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What's GROWING on? A look at Bulbapedia's newest additions from June 2024
A few months ago, we updated our pages for ‘starter’ Pokémon to reflect the language used in the games themselves to refer to these fan-favourite species - ‘first partner Pokémon’. These pages now reflect BOTH the canonical terminology for these Pokémon and commonly-understood names used by fans.
However, even in official media there’s a little ambiguity in how this phrase is used. After all, there are the special ‘first partner Pokémon’ that players will be introduced to when starting a new game, but also the ‘first partner Pokémon’ caught or befriended by many players or characters that fall outside of these typical, region-specific trios. We want to do our best to accurately reflect the official terminology that players will be exposed to, but it’s not always easy!
To make sure we’re capturing the full range of uses for this concept, we’ve created a number of pages breaking them all down.
For the special ‘first Partner Pokémon’ species often referred to as ‘starters’:
- First partner Pokémon: a high-level coverage of the ‘starters’ most prominently recognized by the games and other media, intended to cover the most important details
- List of characters with first partner Pokémon: a page detailing all instances where characters own one of these special first partner Pokémon
- [region] first partner Pokémon: go into detail about each trio of these special first partner Pokémon
- List of the player's first Pokémon: covers all the Pokémon that the player obtains that fall outside the typical ‘starter’ trios
- List of characters' first Pokémon: provides detail on the Pokémon which were a character's first Pokémon, but fall again outside the typical ‘starter’ trios
Just like the game in its long history of updates, our Pokémon Masters EX content is always evolving. Have a Champion Time checking out our newly-refreshed Champion Stadium and Neo Champions pages, now split up to go more in-depth on each of these limited-time activities! When you're done, check out our new sync pair scout and ticket scout pages that detail everything you need to know about this core mechanic of the game. If you're a more lore-invested fan, check out our new page on the Mysterious Stones Chapter! Finally, swing by Terrain and Weather to learn everything about how these field effects work in this game. A huge thanks to Storm Aurora, Vmario97, FolksCallMeHilbert, SuperPikaPool13, Vendredi, Solemn Mac, GroundNecton, FinnishPokéFan92, and all our other regular Masters contributors for their hard work in keeping our content up-to-date and making these pages possible!
Catching Some Zs
Live action fans are sleeping good this year, with the new Seeds of Good Night. mini program wrapping up in June. What is it you ask? Well, according to the great start to our coverage written by RafaelGN, it's a 2-minute long show with 5 episodes airing every Sunday night on Nippon TV. Each episode explains a secret to good sleep, from recommendations for a good nap to whether or not lack of sleep makes you crave sweets. You best sleep with one eye open: you won't want to miss our upcoming coverage of this niche topic!
It's a side game summer here at Bulbapedia, and sleep experts Anzasquiddles and Storm Aurora have quite the update for you! Through the month of June, these two have added a specialized Pokémon Sleep table to each of the over 130 Pokémon you can encounter in the game! You can springboard from our list of Pokémon by sleep style to see this new table in action. Now, take a good Rest, you deserve it!
Yes, what you're all here to enjoy - UNITE BATTLES!
- Erbie -Researcher - Pokémon UNITE Manga - Come On Over to Aeos Island!
Braviary-eyed readers may have noticed an upgrade to our Unite character pages throughout the month on June. Specialist Luigi1234 has taken the challenge to write summaries for the majority of playable Pokémon, almost single-handedly completing their move descriptions, and keeping the Holowear page up to date! Zirco would be proud! Please enjoy this content by browsing our Unite Pokémon category.
Bulbapedia is host to all sorts of specialist editors contributing their expertise to the encyclopedia for the world to read. If there's something you are an expert in, come on in! We welcome new editors every day!
Show me your moves!
On the top of Mt. Battle in the Orre region, there is an exclusive Move Tutor to the player's Mew. The Mew Move Tutor appears if the player has a Mew in their party; however, since Mew does not natively appear in XD: Gale of Darkness, it must be transferred in via Game Link Cable from a different Generation III game. The Move Tutor will grant your Mew a new learnset after you answer his riddles five, so be sure to pack your thinking cap before you travel to Mt. Battle! And be prepared to go deep when he asks you his array of philisophical questions to ask you, such as "What are Pokémon to you?".
Thanks goes to Boblers for compiling this article!
Four Words: Bubble. Beam. Berry. Blast.
The aquatic party has begun, and SuperPikaPool13 has the inside scoop for you! Bubble Beam Berry Blast was a 1 minute animated short that aired in the month of June to celebrate Water-types. It starts with Palafin, Greninja, Quaxly, and Piplup are hanging out near a pond. Palafin points to a Sitrus Berry on a nearby tree and launches its gloves to knock the berry off the tree. While Palafin shows off, Greninja uses its Water Shuriken to knock off the berries, and moves at a fast speed to catch it, messing up Quaxly's hair in the process.
Now, I won't spoil the ending, but you can find out for yourself below:
We all live in a Pokémon...fandom?
It's true! The Pokémon fandom is an expansive--almost infinite--space, and we're all in it! Yes, even readers like you! There are uncountable ways to interact with the franchise we all know and love. Allow me to take you through staff member Landfish7's attempt at pinning down this elusive topic.
There's competitive battling, card tournaments, Community Day, speedrunning, cosplay, and more. We want to know, where do you live in the Pokémon fandom?
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Special thanks to @Storm Aurora and @WyndonCalling for helping write parts of this article.
Comments
Are we sure we should be "featuring" group pages that skip over a large number of entries in favor of single line "they're all in this game", "they're all in that game", "they're all in this series"? (No, this isn't exaggerated for comedy.)
I get it, group pages suck. Basically it's redoing the existing pages for all the characters, but omitting the parts where the characters appear separately. Who wants to spend time doing that? But er, I personally feel that one should wait on putting the page on this kind of pedestal until the page "feels" like a whole and I don't think the per region pages were there yet.
I should clarify: It's not that stub sections are bad, articles have to start somewhere. But I think single sentence sections on topics that are longer than a single sentence on pages that are going down as "here's the big thing that happened this month" doesn't sit right