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uncontrollablesphere · 6 months

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Living Dex Quest 2018—202?

I suddenly became possessed with the urge to record my progress like a week ago and wrote this in one day. Anyway, here's the goals, methods, hurdles, and current state of my living dex.

Goal

Obtain every single Pokémon of every stage and major form and put them in a single game (ultra sun or moon). Originally this goal was meant to update for each successive generation, but of course SwSh threw a wrench in that when it became the new standard to exclude certain Pokémon from being able to be transferred to certain games. I don’t want to pay for Pokémon home indefinitely, especially when I know it will eventually have its support cut just like bank, so I’ll just have gen 1-7 in a gen 7 game and gen 8 regional dex can stay in SwSh. Not sure I’ll do gen 9, I don’t even own SV and have no plans to.

Never really cared about the pokedex until I saw someone post a video of their living dex on here years ago, and a 5+ year quest was started. I really, really wanted to do it by playing a game from each gen and transferring Pokémon upwards in order to also have a complete regional dex in each game, thereby getting shiny charms where possible, but this is tedious and only practical if you have every game already. I used to.

Dealing with theft

In 2020, my progress was hindered when FRLG, DPPt, HGSS, XY, SUMO, USUM, two Nintendo ds, and more were stolen from me by my former roommate when I moved (everything listed above having a nearly or complete regional living dex on it as well as several long gone event exclusive mythical Pokémon). Five generations, hundreds of dollars, and those priceless mythical Pokémon, unobtainable in any game, lost instantly. To say this was demoralizing would be an understatement. I was slow to unpack my things after the move, so I was still finding out about new things that were stolen months after the fact. I was constantly reminded of a new “loss” every couple of weeks, as I was trying to get over it. I did not play Pokémon again for months, and I wasn’t sure I even wanted to try again.

I got a second wind when I realized I had another option apart from buying back FRLG and HGSS and replaying all four: get the majority of gen I and II pokemon from Pokémon colosseum and XD, which luckily were among the games that were spared. This didn’t solve the mythical Pokémon problem, but it was a lot cheaper and more appetizing than playing the same games again (I only had to buy a gamecube/gba cable). Of course it did mean a lot of time spent transferring Pokémon to RSE and breeding since you can’t really catch multiples of most Pokémon in colosseum/XD, but it was different enough from what I’d been doing before to be fresh and exciting, plus I’d never actually beaten those games before! I got to do something I thought I’d never care to do, get the Mount Battle Ho oh (can’t be nicknamed unfortunately), and catch Shadow Lugia as possibly the most badass instances of each of those Pokémon (imo).

Of course I’d be remiss if I didn’t mention the Pokémon colosseum extra disc containing jirachi, as a rare opportunity to get jirachi outside of an event. That disc is expensive nowadays and I don’t own it, and iirc jirachi was already available by that time in Pokémon go, so I figured it was overkill to get the disc. More on that later.

There are of course several Pokémon found in FRLG that I could not obtain between Colosseum, XD, Ruby, Sapphire, and Emerald, but only one is exclusive to a single game…

So I did actually have to buy back Leaf Green, but I didn’t want to do a full play through twice to get both omanyte and kabuto, so I looked up how to speedrun it and did that for the first time ever. I won’t bore you with the details but it was casual as far as speedruns go, but I still completed the main story in only 16 hours, a record for me. In order to trade with RSE the game couldn’t stop at the credits so I had to do some of the sevii islands stuff, and that wasn’t too bad.

With gen I-III taken care of, it was time to start buying back games. I started with XY because I hadn’t replayed them the first time I completed their dex and hadn’t actually completed them since they came out, so it seemed like the most fun at the time. I wasn’t too enthused though because I didn’t find the games memorable, but to my surprise and delight they were actually really fun the second time around, perhaps in part due to my relatively new habit of planning teams ahead of time and sticking to pokemon I’ve never used before. I actually battled in set mode for once, and didn’t struggle too much. I’d still count them as the weakest in the core series outside SV perhaps which I haven’t played, but they’re fun enough that I actually have another play through planned just for fun soon. When it came time to play the opposite game for version exclusives, I lucked out: the copy of X I bought was already mostly complete, only one badge missing and with a (fairly balanced) team. One of them was even the fossil mon I hadn’t picked in Y, so I didn’t need to restart the game until it was time to get the third starter. I completed the game and got attached to the three Pokémon on that person’s team I hadn’t used before, a Slowbro named Meiklejohn, a Farfetch’d named Wilson, and an Aurorus named Hull, so they’ll be coming with me on my living dex quest, even though I already had a farfetch’d and slowbro.

