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Evolution lines you never understood

Anonymous Mon 18 Jul 2016 22:17:24 No.27240904 View View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>27240961 >>27240963 >>27240996 >>27241004 >>27241025 >>27244073

ITT: Evolution lines you never understood

Golem always looked so out of place to me

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Anonymous Mon 18 Jul 2016 22:18:42 No.27240923 Report

Quoted By: >>27240954 >>27240957 >>27241128

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Anonymous Mon 18 Jul 2016 22:18:52 No.27240928 Report

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This could go here I guess

Changed for the anime probably

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 18 Jul 2016 22:20:43 No.27240947 Report

Quoted By: >>27240967 >>27241231 >>27244251

I get Ivysaur evolving into Venusaur, but I wish Ivysaur didn't lose his confidence and energetic demeanor and turned into that fat, lazy, ugly, depressed frog.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 18 Jul 2016 22:21:28 No.27240954 Report

Quoted By: >>27241049

>>27240923
It goes from a cartoon otter to a more realistic otter.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 18 Jul 2016 22:21:34 No.27240957 Report

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>>27240923
This one grew on me to be honest

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 18 Jul 2016 22:22:14 No.27240961 Report

Quoted By: >>27240983 >>27241007 >>27241020 >>27241136 >>27241257 >>27241962 >>27242056

>>27240904
Golem has Machoke's reptilian face and Machamp has Graveler's additional pair of arms. They exchange them when they get traded and evolve.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 18 Jul 2016 22:22:16 No.27240963 Report

Quoted By: >>27240983 >>27241007 >>27241020 >>27241136 >>27241257 >>27242056

>>27240904
Graveler lost arms and won reptil head
Machoke lost reptil head and won arms

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 18 Jul 2016 22:22:31 No.27240967 Report

Quoted By: >>27240989

>>27240947
He's not depressed, he's just high as fuck

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 18 Jul 2016 22:23:33 No.27240983 Report

Quoted By: >>27242056

>>27240961
>>27240963
Dude

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 18 Jul 2016 22:24:00 No.27240989 Report

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>>27240967
That's even worse. The energetic, confident teenager starts doing drugs and turns into a fat loser when he grows up.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 18 Jul 2016 22:24:21 No.27240996 Report

Quoted By: >>27242107

>>27240904
I'd say it's to showcase how trade evolutions are like a mutation as opposed to natural growth, but Gengar, Alakazam and Machamp all don't have as drastic a design change so I have no idea.

Maybe it's yet another Kaiju/Toku reference? Gen I is full of those.

I recall even the Zubat line is based on Toku bat heroes/villains

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 18 Jul 2016 22:25:08 No.27241004 Report

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>>27240904
Kind of gross that it randomly acquired flesh through evolution

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 18 Jul 2016 22:25:28 No.27241007 Report

Quoted By: >>27241070 >>27242056 >>27243254

>>27240961
>>27240963
/thread

Why children in 1996 understood this and not op?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 18 Jul 2016 22:26:15 No.27241020 Report

Quoted By: >>27242056 >>27243254

>>27240961
>>27240963
oh shit

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 18 Jul 2016 22:26:34 No.27241025 Report

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>>27240904
Think of Geodude as an egg or a shell.
There's a geokinetic lizard inside the egg/shell. As a baby, it's too weak to handle the world without its covering. When it finally reaches the final stage of its evolution, it can pop out of its shell slightly.

Geodude is a geode with a living creature instead of crystals inside.

