There are a few from here and there that I forget. Like, there's that one ugly eel Pokemon whose name I can never remember.
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Are you starting to forget Pokemon names?
- Thread starter JazzmanZ
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I know them all. I may have moments where I forget about some of them but I know them if I see them. Definitely not in order and I forget what gen some are from but I do remember them
I also regularly forget what I did the night before but can still casually break out into the pokerap every time I hear a gen 1 pokemon name so...I have my priorities
I also regularly forget what I did the night before but can still casually break out into the pokerap every time I hear a gen 1 pokemon name so...I have my priorities
Gen 1-4 I'm fine with. After that it's more of a "I forget it exists, but will recall the name if I see a picture" for the most part. Other than gen 7, which I kinda have no clue about, especially when you get into legendaries.
Is there a quiz where you have to guess all the names from pictures of them?
Is there a quiz where you have to guess all the names from pictures of them?
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I'm sure Basculin would be more remembered if Gamefreak bothered to do anything with it.
If you show me the Pokemon from generations 1-7, I'll likely remember them all. No real clue about Gen 8 though since I never played Sw/Sh.
Definitely. I just started playing Ultra Moon. It's an amazing experience, it feels like a really new Pokemon game to me. I played a ton of of the first and third generation and a bit of the fourt gen (somehow skipped the second) and then nothing... so it's the first Pokemon game since ages. Embarassing to notice how I forgot so many names, although especially the first gen is quite well in my head. Also: I have to learn the effectiveness again, although, thank god, that is a lot easier now.
Honestly not every Pokemon is even worth remembering, so this isn't even some failing of my own memory as much as it is a sign of having a thousand actually more important things to remember. I can name the first two gens, and then the vast majority of the cool Pokemon that came after, and thats pretty okay to me.
On the contrary, Basculin can be memorable because it's such a nothing Pokemon lol
Sometimes I run through those sporcle quizzes as a memory game. I can pretty consistently get all the Pokemon in the first 7 gens. Gen 2 is the hardest, even though it's the gen I remember most fondly and spent the most time with. There are just some really forgettable and terrible Pokemon in that gen.
I could remember gen 1 if I tried, and maybe gen 2; but gave up after gen 4, it's just too much.
I've played every game extensively but can't remember most of the names of any past the first gen. The original of something is always going to stick out in your head the most, especially if you were younger and impressionable at the time.
I dont think I can even remember gen 2 pokemon names and I'm a 90s kid. Might know more for gen 3 cause i played gen 3 a lot.
I grew up with Pokémon, Blue was my first video game, in highschool I still played gen 5 a lot and knew every single Pokémon names (in two languages, french and english, for quiet a few). Now I'm just playing the main story in new ones and I'm starting to forget more and more pokémons. I'm getting old.
We probably would want to slowly introduce younger generations of kids backwards from Gen 8 to Gen 1.... And ask them how they remembered Pokemon?
I can remember up to Gen 3-4 pretty well because I played the shit out of the early pokemon games. Have only really given the games after that a quick playthrough and been done. So while I do have a complete living pokedex in Ultra Sun, I don't know the sames of half the Gen 5 plus pokemon.
I have a hard time answering the poll, because I played a lot of the games out of order, so my recollections aren't linear.
I definitely remember the original 151, but my ability to recall all the other ones is extremely scattershot.
I definitely remember the original 151, but my ability to recall all the other ones is extremely scattershot.
I've never played most of the games so some I've just never seen before and some I only know from online discourse which causes a different problem: Pokemon names are translated for each country and online people mostly use the English names while the games I play use the German names so I know different names for pokemon depending on where I've heard of them.
I can pretty much remember every single one of them, although sometimes I will have a scenario where the more recent ones will slip my mind Alola specifically for some reason.
