>>50023820The whole point is it becomes specialized for a specific gameplay style or task, letting it just change any time would make it far less interesting, maybe i'd be fine if you could de-evolve it or something like that, maybe a mechanic where once a week you can de-evolve a pokemon?
It would learn entirely different moves ror each of its evolutions too, and have different abilities. Formicure would mainly have support and healing moves, Duwarsch would mainly have moves like infestation and status causing moves, Trophant would learn alot of moves that can raise its defense and moves with alot of recoil, Emmetech would just be strong as hell with tons of physical moves, and Galiant would be ever stronger with more special/status moves.
Each of these bug fellas has entirely different playstyles to reflect their division of labor, and because i fucking love ants and ants could make up 50% of all pokemon and i wouldn't be mad. Infact, every pokemon could be redesigned to be an ant and i would not be bothered, there are so many different types of ant that they could do it. Make gardevoir, voltorb, trubbish, pikachu, ALL of them into ants, edit all the old anime episodes too and do it lazily as fuck, i would not care because ants are cool.
