ghost type pokemon

let's get right into this with haunter. from the pokemon stadium pokedex entry:

If you trip and fall for no apparent reason or hear a sound when no one is around, it may be a Haunter. 

and from the yellow entry:

By licking, it saps the victim's life. It causes shaking that won't stop until the victim's demise.

the entries from silver and the gen 3 games mention the licking as well. the gen 3 entries also come right out and call it dangerous. it's also mentioned that haunter hides in the dark, and that the feeling of being watched when alone in a room is a haunter staring at you. it's final form, gengar, is much more of the same. from the yellow pokedex:

A Gengar is close by if you feel a sudden chill. It may be trying to lay a curse on you.

other entries mention that it loves to pretend to be people's shadows and then scare them, and that it waits in dark corners, so tat it can steal life energy from a passerby. the diamond entry also mentions that it may cool the surrounding air by 10 degrees. gastly, the first form from this line, is much less mischievous, but is still pretty dangerous.

gen 2 only added one new ghost pokemon, misdreavus. this is pokemon loves to play tricks on people. from the silver pokedex:

It loves to bite and yank people's hair from behind without warning, just to see their shocked reactions.

and from the ruby/sapphire pokedex:

Misdreavus frightens people with a creepy, sobbing cry. The Pokémon apparently uses its red spheres to absorb the fearful feelings of foes and turn them into nutrition.

it's very easy to see how it got it's name.

in gen 3, we start to come across some of the darker ghost pokemon. shuppet, is one of these. from the ruby and sapphire pokedexes:

ruby: Shuppet is attracted by feelings of jealousy and vindictiveness. If someone develops strong feelings of vengeance, this Pokémon will appear in a swarm and line up beneath the eaves of that person's home.

sapphire: Shuppet grows by feeding on dark emotions, such as vengefulness and envy, in the hearts of people. It roams through cities in search of grudges that taint people.

already, they're moving away from the slightly more playful ghosts of the first two generations. it gets a bit darker with banette, it's evolved form. from the gen 3 pokedexes:

ruby: Banette generates energy for laying strong curses by sticking pins into its own body. This Pokémon was originally a pitiful plush doll that was thrown away.

sapphire: A cursed energy permeated the stuffing of a discarded and forgotten plush doll, giving it new life as Banette. The Pokémon's energy would escape if it were to ever open its mouth.

emerald: An abandoned plush doll became this Pokémon. They are said to live in garbage dumps and wander about in search of the children that threw them away.

it's creepy enough that it curses people by sticking pins in its body, but it holds a grudge against the kid that threw it away. could it lay curses on children?

dusclops is another gen 3 ghost. from the ruby pokedex:

Dusclops's body is completely hollow - there is nothing at all inside. It is said that its body is like a black hole. This Pokémon will absorb anything into its body, but nothing will ever come back out.

i think that's all that needs to be said.

one last ghost for gen 3. shendinja is one of the evlolved forms of nincada the other being ninjask. what makes this pokemon different (and quite peculiar) is that it nincada doesnt actually evolve into it. it appears when nicada evolves into ninjask if the player has a free spot in the team and extra pokeballs. from the gen 3 pokedexes:

ruby: Shedinja's hard body doesn't move - not even a twitch. In fact, its body appears to be merely a hollow shell. It is believed that this Pokémon will steal the spirit of anyone peering into its hollow body from its back.

sapphire: Shedinja is a peculiar Pokémon. It seems to appear unsought in a Poké Ball after a Nincada evolves. This bizarre Pokémon is entirely immobile - it doesn't even breathe.

emerald: A peculiar Pokémon that floats in air even though its wings remain completely still. The inside of its body is hollow and utterly dark.

 apparently, shedinja is the shell that a nincada shed when it evolved that turned sentient. literally the ghost of a pokemon, of sorts. it is unique in that way.

gen 4 brings a few new ghosts to the table. drifloon and drifblim are two interesting ones. from the gen 4 pokedexes for both:

pearl (drifloon): It tugs on the hands of children to steal them away. However, it gets pulled around instead.

