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u/megasean3000 Switch Feb 04 '23
“And one of them is a genetically engineered killing machine that very few Pokemon to this day can beat.”
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u/free_bird_eren Feb 05 '23
or you could uhh, get a god to help you
good luck, I have seen many childeren before you die horribly and fail
bye!
*looks at massive death toll of 10 year olds*
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u/nilesandstuff Feb 05 '23
Japanese culture practically revolves around endangering and/or killing children. Unless the kid is missing one or more parent, then they're pretty much invincible.
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u/Pandelein Feb 05 '23
Heck yeah- where’s Ash’s dad? Can’t be Giovanni or Silver, coz if Ash had a dad, he’d be dead already- that’s how anime works.
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Also 10 of them are in parallel universe called Pokémon Red
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u/LookAtMeNow247 Feb 05 '23
And he only gives you 1 of the three that you can't get anywhere else.
That's like 6 more that you can't get from the start of the game!
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u/winged_owl Feb 05 '23
This always bothered me. Now matter how hard I tried, I wouldn't get them all. I also had nobody to trade with.
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u/theixrs Feb 05 '23
It sucks, but just needed one friend. Trade rattata for starter twice and you're good to go.
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u/Brandon658 Feb 05 '23
Don't forget about Machamp, Gengar, and golem. Needed to trade machoke, haunter, and graveler to evolve.
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u/ChocolateRainbow375 Feb 05 '23
And Kadabra
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u/Brandon658 Feb 05 '23
Good catch. Felt I was missing one but couldn't think of it.
So many you couldn't get without a person to trade. Plus the exclusives based on which game you had. IIRC scyther wasn't in blue. (Plus a couple others.) Unless I was just bad and couldn't figure out where to go even with gamefaqs help. Lol.
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u/Stoneheart7 Feb 05 '23
Scyther vs. Pinsir
Magmar vs. Electabuzz
Growlithe vs. Vulpix
Oddish vs. Bellsprout
Ekans vs. Sandshrew.
Mankey vs. Meowth
And obviously, all the evolutions of those listed above.
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u/NerdTalkDan Feb 05 '23
People think getting Mew is hard? Try getting friends. They’re the real legendary Pokémon.
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u/LessInThought Feb 05 '23
Brought my game boy with me on a school trip. Had a friend restart his game and trade us the starters.
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u/xfactorx99 Feb 05 '23
I honestly thought this is where the meme was going. As a kid I was so frustrated when I learned it was literally impossible to beat the game without having 2 versions
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u/twat_muncher Feb 05 '23
It's impossible to beat without friends. Which is almost the lesson the show tries to teach.
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u/_gnarlythotep_ Feb 05 '23
That is very deep insight, u/twat_muncher. Really gave me a new perspective.
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u/AtreidesDiFool Feb 05 '23
Let's be honest. It's just a way to sell the same game twice
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u/majesticx_luk Feb 04 '23
"...While I stay with your Mother"
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u/CaptainDogeSparrow Feb 04 '23
I'll show her my Oak.
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u/majesticx_luk Feb 04 '23
And Mr. Mime is watching.
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u/Quetzal00 Feb 05 '23
More like Mr. Mime is joining
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u/Capraos Feb 05 '23
He can use his telekinetic abilities so you can have flying sex.
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u/Suck_Me_Dry666 Feb 05 '23
Everyone is so obsessed with having sex with Vaporeon that we haven't even thought of the implications of putting it in Mr. Mime.
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u/RodSteinColdblooded Feb 05 '23
I have always wondered why Ditto is not the obvious choice
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u/BABarracus Feb 05 '23
Or tangala
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u/Rich-Historian6642 Feb 05 '23
There's a pokemon I haven't thought of in awhile.. sexy tangala
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u/Youve_been_Loganated Feb 05 '23
Hmm, maybe they're scared Ditto would fuck with them and turn into their mother midsex? There is security in picking a form that can't change at will too lol.
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u/BassBoneMan Feb 05 '23
Thats why Gardevoir started getting all the attention. Among other reasons, that is
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u/CaptainDogeSparrow Feb 04 '23
Gonna fill her guts with my Muk.
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While she rubs my sudowoodo
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u/bleep_boop_beep123 Feb 04 '23
Someone’s gonna be Wheezing…and it ain’t the professor.
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u/fucking_lit_username PlayStation Feb 05 '23
Professor Oak is going to Squirtle all over her Jigglypuffs.
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u/BB_for_Bear_Butcher Feb 04 '23
If I didn’t see the Celebi movie I would think Oak is Ash’s father.
