zimvader42

Without going much into details, the what: Klefki is a key ring, and Carbink is a diamond with ears. The why: we needed a key ring and a diamond with ears. Both are still pretty weird tho.

In that picture I can see: (Eternal flower) floette Rhyperior Golurk Steelix Salamence Lunatone Solrock Gyarados Talonflame Magnemite Bisharp Weavile Abomasnow Aggron Noivern Doublade and/or Honedge Mageton (shadow only, as it is covered by dust in the background) ??? (a weird shadow on the background that I'd say it might be either a hand or spikes, but I don't know for sure which pokemon is it). The rest of what's features there I'm pretty sure are human warriors wearing armors and blades. Regarding the poster itself: Going back on topic, zygarde's cell and core forms might be ancient as well, but I don't know how much. I mean they're cells (see: my point on reuniclus some days ago), and also a legendary that keeps order in the ecosystem, so it would make sense for it to be there previous to the ecosystem's beginning.

Ah, you did it! THE.FIREWORKS.MAN Congrats on that 1000th post tho. Now think of a way to celebrate the upcoming 2000th one c: I don't think we have any mon in the whole game who changes all its types upon evolving. Well, except eevee I guess. Although a pure poison evolving into a water/dark would be kind of an interesting concept, as well as any mons that evolve into things with totally different typing, for that matter. It is quite an unseen thing, even for fakemons, except on branched families like eevee expies and such.

Wait, so you have signatures blocked? does that mean you haven't yet seen Catherine's signature with all its spoilery spoilerinos? You can always unblock, see, and then block again :I

^^^^This man said what everybody was thinking.

This wasn't part of the plan :/

[0][0][1] But counting who reads an spoiler is harder :/ Anyways, good find Auth. What was the challenge tho?

Oh, okay then. Let's see how many of them actually do look for it and come back. I'll set the counter: [0][0][0]

Shouldn't you like, edit or delete that stuff? And yeah I think I posted ebounny in the first CAP thread, so if that one disappeared then I left no tracks nyehehe

Yes, it does. And in reply to Tomas, wasn't the old CAP thread deleted? I couldn't find it anywhere after I deleted Ebounny's and Elftik's lines from it :/

Lol that was super sad. But then again, science!!!! after insects, nematodes (also known as "roundworms") are one of the most successful kinds of animal in the whole world: this is true to the point pretty much every single animal and plant has at least one species of nenatode that is parasitic to them. Nematodes are also everywhere on the planet: water, ground, tissues of other living things, ice, deep down the earth and even deep down the oceans, in places that are hot and in places that are cold: in terms of biomass, they're so damn abundant that in a metre of ground there can be even up to 4.4 million nematodes in standard conditions. Statistically, every individual of a natural poblation is set to be infested with one of these things at least once during their lives. The success of roundworms in nature is in big part due to their simple yet adaptable corporal design: an intestinal tube and big testicles/egg sacks, all surrounded by a pressurized fluid, all surrounded by muscle, all surrounded by skin, all surrounded by a thick wall. All completed with a mouth, anus, and "sort of" penis/vagina. These things resemble worms, but are so damn thick and sturdy you can't even believe. Even after dead, these fuckers' pressure is so big that if you pierce them with a needle the liquid inside them comes out like a jet. They are so pressurized they can't eat or reproduce without performing movement or having special appendages to grab and open each others' holes. And the wall that covers them is like a literal armor: nematodes resist high levels of salt, acid, heat, cold, venom, and whatever you want to throw at them. They don't even care. They can't care, unless what is outside happens to come near some of the few sensitive spots on their armor. There are roundworms ranging from less than a milimetre to around 8/10 metres. Even whales have nematode parasites. But after them....there's also platyhelminthes, also known as flatworms. If roundworms are the kings of unholy resistance to everything, flatworms are the kings of disturbing life cycles. Almost all of them are parasites, and they include lots of steps in their life cycles. Snails and other molluscs are usually the first host they need (reason why "funny eyes dubstep snails" videos on youtube exist on the first place), but they infect almost fucking everything much like roundworms. These have suction cups, however. Once they get attached to, say, an intestine they like, they won't let go unless so they please. And they make THOUSANDS of eggs. Among flatworms, the one that causes the disease of the solitary might be the most famous to y'all. It's a worm whose cycle just happens to need humans at some point. They can grow so damn long and absorb so much food that people with these usually become skinnier, among other things. Xenova was kinda based on those two, at least design-wise. And that's the reason why it can make a gyarados cry in pain.

It is technically purple, but yeah it is a parasite OF water types, not one itself lol And if magikarp evolves before getting consumed, welp, gyarados is getting consumed then. No real problem there bro.

No magikarps were harmed in the making of this game. Probably.

It IS a pokemon with an incredibly HUGE potential for lore, and with the correct setting, stats and gimmick, it could even be actually strong in battle. However, due to only learning an attacking move whose type you get randomly in the game unless you know beforehand the IVs you have, unown is pretty much locked into being the single worst pokemon of all times. It can't boost its stats, it has only ONE move that isn't even that strong and has no STAB and can't be normal or fairy..... if unown was given better moves and better stats, it might not get disrespected, but after all the fuzz made about it in the entei movie and that in the end the only thing you can do with it is collecting all 28 forms (thing that I always do lol).... that might be the reason of the little respect you mention.