platinum (drifloon): Because of the way it floats aimlessly, an old folktale calls it a "Signpost for Wandering Spirits."

platinum (drifblim): At dusk, swarms of them are carried aloft on winds. When noticed, they suddenly vanish. 

 in the almia region, these two pokemon can carry people over obstructions and to higher ground.

spiritomb is another interesting pokemon form this gen. from the gen 4 pokedexes:

diamond: A Pokémon that was formed by 108 spirits. It is bound to a fissure in an Odd Keystone.

pearl: It was bound to a fissure in an Odd Keystone as punishment for misdeeds 500 years ago.

platinum: Its constant mischief and misdeeds resulted in it being bound to an Odd Keystone by a mysterious spell.

this pokemon is found at the hallowed tower at route 209. it's interesting that even though the tower is in ruins (it looks more like a large pile of rocks) and the keystone displaced, the pokemon is still entombed.

gen 4 also has the final evolved forms of duskull and misdreavus, mismagius and dusknoir. from the pear entries for both:

mismagius: It chants incantations. While they usually torment targets, some chants bring happiness.

dusknoir: The antenna on its head captures radio waves from theworld of spirits that command it to take people there.

gen 4 also has froslass and rotom. giratina, one of the dragon trio of sinnoh, is also half ghost.

gen 5 brings, in my opinion, some of the creepiest ghost pokemon yet. i'll start with the litwick line. one thing all three pokemon have in common is that the flames on their bodies are use to steal the spirits of people, which is how they stay burning. while lampent takes spirits from those on the verge of death, chandelure will kill people and take their souls, leaving the body behind.

frilish and jellicent are two more disturbing pokemon. while frillish isn't so bad, though it uses a very troubling method to find food, jellicent causes more trouble. from the black pokedex:

The fate of the ships and crew that wander into Jellicent's habitat: all sunken, all lost, all vanished.

the white entry mentions that its favorite food is life energy.

two other ghosts are yamask and cofagrigus. from the gen 5 pokedex entries for both:

yamask-

black: Each of them carries a mask that used to be its face when it was human. Sometimes they look at it and cry.
white: These Pokémon arose from the spirits of people interred in graves in past ages. Each retains memories of its former life.

cofagrigus-

black: It has been said that they swallow those who get too close and turn them into mummies. They like to eat gold nuggets.
white: They pretend to be elaborate coffins to teach lessons to grave robbers. Their bodies are covered in pure gold.

i think it's worth mentioning that these are my least favorite ghost pokemon. these two are the only two that are the actual spirits of dead creatures

the last two gen 5 ghosts are golett and golurk. these are two pokemon supposedly left behind by advanced civilization and powered by an unknown power. they were made to protect the people who made them. it's interesting that these pokemon are ghost type, as most ancient pokemon are psychic type (excluding fossils)

that's all for ghost pokemon. i'm not sure what my next post will be about, but i hope you enjoyed it!

dark type pokemon

i'm gonna preface this post by saying that in japanese, the dark type is called the evil type. that should tell you about some of the stuff we're in for today.

the dark type didn't come into being until gen 2, so we'll be starting there. the first pokemon i'm touching on is murkrow. from the gen 2 pokedexes:

gold: feared and loathed by many, it is believed to bring misfortune to all those who see it at night.

silver: It is said that when chased, it lures its attacker onto dark mountain trails where the foe will get lost. 

right off the bat, murkrow doesn't come across as a  very nice pokemon. the page does mention, however, that the misfortune is more likely to fall on pokemon it's battling than humans. it has been known to steal shiny things, from people and even other pokemon. another gen 2 dark type is the psuedo-legendary tyranitar. from the crystal entry: 

In just one of its mighty hands, it has the power to make the ground shake and mountains crumble.

this is not surprising. the pokemon has a wide moveset, which includes some elemental moves (thundershock, surf), as well as some dragon type moves. they are always eager to battle. luckily, they are very rare in  the wild. other gen 2 dark types include umbreon, sneasel, houndour, and houndoom.

