Topic: Pokemon Legends Arceus

@DomGC OH, no online battles, I hope this means they could make some pokemon OP then, maybe some of the legendary's.

totally want those shiny's tho.

@DomGC Whoa, hold the phone, all the pokemon should be in the game? or do you mean because there isn't two versions to buy?

@Snatcher He means just the Poke in the regional 'dex, not the national 'dex.

@jump Oh ok, still, don't have to trade just to get all the pokemon now, it was one of the things keeping me from completing my dex.

@Snatcher Same honestly. I think they're mostly just bluffing in order to say "Game not good".

@Joeynator3000 Eh, online battles got removed for a reason. They wanted to focus more primarily on singleplayer stuff, and actually change the combat up a bit to it's core. if online co-op were a thing, they'd probably have to spend time catering to competitive, compromising the vision of the singleplayer experience that they had in mind.

Also, I don't get why people think that Legends isn't a mainline game. The Devs called it a mainline game, therefore it is. No matter of opinion can change it, since it's official word. Just like how the Orre games aren't mainline, given that Gamefreak didn't make them, and confirmed they weren't canon.

@VoidofLight and weren't they all happy about it in the comment last week, and we got called out for calling them a troll?

@Snatcher Yeah, they called the new pokemon "Furry bait" and how they were extremely excited for that, then called us out for thinking it was them trolling.

I honestly don't care much for online multiplayer unless it's co-op, this feels like it would at least have that. lol

Eh, I can't see it having Co-Op. Pokemon has mainly been a singleplayer experience aside from online battles. They tried more co-op related stuff with Gen 8, but aside from ILCA's grand underground, the attempt they made was kind of awful. Sword and Shield's frame rate dropped hard in the wild area when you went online, and you couldn't even join friends in the wild area like they made it out to be within the trailers.

I also ended up going digital, would have saved a bunch of money on physical (so ironic) - especially as I was also buying a copy for my sister - but I couldn't find anywhere that could guarantee delivery this weekend, and the UK's Covid response is garbage so I don't wanna risk Omicron for a physical copy. Now it's also preloaded on my Switch just teasing me.

@VoidofLight I don't think I will ever understand them.

To anyone that has seen the leaks, does eevee get a knew evo?

@Pizzamorg Same, But I couldn't find any physical copy's, so I just opted for the digital. Also, does anyone know when its going to be playable?

@Snatcher Nope, no new eeveelutions.

After all these generations...
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There's still no Bug/Dragon Pokemon.

@VoidofLight Thanks.

Do you guys think we will ever get a new type? last one we got was fairy.

Wow. @Fizza wasn't kidding when he would go awol when this game drops. And it's not even Friday yet.

@Snatcher Doubt it. The type chart seems to be fairly balanced with 18 types.

@Snatcher : I don't think we'll see one any time soon. They haven't even exhausted all of the possible combinations with the existing types yet. I was thrilled when the Fairy type was announced though. It was well conceived and made a lot of other very ordinary Pokémon much more viable, particularly much-beloved Pokémon such as the Jigglypuff/Clefairy/Togepi/Ralts/Marill lines, and for them to suddenly have the upper-hand against some very imposing types (especially Dragon) was exciting.

I'm hoping that Pokémon can eventually have a third typing, as many Pokémon who would logically have a third (or even fourth) typing are limited to just two based on design limitations as opposed to what is realistic. To name just two examples, Beedrill and Venomoth are Bug/Poison, but should also be Flying. With respect to how a third typing would work in-game, third types should play no part concerning a Pokémon's weaknesses, as this could absolutely break them, but merely with respect to STAB and immunity (but not resistance).

I'm a little surprised that we don't yet have a Digital type. The Porygon family would definitely be recategorised as such, but I can't think of any other Pokémon that would fit into that typing, except for perhaps Genesect (in its current engineered form), and TPCi/Game Freak probably can't justify making a plethora of Digital-type Pokémon as it wouldn't fit into the world, at least not without drawing very obvious comparisons to the Digimon franchise (and in an alternate dimension where Digimon never existed, Digital probably would have become a type by now).

I don't think we'll see a Light type either as that too would be difficult to justify from a world-building point-of-view, and it would also draw comparisons to Digimon, which already has a plethora of angelic/holy knight characters, but we could potentially see a Cosmic type, that will cover extraterrestrial Pokémon and/or those based on celestial bodies, as well as covering any potential "angelic" Pokémon (effectively serving as a "Light" type in those limited instances, but it seems that "angelic"/guardian Pokémon generally default to the Fairy typing anyway).

Existing Pokémon such as Solrock/Lunatone/Cresselia/Deoxys/Jirachi/Minior, as well as the Elgyem/Cosmog/Staryu lines and the Ultra Beasts could be recategorised as or have Cosmic added to their typing (and Starmie can be made a Water/Cosmic type instead of Water/Psychic). The Clefairy line could also have Cosmic added to their typing, making them Fairy/Cosmic.

I hadn't ever considered Cosmic as a typing before, but now that I've contemplated it, I see a lot of potential in it.

Maybe not Digital, but Machine? Sounds-...eh, I dunno, it fits Genesect, but not Porygon, so I dunno. lol

I can't see another type happening.