But the real highlight of XY is of course…

The Vivillon Quest

As a kid I was never able to use GTS or anything because ds games required a WEP key to connect to wifi and my home wifi didn’t have that. I tried so many times to get it to work without understanding why it didn’t that I just assumed the 3ds wouldn’t connect either and so I never used online services with Pokémon except at friends’ houses. Anyway, at the time I was working on gen VI dex I was living in a rural area with no wifi or data, and the closest place to me with free wifi was a hotel a five minute drive away. So I drove to the parking lot of said hotel, tried connecting to their wifi, and lo and behold, not only did it work, but to that day (and this day as well) people are still on the gen VI GTS trading vivillons!

There are 20 patterns and each (aside from two event exclusives) are only obtainable in certain regions. It is possible to choose which region your 3ds is set to to a certain extent (limited by what overall region your 3ds is, IE JP, PAL, US, etc) but after that it’s one pattern per game. Manipulating this would be tedious and feel like cheating to me, plus I wouldn’t be able to get all the patterns this way anyway, so I caught ~30 scatterbug and evolved them into the not-at-all-uncommon High Plains pattern, then over the course of a week or two I drove to the hotel every night to scour the GTS for the patterns I needed.

Unfortunately most people putting their vivillons in GTS would specify which pattern they wanted in return and as I said, my native pattern is not uncommon. There’d be nothing stopping me from ignoring people’s requests and trading anyway, but I tried to respect their requests as id like others to respect mine (for the record, many, many people traded me their elegant patterns against my will, but whatever). In a few cases I did have to ignore those requests though as certain patterns were extremely rare and I was desperate lol.

A few I got off of the GTS, by trading with online passerby and frantically hovering over my vivillon box to try to communicate what I wanted, which was actually successful a few times. The last two (four) vivillon I got, sandstorm and I believe archipelago (as well as the two event patterns) i got due to tremendously lucky timing: I was playing close to international butterfly day (or something) and someone on reddit did/does a yearly vivillon giveaway on that day, taking requests for what patterns you need. Iirc they did do the 3ds region selection thing to get certain patterns which is not ideal but I feel like as long as they’re technically legitimate and I still had to trade for them, I’m satisfied with that. I did also accept a pokeball and fancy vivillon from them with the knowledge that they were cloned from legitimate event vivillon. Of course I’d rather have non-clones versions of those and I’m still not sure whether I’ll even transfer them upward, but it’s nice to have them anyway. I have no doubt that Pokémon go will eventually feature those two patterns and I won’t be able to transfer those back to USUM, so perhaps the clones can be my stand-ins.

The vivillon side quest may sound tedious but it was actually really fun and exciting, I loved interacting with what few (surprisingly many) people still cared about vivillon in 2021 when I did this, and it increased my appreciation tenfold for a Pokémon I never really cared for before. While it won’t be part of my living dex itself as it’s probably a clone, I even got a shiny savannah vivillon from one generous stranger! I’m thinking of using this in my next play through of X if I decide I want compound eyes for its ability.

Unfortunately for aspiring living dex collectors everywhere (or maybe just me), Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon each have an additional pokemon that is not available in the (story-wise) objectively superior games, Sun and Moon. Blacephalon and Stakataka. This is sad for me not just because I’d rather replay SUMO, but because I’d rather OWN SUMO. There’s no getting around it though (except maybe GTS, which ironically I didn’t think of) so I sucked it up and bought both of the “ultra” versions. I did have to play through to the post game of each to obtain the new ultra beasts, and I believe I spread these out between play throughs of other games to preserve my sanity.

A special little quirk of gen VII is that there is a lycanroc form that evolves from an event exclusive rockruff, BUT the evolution into this form is determined by rockruff’s ability. The nice thing about this is that people are wonderful and have bred many many more rockruffs with this ability and distribute them freely on GTS. This is actually an event pokemon I had myself back in the day, so it was a huge relief that people were so generous with their special rockruffs. In return, I bred a few extras of my own and sent them back out into the GTS wilds.

Another fun (real) little quirk of gen VII is the QR scanner. To this day, you can still obtain the mythical Pokémon Magearna by scanning the correct QR code, specific to your 3DS region! As well as, um, a partner cap pikachu, if you want it. Since my living dex is staying in USUM and I’m collecting all major form differences, I guess…I should include that…

Next up was gen IV, and I was a little bitter about having to play USUM instead of SUMO, so against my better judgment I bought platinum instead of Diamond or Pearl, even though BOTH Diamond and Pearl are necessary up to this point to get certain version exclusives. Joke’s on me; I had to replay all three anyway, at least up to the point that glameow and stunky became available. For this reason there was about a two year gap between my platinum and pearl playthroughs. I also played Diamond somewhere in the middle there; a friend of mine (hi Ryan) very generously gave me his copy of Diamond so I didn’t have to buy back that one.

