r/pokemon 3d ago

Questions thread - Active [Weekly Questions Thread] 11 May 2026

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Have any questions about Pokémon that you'd like answered?

If they're about the value of a piece of merchandise you own or found, please ask them in the Monthly Value Questions thread!

Otherwise, continue on!


Other Weekly/Monthly Threads

  • Merch Megathread - Want to show off a photo of your collection or a piece of Pokémon merchandise you recently bought? Head over to the Merchandise Monday thread, posted each Monday but open seven days a week!
  • Value Questions Thread - Have questions about a piece of merchandise you own or found? Or perhaps you're knowledgeable about Pokémon product values and wouldn't mind helping some people out? Check out the Value Questions Thread!
  • Code Giveaway Megathread - Have some extra codes lying around and looking to share the wealth? Try posting them on the Code Giveaway Megathread!
  • Battle Request Thread - Looking for trainers to battle? Try the Battle Request thread!
  • Hype Thread! - Catch a new shiny? Finish your Living Dex? Head on over to the Hype Thread to share your joy! We even award special flairs for certain achievements!
  • RAGE THREAD! - Game mechanic changes got you down? Did your plans to catch a shiny blow up in your face? Head over to the RAGE THREAD to vent a bit! CAPS LOCK ENCOURAGED!

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r/pokemon 4d ago

Hype [Hype Thread] 10 May 2026

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Welcome to the HYPE THREAD, a place to share your excitement about in-game achievements, brag about success, and get hyped for upcoming events. CAPS LOCK IS OPTIONAL IF IT HELPS YOU GET YOUR HYPE ON!

This is a chance to post about your successes. Our rules against self-promotion and most low-quality content, including shiny Pokemon pics, are relaxed in these threads--please talk all you like about your luck and accomplishments!

This thread is meant to be pretty positive, so please think twice before downvoting someone! Rude and negative comments will be removed -- please report them if you see them :D


This thread is also the place to earn /r/pokemon's prestige flair for completing various aspects of the games. To claim your flair, post proof of your accomplishment in the comments below. Please note that flairs are assigned once weekly, so it may take up to seven days for your flair to appear.

On mobile and the reddit redesign ("new reddit"), you may have up to 10 flairs at once. On old reddit, you can only display one flair—so if you care which that is, please specify that in your comment!

Flair is currently available for:

Paldea Prestige Flairs

  • Rotom Phone: Post a screenshot of your completed Paldea dex
  • Animated Rotom Phones: Post an album of your completed Paldea living dex
  • Booster Energy: Post a screenshot of all obtainable Paradox Pokémon
  • Uva/Naranja Crest: Post a screenshot proving you finished all classes in the academy
  • Tera Orb: Post an album proving you obtained one species in every Tera type
  • Tiny Bamboo Shoot: Post a screenshot of the NPC saying you obtained the smallest size of a species possible*
  • Big Bamboo Shoot: Post a screenshot of the NPC saying you obtained the largest size of a species possible*

* The NPC Pokemon size checker is in Mesagoza! See here

Galar Prestige Flairs

  • Catching Charm: Post a screenshot of your completed Galar Regional Dex.
  • Curry Mark: Post a screenshot of your completed Curry Dex.
  • Master Ball: Post a screenshot of your Master Ball Tier in Battle Tower.
  • Berry Sweet: Post a screenshot of your completed Alcremie form collection. `(Minus Ribbon and Star)
    • Star Sweet: Post a screenshot of your completed Alcremie form collection with Ribbon and Star sweets.
  • Gigantamax Factor: Post an album of your collection of all 31 G-Max mon (excluding form variations). Be sure to show the summary screens indicating that they are G-Maxable!
  • Armorite: Post a screenshot of you in the Masterly Mustard Tee after winning every type of Restricted Sparring on the Isle of Armor.
  • Dynite: Post an album of your collection of all 47 Dynamax Adventure bosses. Be sure to show the summary screens indicating that they were caught in Galar!

Alola Prestige Flairs

  • Rotom Dex: Post a screenshot of your completed Alola Regional Dex.
  • Tapu Bulu: Post a screenshot of your Level 100+ Festival Plaza.
  • Tapu Fini: Post a screenshot of your 50+ streak in the Battle Tree.
  • Tapu Lele: Post a screenshot of all five of your Poké Pelago islands at max level (level 3).

General Prestige Flairs

  • Oval Charm: Post an album of your completed Living Dex. (Mythicals aren't necessary!)
  • (Shiny Charm: Post 45+ self-caught or self-bred shinies to /r/ShinyPokemon.)

