>people were sticking up for poltchageist and insisting it made sense as a convergent and not a regional because it was actually the teapot instead of the tea
>except its (supposed???) evolution sinistcha is actually the tea and not the teapot, so this entire argument people made in defense of it being justified as a unique pokemon has been rendered void
thanks gamefreak
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It's actually a pre-evolution
>It's actually [FANFIC]
the dex numbers state otherwise
poltcha is #1012 and sinistcha is #1013
only way it couldn't be an evolution is if sinistcha is actually related to the sinistea line, which is proving unlikely based on everything else that's been datamined about it
Who cares what other people think?
>sinistea is a sentient teacup with ghostly tea inside it
>polteageist is the tea in a non-sentient teapot
but
>polchageist is a sentient teapot with ghostly tea inside it
>polchageist is the tea in a non-sentient teacup
so it's kinda half-backwards
is a sentient teacup with ghostly tea inside it
no, it's not
sinistea is the tea, not the cup
the dex entries make this very clear
>why does it have the face on the cup then?
because gamefreak
yeah I guess it's not LITERALLY the teacup but the face emotes so you know what I mean
>Sinistea is the teacup and Polteageist is the tea
>Poltchageist is the teapot and Sinistcha is the tea
>official media comments on how Poltchageist looks like Sinistea
>just from looking at them Sinistcha looks more like Poltchageist
>despite all this the names get swapped for no reason
I hate Gamefreak bros
I've said this countless times and I don't think I'll ever bother saying it again:
It's easy to understand the difference between regional forms and fakes as "same animal" or "different animal", but that makes the case of this a regional because they're both tea. The difference is that they're possessed tea, so the origin of the ghost is what the actual pokemon is, not the tea. The actual difference between regional forms and fakes is whether or not they originate from a common ancestor, which is basically the same but it explains everything better, as these two type of possessed tea pokemon have separate origins and still converged on a simmilar look because of it. Them being regionals wouldn't make sense because they would have to have away to split from one another, and that doesn't make sense for ghosts at all. It would only make sense if the tea was the only element to that the mon is, but it is not.
but it's perfectly plausible for a pokemon of the sinistea line to be placed into an environment where it's forced to change what type of object its connected to under a particular situation:
>sinistea is taken to environment where the teacups it traditionally attaches itself to are more or less completely absent
>its teacup is damaged beyond repair, thus necessitating that it find some new kind of shelter
>since its normal teacups are nowhere to be found, it has to make due by using a different kind of teapot as a shelter
>the different properties of the tea, teapot, and environment result in it progressively taking on different properties to better suit its new lifestyle
>sooner or later the differences make it considered a regional form that could further deviate into a regional evolution
ghost pokemon have been shown to be perfectly capable of adaptation even when they are supposed to be permanently associated with particular objects, as galarian yamask abandoned its mask in favor of a runestone, so it stands to reason that nothing should be stopping something like sinistea from doing something similar under specific circumstances.
every argument in favor of it being a convergent is operating on the assumption that it HAS to be a convergent, when justifying a situation where it can exist as a regional is significantly easier and requires far less steps
They’re convergent and not regional because
>They reversed the vessel order (cup > pot, vase + stick > cup + brush)
>Matcha is drank as a powder suspended in liquid rather than stored in bags that infuse the water and are then removed
If anything, it’s a better example of convergent than the others. Irl convergents tend to be at least distantly related but not as far as a mole and eel or jellyfish and mushroom, which then that underwent similar pressures and developed similar traits.
It's convergent because one is a poltergeist and the other's a yokai. Two completely different categories of ghosts both turned into haunted teaware despite having nothing to do with each other.
One is liquid, the other is powder.
if they wanted to make a yokai mon that was similar to but unrelated to the sinistea line they should have just made it an unrelated ghost that happened to be possessing a teapot that made it resemble sinistea, not take the sinistea ghost, color it green, stick it in a different pot, and pretend it's a completely unrelated pokemon
But they're not pretending it's unrelated. It's the same kind of creature, just a different species. It's not like these are biological animals that have the same ancestor. They're similar spirits that manifest using different mediums.
but ghost pokemon are still very obviously biological animals by the fact that they can breed with other pokemon, evolve, and gain regional forms the same way anything else can
the "oh ghost pokemon are just deceased human souls" thing is probably just folklore rather than something scientifically accurate in-universe
it's because it's a different type of tea entirely. green tea and whatever polteageist is made off are completely separate plants
Bro these people on here are arguing over a tea Pokémon. How sad