.net/pokedex-bw/type/beauty.png: Super
https://www.serebii.net/pokedex-bw/type/clever.png: Super
https://www.serebii.net/pokedex-bw/type/cool.png: Hyper
https://www.serebii.net/pokedex-bw/type/cute.png: Normal
https://www.serebii.net/pokedex-bw/type/tough.png: Hyper

Bergmite:
https://www.serebii.net/pokedex-bw/type/beauty.png: Normal
https://www.serebii.net/pokedex-bw/type/clever.png: Super
https://www.serebii.net/pokedex-bw/type/cool.png: Normal
https://www.serebii.net/pokedex-bw/type/cute.png: Super
https://www.serebii.net/pokedex-bw/type/tough.png: Normal

Avalugg:
https://www.serebii.net/pokedex-bw/type/beauty.png: Normal
https://www.serebii.net/pokedex-bw/type/clever.png: Super
https://www.serebii.net/pokedex-bw/type/cool.png: Super
https://www.serebii.net/pokedex-bw/type/cute.png: Normal
https://www.serebii.net/pokedex-bw/type/tough.png: Hyper

Alolan Sandshrew:
https://www.serebii.net/pokedex-bw/type/beauty.png: Normal
https://www.serebii.net/pokedex-bw/type/clever.png: Normal
https://www.serebii.net/pokedex-bw/type/cool.png: Normal
https://www.serebii.net/pokedex-bw/type/cute.png: Hyper
https://www.serebii.net/pokedex-bw/type/tough.png: Normal

Alolan Sandslash:
https://www.serebii.net/pokedex-bw/type/beauty.png: Hyper
https://www.serebii.net/pokedex-bw/type/clever.png: Super
https://www.serebii.net/pokedex-bw/type/cool.png: Hyper
https://www.serebii.net/pokedex-bw/type/cute.png: Super
https://www.serebii.net/pokedex-bw/type/tough.png: Hyper

VisionofMilotic December 14th, 2021 5:20 AM

I have a question about the trade event. If it has already been answered, but have I overlooked it, then I'm sorry about this in advance.

I am currently trading on gen 6 with the pss, and had a question about trade requests from passerbys or people who apear on the acquaintance list. If I am approached to trade by a completely random person, or someone I may have previously wonder traded with, am I allowed to trade them any of the gift Pokemon for this event? Or is direct trading not permitted, and all Pokemon need to still pass through wonder trade?

ReKoil December 14th, 2021 9:57 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by VisionofMilotic (Post 10441058)
I have a question about the trade event. If it has already been answered, but have I overlooked it, then I'm sorry about this in advance.

I am currently trading on gen 6 with the pss, and had a question about trade requests from passerbys or people who apear on the acquaintance list. If I am approached to trade by a completely random person, or someone I may have previously wonder traded with, am I allowed to trade them any of the gift Pokemon for this event? Or is direct trading not permitted, and all Pokemon need to still pass through wonder trade?

Surprise / Wonder Trade only.

Even if it's a random person, in a passerby trade you can still put mons up for display and switch around based on what the other has, possibly influencing the outcome.

VisionofMilotic December 15th, 2021 4:41 AM

I am bummed because I wasn't a very lucky lady this time, and didn't get a single dragon Pokemon in return on wonder trade I'm afraid. In the past I have received bagon, gible, dratini and axew, as well as some Pokemon that have evolutions with dragon megas like treeko, mareep and charmander, so I had hoped I might score something for home team dragon, even though I expected there would be fewer of us than other elemental typings. I walk away with a badge, but without getting any points to share this time for my winged and clawed friends.

I wouldn't have fared much better as another typing it would seem. There were no ice pokemon o wonder trade either. Fairy and Water would have made more than 0, but still modest with 2 species of fairy flabebe and clefairy, and 4 water Pokemon, luvdisc, pelipper, suskrit and frillish. It just wasn't our night.

https://i.postimg.cc/W3Lwdt63/IMG-20211215-061453235.jpg

What shattered my soul though was one particular trade I made. The shiny noibat I put on wonder trade was traded to a notorious hacker! I'm sad about this because one of the reasons I traded shinies was that I wanted to gift Pokemon that I could rest assured would be appreciated by whoever the receiver was, due to their rarity.

When I wonder traded a shiny Altaria I felt good as I watched it go to a kid in France who had had a message saying that they would love a shiny one day. I was happy because I knew I had made that person's day, and that even though this was a stranger, this Pokemon was going to a home where it would be treasured.