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Anonymous Mon 18 Jul 2016 22:27:32 No.27241049 Report

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>>27240954
>"realistic otter"
okay anon

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Anonymous Mon 18 Jul 2016 22:28:27 No.27241061 Report

Quoted By: >>27241190 >>27241445

this retarded shit

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 18 Jul 2016 22:28:54 No.27241070 Report

Quoted By: >>27241099 >>27241249

>>27241007
I'm the first post you quoted and I'd seriously doubt any kid in 1996 understood exactly what was going on with these two designs. It's an incredibly awkward transition for both sides.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 18 Jul 2016 22:30:41 No.27241098 Report

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Slightly off-topic but when I was a kid I thought that Aaron>Glalie>Aggron, like it was some sort of Tyranitar line rip-off

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 18 Jul 2016 22:30:42 No.27241099 Report

Quoted By: >>27241134 >>27241159 >>27241184

>>27241070
This, it never even occurred to me. To be honest I'm not sold 100% mostly because of Gengar and Alakazam not doing a similar thing, but then there's the only two trade evolutions in BW being the rock and the fighting ones which means maybe they former were just extras, but then Gigalith and Conkeldurr don't seem to take anything from each other, the two bugs do

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Anonymous Mon 18 Jul 2016 22:33:08 No.27241128 Report

Quoted By: >>27241322

>>27240923
Its not 2010 anymore anon. How are you still puzzled by Dewott's change?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 18 Jul 2016 22:33:17 No.27241134 Report

Quoted By: >>27242056

>>27241099
Gengar/Alakazam kind of have a loose connection where Gengar gains weight and a tail, both of which Alakazam looses. But ehhh.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 18 Jul 2016 22:33:23 No.27241136 Report

Quoted By: >>27241249

>>27240961
>>27240963
This would be fine if they worked like Karrablast and Shelmet, but they can be traded with ANY mon to evolve.

I guess that was the original idea, then.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 18 Jul 2016 22:34:53 No.27241159 Report

Quoted By: >>27241173

>>27241099
>Gigalith and Conkeldurr don't seem to take anything from each other
sure they do

Conkeldurr: is inspired to drop steel girders for concrete upon seeing the magnificent pressed stone mon

Gigalith: is inspired to grow a proper face

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 18 Jul 2016 22:35:27 No.27241173 Report

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>>27241159
Yeah... nah, sorry.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 18 Jul 2016 22:35:48 No.27241184 Report

Quoted By: >>27241205 >>27242056

>>27241099
That's because the two bugs are required to be traded WITH EACHOTHER, while the others evolve when traded with anything, retard.

Shelmet and Karrablast are literally the only Pokémon whose evolution works like this.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 18 Jul 2016 22:36:11 No.27241190 Report

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>>27241061
he's fucking cool anon

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 18 Jul 2016 22:36:52 No.27241205 Report

Quoted By: >>27241287 >>27241500

>>27241184
What the fuck are you talking about?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 18 Jul 2016 22:37:49 No.27241231 Report

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>>27240947
Hitting a little too close to home there.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 18 Jul 2016 22:39:04 No.27241249 Report

Quoted By: >>27241356 >>27242056

>>27241070
>>27241136

Well, it wasn't in 96, but when I was playing RBY as a kid (2000), I thought they were only able to evolve if they were traded against each other. It was obvious to me, same for my school friends, I discovered people who don't think about that by being on /vp/.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 18 Jul 2016 22:39:17 No.27241257 Report

Quoted By: >>27242056

>>27240961
>>27240963
DELETE THIS NOW

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 18 Jul 2016 22:40:37 No.27241286 Report

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>>27241049
Did you miss "more"? I didn't say it evolved into a literal otter.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 18 Jul 2016 22:40:42 No.27241287 Report

Quoted By: >>27241339

>>27241205
>but then Gigalith and Conkeldurr don't seem to take anything from each other, the two bugs do

The bugs do because to evolve Shelmet, you have to trade it for a Karrablast, and for Karrablast to evolve you have to trade with a Shelmet. Every other trade evolution in any of the games, you can just trade for whatever. You can trade a Machoke for a Wigglytuff, and it's still going to evolve. You don't have to trade specifically with a Graveler.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 18 Jul 2016 22:41:40 No.27241322 Report

Quoted By: >>27241571

>>27241128
Biped otter evolves into quadraped unicorn sealion-dog 3x it's size.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 18 Jul 2016 22:42:27 No.27241339 Report

