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they are clearly popular with most people because magikarp is funny and splash is one of the most iconic memes of pokemon and it got its own app while gyarados is cool and iconic and has a few boss appearances

don't play the game for 2 weeks and when you come back you get the returning trainer event which gives 14000 coins total

if he was banned you would be able to see it on his profile and his avatar would be greyed out like https://community.pokemon.com/en-us/profile/Domohead

They counted spinoffs in the post, which 2024 has none of so far. 2015 had Shuffle, Pokken, Rumble World, Super Mystery Dungeon, and Picross.

the real question is if they will ever add legendary avatars

I played Explorers and it was okay except for the bosses because the boss design basically expects you to just bring reviver and status seeds to win especially against Primal Dialga. In the main games there's always a way to win with your party's unique strengths, and the game never forces you to bring specific items to…

It was the one DidYouKnowGaming did a video on the "LOST Official Pokedex" (part 1). I don't know if I can link it here, but at 9:25 they talk about how an experiment was done on a Primeape that weakened it to the point where it shrunk.

honestly in my experience it feels like a lot of pokemon fans I have met on the Internet, especially those who care enough to get deep into the game or any of the other media and join communities about it, have some degree of autism so it's not just you at all. seems fairly common as a special interest in childhood

It was in a Japanese Red/Green lore book but Legends Arceus acknowledged ingame that the pokemon shrink down when you defeat them to protect themselves and that's how they go in pokeballs. When you faint a pokemon in the 3D games they visibly shrink down into nothing.