Pokémon TCG: Sword and Shield—Brilliant Stars

New Pokemon Revealed + Type Confirmation

18 types, many combos to create with- has anyone yet discovered an animal that best fits a steel/ghost sort of creature to fit the type combo?

Whomever thought that cultural myths being mixed into Pokemon is genius. Sure, it makes creativity in design less needed, but to be a world-wide game adding in that touch of culture is a bonus.

Seems to me that Gamefreak is not working with just "new" designs, they are working with what is already there: 17 types.
Expanding is one thing, adding in a new type like when they added dark and steel only opened the way to toss in stratagy among the battles.

Fantasy, imagination, creativity, design- why should there be a restriction to it? If it is all left to expectation, there would be no original ideas to the concept of the above and it would become old and boring, plus repetitive.
 
JandPDS said:
Pokémon jumped the shark...
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If we stop there, it is a truer statement, I think: Pokémon is silly.

Just having an underlying "animal" or "plant" design doesn't make them more plausible, because the fantastic elements are still there. Pokémon are SPBs (Super Powered Beings), or whatever your preferred terminology is; they do things that break the laws of reality all the time. All of them can be stored inside tiny little balls, and all have an "elemental affinity" (sometimes two) that creates unrealistic relationships. Most designs are dubious in reality, especially upon closer inspection.

Honedge is an adaptation of myth/legend just like Charizard. If there is a difference, it is that "ghosts" exist in the world of Pokémon... and once we allow for that, Honedge is actually more "realistic" than Charizard, Blastoise, Venusaur, etc.

Again, you don't have to like it (as I have told others); if you think its stupid, you think its stupid. It is this implication of objective validity given to older Pokémon that is pretty absurd... because Pokémon are wonderfully absurd make-believe. If a Pokémon is too plausible, frankly its a failure!
 
I find Honedge more interesting than all three Starter Pokemon combined personally. Well, if they were actually combined together, maybe that would be more interesting...
 
rivershock said:
I find Honedge more interesting than all three Starter Pokemon combined personally. Well, if they were actually combined together, maybe that would be more interesting...
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I always thought Magneton could have been awesome... if it actually was three Magnemite fused together. Probably too complicated for back then, but now... imagine if yes, you had to raise three Magnemite to the correct level to trigger it, but if you even only got to select which traits were used to create the Evolved form (e.g. which Ability, Nature, Moves, and each individual Stat...).

As a Transformers fan, I totally want a team of five Pokémon I can optionally combine to make my sixth! I am sure it would be painfully hard to design, but would it not be worth the effort for the sheer awesome, even if it ultimately proved either too broken for competitive play, or too underpowered for the risks? :thumb:

On a slightly more serious note, for the "appropriate" Pokémon (like Honedge), what about the option to... well... do what we've seen in the TCG; Honedge could "treat" itself like a Pokémon Tool for compatible Pokémon?
 
PokemonTrader said:
Goronda - Pancham's evolved form.

Maika + Karamanero - Squid Pokemon! <3

Shushupu - Ugly looking thing... The "Perfume" Pokemon
Probably will evolve into a flamingo.

Peropuff - I see this turning into a cloud dog...

Additional Notes:

Xerneas is confirmed as a fairy type.
Yveltal is dark/flying

Pokemon exclusive to X: Clauncher, Peropuff
Pokemon exclusive to Y: Skrelp, Shushupu

Now I'm stuck. I like Peropuff but also like Skrelp :(
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Goronda is now known as Pangoro in English.

Maika and Karamanero are known as Inkay and Malamar respectively.

Shushupu is known as Spritzee.

Peropuff is now called Swirlix.

Xerneas' attack Geo Control(Japanese) is now known as Geomancy.

Yvetal's attack Death Wing(Japanese) is now called Oblivion Wing.


And Otaku- your ideas are very magnificent and ambitious. If only we could have combining Pokemon or a "Voltron" mon!
 
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Perhaps less ambitious is the idea of just two Pokémon linking up, with one acting like a Pokémon Tool (perhaps even being allowed to function as a second Pokémon Tool). Obviously it could be worthless, but to avoid it being overpowered we just need to make sure that mixing Pokémon this way is risky... and of course OHKO attacks already provide that. Attacks that discard Pokémon Tools might "disconnect" Pokémon functioning as Pokémon Tools, damaging or maybe even auto-Koing them.

I just have this image in my head now of a Machoke with a Honedge attached to one hand, a Bronzor on the other, a Kabuto on its head, and maybe two different Unown (one on the front and one on the back of its torso), all glowing and cool looking. ;)
 
I really like that idea, though. Pairing up 2 Pokemon, even keeping the 6 limit, could make for some interesting mechanics! Honedge is just a very obvious example because its a sword, but other Pokemon could allow "type alterations" to attacks, like making a Water type attack from Empoleon be Fire type as well, if paired with a "tooled" Charizard. Or a Pokemon that is fast like Scyther could be paired up with something to add in a "Quick Attack" on top of each attack your Pokemon uses. Possibilities are endless on that front though, I guess.

I did a quick search for you and couldnt bring it up, but I saw a really neat picture of Golurk with a Brozor and Honedge superimposed on it like a sword in shield- your idea reminded me of it. It was just the Sigi art, but because all 3 of their colors are so similar, it still looked neat.
 
I think this gen's Pokemon released so far are much cooler than the ones from gen 5... personal opinion, but Gen 6 is shaping up as much more interesting... The theme is "European" in my mind and some of the Pokemon fit much more clearly...

Europe makes me think of all of these Pokemon, to a certain extent. In medieval times, there seemed to be a lot more wonder in the world (unicorns and dragons and fairies, oh my), even if that's only modern perception of people's beliefs. Honedge has a Medieval look to it, perfume makes me think of France, and... okay, I can't really think of a place for pandas, but I like these more than Spinda. The lion-looking Pokemon, too, make me think of Trafalgar Square and coats of arms.

Gen 5 had themes, of ideals and dreams, and the location was very futuristic, but not all the Pokemon tightly fit that as it was sort of difficult design-wise. It was about stark opposites and how the distance between them is not always clear... but that's pretty hard to convey in a whole set of Pokemon, although they did fine with the legendaries.
 
pnoodle5 said:
Gen 5 had themes, of ideals and dreams, and the location was very futuristic, but not all the Pokemon tightly fit that as it was sort of difficult design-wise. It was about stark opposites and how the distance between them is not always clear... but that's pretty hard to convey in a whole set of Pokemon, although they did fine with the legendaries.
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Gen 3's theme was duality. There were a LOT of Pokemon pairs in that generation. (gen 4's theme was history)

I think gen 5's design theme was more about "familiar, but new", since it was the first game taking place outside of Japan.
 
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