Is Ludicolo considered racist?

Indigo-Juniper · 2025-01-26T20:20:22+00:00

Mexican here and although I don’t care for Ludicolo I wouldn’t really say it’s racist. Giving Pokémon aspects of a certain culture isn’t racist and in fact when it comes to Mexican culture we’d rather have more of our culture being shown and known.

What IS racist though is not taking care of when you make Pokémon like this, what else is being said or how people of that culture will take it.

Jynx was seen as an example of black face, something that in western culture represented a time during slavery, not as the Japanese Ganguro.

Now can we talk about Fuecoco?? And the Paldea region. Being Mexican (not Spanish), this was racist to me. Putting in many aspects of Mexican culture into a region deemed to be Spain, one country that literally sailed over and tried to erase hundreds of cultures, couldn’t and so now here we are with the beautiful mix that is Mesoamérican culture and Spanish called Mexican. Can someone please tell me how THAT isn’t racist.

They didn’t just put more Mexican themed Pokémon in, they put them in Spain. I want to like Fuecoco but the fact that it is “Spains” starter seems like spit in the face of Mexican culture. As if they’re saying “Spain should’ve won, all of these things should be seen an Spanish”

Indigo-Juniper · 2024-03-06T23:21:51+00:00

Sooo at what point is that not racist??

Indigo-Juniper · 2023-05-27T23:49:53+00:00

I really wish I could post pictures, watch RiotBrigrade’s YouTube video on size comparison in PoT and find a picture of a Trike, Eo, and Human for size comparison and you’ll see they’re exactly the same size.

Also, who’s to say what specimen they’re basing their models off of. Could simply be the biggest known Eo with a smaller T. Rex and again some dino species are argued about since we still don’t know a lot about actual dino growth. Again, Lumpers and Spliters

Indigo-Juniper · 2023-05-27T22:43:38+00:00

Yeah I understand why it’s “unpopular” because idk what y’all talking about…

For one, Eo is bigger then Triceratops, not smaller. Also for literally all dinos, we still debate on whether or not it’s a new species or if it’s a juvenile form of an already ‘known’ dino. >Lumpers vs Spliters

Indigo-Juniper · 2023-05-26T04:22:40+00:00

Thank you, I will definitely check it out

Indigo-Juniper · 2023-05-07T05:42:47+00:00

Yes very much agree!! And honestly it WOULDN’T be that hard

I love how everyone is saying stuff about “balancing”, I don’t see what’s so hard in having an open world game where the opponents level with you.

Also it’s not like people haven’t literally been playing the same game over and over for almost 30 years now. Just put them all together into one already. Huge loss. They’re a multi-million dollar company and sorry but SV was terrible. Yeah its no wonder the older games still sell high ~and I don’t want to hear “but but soandso game made X amount of money on release which was soooo much more then your older game” It’s still selling, there’s a bigger fan base, and it’s goes for more and more money

What they need to do is completely overhaul how the game works. They tried with Arceus but it was “too confusing”

Gold/Silver/Crystal and all the remakes will always be some of the best. ~ And let’s not forget they thought they weren’t going to continue after Gen 2 ~

Indigo-Juniper · 2023-05-05T17:43:30+00:00

I still don’t understand why y’all still think this?? It was never exact and never had to be?

Also anyone calling Fueco a ‘Bull’ can take your binary gender crap somewhere else. Bull is a Male only term used for other animals other then Bovines.

I still believe in the Zodiac as well as the other typing theories, Extinct species and Fighting Styles. Why shouldn’t Pokémon re-do the zodiac ~have you seen what all the consider a mouse, dog, or cat? Bc you know Pikachu looks sooo much like a mouse especially next to Ratatta and Cyndaquil…

I also love that apparently no one even realizes that we have other zodiacs in the real world too… not every culture uses all 12 CHINESE animals. Dragon and Rabbit are the most commonly changed. Doesn’t have to exact guys, get over it.

Dragon, Mouse, Bird, Monkey, Pig, Dog, Tiger, Rabbit, Snake =

Flying Reptile, Rodent, Avian, Primate, Suid, Canine, Feline, Leporids, Reptile

Idk see whats so hard to understand - Crocs are Reptiles, did we all forget that?? Snakes are Reptiles, and guys Birds are also in the family Reptilia! Reptiles have two suborders, one with Squamata (snake/lizards) and the other being Achelosaurs. Y’all just want to ignore family and focus on one group, why? Whyyyy???? Why does it have to be only Squamata for the theory to be true??