with gen 3 we get the infamous absol. well, it's infamous in-universe anyway. from the gen 3 entries:

ruby: Every time Absol appears before people, it is followed by a disaster such as an earthquake or a tidal wave. As a result, it came to be known as the disaster Pokémon.

sapphire: Absol has the ability to foretell the coming of natural disasters. It lives in a harsh, rugged mountain environment. This Pokémon very rarely ventures down from the mountains.

emerald: It sharply senses even subtle changes in the sky and the land to predict natural disasters. It is a long-lived Pokémon that has a life-span of 100 years. 

absol's infamy is actually misattributed. as it said in the sapphire entry, the pokemon has the ability to sense when natural disasters are coming. it tries to warn people of them but it usually arrives just as it's happening, making people think that it's presence is what caused it. some absol even live in places constantly plagued by disaster, like giant chasm.

sableye is an interesting pokemon, to say the least. they live in caves and caverns, eating the rocks and gemstones it finds there. it's eyes look like gemstones, and there is a crystal growning on it's chest. it's eyes glow in the dark, and some people think that they can steal people's spirits when they do this.

gen 4 has the legendary pokemon darkrai. it's species is listed as 'pitch-black' and it's special ability is 'bad dreams'. this should tell you more than enough about this one, but i'll go ahead and give you it's pokedex entry from pearl:

Folklore has it that on moonless nights, this Pokémon will make people see horrific nightmares.

darkrai earns it's reputation. what makes it worse is that darkrai doesn't mean to do this, and only does it as a defense mechanism. in battle, it uses a move called dark void, which can pull the opponent into the void and put it to sleep. you can guess what its dreams must be like. this move works on humans too.

gen 5 has a variety of dark types, including sleek and mysterious liepard, the brutal krookodile, and the psuedo-legendary hydreigon. krookodile can crush a car with it's jaws, and hydreigon is easily triggered, using it's three heads to destroy the landscape. liepard is said to appear and disappear randomly. it's unevolved form, purrloin, steals things from it's trainer and uses it's cuteness to earn forgiveness.

a complete list of  dark types can be found here.

dragon type pokemon

today we're taking a quick look at some dragon types. all of the pokemon that will be featured in this post are all half types. here is a link to the complete list of dragon types.

for starters, it's worth mentioning that there are only 29 dragon type pokemon in all. out of that,only 8 of them are pure type, and 9 of them are legendaries. this type is very rare and very powerful.

i'm going to start this list off with dragonite. it's a pseudo-legendary, one of only six to have that title. it's also extremely rare, and can only be obtained by trade, evolving a dragonair, or going to dragonspiral tower (in b&w). from it's red/blue pokedex entry:

An extremely rarely seen marine Pokémon. Its intelligence is said to match that of humans.

pokedex entries from later games mention rescuing drowning humans and storm-batterered ships, and that it can fly around the globe in just 16 hours, despite it's size. the crystal entry mentions that there may be an island where only they live, though it's not mentioned in any of the other games. it's a very and friendly pokemon. the rest of dragonair's evolutionary line are also dragon type.

the only dragon type in gen 2 is kingdra. in gen 3 there are 3 legendary dragon types: latios and latias (mentioned in my second psychic type post) and rayquaza. rayquaza is one of the most important legendary pokemon, as it is the only one who can calm  kyogre and groudon when they begin to fight. using an ability called air lock to negate any effects they might have on the weather or environment. it i the only pokemon with this abailty. from it's sapphire entry:

Rayquaza is said to have lived for hundreds of millions of years in the earth's ozone layer, above the clouds. Its existence had been completely unknown because it lived so high in the sky.

gen 3 also has the pseudo-legendary salamence and it's evolutionary line, altaria, vibrava, and flygon.

with gen 4 come the creation trio, dialga, palkia, and giratina. myths say these pokemon appeared when the universe was formed, and represent time, space, and antimatter, respectively. all three are extremely powerful. a page on the trio is here. other dragon types from this gen include garchomp and it's evolutionary line.

gen 5 brings another trio of legedary dragons, the tao trio. reshiram, zekrom, and kyurem. reshiram and zekrom were apparently created during a conflict in unova's history. from the trio's page:

The origins of Zekrom and Reshiram are told in legends, as they were once a single powerful Dragon Pokémon used by twin heroes in order to create the Unova region. But the brothers each sought something different in life — truth for the older brother and ideals for the younger — and they began to argue, then fight, over whose side was right. The single dragon, in response, split into two Pokémon: Reshiram, who sided with the older twin, and Zekrom, who sided with the younger twin.

