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Some Mew/Mewtwo interactions in Cerulean Cave:

What happens if we bring a Mew to the Mewtwo section. (Cute…)

And if we bring another Mewtwo. (They wanna fight!)

Looking forward to some more Giovanni and Silver interaction! (And Scouting Giovanni in his new outfit, he looks cool!)

Went offline to play a romhack and they dropped the Johto Villain Arc teaser I really like how they all look. Might only get Kris and Ethan this time, tho. Gio and Morty just chewed thru so many gems.

Edit, new extreme battle will be out May30:

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Looks like Silver inherited Lance’s cape after becoming champion of Johto.

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This artist’s pixiv has been deleted so the Zerochan link is used instead.

Still settling in after the move and haven’t quite got my time or schedule back, so here’s an assortment of multifandom doodles drawn completely from memory for funsies.

omg wait…it wouldve been so cute if jasmine pokemon had braces when she was a little kid

Team Neo-Rocket’s final goal is to get to the shrine in the Ilex forest, and summon the legendary Pokémon Celebi!

If you want more information on this project, check out the JohtoorMemories of Kanto tags on the blog.

When you first encounter the Ilex Shine, as you travel from Azalea Town to Goldenrod City, it is being studied by Professor Leaf Orchid. Some of her Pokémon are enjoying the forest and helping her investigate. Her Venusaur, Pidgeot, and pink Azumarill are all puttering around the shrine. 

Professor Orchid notes that locals have been reporting some strange occurrences by the shrine, and she has come to investigate. Could they have anything to do with Team Neo-Rocket? Still, it’s nothing for you to worry about right now. She will let you know if anything of import happens.

It isn’t until you’ve chased Team Neo-Rocket out of Mahogany Town that you will need to return to the shrine. Team Neo-Rocket swiped an important artifact from Mahogany Town: The GS Ball. A Pokéball made of gold and silver, with a center latch button made of sparkling crystal, there has been some debate as to the origins and use of the item. It has proven ill-suited for capturing Pokémon, but some legends connect it to Ilex Shrine. Associate Professor Gold confirms that those legends are likely why Team Neo-Rocket would have stolen the GS Ball, and you need to hunt them down before it’s too late!

Sure enough, you will find Dante at the Ilex Shrine. He assures you that you are too late to stop him; once he places the GS Ball in the shrine it will summon Celebi, and allow him to travel back to the past he’s been working so hard to replicate.

The legendary Pokémon Celebi does appear, and grants his wish: Dante is warped back into the past, and you are pulled along with him. 

You have now been transported back in time by more than 20 years! The Johto region is a very different place, and Dante is nowhere to be found. Celebi is also entirely absent. Finding Dante may be your only way home!

As you work your way through Ilex forest, a bug catcher to the south will tell you that a strange man did rush past, heading for Azalea Town.

In Azalea town, Dante is arguing with some locals in the Slowpoke Well. The locals, along with Gym Leader Bugsy, are asking why Team Rocket can’t take a hint; Team Rocket’s already been run out of town by a powerful trainer, why would they try and come back? And why only send one member?

When you confront him, Dante flees the town, back toward the forest, but not before insisting that slowpoke tails were never a very lucrative venture, anyway. 

When you return to the forest, you run into an unexpectedly familiar face: Indigo, who, according to his account, was the only one brave enough to try and follow you. He promises to keep an eye on Ilex forest while you investigate [whatever’s next]. 

However, Indigo will not be your only ally. At the northern edge of Ilex Forest you will also find a young trainer from Kanto.

She introduces herself as Leaf. She has recently completed the Kanto gym challenge, and has traveled to Johto to challenge herself. She is hoping to face the powerful trainer traveling Johto, battling the revived Team Rocket, but first she wants to help you defeat Dante, especially since he has threatened her and other trainers. Leaf also asks you questions about this “Team Neo-Rocket” thing that Dante was going on about, and mentions that by traveling back in time you and Dante may have created a new timeline, altering the Pokémon world, if only slightly.

With Leaf’s help you are able to trace Dante’s path through Goldenrod city, where he is attempting to take control of the broadcast tower. However, Team Rocket already has control of the tower. Two grunts are preventing Dante’s access to the tower, with one grunt insisting he can’t enter because he doesn’t have a proper ID number or any of the necessary information, where the other grunt thinks he should be let in, as he’s obviously a member of Team Rocket.