At this point I had redone pretty much all of gen I, II, and IV, and luckily my gen III and V games were not stolen from me, so all that was left to have another complete natdex (aside from mythicals) was to play the poke transfer lab minigame to send ~490 Pokémon to Black 2. *strained smile* Fun!

Mythicals

Most mythical Pokémon can only be obtained through rare distribution events. Not being able to access Nintendo WFC as a kid, I missed most of these. However, for the 20th anniversary of the series, there was a lovely year-long string of distributions for every single mythical that existed at the time, straight into my copies of X and Y that would get stolen four years later *grumble grumble*

Luckily there are a few exceptions; mythicals that can be obtained in a core series game or a side game, at the time of their introduction or years later. Mew (my Pokémon ranch, pokeball plus), Celebi (crystal virtual console), jirachi (colosseum bonus disc), deoxys (ORAS), manaphy (pokemon ranger, BDSP, LA), darkrai (LA), Shaymin (LA), Arceus (LA), keldeo (SwSh), magearna (SUMO), etc. With the exception of magearna, all pokemon introduced after gen III are only currently available in games in gen VIII and above, meaning I won’t be able to have an actually for reals complete living dex in USUM with EVERY mythical without cheating or trading with someone very, very generous. To compensate, I’m allowing myself to just get whatever I can in USUM and other mythicals can be in SwSh with my gen VIII regional dex. Most mythicals are obtainable in Pokémon Go which I still actively play (pretty much exclusively for mythicals), and I do have every mythical that’s been released in Pogo in that game.

I’d like to have as many as possible in USUM though, so I did look into the above methods as well as some less salubrious methods. For mew, I mentioned above that you can get it in my Pokémon ranch (if you deposit 999 Pokémon in the game), but the Wii eshop has shut down, making it impossible to download ranch without homebrewing my Wii. Another option for mew that I thought was viable up until about a week ago is using the mew glitch in Pokémon blue virtual console and transferring it up through Pokémon bank. Seeing as it requires no external hardware and it is a very easy to perform glitch that I have done before, I would consider this mew legit. However, pokemon bank doesn’t, as it apparently checks both the OT and trainer id of any mew you attempt to transfer and will block it if it’s not correct. Soft-resetting for the correct trainer id is lower chances than soft resetting for a shiny and I don’t have the time for that. I don’t think I’d want to do it even if I did. There’s also glitches that can be used to change your trainer ID or the ID of a specific Pokémon, but that kind of manipulation does seem illegitimate to me and I’d rather not. So I’ll just live with my Pokémon Go mew.

Pokémon Ranger games can also send a manaphy egg — one per Pokémon ranger game, NOT one per save file — to a gen IV game. I already did that with my own copy (stolen) and the alternative is buying an unopened copy online. Again, I’m not trying to spend more money on this project than I need to, so I’ll just count the BDSP manaphy.

I also recently found out that some people have made an alternative to Nintendo WFC for Pokémon DS games, including online trading as well as running old event distributions. With a 3DS it is possible to connect DS games to wifi without a WEP key, so I checked that out and was able to get Keldeo, Meloetta, Genesect, Victini, and Darkrai. These Pokémon are pretty much indistinguishable from their original legitimate counterparts except for the fact that I know otherwise, so again I’m not sure if I’ll transfer these upwards. I do have all of those Pokémon in Pogo and SwSh through legitimate means, so they could be stand-ins, like with my clone vivillons. I’ll have to think about it.

The only mythicals I don’t have in any game are volcanion and marshadow, which I’m just now realizing as I fact check this post apparently had three SwSh distributions each that flew over my head. More than likely they’ll eventually be available in Pogo, so I’m not stressing too much over that one.

Vivillon Quest…2!

As mentioned before, I have no doubts that pokeball and fancy vivillon will eventually appear in Pokémon go since all 18 other patterns are now available in it, but I suspect they’ll only be available after every other pattern has been obtained. I know some people have already done that, but perhaps there will be a special research story or somesuch with acquiring forms as a task. Maybe the fancy form will even be released as part of the staggered release of gen IX pokemon, since fancy vivillon are the native pattern of Paldea regardless of your game’s region (no I will not buy SV just for vivillon).

In Pokémon Go you acquire scatterbugs by acquiring multiples of postcards from each pattern’s region. Because pogo gameplay is centered around tedium and repetition (erm, I mean cooperation and engagement) they decided that scatterbug would take 25 candy to evolve into spewpa, which takes 100 candy to evolve into vivillon. Those numbers are analogous to the 125 candies it takes to fully evolve any starter Pokémon, which are actually generally good in battle. As a comparison, caterpie, another early game worm Pokémon, takes a total of 62 candies to fully evolve into butterfree. For the unaware, the only ways to get scatterbug candy are 1) Catching more scatterbug* (three candies per, 6 if using pinap berry), 2) traveling with scatterbug as your buddy (1 candy per kilometer); and converting rare candies to scatterbug candies. In order to fully evolve a vivillon of every form, you need a grand total of 2250 candies (2500 if the event patterns are given to us as scatterbugs).

