>skarmory isn't a gen 3 pokemon >normal pikachu don't

And?

>>28174124
its pronounced AR-KEY-US not AR-CE-US

only four pokemon learn spike cannon a move since gen 1

>>28174134
absolutely will not change the way i say it

>Psyduck/Golduck aren't Psychic type
>Blissey is a Gen 2 Pokemon
>It's "Rat-tat-uh" not "Rat-Atat"

>>28174166
people say EGGS-A-CUTER when its pronounced EX-EGG-U-TOR

>>28174134
It's subjective, you pronounce it however you want.

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>>28174134
No it's ARSEus the guy in the Arceus movie pronounced it like Ark because English-speaking audiences would think it has ass in front of its name.

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>>28174196
>names are subjectibe
>pronounce words however the fuck you want

sure thing Anion

>>28174188
Who ever says that?

>>28174222
Nobody has any idea how the hell you're supposed to pronounce Gyarados, not even official sources.

>>28174222
It doesn't really matter, Ar-key-us/Ar-se-us, it's not a big deal.

It's Phanpy, not Phanphy.

>>28174196
So I can say Corn Fl-ah-kees ?

>>28174379
You really are stretching this.

>>28174270
It's Gara-dose.
Anybody who says Gyra-dose is a fucking spack.

>>28174273
>>28174270
this is why there are so many degenerates because they don't pay attention in school

>>28174420
Gary-dose

>>28174089
>>normal pikachu don't have a black tipped tail
WHAT THE FUCK

>>28174089
Misconceptions about Pokemon thread?

>>28174089
>>skarmory isn't a gen 3 pokemon

>literally being a hoennfetus

>>28174171
What else would blissey be?

I think around Diamond/Pearl I found out Red didn't have a Mewtwo on his Mt. Silver team like I remembered.

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>Gen IV didn't introduce abilities
>[insert Gen V Pokemon here] wasn't a Gen VI Pokemon
>Bugsy isn't a girl

>>28174089
Skarmory is gen III retard.

>>28174936
bait?

>normal pikachu don't have a black tipped tail

Why would it?

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>Spore has been around since Gen I

>>28174089
I didn't realize about Skarmory until I was doing my living dex..

Only 3 pokemon evolve with the thunder stone and Eelectrik is the only one not from gen 1.

>>28174156
I've literally never seen or heard of this move before.

Considering the 4 pokemon who learn it I never really interact with, but still.

>>28174089
Yo hoennbaby, waddup

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>it's not Berenstein

>>28174270
Gyarados has the same name in japanese, just read the katakana

>>28174314
>Phanpy
holy shit

I can understand many misconceptions, but not knowing the generation a Pokémon belongs to? I think that if you have played all generations, you must know this.

>>28175169
Gui (as in guitar)
Ara
Dos

For some reason, for the longest time I thought Porygon and the Dragonite line weren't legitimately attainable in-game (like Mew) until Gen 2.

I also thought Chinchou and Lanturn were Gen 3.

>>28175141
Lorelei's Cloyster spams it, you just never played gen 1 kalos kunt.

>>28175208
I've beaten gen one once (Yellow), how the fuck am I suppose to remember an obscure move like that?

Never played gen 6

>>28174134
Game Freak has officially said either pronunciation is correct.

>>28174314
Most mispronounce Phanpy with 2 F syllables instead of first F and then P, but I mispronounced it with a P sound on both syllables.

Like Panpy.

>>28175231
>Spike Cannon
How do you not remember a brutal ass name like that? Especially memorable since despite the sick name ends up being a shitty doubleslap on steroids.

>>28175177
Some Pokémon were extremely rare in the games they were introduced in, and for this reason, you may never encounter them.

Skarmory was a very rare version-exclusive Post-Game Pokémon, whereas it was common in Hoenn, so many people believe Skarmory is a Gen 3 Pokémon, having never come across it before.

Other misconceptions;

>Slugma/Magcargo are Gen 3 (Actually, just another rare Gen 2 Pokémon)
>Chimecho is Gen 4 (Actually just it's Prevo is. Chimecho is in Hoenn, at just a 1% encounter rate)
>Togepi is Gen 1 (Thanks anime)

And just a personal one, but I legit did not know Lickitung was Gen 1 for the longest time. And I have been playing all my life since Red version.

>>28175196
Kill yourself

>>28174089
who the fuck thinks any of this?

