Some interesting, old observations going back to Emerald

TPP Emerald

So, I noticed a bunch of things back when I tried to contribute to the Helixpedia wiki, and back when I was almost full-time involved into TPP. Those things pushed me into looking into a lot of small details, namely the save game.

Its mainly a series of odd coincidences between my two favorite mons on the team, M4 and Mightydoge. I didn't bother posting it because I thought it was kinda dumb, and Platinum was underway and people were trying to forget about Emerald..

But, now that there isn't much going on, I guess I might as well post it:

  • Both lost someone they loved/admired, birdcop and zexxy.
  • Both of those they loved were lost to the PC.
  • Both had to change to take on new a new purpose.
  • Both have the same Hidden Power type, Bug type!
  • Their Hidden Power type is the same type as Zexinja's primary type, Bug type!
  • Both have the same total IVs sum of 122!
    ..and there are probably more like that..

With that in mind, I tend to have came to these conclusions.
The final fight against Wallace was fought by and won by Mighty and M4. With Mighty basically suddenly fighting better than anyone could ever expect out of him, before sacrificing himself so M4 could crush all the threats on Wallace's team, again exceeding all previous expectations.

During the last battle, Mightydoge's battle against Wailord, could have been interpreted as a sudden and rash/reckless streak on his part. He avoided instant KO 4 times in a row, and refused to go down until Wallace's full restore for Wailord was used up and until Wailord's hps were within M4's 0hko range. And the nature of M4 is Rash. Which could imply M4 inspired him in some way.

Oh, and obligatory Hook mention:
"There was a Hook in the sky, that touched us with its hookness, and turned us into hookers!"

Posted Nov 4, 2014, 6:20 PM UTC

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Domdude64•

PRAISE HOOK

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psy_commandoOPDodging Blizzards since 2014•

Praise its hookness !

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mesamus ◉ _ ◉•

so ship compatible and yet so distant, but i can guess or see how they give each other their space, though they also match as bar drinking buddies probably

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psy_commandoOPDodging Blizzards since 2014•

That's a pretty interesting way to put it !

Though I think shipping similar characters together is kinda unnecessary. Not sure if that's what you meant by "ship compatible" though. And, I'm one of those people who also thinks that hooking up with people too similar to yourself often ends up with both of you annoying the crap out of eachothers. XD

But yeah, they're totally drinking buddy compatible, and probably starts bar fights together or something XD

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SkywardQuill*awesome electric guitar theme*•

Our Emerald team was so badass. I'm getting a Mightyena and an Azumarill in ORAS!

By the way, after watching Psycho-Pass, the "Special Police Force" theme kind of made me draw parallels between them for no real reason... Mightycop makes me think of Kougami, since he's kinda like a wolf... But then I could also do the same with Ghost in the Shell SAC with M4 as the Major...

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psy_commandoOPDodging Blizzards since 2014•

I think we got Njike to thank for a part of the badassness of the team, with her cool depictions of the team and etc ! Not to mention the others that also contributed ! But yeah, badass it was! XD

And, I don't really watch a lot of anime, so I never heard of that one. But, its pretty easy to draw parallels with a lot of things since the characters are based on pretty common tropes. Not that it makes them any less cool XD

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SkywardQuill*awesome electric guitar theme*•

I agree, I loved Nijke's drawings!

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mesamus ◉ _ ◉•

mightyena also fits pretty well as batou

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psy_commandoOPDodging Blizzards since 2014•

Oh, and I'm totally getting a Migthyena in ORAS as well XD I might just get my own birdcop and azumarill too! There are so many pokes I want to try this time! I might need to box my starter again XD

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Mega_Obi_WanTrumpets HYPE•

I pray to Root and Claw for a Mega Mightyena... please GameFreak....

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psy_commandoOPDodging Blizzards since 2014•

I'll pray to anything for one ! XD

I even tweeted Jun Masuda 2 times about that! XD He keeps saying he put his twitter up to get feedback and suggestions from the fans, so I had to try!

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Mega_Obi_WanTrumpets HYPE•

I may be a bit cynical but I don't think he cares about it at all... May our prayers be heard

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psy_commandoOPDodging Blizzards since 2014•

Honestly, I don't either. But being cynical and passive probably won't really help. So I prefer being active and cynical :P

Still things like this give me a little hope:
http://www.dorkly.com/toplist/55753/the-greatest-generation-iii-pokemon-of-all-time-vote-now

But seeing as how Gen 4 and Gen 5 was a complete pain in the ass to play through with a mightyena, and how they've only begun fixing a tiny bit of what is wrong with it, things might be disappointing in oras..

What I mean by pain in the ass, is that, they made it so mightyena wouldn't learn crunch anymore.. In gen 4-5 you have to raise a poochyena to level 53 to get crunch, in gen 3 migthyena would learn it sooner, at level ~47.. The worst part is that in Hear Gold, there are places with raticates that spawns with both sucker punch and crunch and they're around lvl 30.. -_-
And other dark types like Sandile and etc all learn crunch before as well..
In gen 6 they kinda "fixed" the issue.. You could get crunch on mightyena, but at level 65..

Its almost personal vendetta or something at this point XD

Not to mention that they do their best not to put poochyena on promotional ORAS images and etc.. You always see Skitty, Zigzagoon, the starters, pikachu for some reasons, and megas. But not Poochyena :/

Though, I spotted a single image where I noticed it was "there"..
Look at this page, at the image at the big image. Look at the tree on the right, look at its base, to the right. We get to see its butt !
http://www.pokemonrubysapphire.com/en-us/adventure-tools/the-pokenav-plus/the-dexnav

I don't even..

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Mega_Obi_WanTrumpets HYPE•

This fills me with rage. There's no doge love whatsoever. Not even when all of the RSE (and most likely ORAS too) bad guys have at least one Poochyena or Mightyena in their team. Come on... Manectric got a mega, Absol got a mega... MightyDoge could really use one right about now.

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Mega_Obi_WanTrumpets HYPE•

That webpage you sent me though, it's awesome. Only after a while did I realise the later matchups were between those that I had been voting for. I had to quit when it pit Groudon and Mightyena, I just couldn't you know? :(

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HolyLatiosRemember when I was alive? Nope.•

i just noticed
i dont know who the heck birdcop is

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psy_commandoOPDodging Blizzards since 2014•

She's a wingull we got during emerald. She got released soon after we caught a trapinch if I remember correctly.

Her nickname sounded like birdcop, so that's how people began referring to her XD

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