Quoted By: >>27241420

>>27241287
Did you totally miss the conversation or did you just feel the need to jump on any opportunity you possibly can to feel some scrap of superiority over another person on the internet?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 18 Jul 2016 22:42:53 No.27241356 Report

Quoted By: >>27241564

>>27241249
>Well, it wasn't in 96

Then why are you even responding? The entire point was that Pokemon was brand-fucking-new in '96 and wasn't even close to being public knowledge. There was no really way of telling what was going on with either of their designs because the sprites all looked so fucking terrible.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 18 Jul 2016 22:45:36 No.27241420 Report

Quoted By: >>27241497

>>27241339
You people are talking about trade evolutions "taking things from eachother", I'm saying it's bullshit because that's not how the trading works.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 18 Jul 2016 22:46:22 No.27241445 Report

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>>27241061
this

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 18 Jul 2016 22:49:04 No.27241497 Report

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>>27241420
That makes no fucking sense to the post you replied to, which was being fucking sceptical explicitly because Karrablast and Shelmet do take features from each other but HAVE to be traded with each other, versus Gigalith and Conkeldurr being the Golem and Machamp analogs being trade evos but not taking features, with the implication being that if the Machoke/Graveler thing was either not intentional or missed/ignored for Boldore/Gurdurr and use for the bugs instead.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 18 Jul 2016 22:49:16 No.27241500 Report

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>>27241205
In order for karrablast and shelmet to evolve they need to be traded with each other and only each other. Golem and machoke can be traded with any pokemon and still evolve which is why the geodude line doesn't make sense

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 18 Jul 2016 22:52:52 No.27241564 Report

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>>27241356
didn't you the read my whole post?
As I said, it was in 2000, my first experience with Pokemon, and I thought like all my schoolmates it was the only way to have them, only because of what they looked like.

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Anonymous Mon 18 Jul 2016 22:53:11 No.27241571 Report

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>>27241322
>quadraped unicorn sealion-dog
>Literally a river otter creature covered in seashells

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Anonymous Mon 18 Jul 2016 23:16:29 No.27241962 Report

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>>27240961

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Anonymous Mon 18 Jul 2016 23:22:26 No.27242056 Report

Quoted By: >>27242170

>>27240961
>>27240963
>>27240983
>>27241007
>>27241020
>>27241134
>>27241184
>>27241249
>>27241257
Alright, show's over. Start deleting yourselves

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 18 Jul 2016 23:25:29 No.27242107 Report

Quoted By: >>27242130

>>27240996
Gengar gains legs.
Alakazam loses its tail.
Machamp gains a second pair of arms.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 18 Jul 2016 23:26:55 No.27242129 Report

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>>27241049
That's a river otter, dipshit.

I wish non-Montereyers stopped acting like they know what a sea otter is.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 18 Jul 2016 23:26:55 No.27242130 Report

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>>27242107
Kys

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Anonymous Mon 18 Jul 2016 23:29:28 No.27242170 Report

Quoted By: >>27242506

>>27242056
>Not posting the master race version

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 18 Jul 2016 23:45:35 No.27242506 Report

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>>27242170
Never seen that one before. Also that's not a machop

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 19 Jul 2016 00:39:03 No.27243254 Report

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>>27241007
>>27241020
Gengar gets the Kadabra head shape, and Alakazam gets Haunter's

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Anonymous Tue 19 Jul 2016 01:30:10 No.27244051 Report

Quoted By: >>27244202

>STILL liking golem

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 19 Jul 2016 01:31:40 No.27244073 Report

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>>27240904
Where did Graveler's extra two arms go when he evolved?

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 19 Jul 2016 01:40:19 No.27244202 Report

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>>27244051
Scrolled too much for this

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 19 Jul 2016 01:44:27 No.27244251 Report

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>>27240947
Are you me? I've been saying that since Pokemon first came out and everyone since has disagreed with me. Ivysaur is so much cooler than Venusaur.

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