>>28174089
>skarmory isn't a gen 3 pokemon
No idea why people think this.
>normal pikachu don't have a black tipped tail
But it did have black tipped ears which I think confused some people.
>rock type pokemon are not immune to electricity
And rock is commonly confused with ground type

Simple.

>>28175361
I call bullshit on that. Anyone who doesn't remember which gen a pokemon belongs to did not play the gen in question while it was new. I slept on gen 4 and 5 and played them "by myself" afterwards, so I get those two mixed up sometimes, but any game I played when it came out I can easily say if a pokemon belongs to it or not. Merchandise, the anime & guides (in the past), internet discussion (these days) all contribute to drill the mons into your head.

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>>28175145

>>28175387
>>skarmory isn't a gen 3 pokemon
>No idea why people think this

Some guy already said it - it's a rare postgame mon in GSC. It's common in RSE.

>>28175387
Because Skarmory is rare on gen ii and commom on gen iii. Huh, I really like these things, it proves the national dex on pokemon wasn't done as "Oh lets see what have on Kanto first, then on Johto..."

>>28175387

No trainer uses a Skarmory in Gen 2 and it's only found in one route AND it's a version exclusive.

Also people are stupid and never played Pokemon Stadium 2.

>>28175537
It's not a post-game mon

>>28175537
>>28175561

More like roo many Hoennbabies on /vp/
What fucking kid didn't play Pokemon Stadium 2 or didn't want the rare Pokemon of Gen 2. It's like saying they didn't know Heracross was a Gen 2 Pokemon because it's so rare

>>28175561
Yeah, technically the Regional Dexes are completely off.

For example, Yungoose is in the Alola Regional Dex, despite it canonically not being "native" to Alola.

Other examples I can think of;

>Steelix are actually native to Sinnoh
>Eevee are from Kalos
>Regi's are also likely from Sinnoh

There are dozens more, I was thinking about it a while ago. Interesting trivial shit.

>>28175537

>postgame mon
>on the same route as Phanpy, Teddiursa and Gligar

Underages pls go

>>28175621

Or Marril

>>28175703
was marril rare in gen 2? i know phanpy was

>>28175621
I thought that for awhile too, I was young when I played gold so I wasn't looking for it, I had no clue it existed until I played sapphire

I knew every single gen 2 pokemon long before gen 2 came to the west. Hoennbabies and Sinnohsperms don't realize this but when gen 2 was announced it was fucking huge to us clueless kids that didn't know better. "MORE pokemon? Holy shit!" These days, we know gamefreak will shit out another gen eventually.

Every video game magazine had lists of all gen 2 mons with their sprites, japanese names and some halfassed dex translation.

>>28175621
You know, not everybody used to have access to internet and walkthrought magazines on 1999

>Bug types don't resist Bug-type attacks

I cant be the only one who was surprised to learn this, right?

>>28175681
Why doesn't Gligar get this meme? It's the gold equivalent of Skarmory.

>>28175757
whats it like playing pokemon into your late 30s?

>>28175731
Another surprise of mine was to discover Marill and Togepi aren't Gen I mons.

But, answering your question, no, it doesn't

>>28175798
i'm not surprised by that since they weren't canonically "in-game" during that time. unless you're saying they should've been thrown in from the start?

>>28175669
Where do you think the starter pokemon are native to?

Future regions? Or just a 'rare pokemon' thing?

>>28175731
Rare as fuck. 1% chance to find in Mt. Mortar, which is an optional cave. A lot of people probably repel'd the shit out of that cave too.

>>28174222
There's literally 3 ways that Arceus has been pronounced in official sources.

Pokedex 3D Pro, Battle Revolution, and the Arceus' movie trailer all have different pronouncation.

>>28175784
I'm 24, pokemon isn't as old as you think, Sinnoh boy.

>water is not super effect against ice

>>28174089
I honestly thought Gligar was introduced in XY

>>28175873
I'm 24 as well, stop talking like you're in your 30ies.

Is gen 5 the only gen that doesn't have pokemon connected to other gens?

>>28175913
Yes

>>28175759
>he didn't secretly read video game magazines in the store while mommy and daddy were buying groceries
I'm starting to think you were never a kid and your momma just pooped out a full-grown man.

>>28175774
Rock doesn't resist Rock
Fairy doesn't resist Fairy
Fighting doesn't resist Fighting

Same type for non-Dragon and non-Ghost types doesn't always imply resistance.

