If I have to talk to one more Team Plasma grunt I'm going to sta

First of all, those conspiracy theories are completely false. There's so much evidence out there of types being real it's comical. Go watch a single battle from Paldea where terastalization is used.

But while Pokemon types are very much a real thing that every Pokemon has, gym leaders aren't quite the same.

Gym leaders don't have to specialize in any one particular Pokemon type. They just have to specialize in something, but it doesn't have to be a Pokemon type.

Hammerlocke Gym Leader Raihan, for example, specializes not only in dragon-types, but also weather.

Viridian City Gym Leader Blue specializes in type coverage.

You can get pretty wild in what you specialize in as a gym leader. Multi-headed Pokemon. Pokemon often seen as "unviable". Friendship with your Pokemon. And so on.

Why do people think that gym leaders have to be type specialists? It's because most gym leaders are type specialists, and the few gym leaders who aren't are usually not as well-known as the type specialists.

This is Norman, gym leader of Petalburg City.

This Pokemon was posing as my son.

Zoruas literally just pick random people to look like. That kid HAS NOT done anything with your kid. They most likely saw your son in a crowd and thought "oh cool!"

This is Norman, gym leader of Petalburg City.

This Pokemon was posing as my son.

Zoruas literally just pick random people to look like. That kid HAS NOT done anything with your kid. They most likely saw your son in a crowd and thought "oh cool!"

I wake up one morning, and I decide, hey, why don't I check that group chat for once! It's been a while!

The first thing I see. Is that the "What the fuck, Kalos." channel has been updated.

I think. Oh. Maybe it's just another issue with the recent environmental shift. Or maybe an Espurr got loose.

No.

Professor Sycamore himself posts in that channel, what can only be described, as a six foot tall humanoid war machine with angel wings and a shotgun.

It is apparently. A faller.

I am sat, still in bed, still being crushed by my Liepard, and I say, in the chat, "what the fuck is that."

Professor Sycamore says the robot identified itself as "V2" and had recently been in a battle, wherein it's opponent had "Hit it so hard it clipped through the floor."

I then ask. "What are you going to do about this?"

Professor Fucking Sycamore, Bless His Heart, then says "I'm giving it a Pokemon."

// Hi! this post is based off of me starting a randomized Kalos playthrough and roleplaying privately with my friends about it. If you would make a blog about it, give me a moment to elaborate on the lore here

obviously, the universe is in such disarray that when v1 killed v2, v2 simply teleported somewhere else as an ultra space faller

kalos has recently been having a lot of fallers, both pokemon and human because of the recently "failed" firing of the ultimate weapon

the ecosystem is absolutely fucked because of this

Using this lore, I plugged a Pokemon X rom into a pk3ds and randomized wild Pokemon, but not trainer's Pokemon. To support that the ecosystem has been messed up.

The point of picking Pokemon X was that V2 goes through a post-storyline Pokemon X world, and meets Xerneas, eventually learning the value of life and death.

Well, there's that, and then there's Appletun.

[It's a photo of Ringogo the Appletun, snout deep in an apple pie decorated to look like an Appletun. The guy's absolutely covered in pie filling, but deeply satisfied.]

1(priority): a vet

2: an archeologist

1(priority): a vet

2: an archeologist

I don't think it's common in Unova, and I'm peskiterian so I wouldn't know