Some people: Pokemon have to have good lore and an interesting naming scheme for me to like them. They can’t just be some stupid, slapped together design! It has to be well thought out and deep.
My dumb ass: I love Whiscash because it’s a catfish with whiskers. That’s why its called Whiscash.
It also has a w on his forehead. The w stands for Whiscash 🙂
my husband says that Whiscash “looks like he wants to make you pancakes” and honestly that’s just the tea
whiscash does have lore! or it’s based on lore. it’s a namazu!
that’s it’s a big goofy friend is the syrup on the pancake
It’s a search of Google books, but the question still stands, what the Fuck happened in 1870
I CAN ANSWER THIS!!
In the Cornish dialect of English, Pokemon meant ‘clumsy’ (pure coincidence).
In the mid 1800s there was a surge of writing about the Cornish language and dialect in an attempt to preserve them with glossaries and dictionaries being written. I wrote about it HERE.
I just love that this post happened to find the ONE HUMAN ON THE INTERNET who had the answer to this question
Okay, anyone who is playing the new Pokémon games, I’m kind of at a loss for words… I’m just a casual more or less, I didn’t play any of these old games when I was younger. I did play X/Y and Sun/Moon some, but never beat either one. So here I am now, addicted immediately.
I named my adorable little critter bff Rey and was lucky that it was indeed a girl! I looked it up and apparently the chances of getting a female (let alone on first try) are obnoxiously low.
OH MY GOD HOW CUTE IS THIS. So I use her all the time. Everywhere. She’s like… one hitting everything and barely getting hurt from enemy attacks. I’m like… is this normal? She is so strong and brave and sturdy! She’s level 25 and I have the ability to “judge” Pokémon now. I’m curious how this little girl fares…
WHAT IN THE WORLD?!?!?!?! Does everyone’s starter Pokémon have stats like this? Am I in some weird dream land?!?! I feel like this game is super easy because of this beast, if I had the other game would Pikachu have stats like this? This is unreal. I wish my Chespin in Y had these stats, I struggled a lot with that damn thing.
OP got a perfect IV female eevee on their first try, reblog for luck
Just to put this into perspective for non-hardcore Pokémon players, when the game generates a Pokémon, it also generates a random number between 0 and 31 for each of its six stats (HP, Attack, Defense, Special Attack, Special Defense, Speed), called “Individual Values” or IVs. The higher the number, the better the stat will be. An IV of 0 means you get 0 extra points in that stat by Level 100, while an IV of 31 means you get 31 extra points. This can make a huge difference, especially in competitive play, where every single point counts. (A Pokémon with 30 IVs in Speed will always be slower than an identical Pokémon with 31 IVs in Speed, for example.)
Unless it’s been adjusted in Let’s Go for the starters, the probability of getting a Pokémon with all six IVs of 31 is 1 in 1,073,741,824.
The chance of getting a female Eevee (which is important for breeding) is 1 in 8, bringing the chances of a perfect IV female Eevee to 1 in 8,589,934,592.
ACTUALLY
Let’s go has every starter like this. Like I assume this is for the same reason I initially went to sit there and check stats on my starter manually with an online iv checker in the first place, unevolved pokemon are fragile. Both pikachu and eevee have base defense of like 50. I didn’t want the thing being taken out in one hit.
But tbh they should probably do this every game because like, raise your hand if you have really loved the first and/or second stage of a starter line then the last one shifts design so drastically your are disappointed. One of my friends Never Evolves Her Starter, and usually a few others on her team and will be like “im bad at pokemon”. Another did a run with just a piplup. Beat the game like that. Make the starters good enough that people who ARE actually bad at pokemon (cough children) can do that shit too.
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