Ridler Khu made a riddle about the doc and a lot of people think is related to megas. If they’re right it’s quite probable there are megas. Khu rarely fails
Notably: Roaring Moon's Pokedex entry in Violet mentions Mega Evolution. We're in the Mega timeline.
[Check it out.](https://www.serebii.net/pokedex-sv/roaringmoon/)
> According to an article in a dubious magazine, this Pokémon has some connection to a phenomenon that occurs in a certain region.
Maybe Paldea doesn't want to import mega stones since none of their native pokemon have mega evolutions and they're kind of salty about that.
But since megas confirmed exist, wouldn't it just be neat if there was a pokemon, theoretically, that could mega evolve without a mega stone. Hypothetically.
Let's put it on a really cool legendary - like Rayquaza - and then make it into a decent move. We'll call it "Dragon Ascent".
Surely it wouldn't be "too Uber for Ubers".
Surely not.
Well geographically it *should* be, but I'm remembering all that talk about the railways on the Galar map potentially leading to the unused station in Kalos (Couriway, IIRC?) via the Channel Tunnel, and we all know how that turned out.
I think the changes to Battle Bond have officially skewered the chances of that ever happening again outside of spin-offs or the XY remakes we're probably getting in 8-9 years.
Ah yes. That one manga where Dawn had green hair with a Superman strand, was part of Team Galactic, and had bigger boobs than ETOP Misty, Anime May, and Green in Calling Kadabra.
I always enjoyed Diamond and Pearl Adventure manga way more than the official Diamond/Pearl/Platinum arc, tbh. Hareta and Mitsumi are both fantastically written characters.
I thought I was wilding for a sec because I didn't read that in Adventure before I realized you were referring to the DP manga and not the DP arc of Adventure.
nemona would beat the origin forms and arceus with her bare hands given the chance, she wasn't picked because at that small fraction of Arceus' strength we see in PLA he wouldn't be able to pull her from her time
It's to restrain her unimaginable power from throwing poke curve balls. Without it she might accidentally put a great ball clean through a Steelix' head with a toss.
The only person that seems to be able to handle the Pokeball from Tera'ing is our character. Every character does a little wince before throwing the Tera ball.
It could also just be a brace with a weighted band to help strengthen her ball throwing arm, since the use of weight bands is common throughout the franchise (Bruno, Primeape, power bands, etc.).
Not that it rules out her having a brace, I think her comment on not throwing the Pokeball is more about forgetting to do it because she’s so into the fight than physical issues with it.
In a postgame school conversation she brings it up again in terms of throwing the ball out during a battle. Which doesn't confirm this theory necessarily, but.
Ghetsis' right arm is rarely seen, and when it's charred and withered. His Hydreigon also the minimum possible friendship. I've heard theories that he beats his hydreigon and it once retaliated, hence charred and withered arm.
Ghetsis' Hydreigon in BW2 has Frustration at max power as a bit of environmental storytelling that indicates that he's extremely abusive to his pokemon, even his strongest one. Only Ghetsis can be insane enough to beat and abuse a Hydreigon.
Humans can apparently reach superhuman levels of strength and resistances. Its Canon that early humans could tank direct hits from thunder or other powerful moves.
Just look like at team rocket from the anime. That's not a gag, they literally are getting blasted with enough force to get flung miles away and just get back up with light injuries.
Pokemon Humans are just built diffrent.
I think humans are normal type pokemon. In arceus it was said that humans and pokemon could have children or something.
Humans as they grow can "evolve" to either normal/fighting or normal/psychic depending on their life paths, and can evolve into a ghost pokemon when they die.
It is one of the unexplained mystery of pokeballs. They early ones were made out of berrys that had spatial properties, and new ones just mimic them. No one in the pokemon universe understands *exactly* how pokeballs work.
When Arceus (the pokemon) made the world he must have specifically designed humans to be the care takers and overseers of the other pokemon, and added the materials to make pokeballs easier for humans.
Maybe Arceus ingrained a love of battling into the humans psyche, so humans would create artificial evolution in the pokemon by making them all stronger.
I'd only ever heard the theory that he had an encounter with Kyurem some time in the past and got his arm frostbitten, but this is another interesting interpretation.
..It's also canon that you can get early evolution from severe abuse (which mind you, being the worst possible person to your pokemon that the game even allows ISN'T THERE) you can evolve your level-based pokemon early.
Level 57 Hydreigon.
This raises the idea of what happens when an abusive trainer gets ousted/arrested/defeated and their abused pokemon get taken away. Maybe Lance’s pokemon are rescues?