The two dragons were equally matched as they battled and neither conquered the other. As a result, the brothers set aside their differences and equally declared that there was no right side, either. But the sons of the heroes resumed the fight, and Reshiram and Zekrom destroyed the region with their fire and lightning powers. They subsequently disappeared afterward.

these two are very important to the world, as they help the main character beat the game's villian. you are required to catch one to further the main plot line.

kyurem has much different, and much darker past. from the trio page:

Kyurem's origins are much different than those of the other two. The third dragon came down to the Pokémon world from an icy meteor and crashed into a place called Giant Chasm. An old legend in Lacunosa Town describing Kyurem claims that it would take people and Pokémon away from the town and eat them; this is why the town is now surrounded by a giant wall.

 the other gen 5 dragon types are the haxorus line, druddigon, and the pseudo-legendary hydreigon and it's evolutionary line.


my next post will cover dark type and then after that i'll move on to ghost type (!!!)

psychic pokemon, pt 3 (gen 4,5)

moving on to the last to gens today!

gen four comes out of the gate strong with 5 legendary psychic pokemon (the lake guardian trio, cresselia, and victini). all four have some great mythology behind them.

bronzor is an interesting pokemon because of it's connection to the ancient world. from the diamond entry:

Implements shaped like it were discovered in ancient tombs. It is unknown if they are related

 this is also pretty interesting:

X-ray photos were taken to check its body structure. Nothing appeared, however.

 and that makes me wonder what bronzor is. it's evolved form, bronzong, is equally mysterious.

other psychic pokemon from this gen are chingling, mime jr., and gallade.

gen 5 starts off with a deceptive little pokemon called munna. its super cute, but don't let that fool you. munna is the unova's own version of drowzee. its even called a dream eater pokemon. that being said, munna is a bit more pleasant that drowzee, asthetically at least. from the white pokedex:

It eats the dreams of people and Pokémon. When it eats a pleasant dream, it expels pink-colored mist.

that's just cute. it's evolved form, musharna, is just as good.

next are elgyem and beheeyem, two alien pokemon. elgyem's pokedex entries:

black: It uses its strong psychic power to squeeze its opponent's brain, causing unendurable headaches.

white: This Pokémon had never been seen until it appeared from far in the desert 50 years ago.

the shout out in to the roswell incident is nice. beheeyem's pokedex entries:

 black: It can manipulate an opponent's memory. Apparently, it communicates by flashing its three different-colored fingers.

white: It uses psychic power to control an opponent's brain and tamper with its memories. 

the black entry is another shout out, this time to the original war of the worlds film. extraterrestrial pokemon are always interesting.

the last pokemon is sigilyph, another ancient pokemon. from it's black entry:

They never vary the route they fly, because their memories of guarding an ancient city remain steadfast.

the ancient city may or may not be the desert resort, since that is the only place they are found. then again , the desert resort might be the remains of a more current city.
other gen 5 psychic pokemon include the gothita evolution line, the solosis evolution line, and darmantian and meoletta depending on the form.

and that's all for the psychic mons! next we'll talk breifly about dragon types, and then it's on to the dark type.

psychic pokemon, pt. 2 (gen 2 and 3)

surprisingly, there are only three pure psychic pokemon in gen 2, espeon, unown, and wobbuffett. while unown are okay, espeon and wobbuffett are both good pokemon (espeon is one of my favorites). for half psychic types, we have natu and xatu. i've always found these two kind of interesting. they're very mysterious. from natu's gold pokedex entry:

Because its wings aren't yet fully grown, it has to hop to get around. It is always staring at something.

and xatu's gen 2 entries:

gold: They say that it stays still and quiet because it is seeing both the past and future at the same time.