>>28175784
I saw a 60+ something man playing Pokemon at a launch party for ORAS.

Pretty sure he was having a good time like everyone else.

>>28174171
It's Rat-Atat but remove the last t.

>>28175929
They specifically said "no access to magazines in 1999" and your post makes zero sense.

>>28175932
>implying anyone can have a good time playing ORAS

>>28175929
>tfw I did this and some bitch would come over and yell at me or say "this isn't a fucking library"

>>28175979
>implying everyone shares the same opinion like you.

>>28175774
bugs eat each other in the real world. why would they resist each other in the game world? if anything they would be super effective against each other

>>28174134
I've always pronounced it ar-KAY-us, and I'm not stopping.

>>28175483
>Merchandise, the anime & guides (in the past)
There are PLENTY of people who just played the games.

>see Sigilyph
>instinctively use water attacks
I don't know what it is but my brain always tells me to KO that shit with a watermon.

>Ice is not supereffective against Bug

>>28175873
So you were playing Pokémon when you were 6, and when you were 7 or 8 you already had access to video game magazines. Some of us have anti-vidya parents who wouldn't let us get anything until we were 10.

>>28175990
Same here. I don't understand why a shift worker would even be upset that some well behaved kid is reading a fucking magazine. Nowadays you have little shits running around everywhere and no one does anything. If they did the parent would start a shitstorm.
>don't you dare talk to my child you fucking piece of shit

>>28174134
It's pronounced SUI-CUNE

>skarmory isn't a gen 3 pokemon

This confuses me.
Skarmory was all over the Gen 2 promotional stuff, you gotta be underaged not to experience that.

>>28176068
people who played hoenn confuse it as a gen 3 pokemon because they either didn't play gen 2 or honestly thought it was gen 3 simply by only finding it on a certain route with two other pokemon.

>>28175990
That's why you had to be sneaky. Maybe have a sibling keep watch, or scroll through the magazine in 10 second intervals and then pretend to put it down.

>>28176050
>Our parents don't defend us when we're actually well behaved but get yelled at
>We compensate by defending our own kids even when they're little shits

>>28175879
It always bugged me Ice wasn't super effective against water, I mean you'd imagine water could freeze

>>28176137
at least freeze dry is a thing

>>28175990
Always happened. But it was worth the price.

>tfw sitting on the floor reading magazines
>every single one has that part from FF7 when Sephiroth walks through the flames

>see bug
>use poison attack
>it's not super effective
Every time.

>>28176137
Problem is that interaction depends on the amount and temperature of both the ice and water.

After all if you drop an ice cube in a glass of water what happens to it? It melts, water wins.

>>28174089
>There are people who genuinely didn't know these things
I guess you just started, right? You'll know the basics soon enough.

>>28175862
This is how three different religions break off of one

>>28174239
Pokemon Go fans. They also pronounce it "tree".

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>>28175483
>I call bullshit on that.

>>28175621
>Hoennbabies didn't watch the episode where Ash fought against a Skarmory

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>>28174134
Nice shitstorm you've brewed here, anon. And it's pronounced "Yaweh."

>>28176312
It's not even a rare occurence, you see this kind of basic ignorance quite often on /vp/.

And to make it even more embarrassing
>this is the board that constantly wants to make it very clear that they are TRUE pokemon fans

>>28176296
>implying the ice hasn't successfully infiltrated the water

>>28175853
Really neat how much Crystal spruced things up and improved things that were in Gen 2.

Really fun game, the issue I have with the games is that I fucking hate all games before physical/special split now because it's ingrained in me now.

>>28176259
It was super effective for one generation. Also bug was super effective against poison.

ONE. Coincidentally it's also the generation where psychic also was immune to ghost because.

>>28176259
>see Poison
>use Bug attack
>it's not super effective
Every time.

I wasn't aware there were people who thought Skarmory was Gen III. How do you fuck that up? Along with Steelix, Forretress, etc., it was one of the first Steel types to be introduced. I got the Japanese Skarmory holo card before I ever got GSC.

>>28176064

I prefer soooo-ihcune over swee-koon

>>28174171

>"Rat-tat-uh"

What retard pronounces it wrong like that? It's "Rat-uh-taw"

>>28176614

Because gen 2 was hot trash, and in Gen 3 Skarmory appeared in the ashy route randomly.

