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So, I still keep thinking about this randomly (in which I clearly can't narrow it down to one), but I also think Porygon-2 having Porygon Z be a split evolution where maybe it could have a proper Porygon 3 would be neat too.

what upppp!!! im a huge fan of the friend ball! my gf got me the replica one for our anniversary a while back!

Ooh, so jealous! Sounds like a lot of fun! Definitely picking this up at some point -- I'm most curious to see how it plays compared to the Gamecube title that I spent so much time playing during childhood haha

As the year comes to a close, I’d like to send warm wishes to everyone in our Pokémon community. No matter what you celebrate (or if you don’t celebrate at all), I hope this season brings you joy, peace, rest, and moments that make you feel appreciated and safe ☺️ So I wish you all the best for the holidays and for the year ahead. Take care of yourselves! 🎄

Happy Holidays to you too!

I thought I'd share photos of my office! It's very appropriately decorated for the season. Every year my boyfriend (in late November) give each other an ornament & a pokemon card and usually they're christmas themed or winter looking cards. :) and then of course some of the stuff we get each other for actual christmas is pokemon.

I've chosen Eevee because I'm not really convinced about Pikachu's face and the original trio is kinda boring. I hope they release more interesting Pokémon but it's a start. I really hope they release an Arcanine one, the bigger the better.

behold!! My kitty

Hey everyone! 😄 The Question of the Week is: What is your favourite Poké Ball? I know that the Master Ball and Love Ball are among the most popular, but many others are also highly regarded, even if they are less well known. (Here's Bulbapedia's page on Poké Balls) For example, I love the well-known Moon Ball, but one of my absolute favourites is the Park Ball! I love the yellow and blue combination 😊 Which one is your favourite? Did you choose it just for its appearance, or because it's linked to a specific Pokémon or event?

So, aesthetically, my three favorite types of Poké Balls are the Dream Ball, Cherish Ball and Luxury Ball. I think all just look top notch 👌 There are also some really cool anime-only balls that I think are super cool and wish we'd get in game. Strange Ball also gets a nod because I love the weird green look. Conversely, one of my least favorite Poké Balls is the GS Ball, even though it looks super cool, because the anime never told us what was in it 😡 That always annoyed me as a kid lol

EVERY. SINGLE. ONE. OF THEM. Special shoutout to the premier ball that I have been attached to since forever (and I love the Poké Ball Boutique for letting me buy them and still get the freebies on top), but yes — I just love Poké Balls of all types as a whole! I wouldn't know how to pick a singular one and only favourite, as with so many things 😹

Late but posting my Autumn Shiny. Only found shinies in GO. No ZA shinies yet 😭

Ditto. Always. It's adorable, I mean, look at its face!

Welcome to 2026! Do you have any particular New Year's resolutions for this year? It doesn't even have to be Pokémon related, could just be life goals. Personally, I'm working on: Being more active to counteract sedentary computer-based work Finish some website updates I've wanted to get out Catch a Kecleon with its HA in OR so that I can transfer it to Brilliant Diamond And, speaking of transfers, maybe work on using Pokémon Bank to get any event 'mons to Home before the servers actually close down Curious to hear what you hope to do/start/accomplish this year!

This is one of the games I got for Christmas, so here is my review of the game after a few days of playing. So some context. I am a big fan of Kirby, but I never played the original Kirby Air Ride on Gamecube. When it was revealed it peaked my curiosity because it looked so fun. I was wondering what made it different from Mario Kart because certainly Nintendo wouldn't release two similar games so close together? Well in short, Kirby Air Riders introduces combat and it just plays differently. It's like if Smash & MK had a baby. (If you didn't know it's actually developed by Sakurai, you can deff tell in the UI because the vibe is very smash ultimate) At first I didn't understand how to play. In MK you hold "A" for gas, but in Kirby Air Riders you don't have to hold anything, you just go. You literally steer and press B to boost and use attacks. (You can use Y too for your special move) but the entire game is controlled with these 3 buttons. (The original game was just the two!) I got pretty good at the game once I fooled around with it enough and understood how it worked. One of my favorite modes is "road trip" which is the story mode. It never gets boring because what you're doing is constantly changing. Sometimes you're racing, sometimes it's a time trial, soemtimes its a boss battle, or it's totally different. There's a few boss races mixed in too. I haven't fooled around with many of the other modes, but the game is very addicting & the art style is VERY cute. I have also enjoyed unlocking the characters and discovering the different machines. I hear you can highly customise them, but I haven't dug into that yet. I am having a lot of fun and highly recommend the game. I need to brush up my skills some before i try to play online. Happy to answer any questions if anyone has any! Now that he's free maybe sakurais next game is Smash? ;)

Wasn't a nickname I gave it... but someone traded me a Heracross named Bois!?

