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|u/Th3_Hegemon - 13 hours
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|It's also why Rhydon is used as statues through the first generation
|games. This is also one of those trivia questions that has a bunch of
|potential answers based on what the person asking means. Rhydon was
|the first created IRL. Bulbsaur is the first using the in-game
|numbering system. Mew in lore was speculated to be the genetic
|ancestor of every Pokemon. However... Arceus is the creator god of the
|Pokemon universe, and should reasonably be then said to precede all
|other Pokemon.
|u/k40z473 - 13 hours
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|Neat.
|u/ricky616 - 2 hours
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|How neat is that?
|u/speedshrimp - 2 hours
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|That’s pretty neat.
|u/Sabernova - 2 hours
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|So neat
|u/belliom - 1 hour
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|Folks, it’s so neat—really, it’s incredible. I mean, people are
|talking about it. They say, ‘It’s the neatest thing we’ve ever
|seen!’ And you know what? They’re right. It’s amazing, it really
|is.
|u/DimitriMishkin - 7 hours
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|And wasnt diglett the first idea for a Pokémon?
|u/2WaterGuns - 6 hours
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|I think there was some claim that its design came from one of the
|developers' childhoods, so if true yes it would predate the concept
|of Pokemon itself.
|u/sawbladex - 7 hours
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|Of course, Arceus only existed as Gen 4 released or a bit before. So
|it's kinda funny to have the first pokemon arrive like 5 years later?
|u/jgiovagn - 7 hours
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|It was about 13 years, pokemon was released in 1996, Arceus was
|introduced in 2009. Just wanted to dwell on how long Pokemon has
|been around.
|u/Apples9308 - 3 hours
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|How long did people exist before we invented God?
|u/overloadedcoffee - 31 minutes
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|This is a shower thought question all right.
|u/Darkkingswrath - 7 hours
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|14 years. First gen is 1996 and fourth gen is 2010.
|u/12thunder - 5 hours
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|acktually fourth gen came out in 2006 (diamond and pearl) fifth
|gen was 2010 (black and white)
|u/Lexinoz - 1 hour
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|Rewriting lore, retconning happens all the time as franchises
|develop and they get a clearer picture of their own universe.
|u/2WaterGuns - 6 hours
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|It just didn't incarnate until then.
|u/aqua19858 - 7 hours
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|It was more like 8 years but yeah.
|u/WaffleyDootDoot - 3 hours
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|Another one is that Rowlet is the first Pokémon in the Hisui dex, and
|Legends Arceus is the earliest game chronologically, so in a sense
|Rowlet is the first Pokémon
|u/FrankSand - 7 hours
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|How is mew the genetic ancestor but the other one is the creator god?
|u/ThinkInTheForest - 6 hours
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|I suppose, if we think about the Abrahamic religions, there’s Adam
|and Eve and there’s God.
|u/FrankSand - 4 hours
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|That clears it up. Sorry I don't know anything past Pokémon
|yellow.
|u/VinnieBaby22 - 5 hours
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|What a perfect analogy.
|u/beatenmeat - 2 hours
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|What if Arceus isn't really a Pokemon and we just classify it as one?
|u/Nerubim - 1 hour
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|Victiny is number 0 though if I remember correctly.
|u/Aedan91 - 12 hours
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|Never heard of an "index number" before. It's evidently not the National
|Pokédex entry number, so what is it?
|u/Meow345336 - 11 hours
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|It's how the pokemon are organized in the code, rhydon was the first
|pokemon implemented, so it was put as the first index number
|u/Aedan91 - 11 hours
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|Yeah I got that, but is it visible in any way for the player? Or
|it's something you can see exclusively when looking at the code?
|u/Meow345336 - 11 hours
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|It's only something you see when looking at the code, to my
|knowledge it has no gameplay function
|u/UltimateCheese1056 - 8 hours
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|In Gen1 with the amount of glitches the index number can matter,
|easy example is Missing No. being the result of index numbers
|which have some but not all data needed. In the "actual game"
|though, no its not visible
|u/theryman - 36 minutes
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|Something with the index number is how you glitch mew into
|existence near nugget bridge, right?
|u/dysoncube - 9 hours
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|Sir everyone is saying that you're without fault for not seeing it
|u/Super_Goomba64 - 11 hours
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|Index number is also why the Mew glitch works When you do a certain
|glitch the game gets confused and sets the next wild encounter to Mews
|Index number
|u/Golden-Owl - 7 hours
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|Index numbers are common practice in game data management. They are
|an internal number in data which more or less reflects when they are
|added The Dex Number is added later, when they eventually decide how
|to present them to the player and more game mechanics get built
|u/Ok-Walk-8040 - 8 hours
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|Weedle was incidentally the second Pokémon created so Sotoshi could make
|the English language pun, Rhydon my Weedle.
|u/virusoverdose - 7 hours
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|Your comment made my day 😂
|u/PlsRfNZ - 6 hours
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|This made me Shuckle
|u/PARANOIAH - 5 hours
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|Until you string shot?
|u/backfire10z - 7 hours
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|Wouldn’t this actually be index 0?
|u/2WaterGuns - 6 hours
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|While it's true that array indexes start at 0 in most programming
|languages, identifier numbers like this can start at 1, so that the
|value 0 is reserved for "no data". For a hypothetical example, you
|could use species index 0 to indicate a party slot is empty.
|Incidentally, if you do try to load species index 0, it gives you [the
|glitch Pokemon 'M](https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/%27M_(00)).
|u/Narxolepsyy - 6 hours
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|in an array of pokemon yes, but (I don't know the code) it looks like
|"index number" is what they used for IDs, and those start at 1.
|u/ireadthingsliterally - 5 hours
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|Huh? Bulbasaur is #1 in the pokedex.
|u/Hauwke - 4 hours
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|Index number, the number used to referrence it in the code, not the
|pokedex number.
|u/plaguedbullets - 4 hours
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|And our hearts.
|u/TheShinyHunter3 - 2 hours
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|"Index number", not pokédex number. The index is a hidden Pokédex of
|sorts, and Rhydon is the first one. This index is the reason why Gen1
|is full of bugs like MissingNo and co.
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