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Pokemon that are rarer than you'd think

Anonymous Wed 15 Jan 2020 05:14:29 No.42410474 View View Reply Original Report

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>can only be caught naturally in the wild in Pearl (and if you're lucky, one single mirage area in ORAS)
>hasn't reappeared in a regional dex since

For what purpose? It's a fucking my mom's cat. Are there any other mons like this? Or is Glameow just the worst case scenario in mon availability?

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Anonymous Wed 15 Jan 2020 05:15:55 No.42410493 Report

Quoted By: >>42410525

Shut up, Glameowposter.
We've gone over this. Meowth literally does everything your waifu does, but better.

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Anonymous Wed 15 Jan 2020 05:16:02 No.42410495 Report

Quoted By: >>42410525

because meowth is already fulfills the role "my mom's cat" while being infinitely more memorable and recognizable and liepard at least has prankster going for it.

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Anonymous Wed 15 Jan 2020 05:17:51 No.42410525 Report

Quoted By: >>42410664

>>42410493
>>42410495
It's not so much that I actually like Glameow, it's pretty boring and as you both said there are far better catmons, I'm just amazed that a Pokemon so banal and generic has at the same time such retarded availability. It's pretty interesting. Maybe it's because it's so boring that they haven't thought to bring it back.

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Anonymous Wed 15 Jan 2020 05:30:08 No.42410664 Report

Quoted By: >>42412039

>>42410525
The reason it has limited availability is BECAUSE it's so banal and generic. When you have 900 of these things some are inevitably going to be less interesting than others, and they won't suddenly become more interesting unless GF cares enough to give it a special snowflake move or a new form. GF has no obligation to add it to their new game just because it hasn't been in that many.

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Anonymous Wed 15 Jan 2020 07:56:43 No.42412039 Report

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>>42410664
That's a dumb reasoning though. Of course people are inevitably going to care less about the 8 regional rats/birds/bugs/cats etc when they're mostly bland and samey in terms of function if nothing else. A pokemon like Glameow might not be very interesting, but is it less interesting than the other half dozen normal types Gamefreak loves to fill routes with?

Hell, if they want to make it more interesting in an easy way while still playing up the rarity angle, toss in an In-Game trade with the Glameow holding a rare or new item in exchange for another hard to get pokemon. It won't make Glameow itself more interesting, but that's an interesting way to include it.

There's a dozen ways to solve this that don't involve making a pokemon feel more special by making sure nobody can catch it.

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