>>34508593I was laughed at in a different thread, but I partially belive that GameFreak decided to go for just a pure albedo of their Pokemon as a future proofing method. When they create the game for the Switch, they're likely going to use a Physically Based Rendering style approach to lighting, in which having proper albedo of their mons will be extremely important. Perhaps they just 'cut their losses' on the ones like Starmie which is actually a nearly perfect colour for it's albedo if it was lit with a PBR method (as it's a pretty metallic mon).