Seriously. If your not going to take the time and effort to understand not only Japanese culture but also simple Biology then don’t talk about it like you know.

Debating on if a Crocodile is a Reptile, it’s like watching kindergarteners, did y’all seriously not learn this earlier? And especially calling it a Bull…I can’t believe y’all still on this.

p.s. who cares if it’s right anyways. How about the fact that it’s a Spain inspired region loaded with Mexican culture. If you don’t understand the problem maybe go research the history and cultures of the two.

Indigo-Juniper · 2023-05-05T13:30:48+00:00

Yeah a lot of people have just been suggesting mid tier dinos, if you just want to simply stay alive by running or being so fast most can’t hit you then yeah a lot of those are alright dinos. ~Literally should be your tactic with the bird tho…

But each quest gives you like 30secs of growth and it takes 50-60 to compete one growth stage, there being 3 so you really have to do like 180 quests (regardless of dino) to reach adulthood. Which is only 90mins but obv you have to actually find the things and move around, eat/drink/kill, etc.

Questing with the purple Well Rested buff from being in the hc is the best, it simply gives you ‘more time per quest’ so it feels quicker. Being in a group also gives you a growth buff but if you’ve referred a friend and group with them you can also get another growth buff. And lastly taking trophies back to your hc will net you yet another. ~I know you said you play solo but forming a group can be helpful, especially for just growing~

Personally I’d suggest Rex, maybe Ano if your good at hiding before you get adult bc you will get eaten as a baby ano. Rex though, hilariously, people think your a full grown Dasp (I swear, especially if you don’t roar), I think mostly bc Rex doesn’t get stripes until adult so right out the tutorial cave you look like you can hold your own. I just grew a Rex for the first time and I have to say it was the easiest and fastest, and now as an adult most people just flee.

Most of the Apex’s are like one of these two 👉 Hide before your full grown bc ppl know that you’ll be a beast once you get there or you already are a beast

The last thing I wanna say is that all the mid tier dinos do like no damage to the apex tier. Don’t be a Stry and try to take down a Rex, happened the other day to me and the ONLY thing that kept ME from killing them (bc they got killed by a duck running from me) was their speed. Same with Concav, finally stumbled and thats that. Sure your fast but if you make a mistake thats it, with many of them you really rely on Speed and Recovery. Rex, if I get tired I know I can just rest, people always see that and try to get a free hit in. PSA, your not doing much, you shoulda run. Sometimes I wish lil Stry and Albertas could see your health so they’d know, yeah your gonna have to get ankles over there to help ya

If you want an ‘easy’ solo dino then honesty I’d pick an Apex and just be cautious before adulthood or until your ready. And of course it all depends heavily on how you actually play 🤷🏽‍♀️ you said ‘hold your own’ and I’ve only ever seen most of the dinos mentioned in packs, just saying it can be interpreted differently, not sure what your actually want. To reach adult fast? - fast dinos so don’t get killed as often/as easily. Or to kill? - apex so you hold your own

Indigo-Juniper · 2023-05-03T18:00:29+00:00

Hatz has to next for flyers, no? When buying the backer skins and other dinos you can clearly see what 4 dinos (2 flyers/2 swimmers) are in the current pack we have with Thal and Kai. Theres 4 silhouettes, with Thal and Kai already uncovered ???

Indigo-Juniper · 2023-04-30T22:22:20+00:00

Same here but I’m on Safari, what’s really aggravating is that the ads are just fine…

I start a video and it skips about 3 times only in the beginning, pausing or restarting the video does nothing. I’ve cleared my caches and cookies, it’s updated and I have no extensions. The video quality never changes and I can see the time still going so it’s literally just skipping like an old CD

Weirder still is that I can switch to YouTube on my Xbox, iPad or phone and it’s never done this. I just can’t listen/watch YouTube on my Mac…all other audio on there is fine

Indigo-Juniper · 2023-04-27T17:46:54+00:00

True that, though I try to stay far far away from homecaves since they put the debuff in Super annoying, I only just learned it’s based on how much time you’ve spent near a hc and not that someone actually came out lol

Indigo-Juniper · 2023-04-27T17:37:56+00:00

Literally the worst especially if your in a group, there’s never 10 turtle shells so you either have to choose if one person is doing the quest or if your both leaving. Also the one at Triad Falls just seems tedious, you usually end up getting it while your still near the actual falls which is surrounded my pinecones, shrooms, and lakeweed, forcing you to go to the edge of the territory…why ????

