The Goldenrod Podcast brings you some of the latest and greatest Pokemon news and a few laughs along the way. So much fun it should be listed in the Pokedex!
QOTP: If you could start your own Pokemon journey from anywhere in the Poke-world. Where would you like to begin with, and would you take a professor given starter of that area or a more difficult route of going out to find your own partner in the surrounding area?
I'd say, give us a starter utility mon like Cylizard to roam around, and as you advance to different areas in the game, you can catch stronger mons that can do more with their natural abilities like connor is getting at, but you have to improve as a trainer to obtain a mon that can climb higher than some or soar faster than others. Therefore making it worth it, and gives retrace ability as your Corviknight can fly higher than say your Doduo could only jump or Fearow could fly. Something like that I would like. Probably something that was in those ranger games I never played lol
Skipping cutscene option would be great for the replay value, because that was the greatest complaint in Pokemon games. If you're not going to recognize older players to skip the tutorial all the together, give an option to all for it. Also, an option for the experience share again. Don't know why that was removed for those that actually like to grind their individual team members.
I would love to explore the Ultra Recon world and start there and go on adventures finding the fallers from other games. Legends Alola: Ultra Rangers lol
Immediately, give me a bug type move that super effective against Fairy. I think the answer is in the resistances rather than the super effectiveness, and give it to moderately okay mons stat wise so that they get more play and representation that doesn't require them to get a new form or evolution. Give Golduck Dark Thoughts, a 70 pp psychic type move that hits dark types super effectively. I could see that being the way forward, and like Ben said, limit it to certain mons via egg move or specific move tutors like the Elemental Beams used to be where you have to go out of your way, present a certain currancy like BP to obtain the ability to learn the moves.
56:30 It would be interesting if GF implemented a field move system like in the Pokemon Ranger games. You briefly befriend a Pokemon to help clear an obstacle in your path. The bigger field moves or more permanent HM type moves like Fly or Surf would become your Partners like in PLA.
29:20 😂yall have shot yourself in the foot here. Pokémon doesn’t need to be historically accurate, just inspired by history. The Protagonist could be another Pacific Islander from a different archipelago like you mentioned with Moana. Simple as that. Someone who is an outsider, but has a similar background.
The future Pokedex could be like an implant with lenses or glasses to see the menu the Implants are like the UI. I think that will happen otherwise implants that let us control our smartphones and cpus That's all possible today but the implant goes in your brain and they don't use the AR glasses interface they just use Bluetooth lol the pokefied version could be like a shot in the arm and a pair of goggles that you can put on and take off putting them on brings up menus They could be hardwired so there would be a futuristic look to the characters wires obviously will go away one day but it would look cool to have a cyborg look just a blue and red or green cable running from the sleeve to the goggles Just realized Mewtwo has his "umbilical" cord from the back of his head this is how it could look if the goggles were hardwired to a brain implant
So happy y'all got to my weird question...can't wait to listen to this at work 😁 definitely legends Alola would make for a fun game Hawaii is a land full of awesome stories and myths.
QOTP: If we can't get changes to the type chart. Could an increase in dual typing moves to those Typings that need the boost help balance things? Like Flying Press being Fighting and Flying or how Freeze Dry is an Ice Type move that is super effective on Water. Maybe having more of these to pair with terastialization is the key? What are your thoughts, and idea for more moves like this?
46:44. I think the best way to balance “Earth type” moves would be for some individual moves to have the flavor text “This move cannot affect Flying or Levitating Pokemon”. Also, I wouldn’t make “Earth type” moves super effective against Flying-types.
48:00. Something I’m surprised they didn’t talk about in Gen 3 section was Pokemon that were given Dragon-type that didn’t need it. I believe there is no plausible reason why Altaria is Dragon-type. It’s just a songbird that looks like a cloud. Normal (for sound) and Flying type like it’s prevo would have worked fine. Then Fairy-Flying for its Mega.
So many people were affected at the height of its impact but thankfully have recovered since.. My heart goes out to those who are still suffering with 'Longform' Go..😓
QOTP: Is Ash a good dragon type trainer? I think besides the anime proving how strong dragon types are, I don't believe Ash has/had the skills yet to fully bring out their potential. His dragons are usually underdeveloped - Gible - given up or left somewhere halfway through the series, or peaked half way through the series. Then there's Dracovish who's just a gag character with a literal Ash-Pull second ability that never got explained lol but still walked into that world championship battle with Water Gun. I really did not like this mon lol
I think you guys should have include Red's Mega Charizard X from Origins. His ability to switch the original 150 pokemon could have also played a factor but Ash still probably takes this win. Even if the Battle Bond was reconned in Journeys, Greninja is still a beast and the water type Ash should have used over Dracovish in my honest opinion lol I hated Dracovish.
