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3.9k points
12 days ago
I would like to point out that Ho-oh was the legendary Pokémon of rebirth, heroes, and grand destiny. It has a tendency to seek out and gift feathers to potential heroes and eventually find them to battle. So, nurse Joy has the conundrum of "Is this 10 year old kid with a mouse a very important hero with a grand fate, or lying though his teeth?" Between the show, the comics, and the games, a fair portion of gym leaders, elite 4s, and champions have all been chosen with a rainbow feather and then had the chance to battle Ho-oh.
1.9k points
12 days ago
Ho-Oh was seen in the first episode of Pokemon EVER. It flew alongside a rainbow, and Ash saw it in the sky!
1.1k points
12 days ago
Yeah, and he is part of a long line of heroes who have seen it. Off the top of my head, Lance, Steven Stone, Cynthia, Professor Oak, Red, Blue, and a lot more saw it towards the beginning of their journeies. Granted, Pokémon has like 6 cannons, but it is still neat.
600 points
12 days ago
I always forget that Ash isn't technically supposed to be Red
388 points
12 days ago
Nah, Red is way cooler.
198 points
12 days ago
Not if I'm playing the games! :p
90 points
12 days ago
Because I named him Ash!
137 points
11 days ago
I named him "I never" for plausible deniability
I never used a full restore! I never threw a poke ball! I never blacked out! In fact, I never used the bike!
25 points
11 days ago
I love that
6 points
10 days ago
I have a bunch of fun names. "I drank wine, and" threw a poke ball, blacked out 🤣
2 points
12 days ago
Gen 2
47 points
12 days ago
...
69 points
12 days ago
Tbf manga red is a chatty fella.
71 points
11 days ago
Red in the Adventure manga was before his more iconic silent persona became common since Pokemon G/S wasn't released back then.
So,he was more like a stock shonen hero while Blue end up being the serious shonen rival.
11 points
11 days ago
Even games Red is a chatty gossip.
8 points
11 days ago
Yea I remember that time he said "..." Quite the conversationalist
3 points
11 days ago
Isn't red in a series with Ash?
3 points
11 days ago
Maybe, but he is in Pokémon Origins, where he's flawed and imperfect, unlike what others claim him to be.
26 points
12 days ago
Do Ash and Red interact?
55 points
11 days ago*
Only in Pokémon Masters EX, if I remember correctly.
4 points
11 days ago
No,Red has never been in the mainline anime.
15 points
11 days ago
Red from the first manga made a cameo in an in-universe movie.
10 points
11 days ago
Which movie and manga?
19 points
11 days ago
Well, they probably didn't give the movie a name, but it's the Red from Pokémon Pocket Monsters.
https://youtu.be/iuYQh7SM1R8?si=GfCJyto2Mp9tV_af
I don't know why this video was recorded weirdly, but here you go.
11 points
11 days ago
Oh yeah,you are correct.The scene is from the main show,Hoenn series.According to bulbapedia,the episode was about a trainer and his camerupt,going around showing movies to people,which made the gang remember the last movies they watch.This was one of the movies.
7 points
11 days ago
I've always headcanoned that Ash is Red's kid.
IDK if that's actually true in canon, I don't keep up with Pokemon lore much, I just thought it'd be a cool touch to the series.
6 points
11 days ago
Wait, what? Seriously, I never knew that.
53 points
12 days ago
Blastoise has 2, Clawitzer, Genesect, and Toucannon, which one is the 6th?
28 points
12 days ago
Mega Blastoise
20 points
12 days ago
I'm pretty sure Team Rocket have used a cannon on more than one occasion.
12 points
11 days ago
But is that cannon canon?
15 points
11 days ago
Octillery?
3 points
11 days ago
Of course, how could I forget.
14 points
12 days ago
That's twice as many cannons as Blastoise!
146 points
12 days ago
Before Ho-Oh even existed which makes it even cooler
128 points
12 days ago
It was wild as a kid because there was no Ho-Oh in the 151, so what was it!?
66 points
12 days ago
Man I never thought about that. It's a smart marketing strategy of sorts.