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u/Haruka_Kazuta Feb 04 '23
Mr Mime is Ash's Father.
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u/QuitBeingALilBitch Feb 05 '23
That's why he never ages. He needs a special stone to evolve. It's crack. He need a crack rock.
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u/TheRavenSayeth Feb 05 '23
I didn’t watch it. What do we learn/know about Ash’s dad?
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u/indiebryan Feb 05 '23
Ash's dad fucked his mom
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u/Ravenhaft Feb 05 '23
What a horrifying and harrowing backstory. I can’t believe Ash’s dad fucked his mom like that.
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u/jonathanquirk Feb 04 '23
Some of the Pokémon in the sequel games could only be found when you later revisit the original region, bizarrely. I figure some of the 150 Oak wants you to catch in the first game are actually those (Houndour & Murkrow are the two I can remember), and he’s utterly baffled when the player turns up with extinct species, a computer program, and a clone of a myth instead.
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u/theflowersyoufind Feb 05 '23
Oak was pretty fucking confused when I turned up with Missingno
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u/DisneyPrincessYoda Feb 05 '23
Considering it's a hole in reality that you have to perform a very specific summoning ritual for, I'd be confused and freaking out myself.
Until I found out that it doubles everything in the sixth slot of my magic inventory. Then it's time for infinite candy.
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u/zeez1011 Feb 05 '23
And master balls. If I can't catch them all, I'm gonna guarantee whatever I come into contact with ain't running from the fight.
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u/Wachap Feb 05 '23
Oh yeah, that's how I got them 150, one of each. I had one of each evolution stage too. Needed a lot of master balls, and restarting the game lots of times to get 3 of each starter tho :)
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u/JohnnyJayce Feb 04 '23
And some of the Pokemon you can only obtain through trading. I don't think there's a single Pokemon game you can "Get them all". Maybe Pokemon Go
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u/cipher-taker Feb 04 '23
Legends: Arceus you 100% on your own
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u/BeestMann Feb 05 '23
Technically, Gen 8 (and probably 9) as well. At least for SwSh, you can farm the other games’ Pokémon in the Dynamax raids. You don’t even need friends for this, you can just browse those raids and join. Legendaries and mythos are distributed via code and stuff. So kind of a stretch, but still an improvement imo
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u/cipher-taker Feb 05 '23
It was really really simple to 100% the dex on scarlet, the trade codes work really quickly.
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u/petuniaraisinbottom Feb 05 '23
I played Violet as the first Pokemon game in a long time and I was so excited to see Pokemon that were egg only, extremely rare, or unobtainable otherwise just hanging out. Like the route before the first city where you can find Marill, igglybuff, happiny, pichu, etc.. It's actually a little hard to pick a team since it was so limited in the previous games that it was obvious what the "right" Pokemon were.
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u/lactosefree1 Feb 05 '23
I mean, azumarill turbodunks on most of SV since there are SO MANY DRAGON TYPES
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u/shofmon88 Feb 05 '23
Azumerril would have been a top choice for my team, but Tinkaton exists.
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u/SelfishSilverFish Feb 05 '23
You could get them all, but you needed a sword/shield and a brilliant diamond/shining pearl save data to get two of them.
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u/BilboT3aBagginz Feb 04 '23 •
There’s a mod called Ultravioletwhere you can catch every single Pokémon. It’s great.
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u/nerogenesis Feb 05 '23
In Pokemon go you also need to travel all over the world or spoof, then also be around for specific catch shifts. Not all pokemon are available at any one time.
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u/lionofash Feb 04 '23
Technically, RBY but only because the code is garbage and can be glitched and manipulated
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u/Ba_Sing_Saint Feb 05 '23
You could get Mew before facing Misty. RBY was held together by paperclips, bubblegum and hope.
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u/AlterBridgeFan Feb 05 '23
Oh boy that's just the tip. MissingNo, the badge boost glitch, the 1/256 chance to miss, crit being tied to base speed, crits ignoring stat boosts so you don't want to crit, focus energy doing the opposite of what it should do, and the God damn catch mechanics where a great ball is almost always better than ultra ball.
Bubblegum is giving the game too much credit.
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u/MaxHannibal Feb 05 '23
Ofcourse it's underneath the truck by the boat. South of Misty's gym.
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u/goshgollylol Feb 05 '23
Yuenno I managed to glitch my game with missingno so that I started a fresh game with my party from the previous save. I was able to surf down the side of the SS Anne and check that truck.