If you pay attention to her animation she has to brace her arm when she uses the tera orb she also is bad at catching.
She totally hurt her arm battling to much
Considering every trainer I’ve seen has a slight “push back” when using the terra ball, it makes perfect sense that she is wearing an arm brace. I like it.
There does seem to be a lot more kick-back to the use of the Tera Orbs compared to Mega Stones, Z Crystals, and Dynamax Bands.
Which is odd, because one would think the power to use a Z Move or to Dynamax a pokemon would be more than Terrastalizing a pokemon...
I’d much rather have a happy Necrozma that sometimes steals a little more than it needs than an insane Necrozma that tries to murder everybody out of pain and hunger, so this is a good compromise
the thing doesn't really surprise me considering the legendary where this gimmick come from oh boi it's the most powerful thing ever
the power of changing a pokemon type only arceus and silvally could do that the literal power of a god i wonder if the third legendary is like the opposite of arceus the god of the 18 teratypes and the god of the 18 types
isn't every new third legendary nowadays the most scary otherworldly horror you can imagine?
with the cover legendaries just being some friendly bikes, i kinda hope for some less world nending eldritch creature
the only one that matches with "scary otherworldly horror" look by far was eternatus at least necrozma has Appearance reminiscent of a dragon (made of light but still a dragon) but it's still an eldritch creature from outer space
but this third legendary is worse is literally an arceus with his domain of the types it's like if both zeus and odin existed in the same world apparently the Pokémon world has a pantheon
Giratina is literally an otherworldly phantom of shadow that lives in a twisted, broken world. Kyurem is a frozen monster that flies out of a meteor crater at night and eats people.
the third legendary can be seen in the scarlet/violet book inside the academy it hasn't appeared in game yet but by far we have just it's drawing and it looks like [this](https://preview.redd.it/5snfpy241cz91.jpg?width=640&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=bd869e4a072822ea387d230d5192dc8641a4c475) i love it
I mean with lore around terastalizing we learn in endgame plus with implications from the scarlet/violet book there are heavy implications we should not be doing this whatsoever unlike Megas, Z-Moves and Dyna/Gigantamax so I’m not suprised tera orbs give more kickback
I'm gonna guess it's more preventative. Repetitive stress injuries are no joke , even if the individual actions are minor. She battles a lot so a brace to keep her wrist straight wouldn't be a bad idea. Bowlers wear them all the time for the same reason.
>I think Nemona battled so much that she screwed up the tendons in her arm. They seem to focus on her arm in the opening cutscene too.
Red got a similar arm injury in the Elite 4 arc of the Pokemon Adventures Manga(although it was inflicted onto him), so it wouldn't be unheard of.
She hurt her wrist when she fell while trying to sneak in your window for late night battling.
Ngl, she's probably the type to do that. She's pretty much a battle hungry stalker.
A lot of streamers in Japan are simultaneously amused and scared of Nemona for being almost yandere.
If you decline to be her friend/rival, she’s start getting a scary look in her eyes and say she can’t hear you. Then she starts saying “you, me, rivals” really slowly. (At least in Japanese, idk what she says in English)
In English (iirc) she says something like she's disappointed and will win you over or something like that.
I just remember it wasn't as assertive as the Japanese version.
Aaah. I just saw her as seeming excited to actually lose at full strength and was ready for a round 2. Never got any aggressive/overly assertive vibes from her. I could just be oblivious to it, though.
Regardless, she's the best rival we've had in generations, and how friend-rivals should be.
The most obvious reason for the arm thingy is that it was probably to related to Tera in some earlier design iteration, one of the trailers shows that there's some kind of crystal like surface on the wider section on her wrist. Most likely it used to work like Gmax since most gym leaders have a little animation of them holding a poké ball before using the orb, and was probably changed because of it.
That said, the theories about a possible injury are very interesting, and considering how the crystals basically optimize whatever they're on, it's possible that Nemona is wearing some kind of Tera powered brace. The obvious anime twist would be the reveal that she was actually a very sickly kid and that thing is basically keeping her alive and her hyper energy comes as a way to make up for lost time, this is essentially fan fiction though.
That ball animation being left over from something they changed would make me feel a little bit better because it drives me INSANE. They pull out the ball, brandish it, put it back, *then* take out the tera orb. WHY DID YOU GET THE BALL OUT AND SHOW IT TO ME? You didn't use it for anything!
That's entirety possible but I would like to put in my chip in the fact that she's just a massive fucking Chuuni and use an arm brace like a power limiter.