In the irony of all ironies noibat went to the one person online who wouldn't appreciate it, becauase they hack in fake shinies all the time, that are stronger than the real one I gave. They might even release it because it didn't have 6 max IVs and all the egg moves they wanted, or they'll modify the Pokemon to make it just like their others :( I got one of their fake shinies in exchange for the real deal, but would have truly preferred to receive a regular Magikarp in this instance. /Cries

https://i.postimg.cc/fbszj20D/axew-sad.gif

Fairy December 15th, 2021 6:46 PM

Reporting in that I’ve done the Ice type challenge!

Here’s the thing though, I’m trading away the obvious hacks. So it shouldn’t take much longer but I want to trade in good faith, I hope that’s acceptable. It’s no fun when once again I get the same five hacked, shiny, GMAX Pokémon I got in the Fairy trade challenge.

Sheep December 15th, 2021 8:27 PM

I've decided to breed Snom for the Wonder Trade challenge! It's one of my absolute favorites and I couldn't resist. These ones are being bred with a 6 IV Ditto so their IVs are very good as well, usually at least 3-4 perfect ones. :D Hatching my last few now before beginning the trade process. Will update with before and after screenshots when it's done!

ReKoil December 17th, 2021 8:07 AM

really hope I didn't miss any submissions (feel free to call me out if I did) =3
Just a little update on the current standings:

Dragon Ascent: 7 Dragon types.
-Devalue: No Dragons.
-Pikaboo: 3 Dragons (Dreepy, Dreepy & Appletun).
-ReKoil: 4 Dragons (Kommo-o, Applin, Dreepy, Applin).
-VisionofMilotic: No Dragons.

The Fairy Type Club: 8 Fairy types.
-Devalue: 2 Fairies (Cottonee and Carbink).
-Fairy: 2 Fairies (Ralts & Ralts).
-Pikaboo: No Fairies.
-ReKoil: 4 Fairies (Mimikyu, Morelull, Morelull, Cottonee).

Ice Types Club: 6 Ice types.
-Devalue: No Ice types
-Icycatelf: No Ice types.
-ReKoil: 3 Ice types (Sneasel, Smoochum, Glalie).
-Sheep: 3 Ice types (Snom, Galarian Darumaka, Snorunt)

Water type club: 20 Water types.
-Devalue: 7 Water types (six Magikarps and one Popplio).
-Megan: 3 Water types (Corphish, Wingull, Psyduck).
-Pikaboo: 3 Water types (Poliwag, Squirtle, Magikarp).
-ReKoil: 7 Water types (Mareanie, Goldeen, Wooper, (East Sea) Shellos, Kingler, Cramorant, Chewtle).

So atm, the Water Club is quite clearly in the lead!
I wasn't expecting Ice to win, but dang are we low on Ice types back xD

Quote:

Originally Posted by VisionofMilotic (Post 10441444)
What shattered my soul though was one particular trade I made. The shiny noibat I put on wonder trade was traded to a notorious hacker! I'm sad about this because one of the reasons I traded shinies was that I wanted to gift Pokemon that I could rest assured would be appreciated by whoever the receiver was, due to their rarity.

In the irony of all ironies noibat went to the one person online who wouldn't appreciate it, becauase they hack in fake shinies all the time, that are stronger than the real one I gave. They might even release it because it didn't have 6 max IVs and all the egg moves they wanted, or they'll modify the Pokemon to make it just like their others :( I got one of their fake shinies in exchange for the real deal, but would have truly preferred to receive a regular Magikarp in this instance. /Cries

Yeah the hackers and websites are a nuisance in Wonder/Surprise trade =(
When I was sending off my Suicune and the three Tapu's all I could do was cross my fingers and hope they'd end up with a normal trainer and not one of them instead. Luckily they did.

I was honestly expecting Dragon to fare better. Personally I thought Dragon & Water would probably have the best chances of winning. Water simply because of how many Water mons there are, and Dragon because last time I Surprise Traded there were Dragons everywhere xD
But I guess the fish in the Wonder/Surprise Trade pond changed from time to time.
Been wondering if I would've gotten better results if I had traded a different day or time myself. Still would be RNG though.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Fairy (Post 10441714)
Reporting in that I’ve done the Ice type challenge!

