YMMV / Pokémon: Magikarp Jump

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• Awesome Music: Just try to evict the Magikarp Song from your brain once it's lodged itself in there.
• Breather Level:
  • The Expert League, especially if you're playing it after the Heal League (where you'll probably be throwing generation after generation of Magikarp at), is this. The levels are moderately shorter and the jump levels aren't too high of a gap. Once an update goes through though, you are thrown back to the new league.
  • Surprisingly, the Elite Four League, despite being built up as one of the toughest leagues, is this if you have you were already maxed out from the previous update (beating the Expert League and all). Assuming your Magikarp is at Rank 79 (and if you're lucky with cheering), you can stomp through THREE Elite Four members until your Magikarp is forced to retire. However, the last part of the league does need you to level up at least 3 times before beating it, so the entire league isn't a cakewalk.
• Difficulty Spike: In the Heavy League, "Karpen" in battle 10 is nearly a full 20k JP stronger than the Magikarp before it.
• Fridge Brilliance:
  • When a Magikarp accidentally evolves into a Gyarados, why can't you keep it in your pond? One of the reasons could be the groups of Wishiwashi (the only thing that can make Gyarados flee in fear) swimming around in the background.
  • The opponent Magikarp stop being named in the latter parts of the game, likely mirroring the player themself getting tired of naming every single one to the point of forgetting to name any noteworthy ones.
• Fridge Horror: If you refuse to check the Poke Ball shaped object in Is It Treasure?, you get a prompt of hoping it was a trap. This implies these traps are far from uncommon.
• Good Bad Bugs: Word of God stated that the repeatable 25 diamonds in Expert League 3 (the very last league as of this writing, which can be attempted multiple times even after clearing it) are a result of this. An update was rolled in the end of May 2017, and players are no longer able to take advantage of this. Note that even if you try to use an earlier version, the game forces you to update it via the app store (like most other mobile Pokémon games). Canceling it out won't let you play the game until you update.
• Junk Rare: Yes, your Magikarp can evolve into Gyarados and you can even possibly fish up a Dratini and Ditto (disguised as Magikarp), but since this is a game all about Magikarp they aren't worth much more than an achievement.
• Player Punch: Even if the game is rather ominous about something bad possibly happening if you tell Magikarp to jump at a tree to get fruit, chances are you're not expecting the punishment to be a Pidgeotto flying into the screen and taking your Pokémon for lunch.
• Spiritual Successor: To Survive! Mola mola!. The expendable fish protagonists, training points, swiping to feed, and gradually steeping level curves are all carryovers from it, as are some of the more dangerous outcomes of adventures. Magikarp Jump at least gives you some say in the matter.
• Woolseyism: The player character looks slightly unnerved during the "Nugget" event, this is because the Japanese name for the Nugget item (in both this game and the main Pokémon series) is "Kin no tama", literally meaning "Golden ball", but also being slang for testicles. Which means in Japanese the man who gives you his Nugget is basically saying "Hey you. Here are my testicles." The English localization works around this by having him address you as "Hey you! Um... boy? Girl?", prompting the player character's nervous reaction.

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