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Anonymous Mon 05 Jan 2026 15:39:28 No.58810016 View View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>58810028 >>58810079 >>58810211 >>58810366 >>58810381 >>58811010 >>58811493 >>58812366

Why are these things so ridiculously scarce?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 05 Jan 2026 15:43:40 No.58810028 Report

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>>58810016
>handcrafted made to order coca-cola the old fashioned way
>mass produced fast fashion ballshit

gee I wonder

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 05 Jan 2026 15:53:18 No.58810050 Report

Quoted By: >>58811056 >>58813521

It's a shame they didn't get the PLA idea until recently because retconning their designs to just be standard PokeBalls in HGSS due to "consistency" instead of portraying them more naturally would've been a really cool difference to include. The details didn't matter much in an 8-bit game but they really should be more common nowadays if they're just normal Pokeballs

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Anonymous Mon 05 Jan 2026 16:07:47 No.58810079 Report

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>>58810016
Level Ball - Ampharos, Beedrill
Lure Ball - Feraligatr line
Moon Ball - Umbreon, Clefairy line
Heavy Ball - Snorlax
Fast Ball - Pikachu line
Love Ball - Jigglypuff line, Chansey line
Friend Ball - Scyther, Spinarak, Caterpie, Bellossom, Natu line

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 05 Jan 2026 16:11:45 No.58810090 Report

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Not in ZA anymore.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 05 Jan 2026 17:06:16 No.58810198 Report

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Didn't X/Y Lumiose have a ball boutique with the apricorns on display but not for sale?

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Anonymous Mon 05 Jan 2026 17:11:51 No.58810211 Report

Quoted By: >>58810421 >>58812442

>>58810016
They're hand-crafted, while most modern Poke Balls aren't.

Z-A reaffirms what we already knew; most modern Poke Balls are mass-produced in factories, and they're technological in nature and can thus be hacked and infected with computer viruses.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 05 Jan 2026 17:29:13 No.58810242 Report

Quoted By: >>58810359

Fucking glad that rare pokeballs and shinies aren't a bitch anymore.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 05 Jan 2026 17:40:04 No.58810260 Report

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GF embraced rare balltism after seeing everyone value transfer-only balls in gen 6

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 05 Jan 2026 18:29:35 No.58810359 Report

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>>58810242
Pokeballs, sure. Shinies, their rarity is what made them special. Now they're just recolors of existing pokemon.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 05 Jan 2026 18:34:36 No.58810366 Report

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>>58810016
Legends Z-A is the most available they’ve ever been. Completely shits on Item Printer grinding.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 05 Jan 2026 18:42:04 No.58810381 Report

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>>58810016
Because they are shitty products only retards get from a scammer in a backwater town in a fake region

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 05 Jan 2026 18:51:38 No.58810421 Report

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>>58810211
that would have made for a neat generational gimmick

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 05 Jan 2026 19:12:31 No.58810476 Report

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>>58810359
You get your shiny Celebi or Arceus yet anon?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 05 Jan 2026 22:22:33 No.58811010 Report

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>>58810016
Because it's a dying art that only one guy we know of makes.

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Anonymous Mon 05 Jan 2026 22:38:47 No.58811031 Report

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>Because it's a dying art that only one guy we know of makes.

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Anonymous Mon 05 Jan 2026 22:44:31 No.58811056 Report

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>>58810050
I'm pretty sure they were a regular pokeball type in the pokemon anime before HGSS

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 05 Jan 2026 22:45:48 No.58811061 Report

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I've a better question, who the fuck cares?

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 06 Jan 2026 00:52:54 No.58811493 Report

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>>58810016
What irks me even more is why there hasn't been anyone else in any other region making a new set of these things with unique designs. The last new ball we got was the Beast Ball if you don't count the PLA ones and the placeholder one for HOME.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 06 Jan 2026 01:03:41 No.58811519 Report

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I'm surprised we don't have Poke Balls for each type yet. We've got the Net Ball for Bug and Water types, but that's it

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 06 Jan 2026 01:19:38 No.58811563 Report

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are the PLA balls in ZA code?

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 06 Jan 2026 01:21:46 No.58811567 Report

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>>58810421
>that would have made for a neat generational gimmick
I mean, if GF, instead of being assblasted they got one up'd in their game, let Orre being canon, the Snag Machine could give us some interesting opportunities in other gens.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 06 Jan 2026 01:27:59 No.58811583 Report

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>>58811567
>Orre
>one up'd
Don't know whether to call you a schizo or someone who never played the Orre games, so I'll call you both.

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Anonymous Tue 06 Jan 2026 08:46:30 No.58812366 Report

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>>58810016
transparent pokeballs were a PEAK idea nad I'm sad the franchise ignored it beyond the manga.
I swear to god some toys used transparent pokeballs, though, and it looked just as amazing in real life

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 06 Jan 2026 09:19:03 No.58812442 Report

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>>58810211
We knew this since SV, technically even earlier, as far back as Colosseum. In SV the Paradise Protection Protocol initiates a lockdown on all Pokeballs not registered to the professor, which forces the player to send out the cowardly raidon to battle because their own wouldn't come out. In Colosseum/Gale of Darkness the Snag Machines override the Pokeball registration process to enable them to catch Pokemon already registered to another Pokeball. In both instances Pokeballs are hacked.

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Anonymous Tue 06 Jan 2026 17:23:24 No.58813400 Report

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>>58812442
This concept appeared in the anime before the games, we saw they had to use a machine to trade Pokemon even in person. The Porygon episode expands on this even more, showing how Pokeballs allow for digitization and transfer within a network. It's obviously something that's been in the GF series bibles and dripfed over time in different media

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 06 Jan 2026 18:15:29 No.58813509 Report

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>>58811056
Anime became a grift after Orange Islands. Lost all of its creative integrity by that point

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Anonymous Tue 06 Jan 2026 18:21:55 No.58813521 Report

Quoted By: >>58813525

>>58810050
The official Gen 2 artwork also showed looking the same as standard Poke Balls.

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Anonymous Tue 06 Jan 2026 18:25:15 No.58813525 Report

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>>58813521
The anime also had young Oak (Sammy) using an older model of Poke Ball from 40 years ago that had to be unscrewed

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