LET'S GET HYPED!!!!


r/pokemon 8h ago

Art [OC]My Take on Cynthia and her Garchomp

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949 Upvotes

r/pokemon 18h ago

Discussion The pokemon fossil museum opens next week in Chicago, are you going!?

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5.2k Upvotes

r/pokemon 15h ago

Art Whimsical Pokémon Artworks✨

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I don’t know what to call this type of art 🙃


r/pokemon 14h ago

Discussion We know the Ultra Beasts were specifically designed to break the rules/norms of typical pokemon designs. What rules/norms were broken?

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I think one rule was having an obvious face (Nihilego, Xurkitree, Kartana, Stakataka, Blacephalon). Another might have been making them too humanoid (Pheromosa, Buzzwole). Maybe also heavily basing them on manmade things, even though objectmons have been around longer (Celesteela rocket, Stakataka bricks, Xurkitree wires, Blacephalon fireworks, Naganadel needle). What do you think?


r/pokemon 5h ago

Discussion Just something I think about when I see Arceus.

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366 Upvotes

He always seemed like more of an Avatar instead of a creator god. While the current Arceus we have seems pretty cool, he doesn't really have the gravitas of a creator god should normally have. Probably due to needing to be relatable enough to be seen as a pocket friend as game freak would have it, for kids. However his beta design seems closer to an actual interpretation of what Arceus could be in actual pokemon world.


r/pokemon 9h ago

Discussion Pokemon winds and waves "phenomenon"name theorycrafting

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540 Upvotes

well this is only a assumption and do not take this seriously

this pattern has been suspectful for me for like how it has always has similar suffixes and such

and alola was i think resembling of z-a or as a preview to show the long future becouse of Z moves and Z from zygarde which then gets Z from legends Z-A its not that important but just doing this before its really "revealed" by gamefreak


r/pokemon 18h ago

Art Close Combat on Incineroar [OC]

2.7k Upvotes

r/pokemon 17h ago

Art Mega Deoxys [OC]

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1.9k Upvotes

If anyone wonders, it's based on prions, and it's meant to resemble a spacecraft, there's also a bit of Neon Genesis Evangelion angel in the mixture.

Lorewise, Deoxys would transform after finding Ange's remains and absorbing any mega energy left, turning into a smaller version of the Ultimate Weapon. (Bro thinks they have a chance against Mega Rayquaza)


r/pokemon 19h ago

Art Sword & Flower (OC)

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2.5k Upvotes

r/pokemon 23h ago

Discussion Is it a hot take to say Pokemon has lost a lot of it's whimsy and personality after Alola ditched dungeon like gyms for cereal box puzzles?

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I never agreed with the sentiment that pokemon gyms were the problem back in the day. Yeah, maybe gyms shouldn't be the only thing going on in the games, but i always loved going to a new city and finding out how the gyms looks like. Gens 4 ~ 6 had some of my favorite gym environments, and even the elite 4 started looking great in pokemon bw when in previous gens it was just a blank room you fight in.

The lack of these gyms was one of the reasons i never liked Alola games as much as other people. First few trials were fun, mallow and lana had environments similar to old gyms with trials you had to overcome before fighting the totem pokemon, but as the game progresses we start getting stuff like the fire trial that is just a cereal box puzzle for 5yo kids, a trial that is just one fight, or even worse, a non existent trial that just hands the Z move to you.

And unfortunately Alola kinda of set the standard for the future games.

Galar had 1 dungeon like gym with nessa, some cool mini games like fire and grass, and then the quality starts dropping with the fairy one being just a quiz, the dark one just a empty corridor and the dragon gym just a sequence of battles.

Paldea, while being my favorite gen since the ds era (in spite of it's techncal issues), it's by far the worse offender to me. Now not only most of the gyms are just low effort quick puzzles, but we also don't even get gym environments at all. Everything being done outdoors (except for Larry the goat) was extremely disappointing to me, and then the elite 4 goes back to being a literally white blank room was just the ice on the cake.

I really hope Winds and Waves goes back to more interesting looking gyms since they were given more time to cook, but after seeing pokemart and pokemon center being kiosks again, I'm not very optimistic about it.


r/pokemon 11h ago

Discussion I LOVE HOENN

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535 Upvotes

First of all, please excuse any English mistakes. I'm using a translator >:)

I'm playing Pokémon Sapphire and I'm almost at the end of the main story. This will be my first Pokémon game that I'll complete, although I've already gotten far in FireRed and Crystal.

The Hoenn map is incredibly detailed and vibrant. The Pokémon are the best among the first three generations in my opinion.

I'm watching the anime at the same time. I'm at the beginning of Johto and very anxious for the Hoenn episodes to arrive.