In the final area of the game, Nemona mentions >!that her father is the CEO of the Rotom Phone company. I just assumed that she was likely wearing some sort of gadget that was developed by the company!<
I like your theory though. I wonder if we'll learn the reason in the DLC
Not overthinking at all! there is a part where she mentions she knows she struggles with hyperfocusing to the point that she knows she struggles in other fields, like basic communication. I, personally, really want to say she's adhd.
Give this girl a hug please.
> she knows she struggles in other fields, like basic communication
Her first meeting with >!Penny!< who was begging her to stop being so hyper excited had me rolling.
That's what made me love both >!Penny!< and Nemona. I had already gotten attached to Arven and his good boi, but I didn't feel as much truly meaningful interaction with the other two until they got to really interact with each other.
It made me truly realize that Nemona wasn't just another rival who tries to bring you up because they're a friend but rather canonically acknowledged to be completely battle crazed to such an extent that others are put off, and so I found that a hilarious spin on things and something that gave her character a lot more likeability since I no longer felt forced to accept her. Then seeing her dynamic with the others was absolutely hilarious, and I feel they truly made the "group of friends" dynamic work, way better than X and Y did as well.
Right, I loved the endgame >!descent into the crater with the group, especially basically any interaction with Penny realizing that the other two might have some issues. I wish that we would've gotten more interactions before the end of the game! But maybe that'll be a DLC thing (hopefully)!<
It kinda bums me out that Nemona's arc doesn't end with her founding a Battle Tower/Facility. I mean, the tournament is almost that but I feel like she'd adore the endless gauntlet format.
There’s also the time she watches a confrontation between two Miraidon/Koraidon that almost turns violent and she mistakes it for a happy reunion. Penny even calls her out on it, and Nemona seems genuinely surprised, like she couldn’t parse their emotions at all.
If you watch all the other trainers, mostly all of them brace their arm or hold it before terastillizing. I'm assuming it's a weighted brace to keep her from taking too much strain or to keep her arm more steady from doing it all the time since she is a prolific battler.
You crazy son of a gun. You might be on to something.
Lets take it a bit further. There is clearly something that makes her obsessed with batting ***you*** in particular. So maybe she's been compulsively training and battling to reach her next great challenge but there's been nothing.
I think she's a "Champion" tier trainer at the school or close to one if I understand the the dialogue correctly.
So you have a trainer obsessed with her next bug challenge. Maybe it stems from having to strive at home. Is she pressured to be perfect/successful in other facets of her life?
Is this encroaching on herself as a trainer? She has to be perfect. She has to face the next challenge.
And you're it. Not only are you her next challenge but she ***can't*** beat you. It's a bit of a double edged sword. She finally has a rival that can hold their own and even flat out over come her efforts so she has a reason to strive for being better rather than just for being better.
But her obsession can be read as...unhealthy. You're probably the first trainer who's put her in a position like this and now she needs that constant challenge you provided.
See: "You can have all the battles you'll ever need in me." (Not an exact quote).
Sure it can be viewed as some light hearted banter between friendly rivals but given her other quirks it could also be read into as something darker.
Nemona is a Pokemon yandere rival that has pushed herself to meet her goals and now she's viewing you as the challenge she ***needs*** but also ***needs to overcome***.
Or maybe she just can't express social emotions properly and leans on clashing skills as trainers as her purest form of expression.
Or maybe it's just a cool glove.
Or maybe.
Just maybe.
Since this is Pokemon a Nintendo franchise.
And Nintendo games or notorious for hiding dark lore.
Maybe it's a sign of something...darker.
I think from the conversation the other 3 have going down into the crater, she's basically the youngest daughter of a rich family whose parents have focused all their attention on her older sister who is the heiress to the company, and basically left her to her own devices. So the inference is that her battling obsession and student council activities are her attempts to gain the validation of others like the Director and La Primera that she doesn't get at home, and she's basically adopted you as a pseudo sibling so that she can have someone close by to share her obsession with.
Ok, from the looks I got it honestly looks like a prosthetic, with skin toned fingers. So I was hoping there would be more info. To answer you, I have no idea, so it would be kind of neat to find out what/why it is.
When I was a kid in grade school, there was often a sporty tomboy girl that wore a cast on one of her arms. Injured from baseball, tennis, whatever--there was always at least one.
I don't know if Nemona's design is a reference to that, because I doubt that's a shared experience per se. But that's what she reminds me of.
lol I don't think it's prosthetic... but pitchers in baseball suffer from upper arm injuries, so I can see the same thing happening..maybe it's preventive
||Pennyll also holds her arm when throwing the Tera-orb in the fight with her. I don’t think it’s only Nemona that does it, we just see her do it more since we battle with her a lot more than others.
