Why?

    • PlantsRcoolToo [any]
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      4 years ago

      Snap this one's going in my bring back the down votes collection

    • PeludoPorFavor [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      hard disagree.

      genwunners either stopped paying attention, or just have poor taste.

      too many good ideas and pokemon to come out in later generations for me to take a '151 only' idea seriously.

    • Orannis62 [ze/hir]
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      4 years ago

      Honestly, I feel you can prune some out of Gen 1 (do we really need Voltorb? What the fuck is Tangela? Why is Lickitung?) and add a bunch of the good ones from later, and have a core of maybe like 200-250 really solid pokemon

      • PeludoPorFavor [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        tangela is a swamp monster. drawing on medusa as a reference point.

        lickitung is a mix of a lungless salamander and a yokai. honestly most of the pokemon have references to yokai, so to what is stupid or illogical to us makes more sense if you know this background.

        I actually think voltorb is a great idea for a pokemon. the idea of monsters/spirits disguised as something else ... idk i think that's neat.

        • Orannis62 [ze/hir]
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          4 years ago

          I actually think voltorb is a great idea for a pokemon. the idea of monsters/spirits disguised as something else … idk i think that’s neat.

          I actually agree, but it bothers me when people don't apply this same logic to the later gens. Like, a lot of peoples' only response to Gen 5 is "lol ice cream cone", and that feels like a double standard

      • NephewAlphaBravo [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        All of those are good, we need to cut Seel. It's so bad that nobody even remembers it for these Bad Pokemon lists.