>>38214784But then they'd have to give it another pokedex # so they didn't, but even the pokedex says it's a Shellder "metamorphosation".
>Shellder, in its greed to suck out more and more sweetness from Slowbro’s tail, has metamorphosed into a spiral-shaped shell.>Naturally dull to begin with, it lost its ability to feel pain due to SHELLDER's seeping poison.Regular Shellder doesn't have any poison-related attacks that it refers to in the pokedex beyond Toxic, which is a move almost any pokemon can learn.
It's a different type of evolution, but an evolution nonetheless akin to mega evolution.