>>28175145
El. Psy. Kongroo.

>>28175348
>Sounds like a lamer version of Pinmissile

>>28176661
Gen 2 was fine. Hoenn was as ugly as it was boring, especially the Pokemon.

>>28176801

Pretty telling seeing as how people thought a lot of Gen 2 mon were Gen 3 mon then ;^)

>>28174134
It's pronounced Air-tsee-ouz

>>28176614
I thought gen 4 introduced 493 pokemon because Platinum was my first game ;^)

>>28174936
gen 2 m8.

>>28176047
fucking
this

>>28175287
holy fucking SHIT this is somehow the most unbelievable one.

>>28176614
>How do you fuck that up?
Because Skarmory and other pokemon like Slugma had more of a presence in Gen 3 games than they did in gen 2 where no one used Skarmory in gen 2 and it had a 5% encounter rate on a single route and Slugma was only used by one trainer and also had a 5% encounter rate but on multiple routes.

Meanwhile several trainers in Hoenn such as kindlers and most trainers in Flannery's gym used Slugma. Same goes for Skarmory and bird tamers and Winona's gym.

They also didn't really have an appearance in the anime either until the advance era of the series.

Also Gen 2 was when the fad died out and people stopped playing.

>>28175361
i had skarmory in my very first playthrough of a pokemon game ever. silver edition. i even remember where you can get it. it's not post game.
you can get it on the route leading from the final town of johto back to an early route. also in victory road.
i also had slugma in that playthrough and like i said, it was my very first pokemon game, so i don't think they are that easy to miss.

>>28174196
That's not how language works.

>>28175208
>not OHKOing her cloyster

>>28175759
>His school never had the 'scholastic book fair' that sold the trainer handbooks

>>28176942
So many excuses for your stupidity.

>>28176942
People stoppd playin after gen 2, meaning gen 3 was hit by it, not gen 2. Doesn't make sense as an explanation.

>>28175944
This is nonsensical but it's true.
How many words in the English language end with a short "a"?
Ruh-tattuh rolls off the tongue so much easier.

>>28176969
Sorry but no, if it's common that people forgot it then that means it wasn't presented well.

>>28176972
>People stoppd playin after gen 2
People stopped playing DURING gen 2. Which is why Crystal sold so terribly by comparison.

>>28176627
I pronounced it like that until the celebi movie.

>>28176826
It certainly is telling. Gen II loaned Gen III credibility it doesn't deserve.

>>28176950
Maybe not to a kid exploring the newest pokemon game, but /vp/ is full of gen 4 babies who speedran gens 1-3 on emulators or watched lets plays just to say they've played em.

>>28176950
Congrats, you got lucky and didn't get bored like the 90% of players during the time.

>>28174089

>Porygon-Z's head is Porygon2's upside-down

>>28176942
I remember the last part, about the fad dying out. It lost momentum over time, like yo-yo's and finger boards. A lot of kids I knew who were playing it in 6'th grade were fatigued by the 7'th. That's about the time when playing Pokemon earned you social pariah status.

>>28176950
Slugma is Kanto exclusive in gen II

>>28177011
>but /vp/ is full of gen 4 babies who speedran gens 1-3 on emulators or watched lets plays just to say they've played em.
That only explains the recent wave of people, but this is a thing that's been around since RS was released and said by people who played every game thoroughly because kids didn't have as many games as we do now.

>>28175944
i hope you die

>>28174089
>It's a "based as fuck TRUE pokemon fan doesn't know basic shit" episode
Yet you rip on normies for not knowing about your epic Ash Greninja.

>>28177080
>Ash Greninja
>epic

The thing lives to choke.

>>28177011
>/vp/ is full of gen 4 babies and GOfags
fify

>>28177011
>there are people posting on /vp/ right now whose only experience of gen 1 is Twitch plays pokemon

>>28177072
>>28176651

nvm this guy's worse

>>28177051
I had never heard about this meme before /vp/

>>28177155
Just goes to show how new you are to this franchise then.

>>28177161
>t. the guy who has problems figuring out which pokemon belngs to which gen
I've played every generation as they came out.

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>>28175145
REALLY?

>>28177209
>I've played every generation as they came out.
And you still didn't know that this is a common occurrence. So clearly you aren't as attached to the franchise as the rest of us.