I was so upset when there was no Mew there
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u/PM_ME_UR_CIRCUIT Feb 05 '23
It was easier to faint after getting cut and go back later.
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u/mcjazzy50 Feb 05 '23
And alot of the loopholes can be replicated exactly in gold, silver and to a less of an extent crystal. Because it uses almost the exact same coding.
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u/sporeegg Feb 05 '23
Then the fucker shows up in Gold ans Silver demanding dead pokemon, a forest spirit, mythical phoenix and sea guardian.
He is probably fucking Prof Bitch too.
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u/Rising_Swell Feb 05 '23
Btw the sea guardian is in the sea so it doesn't accidentally murder everyone by its mere presence. Totally should. Bring that out to fight rattata
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u/Logondo Feb 04 '23
Any yet...I have the uncontrollable urge to catch 'em all...It's like I'm indoctrinated...Hypnotized...
gotta catch 'em all, gotta catch 'em all
gotta catch 'em all, gotta catch 'em all
Gotta catch 'em all, Pokemon!
Charmeleon, Wartortle, Mewtwo, Tentacruel, Aerodactyl
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u/Rathwood Feb 05 '23 edited Feb 07 '23
Omanyte, Slowpoke, Pidgeot, Arbok
That's all, folks!
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u/WarLawck Feb 04 '23
Also, don't worry about feeding them or giving them attention. Just let them rot in our computer system. No biggie
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u/free_bird_eren Feb 05 '23
the pc system sends your pokemon to a random island
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u/JustJJ92 Feb 05 '23
Yes professor oak had ash and Gary’s Pokémon on a ranch.
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u/3163560 Feb 05 '23
In Johto after ash wins the sumo contest with Snorlax he tells Snorlax that he'd like to keep him around but is sending him back to Oak because they can't afford to feed him.
I wonder where Oak get all that pokefood money.
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u/JustJJ92 Feb 05 '23
Probably government grants lol
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u/Sabithomega Feb 05 '23
The government paying Oak to lure children into free labor in identifying and capturing as many species of pokemon as possible for federal research purposes sounds like it fits that world actually
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u/Both-Return-2244 Feb 04 '23
The first thought I had was of solid jj video when I saw the post and I find the comment
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u/SkeletonLad Feb 04 '23
I haven’t played Pokémon since I imported Silver from Japan off eBay before the USA release and I find this hilarious.
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u/damnsignins Feb 05 '23
"We gotta keep on moving, Ash! Just gotta keep on moving! Keep! On! Moving!"
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u/Jarvis_Strife Feb 04 '23
I miss when r/adviceanimals was the peak of meme culture
An elegant format for a more civilised age
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u/anthem47 Feb 05 '23
I just googled 'socially awkward penguin' for the memories, and they're all truer now than ever before.
I'm bringing that guy back, who's with me?
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u/lickedTators Feb 05 '23
Now everyone's just like "Gentlemen, I'm pleased to announce I successfully ordered my food over the phone."
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u/ImSimplyTiredOfIt Feb 05 '23
i miss the motivational poster days and The Game (you lost btw) was everywhere. how about "when you see it, youll shit brix"
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u/The_Villager Feb 05 '23
when you see it, youll shit brix
and it was always a black guy in a dark background space
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u/FacetiousTomato Feb 05 '23
Are philosiraptor and Keanu memes jokes to you!? All your base are belong to us. Dancing baby.
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u/GreedyDiceGoblin Boardgames Feb 04 '23
I've brought this up before, but it is funny isnt it? No one knows that Mewtwo exists, but Oak did. He knew enough that he could program it into the pokedex. The only way that this makes sense to me is that Oak was clearly a member of Team Rocket operating alongside Dr. Fuji while the experiments that would lead to the creation of Mewtwo were occurring.
Oak is an ex-Rocket member, and you cant change my mind.
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u/Aalnius Feb 04 '23
I see it as the pokedex scans the creature then generates the record on the spot. Theres likely some syncing stuff for already found data too from other pokedex.
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u/NoobOnTheRun Feb 05 '23
didn't Ash's Pokedex said there was no data when he saw Ho-oh in the very first episode?
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u/rapidemboar Feb 05 '23
It depends on the adaptation too. In the Pokemon Special/Adventures manga, Red was shown just sorta typing in the data into the Pokedex himself.
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u/Doctor_Kataigida Feb 05 '23
Fits that theory that Pokedex entries are so exaggerated because they're just written by children.
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u/Annoyed_Crabby Feb 05 '23
Magcargo's body temperature is approximately 18,000 degrees F.
