This is the Did You Know? Thread


In this thread you can only post interesting or curious Pokemon games facts that cannot be found easily in a walkthrough, guide, fansite, etc. in the form of "Did you know?" questions.


Here are 3 interesting things I have found:

-Did you know that Steelix is the only item-evolved Pokemon that can be found in the wild?

-Did you know that Buizel, Floatzel, Suicune and Vaporeon are the only pure-Water type Pokemon based on real life non-marine mammals?
Wailer/Wailord are based on whales, which are mammals too, but live in seas.
EDIT: I forgot Marill and Azumarill

-Did you know that in R/S/E, at the Cycling Road, there is a Psychic trainer who is not riding a bike?


Now post what you have found

did you know that there are no stone evolution pokemon found in wild?

Did you know that Porygon-Z may be a nod towards Missingno?

Did you know, if fighting-type only win against no-trainer type? I mean, Fight-type wins against ice,dark,steel,and rock. And there is no trainer with those types (except elite 4 or gym leaders).

Did you know that Celebi cannot be obtained in ANY game without cheating?

Dude, look at this list here. Celebi can be obtained in any game without cheating.

yeah, i wasnt counting the nintendo events or trading, sorry, didnt specify that

That Omanyte was going to be called Ess and Gyrados Skullkraken?

That Chansey in the BETA version of pokemon was called Lucky?

I also heard that in the beta version, tentacool was going to be called "Jelly".

That the Safari Zone was included in the BETA version of Gold and Silver?

Did you know that sableye and spiritomb are the only pokémon without weaknesses?

At first glance this looks true, but don't forget the move Forsight. That plus a strong fighting move equals one Sableye or Spiritomb in trouble.

That, in the beta versions of Red and Blue, Koffing and Weezing would be called NY and LA respectively (representing the smog-covered cities of New York City and Los Angeles)?
We could go on forever with beta names but I found those two quite interesting (as I don't live too far from LA, where there is no such thing as true fresh air around here).

- DNA

I wasn't counting foresight, or else i wouldn't have put this comment here.

Did you know that jigglypuff's japanese name means "liquid manure " in french? I must have grossed you out, but it's just as interesting as disturbing!

Did you know that giratina is the only pokémon weak against both of its types?

That Ash's Pikachu is a male?

Did you know:

Girafarig is spelled the same forwards and backwards?

Ekans is "snake" spelled backwards?
Arbok is "Kobra" spelled backwards?

In Germany Unown is called Incognito?

Steel used to be super effective against Grass?

Did you know that Articuno, Zapdos, and Moltres have suffixes of -uno, -dos, and -tres, respectively? (For those non-Spanish speaking pokefans, that's one, two, and three)

Of course, all of you know that Dragon-types have only one weakness: Ice. However, did you know that Kingdra is Dragon and Ice, and, therefore, has no weaknesses?

Edit: Whoops, it seems i've been wrong all along, apparantly dragon is weak against dragon, and Kingdra is Dragon and Water.

Still, Kingdra has a one up on most (if not all) dragons, in that its still resistant against ice.

...and Artic is from Arctic (ice), Molt is from Melt (fire), and Zap.... Zap is a word that is very close to electricity.

Uh....molt is probably derived from molten. As in, molten lava. I think Articuno should have been Arcticuno. CLoser to the original.

this is something i made in the marriland forums
i posted some stuff then other peole posted and i put thier posts in here

so here it is.............

berries

rawst berry= straw berry
nomel berry=lemon
pinap berry=pinapple
leppa berry= apple
cheri berry= cherry
watamel berry= watermellon
sitrus berry= a citrus fruit
oran berry= orange
tomato berry= tomato
razz berry= raspberry
aspear berry= pear
pecha = peach
grepa = grape
wiki = kiwi
rabuta = rambutan
cornn = corn
hondew = honey dew melon
pomeg = pomegranate
payapa = papaya
liechi = lychee
salac = either sala or salak
petaya = pitaya (dragon fruit)
qualot = loquat
jaboca = jaboticaba
magost = mangosteen
figy = fig
tanga = tangarine
starf = star fruit
aguav = guava
persim = persimmon
lum = plum
passho = passion fruit
apicot = apricot
mago = mango
nanab= banana
Chillan Berry = Chilli pepper

other stuff
ekans= snake spelled backwards

arbok= kobra spelled backwords

giriafirig= spelled same forward or backwards

beldum+beldum=metang
2matang or 4 beldum= metagross

articuno zapdos moltres= take out artic zap and mol (uno dos tres)

azurril is not a water type

articuno is spelled wrong it is arcticuno(the game allows that many letters)

dialga start with d diamond start with d(same with pearl)

all games have pattern, one game is out of pattern. all bad guy boss end in i sound exept cyrus all starters are one type exept bulbasaur=grass poison.

seedot nuzleaf shiftry= seed leaf tree

flygon has fly in its name, it learns fly but isnt a flying type.

a electric type with a levatate abbility has no weakness!

paralize articuno and throw ultra ball= gotcha every time!

there is no such thing as a pure flying type

pikachu came from the animal pika

in pokemon the first movie pikachu uses thundershock and beats the ground type golom

jessie and james came from a famous criminal jessie james

hitmonlee and hitmonchan were named after bruce lee and jackie chan.

kanto town/city names are based off of colors and minerals.

the word animals is used in pokemon when one of kogas tamers says something like "i have a long history with animals"

Butch Cassidy. (Guy out of a movie)

koffing and weezing's names were orginally supposed to be Ny and La, a play off of New York and Los Angeles' smog.
other pokemon beta names before they changed it

machop = kara-tee
machoke = kung-foo
machamp = ju-doh
tangela = meduza
omanyte = ess
omastar = kargo
kabuto = att
kabutops = lantis
lapras = ness
growlithe = flamie
arcanine = blaze
abra = hocus
kadabra = pocus
ratatta = ratattak

in some pokemon games professer oak forgets his own grandsonds name.

the pokemon professer in the games cant tell if you are a boy or a girl(kinda wierd dont you think)

The name of Johto towns and cities are based off of plants.

The original Eevee and its evolutions have names that make sense:

Eevee = evolve

Vaporeon = vapor

Jolteon = jolt

Flareon = flare

All Eeveelutions end in Eon.

The Japanese name for Glaceon is Glacia which is the name of the 3rd elite four member in the 3rd generation

Mesprit=Sprite
Uxie=Pixie
Azelf=Elf

thanks to some of my friends psypokes and marriland for these awesome findings.

Tanga berry it's actually based on Pitanga, both the berry and the fruit look pretty similar.

That Lt. Surge is an American? That Orre and Kanto are conected?

Graveler is a pokemon with 4 arms and evolves into a pokemon w/ 2.

Machoke is a pokemon w/ 2 arms and evolves to have 4.

Both are trade evolutions.