Pokémon/Characters/Generation III Families: Difference between revisions

* [[Everything's Better with Dinosaurs]]: The older two forms are arboreal leaf-raptors.

** [[Raptor Attack]]: ...[[Shown Their Work|And they actually get some things right, such as the inward-facing hands and leafy "feathers".]]

* [[Green Thumb]]

* [[In a Single Bound]]

* [[Dinosaurs Are Dragons]]: There's a ''reason'' this species is part of the ''Dragon'' egg group.

* [[Lightning Bruiser]]

* [[Signature Move]]: [[Blade Below the Shoulder|Leaf Blade]], in Generation III. Also, as a Grass starter, Grass Pledge and Frenzy Plant.

* [[Turns Red]]: Like all Grass-type starters, its Grass-type moves are boosted in potency when it's down to 1/3 of its HP, thanks to its Overgrow ability.

* [[Wall Crawl]]

For the purpose of collecting the gym badges it's a great starter as well, considering that its Water-type takes care of Roxanne and Flannery, and its Ground-type takes care of Wattson.

 

* [[Awesome Yet Practical]]: Swampert is statistically the strongest of the starters, and it's also one of the most useful ones. Unlike every other starter, it has remained consistently popular and useful in the competitive scene since its debut, though it has taken a bit of a hit in usefulness in Generation V.

* [[Dishing Out Dirt]]: The line is of the Ground type from Marshtomp onward; additionally, it has access to numerous useful Rock moves.

* [[For Massive Damage]]: It's a single weakness, but a crippling one: any powerful Grass-related will wreck Swampert. (On the other hand, it's the only Water-type starter, and one of a small handful of Pokémon, that's immune to Electric.)

* [[Informed Ability]]: Swampert's [[Flavor Text]] regularly states that it can swim as fast as a jet-ski. Its Speed actually isn't that good, nor does it get Swift Swim as a Dream World ability ([[They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot|which would've made a hell of a lot of sense]]).

* [[Making a Splash]]

 

* [[Action Bomb]]: Exploding acorns/tengus!

* [[Combat Pragmatist]]: They have ''no'' honor whatsoever when it comes to fighting.

* [[Foil]]: See Lotad's entry.

* [[Jerkass]]: Shiftry, according to the 'dex.

* [[Lightning Bruiser]]: A Shiftry with the Chlorophyll ability becomes this once sunny weather is active.

*** This can go both ways though; if ''the opponent'' is using a strategy involving sunny weather and you have a Chlorophyll Shiftry, switch it in and take advantage of it.

* [[Metal Slime]]: In ''Emerald'', really hard to find.

Swallow Pokémon that inhabit the early routes of Hoenn. They're not as common in their region as their counterparts Pidgey, Starly, and Pidove are in their regions. They are true [[Determinator]]s, refusing to give up even when they are near defeat.

 

* [[Big Badass Bird of Prey]]: And it's a ''swallow'', too!

* [[Com Mons]]: Subverted. Like Sentret, they look like [[Com Mons]], and you expect them to be common, but nope, they are rare to find.

* [[Determinator]]: What Guts amounts to.

* [[For Massive Damage]]: Don't let the anime tell you otherwise, Electric-type attacks DO hurt them.

* [[Glass Cannon]]: When affected with a status condition, Guts kicks in and makes their attacks deadly, even if survivability gets even more hindered. Combine with Facade for optimal effect.

 

== Wingull (Camome) and Pelipper ==

Water and Flying-type Pokémon that are found everywhere while surfing. Wingull is a [[Fragile Speedster]], learning speed-based attacks like Quick Attack and even Agility, but Pelipper has a much different moveset, learning Hydro Pump and the Stockpile trio, and having a Defense stat of 100 but a Speed stat lower than Wingull.

 

* [[Blow You Away]]: Wingull learns more wind-based attacks than Pelipper, though.

* [[Com Mons]]: On water routes.

* [[For Massive Damage]]: Zap it with a well-placed Electric attack [[Book Ends|for massive damage]].

* [[Fragile Speedster]]: Oddly, Wingull fits this, but Pelipper doesn't.

* [[Healing Factor]]: Its Dream World ability, Rain Dish, lets it regain health in the rain.

** It also learns Roost, something which an AI-controlled Pelipper tends to spam repeatedly.

* [[Mighty Glacier]]: Pelipper ''tries'' to be this. Unfortunately, the fact that [[Weaksauce Weakness|Electric attacks will turn it into Hoenn Fried Pelican makes its defensive value questionable]].

