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I ATTAC

8 (15.4%)

I PROTECC

6 (11.5%)

Waiting on the third one

2 (3.8%)

Waiting on the third AND fourth one

1 (1.9%)

GET WELL SOON ZYGARDE

5 (9.6%)

I am a concientous objector and abstain from taking up arms

30 (57.7%)

Total Members Voted: 51

[penguinofhonor]

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[Telgin]

That's a good idea.  The main reason I haven't done that in the past is because of lucky eggs, since I try to save up about 60 or so pokemon to evolve to get maximum value out of them, and so as to not delay that I've generally evolved first to second stage pokemon even when I didn't have enough for the third stage.

Incidentally, I kind of dislike lucky eggs for this reason.  If I have one (and I only ever do from leveling, but even so I do have one right now), then I don't get to evolve pokemon forever because it takes so long to save up that many to evolve, even when catching every pidgey, caterpie and weedle in sight.  A couple of months each, for the last few, I believe.

[scourge728]

*grumbling angrily about pokemon on the switch*

[pikachu17]

*grumbling angrily about pokemon on the switch*

What specifically?

[MagmaMcFry]

*grumbling angrily about pokemon on the switch*

What specifically?

There aren't enough Pikachus in Let's Go Eevee.

[scourge728]

I'm annoyed because it's on the switch, and I don't have one, and they and the games are expensive

[Rolan7]

Yeah.  And also they're implementing a lot of GO mechanics somehow, I've heard contradictory reports how, but I'm very skeptical.
Doesn't strictly matter to me since I only have a DSlite, but eh.

(Also I'm sorry for calling Blissey users tryhards, I was trash-talking after a looong walk with my buddy.  4X candy yehhhh!  Just got a lot more too.)

[scourge728]

the main Pokemon RPG they're releasing on Switch.

my pain is real....

[DeKaFu]

So, about that huge batch of unreleased/redesigned Pokémon from 1997 that was just leaked...

This is amazing.

I feel like Animon (horrifying screaming Ditto evolution) is the clear winner out of all of them, but there's a lot of excellent stuff in there.

[scourge728]

I thought that was just a prototype of goomy TBH

[Rolan7]

Sleepy baby Meowth with a head penny!

[xaritscin]

there's a lot of interesting designs on that demo. but i see 2 clear patterns on it that i guess were the main cause of why a lot of those species didnt make it. one is that some of them were too dark like Girafarig or the angelfish that would later be replaced with Mantine, some of those designs were quite grim for a children's game. the other is the large amount of baby pokemon cluttering the list, not enough space for original species so many of those were left out.

outside of that pattern there's a lot of designs that could have been put in later gens. the wolfmen pokemon for example, i like their concept, mostly because they seem to be based to a degree in the Ainu folklore or i see it close to that. i mean, according to the leaks the original map was supposed to be the whole of japan so it makes sense that there would be a pokemon version of Hokkaido in that map with several ice types.

guess they have their own method to choose which species go and which ones are left behind. but things like the Farfetch'd evo or the round tiger-mouse could have been added easily in later titles.

[scourge728]

Are we not gonna talk about how 7/9ths of the starters were completely different than what they became

[xaritscin]

Are we not gonna talk about how 7/9ths of the starters were completely different than what they became

basically Chikorita and Meganium were the only ones that werent replaced. the intermediate form between those two didnt make sense honestly. as for the fire bears and the plesiosaurs, no idea why did they change it, their design must have looked plain compared to the Cyndaquil and Totodile families.

[DeKaFu]

My personal theory is that they were in the middle of replacing their original grass starters with Chikorita's line, with the bizarre thing in Bayleef's slot (Hanamogura, literally "Flower Mole") being the only one left over from whatever was there before. Maybe it had an evolution that made sense in Meganium's slot at one point? We'll never know.

It's really fun going through these.

Old Girafarig with its ridiculously sinister rear-face is wonderful, but having that weird "Twinz" double-ghost evolving into it was hella strange. Pretty glad they dropped that, actually.

Old Noctowl, Politoed, Aipom and (especially) Leafeon were all so much cooler and more interesting than what we actually got in the end...