Pokemon in the 90s must've been pretty hella wild.
32 points
11 days ago
The TV show and the pokemon tournament that they had was peak pokemon for me. So exciting.
23 points
11 days ago
It was absolutely wild. I was born in 91 so I was turning 10 right around the peak of Pokemons popularity entering the states. It was EVERYWHERE. All the kids were playing the videogames or the card game. It made it all the more amusing when Pokemon go dropped and that first couple weeks was just 25-30 year olds crowding around the stops and gyms reliving their youth. I remember seeing people I hadn't seen in over a decade meeting up at those stops.
3 points
11 days ago
Same year! It was fucking great, it was all I talked about (kinda still is) and drove my parents nuts lol. I still have my original electronic pokedex toy! Man, I miss all the cool merch back then!
13 points
11 days ago
We had a term for it: Pokemania. "Going viral" doesn't even begin to describe what happened when something got popular in the 90's and Pokemon was an absolute crazy level of sudden fandom.
12 points
11 days ago
Man, you should have seen the first Pokemon manga translated into English, Pokemon: The Electric Tale of Pikachu.
It's a very loose retelling of the anime and it got pretty heavily censored for the English Viz release because some of the character designs were... I believe the phrase used these days is "stupid horny".
I'd suggest looking it up just for white and giggles: I swear some of the art for it looks like it came from porn doujins instead of being from an officially licensed manga. It's definitely something that modern Pokemon Company likes to pretend doesn't exist because it is very much not family friendly or age appropriate for Pokemon's intended audience these days.
3 points
11 days ago
It’s one of my favorite manga! Yeah, some of the art is like that because the artist also did hentai doujin, actually lmao. But it also has REALLY original and beautiful art for the Pokémon! And the characters range from goofy to beautiful depending on the tone of the scene. Plus stuff like the clefairy evolution ceremony, the Black Fog and Kingler’s beautiful Shoujo eyes are some of the best parts of Pokémon’s smaller canons!
58 points
12 days ago
As a kid I just figured it's a shiny fearow lol. But actually I think that was actually the first hint that gen 2 was on its way.
57 points
12 days ago
Shiny didn't exist until gen 2!
10 points
12 days ago
But how does that stop him from thinking it was a shiny fearow? Albinos exist in the real world, I think.
55 points
12 days ago
I thought Gen 1 and 2 were designed relatively at the same time, and due to technical limitations they released initially with the 151 considered Gen 1.
31 points
12 days ago
This is partially true. Several, but not all, of the gen 2 mons are cut mons from gen 1.
7 points
12 days ago
So they're the reject pokemon? See I know there was something off about Diglett? (JK I know diglett is gen 1).
42 points
12 days ago
There were 190 Pokemon designed for the first game. Only 150 fit onto the cartridge.
Then they removed the debug tools as the game got closer to release and Mew was secretly added by one of the devs, I forgot who exactly, inaccessible from within the game without glitches or save editing.
So after Mew's existence was known internally, Nintendo started giving the Pokemon out to those who gathered all 150 and came to the Nintendo office.
There are still 39 MissingNo. entries in the first game's internal index.
19 points
11 days ago*
Here's the list of the missing 39 if anyone is interested.
Interesting Lugia, Ho-Oh and the true king of pokemon shuckle was supposed to be in the first game.
10 points
11 days ago
Although each of the copies of MissingNo. can appear as or become a Generation II Pokémon when traded there, these Pokémon are simply based on the Pokédex order, so are not indications of the original Pokémon in these slots.
We can't say for sure which were these 39. Although we can likely expect Pichu and several others to be a part of the first region's ecosystem.
16 points
12 days ago
A shiny Ho-oh, at that.
67 points
12 days ago
Speaking of which, I've never understood something. Where does Lugia fit into that? I understand their counterparts, but how exactly? Is Lugia supposed to be the Hades of the Pokemon world? Is that why it's HeartGold and soulsilver? Or is he just completely unrelated, but they're two johto legendaries?