However, he abandons this argument to battle you. Once you defeat him,  the grunts no longer have any qualms about removing him from the broadcast tower premises. After all, whether he’s Team Rocket or not, what use is a guy who can’t even defeat a kid in a Pokémon battle?

Outside the station, Leaf helps you force Dante back to the shrine, where Indigo is waiting. However, Dante refuses to use the GS Ball to summon Celebi again. Instead, he wants to help fix Team Rocket’s past failures and create a future where Team Rocket controls all of Kanto and Johto, if not all of the Pokémon world. Leaf informs him that what he wants doesn’t matter, because she has taken the GS Ball from him while he was distracted by your battle. Leaf places the GS Ball on the shrine, and wishes you good luck. She’s sure you’ll meet again. Celebi returns to the shrine, and transports you through time once more.

Standing at the shrine is an old man in a dark coat. The man comments that he recognizes the red “R” on Dante’s breast pocket. It’s a mark of failure, he explains. A mark of mistakes. He asks Celebi why it would show him this, an unfamiliar man making the same mistakes he fought his whole life for. Celebi has no answer, but the man has advice for Dante:

Greed will get you nowhere. It will only leave you isolated, with no company but cold coins or the shadows of hiding. Chasing greed makes you a target for defeat by those who know better. A child, filled with enthusiasm and supported by friends, will always be greater than a man chasing power for power’s sake. 

The man explains that no matter how many times he tried, greed always led him back to ruins, and to isolation. The more you follow greed and power, the more pointless it becomes. To repeat the same actions time and again and expect different results is a form of madness. You cannot recreate the past, and you cannot reach true success through greed. He has found no power more potent than the bond of genuine friendship he has managed to make with some of his Pokémon. His Persian and Nidoking leap out of their Pokéballs to confirm this point.

The old man turns to Celebi and asks if that’s the right thing to say. Is this how the Pokémon wanted him to face his past? Celebi still gives him no answer, but in a blink, you, Indigo, and Dante are transported through time once more. 

Professor Orchid is waiting for you both when you return to Ilex Shrine in the present, as are Gold, Silver, and Kris.

Silver takes Dante to face justice for what he’s done, and Professor Leaf Orchid confirms that your trip to the past must have been causing ripple effects in the present. This clears up much of the confusion, and will also allow for more focused study going forward!

While in the past, there are a wide variety of new Pokémon and alternate forms of familiar species that you can discover! When you return to the present, Professor Orchid will even update your Pokédex to properly document them.

Now that you’ve made it back to the present, you’ll need to focus on completing your Johto League challenge! Team Neo-Rocket has been defeated for good, and there’s only one gym left before you challenge the Elite Four and Champion.

After you have been inducted into the Johto hall of fame, you can return to the Ilex Shrine to battle and capture Celebi. If you have Celebi in your team, you can travel back to the past once a day, and explore to your heart’s content! However, you will not be able to go any further than Goldenrod City or Azalea town in each direction, as people don’t believe your gym badges are genuine.

Team Neo-Rocket has traveled to Johto, searching for power and legendary Pokémon. Their first targets in the region are the Legendary Beasts: Raikou, Entei, and Suicune. 

More information on the role this region’s legendaries play in Memories of Kanto below the cut! If you’re interested in learning more about this project, check out the Johtoor Memories of Kanto tags.

You will encounter Team Neo-Rocket a few times throughout the region, hassling the locals and researching Johto’s legendary Pokémon. This path leads both you and Neo-Rocket to Ecruteak city, where Team Neo-Rocket, led by an increasingly desperate Dante, attempt to burn a building with three Pokémon inside, aiming to create their own set of legendary beasts.

Instead, the three legendary beasts appear to confront Neo-Rocket and protect the innocent Pokémon. Team Neo-Rocket attempt to catch the beasts, but Dante and his grunts must defeat you and your rival, Indigo, in battle to get the chance. With Neo-Rocket held up in battle, the three legendary Pokémon easily flee. From this point on, they can be found roaming the region, and if you’re lucky, you just might be able to catch them!

