pokemon – The Daily SPUF

My Cat’s Gaming Killcount

October 21, 2025February 28, 2026 aabicus 0 Comments animals, cat, Creatures of Sonaria, d&d, Dungeons & Dragons, Final Fantasy XIV, gaming, Mouse For Cats, pet, pets, pokemon, pokemon go, Team Fortress 2, world of warcraft

Five years ago, Sydney and I adopted a ragdoll named Bean who has quickly eclipsed both of us as the owner of the house. What few cats my family had in my childhood were aloof outdoor loners, so Bean was my first real experience with just how affectionate and loving a cat can be. It’s incredible how many different emotions and personality quirks she has, and she’s become far and away one of the best parts of my life since she entered it. Even when she sits on my keyboard in the middle of a high-stakes gaming moment, I can’t… [Continue Reading]

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The Sentimentality of Pokémon X/Y

July 19, 2025July 19, 2025 aabicus 1 Comment history, pokemon, retrospective

The other day I was scrolling through my Pokémon Home account looking at all my old Elite Four teams. I’ve played every generation of Pokémon (though Red was a bit of an oddball run), and almost every member of my final teams survived the various transitions into modern day. My original goal, in my nostalgic boredom, was to choose the most sentimental “companion” mon of each team, the one I bonded most with and remember the quickest and most fondly. And indeed, I was able to identify one pretty much every time. Until I got to Pokémon Y, a game that… [Continue Reading]

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Palkia and Dialga’s Origin Formes are Terrifying

March 5, 2024February 27, 2024 Medic 0 Comments arceus, dialga, giratina, legendary pokemon, palkia, pokemon, pokemon legends

I’ve been holding off on this article for a while, because I don’t own Pokemon Legends: Arceus, and never had any decent way of seeing how Origin Form Palkia and Dialga look, outside of game screenshots. But now that I have managed to catch a couple in Pokemon GO, I can finally see how horrible they are. And they’re genuinely not great. A friend of mine went “WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT?” when they saw Origin Dialga for the first time, and I had to explain that it was Dialga but in a different form. Seriously, these guys aren’t great.… [Continue Reading]

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Charged Up Research Day – My Thoughts

March 4, 2024March 3, 2024 Medic 0 Comments electric, pokemon, research, research day, shiny

I’ll be honest, I’ve always been a sucker for electric types. Zapdos is my favourite Legendary Bird, Raikou is my favourite Legendary Beast and, outside of Pokemon, I’ve always drifted towards those with electrical powers, like Volt in Warframe. So an event in Pokemon GO featuring a bunch of electric types was always going to draw my attention. It’s a shame that the Charged Up Research Day was shit. The first thing I’m going to complain about is the spawns. Okay, sure, we had Shadow Raikou in raids, but I only saw one in four hours and there was no… [Continue Reading]

The Paldea starter Pokemon from the loading screen

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99% of Pokemon in Pokemon GO are pointless

January 18, 2024January 7, 2024 Medic 0 Comments pokemon

The other day, aabicus and I were discussing our recent catches in various Pokemon games. I was lamenting on how an XXL shiny Darumaka had fled on me, while he was showing off his shiny Azumaril, which had Stellar as its Tera type. As we chatted, we both came to an agreement that, well, 99% of the Pokemon we catch in Pokemon GO were pointless. In a normal Pokemon game, you generally catch what you like, you become friends with these Pokemon and you take them all the way to the Elite Four. Of course, plenty of Pokemon end up… [Continue Reading]

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Operation Starfall – The Weird Anti-Bullying Movement

December 24, 2023December 13, 2023 Medic 0 Comments pokemon, pokemon scarlet

Pokemon Scarlet and Violet have three different paths. There’s your standard Victory Road, there’s the Path of Titans which I started on, and then there’s Operation Starfall, or Starfall Street, which the game sometimes refers to it as. This path involves battling your way through five bases, confronting the bosses and, well, just fighting them. The bases all follow various themes and are filled with kids bunking off school. Along the way, you are joined by Clive, who is CLEARLY Directer Clavell, the director of the academy, and wants to know why these kids are all not doing lessons. You’re… [Continue Reading]

My character, Teekay, and my current Pokemon team

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On Suddenly Jumping Back Into Pokemon Violet After Not Playing for Ages

December 20, 2023December 10, 2023 Medic 0 Comments pokemon, pokemon violet

The other day, aabicus popped me a message, saying that you could get a shiny Lucario in Pokemon Scarlet and Violet by entering the code “SH1NYBUDDY”. For some reason, Pokemon codes are allergic to the letters i and o. Either way, I thought a free Lucario was pretty cool, and I opened up Pokemon Violet. After about three different updates because I hadn’t used my Switch in a while, I finally got my shiny Lucario, only to realize two things: firstly, it was level 75 so it wouldn’t obey me, and, secondly, I already had a Lucario in my party.… [Continue Reading]

A wheel containing the Yokai in Your Party

Now for Something Completely Different

Yokai Watch 2 – So much more than just a Pokemon Clone

November 18, 2023November 7, 2023 Kami 0 Comments game review, monster collecting game, pokemon, review, yokai watch, yokai watch 2

Throughout my video game journey, Pokemon has always been there for me. While I’m by no means a hardcore fan, I’ve played a good number of generations, and even tried shiny hunting a few times, though to little success. One thing that Pokemon seems to have nailed down at this point is its formula. Even Monster collecting games inspired by Pokemon seem to mostly stick to it, after all, it’s been working for years. But there’s one Pokemon-inspired game that vastly shakes up the Gameplay, and, in my Opinion is better than every Mainline Pokemon Game. And that game is… [Continue Reading]

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On Starter Pokemon in Pokemon GO

September 30, 2023September 17, 2023 Medic 0 Comments pokemon, starter

Starter Pokemon in Pokemon GO are kinda weird. Almost all of them are somewhat useless until they get their Community Day moves. However, the time it takes to get a Community Day move is generally quite a while. For example, Greninja was unable to get his Community Day moves for a good year or so, maybe two. And at the same time, Charmander’s evolution Charizard already has two Community Day moves. One of which is honestly kinda useless outside of PvP. However, most starter Pokemon are missing out, and even fewer manage to get their signature moves. Greninja and Blaziken… [Continue Reading]

Psychic Spectacular event poster, from the Pokemon GO Website

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How the Psychic Spectacular event could have been more Spectacular

September 26, 2023September 22, 2023 Medic 0 Comments pokemon, pokemon go, psychic

The Psychic Spectacular event comes by every year, generally after the Ultra Unlock events end. It’s an event that bridges the gap between the GO Fest rush and the October spooky events. However, this year’s Psychic Spectacular was rather boring. Here’s how it could have been better. More psychic types We did get a few psychic types but they’re all mostly old ones. While some people may need Exeggcute for the Meltan special research, most other Pokemon are somewhat recent or kinda spawn already. We already had a Slowpoke community day, Spoink is useless and a common grunt in Team… [Continue Reading]

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