silver: In South America, it is said that its right eye sees the future and its left eye views the past.

crystal: Once it begins to meditate at sunrise, the entire day will pass before it will move again.

i've linked to xatu's bulbapedia page above, and i urge you to look at the pokedex entries for the later generation too.

two other half psychic pokemon from gen 2 are lugia and celebi. both are legendaries and both are really important pokemon. lugia is the main legendary for all of the gen 2 games.
other half psychic types from gen 2 include slowking, girafargig, and smoochum.

now to gen 3. there are a LOT  of psychic types from this generation. you can find complete lists here, on the bulbapedia page for the psychic type (pokemon numbered between 252-386) i'm gonna pick out a few that i find interesting.

first up we have gardevoir. from the sapphire pokedex:

Gardevoir has the psychokinetic power to distort the dimensions and create a small black hole. This Pokémon will try to protect its Trainer even at the risk of its own life.

which is pretty awesome. i only know this pokemon from the the second pokemon rangers game, so this is new to me. i urge you to go to the page and read all of it's pokedex entries, they'e very interesting.

next we have lunatone and solrock. these two remind me of clefairy in how people think they both come from space. lunatone was found near a meteorite, while solrock supposedly comes from the sun. for lunatone's sapphire entry:

Lunatone becomes active around the time of the full moon. Instead of walking, it moves by floating in midair using telekinesis. The Pokémon's intimidating red eyes cause all those who see it to become transfixed with fear.

and solrock's ruby entry:

Solrock is a new species of Pokémon that is said to have fallen from space. It floats in the air and moves silently. In battle, this Pokémon releases intensely bright light.

claydol is another pokemon that i find interesting, because it's one of the ones that supposedly comes from an inanimate object brought to life. here's it's sapphire entry:

Claydol is an enigma that appeared from a clay statue made by an ancient civilization dating back 20,000 years. This Pokémon shoots beams from both its hands.

to add to that, in Pokemon Rangers: Shadows of Almia, you can only find Claydol in the Hippodown Temple, an ancient temple in the desert. also, four of the ten legendaries in this generation are psychic or half psychic (deoxys, jirachi, latias, and latios). jirachi can grant wishes, and deoxys is a virus that got mutated into a pokemon. check out the pages for all four.

the next (and last) part for psychic pokemon will cover gen 4 and 5!

psychic pokemon, pt 1 (gen 1)

today i'm gonna put the spotlight on some psychic pokemon. we'll start with gen 1 (we'll cover some less scary ones too)

here's drowzee's pokedex entry from red/blue:

• Puts enemies to sleep, then eats their dreams. Occasionally gets sick from eating bad dreams. 

here's the one from silver:

•  It remembers every dream it eats. It rarely eats the dreams of adults because children's are much tastier. 

surprisingly, this is actually really tame, since dream eater is a legitimate move form the game (see the second link in the red/blue entry). it  wouldn't even be s bad if later entries weren't so insistent on mentioning how much it love 'fun dreams'. of course this is just the tip of the iceberg.

next we have drowzee's evolved form, hypno. the entry from red/blue:

• Avoid eye contact if you come across one. It will try to put you to sleep by using its pendulum

that's not so bad, though a bit troubling that it apparently will use it on humans as well as other pokemon. the entry from silver:

• When it is very hungry, it puts humans it meets to sleep, then it feasts on their dreams.  

this entry makes sense since drowzee does the same. now here's where it gets strange:

• It carries a pendulum-like device. There once was an incident in which it took away a child it hypnotized.

this is the entry from FireRed (the gen 3 remakes of gen 1). it one thing for a pokemon to eat dreams, because that's just a move that psychic pokemon can do. it's another thing to hear about a pokemon that carried a child from it's home.

next we have abra, which can attack in it's sleep (though you probably just know it as that pokemon that would always teleport out of battle). it's first evolved form, kadabra, can make weird things happen just by being around. the pokedex entry from yellow mentions it making clocks go backward and the diamond says that it will make eerie shadows appear on tv screens. there's also the entry from FireRed that says that the first kadabra was once a human boy with psychic powers. and then there's alakazam, which remembers everything. everything.

