Gible · BREAKpoint (BKP) #68

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   feyblade

   (9 years ago)

   Talk about an unorthodox attack name. What exactly does Gible -do- when he “never enough”s? Thankfully, at least the image suggests that he’s abandoning one area to look for goodies in another.

   Honestly though, Never Enough seems more appropriate as an ability,both in name and function. They could have made it activate on play (or even once during turn,when active),and given Gible some other token attack. Then again, Garchomp is powerful as it is, so I guess this gets a pass.

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     Daedric Etwahlfeyblade

     (1 year ago)

     My guess would be that it’s eating. It eats the discarded card, and the drawn ones are it scrounging up more. Its “never enough” because its always hungry?

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       AmbassadorDaedric Etwahl

       (1 year ago)

       It really is an unorthodox attack name, in the sense that よくばる [𝐘𝐎𝐊𝐔𝐁𝐀𝐑𝐔] is more of a ..verb? It’s exactly as feyblade said – it’d be like if, for example, “Immunity” was the name of an attack – it sounds more like a state of being/doing or a constitutional part of something, and we see things like this end up the name of a Power/Body/Ability/etc. than as an an attack name.

       よくばる[𝐘𝐎𝐊𝐔𝐁𝐀𝐑𝐔] has some readily available suggested translations online – “Covet” ends up out of the question because it’s already the name of a well-established attack in the series, but avarice, greed are also on the table insofar as acceptable translations. There is a cadence to ‘never enough’ that sounds nice, and the meaning hasn’t been lost, but as a translation, it’s only adequate. I continue to be fond enough of the way early Pokémon games were translated and their approach to expand the vocabularies of the (usually) younger audience, so I would’ve suggested either “Avarice” or “Avariciousness”.

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         TwylisAmbassador

         (1 year ago)

         I’m partial to “Insatiable”, since it intersects the hunger aspect (which may or may not be intended, but seems fitting for Gible) with the connotation of greed that the original name seems to go for. It still has the sounds-like-an-ability problem though. I do think Never Enough is fine, but might feel weird if it becomes recurring.

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