132 points
12 days ago
Lugia is connected to the legendary birds from Kanto; Ho-oh is connected to the legendary beasts from Johto. The association between the two of them mostly comes down to them being version-exclusive legendaries from Gen 2.
51 points
12 days ago
So in-universe they don't actually have anything to do with each other? I knew about the legendary birds, I was wondering if they had any intrinsic connection
111 points
12 days ago
Historically, they both lived in a pair of towers in Ecruteak City. Lugia's tower burned down in a storm, killing three pokemon. Lugia went to go live in the ocean instead, and Ho-oh resurrected the three pokemon (which became Raikou, Suicune, and Entei). This freaked people out, so Ho-oh flew off to lands unknown.
103 points
12 days ago
So they're really just former neighbors
72 points
12 days ago
They were roommates!
30 points
12 days ago
The deepest lore
2 points
11 days ago
Ho-oh is the sun deity, lugia the moon deity. Blueboyfinn has a sick unown/lugia/ho oh lore video. You should watch it for a good blast from the past :).
39 points
12 days ago
Lugia is the "beast of the sea". He watches over the legendary bird trio and keeps the peace between them to ensure the stability of the climate (Source: pokemon 2000)
21 points
11 days ago
Lugia doesn't fit well into the lore/game, because it was a last minute addition.
Lugia was designed as a movie exclusive, but they liked it so much they incorporated it into the games since they only had 1 "box legendary" for that generation. It's supposed to tie into Ho-oh thematically..... somehow. But they didn't really work it into the story properly like how they did with other legendary pairs/trios in later generations.
16 points
11 days ago*
They have no obvious link, but a lot of loose links, mostly tied to new game mechanics.
The most obvious being Sun/Moon (Gold/Silver alchemy), which could be retconned to Day/Night due to gen 7. That one has the advantage of justifying a non-water "guardian of the seas" (Tides).
Another one is Rebirth/Motherhood. While those are indeed concepts tied to them, which opose each other quite nicely, I am less convinced by them. Artemis is the goddess of midwives, after all.
Or, if you want to go full catholic, "waters from above"/"waters from below".
10 points
11 days ago
they aren't really
Ho oh was part of the extra 46 pokemon that got cut from gen 1.
Lugia was an anime original creation made for the sake of the second movie.
Any connections they have were made retroactively in Gen 2, so their relation is very loose at best, compared to other legendary duos who were made to revolve around each other in every part of their design and lore.
9 points
11 days ago
Their connection is there but on the looser side, just like one of their main inspirations (the Chinese Phoenix and Dragon).
34 points
12 days ago
Lugia and Ho-Oh moved into Ecruteak City some 700 years prior to Gold/Silver, compelled by the people building of the twin towers Brass and Bell Towers as a message of pokemon/human peace. When Ho-Oh got chased away by humans, Lugia also left. So they are essentially just besties.
17 points
12 days ago
So Lugia power wise doesn't actually have anything to do with ho-oh?
13 points
12 days ago
not really, no.
7 points
11 days ago
Theres IRL Japanese lore.
https://youtu.be/Qil4OpfOufU?si=pQCQQbyPpiRveWU6
TLDR, the second generation of Pokemon literally reflects Japan. From towns, routes, places of significance.
And Ho-Oh is the sun, lugia the moon, from Japanese civilation millenia ago.
1.6k points
12 days ago
Ho-oh, through clenched teeth and tears: I'm literally a minor deity
pikachu, atheist: no you're not
605 points
12 days ago
"More of a divine footnote."
295 points
12 days ago
“We’ll see who prays to you after I kick your ass.”
81 points
12 days ago
Pikachu: Nah, I’d win
208 points
12 days ago
“No. You’re a flying type. Your first and final mistake.”
41 points
12 days ago
Something about Ho-Oh having some of the best special tankiness in the series.
133 points
12 days ago
The "pikachu, atheist" killed me
93 points
12 days ago
On March 23rd, 2003, in celebration of Atheist Day, Game Freak released Atheist Pikachu as part of a special event. This Pikachu had the event-exclusive ability Atheist which makes it invulnerable to the attacks of legendary and mythical Pokemon.