Here’s the thing though, I’m trading away the obvious hacks. So it shouldn’t take much longer but I want to trade in good faith, I hope that’s acceptable. It’s no fun when once again I get the same five hacked, shiny, GMAX Pokémon I got in the Fairy trade challenge.

Well you could take an After screenshot and then trade away the hacks.
If you want to trade them away before I guess it would be acceptable as long as you don't keep going till you get the same type mon as you sent away, but just accept the first non -obviously-hacked Pokemon.

Fairy December 17th, 2021 8:34 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ReKoil (Post 10442178)
[SIZE="1"]Well you could take an After screenshot and then trade away the hacks.
If you want to trade them away before I guess it would be acceptable as long as you don't keep going till you get the same type mon as you sent away, but just accept the first non -obviously-hacked Pokemon.

Exactly my thought. The problem is that my Ice box was looking suspiciously the same as my Fairy box and that was lame af.

Sheep December 18th, 2021 7:35 AM

Here are my results! :D



Ended up with 3 ice types post-trade. One Snom (French name!), Galarian Darumaka, and Snorunt. Honestly not a bad turnout with ice types being rare in general. :O

Duck December 18th, 2021 11:07 AM

I'm working on Water (and maybe Ice type) but just as a note, please don't trade the hacks. Remove them from the ecosystem altogether.

Trading them away just means another person gets a hacked Pokémon and that might means more hacked Pokémon in the competitive metagame.

Perhaps a more palatable alternative is producing more legal Pokémon (you probably have a breeding factory if you're doing this anyway) to do another trade.

Shilah Mae Grace December 19th, 2021 12:16 PM

Hiya! I like Black-Kyurem as a guardian! My favorite Ice-type Pokemon is probably a tie between Mamoswine and Black-Kyurem. They are just very strong and have always been reliable (a.k.a., not completely walled or annihilated by Steel-types). I also really like Jynx, and wish it had slightly better stats to work with.

Ice-type is actually not my personal favorite type. In fact, I don't normally use Ice-types at all except for Mamoswine in battle facilities like the Battle Tree or Tower. But "Shilah Mae Grace" is a comedic character I play on my comedy show, and part of her character is that she is Miss Antarctica of 2021. Therefore, she uses exclusively Ice-types in battle and seeks to make them viable in competitive play. I will say that in a normal playthrough, I do remember using a Jynx on my team for Pokemon Firered, where it was pretty strong (as its Psychic typing is awesome in Kanto).

Weavile is also an interesting Pokemon to me because while it doesn't quite fit in my personal playstyle, it is working surprisingly well on "Shilah Mae Grace's" Ice-type Doubles team. Ice-types are very interesting in general because they're mostly glass cannons.

ReKoil December 20th, 2021 6:59 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Shilah Mae Grace (Post 10443077)
Hiya! I like Black-Kyurem as a guardian! My favorite Ice-type Pokemon is probably a tie between Mamoswine and Black-Kyurem. They are just very strong and have always been reliable (a.k.a., not completely walled or annihilated by Steel-types). I also really like Jynx, and wish it had slightly better stats to work with.

Ice-type is actually not my personal favorite type. In fact, I don't normally use Ice-types at all except for Mamoswine in battle facilities like the Battle Tree or Tower. But "Shilah Mae Grace" is a comedic character I play on my comedy show, and part of her character is that she is Miss Antarctica of 2021. Therefore, she uses exclusively Ice-types in battle and seeks to make them viable in competitive play. I will say that in a normal playthrough, I do remember using a Jynx on my team for Pokemon Firered, where it was pretty strong (as its Psychic typing is awesome in Kanto).

Weavile is also an interesting Pokemon to me because while it doesn't quite fit in my personal playstyle, it is working surprisingly well on "Shilah Mae Grace's" Ice-type Doubles team. Ice-types are very interesting in general because they're mostly glass cannons.

You have been admitted to the Glacial Gathering through your Guardian: Black Kyurem.
Welcome, Shilah Mae Grace!

If you're doing a Battle Tree/Tower, Skill Link Cloyster is actually pretty dang strong =D
I harassed the gen 8 SwSh Battle Tower with a Skill Link Cloyster, Gorilla Tactics Darmanitan and an Eiscue. Eiscue was a bit underwhelming but great for fighting types (especially when switching it in on them). The other two kicked major butt and I only lost a couple games while working my way up to 50 wins =D
I don't know how they'd do in competitive though as I don't play it.

Fairy December 20th, 2021 7:45 AM

My final results!


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