 

== Ralts, Kirlia, Gardevoir (Sirknight), and Gallade (Erlade) ==

 

* [[Blade Below the Shoulder]]: Gallade has [[Dual-Wielding|two of them]].

* [[Confusion Fu]]: Gallade's movepool. Psychic, Dark, Grass, Fighting, Rock, Flying, Bug, Ground...

* [[Cute Monster Girl]]: Kirlia and Gardevoir, though they can be male.

* [[Dude Looks Like a Lady]]: Kirlia and Gardevoir, despite 50% of them being male. Gallade, with his more masculine appearance, was probably added to fix this.

* [[Mama Bear]]: Gardevoir will protect their trainer, no matter what.

* [[Metal Slime]]: Ralts is rare in every game it can be encountered. Made even more frustrating in that it's the first Pokémon your rival Wally encounters in ''Ruby'', ''Sapphire'', and ''Emerald''.

* [[Mighty Glacier]] edging on [[Lightning Bruiser]]: Both Gardevoir and Gallade have impressive Special Defense and offense (Special Attack for Gardevoir, Attack for Gallade), but only average Speed. Thus, while they're not really ''slow'', it's still pretty easy to outspeed them.

* [[One-Gender Race]]: Gallade can only evolve from male Kirlia.

* [[Synchronization]]: 2 out of 3 of this family's abilities, Trace (copying the opponent's own ability) and the one which is actually '''called''' Synchronize (passing status effects).

* [[Undying Loyalty]]: Gardevoir towards its trainer.

A [[Metal Slime|very rare]] Pokémon, respectively based on a water-strider and an eye-spotted moth. Surskit is Bug and Water-typed and has a movepool with limited offensive abilities. Masquerain uses its eye-spotted wings to intimidate the opponent and has a natural moveset that is more in line with the likes of other flying insects. This line is notable for having a unique type combination (Bug/Water) removed upon evolution.

 

* [[Big Creepy-Crawlies]]

* [[Blow You Away]]: Masquerain

* [[Everything's Better with Dinosaurs]]: Breloom has some characteristics of dinosaurs, with its head being similar to an ''Pachycephalosaurus'' and its tail resembling an ''Ankylosaurus'' tail.

* [[For Massive Damage]]: Breloom to Flying attacks.

* [[Lethal Joke Character]]/[[Difficult but Awesome]]: Breloom is a major threat in OU competitive play, yet it has one of the lowest base stat totals in the tier.

* [[Magikarp Power]]: Shroomish is useful to a degree, but doesn't do much apart of spreading status and helping against Roxanne, while Breloom is an excellent Pokémon in the main game too.

* [[Perpetual Frowner]]: Shroomish

* [[Standard Status Effects]]: Spore, Poison Powder and Stun Spore.

* [[Extra Ore Dinary]]

* [[For Massive Damage]]: Fighting- and Ground-type attacks.

* [[Non-Malicious Monster]]/[[Obliviously Evil]]: A recurring theme in their Pokédex entries is the friction caused between them and humans. For example, Aron occasionally descend from their mountain habitats and start eating steel constructs such as rails and bridges, and Lairon usually clash with humans who attempt to mine the iron ore it usually nest nearby. As for Aggron... "territorial" is an understatement. But while it will viciously attack any intruders upon its territory, it will also work diligently to preserve its territory, and it will work just as diligently to restore its territory if a natural disaster wrecks it. ([[Green Aesop|We humans could learn something from Aggron's example.]])

* [[Stealth Pun]]: A part-Rock type has the Heavy Metal ability.

 

== Meditite and Medicham (Asanan and Charem) ==

* [[Delayed Reaction]]: Numel only.

* [[Dishing Out Dirt]]

* [[Playing with Fire]]

* [[Signature Move]]: Prior to Generation IV, the only Pokémon to learn Eruption naturally, apart from [[Olympus Mons|Groudon]].

* [[Our Dragons Are Different]]: In this case, Vibrava and Flygon are draconic ''antlions''.

* [[Status Buff]]: Averted. Despite being a dragon that looks very nimble, it can't learn Dragon Dance or '''any''' buffs beyond Hone Claws.

* [[Overshadowed by Awesome]]: Sadly appears the case, as Salamence is no longer banned in Generation V. There's Haxorus and Hydreigon, too, and Team Preview makes its scouting moveset moot, which was its one major niche.

* [[You Will Not Evade Me]]: [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|Arena Trap]] is essentially the Magnemite line's Magnet Pull, with different limitations.

Water/Ground type catfish. They possess the ability to cause earthquakes, and are also said to have a limited ability to predict real earthquakes. Unlike real catfish, Whiscash's tail is horizontal, resembling a sea mammal's tail instead of a fish's.