*Scatterbug is not found in the wild. Currently the only method of encountering it is through postcards obtained in gifts from friends, which you can only receive one gift from each friend per day, and you have to receive a minimum of 3 postcards from a region before encountering that region’s scatterbug. After those first three, successive scatterbugs for the same region require 9 postcards, then 15. Vivillon is not particularly strong. There is no reason for this except to force engagement. It’s not fun. After almost a year, I have only 504 scatterbug candies. I’ve decided to take a break from actively working on this, though I do passively collect more scatterbug candy from my buddy.

Anyway, I just found out 3DS online is being cut off in April (excluding pokemon bank) so I lost all interest in all of that and spent this last weekend scouring reddit for friend safari codes in XY. TO BE CONTINUED

#living dex #pokemon #I think the biggest hurdle to continuing rn is I want the shiny charm in both B2 and W2 #and trading everything to W2 just for that sounds like a drag. but I'll be so mad at myself later if I don't #anyway if the readmore doesn't work I'm so fucking sorry

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pokemongodreamworld · 2 years

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windynebula · 2 years

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A list of pokemon that take x4 damage from a certain type:

Rock

Charizard

Butterfree

Scyther

Articuno

Moltres

Ledyba

Ledian

Yanma

Delibird

Beautifly

Masquerain

Ninjask

Mothim

Combee

Vespiquen

Yanmega

Larvesta

Volcarona

Fletchinder

Talonflame

Vivillon

Oricorio, Baile style

Sizzlipede

Centiskorch

Snom

Frosmoth

Fighting

Alolan Rattata

Alolan Raticate

Alolan Sandshrew

Alolan Sandslash

Sneasel

Tyranitar

Galarian Zigzagoon

Galarian Linoone

Aron

Lairon

Aggron

Shieldon

Bastiodon

Weavile

Probopass

Pawniard

Bisharp

Hisuian Avalugg

Obstagoon

Fire

Alolan Sandshrew

Alolan Sandslash

Paras

Parasect

Forretress

Scizor

Green Wormadam

Pink Wormadam

Snover

Abomasnow

Sewaddle

Swadloon

Leavanny

Escavalier

Ferroseed

Ferrothorn

Durant

Genesect

Kartana

Snom

Frosmoth

Steel

Alolan Ninetails

Amaura

Aurorus

Carbink

Diancie

Flying

Paras

Parasect

Heracross

Breloom

Green Wormadam

Sewaddle

Swadloon

Leavanny

Hisuian Lilligant

Virizion

Chesnaught

Hisuian Decidueye

Buzzswole

Pheromosa

Water

Hisuian Growlithe

Hisuian Arcanine

Geodude

Graveler

Golem

Onix

Rhyhorn

Rhydon

Magcargo

Larvitar

Pupitar

Numel

Camerupt

Rhyperior

Carkol

Coalossal

Grass

Geodude

Graveler

Golem

Onix

Rhyhorn

Rhydon

Omanyte

Omastar

Kabuto

Kabutops

Wooper

Quagsire

Corsola

Larvitar

Pupitar

Marshtomp

Swampert

Barboach

Whiscash

Relicanth

Shellos

Gastrodon

Rhyperior

Palpitoad

Seismitoad

Tirtouga

Carracosta

Binacle

Barbacle

Drednaw

Ground

Alolan Geodude

Alolan Graveler

Alolan Golem

Magnemite

Magneton

Magnezone

Oven rotom

Heatran

Salandit

Salazzle

Togedemaru

Nihilego

Carkol

Coalossal

Toxel

Toxtricity

Bug

Exeggcute

Execcutor

Nuzleaf

Shiftry

Inkay

Malamar

Hoopa unbound

Zarude

Calyrex

Ice

Alolan Exeggutor

Dragonite

Hoppip

Skiploom

Jumpluff

Gligar

Vibrava

Flygon

Altaria

Tropius

Salamence

Rayquaza

Torterra

Gible

Gabite

Garchomp

Gliscor

Sky Form Shaymin

Landorus

Noibat

Noivern

Zygarde

Rowlet

Datrix

Applin

Flapple

Appletun

Electric

Gyarados

Matine

Wingull

Pelipper

Mantyke

Ducklett

Swanna

Cramorant

Psychic

Hisuian Sneasel

Cragunk

Toxicroak

Sneasler

Poison

Cottonee

Whimsicott

Morelull

Shiinotic

Tapu Bulu

Fairy

Scraggy

Scrafty

Deino

Zweilous

Hydreigon

Pangoro

Hakamo-o

Kommo-o

Guzzlord

Dark

Lunala

Shadow Rider Calyrez

#windycat.txt #i was bored

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pocketconsthargic · 4 years

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#shadow omanyte #omanyte #shadow #pokemon go #photos #gen 1 #urban

