>be gen 3 shitmon
>finally get a new evolution
>but it belongs to a glorified shiny version of that mon and not the original
>the original has been wiener blocked from evolving
>to top it all off, the evolution is an ugly deviantart OC
what's the point of cross gen evos when they keep doing shit like this? are they gonna cut twin beam and hyper drill in the next game to keep players from obtaining farigiraf and dudunsparce? cross gen evos that came out after gen 4 were definitely a mistake
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>after gen 4 were definitely a mistake
that's nu-pokemon in general
don't say that, Slither Wing is perfection
>let's slap a tail on volcarona and pretend it's a new pokemon!
paradox mons were a cataclysmic mistake
people got filtered by the KINO gen 4 crossgens and b***hed that they "ruined muh bro" so now you only get regional evos or other gimmicks that will lock them to one game
>farigiraf and dudunsparce
they're both shit anyway so nothing of value would be lost
They're good in doubles. Hyper Drill removes Protect, and Dudunsparce's speed tier means it can be used in Trick Room or Tailwind. Armor Tail is a fantastic ability with all the priority native to doubles.
dudunsparce is a complete meme in doubles. it's had niche use with rattled boomburst stuff. farigiraf is good with trick room and imprison though.
The worst part is that Linoone isn't even a good choice for an evolution. The contrast/relationship between it and Zigzagoon is already a complete family and the Belly Drum/Extreme Speed is already an iconic niche exclusive to them, so there was nothing to gain by expanding the line any further beyond a buff that they didn't receive.
>almost 30 years old
>wilfully ignores why xer shitmon didn't get touched
Also:
>S T I L L pushing the "de nu evos are TOTALLY r-re-regional forms" lies
Except they don't evolve from Paldean Girafarig or Paldean Dunsparce. They evolve from Johtonian Girafarig and Johtonian Dunsparce.
>Johtonian
fanfiction garbage
frick your nugen slop
>Alolan - of or pertaining to Alola
>Unovan - of or pertaining to Unova
>Johtonian - of or pertaining to Johto
Sorry english confuses you so badly esl. But the fact they introduced critters with "Alolan/Galarian/Paldean" in their names establishes precedent for naming conventions, which can be applied retroactively to reference pokémon from earlier regions.
>the original has been wiener blocked from evolving
Says who? Yeah, maybe base Linoone didn’t get an evo in SwSh, but who’s to say it won’t get one later?
The fact they went and re-designed the entire line before adding a new evolution does.
Otherwise, they'd have just, you know, given it an actual evolution.
In the same gen that gave us regional variants of Meowth and Yamask that evolve into entirely new Pokemon rather than variants of Persian and Cogayrigus.
There's nothing stopping Hoennian Linoone from getting its own evo
Except the fact it's so radioactive, they went and made an entirely different flavour to start shilling, rather than, I repeat, giving Hoeennian Linoone an evolution.
You realise the only people who like it are the adults your age? It didn't manage to garner an audience or attract much interest with Sinnoh kids, it didn't appear in Unova, got overlooked in Kalos because the routes were so dense with a who's-who of the non-Hoenn pokédexes. And so by time they sat down to make Gen 8, they decided to re-tool it and try and make it marketable (worked, I actually used G-Ziggy, as opposed to ignoring the original flavour).
>cross gen evos that came out after gen 4 were definitely a mistake
Annihilape is based though.
>let's slap a wig on primeape and call it a new pokemon!
it would be another glorified shiny pokemon if it didn't have the ugly wig. it's a shit design
so according to you it is just a primeate shiny, but it's also a shit design? which one is it? unless your dumb ass thinks Primeape itself is a shit design
primeape is alright. there are certainly gen 1 pokemon that i like better than it, but it's just okay. i am complaining about annihilape because it is fricking lazy. it doesn't matter how good the original design is, recoloring the pokemon and then making only one notable change (in this case the wig) is the epitome of laziness
Annihilape fixed the dogshit Mankey line
People like you really do need to just be hanged. There's no reasoning with literal payslaves.
It's not entirely outclassed.
Original Linoone still has its Belly Drum + Extreme Speed sweeper niche, while Obstagoon is instead a Guts wallbreaker.
Regular Linoone and Obstagoon are sidegrades with different playstyles.
at that point G-Zigzagoon and Linoone might as well be considered new pokemon and not something that is somehow related to the original evolution family
I think they recognized their mistake with Obstagoon, Sirfetch'd, and Mr. Rime. Farigaraf and Dundunsparce are a return to form, while Sneasler and Clodsire are alternate evolutions rather than (seemingly) blocking off the originals from evolution.
they had to redesign a whole evolution line to make obstagoon work even though this fits mightyena way more considering it's already got that punk rock aesthetic going on
I would assume Farigiraf and Dudunsparce will be permanent since the forms they evolve from are just the normal pokemon.
I hate these dogshit new evos that were very clearly designed by different people 30 years after the original and slap on some extraneous design element for literally no reason. Mankey has frickall to do with ghosts or death
Friendly reminder that johto started the Cross gen evolutions bullshit
I don't know what's funnier, you trying to pretend that Steelix is anywhere near as bad as Obstagoon, or you calling it "bullshit" that Onix got a badass steel-coated monster to evolve into.
Not only that, but they retconned it so that the Zigzagoon line is actually native to Galar, and it's the "original" that's actually the regional variant.
So when they adapted to other regions, they became weaker due the environment and competition being less harsh, and no longer needed to evolve past Linoone to survive