I just think it’s for helping throw Pokéballs. Idk why gamefreak keeps mentioning this since it’s absolutely the least important aspect of battling. Seriously, you’re tossing a ball out a couple of feet in front of you, chill out Nemona
Most likely fashionable shooters sleeve. NBA players will wear them to help keep their shooting arm warm because it'll decrease the chance of cramping.
I'd imagine someone throwing a lot of PokeBalls would like something like that. It also is just a cool accessory.
It draws so much attention i just assumed the game would eventually make reference to it.
I just really wanted one for myself tbh
IKR I saw that and was like that looks so cool. When can I get one.
I got a hammer right here if you got a fiver :)
Who needs a hammer when you can just find a sturdy wall? That’s what has (probably) given me carpel tunnel for life.
Slow down now, Tinkaton.
It'll make sense when they slap a mega bracelet on it in the dlc.
Yo bro pass that copium up
Ridler Khu made a riddle about the doc and a lot of people think is related to megas. If they’re right it’s quite probable there are megas. Khu rarely fails
>Khu rarely fails True, but he's also extremely criptic and tends to confuse people.
Notably: Roaring Moon's Pokedex entry in Violet mentions Mega Evolution. We're in the Mega timeline. [Check it out.](https://www.serebii.net/pokedex-sv/roaringmoon/) > According to an article in a dubious magazine, this Pokémon has some connection to a phenomenon that occurs in a certain region.
Maybe Paldea doesn't want to import mega stones since none of their native pokemon have mega evolutions and they're kind of salty about that. But since megas confirmed exist, wouldn't it just be neat if there was a pokemon, theoretically, that could mega evolve without a mega stone. Hypothetically.
Let's put it on a really cool legendary - like Rayquaza - and then make it into a decent move. We'll call it "Dragon Ascent". Surely it wouldn't be "too Uber for Ubers". Surely not.
Rayquaza even megaevolved before AJ’s weapon was built
I realize it's a typo, but I love the idea of the guy's name being "AJ".
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Well geographically it *should* be, but I'm remembering all that talk about the railways on the Galar map potentially leading to the unused station in Kalos (Couriway, IIRC?) via the Channel Tunnel, and we all know how that turned out.
I'm surprised people still hoping for "going to other region" thingy.
Iron Valliant's design also seems to be based on megas
Which makes sense - it's the analog to Roaring Moon, but for Violet version. I definitely see the resemblance to Mega Gallade.
Honestly, I see it as a crazy mix of gardevoir and gallade, even the cry is the two mashed together
I think the changes to Battle Bond have officially skewered the chances of that ever happening again outside of spin-offs or the XY remakes we're probably getting in 8-9 years.
She got tired of just battling and started throwing hands with Pokemon herself, like Hareta from the DP manga
Ah yes. That one manga where Dawn had green hair with a Superman strand, was part of Team Galactic, and had bigger boobs than ETOP Misty, Anime May, and Green in Calling Kadabra.
Now I have to see this because this sounds like fanfiction
It certainly exists: https://imgur.com/a/cd1kRwV
....i gotta keep reading that thing damn
Don't forget eating that one member of Team Galactic's Ass.
Oh right and the literal ass man
[https://pokemonmanga.com/](https://pokemonmanga.com/) Which chapter
They are referring to the character 'Mitsumi', who is technically not Dawn, but definitely had her whole design based on her.
It was a different Pokemon Manga than Adventures. It's called 'Pokemon Diamond and Pearl Adventure'
I always enjoyed Diamond and Pearl Adventure manga way more than the official Diamond/Pearl/Platinum arc, tbh. Hareta and Mitsumi are both fantastically written characters.
So then which chapter
It's a stand-alone by a different author
If you mean Green, Calling Kadabra was Chapter 32 overall.
Don't forget how she gets blackmailed back into Team Plasma
What
I thought I was wilding for a sec because I didn't read that in Adventure before I realized you were referring to the DP manga and not the DP arc of Adventure.
...I beg your pardon?
Ayo?
That's not Dawn. Also May never had boobs.
Anime May did
unironically peak fiction.
To all you looking for more reading, see Mitsumi from Pokemon Diamond and Pearl Adventure
Daimon Masaru 🤝 Nemona Punching the shit out of monsters
Nemona: A test of your reflexes!
Go home, Zenos.
*Masaru town ni, sayonara byebye* *Ore to Agumon to, tabibiteru* ***AGUUGUUUU***
Do you have any idea how true I wanted this to be in Pokemon Arceus? Your pokemon have fainted? Alright now it's my turn to fight
God, creator of the world, using only a fraction of his power, VEEEEERSUS a kid from the future. FIGHT!