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inprogresspokemon · 2 years

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Mobile-friendly Pokemon Index List for Generation I lines:

Bulbasaur - Ivysaur - Venusaur

Charmander - Charmeleon - Charizard

Squirtle - Wartortle - Blastoise

Caterpie - Metapod - Butterfree

Weedle - Kakuna - Beedrill

Pidgey - Pidgeotto - Pidgeot

Rattata - Raticate

Spearow - Fearow

Ekans - Arbok

Pikachu - Raichu

Sandshrew - Sandslash

Nidoran - Nidorina - Nidoqueen

Nidoran - Nidorino - Nidoking

Clefairy - Clefable

Vulpix - Ninetales

Jigglypuff - Wigglytuff

Zubat - Golbat

Oddish - Gloom - Vileplume

Paras - Parasect

Venonat - Venomoth

Diglett - Dugtrio

Meowth - Persian

Psyduck - Golduck

Mankey - Primeape

Growlithe - Arcanine

Poliwag - Poliwhirl - Poliwrath

Abra - Kadabra - Alakazam

Machop - Machoke - Machamp

Bellsprout - Weepinbell - Victreebel

Tentacool - Tentacruel

Geodude - Graveler - Golem

Ponyta - Rapidash

Slowpoke - Slowbro

Magnemite - Magneton

Farfetch’d

Doduo - Dodrio

Seel - Dewgong

Grimer - Muk

Shellder - Cloyster

Gastly - Haunter - Gengar

Onix

Drowzee - Hypno

Krabby - Kingler

Voltorb - Electrode

Exeggcute - Exeggutor

Cubone - Marowak

Hitmonlee | Hitmonchan

Lickitung

Koffing - Weezing

Rhyhorn - Rhydon

Chansey

Tangela

Kangaskhan

Horsea - Seadra

Goldeen - Seaking

Staryu - Starmie

Mr. Mime

Scyther

Jynx

Electabuzz

Magmar

Pinsir

Tauros

Magikarp - Gyarados

Lapras

Ditto (n/a)

Eevee - Vaporeon

Eevee - Jolteon

Eevee - Flareon

Porygon

Omanyte - Omastar

Kabuto - Kabutops

Aerodactyl

Snorlax

Articuno

Zapdos

Moltres

Dratini - Dragonair - Dragonite

Mewtwo | Shadow Mewtwo

Mew (n/a)

Gen 1 | Gen 2 | Gen 3 | Gen 4 | Gen 5 | Gen 6 | Gen 7 | Gen 8 | Fakemon | Eeveelutions | Baby Pokemon

#generation 1 #gen1 #kanto #pokemon index #ippmasterlist #mobile index #masterlist

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jadeazora · 4 years

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Shadow Eggs in PokeGo event announced:

October 12-19

Larvitar, Scraggy, Trubbish, and Vullaby available and can be obtained by defeating one of their leaders (will still be available after the event)

Walk 12 km

25% hatching distance during event

More Poison and Sinister-type Pokémon like Spinarak, Houndour, Poochyena, Gulpin, Stunky, Purrloin

New Shadow Pokémon: Diglett, Shellder, Slowpoke, Aerodactyl, Skarmory.

Leaders use Growlithe, Omanyte, and Drowzee. (Potentially Shiny.) Giovanni uses Shadow Mewtwo.

TR grunts appear in Snapshots. The encounter will be a Poison or Dark type.

And here I was thinking Arlo had crossed the "experimenting on baby/pre-born Pokemon" line. Not Shadow Pokemon then.

#pokemon go #pokego #team rocket #pokemon villains #shadow pokemon

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bills-pokedex · 3 years

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Crown Tundra: Part XII

{Reminder: If you’re just here for headcanons, please blacklist powerverse!

The rest of the story can be found on AO3: https://archiveofourown.org/works/28180884/chapters/69054282 }

It takes the entire night for Bill, Foxglove, and the audino to make it to the Crown Shrine. It shouldn’t have, Bill knows, but it’s his body. He can fly, but not here, in other words. It’s the wind towards the top of the mountain, too cold and too bitter and too hard for his wings to handle. He tries, though, and flies just high enough to get a sense of where to go, but the cold drives him back down not even ten minutes later.