Pokémon Keeper Gold joins you, and you retrieve the three Pokémon that Team Neo-Rocket had attempted to burn. The Pokémon had been stolen from Gold in the first place, and they are a set of Johto’s starters: a Chikorita, a Cyndaquil, and a Totodile. Clearly, Gold reasons, these Pokémon need better homes after what they’ve been through. He has too many Pokémon under his care to give them what they need, not to mention they seem to be itching for revenge. You get your pick of the three, and Indigo takes whichever one has type advantage over yours. The third can be found in Professor Elm’s care.

Though the legendary beasts travel all across Johto, and sometimes so far as Kanto, you can also find Suicune in a house on Route 40, on the shore just past Olivine City.

This house is the home of Eusine, a skilled trainer and an expert on Johto’s folklore. You may have seen him once or twice in your travels, but this is where he lives, and though he has not captured Suicune, the Aurora Pokémon can often be found relaxing in Eusine’s home or garden. Suicune cannot be challenged here, but it can be talked to. If you talk to it enough, it will wait up to three turns in battle before fleeing when encountered in the wild.

When and if you catch Suicune, you can leave it temporarily at Eusine’s house, much like you would leave Pokémon at the daycare. This raises Suicune’s friendliness, and if it is left with Eusine without holding an item, it will have a held item when it returns to you. This is most often a comparatively rare berry (including those that increase friendship or weaken the effects of super effective attacks), but may also be an evolution stone or a pearl on rare occasions.

Though Team Neo-Rocket has failed in their attempt to create new legendary beasts, they have their sights set on Lugia and Ho-oh. While you are challenging Cianwood City’s gym, Dante steals the silver wing and rainbow wing from Ecruteak City, where they have been safeguarded.

You follow Dante’s trail to the Whirl Islands, where he tries and fails to capture Lugia. Lugia handily defeats the Neo-Rocket grunts present, while you take on Dante again.

Once you have defeated the Olivine Gym, you will need to take on Team Neo-Rocket again in Ecruteak city, where they have summoned Ho-oh to the bell tower. Here Indigo has returned to help, not wanting you to get all the glory, and Indigo defeats Dante while you tackle Neo-Rocket grunts.

Your next stop will be to go head-to-head with Team Neo-Rocket once more in Mahogany Town, where they are attempting to take control and sway Leader Silver to their cause. This is entirely ineffective, but when the dust settles and Team Neo-Rocket has been driven out of town, it’s discovered that they got away with an important artifact.

The leader of Team Neo-Rocket now holds the GS Ball, a unique, ancient Pokéball said to summon the legendary Pokémon Celebi.

Red, Blue, and the professor are not the only trainers with experience fighting off Team Rocket. Johto has their own powerful trainers, and they’re here to help how they can.

If you want more information on this project, check out the JohtoorMemories of Kanto tags on the blog!

Associate Professor Gold is there to greet you when you arrive in Johto. He’s the one who alerted Professor OrchidtoTeam Neo-Rocket’s activities, and he’s glad to have your help. Associate Professor Gold serves as your guide at many points in your travels. He is well-versed in Johto’s legends, and is able to anticipate Team Neo-Rocket’s movements as they track down legendary Pokémon.

Gold works largely with Professor Elm in Newbark Town, and though he is an associate professor, Gold’s main focus is on caring for Pokémon. Along with his involvement in Elm’s studies of Pokémon evolution and breeding, Gold studies the wellbeing of Pokémon, including the unique needs of different species. However, do not mistake Gold’s caring attitude for weakness: he is a skilled trainer who is greatly respected by Johto’s Pokémon League, and particularly by Leader Silver and the champion.

Leader Silver has become a fierce protector of Mahogany Town. Though many people find him cold or intimidating in his demeanor, he does everything he can to take care of Mahogany Town’s residents, as well as keep an eye on the Johto region as a whole. Though he hesitates to leave his gym often, Silver is infuriated by Team Neo-Rocket. Having learned the value of bonding with and caring for your Pokémon partners, he is disgusted by Neo-Rocket’s blatant and unapologetic exploitation of Pokémon. This boils over when Dante, Neo-Rocket’s leader, attempts to convert Silver to his cause. Leader Silver refuses to even honor Dante with a battle, and, with your help, drives Team Neo-Rocket out of Mahogany Town as quickly as possible.