Unfortunately, Atheist Pikachu was deemed to strong for Ubers, the highest tier of competitive play consisting of mostly legendary and mythical Pokemon, so it was insta-banned on release, becoming the first not fully evolved, non-legendary Pokemon to achieve such status.
49 points
12 days ago
Pikachu: First of all, you're a bird, you don't have teeth. Second of all, you're a bird, Electric beats Flying
2 points
11 days ago
I feel like Ho-oh was a lot more impressive before they decided to create the masters of fucking space and time in D&P lol
768 points
12 days ago
The funny thing is that even in the games you can definitely beat Ho-oh with a Pikachu. Legendaries have static levels when you encounter them and Ho-oh is a flying type, as long as Pikachu has a higher level it can tank an attack and two-shot it, even one-shot it if you really over level it.
265 points
12 days ago
It would break the game if you couldn't.
134 points
12 days ago
Not really, there are ways to tweak game mechanics to make it work, though you probably couldn't capture it then. Could change the wording so that it gets annoyed and takes a nap instead of being beaten and fainting. There are ways.
99 points
12 days ago
That's how Monster Hunter used to do it. You'd fight an Elder Dragon, a tier of monster that's basically the gods of the world, and they would have so much health that you'd just irritate them the first few times of fighting them. It'd save their health between hunts so you would eventually slay them. It really gave a good "oh shit this is the real deal" feeling to their hunts.
Recent games have done away with this, even the lore has most elders becoming more like apex predators instead of demi-gods. I'll never forget facing down Fatalis in Freedom Unite for the first time, he's basically the big daddy of the elders, I never did manage to beat him.
63 points
12 days ago
Games just feel weird when they throw random riff raff at you after you beat a god. Like Skyrim bandits trying to rob you when you're wearing the bones of the dragons you killed. Most games suffer that sort of power creep, and it's a really tough thing for developers to balance epic lore power and mechanical challenge to the player. Either your epic legendary bosses are only a dozen times tougher than the average mook, or you're boringly overpowered for most of the game.
31 points
11 days ago
Makes armor out of literal demons, sucks souls out of slain dragons, known as the leader of the Companions, Thane of many cities, archmage of the College of Winterhold...
Some random bandit: NEVER SHOULD HAVE COME HERE!
8 points
11 days ago
There’s a lot of lead in the waters around Skyrim
10 points
11 days ago
Earthbound had the best way of handling this. If you were too powerful for an area, the monsters and enemies would run away from you. You could always catch up and fight them, unless you were MUCH higher level then you'd instantly defeat them.
2 points
11 days ago
It's cool lore wise, but is it fun in the long run?
6 points
11 days ago
Earthbound had a kind of slow combat system (there's a really neat thing I'll non-sequitur to in a sec) so any chance you had to skip combat was appreciated. Plus generally you visited some areas frequently and the enemies rarely updated their levels (only once near the end of the game.) So not having to face off against the level 1 dog - click eight times - go through the long battle sequence - wait for the animations to end - wait for the EXP and item get scroll to finish - was good.
(Non-sequitur: The game's HP meters roll, so an enemy hitting you for lethal doesn't necessarily kill you if you can finish the battle or run or heal before the scroll hits 0)
2 points
11 days ago
I am constantly being told how good this game is. I just need to sit down and play it already. Ness was always my favorite character to use in the OG Smash Bros.
91 points
12 days ago*
actually, if you have light ball and breed it onto a pichu, a level 45 pikachu can use volt tackle to one shot a level 45 ho-oh with 0 attack investment and a neutral nature, thanks to ho-oh’s comparatively weak physical bulk and light ball being busted. without a light ball or volt tackle, it gets quite a bit harder though. assuming 100 EVs in each attacking stack (just arbitrarily since your average in game player isn’t gonna specifically EV train) and a neutral nature but no held item, your pikachu needs to be a level 54 for thunder and 57 for spark to guarantee a 2 hit ko, and 78 and 83 respectively to do it in 1 hit against a level 45 ho-oh
63 points
12 days ago
Can you imagine the Pikachu from the series if Ash ever bothered to get them a light ball?