So they walk. They pass through gentle foothills where magmar and magmortar roam. They rest for a couple of hours on the banks of a river full of omanyte and lined with staryu. They forage for berries to keep them going through fields full of roaming abomasnow. Up a mountainside that rumbled with the footsteps of metagross (off which Bill could swear he sees the silhouette of Articuno itself), through a cave full of clefairy, and right to a birch forest where the ground moved with swarms of snom. He fights through all of these too, snapping the earth beneath his feet to down a metagross, shifting rock to ward off clefairy, biting and slashing his way through the magmortar, the omanyte, and the frosmoth. On and on, up paths he hopes will take him to Crown Tundra, though it’s harder to see the way from the ground than from above the treetops.

That it takes only a night is a feat in itself, but Bill has no time to marvel at this. He doesn’t have time to marvel at how much stronger he’s getting (enough to down a metagross on his own, for one) or even to marvel at the sights or the silhouette of a pokémon that seems so familiar and rare to him yet not at all. And he tells Foxglove this at one point, that he can’t dwell on these things.

Because all he’s thinking about is Lanette. Lanette would delight at the staryu lights on the muddy banks of the river, glistening like rubies in the advancing dark. Lanette would love to get a closer look at the ancient temple the metagross are guarding, and watch them spider-climb up the rock walls like ancient machines, wary of the first humans they’d seen in millennia. Lanette would look up at the graceful, violet streak in the sky and hear its siren song, and she would tell him that can’t be Articuno in the strangely grounding way she does. She would love to watch the clefairy dance in their lines through narrow caves dotted with sparkling granite, and she would love the elegance of the frosmoth weaving between the thin trees, or the tiny snom faces wriggling through the snow.

That’s what Bill wanted when he brought her here. He wanted to share this with her. He wanted to share every peaceful, beautiful, utterly breathtaking moment of being here in the Crown Tundra with her, yet he can’t. Not now.

But it’s the thought that maybe he still can that drives him forward. The thought that he’d get her back, that he can fix this, that he can still share some part of this wondrous region with her—that’s all that matters.

So despite the fact that he’d only had a few hours of sleep—despite the fact that he had fought his way there, squeezed through a cave far too small for him, run from fairies and more—Bill stands before a cathedral at the top of the mountain wide-awake and ready.

And what a place for this to all end: an abandoned cathedral, long neglected and crumbling, yet still awe-inspiring in itself. Bill cranes his neck to take it all in, dark spires reaching into the gray sky above and all. It is, indeed, a place fitting for a forgotten god.

Sir? Foxglove asks.

Bill glances back at Foxglove and the audino. He takes a deep breath.

“Well?” he asks. “Are you ready?”

The others nod. Their expressions are steady and steel, as if they’re silently pledging to walk into Hell itself for Bill.

He hopes it doesn’t come to that.

He leads them forward, into the dust and darkness of the cathedral. The interior looks just as abandoned as the exterior. Or, rather, unfinished. A set of stone steps inside lead up to what looks less like the interior of a church and more like a courtyard: a vast, dirt-lined space where a few dead saplings stretch towards a broken ceiling. On the other side of the courtyard stands a massive tree, whose roots reach halfway across the courtyard and choke the base of the saplings around it. Bill passes a basket by the top of the steps and moves to the center of the room, where he stares up at the leafless tree.

Then, upon feeling the air shift, he exhales slowly.

“Well,” he says. “Fitting shrine for a harvest god.”

He looks over to find Lanette sitting on a particularly large root. Calyrex hovers beside her, holding the reins in its thin paws.

“I do not understand your meaning,” Calyrex says.

“Never mind.” Bill removes Lanette’s headband from around his neck and holds out the carrot. “I’m here, and that’s the most important part. What do I do next?”

“Place the shaderoot carrot in the basket behind you, then come to me,” Calyrex says.

Bill raises his head, then turns to the basket by the entrance.

“Yes, human,” Calyrex says. “That one.”

“All right.” He glides to it, grasps its edge, and hesitates. “Fox? Audino? Go to Calyrex.”

He waits for them to move, but they do. The audino pads to a spot behind Calyrex and the root. Fox shifts through the air, giving Lanette a passing glance before joining the audino behind them. With his companions where they need to be, Bill places the carrot in the basket gingerly, and then, after a beat of silence, he moves to Calyrex’s side. Lanette slides behind the root and motions for Bill to join her, which he does.

“All right,” he says. “What—”

A whine interrupts him, and a gust of cold wind blasts through the cathedral. It’s followed by the cacophony of hoofbeats against stone, then dirt. Calyrex launches itself off the root and disappears over the edge, an act that’s followed seconds later by another bellow from its horse. Bill twists in his seat and looks over the root, just in time to watch Calyrex rope the reins through the horse’s mouth and pull. Another burst of air and shadow erupts from the both of them, but in a second, that doesn’t matter because Bill feels Lanette shift at his side. He looks down to see her sinking, groaning and grasping at her head.