Not only that but you're denying that gen 2 had a problem with Pokemon distribution in saying that seeing them was common to run into them when that certainly wasn't the case as most were either post game only, had a low encounter rate or just weren't used outright.

Seriously this confusion and the distribution complaint go hand in hand.

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Gen III personified.

>>28177338
Just because he wasn't aware of other peoples' ignorance doesn't mean he likes the games less than the people ignorant about them. That would imply the opposite, with the added bonus of suggesting he didn't have friends or social connections, since he didn't realize other people had this misconception. You sound like you're sixteen.

Unown is pronounced Un-own

Never heard anyone say it this way and I will never start.

>>28176995
>a bunch of people being stupid means it's okay that they're stupid

Skarmory was one of the most exciting hunts in Gen II.

>>28177420
>doesn't mean he likes the games less
No one said he doesn't like the games less than anyone else anon. That's why I picked my words carefully and tried not to imply that.

Clearly that didn't work because you misinterpreted it. Anyway, I mean that he wasn't as invested in the franchise as the rest of us were seeing as he doesn't realise it was a fairly common thing to see back in the day.

He could have captured and trained every pokemon to level 100 but there's a difference between playing the game and investing yourself in the franchise as a whole.

>You sound like you're sixteen.
Stop projecting anon.

>>28177474
That's because no one knew about Skarmory.

>>28177504
In a world where Mew being behind a truck spread like wildfire throughout every country, you literally have to had no friends to not know Skarmory was in Silver/Crystal.

>>28177338
I question your attachment to the franchise when you're having these kind of problems, Mr. "True fan". As many have said, a lot of people were familiar to some extent with all the gen 2 mons before the games were even out in the west due to video game magazines and later pokemon guides. Even if you were a poorfag, surely one kid in class had the money. Word of mouth is a powerful tool.

Nobody's denying the distribution problem of Johto, but back in the day pokemon was so in your face that if you were truly as attached to the franchise as you claim to be, you were bound to find out about the elusive rare pokemon that you can only catch in certain places. This entire thing reeks of speedrunners and people who got bored of pokemon.

>>28177504
>he didn't catch em all

>>28177479
>29 in a month

Oh, I could only wish, arbitrary thread pseudo-Freud.

>157 posts
>76 unique IPs
What's with the johtoddler samefagging here?

>>28177574
>I question your attachment to the franchise
>Mr. "True-Fan"
>IF INDEED THAT IS YOUR REEEEAL NAME!
>Burn the witch!

Oh god, it's the Fandom Inquisition. Get a fucking life.

>>28177479
I don't know man, let's put it like this: the guy who captures every mon and trains them to 100 VS the guy that's unaware of certain mons existence but keeps making shit threads on /vp/ . I'd say the first one is more invested.

>>28177606
It's called discussion, my friend.

>>28177606
You can't do math very well can you?

76 x 2 = 152 that would just be from each person ITT only making two posts.

So you'd reach 157/76 very easily in a thread just from people making multiple posts, or having these things we refer to as "conversations" IRL and "arguments" on the internet.

I myself have made 4 posts by now ITT. The person I am replying to has made at least 4 himself in this thread. That is 8 posts there. It is also incredibly like that there are more than just two people during the time this thread began to the time now that have made 3-4 replies towards one another during their conversations, which are visible if you actually read the fucking thread.

Learn how to do math and learn how to read, this thread is more bashing than praising.

>>28175776
ash had a gligar

>>28177698
>implying people don't just throw one post into the discussion and let someone else take over like a relay race

>>28177565
... Or everyone picked Gold and thats why they're memeing about not knowing Skarmory

>>28177707
In DPP

Gligar confirmed for gen 4

>>28174420
silent 'y' idiot

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>>28175145
>TV schedule says -ein
>Books from childhood say -ain

>>28177737
I had Gold. So I don't understand.

>>28177574
>I question your attachment to the franchise when you're having these kind of problems, Mr. "True fan".
Sorry but when did I say that I shared this problem? Next time I suggest not talking down to someone when you have poor reading comprehension. In any case it was and is still a common thing to see because of the lack of exposure.

>As many have said, a lot of people were familiar to some extent with all the gen 2 mons before the games were even out in the west due to video game magazines and later pokemon guides
Needless to say back in the day they didn't exactly showcase each and every pokemon pre release unlike nowadays. And even older guides paraded things like starters, legendaries and Pokemon that evolved from previous generation Pokemon. That and not many people bought the guides as much as things like cards and such.