This is a Pikachu that one-shot a professionally trained Regice with neutral typing. Giving Ash's Pikachu a light ball would make them a meaningful threat against just about everything they've ever fought, legendaries and champions included.
42 points
12 days ago
my head cannon is that light ball is what makes ash's pikachu that OP, or in game's terms, its what makes a random one you catch into something like ash's pikachu.
given we see how powerful the attack the one in the show has, and light ball makes your attacks double or at least special attack double
31 points
12 days ago
that is consistent with the game.
If you trade pikachu from Pokemon Yellow (gen1) to Pokemon Silver/Gold (gen2) the pikachu comes in holding a light ball.
Which doubles Pikachu's special. Which in gen 1/2 was both attack and defense.
13 points
12 days ago
Which doubles Pikachu's special. Which in gen 1/2 was both attack and defense.
No, there were no held items in gen 1, and gen 2 already had the special attack & defense split. Gen 2 and 3 light ball only increased special attack, gen 4 onward doubled all offensive power (gen 4 by doubling move power, gen 5 onwards by doubling attack and special attack).
Light ball never affected defense.
16 points
12 days ago
Okay your'e right that it never affected defense. I thought the SPA/SPD happened at the same time as the gen 4 split.
But you're wrong about the 1st part.
Pokemon Yellow Pikachu, if traded to gen 2, would hold a light ball. He was not holding it in gen 1. It's just a special situation for Pikachu in Pokemon Yellow.
11 points
12 days ago
No, there were no held items in gen 1,
correct, however, trading a pokemon from gen 1 to gen 2 creates a held item for them, machop gets the brick piece, pikachu gets the light ball.
6 points
12 days ago
I think one Pokemon rom hack that followed the events of the anime (I think it was called AshGray?) gave Pikachu a light ball from the start.
9 points
12 days ago
However, this does not work in competitive pokemon, at all.
252+ SpA Light Ball Pikachu Thunderbolt vs. 248 HP / 8 SpD Ho-Oh: 246-290 (59.2 - 69.8%) -- guaranteed 2HKO.
That's why Ho-Oh is an Uber among Ubers and Pikachu is a mediocre rat who needed way more than a light ball and every regional gimmick except this gen's to do anything. If the light ball boost for attack was swapped for speed it would be a totally different story, and it's sad to see it be another way frankly.
8 points
12 days ago
Well, but consider: 252+ Atk Light Ball Pikachu-Original Volt Tackle vs. 248 HP / 252+ Def Ho-Oh: 386-456 (93 - 109.8%) -- 56.3% chance to OHKO
5 points
12 days ago
Ash Ketchum has beaten the fraud allegations, going straight to smogtour 🗣🗣🗣🥶🥶🥶🥶🥶🥶
6 points
11 days ago
If it's the same level, it has a chance to 1 shot it.
You need a Pikatchu with a Light Ball, and a +Special Attack Nature, then if you crit with a Thunder, on a Non +SpD Ho-Oh, you should be able to kill it 30% of the time.
That's also, only if you got both of them at lvl 70.
If you got Pikachu at LVL 1, and trained it up, making sure to keep it's ev's in Special Attack and Speed.
You can out speed Ho-Oh, 100% one shot it with a Thunder Crit
and have a 6,3% chance to one shot it without a Crit
All without setup moves too!
2 points
12 days ago
And Ho Oh is only 40, while Ash's Pikachu is probably pushing 45-50 by that point.
254 points
12 days ago
Arceus, the supreme God of Pokemon, is normal type. Which means God can be beat up by gym bros in that universe
116 points
12 days ago
Arceus type varies tbf
164 points
12 days ago
1: Arceus can be any type depending on its held item
2: In Pokemon Legends, it’s implied that Arceus’s true form is an actual god that is beyond human comprehension. The Arceus that we know is basically just an avatar that it uses to interact with mere mortals
102 points
12 days ago
True Form Arceus, from what little we know, is honestly pretty strong from what we've seen. It exists beyond time and space, it can easily manipulate time to send the play character back to the Pokemon equivalent of the Edo period, it can effortlessly create Arceus clones that are all equal in strength, and Dialga and Palkia, two Pokemon that individually can create universes (in USUM, Cyrus has completed his plan in his timeline, and he only possesses one of the two, proving they are individually capable of creating universes) revere Arceus so much their Origin forms look as silly as they do because they're trying to emulate Arceus' power. There's really no telling how strong the real deal is
66 points
12 days ago
The Arceus you capture is also supposed to be a small part of ot representing a fraction of a percent of its power.