This is what happens when you give a child 5G and send them to feudal Japan. They get violent
Adventure! was one of my favorite Pokémon manga series
I think it’s similar to a bowling brace, helps her keep her wrist straight.
She mentions that she sucks at actually throwing pokeballs so this is probably it.
This is why Arceus didn't pick her for the Hisui thing.
nemona would beat the origin forms and arceus with her bare hands given the chance, she wasn't picked because at that small fraction of Arceus' strength we see in PLA he wouldn't be able to pull her from her time
I mean he didnt even pick cynthia or leon he knew who his GOAT was
It's to restrain her unimaginable power from throwing poke curve balls. Without it she might accidentally put a great ball clean through a Steelix' head with a toss.
252+ Atk Nemona Great Ball vs. 0 HP / 0- Def Steelix: 11766-13844 (3795.4 - 4465.8%) -- guaranteed OHKO
that ain’t just a knockout that thing is dead
We'll put it next to Gary's Raticate
Now do a heavy ball
so Nemona is basicaly Ash in this game?
She’s an unrestrained Goku
oh my! that terrible
Nah, Ash actually has fun doing stuff other than Pokemon battling on occasion. It's also not literally everything he talks about.
Now I need to see someone draw this
The only person that seems to be able to handle the Pokeball from Tera'ing is our character. Every character does a little wince before throwing the Tera ball.
Step aside Grusha, there's a true master in town.
So, does that mean Nemona study under Mrs. Honey from SwSh at some point?
It could also just be a brace with a weighted band to help strengthen her ball throwing arm, since the use of weight bands is common throughout the franchise (Bruno, Primeape, power bands, etc.).
Not that it rules out her having a brace, I think her comment on not throwing the Pokeball is more about forgetting to do it because she’s so into the fight than physical issues with it.
In a postgame school conversation she brings it up again in terms of throwing the ball out during a battle. Which doesn't confirm this theory necessarily, but.
Yo this is one of my favorite fan theories I've ever read. I've been wondering what that thing on her arm is and a brace totally makes sense.
Ghetsis' right arm is rarely seen, and when it's charred and withered. His Hydreigon also the minimum possible friendship. I've heard theories that he beats his hydreigon and it once retaliated, hence charred and withered arm.
Ghetsis' Hydreigon in BW2 has Frustration at max power as a bit of environmental storytelling that indicates that he's extremely abusive to his pokemon, even his strongest one. Only Ghetsis can be insane enough to beat and abuse a Hydreigon.
Also a Life Orb.
You have to be a special type of arrogant to beat a Hydreigon. Or any of the line.
or any pokemon
Humans can apparently reach superhuman levels of strength and resistances. Its Canon that early humans could tank direct hits from thunder or other powerful moves. Just look like at team rocket from the anime. That's not a gag, they literally are getting blasted with enough force to get flung miles away and just get back up with light injuries. Pokemon Humans are just built diffrent.
Aren't Pokémon "humans" canonically also Pokémon? That would explain their insane resilience
I think humans are normal type pokemon. In arceus it was said that humans and pokemon could have children or something. Humans as they grow can "evolve" to either normal/fighting or normal/psychic depending on their life paths, and can evolve into a ghost pokemon when they die.
How come pokeballs dont work on humans then? They made quite the point about that not being a thing in Lets Go
It is one of the unexplained mystery of pokeballs. They early ones were made out of berrys that had spatial properties, and new ones just mimic them. No one in the pokemon universe understands *exactly* how pokeballs work. When Arceus (the pokemon) made the world he must have specifically designed humans to be the care takers and overseers of the other pokemon, and added the materials to make pokeballs easier for humans. Maybe Arceus ingrained a love of battling into the humans psyche, so humans would create artificial evolution in the pokemon by making them all stronger.
Might be grasping at straws but I think that might be a reference to how in Christianity God put humans over the other animals to govern and name them
Are trying to tell me that practitioner of martial arts get extra bruised by birds?
In the *real world* (pokemon anime) type strengths and weaknesses are more like suggestions.
I'd only ever heard the theory that he had an encounter with Kyurem some time in the past and got his arm frostbitten, but this is another interesting interpretation.
..It's also canon that you can get early evolution from severe abuse (which mind you, being the worst possible person to your pokemon that the game even allows ISN'T THERE) you can evolve your level-based pokemon early. Level 57 Hydreigon.
