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1) Riolu's name is part of Lucario - lucaRIOLUcario - Also, It's name, may also come from the word 'Oracle', backwards.
2) Porygon gets smaller when it evolves, then bigger when porygon 2 evolves
3) The third Dugtrio member has ADD... Why, just why!?
4) Clefairy was set to be the Pokémon Mascot, but it had to be changed to Pikachu after all the hype about it
5) Mew wasn't originally programmed into Red & Blue, but someone secretly added it in!
6) In Gold/Silver/Crystal, Shiny Pokémon had to have very high IVs but they ditched that idea afterwards
7) In Platinum, Gligar's colour has changed
8) In Platinum, Regigigas is "posing like a model" (I'll leave that up 2 u)
9) Ash was voiced by a girl until he 'hit puberty' (During the Ruby/Sapphire Series)
10) When G\S came out, there was a hype about being able to breed an Ampharos & a Pikachu, to get a Pichu (I'm guessing people thought Pichu was a crossbreed =S)
11) ArcticUNO, ZapDOS, MolTRES (Spanish for "1,2,3")
12) Not really Pokémon, but: maRIOLUigi
13) Lati@s chest triangles are the same as the same as the togepi families!
14) The original Anime Series was only supposed to last 1.5 years, but was extended due to extreme popularity in Japan
15) Shello & Gastrodon were supposed to feature in R/S/E, but were cut at the last minute
16) Porygon2 & Porygon-Z have never appeared in the anime
17) Misty's psyduck is a water-type pokemon that does not know how to swim
18) Darkrai: dark cry ?
19) Doduo and Dodrio can't fly but they can learn the HM Fly
20) All Eevee evolutios end with "eon" because that the name that was going to be given to eevee originally
21) In the Anime pokemon speak by saing their name but in the videogames they produce weird sounds (I was wondering about this myself - how can people know that Pikachu is pikachu, not chukapi, cos it ses its name randomly!!!)
22) Moltres is inspired by a phoenix?
23) Ho-oh is inspired in the chinnese legend of the feuanhang, a sacred phoenix?
24) Nosepass and Probopass are based on the MOAI of the Easter Island?
25) The version mascots starting from generation 2 are rivals,like Ho-Oh and Lugia, Groudon and Kyogre or Dialga and Palkia?
26) Rotom spelled backwards is motor?
27) Legendarie pokemon can't breed, yet in the anime there apeared a mother LUGIA and a child LUGIA?
28) All pokemon professors have the name of a tree a least in one language?
29) Ho-Oh, Togepi, Blaziken, Sudowoodo, Marill, Kecleon, Munchlax, and Elekid (When Tracy sketched its head 'thingies' sticking out of the grass!) appeared in episodes prior to the realese of their respective generations?
30) Nando has a Harp in the anime that has the shape of a Mew
31) Team Rocket Members Include:
Jessie - James [Cowboy]
Butch - Cassidy [Robber]
Annie - Oakley [Cowgirl]
Attila - Hun [Warlord]
32) Magneton is faster than Magnezone?
33) in the anime Pidgeotto only say "Pidgeot", and Pidgeot say "Pidgeotto"?
34) the names Ho-oh, Eevee and Girafarig are palindromes (spelled the same backward and forward)?
35) Ekans is Snake backwards and Arbok is Kobra baackwards?
36) Hitmonlee and Hitmonchan have part of the names of famous marcial art fighters(Bruce Lee & Jackie Chan)?
37) Latias , Latios , Heatran and Cresselia have genders but can't breed, even with a Ditto?
38) Deoxys comes from deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) and the tentacles of the Normal Form looks like DNA
39) Deoxys is the DNA Pokémon, & Mewtwo is the Genetic Pokémon, so they could be in some way related (I thought so too! [link] lol )
40) There are no HM or TM in the anime
41) Glalie is havier that rayquaza
42) Palkia is a water type.... and never uses water type attacks in the anime
43) Groudon is the heavier pokemon yet in the episode the Scuffle of legends he was pulled underwater by kyogre and CAME UP....
44) Rayquaza is said to come down and calm a battle between groudon and kyogre... but rayquaza never appered in the episodes "gaining groudon" and "the scuffle of legends" where groudon and kyogre have and epic battle
45) Slaking has the same base stat total as groudon and kyogre
46) IF you fully EV train a latios to Sp. attack(255 EV's) make sure he has 31 IV's to Sp. attack and equip him the Item soul dew.... LATIOS BECOMES THE MOST POWERFULL POKEMON ON SP. ATTACK? (
47) In pokmon blue a glitch was mysteriously added known as "Missingno". Besides it being a really good pokemon, it could also copy an item until 99. And, if used correctly the glitch could get you pokémon over level 100!
48) Gyarados was originally meant to be Water/Dragon Type, but tht would have been too good, so it became Water/Flying
49) grepa berry= grape
Wiki=kiwi
Wepear= Wester pear
Aspear= Asian pear
Nanab= Banana
Nomel= Lemon
Leppa= Apple
Rawst= Straberry
Oran= Orange
Chesto= Chestnut
Hondew= Honey dew
Pecha= Peach
Cheri= Cherry - I know this isn't all the berries (duh ), so keep 'em coming!
50) Larvitar is supposed to weigh 158.7 pounds, but in the anime ash carries him in his arms.
51) In the anime larvitar uses the move harden, which he cant learn in the games.
52) Koffing's original red/blue sprite had the skull and crossbones above his face rather than below it.
53) In the original games red/blue/yellow charizard and ryhorn had the same crys
as well did goldeen and caterpie
also poliwag and ditto too.