“Lanette!” he gasps.

He dives down, curling himself around his partner. She blinks but stares at him blearily.

“Bill?” she asks quietly. “Why are you—”

“Oh.” He closes his eyes and shifts, and it comes naturally to him at last. His arms—human now—wrap tightly around her in an embrace, and then he places one of his hands on the side of her head. “Are you all right?”

She smiles weakly but nods. “Yeah. I knew you’d be able to do it.”

Bill stiffens. He’s about to ask her if she was conscious through all that, but before he can, a third blast of cold air rushes through the cathedral, driving Lanette into his arms with a shiver. He holds her protectively, then guides Lanette to her feet. The two of them look over the root together, to Calyrex and the horse, and … the legendary is different now. Calyrex sits, back straight and a regal air about its entire figure, on the back of the horse with a white cape about its shoulders. It regards them both with an ancient gaze and a wise smile.

Thank you, Calyrex says. I never would have reunited with my steed without you both. And now… It lifts one of its paws and flexes it. I can feel my power returning to me.

Bill wants to tell the legendary off—which, he knows, is rather surprising for him—but he can’t. And he can’t because Lanette gets there first.

“Didn’t I tell you you shouldn’t underestimate either of us?” she asks. She supports one of her elbows with her wrist and places an index finger on her bottom lip. “Between Bill and me, a little fetch quest and a few battles are nothing compared to what we’ve faced before setting foot in this region, either separately or together. I’m not surprised Bill was able to do everything you asked him to do.”

Calyrex tugs at the reins on its horse to turn it to Lanette. And that’s when a shudder and a realization runs through Bill.

As in: oh yeah. That’s right. These are a pair of legendary pokémon.

“What are you doing?” Bill whispers.

“Thanking you for rescuing me,” Lanette replies with a smirk. “And speaking of which, shouldn’t you do the same, Your Majesty?”

Calyrex’s eyes glint, but Lanette holds up a hand.

“Ah, ah, ah!” she says. “I’ve had enough of that for a lifetime, if you don’t mind.”

“Lanette, normally, you’re the voice of reason between us,” Bill says quickly. “But this time around, I really must emphasize that this might not be the best idea of yours.”

Lanette quirks an eyebrow at him. “Isn’t it one of your dreams to have a legendary as your partner?”

And here, Bill gives her a strangled cry, which she promptly ignores in favor of turning back to Calyrex. She draws a poké ball from one of her coat pockets.

“So … there’s one way you can show your gratitude,” Lanette says. “My partner came here to track down a legendary. You and your steed are legendaries. Bill and I challenge you to a double battle. If we win, Bill will get a chance to catch you both. Deal?”

After a beat, a smile plays across Calyrex’s face. Audacious, it says.

“You’ve been in my head long enough to know that I can be,” Lanette replies. “Do we have a deal?”

Fine.

Calyrex lashes the reins, and the horse whinnies and gallops to the other end of the room. The two pokémon turn, and Calyrex sits straighter.

Prepare yourselves, it says. When you make your first move, then our battle will begin.

At that, Bill grasps Lanette’s arm. “Lanette, I appreciate this, but are you sure this is a good idea? Are-are you even up for it?”

She smiles at him. “Of course. Sure, It’s freezing up here and I nearly got frostbitten, but I’m ready for a battle. You have no idea how long I’ve been wanting to do this.”

Bill furrows his eyebrows at her. “Were you conscious that entire time?”

Grasping both of his arms, Lanette pulls herself up to give him a small kiss. “In a word … yes. It was sweet to see you stand up for me, by the way.”

Bill feels his face burn with a blush. Lanette slips her hands down his arms and into his hands.

“Come on,” she says. “Let’s go catch a legendary.”

And Bill stares into her eyes for a moment, and everything is perfectly fine.

“All right,” he says. “Fox? Audino? Let’s go.”

#crown tundra #powerverse #long post #pokefic #{one of the best things about writing these bits #is letting the characters out of their boxes so to speak #which is to say Lanette would throw hands with a legendary #and this is now canon #thanks to this part}

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thepixelpokedex · 3 years

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#138 Omanyte

Omanyte, the Spiral Pokémon.

Revived from an ancient fossil, this POKéMON uses air stored in its shell to sink and rise in water.

Diamond Gemspark - Unpainted, Deep Sky Blue, Shadow Sandstone Brick - Brown

#Omanyte #Pixel Art #Terraria #Pokémon

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bluecube92 · 3 years

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I caught a Shiny Shadow Omanyte from Cliff on Pokemon Go today.