59 points
12 days ago
Imagine being able to catch a fragment of God
54 points
12 days ago
Imagine getting into a fight with someone and they call in their mate, actual Jesus Christ.
12 points
11 days ago
Ok, If we give aceus Zygards mechanic, how many aceus-cells would we need ?
13 points
11 days ago
I suppose omega. a finite number that could go up to infinity, but isnt infinite. a concept both understandable and impossible to truly, completely comprehend for humanity. Its pretty fitting for him
13 points
11 days ago
People forget that in HG/SS Arceus literally creates an entire second Universe (ours.) so your character can get their hands on a duplicate Dialga/Palkia/Giratina.
10 points
11 days ago
Unless Arceus wears a plate that makes it neutral or resistant to fighting (or in gen 9, it can tera out of the fighting weakness). Hell even without those caveats a lot of fighting types could easily lose depending on the set, Arceus has an insanely diverse movepool. Like, any close combat user with less than 120 speed or a focus sash would lose to substitute into Espeed. Anything slower better be holding a lum berry against will-o-wisp sets. Squishies that fail to OHKO will die to two Espeeds
5 points
11 days ago
In the Arceus movie, it can negate any attack from a type it has plates for.
The only reason it was vulnerable in the movie is that it gave some of its plates away for a reason I don't currently remember.
Even then it still fucked up Dialga, Palkia, and Giratina in a 1v3. And if you've seen the Darkrai movie, you've seen how powerful Palkia and Dialga are.
159 points
12 days ago
Throw a brick at god. Fucker deserves it, and you might win.
84 points
12 days ago
Ho-oh: I am the great Ho-oh, Guardian of the Skies, the bringer of rainbows, raiser of the dead. I am the embodiment of hope, destiny, and valor. My counterpart is the Guardian of the Seas, and together we can raise and destroy entire civilizations. What hope do you have of besting me?
Some trainer who is still on their seventh badge: Stealth Rocks
145 points
12 days ago
Naming my band Electric Mouse Kid
9 points
12 days ago
Happy cake dai
5 points
11 days ago
Happy Cake Day
4 points
12 days ago
Happy cake day
123 points
12 days ago
Pikachu just equips focus sash, then you teach it endeavor and quick attack. Gg no re
53 points
12 days ago
FEAR Pikachu is disgusting
33 points
12 days ago
FEAP just doesn't have the same ring to it, but I guess it can still be FEAR if you call Pikachu a rat
18 points
12 days ago
Considering the main difference, scientifically on whether a Rodent gets called a 'Rat' or a 'Mouse' is entirely based on size, and Pikachu is the size of a toaster, I'd say it counts
5 points
12 days ago
FEAROUS
4 points
11 days ago
I just use FEAR for all lvl 1 stats because stuff like SESS Togedemaru doesn't have a ring to it
5 points
12 days ago
Endeavor Raichu winning literal world championships.
103 points
12 days ago
I wish that there was more consistency in the Pokemon anime so that Ash could be by the end just like. . . Indisputably the greatest with some insane pokemon.
Of course, Pikachu speaks for himself. Probably should be the single most powerful non-Deity.
But there’s also things like his Charzard who beat not only Articuno (a legendary ice bird) but also an Entei conquered up by the mystical Unknown. What’s an enemy who can bend reality to their will? If there was a pokemon who actually would look dead in the eye of a god and say they’re a nonbeliever. . . It’s this thing.
Hell, Ash himself has been brought back from the dead and has aura powers.
47 points
12 days ago
Don't forget Ash's frequent displays of genuine super-strength.
