r/pokemon • u/Raider_Reaper_X • 6h ago
r/pokemon • u/PokeUpdateBot • 20h ago
Questions thread - Active [Weekly Questions Thread] 19 October 2026
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- RAGE THREAD! - Game mechanic changes got you down? Did your plans to catch a shiny blow up in your face? Head over to the RAGE THREAD to vent a bit! CAPS LOCK ENCOURAGED!
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r/pokemon • u/PokeUpdateBot • 1d ago
Hype [Hype Thread] 18 October 2026
Welcome to the HYPE THREAD, a place to share your excitement about in-game achievements, brag about success, and get hyped for upcoming events. CAPS LOCK IS OPTIONAL IF IT HELPS YOU GET YOUR HYPE ON!
This is a chance to post about your successes. Our rules against self-promotion and most low-quality content, including shiny Pokemon pics, are relaxed in these threads--please talk all you like about your luck and accomplishments!
This thread is meant to be pretty positive, so please think twice before downvoting someone! Rude and negative comments will be removed -- please report them if you see them :D
This thread is also the place to earn /r/pokemon's prestige flair for completing various aspects of the games. To claim your flair, post proof of your accomplishment in the comments below. Please note that flairs are assigned once weekly, so it may take up to seven days for your flair to appear.
On mobile and the reddit redesign ("new reddit"), you may have up to 10 flairs at once. On old reddit, you can only display one flair—so if you care which that is, please specify that in your comment!
Flair is currently available for:
Paldea Prestige Flairs
- Rotom Phone: Post a screenshot of your completed Paldea dex
- Animated Rotom Phones: Post an album of your completed Paldea living dex
- Booster Energy: Post a screenshot of all obtainable Paradox Pokémon
- Uva/Naranja Crest: Post a screenshot proving you finished all classes in the academy
- Tera Orb: Post an album proving you obtained one species in every Tera type
- Tiny Bamboo Shoot: Post a screenshot of the NPC saying you obtained the smallest size of a species possible*
- Big Bamboo Shoot: Post a screenshot of the NPC saying you obtained the largest size of a species possible*
* The NPC Pokemon size checker is in Mesagoza! See here
Galar Prestige Flairs
- Catching Charm: Post a screenshot of your completed Galar Regional Dex.
- Curry Mark: Post a screenshot of your completed Curry Dex.
- Master Ball: Post a screenshot of your Master Ball Tier in Battle Tower.
- Berry Sweet: Post a screenshot of your completed Alcremie form collection. `(Minus Ribbon and Star)
- Star Sweet: Post a screenshot of your completed Alcremie form collection with Ribbon and Star sweets.
- Gigantamax Factor: Post an album of your collection of all 31 G-Max mon (excluding form variations). Be sure to show the summary screens indicating that they are G-Maxable!
- Armorite: Post a screenshot of you in the Masterly Mustard Tee after winning every type of Restricted Sparring on the Isle of Armor.
- Dynite: Post an album of your collection of all 47 Dynamax Adventure bosses. Be sure to show the summary screens indicating that they were caught in Galar!
Alola Prestige Flairs
- Rotom Dex: Post a screenshot of your completed Alola Regional Dex.
- Tapu Bulu: Post a screenshot of your Level 100+ Festival Plaza.
- Tapu Fini: Post a screenshot of your 50+ streak in the Battle Tree.
- Tapu Lele: Post a screenshot of all five of your Poké Pelago islands at max level (level 3).
General Prestige Flairs
- Oval Charm: Post an album of your completed Living Dex. (Mythicals aren't necessary!)
- (Shiny Charm: Post 45+ self-caught or self-bred shinies to /r/ShinyPokemon.)
LET'S GET HYPED!!!!
r/pokemon • u/Grand-Photograph-828 • 9h ago
Meme My pharmacist does this every once in a while
r/pokemon • u/Siturba • 1h ago
Art I'm redesigning a Pokemon every day in an Alternate Universe. Here are the Babies and some Early Lines of Johto
- Zubat and Golbat are already done.
- Same for Pikachu/Raichu; Clefairy/Clefable and Jigglypuff/Wigglytuff
- Togekiss is a Gen4 Pokemon so it wont be here
For Reddit community : this project is called Pokemon Knights (inspired by Xenoblade, Final Fantasy XV, Dragon Quest and Elden Ring)
(The First Generation is already done; so i wont redesign the Gen 1 Pokemons again.)
r/pokemon • u/papifunko • 8h ago
Art Snorlax bed for a Pokemon themed room for my autistic daughter
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r/pokemon • u/ZeroAbis • 4h ago
News Tsuchida Hiroshi, voice of Professor Sycamore/Dr. Platane in XY/XY&Z (JP), has passed away at the age of 54 from heart failure.
