So I guess "Eeveelutions" is an official TPCI-approved term now?

>>57919849 (OP)
It has been for decades, it was used in the Nintendo Player's Guide for Stadium 2

They tried to force veevees with the SV tumblerina but it didn't catch on.

>>57920093
Nah that's just Her cute pet term.
Like how some folks call snakes Danger Noodles or equally infantile sayings.

>>57919849 (OP)
>>57919891
Crazy how they accepts Eeveelutions and Shiny Pokemon with open arms, but drew the line with Starter Pokemon.

>>57919891
Do you also think Tyrogue Squadron and Rewarding Rocks are official terms? That was just the writer of the guide coming up with catchy headers.

>>57920093
As far as I know, it's always been Veevees in Japanese, or something like that.

>>57920209
>he hasn't been calling them the Tyrogue Squadron this whole time
get with the program loser

>now
no

>>57919849 (OP)
I was under the impression that "eeveelutions" was a fan term made for the sole purpose of easily searching them on r34 sites

>>57920137
Someone said it before, starter implies you're supposed to replace them. First partner is just that, especially when all pokémon are referred to in Japanese as partners.

>>57920242
It may have started as a catch-all for the family, but I doubt it was a solely porn-related term. Sounds more like the fandom settled on the nickname, akin to how they decided to call alt colours "shiny" due to the sparkle and sound effect.

>>57920137
>but drew the line with Starter Pokemon
Yet they were fine with it before.

>>57920259
Partner Pokémon would've been fine terminology. "First" partner gives off that "you're supposed to replace them" implication more than starter. First Partner, more like my first Ex-Pokéfriend.

>wh-what do you m-MEAN11 Companies can change th-their minds?
Gonna guess when TPCi took over, they felt they'd need to retain a chunk of NoA's translations for things, then as Game Freak realised how badly the west had been screwed by the EOP's at NoA, they told TPCI to fuck it all and align it with the Japanese agin.

>>57920296
No, to me it says "the pokémon I first met" as in "my first partner was Charmander, but my current partner is Meowscarada" because I started 26 years ago and kept playing through the Gens, meaning I can't select Charmander to start off now, but it doesn't change the fact I chose it once.

>>57920259
>starter implies you're supposed to replace them
In the whole 30 years pokemon has been a thing, nobody has ever taken it that way.

>>57920319
Doesn't matter, the fact it got changed meant it clearly didn't sit well with the nips. The sooner you realise you're irrelevant to the machine, the better your experience of it will be (that includes getting upset because the devs changed it to better reflect their view of the thing in contrast you your childhood experiences).

>>57920310
>"my first partner was Charmander, but my current partner is Meowscarada"
When told like that, it works, but when you get sentences like
>"Out of all of Ash's first partner Pokémon, Charizard took the shortest amount of episodes to reach its final form, at 35."
then it's an issue. It doesn't flow well in English. It makes little sense. It's not good terminology.
>>57920329
I can still say the devs are retarded and refuse to take this newspeak level shit they dish out. Simply put, if it doesn't work, it doesn't work.

>>57920382
I don't give a fuck for either your opinions, devs made the decision, rest of the bitches in the franchise follow like good little drone worker bees. The bonus is seeing autistic faggots like you degrade mentally because it doesn't match your autistic definition of the things.

>"my first partner was Charmander, but my current partner is Meowscarada"
whore

>>57920419
Well, they made Gen 2 incompatible with Gen 3. So my very first Charizard sadly died without me being able to move it up. I did buy VC Red, but it wasn't the same, so I didn't bother completing it. Do have everything since Platinum (because my OG Diamond cart karked in in Australia two years after purchase) up however, but just because it's no longer here, doesn't mean I have to forget it.

So why won't they make a new Eevee evo?

>>57920448
Eevees are only for spatk-coded typings (except for Dragon)

>>57920454
Umbreon was supposed to be poison type and during SM development they were gonna have a flying type eeveelution.

>>57920454
>Umbreon was originally physical Poison
"Eeveelutions are spattk-ONLY" is a meme cooked up by retards.

>>57920448
Because at this stage, it's likely very difficult to make one, without some fag fanartist claiming credit or copyright and frankly, if there's ANY kind of uncertainty of a design's origins, it doesn't get used. Better to not try and make one, than make one and find out you can't register sole ownership of it, or worse is so similar to a fan creation, they need to pay a rights fee for its usage.