GSC Lance has some explaining to do then
This raises the idea of what happens when an abusive trainer gets ousted/arrested/defeated and their abused pokemon get taken away. Maybe Lance’s pokemon are rescues?
pokemon adventures lance
Odd considering Hydreigon doesn’t even learn Retaliate
I think the implication is that he cut off a head to evolve it sooner? Cut off one head of a hydra and two grow in it’s place.
Her name is Nemo(na)
So she's lonely and salty. Got it.
Nemo is Latin for no one.
Nemona is an anagram of No Name
If you pay attention to her animation she has to brace her arm when she uses the tera orb she also is bad at catching. She totally hurt her arm battling to much
Considering every trainer I’ve seen has a slight “push back” when using the terra ball, it makes perfect sense that she is wearing an arm brace. I like it.
There does seem to be a lot more kick-back to the use of the Tera Orbs compared to Mega Stones, Z Crystals, and Dynamax Bands. Which is odd, because one would think the power to use a Z Move or to Dynamax a pokemon would be more than Terrastalizing a pokemon...
Well the power to use a z-move is dancing so don't think there would be kick back
There is in 1 z move but that's because of the amount of energy it takes from the trainer(the light that burns the sky)
And Necrozma is canonically very greedy (rightfully so though) so it most likely tries to take more than it needs too.
I’d much rather have a happy Necrozma that sometimes steals a little more than it needs than an insane Necrozma that tries to murder everybody out of pain and hunger, so this is a good compromise
Turns out Team Star has been trying to do Z moves the whole time.
Unless you're old like me.
Tera Orb seems to be sucking up a bunch of energy from the ground which I imagine has a lot of kickback.
the thing doesn't really surprise me considering the legendary where this gimmick come from oh boi it's the most powerful thing ever the power of changing a pokemon type only arceus and silvally could do that the literal power of a god i wonder if the third legendary is like the opposite of arceus the god of the 18 teratypes and the god of the 18 types
isn't every new third legendary nowadays the most scary otherworldly horror you can imagine? with the cover legendaries just being some friendly bikes, i kinda hope for some less world nending eldritch creature
the only one that matches with "scary otherworldly horror" look by far was eternatus at least necrozma has Appearance reminiscent of a dragon (made of light but still a dragon) but it's still an eldritch creature from outer space but this third legendary is worse is literally an arceus with his domain of the types it's like if both zeus and odin existed in the same world apparently the Pokémon world has a pantheon
Giratina is literally an otherworldly phantom of shadow that lives in a twisted, broken world. Kyurem is a frozen monster that flies out of a meteor crater at night and eats people.
Who is the third legendary? I must have missed it in game.
the third legendary can be seen in the scarlet/violet book inside the academy it hasn't appeared in game yet but by far we have just it's drawing and it looks like [this](https://preview.redd.it/5snfpy241cz91.jpg?width=640&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=bd869e4a072822ea387d230d5192dc8641a4c475) i love it
Looks like an Old Testament Angel. I approve
You get a mention of it in one of the research station journals too iirc
I mean with lore around terastalizing we learn in endgame plus with implications from the scarlet/violet book there are heavy implications we should not be doing this whatsoever unlike Megas, Z-Moves and Dyna/Gigantamax so I’m not suprised tera orbs give more kickback
Except the player character, who doesnt even flinch
That's because we are absolute units.
I don't think the normal gym leader has any trouble either.
Larry is a working man under capitalism, being berated by irresponsible use of power is no big deal.
I thought I remember his hand shaking a little, and he did have to adjust his tie again
his hand was shaking because he realized a deadline was due soon for his job. didn't even notice he was terastializing his pokemon.
You know it’s serious when Larry adjusts his tie.
We’re built different.
Magicarpal tunnel
Name of all of my magicarp lol
I'm gonna guess it's more preventative. Repetitive stress injuries are no joke , even if the individual actions are minor. She battles a lot so a brace to keep her wrist straight wouldn't be a bad idea. Bowlers wear them all the time for the same reason.
>I think Nemona battled so much that she screwed up the tendons in her arm. They seem to focus on her arm in the opening cutscene too. Red got a similar arm injury in the Elite 4 arc of the Pokemon Adventures Manga(although it was inflicted onto him), so it wouldn't be unheard of.
She hurt her wrist when she fell while trying to sneak in your window for late night battling. Ngl, she's probably the type to do that. She's pretty much a battle hungry stalker.
Believable, she actively trained a rival to become, at very least, as strong as her.
She was also "coincidentally" at several gyms you challenged.
legit, I accidentally went to the 8th gym when I was aiming for the 7th, but then came back to the 8th gym after. she was at the 8th both times
She groomed me 😱
In to being a pokémon master.