 

* [[Dishing Out Dirt]]

* [[Earthquake Machine|Earthquake Creature]]

* [[For Massive Damage]]: To Grass-type attacks.

* [[Making a Splash]]

* [[Mighty Glacier]]

* [[Palette Swap]]: Mentioned only because of an amusing fact: their "Shiny" forms switch colors with ''each other''.

* [[Prehistoric Monster]]

 

== Anorith (Anopth) and Armaldo ==

* [[Metal Slime]]: The opposite of Magikarp; to find a water tile (not body, TILE) that yields Feebas you'd have to spend several hours or be very lucky. However, once encountered, it is easy to catch. Evolving it, however...

** Averted in Generation V: Feebas is easy to find, there are wild Milotic, and it can be evolved by trading it with an item attached. Thank you, Gamefreak.

** Also averted in HeartGold and SoulSilver; grind enough on the Pokewalker, and you'll reach the final route, where Feebas are merely an uncommon occurrance.

* [[World's Most Beautiful Woman]]: Among Pokémon.

One of two pure ghost families that are caught far into the game, Shuppet and Banette live up to the reputation of ghost types being fairly creepy. Shuppet feed off vengeful emotions and gather where such people live. Banette is more freaky in that it takes on the form of an animate doll searching for the child who discarded it. They have a high attack stat but little else.

 

* [[Casting a Shadow]]

* [[Creepy Doll]]: Both Shuppet and Bannette are abandoned children's dolls, reanimated by a grudge against their former owners.

* [[Our Ghosts Are Different]]: They're not so much ghosts as they are discarded toys possessed by an evil force said to be the grudge they've held against being abandoned by their owners.

* [[Soul Power]]

 

== Duskull, Dusclops, and Dusknoir (Yomawaru, Samayoru, and Yonoir) ==

* [[Soul Power]]

* [[Stone Wall]]

* [[Took a Level in Badass]]: Similar to Chansey, the introduction of the Eviolite item (which gives both defenses a 50% boost if the holder is not a final evolution) takes Dusclops, a decent [[Stone Wall]] that was overshadowed by its later evolution, and makes it into able to stand up against nearly anything.

 

* [[For Massive Damage]]: Ice-type attacks and its own type, just like most of the other Dragons.

* [[Jerkass]]: Salamence has built up a reputation for being an extremely vicious and cruel Pokémon.

* [[Our Dragons Are Different]]

* [[Shout-Out]]: Salamence's wing shape and color scheme are a tribute to ''[[Devilman]]''.

* [[Herr Doktor]]: Metagross draws some inspiration from the classical image of those characters: The cross in its face can be seen as thick frowning eyebows and a moustache.

** [[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot]]: A German scientist predatory metallic [[Spider Tank]] with four brains and [[Psychic Powers]]? Why, of course!

* [[Mighty Glacier]]: However, it can use Agility and Bullet Punch to turn itself into a [[Lightning Bruiser]].

* [[Psychic Powers]]

* [[Signature Move]]: [[Megaton Punch|Meteor MASH (novel)]] is heavily associated with Metang and Metagross. Mostly because the only other Pokémon to learn it is ''Clefairy''.

* [[Spider Tank]]

* [[Use Your Head]]: Besides Take Down, Beldum can only be taught head-based moves for attacking.

* [[Shout-Out]]: Registeel's cry resembles the famous sound effect used when the ''[[Transformers]]'' transform.

* [[Stone Wall]]: Registeel's stats are more balanced than its brethren, but it can't hit hard from either side.

== Latias and Latios ==

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* [[For Massive Damage]]: Rayquaza has trouble surviving Ice-type attacks. Too bad Ice-type Pokémon have trouble surviving Rayquaza's attacks.

** Kyogre's boosted Water-type attacks, thanks to its Drizzle ability that causes endless rain. Specifically, a successful Choice Specs-boosted Water Spout is the near equivalent of [[Instant Kill]] on Pokémon.

* [[Infinity+1 Sword]]: Kyogre and Groudon in ''Emerald'', Rayquaza in all three versions.

* [[Land, Sea, Sky]]: Groudon, Kyogre, and Rayquaza respectively

** [[Glass Cannon]]: Rayquaza, who hits as hard as the others on both sides, but takes hits as bad as the others in their weak sides.

* [[Magma Man]]: Groudon. It's a Ground-type, but like Lugia's association with water, it's strongly associated with volcanoes and magma and sunlight (and by extension, [[Playing with Fire|fire]]). The reason why it wasn't given a secondary Fire type was probably to [[Blessed with Suck|not let it be killed too easily by Water-types, especially its nemesis Kyogre]].

