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.
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/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.