Pokegirls/YMMV


 * Archive Binge: There are MANY stories written, by many authors. They range in quality from excellent, well-written pieces that are well worth reading to just flat out bad. The veterans of the setting are willing to help out to improve stories, but it's best to ask around as to which stories will give you the best impression of the setting.
 * Mary Sue: Lordamercy, there have been a lot of these. When these characters appear, Pokegirls are usually turned into nothing more than arm candy. Which defies the whole purpose of the setting to begin with. Overlaps with God Mode Sue in the worst case scenario, such as in the Ranma Chaos stories and the Naruto-based tale, A New Life, which in turn leads to Villain Decay, especially for the Widow and Leviathaness. Normally Nightmare Fuel, Mary Sue fics turn these monsters into fodder to show how 'speshul' the main character is.
 * Nightmare Fuel: The Widow. A giant black widow spider with a vaguely female upper body. It is nearly indestructible, has complete 360 degree vision, has vicious, razor-edged blades for two of its four arms, capable of shooting a Kamehame Hadoken at you and possesses a venom so toxic the only way to cure it is to hope for a Deus Ex Machina or chop off the poisoned part of the body QUICKLY before it spreads. Combine that with Vagina Dentata and the fact that its poisons affect itself so badly that it keeps a Widow in a near berserker state, and you have the last thing you want to meet in a dark alley. These creatures are so powerful that losses are guaranteed when facing it, and the advice for a single Tamer and harem upon encountering a Widow is quite simple: RUN AWAY AND DON'T STOP!
 * Unfortunate Implications: Read the page. Now re-read it, paying particular attention to the Rape Tropes section. Does this seem like a setting with a healthy attitude towards gender and sexuality to you?
 * Woobie:
 * Victims of Threshold, where a human girl's pokegirl ancestry causes her to spontaneously transform into a pokegirl, seem to have a 1-in-4 chance of keeping their old lives after their transformation. The 'lucky' ones have friends or siblings tame them or become part of a "New Age" tamer's harem; the unlucky ones are rejected by their families or sold to a ranch, where unscrupulous tamers can have them undergo personality reconditioning among many many other horrible fates.
 * The Penance, a Pokegirl breed that embodies the abuse victim the same way Tomboys embody the Tsundere or Gun Bunnies embody The Gunslinger. Supposedly, few tamers survive its creation (which requires an extreme degree of physical and emotional abuse as an evolution trigger) because the other members of that tamer's harem will try to tear him to shreds in retribution. Then there's its' evolution, the Anima, which requires even more abuse and takes the concept to high levels to the point where there's a mercy-kill-on-sight order for them and a Fate Worse Than Death waiting for the tamer stupid and cruel enough to make one.