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This is a thread to share interesting Trivia about the games, the regions and the characters. This thread is not for personal experiences, it's for general facts, like if a Pokemon learns (or doesn't learn) a specific move, or the origins of someone's name, or under leveled Pokemon.

Here's one! Sinnoh is the first, and currently only, region lacking a Dragon specialist.

Kanto: Lance
Johto: Clair (and Lance, but Indigo Plateau is in Kanto)
Hoenn: Drake
Sinnoh: None
Unova: Drayden/Iris (Though Iris only uses half a team of dragons as Champion)
Kalos: Drasna

Though Cynthia uses Garchomp, and Draco Meteor was introduced. Dragon Tamers were also vastly more popular than in R/S.
 
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Here's something I learned right now: Using the move Magnet Rise can give the move Zap Cannon 100 percent accuracy. It happened to me while I was fighting Clemont's Magnezone at the Battle Chateau
 
Good to know, because my Magnezone knows Magnet Rise and Zap Cannon.

On a different note, did you guys know your 'fashion' in Lumiose City maxes out if you go to the Pokeball shop and buy Luxury Balls one at a time?
 
-Apparently, according to a translation of the writing on Ghetsis' and N's concept art, Ghetsis is 200 cm (6'7") and N is 180 cm (5'9"). Maybe it only seems this way to me because I'm pretty short irl, but 6'7" is giant!

-Gold and Silver originally had the option of naming your mother, but this idea was later scrapped (leftover code for this function still exists, though).

-Unused date for Shellos exists in RSE's code.
 
- That in Pokemon Stadium one, that Fire Spin and Wrap could be easily escaped. Switching Pokemon negates the attack.
- That in the early Mystery Dungeon games, Hunger was negated when switching the lead Pokemon.
 
Currently, as of Generation VI, Eelektross is the only Pokemon with no weaknessess
 
This is probably an obvious one, but Latias and Blaziken were originally supposed to be one in the same.

Also, Kanto technically has two Ground gyms, due to every gym trainer and the leader in Brock's gym all have a ground type Pokemon.
 
-Leaf technically has no canonical name.

-BW had antiwar messages. Not sure where, the place Bulbapedia cited was all in Japanese.

-In the original Japanese BW2, Ghetsis tells Kyurem to KILL YOU. They changed it to "freeze" for obvious reasons.
 
"Sound moves" hit through Substitutes as of Gen VI.

I didn't know until it happened during a battle over PSS. My Pyroar used Hyper Voice on a Reuniclus, only to hit through the Substitute to KO it. I'd honestly thought it was a glitch, but the other person (who I was talking to over DA) didn't say anything about it after the battle and I just assumed they didn't notice. O_O

To be honest, I think it makes sense; a substitute is made to take a hit so the user doesn't have to. But since a Sound move doesn't physically (or specially, I guess) make some sort of contact with the Pokemon, it makes sense that it would go through the Substitute.
 
Whitney's gym is shaped like a Clefairy.
Clefairy is now a Pure Fairy type.
Whitney has a gym that NOW would be better suited for another type.
HA.
 
-I was playing around with the letters in Skarmory's name, and I found this out. If you take the "Y" and place it between the "K" and "A" you get "Sky Armor." representing it's Steel/Flying typing.
-Also, I learned this from watching a video on Youtube posted by TheJWittz. This can't be a mere coincidence.
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Don't know if this is common knowledge, but I just figured this out yesterday while hatching eggs from the daycare.

The direction the day-care man in Pokemon X/Y is facing will tell you if you have an egg or not. If he is facing forwards, towards the road, then you have an egg waiting for you. If he is facing away from you, towards the day-care fence, you don't have an egg. It's a nice visual aid so you don't have to constantly talk to him to check if you have an egg or not.
 
there are 4 Pokemon whose names are Palindromes. Girafarig, Eevee, Ho-oh and Alomomola. (a Palindrome is a word that is said the same backwards as it is forwards)
 
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