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playthrough updates

  • finally got jirachi! he's available early on in the dreamyard, but it's a 1% encounter rate in shaking grass at lvl. 30, so i waited to get to chargestone cave for a nosepass with magnet pull lol.
  • poppy just evolved
  • poufa just evolved! finally. had to wait for endeavor (at lv 44) because that would be so OP on whimsicott.
  • oboe finally evolved!! having a careful kirlia was very rough with ⇩ sp.atk, but that ⇧ sp.def on gallade will be so clutch, i have faith. he's also got justified which is rather based in my opinion.
  • paan just evolved; forget what i just said, going in with musharna at 3 lvl higher than elesa's highest. am i a fraud? do i deserve that badge..?
  • paan just hit lv 40. need to learn dream eater before using that moon stone, since we are baku-maxxing. feels weird having an overleveled munna but i don't feel guilty since her stats as an unevolved mon are still far behind elesa's fully-evolved team.
  • yoyoy just evolved

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volt white (drayano fanhack)
badges: 4

  • [area unknown] Oboe
  • [area unknown]Paan
  • [area unknown]Pen
  • [area unknown]Pixx
  • [area unknown]Poufa
  • [area uknown]Debt
  • [area unknown]Poppy
  • [area unknown]yoyoy
  • [area unknown]Pim
  • [area unknown] Yarn

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    Meloetta's character design is not good. She doesn't feel like an otherworldly being; she feels like a character from a forgettable slice-of-life OVA. It's like they just repackaged Kirlia and added a Mystery Gift event. Sarcity = Quality, guys! She certainly is on-theme, but that's the extent of what Meloetta has to offer.

    Gimmicky Pokémon designs didn't start in Gen 5 (see Jynx, Voltorb, Mr. Mime), but this specific trend of massive head:limb ratios is particularly conspicuous here. You could blame Infernape for the shounen-protagification of Pokémon designs, the gateway drug to caricatures like Cinderace and Incineroar--but I'd say Meloetta is categorically linked to the gimmick-dex because of her single-minded commitment to a theme. Infernape is more believable (not as a real creature, but as a character) because it isn't so consumed by a theme: the design feels less gimmicky. Yes, Infernape has a crown and suggestions of armor, but these are vague enough to be "mysterious creature" attributes. Its silhouette is still believable for a monkey; there are no extraneous props glued onto its design.

    Every square centimeter of Meloetta's design is crammed with references to music; her Aria forme's dogged commitment to a pop-star theme severs any ties to the mythic. She reads more like a pun than an automonous being: they couldn't even give her fingers. "But Naan, she's the embodiment of music, a spirit formed from music itself!" Does this mean she has to be a human with an in-ear microphone? Mesprit didn't need Thalia/Melpomene masks or a mood ring to be the spirit of emotion.

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