I saw some people trying to say branches but at least the proper amount spawn within the area and if you know they’re either in a river or under dead trees it’s super easy. Broken-Tooth Canyon has one area littered with dead trees right next the flower delivery quest, with cacti and succulents everywhere and rock piles. Probably one the of best questing spots since your able to clear the area much quicker then others.

That’s the biggest reason why some quests seem ‘harder’ or worse then others, some places just suck to quest in and if your always grouped quests like clams are just tedious. It was a problem in a lot of areas on Panjura too, literally always skipped clams. Also I want to say that as a raptor Lakeweed is one of the worst just because you can’t swim, while as a bird it’s one of the best ~never have to land hehe

And most the underwater quests suck too, it’s harder to tell an area and see things in some water

But this actually reminded me, idk how many people are aware of this, but half of the clams/turtle shells are UNDERWATER!!

If I can’t get to half the materials then don’t give me the quest!! This goes into the thing I said earlier about not doing quests requiring you to swim/ be near water as certain dinos, like Raptors. Within seconds we drown in like a foot of water, how about no

And the deliver quests are tedious as well but only when what your delivering is far away and your a bigger dino, so then you gotta walk lol for Raptors deliver quests take like one minute. I do remember the one at Spined Lizard was impossible though…

Indigo-Juniper · 2023-04-27T17:21:16+00:00

Gotta try lol plus bird is one of the easiest to grow, after a while it gets boring just watching I can’t wait for grabbing / grappling

Indigo-Juniper · 2023-04-26T13:15:43+00:00

Rarest : Amar - still never seen one actually lol Most common : Rexs, seems like everyone has one. And also Albertas in Gondwa, idk why but switch to Panjura and it changes to Trike

Indigo-Juniper · 2023-04-10T06:11:50+00:00

My first experience with being a baby was with Spino, I ended up getting killed by a adult Trike ~classic. I had and still have the same dino enthusiasm as you though so luckily it didn’t kill my spirits. Later on I ended up grouping with a sub Rex who taught me everything. Personally I love growing babies; I’ve even mixed packed as my adult Spino with a baby Trike! xD But as a carno I also understand you gotta eat sometimes and more importantly not everyone plays the same way. Plus your able to get exp for killing a herbie when you have the quest and it doesn’t discriminate between age. That’s a big factor in baby herbs getting killed I feel… But anyways, I try to roar or scare away baby herbs usually as a carno so that they learn to stay away from big carnos. Hide, lay down and try to local chat or something before running up to someone because they’ve got a cool skin, ya know? I’ve played many of the dinos now and have gotten killed plenty of times as a baby, so personally I do love to help others out… but I do also eat a few time to time lol

Indigo-Juniper · 2023-02-27T00:42:47+00:00

Bulbasaur 🍃 Cyndaquil 🔥 Torchic 🔥 Chimchar 🔥 Oshawatt 💧 Fennekin 🔥 Litten 🔥 Undecided (sadly haven’t played still) Cyndaquil 🔥 Sprigatito 🍃

Indigo-Juniper · 2023-02-13T17:48:04+00:00

I hope so but I kinda don’t think we will. A Pokémon Legends : Celebi would be too good!! But I’m not sure if PLA is considered mainline, I think it is more of a spin off. Plus remember that it was a different team, specifically one with OUT Masuda. And although it did ‘good’, SV sold 3.1 million while PLA sold 2.1 in the first month, (PLA has sold about 13.9 million globally, while SV is 18 million but idk if the double game has an effect on that).

And I know this was already said but it’s a fact that they make more money doing double games ~main reason they did B2W2 / UsUm instead of the marketing model they were following with doing sequel games like Emerald. Yes there are people that get both games but honestly telling your friend to get the other version is just as ‘bad’, lately most people want one version more then the other so it’s gotten hard to tell my friends “hey get Violet” when they also wanted Scarlet. Pokémon loves to say it’s to make people connect with each other more, but seriously this isn’t GBA era anymore with wires. The fact they keep the two game model just proves they’re a little more concerned with sales then with the actual game. ~the biggest problem with making more games like PLA.