>>57920470
Nobody really did a flying eevee that's like a flying squirrel.

My issue with the Eeveelutions is the lack of new ones. It's been nearly 4 generations without a new one, it's time to stop dicking around and start working on finishing the set.

>>57920136
Nah. "Veevee" is one of those nostalgia callbacks that doesn't make sense in English, like "Sepultura" the Charmander.

In Japan, the Eon Mail in gen 2 was called the Veevee Mail. For some reason, the modern Japanese Gamefreak staff love referencing that random piece of trivia.

>>57920496
Won't happen unless they conceive a new type that Japanese fans haven't already overdone to death AND made fakemon eeveelutions for.
The teraleak basically confirmed "no more eevees" because they tried making a new flying type one for Gen 7, but scrapped it since everything they came up with was too similar to a fan design from Japan.

>>57920862
this thats why they did sylveon so different

>>57920470
I still can't believe faggots online unironically believe TPCi would ever, EVER want to pay royalties to some random literally who for an eevee design, let alone can't comprehend TPCi is so brand safe they would never take the risk of said fag artist going complete (political) schizo eventually that would tarnish their image.

It's annoying they can't just make one and have their legion of consoomers tell off the fanartist to be in the wrong if anyone notices similarities though

It's not a Chappy term, but it still works!

>>57919891
>legendary, catlike pokemon
>catlike
dogfags BTFO

Talking about official terms, was "Mega Pokémon" even an official term to refer to Megas before this year? I thought the group was always oficially called "Mega-Evolved Pokémon (it still is in the Z-A website and the new TCG cards).

>>57922106
They probably dropped the "-evolved" bit as it's very unwieldy to say out loud vs "mega pokémon" to refer to them as a group. Or they were used interchangeably and it's only in some cases they get called "mega-evolved" pokemon and the rest is "mega" pokémon.

>>57920259
Too bad, 'cause I replace the starter in every gen unless I reset for a female one specifically for coomer purposes.
I've always had kind of this autistic thing where I hate that the starters are Pokemon that everyone gets and almost everyone uses, which makes them a lot less special and makes everyone's parties 1/6 less unique.
Same goes for legendaries, I never catch them unless the game forces me to, and if I do, they get boxed immediately or released.

>>57922182
>it's very unwieldy to say out loud
Just like "first partner".

>>57920296
I assume the reason they didn't go with that was because it implies the rest of your team aren't your partners.

>>57920748
"Vees" is also the standard term for Eeveelutions in nip fandom.

>>57919849 (OP)
>>57920137
Not really. What is the most likely scenario is a executive thinks they had a brilliant moment to start calling them first partner Pokémon and since it wasn't really a major controversy/issue among non autists the change was implemented. Especially if it was a marketing person. You won't believe how unbelievably retarded the mid-level management is in those areas but somehow they can have this ability to sell water to a fish for their bullshit.

99 percent most likely scenario than all other headcannon/theories.

>>57921895
Me to the second from the left!

>>57923698
Haven't you stupid cunts learned yet? TPC don't get creative liberty for ANYTHING related to the core games, they adhere to Game Freak's laws of their universe. No marketing person had any kind of fucking smart idea to call them "first partners" because they're fucking called "partners" in general in Japan (SM opening had Ash introduce Pikachu using the word "Aibo", which means "Partner"). So just like everything involved with actually marketing something they don't actually own and are instead a facet of a parent organisation, with its parent organisation's aims in mind, they called them "First partners" both here and in Japan (because it's now TPCi's job to transcribe the original materials faithfully and not go off-reservation the way NoA butchered the property up to Gen 4).

>>57920461
Damn, flying eevee seriously makes a lot of sense, since flying has shifted from bird and more into air now.

>>57920470
>>57920952
Isn't one of the clauses in the ToS for Pokemon games or Nintendo that anything you make like art or the sorts that features Pokemon is their property? They can just waltz in and take whatever they want and have the (legal) highground promoted by the rabid fanboys.

>>57919849 (OP)
They've been using it for decades.

