I just go by the English names listed in the main series games, and since I regard the games as the highest form of canon (as they were the first Pokemon canon), I go with "Blue." I refer to the female protagonist of Kanto, who never really comes up in conversation all that often in my experience, as "Leaf."
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Pokémon related pet peeves?
- Thread starter Spin Attaxx
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I just go by the English names listed in the main series games, and since I regard the games as the highest form of canon (as they were the first Pokemon canon), I go with "Blue." I refer to the female protagonist of Kanto, who never really comes up in conversation all that often in my experience, as "Leaf."
Dragoniss
I'm 26 now, why am I still here?
I know, like I said its really fickle. Its just the fact that Green [or your blue] is my favorite character in all of pokemon so to have someone say "thats not his name noob" to me just erks me off. [i'm not saying you or anyone else at the current time, past experiences with overreactive fanboys.]
Its not like any of them are wrong it just comes down to being subjective...like everything else in pokemon XD. And then because a lot of people like to reference the pokemon manga [that I really need to start reading] The females name in there is blue and then it makes me all sorts of messed up when they talk about her in the manga cause i'm still thinking on game terms and that a lot of people use his English name and gahhh!! It gives me a headache. Just tell me if your talking male or female then i'll get it!
Spin Attaxx
2012-2013
OK, three things:
1. Meloetta persists to be unavaliable in the UK and America.
2. The Japanese can unlock Genesect now, and us overseas 3DS owners can't even get Meloetta!
3. ...5 gens since the type was introduced, and there STILL isn't a Dark gym?!
1. Meloetta persists to be unavaliable in the UK and America.
2. The Japanese can unlock Genesect now, and us overseas 3DS owners can't even get Meloetta!
3. ...5 gens since the type was introduced, and there STILL isn't a Dark gym?!
cascadethewarrior
~Ðiva and Lucariϕ~
I get annoyed that a lot of Pokemon fans are so close minded and won't even think about a new Type and then they try to actually give a pitiful argument of why there shouldn't be a new Type. It's fine to have your opinion and all but it seems to me that they don't want change more than anything.
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Sarleekotcam
The Real Tsareena
Well that's not terribly weird. Different tribes and groups of people around the world use animal poop for a whole bunch of uses. Fuel for cooking fire, flooring for huts, make-up, etc lol. It would make sense for poop to be as valuable in the Pokemon World as the real world.
My pet peeve would be people assuming the games are only for little kids. I've played since the first games so I'm going to keep playing!
Spin Attaxx
2012-2013
I'm more sick of the fact that those who want a new type always want it to be Light (would that make it Good in Japan?).
jadebullet
Active Member
It is more that the type that they want, light, doesn't make much sense at all.(electric already works similarly enough to light to make it redundant.) A few other reasons that a new type isn't wanted is that it isn't needed. Everything is pretty well balanced with the current types, and any imbalances can easily be fixed with new pokemon to fill any holes. Steel and Dark were added to create balance to the game, especially because of psychic's dominance in first gen. Piggybacking off of this, adding a new type would most likely throw off this balance and would change the entire dynamic of most of the existing types. Also, we are still waiting on several types that haven't been done yet, such as fire/water.
Finally, there aren't really any types, at least that I can think of, that would make sense to be added. I mean, you kind of have sound, but that is covered by normal, light is pointless, air is covered by flying, and gravity just wouldn't work too well.
Touché Amoré
WAKABA-KU
I hate when youre playing on the ladder or something and your opponent sees that you have Latios or Terrakion or whatever and theyre like "Oh noob you have a legendary you cheater." Or when youre playing on the Ubers ladder and you run into one of those idiots who has an OU team+Excadrill and say the same thing not even realizing they are in Ubers. Like seriously learn the tiers haha.
I really hate critical hits! They always seem to come at the worst possible time like in a gym leader battle or in the elite four! I just feel like it makes the game unfair because the other pokemon just randomly decides to get stronger and attack twice as hard. I don't think pokemon battles should involve that much luck.
redcharzard
Semi-competitive
First time through the elite four in white 2 was easy but the 2nd time they got 3-4 critical hits on me per battle after my pokemon set up. Iris's Lapras froze my pokemon with ice beam 2x and everything else barely survived +6 flamethrower or +6 bugg buzz from my Volcarona.... that was one of my better days playing white 2. Apart from that finding shinies that have self destruct or explosion or finding them when paired with a npc is a pain although I did get my shiny Boldure(now a Gigalith) while teamed with Bianca in the volcano.
What I really hate is when you go find a wild pokemon drop it to 1 health via false swipe and toss a pokeball with a +4 rating and it fails. That really annoys me to no end.
spyro and sonic
Ply
People putting S an the end of a pokemon's name to make it plural.
THIS. Yes. It really grates on my ears sometimes.
SlowPokeBroKing
Future Gym Leader
That's a ridiculous pet peeve. You're saying one shouldn't use the plural logic of the English language we've been taught since age 2? That's like saying not to pluralize 'human' or 'dog' in the same context. Why should we assume that every pokémon pluralization is the same as 'deer' or 'sheep' in the real world?
Well, seeing as Pokémon is a Japanese thing and they don't have that whole S adding thing... not only that but since everyone that is a fan of Pokémon should know not to add s' and those are probably the same People that make the mistakes.
Guardian Spirit Raina
Well-Known Member
Not to mention all Pokemon are proper nouns, which do not become pluralized.
pkmnmovesets
Member
Also there is Ralts with Growl. How did Wally train it? I like Gardevoir and Gallade a lot, but Ralts is extremely hard to find on that one route and then it just has Growl when you catch it.