I used to give nicknames a lot more freely (or so it feels) when I was younger, sadly in recent years the brainfog and stuff got really strong so halfway through Sword I made use of the setting for turning off nicknames (though I already felt like I draw a blank every time I tried to nickname a Pokémon in UltraMoon)... but I'll go on a bit of a ramble to come up with an answer (it is a trend that I cannot come up with a One Clear Answer because so many things go and I have trouble deciding and a lot is moods and vibes lol I hope this is okay 😅) For example, in my teens I was super interested in chemistry and history as two favourite subjects in school (and later also Latin, though languages in general are my stronger suite lol) so I'd use chemical elements or names based from ancient greek/roman gods etc/historical figures. Most prominent example I can think of is how in Gen4 I would nickname my Ghosts after noble gases (and I always needed to have at the very least one Ghost on my team in every game) I also started using names based on other fandoms I was into at the time, and eventually started using more "normal" names too and sometimes just random words or terms of affection ... and there's a few clear trends for very specific mons that would repeat every time, for example: Kiwi for a male Espurr named after a beloved cat I used to have, Pika when I had a Pikachu on my team (though in Moon, I chose that nickname for Mimikyu because I thought it was funny and I already had my Alolan Raichu named Sweetie ... I reversed it in UltraMoon because when I came back to finish Moon after years, I kept confusing myself lmao) and at some point I decided to change my Skeledirge's nickname to Croco City (a reference to Owl City) after I'd went the whole game & DLCs of Violet without any nicknames. PLZA the only nickname I actually gave at this point is Obelix for my Emboar (which got a giggle out of me when I had him on the first spot and Team MZ referenced him by nickname) I have no idea if any of these even count as "original" nicknames and I really wouldn't know how to pick one as "most original" 😅 still though, the question had me thinking about the topic and I really hope that eventually my brain's less foggy again so I can get wild again with nicknames. But for now I'll stop the wordy tangent lol

BIG welcome to the forums! I am so happy to have you here!:)

Just one day before Christmas!

VERY happy holidays to all of our amazing trainers here at MCC

Hope everyone is having a good end to their year :) Was able to just chill on Christmas and had a nice day off

Happy Holidays and a wonderful rest of the year & year ahead! 🌠

I guess Game Freak is sleeping on this one.

Sorry to be the party pooper, but I don't expect one, and I kinda don't want any, mostly because it would ruin the 'perfect' square (3x3) that you can create with the Eeveelutions (with Eevee in the center, of course).

In the sense that I get very excited if I get a Pokemon-related gift and sometimes give some, yes :P But in the sense of having any kind of specific Pokemon decor, not so much. It's not for lack of wanting-- I LOVE the Holiday dioramas they've started doing. I just don't have the money for them right now and honestly, things are still so messy and unpacked for various reasons, I can't justify getting many things lately. That said, I love the Christmas merch a lot and still wish Mega Audino would be included because I think their design lends so well to the Christmas season. The Christmas Pikachu from last year still has to be one of my favorite Pikachu plushies or all-time.

Pokemon is part of all my holidays! This year thanks to the Pokemon Center selling wrapping paper, all the gifts I’m giving are wrapped in Pokemon paper. And my friends who have small children are getting Pokemon themed gifts (various plush and books for them) and my older friends who also love Pokemon are getting Pokemon sweaters and mugs! I’m also planning on baking Pokemon sweets from the cookbooks; mainly Rockruff chow & Appletun hand pies

Personally grass! It would be a beautiful field arena with a water fall! This is what my grass gym would be (if the player has 8 badges!) Sunflora, Jumpluff, Vileplume, Bellossom, Leafeon, Levanny. So many cuties! :) These are also most of my favorite pokemon. (Off topic, but I also enjoy snorlax, sewaddle, seel, poliwhirl, starmie, and a few others) What about you? I know @pokejungle would have a bug gym!

This week we're wondering if you have a favorite Pokémon that's unique among its species. It doesn't matter if it's from the games or anime — we want to know if you are particularly attached to any special Pokémon. The upcoming cozy game Pokémon Pokopia just showed us several new unique Pokémon we'll meet when the game launches: Peakychu, Smearguru, Mosslax and Prof. Tangrowth! So let us know if you're an Ash-Greninja fan, a Cosplay Pikachu fan or have a different favorite unique Pokémon. And although not visually distinct, Meowth from the anime could probably be considered one of these Pokémon since it has the unique ability to speak. For my own favorite, I think I'm going to have to go with the Pink Butterfree featured in the anime! One of the most memorable storylines and also just a gorgeous Butterfree :)

woah, i didn't realize it went back up!

This was introduced in Pokémon Pokémon Omega Ruby / Alpha Sapphire, as a special Pikachu "Cosplay Pikachu" that can wear different costumes, one of them being this one. This Pikachu can't be transferred (probably because it's unique in the game) and doesn't exist in any other Pokémon game. In Pokémon GO you can different Pikachu with different costumes but it's not exactly the same thing.

If you add a turbo controller then you can do this with any bench in the game.