Kid just randomly make up a number that indicate "hot" as they throw a pokeball at it, because if it's 18k degree F it will melt the pokeball.
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u/TheSteelPhantom Feb 05 '23
18,000°F... So... nearly twice the temperature of the surface of the fucking sun itself? lol okay kiddo.
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u/Annoyed_Crabby Feb 05 '23
But the magma have a chance to cool down and form a "shell". They should send kid to school instead of catching pokemon 😂
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u/E123-Omega Feb 05 '23
Hah, imagine if Pokedex is just Wikipedia and anyone can edit it.
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u/biggmclargehuge Feb 05 '23
"Abra - the little bitch Pokemon...can't do shit cept run away cause he's a little bitch"
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u/awataurne Feb 04 '23
What happens in later games when you get/see a pokemon from the National Pokedex before you obtain the National Pokedex? Does it autocomplete?
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u/Octogon324 Feb 05 '23
It usually doesn't put it in at all until you get national dex and if you summary it, it says ??? As it's index#
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u/evsaadag Feb 04 '23
Crazy theory but maybe it was like the periodical table. Even without knowing all pokemons, they knew there would be some of them missing. Or maybe the pokedex recorded 150 pokemons in the region and although Oak didn't know them all he assumed his technology was right. After all, there's also database for mewtwo's height; description, etc...
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u/CrispinCain Feb 04 '23
Heck, I'd take it a step further and say that Oak was the former leader of Team Rocket. He quit after the Mewtwo incident, and sent Red and Blue on their journeys after he heard about Giovanni trying to restart the program by capturing Mewtwo with the Master Ball.
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u/Raven_of_Blades Feb 04 '23
It is already canon that Giovanni's mom was the last leader, though.
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u/Shot-Increase-8946 Feb 04 '23
I wonder who she was married to...
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u/heatisgross Feb 04 '23 edited Feb 04 '23
".... don't forget you'll need to traverse through spacetime to trade other yous for 10 alternate timeline pokemon"
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u/mcjazzy50 Feb 05 '23
Technically they wouldn't be alternate timeline pokemon because trainers in game Cary many of them.
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u/X0AN Feb 04 '23
And now we have 1,008 pokémon but yet not decent game in which you can actually catch 'em all.
They really don't need to make anymore pokémon, they just need one epic game.
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u/DynamoSnake Feb 05 '23
This meme format is older than some people on this subreddit
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u/Ritehandwingman Feb 04 '23
There is the age old theory that Oak was just trying to get rid of Ash so he could bang Mrs. Ketchum.
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u/BuckNZahn Feb 04 '23
… 8 only exist in a parallel universe
Several that require an item of which there is only one
A few that you can only evolve by trading them…
It‘s insane what they got away with back then
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u/RealRotkohl D20 Feb 04 '23
Can anyone tell me which ones the 5 extinct, the 3 myths, and the 1 unknown are? Virtually no idea about the Pokémon lore.
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u/idina10 Feb 04 '23
The 5 extinct Pokémon are; Omanyte, Omastar, Kabuto, Kabutops and Aerodactyl. The Myths are the legendary birds; Articuno, Moltres and Zapdos. The Unknown Pokémon would be Mewtwo (since Mew wasn't a catchable Pokémon in game without using a glitch (or a port from certain events)
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u/RealRotkohl D20 Feb 04 '23
Thanks for the answer, appreciated!
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u/idina10 Feb 04 '23
No worries. I'm glad this 20+ year old knowledge could be useful for something 😅
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u/Omnizoom Feb 04 '23
Omanyte line , kabuto line , aerodactyl are all extinct resurrected from fossils
Kanto bird trio are all legendary Pokémon so mostly just stories exist of them
Mewtwo was made in a lab and locked away so it isn’t public knowledge
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u/Air2Jordan3 Feb 04 '23
Omanyte (who transforms into Omastar), Kabuto (who transforms into Kabutops), and Aerodactyl. The only way to get these 3 (plus the evolutions) is to collect their fossil in game and take it to a scientist lab who, I guess essentially resurrects the Pokémon.
I should also note in one play through of the game you can only collect 2 of the 3 fossils (as you have to choose between either Omanyte or Kabuto), so to get all the Pokémon you would have to trade.
The 3 myths are the legendary birds Articuno, Moltress and Zapdos.
The unknown is Mewtwo.
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u/addrien Feb 04 '23
Also, 6 of them you can only get through trading with an alternate reality version of you that chose a different starter.
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u/BlueHarlequin7 Feb 04 '23
Hell, in later generations some of them are literal gods...