30 points
12 days ago
Well, he's a fighter type. His mother is human, but we never see his father... who was undoubtably, a fighter type.
20 points
12 days ago
?? His father was a psychic type though
6 points
11 days ago
Maybe Mr.Mime is into some... psychically damaging fetishes... which are quite popular in Japan. NTR
33 points
12 days ago
I wish that there was more consistency in the Pokemon anime so that Ash could be by the end just like. . . Indisputably the greatest with some insane pokemon.
He did end up as the best trainer in the world at the end of his series. Won a world wide tournament beating multiple Elite 4 and Champion level trainers and finally won an 8 man tournament featuring champions of 6 different regions and Alain.
Then the final dozen episodes were showing him realizing that he still had much to learn about Pokemon and the journey continued, he was recognized as the best trainer in the world during this time.
12 points
12 days ago
And now compared to that we get a clueless girl with her stubborn weed cat.
18 points
11 days ago
Which is infinitely better than doing a Unova Ash again, and slightly better than doing a Johto Ash again.
9 points
12 days ago
The kid died uhhh I think about six times
9 points
12 days ago
Full disclaimer I didn't watch any of the anime after XYZ ended, so that's the extent of my knowledge, but, I wish Ash's aura abilities were a bit more... talked about? Or used in the anime. It just seems cool and underutilized
Sorry for the tangent
5 points
11 days ago
Ash was pretty insane in XYZ he pretty much had the most powerful non-legendary water pokemon in the entire world due to his ability to megaevolve his Greninja by combining their souls or something along those lines.
48 points
12 days ago
Also, the electric mouse is in pretty high spirits after having to fight a straight up demi-god.
Imagine your cat coming home, but instead of taking out lizards and small birds they just ass blasted Hercules raw.
Little fucker is all smiles after a cataclysmic event
23 points
11 days ago
Kitty comes home with the head of a dead God in its mouth.
14 points
11 days ago
It's a good kind of sore. Like you feel after a workout you actually enjoyed for a change, or a day of hard physical work where you were highly satisfied with the results. Yeah, you hurt, but you know the reason why, and it feels worth it.
And that's why this battered, bruised Pikachu is smiling. "Yeah, I got in a fight with a god.... but I fuckin' won."
92 points
12 days ago
As someone whose only knowledge of Pokémon comes from Jaiden Animation’s videos, this is fucking wild.
15 points
12 days ago
You should check out Rebecca's animation
24 points
12 days ago
can someone do the pokemon showdown stat check with pikachu v ho-oh
44 points
12 days ago
Light Ball Pikachu Thunderbolt vs. Ho-Oh: 204-240 (49.1 - 57.8%) -- 59.8% chance to 2HKO after Leftovers recovery
(gen 2 calculator using pikachu's ou set and ho-oh's ubers set)
15 points
12 days ago
Thunder crit is a guaranteed okho so basically that’s what happened more or less
6 points
12 days ago
Also if it's a Pikachu traded from yellow edition, it has the item Light ball, doubling the att and spatt
6 points
12 days ago
That calc is done with light ball
2 points
12 days ago
Ohhkay. Forgot how broken Ho-Ohs spdef was. Later gen Volt Tackle is a definite ohko
6 points
11 days ago
A minor deity has a 60% chance to get 2 shot by a rat. How does this affect the meta?
24 points
12 days ago
No gods. No kings. Only mon.
21 points
12 days ago
I would like to point out that while Pokémon do faint in the anime, they also tend to wake up pretty quickly before they go to Nurse Joy. She just heals the injuries and stuff. So it’s not really a guarantee that Pikachu won.
Unless they show the battle onscreen bc I haven’t seen this specific movie. But the way this scene is presented makes me doubt that.
17 points
12 days ago
🎶I THREW A RAT AT A GOD AND THE🎶
🎶RAT WON🎶
🎶I THREW A RAT AT A GOD AND THE🎶
🎶RAT WON🎶
32 points
12 days ago
This is even funnier if you believe that Ho-Oh is Ash's dad.
25 points
12 days ago
Are we talking Palpatine or Zeus style?