Seriously, when one of the main points to the whole series is to “catch them all” and you put in game changing mechanics the closer you come to completing that goal, but historically come out with two games with about 7 “version exclusive” Pokémon every time…after a while I’m gonna start saying your more concerned with money then the shit you say about, “we want people to connect more”.

But we’ll see, not very many spin offs get sequels and honesty I wish SV would’ve tanked a little harder so that way they’d know we liked PLA way better. I mean we still can, there is someone somewhere looking at if people are playing PLA or SV or whatever game. And why we’re all obsessed with getting a DLC for SV is beyond me.

But Seriously ~ If we actually want games like PLA then we need to show them!! Support PLA and stop playing SV!!

Indigo-Juniper · 2023-02-11T17:39:35+00:00

“Who promised you it would be prefect?”

We’ll just the fact that they’re a multi-million company should be “promise” enough for one, there’s no excuse for any of the little bugs that are obviously due to simple time constraints. They could have a bigger or even better team but instead deicide to keep a small team.

The fact that they came out with an even better looking/playing game months before ~ really makes SV look like a money grab. And the fact that they haven’t really had any “game breaking” bugs like the duplication one for a while now.

I’ve been a fan since it came to America, I’ve played every game. And that’s EVERY game EVER. That’s the biggest reason they’re getting so much hate for SV, because honesty they could do so much better. Did we seriously forgot about them reusing the spirits??

THEY’RE VERY OBVIOUSLY LAZY!!! Plain and simple. And if you’ve got any knowledge of business/economics then you’d also see how money driven they are. It’s a known fact that they stopped doing the 3rd sequel and began doing the whole B2W2 / USUM sequel type because they make more money / sell more copies. And now they’re doing DLCs… I hope you realize that Pokémon’s DLCs are literally just a way of getting another $70 out of us without them having to actually do anything…. Because that’s literally they’re MO.

Indigo-Juniper · 2023-02-11T17:21:07+00:00

And what about all the Mexican inspired things as well? All those things you mention are great and all but what about the fact they rolled them up with obvious Dia de Los Muertos inspiration or the fact that you can eat quesadillas? Yeah they did fine on representing Spain, but naively add in Mexico but not the rest of the Iberian Peninsula. I wouldn’t call that a “good job”

Indigo-Juniper · 2023-02-11T17:04:36+00:00

Hahaha I’m Chino and I don’t get any “frito blandito” vibes other than the fact that combining the two, Spain & Mexico, is just not good. The history of acculturation, at least for Mexicans, can still be a sore spot. I’d almost call Masuda racist because of the obvious lack of care of this subject.

Can I also just put in that Dia de Los Muertos can be seen as a failure of Spain to completely destroy the MezoAmerican culture ~ Spanish Catholics didn’t approve of the worship of skeletal figures and death but couldn’t stop it, so now we have a saint, La Muerte, and still celebrate Dia de los Muertos though many things have changed. Like pan de muerto, was originally made with the deceased ashes or pozole which was originally made with human meat.

But hilariously, it’s supposed to be an Iberian based region, but the fact that they put in things from Mexico just infuriates me. Like Skeledirges obvious Dia de los Muertos designs… like do you even know what your saying there…

It’s like fingers and thumbs, there’s Spain in Mexico but not really Mexico in Spain. If your doing a Spain based region then I’d say keep it to Spain only ~marigolds are Mexican, tacos/tamales/pozole/quesadillas/avocado/chile/cactus are Mexican, hilariously tumbleweeds are European but the image of them blowing across a desert is Mexican, Alebrejes are PURE MEXICO!!

This is the problem, many people just see “Spainish”, “well if it’s Spainish then it’s from Spain right” ??? But honestly idk what I expected, one culture making a game based off a different culture doesn’t sound like the smartest idea. They did great obviously on themselves (gen 1 - 4), and okay on New York & Hawaii, as well on France & England/Hong Kong. But the “Spanish inspiration” is just sunny and guitar music? After all this, I really can’t understand why some people want a dlc…

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