* [[Making a Splash]]: Kyogre. It's the very representation of the seas.

* [[No Biological Sex]]

* [[Olympus Mons]]: In fact, the first to be treated as such instead of simply "very powerful."

* [[Our Dragons Are Different]]: Rayquaza, although rather close to the traditional Chinese version.

* [[Plot Coupon That Does Something]]: This is the generation that introduced Abilities, and it just so happens that all three of their signature Abilities were relevant to the stories of their respective games.

* [[Physical God]]s: They created/rule over the oceans, continents and atmosphere respectively. "Gods" are the only way you can describe them.

* [[Purposefully Overpowered]]: You won't be able to use them in the Battle Tower, most official tournaments, and most cups in 3D fighters. In fact, in the metagame, if every Pokémon is allowed to be used, Kyogre and Groudon tend to be number 1 and 2 or 3 (usually competing with Dialga) respectively, and both of them, but especially Kyogre, are ''insanely'' powerful, to the point that things like Quagsire are used exclusively for countering it (Quagsire can absorb Kyogre's Water-type attacks and nullify its popular Thunder, then force it into an Encore. And even ''Quagsire'' can't handle some Kyogre variants, even those that that don't wield Hidden Power Grass-type). Rayquaza is no slouch either, usually sitting above number 10 and having one of the most powerful Dragon-type moves outside of Latios (who is quite viable on the Special side of things with Soul Dew attached). And finally Groudon, who is so versatile you won't be able to guess its full moveset easily, and after proper set-up, becomes one of the, if not ''the'', deadliest sweeper in the games.

* [[Signature Move|Signature Abilities]]: Prior to Generation V, the weather-altering abilities Drought and Drizzle were exclusive to Groudon and Kyogre, respectively. However, with the introduction of the Dream World in ''[[Pokémon Black and White]]'', Ninetales and Politoed gained access to these abilities.

** Rayquaza is also one of only two Pokémon to know V-Create (an event-exclusive move), the other one being Victini (whom the move was originally designed for). [[Oh Crap|Yup, 180 Base Power coming off of 150 Base Attack. And even the rain won't save you thanks to Air Lock.]]

** You do find one of the two(and the third if you trade the other over) in [[Pokémon Heart Gold and Soul Silver]]. Of course this could just mean the Hoenn protagonist wasn't able to hold onto them/it's the Weather Pokemon you didn't catch in Ruby/Sapphire.

* [[Spell My Name with an "S"]]: In Japan, "Kaiorga" and "Kyogre" have both been seen.

* [[Sword of Plot Advancement]]: Kyogre and Groudon in their respective versions, to an extent. They must be encountered and either defeated or captured to progress with the plot, so they aren't ''technically'' required. Few players will pass on their chance to catch a [[Lost Forever]] [[Game Breaker]], though.

* [[Time Abyss]]: Rayquaza is hundreds of millions of years old. Given they created the seas and land, so would Kyogre and Groudon.

* [[Weather Control Machine|Weather Control Creatures]]: Played straight by Groudon and Kyogre, and inverted by Rayquaza since it blocks out any weather (but doesn't remove it, so its effects come back into play as soon as Rayquaza leaves the field).

* [[Yin-Yang Clash]]: Groudon vs. Kyogre, requiring Rayquaza to break them up.

* [[Lightning Bruiser]]: All around high stats.

** [[Jack of All Stats]]: Equal stats, as expected of the Mew expy. Accordingly, beating one is pretty much down to luck. It is THE incarnation of [[Luck-Based Mission]] in the competitive metagame (alongside Shaymin-S).

* [[Make a Wish]]

* [[No Biological Sex]]

* [[Humanoid Abomination]]: Certainly gives off this feel. The fact it's a sentient virus doesn't help.

* [[Leitmotif]]: Three rather creepy [[For Doom the Bell Tolls|bell strikes]].

* [[Meaningful Name]]: '''Deoxy'''ribonucleic acid or... DNA.

* [[Multiform Balance]]

* [[No Biological Sex]]

* [[Power Crystal]]: the source of its powers. Also probably its brain.

* [[Psychic Powers]]

* [[Purposefully Overpowered]]: Won't see any use in the Battle Tower or in tournaments.

* [[Signature Move]]: Psycho Boost.

* [[Starfish Alien]]: While all Pokémon are theorised to be this, Deoxys is the only Pokémon that is downright proven to be an alien. Well, an alien space virus.

 

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