>>57920242
Retard porn addict

>>57923817
Okay fair enough then, but that is line my the other point I was trying to make. That the decision to call them "first partner" aside from starter isn't a grand conspiracy. Making threads asking why a certain fan-term is being used over the other like there is a controversy when there isn't.

>>57924942
No, but I already said why it got changed. It's the default Japanese term and since they took series localisation off NoA, they've been going back and adapting all the important terms (First Partner, Powerhouse, etc) to line up with the original texts. Autistic children pitching shitfits, because the creators want it aligned with the OG scripts need to fucking get over theirselves.
>>57924919
That's to cover if some gobshite tries to run a Patreon solely around monetising Pokémon or similar. "We own this shit and can and will shut you down if we think your actions warrant it". Meanwhile, doujin fares are chock-full of limited run pokemon porn comics and they turn a blind eye, as it's an acceptable arrangement between rights holders and fan artists in Japan. It's also very much a "we'll decide who we should and should not shut down" with westerners getting no benefit of the doubt and again, plenty of Doujin artists going unmolested.

>>57924996
Yeah, in Japan fan artists and license holders operate with a mutual understanding that as long as the artists don't advertise what they're doing too loudly, the license holders can pretend they don't see the fan stuff and everyone's happy. It's completely unlike retarded westerners that promote their shit as loud as they can and then throw a shitfit when they get a cease and desist.

>>57920259
First partner makes it sound like an ex-girlfriend.

>>57925671
Really? "Partner" to mean seems to imply a relationship deeper than "boyfriend/Girlfriend" - makes it sound like a commitment to progressing through life together, be that be officially with a ring and church ceremony or just an unofficial arrangement, where neither think a piece of paper is required for their relationship. Girlfriends (and boyfriends) are just that - not actually considered as "the one" to spend a life with (which is what a pokémon is to the vast majority of humans in the pokémon universe).

>>57925682
Partner is a neutral term that doesn't commit to boy/girl.

>>57920137
>Crazy how they accepts [..]Shiny Pokemon with open arms
That wasn't really true. They stubbornly stuck with alternatively colored Pokémon for a long ass time.

>>57925735
Didn't once claim it was a gendered term. DID claim it can refer to a human couple living as a family, implying a deeper connotation than mere "boyfriend/girlfriend" dynamic. Not my fault you were a homeschooled shut-in.

>>57925671
More like makes it sound gay. A normal person can refer to his or her significant other as girlfriend/boyfriend, wife/husband, etc. Homos just refer to their latest fling as a partner.

>>57919891
btfo

>>57921895
>gen 1 evos all have a ruff/collar, similar to base eevee
>of the later evos, only sylveon (and only vaguely) continues this
suddenly, i grew to hate them

>>57920448
Eevee is the second mascot of this franchise which means that they will be included in any Pokedex. If they keep expanding the number of eeveelutions, it will take too much space on Pokedex.

>>57919849 (OP)
>sylveon
cross gen evos after gen 4 were still a mistake

>>57919849 (OP)
It was canonized in Rangers 2.

>>57929901
>>57930630
>>57931363
How many Eeveelution pics do you happen to have saved?

>>57931404

>>57933091
give number
i'll also accept total storage space

>>57933108

>>57920137
>but drew the line with Starter Pokemon
https://youtu.be/0PTmr0ScAsY?&t=1m55s

>clip from almost 15 years since the episode's debut
>applying to the modern era, when they specifically re-named the subset of pokémon
Won't change the fact they're called "First Partners" today Spergie.

>>57940246
I find it slightly hilarious that the original service animal isn't actually here. They added therapy animal which isn't an accredited service animal, but no seeing eye dog.

>>57921926
catchads have always been winning
gen 2 legendaries, eeveelutions, all cats
Dogfags eternally BTFOd
>obligatory "no verification required"

>>57940246
>transveon
>autism
bit on the nose

>>57919891
First friend is a much better term than first partner.

hello saars is this new thread for samefagging jeets to whine about and tremble in terror at the thought of """dogs""" again
>aieeee the thread got bumped again how could anyone get tired of samefagging jeets after I replied to myself over and over please janny-sahib do the needful

>>57942956
schizophrenia

^ hinduism

>>57927876
Dang, that's a good observation! Wonder if it was a very purposeful avoidance or if they couldn't think of one that fit. You'd think Leafeon could have its head emerge from flower petals or something and ice crystals for Glaceon.

