I Like Pie said:To me, however, the idea of Flaaffy evolving into Ampharos and losing its wool baffled me. I still haven't found a logical explanation as to why that happens, as the electric wool idea was simply epic.
Blob55 said:Drohn said:Actually, Meowth are generally also quadruped. Only in the anime do we see a couple bipedal ones. In one episode we saw how much effort it took for the Meowth of Team Rocket to become bipedal.
I never got Bellossom and Politoad. They don't look like the pre-evolutions. Generally I like split evolutions, but why should one be really similar to the previous forms and one differ so much? I would like it if both split evolutions (although differ from each other) would still have some characteristics from the previous forms.
Meowth is only a quadruped in the Animé.
Bellossom is just an Oddish turned upside down and turned Green.
98Greener said:Okay, this particular Pokemon just makes my head hurt.
Slakoth -> Vigoroth -> Slaking
Lazy, ALL HYPER, and lazy again.
Vigoroth even gets a new coat and everything. It doesn't even look that similar to Slakoth. And what's the point of being lazy again?
Wouldn't it make more sense if Vigoroth was it's own Pokemon, and Slakoth would just evolve unto Slaking? Is there some story behind this guy?
Also, Slaking is begging to be painted like one of your french girls.
professorlight said:I think GF always makes a lot of sense. If they didn't, we would be looking at 649 weird pokemon, instead of 10 or so. And they spend a lot of time designing every pokemon, too; yes, they do stupid shit every once in a while (seriously. elemental monkeys. what the f*** were you trying to pull there, gamefreak?), but if they didn't think it through, we would have like 1400 stupid shit pokemon (if they could even get as famous as they are now).
I love learning new things! That makes so much sense. I am no longer considering that line weird anymore haha.P.DelSlayer said:I Like Pie said:To me, however, the idea of Flaaffy evolving into Ampharos and losing its wool baffled me. I still haven't found a logical explanation as to why that happens, as the electric wool idea was simply epic.
I remember hearing somewhere that it was the electricity burning off the wool.
Mareep doesn't have the electrical powers to burn any of its wool off
Flaaffy has gained electrical powers through evolution, burning some of its wool off in the process
Ampharos gains so much electrical powers through evolution, it completely burns all the wool off of its body
Altho I would've loved to see Ampharos with some really electrically-charged wool on its body, I'm not complaining
Leaf_Ranger said:professorlight said:I think GF always makes a lot of sense. If they didn't, we would be looking at 649 weird pokemon, instead of 10 or so. And they spend a lot of time designing every pokemon, too; yes, they do stupid shit every once in a while (seriously. elemental monkeys. what the f*** were you trying to pull there, gamefreak?), but if they didn't think it through, we would have like 1400 stupid shit pokemon (if they could even get as famous as they are now).
The elemental monkeys make sense since they have a backgound: the three wise monkeys.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_wise_monkeys
That's why Pansear's sprite has it with a hand near its ear (hear no evil), Panpour has closed eyes (see no evil) and Pansage is like it's saying something (speak no evil). This was the background that GF found to have a gimmick Pokémon that represents triple battles (like Plusle and Minun represent double battles in Hoenn).
Blob55 said:I don't really get how Meowth, a biped ends up evolving into a Persion, a quadruped.
Also, I don't get why Purrloin is a quadruped in the main series games, is a biped in the Animé and PokéPark.
Drohn said:I never got Bellossom and Politoad. They don't look like the pre-evolutions. Generally I like split evolutions, but why should one be really similar to the previous forms and one differ so much? I would like it if both split evolutions (although differ from each other) would still have some characteristics from the previous forms.
As for my own illogical evolution, I think Oshawott to Samurott makes no sense to me. The only similarity they have period is the fact that they're themed around seashells. Dewott makes sense, but I feel that Samurott was just too much of a jump.
Its fine and neat to have a sea lion Pokemon - and Im not trying to say I dislike Samurott or anything - but the way he went about the evolution process was just a little weird and abrupt to me. I actually like Samurotts design, but I think that if they made a couple of changes (remove the seashells) he could have been the end result to a different evolution chain and give Oshawott and Dewott something more fitting.98Greener said:I think Sugimori himself said something about him going to an aquarium and getting the idea of a majestic sea lion for a Pokemon.
Just add seashells as armor.
Easy!
Trapinch is an antlion that goes through a metamorphasis so it is explained. I believe they had the Trapinch discussion earlier..maiden said:I think the Trapinch line is pretty illogical. They tried to combine too many things into one evolutionary line. A sand trapper thing becomes a bug, which becomes a flying dragon. ???
Zielo said:Trapinch is an antlion that goes through a metamorphasis so it is explained. I believe they had the Trapinch discussion earlier..maiden said:I think the Trapinch line is pretty illogical. They tried to combine too many things into one evolutionary line. A sand trapper thing becomes a bug, which becomes a flying dragon. ???
I believe they also go into a nymph stage (Vibrava) but it isnt displayed in this cycle.
Personally I think thats how it should have been from the start and just trash the idea of a tadpole just going into a bigger tadpole entirely.
Bogleech said:Personally I think thats how it should have been from the start and just trash the idea of a tadpole just going into a bigger tadpole entirely.
Poliwhirl and Poliwrath are both just frogs. They have arms and no tail. There is no "bigger tadpole" evolution.
Bogleech said: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
And almost all frog pokemon are blue-grey anyhow. Politoed for some reason is the only green frog in the pokemon world...
Bogleech said: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