The Randomizer Trainer Battles is a nice premise that could have been a new segment moving forward rather than one episode because you can set it up at the beginning or end and post a poll for the two trainers for the comments and subscribers to get involved with and then you can see if they agreed with your decision in the next episode before moving on to the next battle. This reminds me of the Cherry Picker I listen to which is a horror movie podcast where at the end of the episode they pick two characters that should have got the axe (whether they died in the movie or not) and give their reasons and opinions to who they select and let the audience determine the winner in a poll that's discussed in the following episode. Just a suggestion but this could lead to some good involvement in the comments.
🎉🎉🎉 Woo!!!! 100!!!! Well done. And thank you for the consistent entertainment. 🎉🎉🎉 These battle chats would be a fun segment going forward. One random battle to finish off the episodes.
Amazing podcast. Glad to see anime being brought up to the roundtable. This battling topic will forever be iconic. Ash has been able to defeat game!Red ever since the late Hoenn days IMO. Just look at his lineup pre-Gen 4: Pikachu (all), Charizard (IL), Snorlax (OI), Heracross (GS), Sceptile (AG) and Donphan (BF). He's stacked since 2006. And this is before he adds on powerhouses like Infernape, Leavanny, Krookodile and the XY and SM Pokémon. His Journeys team was used exclusively for a World Tournament, it would fair against Red's manga team tbh: Gengar VS Venusaur, Dragonte VS Poliwrath, Lucario VS Espeon, Sirfetch'd VS Snorlax and Dracovish VS Aerodactyl. Ash obtained 56 Pokémon and has easy access to 48 of them at all times. Red's max range is 13-25 (19 average). I feel like you should consider LGPE Red too since he sports Arcanine and Machamp, very heavy hitter Pokémon. In Stadium 2 he has the Johto Starters, the Roaming Beasts, Ampharos, Scizor, Tauros and Dragonite too. Ash almost 3folds Red's roster and all Pokémon have proven to be at least early Elite 4 level due to Battle Frontier. Granted, if videogame logic was to be applied, then the movesets of Ash's Pokémon would be way weaker. His Greninja has Cut instead of Night Slash. His Dracovish has Water Gun... not Hydro Pump, Scald, Brine, Surf, etc. If we account for roster versatility, Ash has 4.48x to Red, so his winrate would be 81.75%. It's 71.40% in the games. His team would a lot more fragile since 16/56 are NFEs but still able to win. On a fist fight, Ash clears 151%.
With legends z-a being in the Kalos region. I'm a big 3ds era fan 😂 so I'm hyped we get some content from that era before I'm an old man...what would you want a Legends Alola to focus on and or expand on?
Watching the episode over 2 parts, but you talked about the types briefly. If you were to reconfigure/rebalance the types, what would you do? (How many types, new types, remove types, weaknesses and strengths - anything you see fit to do)
Can't wait for episode 100 tbh I'm a relatively new listener...I found y'all's podcast around the time of pokemon works news. I always love to listen to this while at work. You both make my work day 1000x better
You two are amazed. We are grateful! Cannot wait for 100. Would be fun to listen to you two tangent away about rumours and theories that are part of your own headcanon.
What do you think are the essential "pokemon archetypes" that all regions need to have? Like, all regions need starter pokemon, legendary pokemon, _________ pokemon, and so on. Semi-related: if you could design a pokemon, what would the concept be (which archetype it fills, typing, name, competitive niche, etc.)? (Apologies if you've talked about fakemon in a previous episode and I'm just not remembering it.)
I easily box Serperior and Emboar for Darmanitan and Sawsbunk in gen 5. Easy. I'll keep Dewott but won't evolve it. That being said a Shogun inspired Samurott would with the shells for fan weapons would have been fire for a water type.
Dartrix needs more of a tie? lol The Bow-tie becomes a Bow and Arrow lol what more of a literal "tie" do you need? Sorry, I came up with this joke the other day and Ben set me up for it in this episode lol
QOTP: What's the deal with dragon typings? I feel like ever since the Pokemon Community won with having both Charizard and Sceptile obtain the dragon typing via mega evolution that everything that looks like a reptile must be a dragon type. So my question, what are some pokemon that look like they should be dragon typing but are better that they don't have dragon typing?
I feel like I just helped create a new "What If" segment for the show. I'd enjoy you guys going down that rabbit hole more often. It's a little more fun and positive.
Primarina good torterra bad.. I didn't like megas but loved dynamax I think it was an age or involvement problem I would like to believe I'd like megas as much as dynamax if I hadn't been as young when I used megas I basically didn't use megas lol
QOTP: What If Question here. How do you think the Pokemon Franchise would have looked like and been had there not been any gimmicks introduced post Gen 5, i.e. no Megas, Z-moves, Dyna/G-Max, Terastialization? Paint the picture boys lol
