It doesn’t help that Nintendo seems to actively hinder competitive play in their games. It’s not starting from a winning position, but I wouldn’t count it out entirely.

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That we know about*

KaBLaM!

He has regular faculty to do that for him.

Where did you find the official count? I want to look it up too.

It’s the eternal problem of this game unfortunately…

You won’t get the shiny charm, and hunting for shiny Pokémon without it is kind of a pain in the ass.

Yes, I don’t see how someone would intentionally want to muddy up their mixes so bad. I feel like it’s gotten gradually worse over time too.

In that case I would recommend a map book that covers the local areas.

Oh okay, I think I misunderstood the direction that the texts were flowing. I could see this being very useful then.

What’s the use case for this?

Time to Tariff™️ the Vatican!

The problem is they’re never around when I need them 🙃

Pokémon TCG would probably make a stink about that too. I would agree that more needs to be done to differentiate them but the Guns and the art-style should do that pretty well.

Using balls to capture and store Pals was a big mistake though and they definitely should’ve made a few more drafts on some of those aspects before reveal.

Honestly? I see more Totoro in there than Electabuzz.

Where does the line get drawn between inspiration and stealing? I’m not trying to be facetious, it’s just the kind of question that I think a lot of people will have vastly different answers to.

Wait til you see the dragons…