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Basically what the title says. Just post random facts about the franchise you randomly know and that’s all.

- Totem Alolan Raticate has the cry of a Gumshoos.

- In Pokemon tower defense 2, the professor at one point says “this is why I don’t have kids...”. Uh, actually, the gen2 professor DOES have kids. Take the stairs next to his lab and you will see his room with his family. I seriously don’t know how whoever programmed that in missed that.

- In the original Nuzlocke comic, the main character refuses to catch Groudon because that is ‘breaking the rules’. When I first read that, I thought Nuzlockes secretly had a no legendary rule.

It turns out that no, a no legendary rule is not an official rule (I personally play it as any legendary with less than 650 BST is okay, but anything above that I can only have one and no other legendary.) but by breaking the rules, what was actually meant was the first encounter rule. They probably should have shown getting the first encounter in that area, but I think the reader is already supposed to understand that.
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before Poltergeist was introduced, all Ghost type moves hit for either 100% accuracy or never missed.
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Prior to Gen 6, Wobbuffet was the only fully evolved Pokemon that couldn't learn any TMs.
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Basically what the title says. Just post random facts about the franchise you randomly know and that’s all.
Ah Page Emperor coming up with some interesting ideas again. I like this one!

Here are some facts:
1) Koffing and Weeding were supposed to be named NY and LA, possibly referring to New York and Los Angeles as a representation of air pollution there.

2) Cosmoem is raather heavy, despite a very small size. The reason is because it is based on a protostars, celestial objects which will become stars one day and they have a very high density.

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Cosmoem is raather heavy, despite a very small size. The reason is because it is based on a protostars, celestial objects which will become stars one day and they have a very high density.
in fact, Cosmog > Cosmoem is the largest weight increase in any Pokemon evolution (0.1kg to 999.9kg!)

If you count regional variants, half of the existing Poison type Pokémon belong to Gen 1.
it was the most common type in that Generation after all.
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In Generation I, Body Slam can't paralyze normal types.

This is because to save space they coded the game in such a way that an X type attacking move can't inflict status in X type. So, poison moves can't poison poison types, electric can't paralyze electric, and so on.

This also means that in Generation I you can poison Poison types by using Twineedle.

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In gen I games, due to bad coding/bugs, crit chance was based on your speed stat! The higher your speed, the more likely you were to crit, so Pokémon like Alakazam landed crits often. Didn't know this until 2020 honestly.

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In gen I games, due to bad coding/bugs, crit chance was based on your speed stat! The higher your speed, the more likely you were to crit, so Pokémon like Alakazam landed crits often. Didn't know this until 2020 honestly.
Didn't know this till 2021 O_O Woah luckily that isn't the case now. Would make competitive scenarios complete wack.

Here's a fact: Arcanine was always meant to be a legendary Pokémon. It would replace Moltres when designing the game. But Game Freak decided it was too weird to have two birds and one dog.

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- Pokemon like Poliwhirl, Haunter and Mr.Mime had a different amount of fingers in their earlier designs.
- moves like Soak overriding a Pokemon's type actually allow you to put status effects on Pokemon that shouldn't be susceptible to them (like poisoning Poison and Steel types)
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It's possible for a move to do 0 damage.

In order for this happen, the move has deal so much damage that it overflows back to zero. It's very hard to find this happening "in the wild" but situations can be constructed for that.

I think Level 1 Snom vs. Level 99 Charizard is one such situation.

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Resort Area and Nature Reserves are the only areas where you can catch Lv 100 wild Pokemon, and it's all the Magikarp line.
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you can teach arcanine teleport via tm in RBY. there are a few other pokemon you wouldn't think could learn it that can be taught it, but arcanine is just funny to me bc imagine this big ass fluffy dog just vanishing into thin air and appearing at the nearest pokecenter. priceless.
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you can teach arcanine teleport via tm in RBY. there are a few other pokemon you wouldn't think could learn it that can be taught it, but arcanine is just funny to me bc imagine this big ass fluffy dog just vanishing into thin air and appearing at the nearest pokecenter. priceless.
It has a legendary deity vibe to it imo.

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In Generation II, due to the way shininess is calculated, if the gender ratio of a Pokémon is heavily skewed, you can't have a shiny Pokémon of the less likely gender.

That same calculation means the only shiny Unown forms possible in Gen II are Unown-I and Unown-V.

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The Azurill gender glitch is a recurring glitch; first existing in Generation III of the main series Pokémon games and later appearing in Generation IV and Generation V. When a female Azurill evolves into a Marill there is a 1 in 3 chance that it will evolve into a male Marill.
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Mudsdale (which is 2.5 meters tall, by the way) is heavier than all but six Pokémon, and two of those six Pokémon are alternate forms.

EDIT: Apparently real horses can weigh up to literally 1000kg, and I'm still wondering how.

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2) Cosmoem is raather heavy, despite a very small size. The reason is because it is based on a protostars, celestial objects which will become stars one day and they have a very high density.
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All of the fire starters so far are apart of the chinese zodiac
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Krabby is scientifically proven to be the ugliest Pokemon ever
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You can't have two Calyrex-Riders at the same time without hacking. The reins will only let you fuse one and you can't trade / give Calyrex-Rider via Pokémon Home.

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Well, Ash and Pikachu have been going to gyms for 14 years now. It's only expected that they'd be getting stronk.

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guys omg did u know that Rotom backwards is actually motor? 😳 it makes so much sense now holy ****
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No Fighting type moves can hit multiple targets.
Porygon-Z is the only Pokémon that can evolve twice that can legally be level 1.
Giratina and Dreepy line are weak to both of its types.
The generation 5 main games have anti-piracy measures that prevent your Pokémon from gaining EXP.
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