"If you run 6 unowns in your party spelling Arceus' name, their stats are doubled and they get multitype and judgment" I'm still waiting for the day this (or something less crazy but equally cool) happens with unown. I mean they should be able to learn some super rare moves or have some super cool mechanic to go with their lore. And yeah they probably are the most ancient things. They're like some sort of dimensional code scripters or some shit that build the laws of physics and whatnot.

Hmm, jellyfishes huh? then that means that Frillish and Jellicent are pretty ancient too, as much or even more than Tentacool/Tentacruel, not only because they seem to be simpler and more water based (tentacruel has sharp and apparently hard features that might indicate it is a more evolved organism), but also because they're ghost types, meaning they could have been around for quite a loooooong time. Speaking of, you know what jellyfishes are made of? cells! and you know what pokemon is a cell? reuniclus! dunno about what the pokedex says about it, but being just a giant amoeba-like thing, it might be either the most ancient thing on the pokemon world (that is not a legendary). At least solosis could be this ancient, considering it is a pre-evolution of reuniclus, so it appeared previous to it in time, and they're also a lot simpler-looking.

There will be an announcement soon this week (yeah I know is wednesday but pretend it is still soon), but if you need, I have quite a full folder of .png christmas hats for when I need to hattenize my avatars. I can put a hat on whatever avatar you have, even if it changes periodically. Although I'm unsure how the mon that is gonna be announced this week will fit you for an avatar; the picture is quite wide but short in height, dunno how that will look.

Although what Nova said is correct for the current version, the final destination of this move is to work as a protective move in the veins of detect, king shield, etc., but it only protects from attacking moves, not status ones (hence why it currently works the same way me first does, but with priority).

I've read somewhere that Torkoals are pretty ancient dudes, but then again, I think this age only takes up back to the early kingdoms of the pokemon world, not actual pre-human pokemon world. Pretty old tortoises tho. All alien pokemon are ancient as fuck as far as records go. Solrock, Lunatone, the Clefairy line, Beheeyem, Deoxys, and maybe even Starmies, these things came from space, and space is big, and if light takes years to travel from one place to the other, these living things that fell to the pokemon world can be assumed to have had been out there for quite a long, long time. Clefairys are known to ride UFOs in the anime, same for beheeyem, which might indicate they can travel fast, but still, things like solrock, which is literally just a living rock floating around, how long from the moment it gets in orbit to the moment it falls to earth? Fossil pokemon are also pretty damn ancient. If the periods of the pokemon world can be assumd the same as ours, the most ancient fossil pokemon to date have to be anorith/armaldo, followed by (or in pair with) kabuto/kabutops. Lileep/Cradily and Omanyte/Omastar come after, followed by Aerodactyl, Rampardos, Bastiodon, Aurorus and Tyrantrum. The "youngest" fossil pokemon, in theory, is Archeops. I don't quite know the time period the turtle Carracosta is based on originated at, but it should be previous or around the same period at the dinosaur ones, I think.

Don't worry bro, I know you were totally gonna trade me that elftik for one of my 5 magpys, right? RIGHT?! Oh you weren't? well too bad, your elftik is going to crit the wild elftik and faint it anyways. Baka.

Thanks for the feeback. I'll adress what I can: -The "annoyiness" of cursed body has already been brought up, and it has also come to my ears that people is iffy about the actual ability ebounny is supposed to have, that being aftermath. Azery achieved to fix aftermath and it now works properly, but since ebounny is rather common and most pokemon only have physical moves by that point, I can see where people come from when they say the thing is annoying as hell. I, too, have been there: my poor eufur almost died twice to glitched aftermath ebounnies in the wild, and some battles became a breeze because my own aftermath ebounny damaged them AND they also got 1/4 HP less each time they hit it as well. That's why, as decided yesterday night, ebounny's new ability (for the first slot, the other slot, run away, remains the same) is quick feet. For those who might not know, quick feet makes it so that, under a status condition, the pokémon's speed is boosted by 50%. Since ebounny already gets agility, and one of the strong points of the 1st gym is getting burned, as Mary herself states, ebounny becomes very fast at the cost of being statused. It doesn't get any annoying effect for the player unless, well, you go and try to burn or paralyze one of these things, but my point is, is not as annoying as cursed body and aftermath: it now only becomes faster, but nothing else. -Mouroot is kind of a strong mon by this point of the game, yes. The trainer that uses it in route 1 (was it route 1?) can give you a hard time depending on what you run, and having a lifoam against it is kind of a problem. Magpy is strongly encouraged against this thing due to SE peck, because I tell you by experience, that ebounny and eufur don't have much going on to take on a mouroot, even at level 7. Another thing that helps quite a lot is sinisect, which evolves at level 6 to allow you take on mouroot with quite a strong fell stinger and resistence againt the grass type's moves. I can't really judge myself how possible it is to defeat this thing running only lifoam, as I haven't tried. -Low sweep is currently being evaluated and as a possible (and very likely) substitute we're considering rock smash, which has lower base power (40 vs 65) and it rather has a chance of lowering defense than always lowering speed of the target. My suggestion against voodusk is running pluck/peck magpy into it, as a ghost/fighting with low defenses can't really do much and gets generally OHKOed. If you don't plan on running magpy in your team, bug types like chromalyd or its evolution, monochromoth, have quite a good position against voodusk: chromalyd is quite defensive and as a pure bug it resists fighting, while monochromoth has better offensive stats and it is immune to ghost, while only neutral against fighting. -I don't have much to say on this one, other than: I still don't have neither an elftik or a pikrieg ;-; Pikrieg is also a good choice against Mary and a good trade for the elftik, but yeah due to this precisely is why elftik is so rare.