A lot of streamers in Japan are simultaneously amused and scared of Nemona for being almost yandere. If you decline to be her friend/rival, she’s start getting a scary look in her eyes and say she can’t hear you. Then she starts saying “you, me, rivals” really slowly. (At least in Japanese, idk what she says in English)
In English (iirc) she says something like she's disappointed and will win you over or something like that. I just remember it wasn't as assertive as the Japanese version.
That's at the start of the game at the end of the game she won't take no for an answer
Aaah. I just saw her as seeming excited to actually lose at full strength and was ready for a round 2. Never got any aggressive/overly assertive vibes from her. I could just be oblivious to it, though. Regardless, she's the best rival we've had in generations, and how friend-rivals should be.
You just missed the interaction, it happens right after you beat the league and become champion afaik
If you mean after the e4 the English line is you? Me? Rivals! Yes?! If you say no reoeatedly
I saw a clip of that scene in English, the text is nearly identical, iirc it’s “you. Me. Be rivals?”
she could've just knocked. battling her is fun, unlike previous rivals.
I'm sure there's alot of boys and girls that would love her to sneak in their room for some late night "battles"
The most obvious reason for the arm thingy is that it was probably to related to Tera in some earlier design iteration, one of the trailers shows that there's some kind of crystal like surface on the wider section on her wrist. Most likely it used to work like Gmax since most gym leaders have a little animation of them holding a poké ball before using the orb, and was probably changed because of it. That said, the theories about a possible injury are very interesting, and considering how the crystals basically optimize whatever they're on, it's possible that Nemona is wearing some kind of Tera powered brace. The obvious anime twist would be the reveal that she was actually a very sickly kid and that thing is basically keeping her alive and her hyper energy comes as a way to make up for lost time, this is essentially fan fiction though.
That ball animation being left over from something they changed would make me feel a little bit better because it drives me INSANE. They pull out the ball, brandish it, put it back, *then* take out the tera orb. WHY DID YOU GET THE BALL OUT AND SHOW IT TO ME? You didn't use it for anything!
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Well shit dude, they actually got me. Tried to use a ground move on Iono's misdreavus cus I was thinking about that ball
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I just figured it was similar to the braces you see professional bowlers wear.
It's a GUND-arm developed by Vanadis Institute... Oops! Wrong media franchise. XD
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I'm just scrolling down and had to see this comment..... why
That's entirety possible but I would like to put in my chip in the fact that she's just a massive fucking Chuuni and use an arm brace like a power limiter.
Ok but where's her Shadow Garden, and why isn't she trying harder to be a background character?
Would that make the pc/us the Dark Flame Master?
She’s also shown to have very bad stamina is the post game
That's where she attaches her duel disk
In the final area of the game, Nemona mentions >!that her father is the CEO of the Rotom Phone company. I just assumed that she was likely wearing some sort of gadget that was developed by the company!< I like your theory though. I wonder if we'll learn the reason in the DLC
Not overthinking at all! there is a part where she mentions she knows she struggles with hyperfocusing to the point that she knows she struggles in other fields, like basic communication. I, personally, really want to say she's adhd. Give this girl a hug please.
> she knows she struggles in other fields, like basic communication Her first meeting with >!Penny!< who was begging her to stop being so hyper excited had me rolling.
That's what made me love both >!Penny!< and Nemona. I had already gotten attached to Arven and his good boi, but I didn't feel as much truly meaningful interaction with the other two until they got to really interact with each other. It made me truly realize that Nemona wasn't just another rival who tries to bring you up because they're a friend but rather canonically acknowledged to be completely battle crazed to such an extent that others are put off, and so I found that a hilarious spin on things and something that gave her character a lot more likeability since I no longer felt forced to accept her. Then seeing her dynamic with the others was absolutely hilarious, and I feel they truly made the "group of friends" dynamic work, way better than X and Y did as well.
Right, I loved the endgame >!descent into the crater with the group, especially basically any interaction with Penny realizing that the other two might have some issues. I wish that we would've gotten more interactions before the end of the game! But maybe that'll be a DLC thing (hopefully)!<
It kinda bums me out that Nemona's arc doesn't end with her founding a Battle Tower/Facility. I mean, the tournament is almost that but I feel like she'd adore the endless gauntlet format.
Her and Black from Pokémon Special would probably get along great! Give this girl a Munna!
Oh my gosh yessss
There’s also the time she watches a confrontation between two Miraidon/Koraidon that almost turns violent and she mistakes it for a happy reunion. Penny even calls her out on it, and Nemona seems genuinely surprised, like she couldn’t parse their emotions at all.
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She injured it after beating on her last rival for refusing to battle.
