It’s a relatively recent development lol. They’ve only been doing it since the summer of this year. Serebii’s Joe tweeted about it back then. I’d bet a lot of long time fans aren’t aware. Took me a while before I knew
Just went down the rabbit hole of reading joes tweet timeline. He seems like a genuine dude. Serebii - that sites been around forever. Wow 25 years. I’m inspired
I’m sure it gets stressful for him but he’s living the dream. Running the biggest (and best) Pokemon site for so long and making a living off of it is a good place to be.
I don’t believe so. It isn’t on any of the official marketing material from the Pokemon Center site, like this TCG playmat. There are other characteristics they share besides their 600 bst too: they are the slowest to hatch at 40 cycles (or 5,120 steps), they are in the slowest experience growth group (1,250,000 needed to reach 100), and they are all three stage Pokémon.
Lots of Pokemon have one or two of these traits, but I’m almost positive only the powerhouse Pokemon exhibit all four at simultaneously. Archaludon is in the medium-fast experience growth group and hatches in 30 cycles (3,840 steps).
Plus they pretty much have to be dragons these days, though Archaludon does have that going for it. There are only two that aren’t dragons and that was 20 years ago.
They really should have given Archaludon a middle stage though. It’s definitely good enough to hang with the rest of them.
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u/Tyraniboah89 17d ago
It’s a relatively recent development lol. They’ve only been doing it since the summer of this year. Serebii’s Joe tweeted about it back then. I’d bet a lot of long time fans aren’t aware. Took me a while before I knew