hello saars is this new thread for samefagging jeets to whine about and tremble in terror at the thought of """dogs""" again
>aieeee the thread got bumped again how could anyone get tired of samefagging jeets after I replied to myself over and over please janny-sahib do the needful

hello saars is this new thread for samefagging jeets to whine about and tremble in terror at the thought of """dogs""" again
>aieeee the thread got bumped again how could anyone get tired of samefagging jeets after I replied to myself over and over please janny-sahib do the needful

hello saars is this new thread for samefagging jeets to whine about and tremble in terror at the thought of """dogs""" again
>aieeee the thread got bumped again how could anyone get tired of samefagging jeets after I replied to myself over and over please janny-sahib do the needful

>>57920242

hello saars is this the new thread for samefagging jeets to whine about and tremble in terror at the thought of """dogs""" again
>aieeee the thread got bumped again how could anyone get tired of samefagging jeets after I replied to myself over and over please janny-sahib do the needful

>>57919849 (OP)
Probably one of the only times both the fans and the developers were on the same wavelength in terms of names that would be the first to pop-up in your head.
Meanwhile they've been stubborn about special recolor or first partner.

hello saars is this the new thread for samefagging jeets to whine about and tremble in terror at the thought of """dogs""" again
>aieeee the thread got bumped again how could anyone get tired of samefagging jeets after I replied to myself over and over please janny-sahib do the needful

hello saars is this the new thread for samefagging jeets to whine about and tremble in terror at the thought of """dogs""" again
>aieeee the thread got bumped again how could anyone get tired of samefagging jeets after I replied to myself over and over please janny-sahib do the needful

hello saars is this the new thread for samefagging jeets to whine about and tremble in terror at the thought of """dogs""" again
>aieeee the thread got bumped again how could anyone get tired of samefagging jeets after I replied to myself over and over please janny-sahib do the needful

hello saars is this the new thread for samefagging jeets to whine about and tremble in terror at the thought of """dogs""" again
>aieeee the thread got bumped again how could anyone get tired of samefagging jeets after I replied to myself over and over please janny-sahib do the needful

>>57920454
>Eevees are only for spatk-coded typings (except for Dragon)
sylveon is the dragon eevee look in your heart you know it to be true

>>57920414
NTA, but I will keep calling them starters regardless

>>57957494
I call 'em that too. I don't pitch autistic little fits, nor act like immature children by insisting that's what they're supposed to be called, like you doss fuckers though. Hence you continuing to prove the theory by stamping your feet like a little autistic bitch, despite not being involved in the comment chain. Should I get my popcorn or are you at least intelligent enough to understand you've lost here?

>>57957502
redditor

>>57925765
Probably because that's the direct translation but in this case shiny sounds better for marketing teams as a literal "shiny thing". I'm not sure but I suppose for Japan it remained the same as always? They didn't retroactively name them shiny (or pika pika or kira kira or whatever the translation is) in their official PR/cards/media, right?

>>57940246
>>57941439
>2 of them are psychiatric
>not having umbreon being a seeing-eye maybe-dog because it canonically has the best vision

>>57966997
Me second to the right, in the bottom row.

>>57944454
Most likely, the artist just liked drawing ruffs when designing the gen 1 Pokemon, then later shifted to preferring a more clear body shape.

>>57966997
Absolutely cringe

^ definitely indian

>>57921926
GERBILBROS WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS?!

>>57966997
Jolteon is a dick.

>>57920212
The term has sort of been around in various forms since gen 2 ("Veevee Mail" was the nip term for "Eon Mail"), but the common nip fanterm for Eeveelutions was "Vees".

>>57963473
The issue is mostly that in Japan, "irochigai" got used in marketing a LOT from the very beginning to the point fans never even considered coming up with their own different term for it. It's like how nobody in the west would ever consider coming up with a different fan term for "Gym Leader" since the official term is everywhere and so in their face.
But since the localization was so shitty back then, the localizers didn't even seem to realize there WAS a term to keep consistent, so it just got translated in various different ways whenever it popped up in the anime and ingame text. And that's why fans came up with "shiny" and the localizers eventually just said fuck it and made that official.