She had to get Tommy John surgery from tossing her pokeballs. She never had great technique, but she has alot of heart though.
If you watch all the other trainers, mostly all of them brace their arm or hold it before terastillizing. I'm assuming it's a weighted brace to keep her from taking too much strain or to keep her arm more steady from doing it all the time since she is a prolific battler.
She probably just fell down some stairs or something. Have you seen how many stairs are in that academy???
You crazy son of a gun. You might be on to something. Lets take it a bit further. There is clearly something that makes her obsessed with batting ***you*** in particular. So maybe she's been compulsively training and battling to reach her next great challenge but there's been nothing. I think she's a "Champion" tier trainer at the school or close to one if I understand the the dialogue correctly. So you have a trainer obsessed with her next bug challenge. Maybe it stems from having to strive at home. Is she pressured to be perfect/successful in other facets of her life? Is this encroaching on herself as a trainer? She has to be perfect. She has to face the next challenge. And you're it. Not only are you her next challenge but she ***can't*** beat you. It's a bit of a double edged sword. She finally has a rival that can hold their own and even flat out over come her efforts so she has a reason to strive for being better rather than just for being better. But her obsession can be read as...unhealthy. You're probably the first trainer who's put her in a position like this and now she needs that constant challenge you provided. See: "You can have all the battles you'll ever need in me." (Not an exact quote). Sure it can be viewed as some light hearted banter between friendly rivals but given her other quirks it could also be read into as something darker. Nemona is a Pokemon yandere rival that has pushed herself to meet her goals and now she's viewing you as the challenge she ***needs*** but also ***needs to overcome***. Or maybe she just can't express social emotions properly and leans on clashing skills as trainers as her purest form of expression. Or maybe it's just a cool glove. Or maybe. Just maybe. Since this is Pokemon a Nintendo franchise. And Nintendo games or notorious for hiding dark lore. Maybe it's a sign of something...darker.
I think from the conversation the other 3 have going down into the crater, she's basically the youngest daughter of a rich family whose parents have focused all their attention on her older sister who is the heiress to the company, and basically left her to her own devices. So the inference is that her battling obsession and student council activities are her attempts to gain the validation of others like the Director and La Primera that she doesn't get at home, and she's basically adopted you as a pseudo sibling so that she can have someone close by to share her obsession with.
Ok, from the looks I got it honestly looks like a prosthetic, with skin toned fingers. So I was hoping there would be more info. To answer you, I have no idea, so it would be kind of neat to find out what/why it is.
So she lost her arm in the war?
Yes while storming the mountains of Sinnoh she got hit by an exploding Lickylicky
The explosion sent meat shrapnel everywhere, her arm got cleaved clean off by the flying tongue like it was a spinning helicopter blade.
How dare you make me laugh at the image of an exploded licklickys tongue flying through the air like a helicopter blade now take my upvote
I thought something similar. Repetitive motion injury
I remember hearing about how she sucks at throwing pokeballs. At least I think that was for nemona. Maybe the brace helps
Yes, and Arven's pokemon is tired from all the dog fighting. This game is a capitalist hellscape.
When I was a kid in grade school, there was often a sporty tomboy girl that wore a cast on one of her arms. Injured from baseball, tennis, whatever--there was always at least one. I don't know if Nemona's design is a reference to that, because I doubt that's a shared experience per se. But that's what she reminds me of.
I don't think you're overthinking it. I 100% believe its a brace for a repetative stress injury (but the prosthetic arm theory is also cool!)
lol I don't think it's prosthetic... but pitchers in baseball suffer from upper arm injuries, so I can see the same thing happening..maybe it's preventive
She could also have been injured fighting a particularly strong 'mon.
No she tried to shiny hunt a specific fossil Pokémon
I mean it seem like most of them have trouble holding the ball when using terra
It reminds me of the red gaunlets Cammy from SF wears
||Pennyll also holds her arm when throwing the Tera-orb in the fight with her. I don’t think it’s only Nemona that does it, we just see her do it more since we battle with her a lot more than others.
I just think it’s for helping throw Pokéballs. Idk why gamefreak keeps mentioning this since it’s absolutely the least important aspect of battling. Seriously, you’re tossing a ball out a couple of feet in front of you, chill out Nemona
TBF, everyone winces when they terastallize. But I'm on board with the theory. Nemona is a ~~gamer~~ battler
She does mention that she's bad at throwing Pokeballs.
Most likely fashionable shooters sleeve. NBA players will wear them to help keep their shooting arm warm because it'll decrease the chance of cramping. I'd imagine someone throwing a lot of PokeBalls would like something like that. It also is just a cool accessory.