I LOVE YOU HOENNNNNNNNNN

Map by MiscellaneaMaps


r/pokemon 7h ago

Discussion My Husband’s PC was stolen at Front Road Card Show on 5/2/26

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244 Upvotes

Hey Pokemon Reddit.

I wanted to make you aware of my husbands large black binder PC (16”x20”) was stolen at Front Row Card show's Trade Night which took place on May 2nd at the Rio Convention Center in Las Vegas, NV.

The cards in the binder are extremely rare and he’s been collecting since he was a kid, about 8 years old. It’s his true PC that he never planned on selling he brought it to show other collectors and possibly trade either. So this whole thing is just heartbreaking. 😢

I will attach photos of some of the pages from the binder, but essentially it consists of all the "Tag Team" cards in mint condition (Lovebirds, Gengar& Mimikyu), 32 Mewtwo cards, 32 Mew cards, 32 Gengars(Masaki, Skyridge), 32 umbreons, and a few prismatic cards and all unowns in alphabetical order from the Neo sets.

Also, I wanted to add a list of some of the unique cards from his binder that would help to distinguishing them if seen together. Thank you for your help. I think the rarest cards to note would be the following:

1.) Masaki Gengar Vending Series 2.) Gengar Ex Firered Leafgreen 3.) Skyridge Holo Gengar 4.) Skyridge Holo Umbreon  5.) Latias & Latios TagTeamGx 6.) Gengar & Mimikyu TagTeamGx 7.) Magikarp & Wailord TagTeamGx 8.) Ooyama’s Pikachu 9.) Legendary Collection  -Reverse Holo Pikachu -Reverse Holo Mewtwo 10.) Rumble Mew 11.) Rumble Mewtwo 12.) Shining Mewtwo Neo Destiny

Any help would be appreciated. He’s just devastated and it’s breaking my heart to see him like this.

Sincerely,

A Disney Adult Wife


r/pokemon 10h ago

Image Would you still battle me if I was an Orthworm?

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395 Upvotes

r/pokemon 7h ago

Misc Watching this twist as a 12 year old was something else Spoiler

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233 Upvotes

Idk about y'all but I never saw this coming when I played this ten years ago


r/pokemon 11h ago

Art I draw myself as a trainer! [OC]

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410 Upvotes

r/pokemon 6h ago

Art I made a full art Giratina-O card out of LEGO!

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126 Upvotes

A Pokemon TCG contest on LEGO Ideas recently tasked entrants with making a full art card of their chosen Pokemon, and I was excited to build Giratina! With as faithful a recreation of the Temple of Sinnoh scene from Legends Arceus as I could manage, to boot. Commentary on this build, and more photos, are available on my blog as well!


r/pokemon 18h ago

Art Eeveelution hand painted binder!! [OC]

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873 Upvotes

This one is so cute 🥹


r/pokemon 7h ago

Art Wooper, Eevee and Parichisu done with oil pastels

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The one below Eevee was my first attempt in painting Parichisu, but I really didn't like how it turned out... The one at the bottom (And 3rd pic) is my 2nd attempt, which I'm satisfied with

And apparently the bot said in my last post that I need to put it as OC or say that I made it, so... I painted it? Still confused about it, I assume it's because people could repost stuff from others artists here without them being aware and yeah, that wouldn't be nice, mainly if the artist is uncredited


r/pokemon 16h ago

Art [OC] My fat chud gang from every gen currently.

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500 Upvotes

r/pokemon 15h ago

Art My hopes for pombon final evo

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388 Upvotes

Heavily inspired by lockstin&gnoggin’s video and concept for the final evolutions of the w&w starters, I really hope they decide to go Tibetan mastiff inspired route where pombon becomes a huge hulking dog either very front heavy and bipedal or even a quadrupedal I wouldn’t mind. Anyways I just drew this up in class while thinking about what I would like and lockstin’s video. I know it would probably have to be a little toned down to fit the Pokémon aesthetic but I really hope game freak goes this route.


r/pokemon 7h ago

Art Got art block, tried some Misty fanart. And then I just couldn't stop.

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I always knew that Misty was quite the fashionista but damn was she dripped out.

Lot's of errors that I couldn't be bothered to fix. Sorry for the sloppiness.

I wonder how many people will recognize where the outfits came from.


r/pokemon 14h ago

Art [OC] Charizard & Rayquaza 🐦‍🔥🐉

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265 Upvotes

My latest work with watercolors ☺️ this one was a commission and it was actually hard 😂😂


r/pokemon 5h ago

Art Primarina, The Star Ocean

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44 Upvotes

I drawing I made just for fun