Champion Kris spends most of her time at the Silver Falls Highland, where the conclusion of the Pokémon league is built. She is the last member of this trio that you meet, but she’s not about to stand by and let Team Neo-Rocket undermine the safety of her home. Kris can be found near both the Whirl Islands and the Bell Tower when Team Neo-Rocket is working to summon Lugia and Ho-oh, respectively, but opts to return to her duties as Champion once she confirms that the situations are in your capable hands. Otherwise, she is most often seen alongside either Associate Professor Gold or Leader Silver, as they are some of the only people who could pull her away from her responsibilities to the league. 

You’ve defeated the Kanto elite four, but Team Neo-Rocket is moving into Johto! It’s time to expand your horizons, and to keep your skills sharp you should take on the Johto League.

If you want more information on this project, check out the JohtoorMemories of Kanto tags on the blog!

A number of things have changed in Johto over the last decade, but the gym leader lineup has remained fairly similar.

Gym Leader 1: Fulton

Fulton hasn’t made many changes to the Violet City gym since taking it over from his mentor, Falkner. You will challenge a pair of bird keepers, stationed along the gym’s wooden aerial pathway, before facing Fulton himself.

Fulton’s team consists of Farfetch’d, Noctowl, Fearow, Skarmory, and Pidgeot, and he will award you with the Zephyr badge.

Gym Leader 2: Bugsy

Bugsy’s gym is the best place to master bug type Pokémon. The Spinarak-web inspired pathways lead you across the gym and past a variety of bug catchers who are training under Bugsy. 

He’s proud of his work, and is glad to see a powerful trainer like yourself is interested in bug types. When you defeat his Butterfree, Aridos, Scyther, Heracross, and Shuckle, he will give you the hive badge.

Gym Leader 3: Whitney

This gym is a multi-level, candy-colored maze, where you will battle beauties and lasses on your way to facing Whitney. Whitney is very impressed by how far you’ve come as a trainer, and is excited to battle you. She also warns you not to underestimate the normal type!

If you can successfully defeat her team of Persian, Porygon-Z, Wigglytuff, Girafarig, and Miltank, you’ll receive the plain badge.

Gym Leader 4: Sakura

After Morty joined Johto’s Elite Four, the Ecruteak gym was moved into the city’s dance theater. Unlike most gyms, the dance theater’s theme is not a type, but an evolutionary line. To reach Sakura, the gym leader, you first must cross a variety of stages and battle her sisters. First, you must defeat Satsuki’s Jolteon, Sumomo’s Vaporeon, and Koume’s Flareon in single battles, before facing the remaining four sisters in double battles: first Rea’s Glaceon and Linnea’s Leafeon, then Kira’s Sylveon and Tamao’s Umbreon.  

Once you have defeated all of her sisters, you will face Sakura. Her team all have friendship-based evolutions: Pikachu, Clefairy, Togetic, Blissey, and Espeon. For completing this gym, you are granted the spirit badge.

Gym Leader 5: Chuck

Not much has changed around Cianwood gym. Chuck still trains under a raging waterfall, and he’s happy to take you on if you climb to the top of the gym and shut off the water. On the way you’ll be able to challenge black belts and battle girls.

Once you defeat his Hitmonlee, Hitmonchan, Machamp, Poliwrath, and Primeape you’ll be rewarded with the storm badge.

Gym Leader 6: Jasmine

Jasmine’s gym challenge is all about taking a contemplative pause. Firstly, you will need to go meet Jasmine in the glitter lighthouse before she will be around for a challenge. She explains, when you find her, that this is to encourage trainers to take in the scenery and enjoy their journey, not to simply roar through each city, defeating gym after gym. The lighthouse houses a few different trainers, including sailors, bird keepers, and gentlemen, but all of the battles are optional.

In a similar vein, her gym is now styled after a zen rock garden. The room around the garden is made of industrial steel, as is Jasmine’s platform, but the majority of the floor space is sand, along with some stones. You can only walk through the garden with a rake in hand, and draw through the sand however you like. You can also move the rocks using strength. Along the edges, on the steel flooring, stand lasses and beauties who will challenge you when you cross their line of sight (which is unavoidable). 

