Saturday, November 18, 2017

pokemon xd easter egg

so if you played pokemon xd gale of darkness you may have seen that you could do several ingame trades that had rather odd moves. im only covering odd movesets, and will add more later.
trade a togepi for an elekid knowing all the elemental punches [fire/ice/thunder] and cross chop
trade for a larvitar knowing dragon dance and outrage
ok why are these two significant? becuase they were most likely easter eggs to prepare these pokemon for generation IIII [diamond/pearl/platinum]. think about it, how the hell is a physical attacker like larvitar going to make use of a special move like outrage? and dragon dance adds nothing to this. UNLESS, it was to prepare larvitar for the fact that outrage [in gen IIII] became a PHYSICAL move.
as for elekid, why would this be a preperation for gen IIII? well it was also for breeding to pokemon like gastly, abra, other electabuzz, magmar, and other special fighters that could take advantage of the punching trio moveset upon breeding. but electabuzz can also breed with most known fighting types and chain breed those punches to pokemon who would have no use for them [with elekids cross chop being the only useful move really].
unless, of course, those moves were [oh, i dont know] CHANGED to physical attacks upon entering gen IIII games. now what evolution was released in gen IIII games? magmortar, dusknoir, and ELECTIVIRE. for anyone who doesnt know electivire was electabuzz' evo form and elekids third evo, released in diamond/pearl/platinum. and this beast is a pure raw physical attacker capable of learning earthquake [being the first pure electric type to be able to do so in recorded history].
the fact that all three punching moves became physical in gen IIII and the addition of cross chop probably meant that they were hinting that you should transfer the evolved electabuzz to generation IIII. but the really big hint that they were planning for this for most of the pokemon in xd gale of darkness, was the inclusion of munchlax and bonsly in the game. thats right, pokemon not released til gen IIII and pre-evolutions of snorlax and sudowoodo were included in a gen III game. even the mystery dungeon gen III games made reference to pokemon in the same manner like weavile, lucario, and others.
oddds are the developpers intended to have players transfer pokemon from xd gale of darkness to diamond/pearl/platinum, and elekid and larvitar were easter eggs referencing new pokemone and move changes. plus who played xd and didnt think they would eventually get the munchlax or bonsly as like a gift? i totally thought id get them. plus bonsly is just plain adorable.

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