Thank you so much for sharing your story and memories with us! As a queer person myself, I'm always happy to see when games like Pokémon helped our community on different levels ❤️

My memory is hazy, so the best I can remember now for earlier in life would be vague things like my siblings letting me play on their consoles until I finally had my own gameboy colour complete with yellow, or later when i was again behind after the generation change to GBA, my brother helped me emulate ruby on my PC and also let me train up his pokemon in Sapphire to level 100 by grinding the league rematches lol and maybe my utter hyperfixation with crystal counts (i replayed it so many times over) my teens were... not the best time, and pokémon was one of the good things I had, but also, similar to what others told, I was a trans boy without the tools to know it, so I couldn't enjoy Gen 4/specifically Diamond and Platinum to the fullest. I did get to visit one official event though, the shaymin distribution because one of the cities it stopped at was where my sister lived at the time. so I got to make a train trip alone to visit for the weekend, we went to the event together and had a fun time but I also had to study for a chemistry test the next week LOL generation 5 again was when I fell behind for about 2 years, and in hindsight it's probably for the best because when I bought myself copies of Black and Black 2 along with a 3ds, I could finally allow myself to play as a boy again, and things clicked into place from there (ironically when I didn't play as Nate lol I still regret that I didn't start a replay back then, especially with the imminent end of online play). I've been happily playing as the male protagonist ever since (except when choosing deliberately like sometimes in XY replays when I wanted to see Calem as the rival ... PLZA not counting, since the open customisation lets me still appear like the boy albeit with mismatched pronouns) and my inner teen could find comfort with BDSP so, while I technically don't have a "most cherished pokemon memory", mostly vibes, the games were extremely formative for me on the personal level so it still fits the theme I'd say ^_^;

There are companies you can use to buy from other countries that don't ship to yours. And now, with this store, you won't have to pay import duties.

In this specific case, I totally love it since Dragonite is one of my favourites ever yes, you're right!

I never thought about the fact that we can draw a square with all the Eevelutions on the borders and with an Eevee in the centre, so I understand your point!

I have to agree with you both about the missing options to choose a different hair style or even just a different fringe in the character selection screen (and a personal gripe for me, that you can't select eyelashes just for the bottom lid separately, like you can do in SV) 🥲 though it wouldn't be as bad if we were allowed to access the salon sooner. I always play as the male protagonist, but I also wanted to choose Urbain (in fact, not having him in my initial game was a big reason for restarting before even completing the whole postgame + all side quests) so it was a bit off for me in the beginning because of that. But the complete removal of genderlocked customisation really is a a blessing not just so that I could have Urbain while still being Paxton, but also it's just really nice to have! (I really wished I could've dressed Victor in knit jackets back in SwSh lol) I don't have screenshots on my computer so copypasting from my bluesky was the quickest I can do right now, and I guess I pretty much didn't yet post anything from earlier in the story there LOL so I hope this works I may share more thoughts another time too haha

The first one, specially if it's the original one with subtitles. There aren't a lot of changes but the soundtrack alone makes it worth it for me.

I just pulled this cutie and I'm beyond happy 💚

All this years, I've been waiting and hoping for a Ghost-type Eeveelution 😭 I also second the other suggestions (a bug Eevee could be super cute and we're really missing the dragon to form a duo with Sylveon...), just any new evolution to add to the family would be so loved. I just have a big love for the Ghost-type (with my other two most favourites, Water and Fairy, already present) so I would be especially excited for it

This song is my latest obsession 😆

okay this one's more focused on charon But it's mostly about my team headcanons so there's a lot of kerberos background radiation in there. all of his pokemon are menaces <3

I’ve always been super fond of the Orange Island series and their unique Pokemon before regional variants were a thing. So Crystal Onix would have to be my absolute favorite (one day may we get it in game with perhaps a new typing?) but despite the fact I’m not fond of the color pink, the Pinken Island Pokemon are so iconic! Food changing Pokemon colors is soooo fascinating!

In a sense, I hate when they do happen because I really dislike the one-time only ones. I'd love to see them show up more. Pink Butterfree has a special place in my heart so I think I'd have to say it's my favorite as well, but I'd love to bring all of them together because it makes me so sad that they're always one off and gone X-x

Going to go out on a limb here and say Pokemon Yellow. It's the first (third) main series title and it's based off the anime. It isn't hard to see what they were trying to accomplish. 🤫

That is awesome to hear :) I have very fond memories of Platinum as well. It was the height of my competitive battling days. I was like 13 and conquering the world lol

i'm a platinum stan first and a human being second. introduced some of my favorite pokemon & human characters in the whole franchise. i also have a soft spot for yellow, too.

my all-time favorites are nidoran (m) and dusknoir. my first catch in pokemon yellow was a nidoran, and i ran an ask blog on tumblr featuring a dusknoir for a few years and got really attached. i also really like elgyem/beheeyem because it's a fun little alien.

If you manage to do that, I will be very envious :P I unfortunately struggle following video tutorials which is part of why I still haven't managed </3

My favorite is Umbreon for sure. Dark being a favorite type and Umbreon’s shiny being simply amazing. I also really like the Sun/moon theme for Espeon & Umbreon (preferring moon) which plays into my affection for them.