>cards
The TCG equivalent has always been "Hikaru Pokemon" in Japanese and "Shining Pokemon" in English, and the similarities between the official "shining" and the fan term "shiny" is just an incredibly bizarre coincidence.

>>57919891
>>57961613
Vaporeon and Umbreon should have different ears, they’re not really eeveelutions if they don’t have the eevee ears

>>57919849 (OP)
Bulbapedo....

>>57919891
>First Friends
Uhhh Startersbros???

>>57924937
Goes to show how hentai-obsessed eeveetards are.

>>57919891
special needs

>>57983798
>all of them have SPHs...
nnnhh...

>>57983798
Why the plastic?

>>57920448
Iirc they managed to bypass a law that existed before, letting them now make pokemon designs that might be similar in design to fanmade fakemons without having to worry about getting sued by fans or other legal trouble. It's the same reason why cross-gen evolutions finally came back during legends and SV after not having any since Diamond and Pearl (excluding Sylveon)

>>57924919
Their tos actually does cover it. It's for the same intention of the disclaimers of some games that go:"Similiarities with real figures, persons and other works of fiction are purely coincidental". It's just to establish the moral high ground for roughly 90% of the look-alike or other copied things.

>>57999275
The problem is that legal issues aside, it's still a pretty bad look if all kinds of websites suddenly start presenting stories about some fag who "had his Pokemon design stolen by Nintendo" when GF's Rock type Eeveelution inevitably happens to resemble one of the thousands of Rock type Eeveelution fan designs out there closely enough dumbasses to assume it probably wasn't coincidence.

>>57920242
the term eeveelution has existed (and has been used by official Pokemon media) since before Rule 34 was even a thing.

>>58000630
Flareon looks so stressed there.

>>57919849 (OP)
Yeah GF is fully aware of such fan term since the days of Gen4 games thanks to one of their English translators being an OG SomethingAwful goon who thankfully didn't troon-out yet, it was only a matter of time until their jewish alter-ego TPCi decided to capitalize on it to make this franchise stay as soulless as it's humanly possible without using AI to create new Pokémon designs for Gen10 and beyond.
Makes you wonder if that's why Samael's comic got nuked by the Nintendo copyright ninjas?

>>58000834
>since before Rule 34 was even a thing
So you mean around 1999?
I can't believe that GF stole the idea to make Pikachu thinner from a cunny hentai mangaka…

>>58000649
Legal issues aren't a thing for the Pokemon company. They are so high up there from a financial aspect that I wouldn't be surprised if they would able to get away with first degree murder.

>>57920259
But you do replace them (with their later evolutions). Charmander is a STARTER because you only have it as a charmander for the first couple hours of the game. You’re supposed to evolve it into charmeleon and then charizard so it’s not charmander anymore

>>57920382
This. It works in the context of a single playthrough where you pick ONE starter as your first pokemon but it just doesn’t make sense in any context where a player/trainer has multiple of them. Are all the starters in my pokemon home living dex somehow “first partners”? Seems retarded

>>58010848
So Charizard isn't a starter

>>57920259
Training wheels are supposed to come off.

>>57920382
>"my first partner was Charmander, but my current partner is Meowscarada"
So Meowscarada replaced Charmander. I never liked partner because it implies only one. Pokemon as friends, and/or teammates works well.

>"Out of all of Ash's first partner Pokémon, Charizard took the shortest amount of episodes to reach its final form, at 35."
The reason this doesn't work in English is because you cannot have multiple first partners. Pikachu is Ash's first and the only first partner pokemon. Charmander or anything else cannot be. The only exception is if you had something like "first partner pokemon in region"

>>57926738
Before it was a homosexual thing, partner was used like business partner and also partner for cowboys. Also, gay didn't mean homosexual, it meant happy. I was at a tournament and my teammate was running late so I told the organizers that my partner was running late and only later realized the homo alternative. It also happened to be an LGBT friendly comiccon so it would surprise me if they didn't bat an eye and thought that I was dating the man.

>>58014015
Leafeon doesn't need to eat anyway.

How the fuck is this still alive

>>58016048
Chappychad bumping every Eeveelution thread with cute pics

>>57920889
They got away with Sylveon because it was a new typing so people hadn't thought to make a fairy type Eevee yet

>>57985424
you know why

>>57919891
holy based pokemon historian