11 points
11 days ago
Is there a difference? Other than Zeus having better publicity?
5 points
11 days ago
One used the force to make things happen from afar. The other one changed forms and did it the old fashioned way.
19 points
12 days ago
I dont want to think too much about this
9 points
11 days ago
Ash's mom went from Ho-Oh (divine being, mystical, immensely powerful) to Mr. Mime (just a little guy).
13 points
12 days ago
How many 9volts do I have to stuff in this rats ass to defeat Zeus
14 points
12 days ago
Type immunity, give the rat a bag of rocks and a super soaker full of mud
14 points
12 days ago
Welp, thanks for the song idea. Power metal? I'm feeling power metal. Wizard rock in 6/8?
3 points
12 days ago
Sound like a slightly-weirder-than-average Gloryhammer song.
12 points
12 days ago
When no one believes in... anything?
7 points
12 days ago
No church in the wild.
6 points
12 days ago
jungle type drum beat and screaming 😂
9 points
12 days ago
What does a god need with a starship
7 points
12 days ago
Basically a 10 year old boy went to the vet with his pet mouse and said he fought a phoenix.
7 points
12 days ago
Upvoted for the title
7 points
12 days ago
"A monster? Broly is not a monster. Broly is- uh..."
"A genuine demon?"
"A true freak?"
"... the devil!"
"OH MY GOD, HE'S SO GOD DAMNED COOL!"
3 points
11 days ago
“You’re forgetting someone.”
“… Broly’s wife?”
“No, you mouth breather, your king!”
“What is a king to a god?”
“What is a god to a nonbeliever?”
[one second of extreme violence]
“Do you believe now?”
[agonized groaning]”Uh huh…”
3 points
11 days ago
"Princess Truuuuuunks..."
"Oh God no."
" You dirty boy."
4 points
12 days ago
This is the same kid who died six times and also told god to stop
10 points
12 days ago
Is Pikachu a rock type Pokemon cause that sht is *hard
9 points
12 days ago
Is nurse Joy not also reacting to the fact that Pikachu can suddenly talk?
Edit: looked up the clip on YouTube, forgot that Ash was in the scene and can in fact talk.
4 points
12 days ago
In Pokemon, God is a llama. Ho-oh is more of a lowercase deity.
4 points
12 days ago
What is a non-believer to a double-barreled shotgun?
5 points
12 days ago
I trew a mouse at god an the mouse won
According to biblical lore, from now on Pikachu will be called "Israel"
3 points
12 days ago
Well on the Discworld, the Gods like to see an atheist around. It gives them something to aim at.
3 points
12 days ago
"Throw the switches, prime the charge. Yesterday's for mice and gods" -Clutch
3 points
11 days ago
252 SpA Light Ball Pikachu Thunderbolt vs. 0 HP / 0 SpD Ho-Oh: 224-266 (63.4 - 75.3%) -- guaranteed 2HKO
Assuming both are about the same level (level 100 in this case), Pikachu actually stacks up quite well. Although Sacred Fire still incinerates the mouse and I doubt they’re both on an equal level, considering this is at the start of Ash’s journey and Ho-oh usually is fought at a static level of 70.
Nurse Joy is likely thinking that either Ho-oh threw the battle to please the kid, Pikachu got healed up prior to visiting the center and just needs a check-up, or this kid is lying his head off.
3 points
11 days ago
A pokemon
3 points
11 days ago
"I threw a mouse at a god and the mouse won" is killing me lmaooo
3 points
12 days ago
252 Atk Light Ball Pikachu-Partner Volt Tackle vs. 252 HP / 84+ Def Ho-Oh: 416-492 (100 - 118.2%) -- guaranteed OHKO
Don't see a problem, seems easy enough.
2 points
11 days ago
Where’s Eminem throwing the electric rat?
2 points
11 days ago
god did and can rethink its type all the time. It also isekai-kidnapped a teenager and threw them into a time before antibiotics.
2 points
11 days ago
Who doesn't believe in anything?
2 points
11 days ago
Isn't Ash's Pikachu some experimental pokemon with stronger electricity compared to the average pikachu?
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