54) Slugma's shiny form could be a depiction of hardened magma
55) In the original red/blue/yellow marowak's back sprite is shown to have boney spikes, but was taken out in later games
56) Manaphy and phione are the only legendary pokemon able to reproduce
57) In the abra family kadabra weighs less than abra, and alakazam weighs less then them both.
58) In the anime pikachu was able to defeat a rhydon with an electric attack even though rhydon is ground type.
59) Croagunk and toxicroak are the only pokemon 4x weak to psychic pokemon
60) The Kanto Region Badges were all originally named just after the colors (Red Badges, Blue Badge, Green Badge, etc), instead of their more complicated names.
61) The cities of Kanto (and MAYBE Johto too...) are named after colors, while the first town is PALLET TOWN after a color pallet. lol.
62) The show and movies like to stuff in extra cities of which we never saw in the games. Isnt that stupid?
63) What's the most CREATIVE pokemon name? of course: Seel.
64) BULBASAUR is the ONLY starter pokemon to have a second element from the start. Bulbasaur and all of its other evo's all are Grass/POISON. 8O
65) In the first generation, the only Ghost pokemon were Gastly, Haunter, and Gengar. Jhoto only added Misdreavus. Once R/S/E and P/D/P came along, Ghost pokemon EXPLODED in population: [link]
68) If they made a Male Gardevoir version, why can Gardevoir still be male?? Creepy, huh?
69) Jynx was once (and probably still is...) proclaimed as a racist pokemon to the african-americans. So they changed its skin color from black to purple.
70) Speaking of Jynx, in Gold/Silver/Crystal, in the ruins, there were these tile puzzles, where you had to move them around to form a certain pokemon. One had you make Kabuto, BUT when fooling around with it, i found out you can make Jynx with it too. 71) You can catch Magikarp at ANY level between 1-100 in Platinum
72) The three legendary dogs from Gold/Silver - Entei, Raikou, and Suicune - are actually the legendary cats. The Pokemon Company revealed that Raikou is a tiger, Entei is a lion, and Suicune is a cheetah
73)The cities in Johto are all named after plants or kinds of wood (well, except for New Bark Town ), as opposed to the colors in Kanto. (Olivine, Cianwood, Azalea etc.).
From Gen III on, they were more lenient, with names that combine natural substances/items (Dewford, Fortree) and places/geographical features (Slateport, Lilycove). Although Gen IV has no particular naming theme, the cities do have names with various meanings often related to geographical features or emotions, such as Pastoria City (from pasture land) or Solaceon Town (from the word solace, meaning comfort).
74) In Gen II, there are 251 moves, as many as there are Pokemon in that generation.No other Gen. has this.
75) Prototype Names:
- The prototype name for Omanyte was "Ess," the first two letters in "escargot" (the French word for snail) with an additional "s."
- Omastar originally had the name "Kargo", which, when taken with Omanyte's beta name "Ess", forms a misspelling of "escargot", which is French for snail.
- Kabuto's prototype name was "Att," which is derived from the word "Atlantis."
- "Lantis," from the word "Atlantis," was the prototype name for Kabutops.
- "Kokoon" was the prototype English name for Kakuna, which would be the same as the romanized Japanese name.
- Scyther's prototype name was "Stryke," a corruption of the word "strike."
- Gastly's prototype name was "Spirit".
- The prototype name of Haunter was "Spectre".
- "Phantom" was the original English name for Gengar.
- Dratini's prototype name was "Dragoon," meaning a European military unit, but was probably used as a play on the word "dragon," or as a combination of "dragon" and "lagoon."
- The prototype name for Dragonair was "Dragyn", a play on the word "dragon".
- Tentacool's prototype English name was "Jilly".
- Tentacruel's original English name was "Man O War"
- Goldeen was originally going to be called "Goldy".
- Seaking's prototype name was "Neptune", named after the god of the sea in Roman mythology.
- Kara-Tee" was Machop's original English name. This name is a corruption of karate, a fighting style.
- "Kung-Foo" was Machoke's prototype name.
- Machamp's original English name was "Ju-Doh".
- The prototype name for Clefairy was "Aria".
- "Ariala" was the prototype name of Clefable.
- Abra and Kadabra (both named after a popular magic spell, together with Alakazam), were originally going to be named "Hocus" and "Pocus", respectively. However, Alakazam is not known to have ever had a prototype name.
- Pidgey was scheduled to be called Pidge
- NY and LA were the original names for Koffing and Weezing respectively (Take that U.S. of A (oops...) )
76) In december 1997 over 640 Japanese kids were sent to hopital after havin seizures after watchin a pokemon episode which includes bright explosions with blue and red parrents. This episode, "Computer Warrior Porygon", was not aired anywhere else but Japan after that.
77)There is a major imbalance between the numbers of Fire and Water pokemon availible in the d/p/pl video game series.
78)Ash and Misty are the only two characters in the entire series that were shown bleeding-
Misty in the original series and Ash in a D/P episode 'Tears for Fears'
79)In 'Get your Rotom Running', Dawns Piloswine tackles her affectionately in the beginning of the episode, shortly after Ash's grotle does so to him. Dawn managed to get up in a scene not to long after that with piloswine STILL CLINGING ONTO HER. Piloswine weighs over 100 lbs.
80)All the pokemon games so far have been named after colors EXCEPT for the Sinnoh Reqion games
81)In pokemon Platinum, you are allowed to take your starter pokemon or any of its evolutions into amity square. However, in many people's eyes, none of the second or third evolutions of the starters are 'cute'
82)Grovyle is the only grass type starter that doesn't walk on 'all fours'
83)Angie from the d/p/pl tv series and the female frontier brain from the series battle frontier both developed crushes on ash, and ash had mistaken them both for boys at first.




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