>Word of mouth is a powerful tool.
You'd have a point if it weren't in the era where pokemon was dying down and was deemed "uncool" among most people. There's a reason why GSC didn't have nearly as much rumor surrounding them compared to RBY and we didn't have a repeat of pokegods to that degree.

>but back in the day pokemon was so in your face that if you were truly as attached to the franchise as you claim to be, you were bound to find out about the elusive rare pokemon that you can only catch in certain places
See above, a large portion of Pokemon from Gen 2 weren't given any exposure across the entire franchise. Even in the anime Skarmory only had a single appearance in the Johto series but four in the Hoenn series. Same with Slugma, only a single appearance. However Magcargo had at least two.

I don't think you understand how little these Pokemon were shown off and how fast the fad died.

>>28177725
I mean, I've taken over people's arguments here before.

I am the pinnacle of our species.

>>28177822
Skarmory wasn't in Gold.
At all.

>>28174089
>>skarmory isn't a gen 3 pokemon
>>normal pikachu don't have a black tipped tail
>>rock type pokemon are not immune to electricity
yes and

>>28177833
>You'd have a point if it weren't in the era where pokemon was dying down and was deemed "uncool" among most people. There's a reason why GSC didn't have nearly as much rumor surrounding them compared to RBY and we didn't have a repeat of pokegods to that degree.
Pokemon has always been huge, stupid. "Most people" is wrong. Most people where I live still absolutely loved Pokemon come Gen II. In fact, more people were into it by then than Gen I.

>>28175208
my only pokemon game was red from day up until emerald came and even then I bought firered and not an hoenn game and I still didnt know that move existed. I literally started playing in 1998 and only played kanto until pearl. fuck off

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>>28177851
No shit. But I had Gold and still knew Skarmory existed. So I don't understand how other people didn't.

Pokemon Silver was my first Pokenon Game, got it as soon as it came out. For years, I had no idea that Wobbuffet was Gen 2. Only found out when I played it again after getting Ruby. Didn't watch the Johto Season of the cartoon much, if he was in it with Team Rocket.

>>28177000
trips of truth
>same hear buddy
>it got dropped after I hear it's real pronunciation

>>28177860
>In fact, more people were into it by then than Gen I.
Which is why the games sold a good 8 million less than RB alone right?
Then there's Crystal where the numbers were around Emerald's at 6mil+.

Sorry but by Gen 2 the fad was starting to die and the delay didn't help too much either.

>>28177860
>Most people where I live
This is literally everyone's go to defense when they know they have nothing to work with.

>But my friends...
>But around here...
Do you have anything other than anecdotal evidence from you and your, what was probably six friends?

>>28177916
If you combine the gen 1 and 2 sales then the difference is nearly 20 million.
The amount of players nearly halved between gen 1 and 2.

I think another reason Skarmory is mistaken for gen 3 a lot (outside of being one of the purest region exclusives in G/S) is that gen 3 was a pretty hard reboot dead-set on showcasing only new Pokemon. The only other non-gen-3 Pokemon I can think of in the original Hoenn games are Tentacool and the postgame Safari Zone section of Emerald, which only had few Johto afterthoughts like Phanpy and Ledyba.

>>28177574
I had to buy a guide to find out where you can find that damn Skarmory among other rares, meaning I already knew of it's existence without encountering it the game yet. I don't get how some people managed to avoid learning of it, I mean it was one of the few Steel types in the game, which was a new thing. The addition of Steel and Dark absolutely blew my kind as a kid. I mean f you lived in isolation and only played the game through, then maybe, but Steel was such a big topic.

>>28178013
Slugma, zubat, koffing, grimer

You know, I think the problem people are having here is that their nostalgia is getting in the way things. They basically don't remember the time when gen 2 was released so they're fabricating events.

>>28174936
Hoennfags out.

You can absolutely tell people werent around for the Gen 2 hype when they say the thought Skarmory was gen 3. Who could forget the Neo Genisis TCG ad on the Pokemon 2000 VHS with the Skarmory card?
Skarmory was all over the merchandising. And you would've seen it a hundred times while looking through what rental Pokemon to use in Stadium 2. That goes for Slugma too but not as much.
Anyone who says they think Skarmory was gen 3 and says they were fans during gen 2 are big fat liars.

