Doesn't it make it more amazing that you can use it more than twice, assuming you don't take damage? Also I can't be sure about that myself, but the description doesn't mention max HP at all so I'm just guessing here. Then again, the description for Mind Blown is:
It only mentions that the user takes damage, nothing that even vaguely describes the amount of damage taken.
Meh, they'll end up choosing something like Steely Steel anyway.
Well it was mentioned the choice of the move name would be chosen by staff and not by most popular/fan voted, so we'd probably would ignore that (besides they gotta save that name for when Eevee gets a Steel-type Eeveelution and they remake Let's Go Eevee in 20 years).
Yep, that is correct. I actually did not know that. Planning to enter the contest myself but I have no idea what my entry will be.
The simplest explanation for this is just a little (not even a lot of) bureaucracy. Game Freak has the exclusive authority to come up with move names in Japanese, and then Nintendo sends these to the various translation teams. There's no one at Game Freak who can translate a non-Japanese move name back into Japanese, and even if someone at Nintendo did it for them, Game Freak might not like being told what move name they're now forced to put into their own game (they'd rather make the decision themselves).
No need to speculate on character limits - the 8 character limit isn't pulled out of thin air; it's the literal length limit on move names in Japanese/Korean/Chinese. The rules might as well have just said "name must be programmable into the game". For Latin-alphabet languages we already know the character limit is ~16 chars if I recall correctly.
... and you don't think I don't know any of this?
This is what I'm imagining:
Actually, I wouldn't be surprised if there was a number of GF employees who understand English... but there's this thing about English is Japan. Japanese schools I think are required to teach English, BUT the way they teach English is that they apply Japanese sentence structures with the English words. This is why whenever English pops up in Japanese media it's often in a form of broken English, because they're using English words but a Japanese sentence structure. I remember Gaijin Goomba complaining about it when he taught English in Japan, the school staff didn't want him teaching the proper way to use English but rather just teach them individual words and phrases.
While Japanese schools are indeed required to teach English, they mostly do simple vocabulary up to 3rd/4th grade in elementary school and only get to simple sentence structures (without teaching them grammar) in 5th/6th grade, and a bit of an introduction to the alphabet. That said, a good portion of them take English lessons outside of school at this stage. Starting in middle school, they finally touch on phonics, and begin to put the sounds to the letters, which they are formally taught simultaneously. From here things speed up a bit and the kids are introduced to English grammar which is very different to Japanese grammar.
Not shaking my head at them for not teaching complex English, English isn't their main language so obviously grade school isn't going to put that much resources into it (especially since those who may need the skill later in life will be taking classes outside of school). Glad to hear that what Gaijin Goomba experienced is no longer the case, I was more shaking my head at that. Admittedly I really only know English, though I did take Spanish in High School and College and from that alone I know how awkward sentences can sound if you don't follow the grammar rules.
I'm not sure about how much HP it has or how much damage the move does, but the text is written in a mix of Elder Futhark (2nd - 8th centuries).The Pokemon news account just teased the card on their Twitter, asking if anyone can read the script:
Yeah, it's weird because official sources says its HP is 30 and Psyche does 40 damage. Yet both HP and attack damage have the same right triangle with the only difference being the attack damage also having a "dented" rectangle next to it. Don't quite know how that works, curious if it was only done just so you couldn't translate it completely without Pokemon Company's help (not that it makes it any good... then again if they did make up those symbols they could change how much they mean).
Little GOOD? The Pokemon Company says its "God" so I wonder if that's another mistake on their part.
Such a shame on both accounts.
I think all of us who saw it earlier on twitter and stuff were busy carving our eyes at how ugly they look °____°
