Today is my birthday and the day I catch Zygarde, my favourite pokémon, under Ange's ruins in the Z game I got after a decade waiting. Can we get a Zygarde thread full of Zygarde love? Any form, I love them all. Eternal Floette is extremely appreciated as well.
/vp/ battle passwords to battle with other Anons (consider writing a post to recruit players) >/vp/‘s own meta (no random effects, no ex): vpnx >meta decks or high level play: vpmeta >/vp/ anything: vp
yes the games are called wind & wave, yes they’re 2026, yes they’re revealed in 2 mo, yes they’re switch 2 exclusive.
the main combat gimmick is called yoctocasting or y-casting, it’s based around the different weather conditions. there’s a sunny, rainy, windy, snowy, and sandy form that boost your best defense stat and make you offensively gain fire, water, flying, ice, or rock type advantages. the tool you use for casting has a mode for each weather and it applies to your whole team, which means if it’s set to rainy mode your whole team can only do rainy y-casting. only one of your pokemon can y-cast per battle, and it will remain active for as long as the weather is active; if the weather stops or changes for any reason, you cannot y-cast again even if your weather type is summoned again.
there are no unique y-cast forms or variations and it’s available for all pokemon. mega evolution returns in a post-game storyline, with the attached image being the pokemon to receive new ones. typhlosion, serperior, samurott, zarude, and pecharunt are not obtainable through normal gameplay. typhlosion gains dark, serperior gains psychic, zebstrika gains fire, and vanilluxe gains fairy.
People keep lamenting how Gen 2/Gen 3/whatever killed Pokemania, but even aside from the fact that if anything other than the passage of time "killed" Pokemania it was the PS2 launching in 2000, I'd argue Pokemania dying was a good thing for the series as a whole- guaranteed success for a franchise based on hype breeds stagnation as the creators don't feel the need to innovate or even maintain quality standards because "it'll sell anyway". As we can see from the current state of the games- Pokemon sells because it's Pokemon just as it did back at the height of the fad, and the games are pretty fucking bad. In fact I'd argue had Pokemania continued GF would have become complacent quicker and the series would have ended on a pretty miserable note long ago.
Tonight is a New Moon and, for those of us in the Northern Hemisphere, also just a couple of days before the Winter Solstice. In a sense this means that tonight is the darkest night of the year, and the longest night is soon to come.
Post some of your favorite Dark-type Pokemon to celebrate all things tenebrous (I don’t get the chance to use that word very often), and post them looking particularly edgy if possible.
