Do you think they one day approach the idea of fourth stages? They don't seem to hold their "rules" over evolution as sacrosanct as parts of the fanbase can. One day they'll probably be a stone evo that evolves further too or they allow a Mega-enabled Pokemon to evolve with some retconning.
Only image I could find as an example.
yes
just like autismos thought there was a rule about legendaries not evolving until there were
I'm still against it.
Yet it happened.
Same a mythical being able to breed.
Too late
Oh for frick sake, really? I knew i shouldn't have returned to Pokemon
>>>Ganker is always an option.
To be fair, most of the evolving legendaries/mythicals have a reason for their evolution line. The Cosmog line is based around the formation of stars and it's part of the lore that they create heirs. Type: Null is artificial, barely 'legendary', and the evolution is barely an evolution since it looks pretty much the same except helmetless. Meltan was made for Pokémon Go and collecting candies to evolve it was the way to lure players to Go, Poipole is technically a regular Pokémon from a different dimention. That leaves Kubfu, who can evolve because he trains really hard I guess, but Kubfu is probably the least deserving Pokémon to be called a legendary, as everything about it seems more like what a mythical would be.
You are so PATHETIC, dude. Frick off if literally anything new in Pokémon is a trigger.
>until there were
Elaborate on that rule
Something can't happen until it does, but if it hasn't happened it can't.
desu, I was surprised back then when Raichu didn't get a Mega
I can see it getting a gimmick form in the future, similar to Gorochu's original idea.
>desu, I was surprised back then when Raichu didn't get a Mega
Only Pokemon Game Freak loves and respects the most were allowed to get megas. The only reason Pikachu didnt get one is because of hte fully-evolved rule, and they coultn;t give it to Raichu because it would overshaow Pikachu.
Grow up lad, Raichu gets tons as it is butthurt baby boy b***h
Indeed, they always had such a blatant bias towards Abomasnow and Audino
i mean, why not?
rather than that i'd say that baby pre-evos shouldn't be counted as an actual evolutionairy stage preventing an entire being crippled by a useless stage no one wastes time breeding to use
also in my headcanon megas still count as a 4th stage instead of a thrown away gimmick
I have nothing really against it, but I'm not sure what their design philosophy would be. Most of the time, a Pokémon increases in complexity with each stage, but there are lines with three stages that already feel as complex as they could be. Megas are the closest we have gotten, but they generally don't differ enough. And for certain lines (like starters) a fourth stage will always feel tacked on. Gorochu, on the other hand, works for me, as Raichu has a design that could pass for a middle stage, Pikachu was originally a base Pokémon, and Pichu is more of a stage -1.
I feel this is the ideal solution. GF could even resurrect the concept of baby prevolutions for certain Pokémon without worry and improve the mechanic, because even though baby forms are good from a world building perspective they feel rather superfluous in practice.
Once they have given every single Kantomon a regional or gimmick form they'll probably consider it.
yes, they will
i predict it will happen within 5 generations
No. One thing that has kept Pokemon from spiraling out of control are its arbitrary, self-imposed limits like 4 move slots, 6 party members, and 3 stage species.
That one ROM hack that just came out with 4 abilities for each Pokemon is a great counterfactual of how GF could have fricked up the series.
A better steward might be able to incorporate such changes, but not GF. With GF, deviating from the established formula would lead to pic rel.
>4 move slots, 6 party members
this is a gameplay design decision
we know for example that GF has TRIED breaking these traditions, and found that it just made the game worse
the maximum number of times a single pokemon can evolve is not really a significant gameplay consideration, it's more of an aesthetic one
Weird example. Sure, it wouldn't work for pokemon, but divergent evolution paths is a great, core part of digimon.
It’ll change eventually. It’s starting to spiral out of control with new gimmick forms. I wish they’d reign it in and alternate focus on one of the existing gimmicks per gen now instead of making new ones.
There is no single Digimon media where this is a possible tree
Cope.
You are
>GF could have fricked up the series.
Pokemon is beyond fricked now.
Unironically what you posted shows nothing wrong
The real Digon issue is evolutionary tree is (at least) tridimensional. With multiple convergent and evolutions and de-evolutions. Eventually understand any digimon can become basically anything.
The sole fact of preventing this would make digon evolution just like pokemon but with extra stages
You don't think Megas, Gigantamax, and Tera-what-the-frick-ever is spiraling out of control?
At this point in time, these mechanics are more or less understood to be generation-specific gimmicks that in all likelihood never coexist in future main series games, so any potential “damage” they could do is inherently limited to one generation. Not saying this can’t change in the future, but so far this and Dexit seems to be their strategy to deal with funky, potentially game-breaking mechanics.
that's what the battle gimmick forms were made for.
But the forms are game locked now.
I feel like megas will always be the closest thing we'll have to 4th stage evos. I'm not against the idea, but the thing with 3 stages families is that their final evolution often has a sort of finality to them, much more than 2 stages families. Weedle becomes a butterfly, slakoth becomes hyperactive before becoming lazy again, Ghastly's first evolution gives it arms, then a full body, etc. These Pokémon tell little stories through their evolutions and it would feel weird adding another chapter to them. A lot of Pokémon just get bigger as they evolve though, but adding another evolution to those makes even less sense as it'd feel redundant. Take Poliwrath for exemple, it's already a tadpol that evolves from a tadpol that evolves from a tadpol, adding a 4th tadpol would be too repetitive, but making Poliwrath's evolution something else than a tadpol would feel out of place and too digimon-like
Nicely put. I guess it comes down the the design really in the first place