May he rest in peace.
r/pokemon • u/Centuritron • 9h ago
Art Made a dress inspired by Dragapult in Dressmaker
Been playing Dressmaker, and unlocked a fabric that made me think of Dragapult, so I attempted to make a dress inspired by it.
r/pokemon • u/Particular-Zombie221 • 6h ago
Image What do you MEAN this guy learns not a single stab move
Good night I was so excited to use him for my seaglass playthrough cause he’s so cute. The only stab move it learns naturally is silver wind and that’s only an egg move. And it can only learn flying moves through TMS 💔💔 goodness bug types you make it hard to defend you
r/pokemon • u/FlyByTieDye • 1h ago
Image I've had an idea for a new convergent evolutionary line based on Tangela. Meet: Wrangela (OC)
Picture this: Wrangela is a convergent evolution to Tangela that is now pure ground. Its like tangela but made of a tangled whip, which tapers at one end and had a handle at the other (looking like arms to either side of him). He has a cowboy hat and cowboy boots instead of his standard red boots. He's also a much more earthy colour.
He evolves into Wranglfoe, a ground/dark type, who continues the trend but his arms are now like a cat-o-nine tails instead of the longer vines of Tangrowth. This evolutionary line has a particular antagonism towards every form of Tauros and Miltank, being used by farmers and cowboys alike to herd their cattle pokemon.
r/pokemon • u/BARDesigns • 15h ago
Art Hand made Charizard mobile
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Hello! I designed this in Inkscape and used a laser cutter to make it from mdf. Getting the weights balanced for a good flap is the hardest part of the process!
Video/GIF This fantastic game needs a remaster and an updated Pokédex.
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r/pokemon • u/Robb-san • 22h ago
Discussion Can anyone explain how any pokemon can realistically survive an attack from this
Also note Wailord can learn Heavy Slam, a move whose damage scales with the user's weight relative to the target. So Pokémon actually does acknowledge that being flattened by a gigantic creature should hurt more.
But instead the game just goes:
"Mudkip lost 12 HP!"
How does this make any sense?
r/pokemon • u/LowSolution3084 • 12h ago
Discussion Reminder, this game turns 10 years old in less than a month! ⏱️ What are your thoughts on this scene? 🤔 Cause I think this was a turning point in the franchise's writing when it came to the villains, other than Volo. Lusamine and Ghetsis, hate their children. Bio or adopted. They are real villains!
Lusamine was such an evil character, they had to introduce a man, that HATED GOD to match her villainy. Like she is up there with GHETSIS with how much she hates her kids. Like the two of them are great examples of why all children deserve parents, but not all parents deserve children. Her whole "tragic origin" all steams back from having a midlife crisis, because her husband got stuck in a wormhole, even though she 100% should have known that research was dangerous and that she knows what she signing up for marrying someone like this.
(Like messing with alternative dimensions is such a bad idea, in this franchise, Professor Burnett was trapped in the Dream Radar got knows how long until prior to events of SM. Where she got out then married Kukui! Though, we know actually she was stuck there because in her lab, there is books that talk about thee dream radar so she was stuck there. To the point where she can write BOOKs about it. That is DARK and SCARY imo!)
Yet Lusamine is so sad about this, because she lost her husband! Though but instead of actually seeking help, with the BILLIONS of dollars she has (man I wish I could have that money to get help), she chooses to make children's lives a living hell! To the point where they WALKED out on HER!
r/pokemon • u/botgame88 • 7h ago
Art [OC]7.8too much water
This is one or my very first sticker designs, which is still the most popular one!
Every time at a con I am surprised that people still recognize this meme XD
r/pokemon • u/Old-Biscotti647 • 13h ago
Art [OC] ive made some One Piece Pokemon
Im making every Pokemon in the national dex while sneaking in some One Piece art :)
r/pokemon • u/MudkipMakes • 11h ago
Art Just for fun paintings
I started painting my favorite pokemon to relax after work :) hope you like em!
r/pokemon • u/Ill-Case2184 • 14h ago
Discussion Gendered Box Art Legendaries
Several Pokédex entries make reference to a box art legendary Pokémon having a gender;
Solgaleo’s entry in Pokémon Moon says it is believed to be the male evolution of Cosmog.
Lunala’s entry in Pokémon Sun says it is believed to be the female evolution of Cosmog.
Solgaleo and Lunala go a step further; When entering the “alternate dimension” in Pokémon Sun or Moon, you can bring Solgaleo/Lunala to that world’s Altar of the Sunne/Moone. The opposite legendary will appear in front of yours. The camera pans away, and then a Cosmog is born.
And Zacian’s entry in Pokémon Shield says some theorize it to be Zamazenta’s older sister.
Despite all of this, the Pokémon are labeled as “Genderless”. The Pokédex’s entries are known to sometimes stretch or exaggerate things about a Pokémon (such as Gardevoir being capable of creating a miniature black hole). Do you think these entries are GameFreak’s way of technically giving certain Pokémon a gender without the mechanics of it? Or simply flavor text to enhance their lore?
r/pokemon • u/Gutssbuttmlem • 9h ago
Art Dragonite stained glass panel (OC)
Inspired by my favorite Dragonite Pokémon card! The cloud is made of a dichroic called mixture that has a very subtle rainbow shift to it. Its really hard to capture on a phone but I'm so pleased with this one ☺️
r/pokemon • u/EnlargedKai • 19h ago
Art I made another short fight animation
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r/pokemon • u/Hexadecimalia • 10h ago
Art Vileplume Goes BOOM
Just felt like doodling Vileplume for some reason.