The running joke of the internet is that Kalos is the forgotten generation, full of forgettable Pokémon and a haphazard storyline. But instead of questioning Kalos' ranking in the Pokémon series, fans co🉐ntinue to praise Kalos on a different metric: its meme♓ potential. Mega Evolution alone is a goldmine for parody, for its quirky, over-the top-designs, and its callbacks to Generation One.
Whether Pokémon fans Love Kalos, hate it, or simply don't know it, is irrelevant. What matters is the humor and absurdity that ties fans together in mo🔴ck or genuine celebration. Though there is a critical mass of Kalo🍎s memes, these are the best ones that only true fans will appreciate.
10 Sitting
The programmers for Pokémon games never considered allowing the player character to sit. That's heartless. That's a period of 20 years! X and Y Marketing teams rolled out the red carpet for Mega Evolution, and sitting was swept under that same carpet. But arguably this was the most extraordinary 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:mechanic change of X and Y, a game-changer.
This meme from screenshots the tutorial where NPCs teach the player character how to sit. To highlight this absurd conversation, they compare it to the popular Family Guy skit where Peter forgets how to 🅰sit. 🐟Hilarity ensues.
9 ♔ Mega Gengar
Mega Evolution was the first gimmicky power-up ability to be introduced to the Pokémon franchise. Pokémon that Mega Evolve get more powerful and "cooler🍎" looking. When Gengar Mega Evolves, its third eye opens, its body and head get covered in jagged spikes, and it becomes an ethereal nightmare... or not.
As the NPC in X and Y hypothesizes: "Know how your hair sticks out all over the place whe♍n you wake up? Think Mega Evolution is like that?" As this meme from suggests, Mega Gengar may just have chaotic bedhead.
8 Espurr
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Espurr is an internet favorite because of its unbreakable stare. It looks like a bipedal cat that's experiencing the most ꦑintense catnip rush ever. But that description is benign compared to E🌄spurr's true psychic abilities.
As Y's Pokedex entry reveals, it's called the restraint Pokémon because it's restraining itself from destroying anything within a 300-foot radius. 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Unlike with most cat Pokemon, be careful petting this particular kitty. For safety reasons, it's best to avoid petting around its ears because that's where its psychic energyꦬ leaks from!
7 Pumpkaboꦛo's Secret
Pumpkaboo is a strange plant ghost that looks part feline, part jack-o-lantern. In this clever meme, imagines the two entities existing separately. Whereas its evolution Gourgeist proves that the two entities are together, ꦐthe creator's "cat-o-lantern" is a cuter possibility.
Modern Pokémon designs can get bizarre, sometimes inviting speculation from fans. Pumpkaboo is a perfect candid൲ate for theorizing. Since Kalos is uncharted territory for some fans, Pumpkaboo may have slipped past their radar.
6 Signat🌸ure Moves
Pokémon X and Y introduced Signature Moves for the three Starters. Delphox learns Mystical Fire, a Special Move that lowers the target's SP ATK by 1. Chesnaught learns Spiky Shield, a Defensive move that reduces ATK power a🌸nd damages Pokémon that use ph💙ysical moves. Greninja learns Water Shuriken, a Special Move that can hit the opponent 2-5 times.
In this meme from each starter tortures their opposite type counterpart with their signature move. Each victim is curled up into a ball while sweat pours from their anguished face. Forget 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:type disadvantages— this is full-blown type phobia.
5 Fire-ไFighting Type ꦯ
Many fans assert that there are too many Fire-Fighting Type starters. Before X and Y released, fans became nervous that the littl𒁏e fire-fox Pokémon Fennekin would follow the same trend. Luckily, Game Freak bucked that trend with Fennekin's third evolution, Delphox, one of the only 🍨Fire and Psychic-types in the franchise.
The boardroom suggestions meme has been riffed on many times, but in this iteration by , Chespin faces the wrath of the infuriated Yveltal for suggesting the taboo typin𒁃g. Fans of the game understand꧑ its fury all too well.
4 AZ
AZ is a mysterious, abnormally tall man that is integrated into the story of X and Y... poorly. Many fans are offended by X and Y's 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:hair-brained story.
I🔯n this meme by , a boy ascends a staircase by taking one insanely lon🐼g step. It's an image that perfectly illustrates how the writers failed to make players care about AZ. He's not a 3000-year-old King; he's a plot device, a bad one with a questionable backstory, and loose ties to the legendaries, Xerneas and Yveltal. He is definitely a low point of the game.
3 🅷 Fluffy White Neckwear 🌸
Pokémon designs are hard. When creativity is waning, sometimes the designers use shortcuts or aesthetic cheats to liven up 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:mundane creatures and characters. In generations past, these extra flourishes have been armor, spikes, horns, or symbols; Kalos decided on puffy white collars.
This meme by Reddit user demonstrates this designing convention doesn't stop at Pokémon; Diantha is th🐲e regional Champion and a Grand Duchess, and her neckwear is enormous! Could this neckwear be a sign of royalty and power in Kalos? Unlikely, since even Scatterbug has one, and 🐽it's basically a peasant's Pokémon.
2 Dragon♛ite's Mega Stone
Meg🌠a Stones in Kalos are named after the Pokémon they're for with the suffix "ite" or "nite" tacked to ꧋the end. In this meme posted by , Garchomp, Metagross, and Tyranitar ridicule Dragonite because it can't Mega Evolve.
When Dragonite expresses how it's been unfairly exclu▨ded, they rebut that its stone would be called "Dragonite" or "Dragonitenite." While it's hard to disagree with this logic, some fans still feel cheated by this decision and can sympathize with this Dragonite's frustration. And to be clear, Garchompite, Metagrossite, and Tyranitarite are equally ridiculous names.
1 Clefair♒y's Comeback
When Gen VI came out, Game Freak decided to errata the typing of a few Gen 1 Pokémon. Clefairy and its evolutions had been ෴Normal-types since they were introduced to the series, but with the creation of Fairy-types, that had to change. This remix on the popular Simpsons meme template by represents super-effective attacks as chairs.
Clefairy, who used to be 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:the Normal-type and Machoke'ꦗs pun𝄹ching bag, exacts revenge with its newly super-effective Fairy aไttack. Truly the tables have turned. Perhaps Mac⭕hoke shouldn't have underestimated such a sweet-looking Pokémon.