WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT POLTCHAGEIST 

Just a normal Ghost Pokemon.

I love the English attempt to censor these sorts of things. It’s like the equivalent of “being banished to the shadow realm” you’re not banished to another dimension, you’re dead. The Tea Master didn’t faint from exhaustion, he died of exhaustion. The ghosts aren’t just draining life force, they’re stealing your soul.

Death ain't the end in Pokémon, they'll just turn into ghost-type Pokémon and be enslaved by a random child.

And the fact, that it winked at the camera afterwards.

​@@fist-of-doom487 I mean imo they didn't censor anything, passing out from exhaustion and anger heavily implies death to begin with, but when it talks about the woman it specifies it only takes *some* of her energy. Pokemon have outright mentioned death multiple times since the first games in the series, so I think they would have just said it outright killed her. Now obviously this all changes if the Japanese speaker actually says she died rather than just fainted, but I haven't heard anything in the pokemon research server I'm in, so I'm not sure yet. This is why I really want someone to upload the Japanese version with subs

Cause its a yokai, not a ghost. This is evident in the fact that the tea isnt said to have been possessed, but the tea itself became the entitea

@@default9314 .... My guy, that is such a minute difference that still results in the Ghost type that it is entirely negligible. Come up with a real reason.

​@@chrisjohnsen8448the thing about regional fakes is that they are 2 seperate pokemon but overtime copied how the other look tl actually be better polteageist is a ghost while poltchageist is the living dust not something possesing it which inturns makes him a different pokemon

Probably bc its not tea tea Its macha Aka powdered tea leaves

@@rafaelrivera7594 This is a convergent Pokemon, not a "regional fake". Calling it that implies it's only capable of naturally existing in a single region, which is for sure not the case because what could possibly limit it in such a way?

The mon also reminds me of the Tsukumogami

I'm pretty sure that's meant to be implied given that the tea master has three moles in a triangle on his forehead and Poltchageist has the same three dots above one eye.

​@@crushogre2269actually is not the tea master himself, but rather his regret and emotions A similar case would be Banette, where the plushtoy came to life bot because of a ghost posessing it, but as a reincarnation of the grudge the plush may had felt for being abandoned You could say that, while still a ghost type because is a Yokai, Poltchageist is not a spirit possessing the caddy, but rather a caddy/matcha powder that gained a spirit and became sentient

With a thousand pokemon - there'd be no shortage of lore... and that's NOT a bad thing - especially if treated with this level of respect.

I mean we do see the lore but since we can't have our characters dying we don't experience it. The manga shows more of the dangerous side

It gets a new signature ability. It's rare to see a new Pokémon with a new signature ability and a new signature move.

Matcha

@@njivwathomassilavwe2056 Which is tea

​@@chrisjohnsen8448yep. Just not boba

​@@njivwathomassilavwe2056The three dots at the top of its head look like boba

@@njivwathomassilavwe2056 Ah, thought you were disagreeing on the tea part lol

And my favorite Grass/Ghost seems to show no signs of coming back

Animals items myths and with ultra beast more abstract concepts of aliens

Um, that’s modern time.

Matcha is a powder ground from specially grown green tea in East Asia! If we got a matcha powder item it would probably be Poltchageist-exclusive but I could totally see green tea as one of the ‘natural’ healing items that you’d get where the roots and herbs are sold. 🌱

We are getting Mochi though which Im guessing for the game will be a kind of candy

They were being accurate in its depiction because tea enthusiasts can be particular about their tea, though, since it's a cartoon character they over exaggerated it of course.

Poltchageist is a brand new Pokémon.

@@GatorEX no no like its sinistea rfake not polteagiest

@@GatorEX it was confirmed to be a rfake of sinistea so it most likely evolves

I like the history and reference to Japanese culture.

Really dumb take