>>28178013
a third of hoenn's dex is old stuff, it's sprinkled pretty consistently throughout past the very first few routes

>>28178140
What do you expect?
The fad was dying, people who played in gen 1 were dropping it and it wasn't a big topic on the schoolyard anymore.

Hell, the game itself was pretty samey so it's possible they dropped it because they thought it was the same thing again.

How is it that people doesn't know metal steel bird when it came out? Jesus Christ, I don't even need the Internet Pokemon Encyclopedia back then.

>>28175731

I cried my eyes out trying to get Marril. Shit never appeared

>>28178214
Why do you genwunner acts act as if its impossible for anyone who played gen 1 on release to have stuck with the series? Holy shit Ive played every game isnce Red, since Red was released

>>28178140
>Skarmory was all over the merchandising
I don't think you can call a single ad with probably a second of footage of Skarmory "all over".
Even in Neo Genesis he was a rare holo so it was hard to come across.

>>28178237
Not him but come on, literally half of the playerbase dropped the game by the time it was released and delays always cause people to drop series out of frustration.
Be realistic man, the fad was dying.

>>28178140

Seriously this. All these underaged fucks can fuck off. Everybody on the playground wanted a Skarmory because it was rare and was a fucking Metal Bird. It's popularity was equal to Scizor and Steelix

>>28178220

This. In times when everybody kmew about the "Mew under the truck" myth I can't imagine kids not knowing about Metal Steel Birs

>>28178426
>In times when everybody kmew about the "Mew under the truck" myth I can't imagine kids not knowing about Metal Steel Birs
The problem being that time had passed and pokemon had taken a long drop from where it once was.

I don't think you lot realise this but Pokemon's heyday had passed before GS was released.

>>28177338

>distribution complaint

You're literally shouting out loud that you're a Hoennbaby that didn't experience the original Pokemon hype. Rare as fuck Pokemon is what EVERYBODY talked about. Shit you were the fucking king if you found a Pokemon nobody else had and everybody wanted you to show it to them.

"Distribution Complaint" is literally meme later gen kids made up because they don't know how it feels being the only kid finding a rare Pokemon in a desolated place nobody thought of looking. The internet also ruined that experience but later gens also shove all their Pokemon in your face you you really never have a sense of wonder or desire for them anymore. They are not mysticized. With some exceptions of course like Feebas. and Munchlax. But they werw also not really cool Pokemon enough that you could brag about them to your friends. You had a Marril, Heracross or Skarmory though? You were the king

>>28174420
>Gira-dose
FTFY

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>It's pronounced HI-DRY-GOON not HI-DRAY-GON

>>28178454

Not really. The moms and dads stopped playing but the kids were still going strong and even more excited for it than Gen 1. But thanks again for proving you're too underage to remember Gen 2.

>>28178621
>but the kids were still going strong
They were dropping it too, especially in japan where YuGiOh started to crop up.
Also did you forget that there was a good four year gap between RB and GS? I remember the game magazines writing about delays of the game and people writing in for subsequent issues how disappointed they were many of whom were in the 10 to 14 range.

Try your hardest to think back to that time, it might be hard considering you were probably what, 8 or 9? but Pokemon certainly wasn't as popular or talked about as it was in gen 1.

>>28176942

Gen 3 is when the OG Pokemon died. You just don't realize that because you probably started with Gen 3

>>28176801
Hoenn is by far the most interesting region, especially more interesting than johto

>>28178691
Doesn't explain the loss of nearly half of the player base in gen 2 faggot.

>>28177952
>nothing to work with

Go outside. Fucking idiot.

>>28178748
You mean where they WEREN'T talking about pokemon as much as before?

>>28178718
I wasnt a part of that drop
I never dropped it because Im a loser who likes Pokemon, not a loser who likes fads

>it's another "johtoddlers get mad" episode

>>28178718

>From 30 million to 25 million is almost half

Lel i think you're confusing it with R/S at 16 million again.

>>28178825
>30 million
>not knowing that gen 1 games sold in the 40 mil while 2 was in the 20s
Get your information right next time kiddo.

>>28178808
>it's another "genwunners assume they're the majority" episode

>>28178825
>RBY
>30 mil
Try about 48 million give or take.
I don't think you Johtoddlers know the height of pokemon's popularity in the 90s and how quickly it dropped when GS was delayed.

