History Memes / Pokemon

** FOCUS MISS! [[labelnote:In-game]]In the mainline games, Focus Blast is a Special Fighting attack, with 120 base power but 70%. Unlike the most other Types, there are very few, if any, alternative moves for the combination of Special and Fighting moves that most Pokemon can access, generally having higher accuracy but being much less powerful. Players took the Focus Blast chance only to miss, bringing a significant shift in the momentum of battles, and making the occasions when the move misses memorable and memeable. Players would thus rename several high power, lowered accuracy moves to have "Miss" in their names.[[/labelnote]]

** If it's not 100% accurate, it's 50% accurate.[[labelnote:Explanation:]]Pokétuber [=MandJTV=] made this quote in his reaction to [=SmallAnt=]'s Beating Platinum without Taking Damage playthrough. There was a point where Ant had to fight a Drifblim with the ability Aftermath which would cause damage to his Floatzel's priority Aqua Jet, something he was using to win without damage. Ant settled with using Rock Tomb, a move with only 80% accuracy, and missed the first attempt, causing him to reset from the last checkpoint. Thankfully the second attempt landed, but Michael did remark about the bad accuracy, leading to him to say this iconic quote. Fans quickly picked up on that and the quote.[[/labelnote]]

* FOCUS MISS! [[labelnote:In-game]]In the games, Focus Blast had a 70% accuracy for a large 120 damage special move. Despite its accuracy, it was still common for players to put on their Pokémon (mainly high Special Attack) as a risky insurance policy. Focus Blast has a very large distribution to many Pokémon that isn't just Fighting-types. Pokémon whose movepools (mainly Same-Type Attack Bonus) won't do much against certain Pokémon types (or combination types) can use this move with chances of doing super-effective damage to 5 types their movepool or typing can't handle, especially with Hidden Power gone from Generation VIII. Unlike the other types that have powerful but inaccurate special moves (i.e. Blizzard and Thunder), there are very few alternatives for special fighting and the ones that exist lack distribution; those who have access to elemental hitters can also use their weaker-yet-strong-and-accurate counterparts (i.e. Ice Beam and Thunderbolt). The only problem is that players took the Focus Blast chance only to miss, thus losing a Pokémon after the opposition retaliated. Example: Alakazam or Gengar vs. Tyranitar. If Alakazam or Gengar hits Tyranitar with a Focus Blast, it has a chance to OHKO Tyranitar. However, if Focus Blast misses or Tyranitar is holding a Focus Sash, Tyranitar [=OHKOs=] [[SquishyWizard Alakazam or Gengar]] with Crunch effortlessly. One can say that using Dazzling Gleam would be better, but Dazzling Gleam has 80 Base Power and Focus Blast has 120; doing 2/3rds of the damage (and not hitting a 4x weakness, thus dealing even ''less'' damage) will practically guarantee that Tyranitar will survive a hit and be able to retaliate (which, of course, means that Alakazam or Gengar would get knocked out).[[/labelnote]]
** If it's not 100% accurate, it's 50% accurate.[[labelnote:Explanation:]]Pokétuber [=MandJTV=] made this quote in his reaction to [=SmallAnt=]'s Beating Platinum without Taking Damage playthrough. There was a point where Ant had to fight a Drifblim with the ability Aftermath which would cause damage to his Floatzel's priority Aqua Jet, something he was using to win without damage. Ant settled with using Rock Tomb, a move with only 80% accuracy, and missed the first attempt, causing him to reset from the last checkpoint. Thankfully the second attempt landed, but Michael did remark about the bad accuracy, leading to him to say this iconic quote. Fans quickly picked up on that and the quote is a top comment on a Youtube clip of the anime "Focus Miss" scene.[[/labelnote]]
** Also, STONE MISS.[[labelnote:Explanation]]Stone Edge is a good-powered physical Rock move popular for Rock coverage. However, it only has 80% accuracy, causing fans to exaggerate how often it misses.[[/labelnote]]

* YouCannotGraspTheTrueForm [[VideoGame/EarthBound1994 of Mewtwo's attack!]][[labelnote:Explanation]]Mewtwo is an {{Expy}} of Giygas (he looks like Giygas's original form, as it was seen in VideoGame/EarthBoundBeginnings, is an extremely powerful psychic, and he's widely considered to be Pokémon's UltimateLifeForm). The final battle against Giygas is infamous for being the TropeNamer of YouCannotGraspTheTrueForm. People soon made comparisons of the two, leading to a mutation of Giygas's already-memetic attack quote.[[/labelnote]]

* Some people have noted that Fuecoco seems like an UndergroundMonkey version of Totodile, leading to [[https://knowyourmeme.com/photos/2479048-pokemon this.]]

* Regitube[[labelnote:Explanation]] Originates from a [=TikTok=] video posted by a river tubing company depicting one of their employees trying to put as many inflatable tubes on his body as possible, which people noted looked a lot like one of the Regis. Cue people dubbing the result "Regitube" and claiming it's a real Pokémon, even making videos of supposed in-game fights with it.

* Regitube[[labelnote:Explanation]] A [=TikTok=] video posted by The Tube Shack on August 29th, 2023, where an employee of the Lake Cowichan playing with the tubes for fun. Later, it got bombarded by lightplatinumds on X who got shared the video, leading to the fans knew it "interesting" and flooded by fanarts including a modded Pokemon in a BDSP video.[[/labelnote]]

** Hilariously enough, over 6 years later a [[JojosBizarreAdventureTheJOJOLands JoJo part set in Hawaii]] would be released.

** [x] fucking dies. [[labelnote:explanation]]Come ''Ultra Sun/Ultra Moon'', [[spoiler:we got Ultra Necrozma, a Legendary with total stats ''surpassing'' Arceus, the supposed God of the Pokémon World, has a special Z-Crystal that acts more like a Mega Stone, and will visibly dry the Trainer when performing its exclusive Z-Move ''Light That Burns The Sky'', a Pokémon World [[FantasticNuke equivalent to a thermonuclear bomb]] powered by stolen light across multiple iterations of the same world]]. That over-the-top explosion at the end once again makes people question 'how the hell X Pokémon [[NonLethalKO ONLY fainted]] [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill after that]]', like the infamous [[http://brawlinthefamily.keenspot.com/comic/275-hyperbeam/ Hyper Beam comic]] from ''Webcomic/BrawlInTheFamily''.[[/labelnote]]

** BUT KYUREM HAS ARMS MADE OF ICE![[labelnote:Explanation]]Kyurem can't learn Ice Punch, despite having arms encased in ice, while Gastly and Wooper can learn Ice Punch ''despite having no arms at all.''[[/labelnote]]