YMMV / Poké Wars

• Anvilicious: This fic pulls no punches about how War Is Hell and how starting a war for "righteous" reasons inevitably leads to suffering and death.
• Do Not Do This Cool Thing: The effects of the war are depicted realistically and there is a fairly obvious War Is Hell message. Unfortunately, few of the reviewers notice this, instead choosing to focus on the elaborate fight scenes.
• Harsher in Hindsight: In Pokè Wars: The Subsistence, after fending off a pack of bloodthirsty Fearow, Tracy says "I hope that Ho oh wasn't affected by the dampener removal, I'd hate to see such a great Pokémon like that do terrible things." It's later revealed that not only was Ho-Oh affected by the dampener removal, he was the reason for it happening in the first place. To make this even harsher, his justification for the dampener removal? Genocide of the human race.
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • Pokémon that are willing to attack and possibly kill humans, with many being powered up and driven into a frenzy by a Legendary? Like that'll ever happen in canon...
  • There are plenty of cases where Pokémon fight alongside armed humans and in at least one case, use firearms. Now look at what Palworld has to offer...
• Nausea Fuel: The authors sometimes get a little too detailed and graphic with the descriptions of what undampened Pokémon attacks do to living beings.
• Shocking Moments: Pikachu's unrestrained fight against AJ's Sandslash is one of the series' most devastating one-on-one confrontations between non-Legendary Pokémon. It's enough to terrify a whole tribe of wild Pikachu into polite diplomacy.
• Squick: Well, considering the nature of the story....but a non-violent example is Ash's feelings for Dawn. He's fourteen, but she's ten (taken from the fact that you start your journey at ten and she just started hers).
• Tear Jerker: Has its own page.
• What Do You Mean, It's Not for Kids? - these pieces of work are very violent and bloody. As is expected of a war story.

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