When you reach Jasmine, you are faced with her Magnezone, Steelix, Scizor, Skarmory, and Ampharos. Upon defeating her, she gives you the mineral badge.

Gym Leader 7: Silver

Upon first glance, there is no longer a gym in Mahogany town. However, if you talk to the woman who runs the Special Souvenir Shop and mention that you are taking part in the gym challenge, or ask what she knows about Team Neo-Rocket, she’ll explain to you that the gym is below the store in Team Rocket’s old Johto HQ. 

Below the store, the gym features three levels of maze-like hallways, where you can battle bikers, burglars, and PI/gamblers, all of whom prefer facing gym challengers to any less savory activities they once got up to, and have at least one Pokémon each which has a friendship-based evolution.

The Mahogany gym, and Silver’s team in particular, have no particular type association, making it a comparative challenge. However, if you can defeat Silver’s Umbreon, Tyranitar, Weavile, Crobat, and Typhlosion you’ll receive the revolution badge.

Gym Leader 8: Andrea

Andrea is working hard to live up to her mentor, Clair’s reputation. She’s deeply dedicated to dragon type, as well as the ideas of tradition and discipline. In fact, when you first arrive in Blackthorn city, Andrea is not at the gym. Instead, she is training in the dragon’s den cave under the city. 

On your way to find her, you will need to battle some ace trainers. When you first meet Andrea in the depths of the den, she quizzes you about what matters in Pokémon training (the same questions as the “Master’s Quiz” in the original dragon’s den). However you answer, you will then be able to challenge her in the gym, but if you give all the correct answers (all of which paint a picture of a kind, enthusiastic trainer) she will give you a level 15 dratini. 

The gym itself has changed from being a landscape of lava, the lava has been replaced with deep, cold water. Using surf is forbidden, and you must pilot floating platforms across the lake. The gym includes dragon tamers and ace trainers that you will need to defeat before reaching Andrea.

Andrea’s team is made up of Kingdra, Gyarados, Zweilous, and Dragonite, and once you defeat her you will receive your final badge: the rising badge.

The final step on your Pokémon league journey is to face the Johto elite four and champion, who are newly instated since the original games took place. It’s time to head across Mt. Silver to the Silver Falls highland, where the league has been built. Good luck!

But also, I have a few Vs. Sprites that I created for this badge case as well, for Fulton, Sakura, Silver, and Andrea, that I’m gonna show off here because they took too much time not to:

There’s one thing you can always count on in your travels across Kanto and Johto: Indigo will always be there to challenge you.

(Want to learn more? Check out the Memories of Kanto tag!)

You and Indigo grew up together in Lavender Town, and he’s always had something to prove. He’s been waiting years to have a Pokémon of his very own, and is now determined to take on the Indigo League!

Indigo is intensely focused on battle strategy, and will sometimes share tips and tricks with you, though always with a bit of a snide edge. After all, if you were a great trainer, like him, you’d already know this stuff!

However, not everyone is inclined to point out his attitude problem, since he does have the badges to back himself up! He’s always one step ahead of you in your gym challenge, and is a valuable ally on the occasions when you team up against Team Neo-Rocket.

The one challenge he struggles to master is defeating Champion Red. In fact, you meet Indigo out front of the indigo plateau. He defeated the elite four, but was unprepared to face the champion. He challenges you to a battle, and you can’t challenge the league for yourself until you have bested his fully-evolved starter (whichever one has type advantage over yours), Marowak, Haunter, Raichu, Fearow, and Dragonair.

Indigo does not take this defeat lightly, and insists on following you into Johto, where he can continue training and getting stronger. You will encounter Indigo a few times as you travel the Johto region, but the two of you will challenge each other less often. It will be more common to fight as a duo against Team Neo-Rocket in your efforts to keep them away from Johto’s legendaries. However, you will face Indigo again before taking on Johto’s Elite Four and Champion. This time, his team will consist of his starter, the highest evolution of the starter Pokémon that Associate Professor Gold entrusted him with (which, once again, has type advantage over yours), Dragonite, Gengar, Xatu, and Marowak.

Once you have defeated Johto’s champion, you will be able to find Indigo back in Lavender Town on weekends, where you can challenge him to a battle.

HGSS my beloved

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