if you saw the early pokemon movies, you know about mewtwo and what he's capable of.

and this is the just gen 1 pure psychics. in my next post i'm gonna move to gen 2 and 3.

so i got a reply on one of my previous posts
k downing said:

I agree ghost pokemon like dusknoir and gengar are too evil for younger fans

 i completely agree with dusknoir, as that's a pokemon form one of the later generations. i think, compared to some of the later generation pokemon, that gengar is a bit tame. i think that maybe some of the creepier pokemon might be, like a little bonus for the older players? i know that i didn't start reading the pokedex entries until i was much older.

so question time: do you guys think the pokemon creators realised how creepy the ghost pokemon might be to younger kids? because some of them are downright creepy.

 this is in reference to the link i posted yesterday

today i'm just here with a link. here's the pokemon series' accidental nightmare fuel page. i think i'm gonna talk a bit more about this tomorrow.

don't end up like me (part 2)

today on the menu: gym leaders, HM's and alternate teams/back up pokemon

susing back up pokemon seems a little bit insensitive (to the pokemon), but it's a good way to be ready for anything the league throws at you, while also getting to expand your pokedex. yesterday, i told you all about my  team in diamond, and how it's not all that good for beating all the gym leaders. when your main team has an abundance of one pokemon type (like how mine is half water pokemon) it's good to have back-ups. for example, i have a ponyta that i used as a back up for my empoleon at the snowpoint city gym. my graveler was a back up for empoleon and dialga in the sunnyshore city gym before i made it a permanent member of my team.

if using a pokemon for just one gym isn't really your style, you can go for entire alternate teams. it's a good way to spend time with all of your pokemon. and remember, try to keep your team diverse!

a tip about HM's: spread them around your team. a limit of 2 different HM's per pokemon in your team. also, teach the same HM to at least one pokemon you don't keep in your team, so that if you have to switch you won't be without HM's you need to get around.

that's all for today. tomorrow's topic is a surprise! (because i don't know what it is yet lol)

don't end up like me (part 1)

so today i'm gonna tell you about the importance of being prepared in the pokemon games.

last weekend, i made the decision to beat the elite four in my pokemon diamond game. it's a big step, but i've got to do it someday. i went to play my game with the intent of beginning to train my pokemon when i suddenly started to worry about whether or not i had the right pokemon to take them on.

this is where being prepared comes in.

you can't just go against the elite four all willy nilly. you have to have the right tools. that means all the regular stuff, like potions and status heals, as well as battle items to raise your stats. but one of the most important things is having the right pokemon team. i cannot stress enough how important it is to have a well rounded pokemon team. having too many of the same types of pokemon will be very hard on you later in the game. for example, here's my pokemon team in diamond:

• Empoleon (water/steel)
• Dialga (dragon/steel)
• Pelipper (water/flying)
• Wooper (water/ground)
• Pachirisu (electric)
• Graveler (rock/ground)

the problem is evident right away: half my team is water pokemon. for regular gameplay this is fine, to an extent.  it works for getting around the world, but isn't too good for taking on gym leaders. for the elite four, my team is not as good as it could be. an example of a better one is my team from black

• Servine (grass)
• Herdier (normal)
• Purrloin (dark)
• Panpour (water)

this team is much more well rounded, with diverse pokemon types. i think a good team can be made up like this:

• one grass/fire/water type (your starter)
• one pokemon the opposite of your starter (if you have a water pokemon, one grass-type)
• one electric type
• a rock or ground (or both/half)
• a dark/psychic/ghost
• a flying or combination flying

combination pokemon can make this easier and harder, becasue you run the risk of overloading your team on one type, even if it seems well rounded (which was my problem). of course, that list i made probably isn't the best (it doesn't include fighting, dragon, or steel, which are all good to have). in the end it's best to look and see what you're up against and plan accordingly

tomorrow i'm gonna continue on with this, talking about the gym leaders, HM's, and back-ups

and i also have some links, so you don't give yourself a headache training for the elite four (like i did)

