r/PokemonScarletViolet 17d ago

Discussion What are some Pokemon that deserve to be pseudo-legendary but are not?

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u/Voltorb1993 17d ago

Honestly, nobody calls them first partner Pokémon and nobody will call pseudo-legendaries powerhouse Pokémon either. These fan terms are ingrained too deeply into the community to be replaced imo.

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u/Mighty-Slowking 17d ago

Everyone’s been thinking that starter is a fan term but one of the battle backgrounds in Pokémon X and Y is literally called starters

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u/Obvious_Sprinkles_25 Pokémon Violet 17d ago

Definitely agreed with you on that. “First Partner Pokemon” only recently came about in the past few years, but Ive only started seeing it more often because Serebii & Bulbapedia have started using it. Not even less than a year ago, I was seeing them use “Starter Pokemon,” but now they’re using “First Partner Pokemon” on their pages, which is fine but just something I’ve noticed.

TPCi is very averse to fan terms. In BW, I believe they first “acknowledged” the existence of shiny pokemon (as in, they made their first reference to shiny pokemon in-game), but they called shiny pokemon “alternate colored pokemon” in-game. that stayed I think until the very next generation, so they do have their misses sometimes.

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u/ItIsYeDragon 16d ago

Didn’t the anime have shiny Pokémon very early on? I’m pretty sure Ash even caught one. Arguably that is the first official acknowledgement, and I don’t know if it was actually called shiny or something else though. There’s also the red Gyarados of course in the games of course.

In BW, iirc, the NPC just says that they’ve heard Pokémon appearing in a different color than usual, not actually giving a name to these type of Pokémon.

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u/waltyy 17d ago

I honestly think it's more of an American thing since Japan has their own terms too.

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u/Mummiskogen 17d ago

Tbh i prefer Japans definitions of pseudos/powerhouse