1st gen: Recognize all of them and can name the vast majority of them

2nd gen: Recognize most of them and can name some of them

3rd gen: Recognize a handful and can name maybe 1 or 2

4th gen and onwards: Here Be (Pocket) Monsters

Watched the anime, probably dropped out during/after season 2 (The Orange Islands) and the first 3 movies.

Collected the cards cuz I liked the art, but never actually learned to play the damn game.

And this one might be more controversial: Have never actually seriously played/beat any of the mainline games, but have for some of the weird spinoffs like Pokemon Snap/Pokemon Channel/etc.

  • glk [none/use name]
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    3 years ago

    Fourth Gen is easy because half are evolutions of old mons

  • Shrek
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    3 years ago

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  • alabastr [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    I was a pokemon tgc gym leader when toys r'us had tgc meetups, I had the original base deck (which was stolen, that hurt!)

    Fell out after black & white.

  • asaharyev [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    i grew up without a gameboy, so i never played pokemon for more than a few minutes as a time

    but i play the absolute fuck out of pokemon go

    pretty sure i've gotten my 50 gym coins every day for like 18 months...

    • joseph [he/him, they/them]
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      3 years ago

      Get a GBA emulator for your phone and play the gen 3 games, FireRed and Emerald. I picked up pokemon for the first time this way and instantly dropped Go. It's so much fun, especially if you have speedup.

  • FlakesBongler [they/them]
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    3 years ago

    I know all the Pokermans, but that's only because my brain is good at remembering fun and useless trivia

    I can't remember when my mom's birthday is, but I can tell you all about how you can only get a Vespiquen if you catch a female Combee and that requires putting honey on a tree and hoping you beat the 10% spread