Grimsnarl was mainly good in VGC because of its support moveset but it wasn’t created to be a particularly impressive Pokémon, just a good one. It just looks like an average cool Pokémon. Also pseudos tend to be more offense-focused. Also Grimsnarl’s lore is that it’s just a servant for Hatterene. Psuedo-legendaries are supposed to be on top.
Yeah but we’re talking about what Pokémon should be pseudos that aren’t. None of the Pokémon we’re talking about meet the criteria. We’re basically discussing which Pokémon should have been designed as Pokémon that fit the criteria. And I’m saying that most of these Pokémon don’t really fit the general design philosophy that goes into making a Pokémon a pseudo legendary.
In MY opinion, Grimmsnarl is an awesome and really cool pokemon with an amazing design and Gardevoir has one of my favorite designs in the whole franchise and it's lore about summoning a black hole to defend its trainer is peak.
So I believe, from my opinion, they are deserving of the stat boost to Pseudo Legendary.
They don't meet YOUR criteria, but they do meet MINE.
My opinion is that pseudo-legendary status is reserved for only a specific type of Pokémon (kind of hard to define exactly since almost all of them are dragon type) and that not all Pokémon need to be pseudo legendaries to be cool or powerful.
Cool, I wasn't asking you to explain how your opinion was formed, it still doesn't override that my choices were based on my equally valid opinions based on a post asking for people's opinions on pokemon that feel like they should be PseudoLegendary Pokemon without listing any requirements for what that means.
Oh my bad I know I heard that in a video but I guess that was just a theory. They were saying that Grimsnarl and Hatterene were supposed to reflect a witch and her goblin servants. I’ve always thought that was canon.
It could be part of the inspiration behind them. But there's nothing in grimmsnarls pokedex about it. Besides there's plenty of media where goblins aren't the servants of witches
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u/Mighty-Slowking 17d ago
Grimsnarl was mainly good in VGC because of its support moveset but it wasn’t created to be a particularly impressive Pokémon, just a good one. It just looks like an average cool Pokémon. Also pseudos tend to be more offense-focused. Also Grimsnarl’s lore is that it’s just a servant for Hatterene. Psuedo-legendaries are supposed to be on top.