Think You're The Ultimate Pokémon Fan? We Bet You Can't Beat This Christmas Crossword

Wow. It's AMAZING.

Nope.

I know I cannot complete the crossword.

Well played to its creator and anyone who can pass it without Google. They are a human Pokédex.

i think i need the pokemon rap for this one guys

OMG !
Is there any first word to start ?

I'm very knowledgeable about only the games, I think Joe's incorporates info from the TCG and anime as well.

I bet even GameFreak couldn't beat this, since they obviously dont care about their own Franchise anymore

Lots of questions about specific cards from the TCG.

Serebii's big Christmas crossword puzzles have always been way too hard for anyone to solve without constantly searching for the answers so I haven't bothered with them.

When it said "DARUDE" wasn't the right answer to the hint "Activates Sandstorm" I decided that I'm not going to bother.

Oh man this is so cool!! I imagine printing it out huge and literally laying on it like a game of Twister as I try to complete it. I might have to try and print this out later, much smaller, and try to complete it. I’m no Pokémon master but I definitely feel like I know enough to maybe finish half, at the very least.
Oh yeah! Happy holidays, everyone!

@Anti-Matter you can start anywhere, each word has a clue if you click it.

@mariomaster96 I mean Gamefreak doesn’t own the franchise and I’m sure they can’t do this given it involves all the media, such as the anime and cards, which Gamefreak doesn’t make.

@kaffepapu
That one was easy tho - if you've played through Sword & Shield.

It's most of the rest of the puzzle that's impossible.

@ShadJV Wikipedia says: " It (The Pokemon Company) was established through a joint investment by the three businesses holding the copyright on Pokémon: Nintendo, Game Freak, and Creatures, with each of them having part of the shares of Pokémon Company due to this."

Therefore Pokemon is GF's franchise (together with Nintendo and Creatures Inc.)

@mariomaster96 Nintendo has the most shares in the company and Game Freak has little connection to anything outside of the mainline games. They don’t even have control over most spin-off games. At this point, they likely have the least control over the franchise of the 3. Nintendo has final say, and TPC exists solely to control the franchise. Calling it Game Freak’s franchise is incredibly misleading. There would be no reason for them to know what’s printed on the cards, or shown in the anime, or drawn in the manga, etc. Heck, they didn’t even pay attention to how other regions localized their games from the start, as seen by the fact that Mr. Mime was given both male and female genders in Gen II (as the Japanese name, Barreird, did not imply a gender, while the English name does). Expecting them to be familiar with the other sides of the franchise is just silly to ask of a company that owns a minority of the rights and only controls some of the games (there’s more spinoffs made by other studios than mainline games made by GF). They only “own” the franchise in that they own shares from it, which is not really ownership, especially when they don’t even have the most shares. Nintendo owns it, Game Freak just gets a portion of the profits and makes the mainline games (something Nintendo and TPC could easily have another company to do if they want).