#Pokemon #Pokemon Go #Shiny Pokemon #Shiny Omanyte #Omanyte

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kuramirocket · 4 years

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Shadow Omanyte is so cute!

#pokemon go

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mongo-madness · 3 years

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Evolving Shadow Omanyte into shadow omastar!

#pokemon go #pokemongo #pokemon #evolving #shadow pokemon #Shadow Omanyte #shadow omastar #water type pokemon #water type #rock type #team rocket #team go rocket

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pocketconsthargic · 4 years

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#omanyte #gen 1 #urban #shadow omanyte #shadow

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cogs-inc · 5 years

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spider-man pokemon au

Peter contrary to popular belief doesn’t have any spider pokemon until after he creates his hero persona. His companion is actually a lil Furret Uncle Ben caught as a Sentret for Peter when he moved in. Her name is Furry and he has to live with that (he was like 5 or whatever of course he’d name her something like that). She probably goes out on spider things with him, she has her own costume and everything, and clings onto his back when he’s swinging. He does befriend a Spinarak during this time, but she’s more of a wild pokemon that just like hanging out with him.

Ben probably has a doggish pokemon, probably like a normal type, or something like a Growlithe. I can’t shake the idea of May having a Kangaskhan. It’s probably like a relatively small one, she helps May around the house a lot and is Mom.

Max definitely has a bunch of electric types that follow him around after his transformation into Electro. Just like hordes of wild pokemon that like to hang out around him. I like the idea of his partner being like a lil Pichu he dotes on. Just a babey.

Otto has an Omanyte you can’t change my mind. It evolves into Omastar a little after he becomes Doc Ock. As an Omanyte it’s shy and gentle with everyone, but after it evolves it stays very loving with its trainer but is an absolute bastard with everyone else. I can also see him picking up a Malamar later or something like a Porygon.

Norman has a shiny Glameow, she wears sweaters probably and is very spoiled. His partner tho is a Sableye. He also kept his wife’s Sneasel after she passed away and Sneasel is Sableye’s goth gf. I can’t tell if Sneasel is really big or Sableye is really small, but compared to her Sableye is teeny.

Harry has an Eevee for Symbolism tm and also because I can see him with a Flareon. He might also have a Poochyena. Eevee I can see Norm pressuring him to evolve it into an Umbreon, dark types are probably like a weird family tradition or something. Oh my god there’s exactly an episode in the first series about this oh my god anyway.

They have so many pokemon in that house I’m not even done why. do they. Anyway When Norman does Goblin things he meets a Gengar and a Crobat pair that lives in one of the lesser used Oscorp warehouses. Again they’re more like wild pokemon that like hanging out with a person, but they take a shine to him. When he goes out on Crimes they follow, Gengar floats just behind Crobat to look like he’s riding a glider and imitates all of Goblins moves, especially when he’s on a dramatic villain monologue. No one can tell if it just really likes him or is making fun of him. On mimicking/mirroring notes, his Sableye probably does the same thing with more mundane stuff. Like a toddler. When he’s doing paperwork it probably tries to do it too and has to be set up with like paper and crayons off to the side so it doesn’t try to do his work for him lmao. God I really love pets/pokemon mimicking their owners it’s so cUTE.

Mac definitely has a Drapion. He didn’t even get it after he started being Scorpion he just always had the lil guy. It was fate.

It’s hurting me so hard not to give JJJ a Loudred just for the Jokes tm. It physically pains me not to. I can see him also having a small bird like a Fletchling. He sends it through the office with little notes that say shit like “get back to work” for when he can’t come out to yell Personally. No one blames the little bird though and most give it a little pet before it flies off again.

Speaking of birds yes Adrian has so many. He’s got maybe a Braviary or a Staraptor that looks just as old as he is. I’m leaning towards old grey shiny Staraptor but I love Staraptor so I’m kind of biased. Smaller bird pokemon probably follow him around when he’s flying and doing crimes, like the little fish that hang out under mantarays and whale sharks. Flying under the shadow of this Bigger Bird who doesn’t do anything to them to protect themselves from Less Friendly Big Birds.

MJ has a Charmeleon definitely. Maybe also a Lillipup but deffo a Charmeleon.

I can see Gwen with dragon types. A little Dratini maybe.

That’s literally all I can think of at this point but like. Spider-Man Pokemon AU.

#loud honking #EXTREMELY long post under cut #Marvel #Pokemon #i've been thinking about this a LOT over the last few months which is why some are SUPER fleshed out #noah fence but half of these pokemon i've come up with i'd do anything for #SABLEYE? YES SABLEYE? I LOVE YOU #i love sableye sm yall #yes ive been typing this out in drafts all day

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