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RE: What characterizes Pokemon of each type? ^Which also means, biologically speaking, Pineco and Forretress are another moth/butterfly line. As also demonstrated by Wormadam, real bagworms sometimes don't even leave their bags; the females in many species remain there until they die, never...

Wild battles have always been "escapable." I'm pretty sure they only meant that ghosts can't be trapped by moves.

As others have pointed out, everything about Shiftry IS dark, menacing and mysterious. Its name, its design, its theme and its pokedex entries. "Dark" type is literally just called "evil" type in Japan. That IS its exact theme. It's a counterpart to fighting type, which is known in Japan as...

RE: Your views on the Fairy type-distribution and the Fairy type Pokemon I'm just thrilled that so many cute and overused pokemon are going to be weak and ineffectual against poison types.

I'd like to mention that there is a very specific reason a fairy-type move is called "round eye" - in Japanese folklore, large and perfectly circular eyes are considered a special, distinguishing characteristic of supernatural monsters and spirits. This was mostly due to the eyes of owls...

RE: Pokemon that look better than their evolved forms Gloom is my single favorite pokemon design of all time. It has a completely unique, freaky, bizarre look for a "flower" monster, especially the drool. And it's still utterly adorable. What's horrible is that it evolves into the more...

RE: Mega-Evolved Pokémon: What do you think of the revealed Pokémon and what would you like to see? "Underpowered" pokemon would be pokemon like Beedrill, Dunsparce and Torkoal. Every single fully-evolved starter is already a strong pokemon..it's not "underpowered" just because it's...

I don't have a "theory" and didn't describe a "theory." I am not making fan speculation here; the SIMPLEST interpretation is that they're frogs, because they evolve from an obvious tadpole and then lose every trace of their tail as they gain additional limbs. The idea that they're somehow still...

RE: Mega-Evolved Pokémon: What do you think of the revealed Pokémon and what would you like to see? Uh I thought virtually everyone would think these so-called "fillers" deserved megas more than virtually any other pokemon. Megas should be for giving weaker, unloved pokemon a new punch...

That's only a claim made by Bulbapedia, which is silly fan speculation. There isn't anything "neotenous" you can deduce about the Poliwrath line at all. They undergo a complete metamorphosis, only retaining the spiral intestine because it's the theme of the line. Just because the pokedex says...

A tadpole is defined first and foremost by its tail. Not only does Poliwhirl drop the tail for forelimbs, but it has protruding eyeballs and a wide mouth. They are clearly stylized frogs, the pokedex name is just for fun and the swirled intestines are there because they're cool :p And almost...

Poliwhirl and Poliwrath are both just frogs. They have arms and no tail. There is no "bigger tadpole" evolution.

People only just said again that Flygon was based directly on a dragonfly. Why would I post something if everyone knew it already? :p I don't think they chose to base a dragon type on an antlion for any reason pertaining to the name "dragonfly." Someone just thought it'd be a cool insect to...

I have to reiterate that flygon is NOT based on a "dragonfly". Japan doesn't have the term "dragonfly" at all, so it's unlikely they would make that joke to begin with, and the whole Flygon line is based entirely on antlions: Here's the larva, which inhabits sandy areas and lives at the...

RE: Mega-Evolved Pokémon: What do you think of the revealed Pokémon and what would you like to see? Raptor there isn't anything about their "potion sickness" idea that the ESRB would have a problem with. We already have poison pokemon and incredibly violent moves and pokedex entries, it's not a...

Mega Evolutions don't look like whole new pokemon because they aren't. They are just "powered-up" forms. I don't think they're counting them as new species in the new dex or anything.

RE: Pokemon that look better than thier evolved forms Slaking is a fun idea, but the design is clearly more of a gorilla, so we don't even have a "proper" fully evolved sloth. I thought Gardevoir was cooler when I assumed it was legless and hovered around via telekinesis. An idea I've had...

^It's called being interesting. An all-lazy line, or one that went straight to just lazy or straight to just energetic is predictable and common. A lot of posts in this thread are basically "I don't have an eye for creativity."

I thought everyone knew that magikarp had roots in dragon mythology? Even if it didn't though, it still makes sense. Even the biggest and toughest real fish begin as larvae a hundredth their size or more, and it makes sense in a world of spontaneous "evolution" to have some weak things that...

RE: Pokemon X/Y Rumors Damn, the poison/electric and "scariest" mud monster sound amazing...but the list screams fake. I notice there aren't many that sound like particularly obscure or exotic real-world plants and animals, when every pokemon generation has quite a few. To me this is a major...