• elite four and champion pokemon
• Kanto (gen 3)
• Kanto/Johto (gen 4)
• Hoenn (gen 3)
• Sinnoh (gen 4)
• Unova (gen 5)
• type match-up list

i'm sorry i don't have much today, but here's the link to pokemon's guide dang it! page. very informative.

so just a question for today: who is your favorite starter pokemon? mine is cyndaquil. cyndaquil was my starter in gold and soul silver. i'm also partial to totodile, who was my starter in crystal.

so, team rocket

i'm finally getting around this! so a few posts ago, i mentioned that i never really got team rocket and whatever they were about. well, i'm currently on bulbapedia and it's starting to make sense to me now. from their page:

Team Rocket (Japanese: ロケット団 Rocket-dan, literally Rocket Gang) is an organized crime syndicate in pursuit of evil and exploitation of Pokémon based in the Kanto and Johto regions with a small outpost in the Sevii Islands.
While its main focus is stealing or capturing, then selling, rare and strong Pokémon, it also funds and conducts cruel experimental research on Pokémon.

and that is right in line with everything they do in the games. at first i couldn't think of a time that they were selling pokemon, but then i remembered how you could get pokemon as prizes in the game corner. and then there was the whole thing in azalea town with the slowpoke tails. so it all comes together.

but then you have the anime, where Jessie, James, and Meowth have spent years trying to steal Ash's pikachu, while occasionally trying to steal some other pokeom along the way. i know there is the whole rest of the team (like Butch and Cassidy), but why did Giovanni have a three person team made solely for stealing pikachu? is he really that special? (pikachu is a he, right?)

but either way, they're still a pretty interesting group. i mean, so far they are the only criminal group to appear in more than one region and they got themselves together after their leader gave up on them. that's pretty admirable, even if they do steal pokemon...

mood: normal
listening to: spongebob

i'm sorry i havnen't written in a while (i will get around to tat team rocket post). for now, here's a question: what's your favorite legendary pokemon? mine is either suicune or dialga right now, but kyurem might take the place once i get through black.

mood: in--diff-er-ent
listening to: nothing

got two questions:


have you ever played the classic Red and Yellow pokemon games , Those were really fun :) 
yes i have. either pokemon red or yellow was my first pokemon game. some how i actually convinced my parents to buy my blue as well. i like the first gen games a lot and i played them for years.


I want to know how the new Pokemon games are different/better/worse than the originals. What else would you add or remove to make the game better?
i actually like the newer games a lot. i will admit that i'm biased on gen four because it had been a while since i'd  played a pokemon game (i skipped gen three and i don't know why). so far i'm enjoying gen five, but it's taking me a while to get used to the new pokemon.

the question about red and blue got me thinking about team rocket. to be honest, i never really got their motivation and everything, especially in the anime.. i plan on talking about this in my next post.

question for you guys: who do you think the best pokemon villains are? i think right now mine are team plasma, for at least trying to sound like they were doing a good thing.

mood: in-diff-er-ent
listening to: Clifford the Big Red Dog

yay!

if you are looking for the pokemon blog this is it.

first post on the new blog! i got two questions:

Will these strange pocket creatures aid me in the destruction of the human race?  
They very well could. it is rumored that Arceus created the pokemon who made the universe after all. but i warn you: if you decide to go through with it, you will most likely be thwarted by a young pokemon trainer. it's happened many times before

Also, in your opinion, what is the worst new pokemon in the fifth generation?
so far i've only been through three towns in the game, so i have seen enough pokemon to make that assessment just yet. i will say that the most annoying one i've seen so far is Patrat. I'm pretty sure i won't be liking Woobat much either, if they pop up a lot like Zubat did.

thank you for the questions. if you have anything you want me to cover, or any more questions, leave them in the comments.
and a question for you guys: i was thinking about doing a thing where i tell you about how i'm doing in my pokemon games. would you be interested in that? i'm currently playing Platinum, Soul Silver, and Black. i would add Diamond in there too but it would be too redundant, i think (i'm just training for the elite four).

mood: gennerally happy
listening to: Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger- Daft Punk