>>28178847

>R/B 31 million
>G/S 24 million

Nah you should stop spouting bullshit.

>>28178872
>I dropped the fad because Im a sheep who cant decide his own hobbies so everyone else did! #Original150ForLife #PokemonGo

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>>28178888
>removing yellow and crystal

>>28178910
So you admit the fad and most interest died in gen 2 then.
Anyways this is getting pathetic, you can't change facts.

>>28178933
I admit normies who dont actually like Pokemon that much stopped playing
What I dont deny however is that Pokemon is still popular, and genwunners arent (or at least, arent very good) Pokemon fans.

>>28178911

>Counting Yellow or any third version
>Literally counting people twice
>Saying Pokemon fad was dying for Gen 2 when Yellow literally appeared in the same year as G/S

Yeah sure if you double the numbers you get double the drop

Fucking kek

>>28178910
What.
Are you saying that anyone that remembers the fad dropped the series because they can admit when it died down?
The fuck kind of retarded logic is this?

>>28178991

This. Gen 1 and Gen 2 go hand in hand. Success of Yellow is nothing but more proof that Pokemon hadn't lost much of his hype by Gen 2

>>28179016
No way, Im actually trying to argue against that. People in this thread seem to think that it's literally impossible for anyone who played gen 1 to have played the sucessive generations. Im mocking them for that.

>>28179043
So what you're saying is that you can't into reading comprehension. That's good to know. Now I can stop taking you posts seriously.

>>28174089
How about this one: Mega Metagross is made up of a Metagross, a Metang (hence the funny-shaped mouth and weird penishorn) and two Beldum (bottom legs don't have poled like the top ones do).

And it's got the same weight as those four Pokémon combined.

>>28175669
Regional dexes in-game are fine because they don't really care about where they originally appeared. It's only on places like Bulbapedia where it sorts by first game they appeared in.

>>28176024
It's because of Claydol. Sigilyph looks like it's from the same origin as Claydol, so it makes you think it's also a rock-type.

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>>28176651
I threw up a little.

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>>28178991
>>Saying Pokemon fad was dying for Gen 2 when Yellow literally appeared in the same year as G/S
>Johtoddlers don't even know when yellow and their favourite game came out
Okay okay, joke time is over anon. You can stop shitposting now but for the record.
Yellow
>JP - 1998
>NA - 1999
>EU - 2000

GS
>JP - 1999
>NA - 2000
>EU - 2001

Let's be serious now, There's a very clear and very steep drop in sales from every facet of the franchise during gen 2, this is undeniable. Especially in the TCG, which is why they decided to add in EX cards in the Hoenn sets to entice more players.
Oh and assuming everyone also picked up Yellow in the age of "but you already have this game" ridiculous. Remember, parents were more watchful of what their children took in during this time as well.

But why am I even posting anymore, it's clear you lot were too young to remember more than being plonked in front of the game.

>>28178825
>Lel i think you're confusing it with R/S at 16 million again.
Gen 3 actually retained more players than 2 did from 1.

Where did the "Skarmory is a gen 3 Pokémon" meme come from? Was it even that rare? I remember beating countless of Skarmories while training for Claire.

Gligar and Gliscor are not Poison types.

>>28174089
The only one you get a pass on is the Pikachu thing, and I'm not sure why. In regards to the other two, you're a fucking idiot.

>>28174134
Nope. And anyone who says otherwise can blow me.

>>28174809
>>>skarmory isn't a gen 3 pokemon
>>literally being a hoennfetus
where did they even appear in johto i never saw one and legitimatly thought they were a gen 3 pokemon

>>28180415
The route under blackthorn

>Skarmory isn't a gen III Pokemon
Oh, yeah. It used to look like shit. I didn't remember.
>Slugma isn't a gen III Pokemon
How? Where does it even appear?

>>28180913
cycling road
hinted at by a guy in fuchsia
"i saw weird slow moving pokemon on cycling road' he says.

>>28180913
also: blaine has a magcargo in GSC

>>28180913
Route 16, 17, 18 in Kanto. I do vaguely remember a trainer having a Magcargo in Gold, though I don't think I ever saw Slugma.

>>28179324

>Gen I - 15 million each version
>Gen II - 12 million each version
>Gen III - 8 million each version only Gen that sold worse than the following Gen, possibly worst selling Gen of al time if XY overtakes it (which it easily will at the next quarterly report)

Lol no.