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Anonymous Sat 22 Nov 2025 00:59:11 No.58652136 View View Reply Original Report

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Thoughts on regional forms?

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 22 Nov 2025 01:02:55 No.58652153 Report

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>>58652136
rotom and galarian rotom

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 22 Nov 2025 01:04:50 No.58652161 Report

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best thing to happen to pokemon

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Anonymous Sat 22 Nov 2025 01:07:11 No.58652170 Report

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>>58652136
Only exists to replace flops not good enough for megas.
>but Raich-
Come on now

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 22 Nov 2025 01:07:25 No.58652172 Report

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>>58652136
They both owe me sex

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 22 Nov 2025 01:23:13 No.58652210 Report

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alola's were ok but they made the execution very cringe very fast after. shit even alola had dumb skibidi memes like dugtrio and persian

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Anonymous Sat 22 Nov 2025 01:35:13 No.58652240 Report

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>>58652210
To be fair, they’re making megas skibidi memes now

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 22 Nov 2025 01:38:46 No.58652253 Report

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>>58652136
Great concept.
The execution is mostly fine too.

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Anonymous Sat 22 Nov 2025 01:44:36 No.58652274 Report

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>>58652136
i liked them at first but now I'm more cynical about them and see it as a way for GF to recycle old designs and change a couple things about them.
This was especially apparent with the new convergents and paradox pokemon.
And people lap all this stuff up too, so they'd be fools to stop and go back to actually making us like the new designs.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 22 Nov 2025 01:51:06 No.58652294 Report

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>>58652274
Reminder. Game Freak never does anything in good faith. There’s always a catch, always some way to cut corner or spit on their fans face. They legit hate pokemon and hate most of people who like it.
Anyone who isn’t cynical about Game Freak shouldn’t be here because their either too young to be or clinically mentally disabled so 4chan isn’t safe for them.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 22 Nov 2025 01:58:28 No.58652322 Report

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>>58652136
Meh. I like the concept but a lot of them feel pretty boring and/or worse than the original. Regional evolutions are a much cooler concept

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 22 Nov 2025 02:23:55 No.58652383 Report

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>>58652136
I like it. Some of my favorite Pokémon are regional variants, I wish we would get Kanto/Johto/Hoenn/Unova/Kalos regional forms one day

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 22 Nov 2025 02:32:10 No.58652403 Report

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>>58652136
Alolan vulpix and ninetales are for flamethrower and superpower!

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 22 Nov 2025 02:38:44 No.58652410 Report

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I really like them. It's a shame that they were added so late in the franchise since they still feel a bit out of place and underrepresented. It also bugs me how a lot of regional forms just exist to completely overshadow the originals, like Qwilfish. But I'd like to see a lot more of them.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 22 Nov 2025 02:41:52 No.58652420 Report

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>>58652274
The "convergents" were clearly just Game Freak trying to pad out the Pokedex numbers so that #1,000 wouldn't be some random-ass Paradox mon or something. I doubt we'll ever see anything labeled that way going forward.

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Anonymous Sat 22 Nov 2025 02:51:18 No.58652447 Report

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i like them

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 22 Nov 2025 04:32:23 No.58652681 Report

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>>58652136
They're excellent.
It's effectively a way to introduce new Pokemon without actually making them, which is pretty good for games like PLA where they obviously were trying not to make too many new species.
They're also a neat way to give a Pokemon permanent new stuff instead of temp forms that they can't use in subsequent games outside of their designated ones, like Megas or G-Maxes.
I adore A-Vulpix and P-Wooper.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 22 Nov 2025 04:36:48 No.58652690 Report

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>>58652136
>Alolan Golem
>Galvanize
>Choice Band
>Explosion
Is there any non-Ground type that doesn't get instantly deleted?

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 22 Nov 2025 04:42:01 No.58652706 Report

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>>58652420
Convergents are unironically genius and I guarantee we’ll see a lot of them moving forward.
Regional forms have a few problems:
>they’re bound to their specific region, and some kind of justification is needed to put them elsewhere
>similarly, they can’t coexist with their original form in a region, because the regional form is meant to replace them there
>they can’t differ too much from the original mon as they’re just an adaptation
Convergents fix all of that, while still being able to leech off the popularity of the original mon.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 22 Nov 2025 04:43:01 No.58652712 Report

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>>58652690
You gotta give it Tera Normal (iirc it works with Galvanize like that instead of Electric) to do it fully

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 22 Nov 2025 04:59:08 No.58652754 Report

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>>58652294
>They legit hate pokemon and hate most of people who like it.
Sadly that's completely understandable with how demanding it can be while you refuse to stop operating as a glorified indie studio. It's been true for 25 years and probably the reason Tajiri fucked off just collects royalties after games got huge out of nowhere
The solution is to not shit out shit so often and rapidly and not be cheapskates, but they aren't ever gonna do that

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Anonymous Sat 22 Nov 2025 05:01:41 No.58652759 Report

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>>58652136
I like them since I think Pokemon's world building works best when it's mirroring real world aspects
Especially ecology

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 22 Nov 2025 05:03:38 No.58652763 Report

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They should have existed since gen 3.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 22 Nov 2025 05:07:05 No.58652772 Report

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I like them, but there are some cases where the regional form is completely overshadowed like base Samurott vs H-Samurott, nobody would ever prefer to use the original, which is a shame.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 22 Nov 2025 05:08:21 No.58652774 Report

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>>58652706
>they’re bound to their specific region, and some kind of justification is needed to put them elsewhere
A good chunk of them are just adaptations to different biomes
It'd make perfect sense to see the Alolan Sandshrew/Vulpix or Galarian Darumaka lines in a snowy area

Also the Shellos line exists and that has two considerably different visual forms co-existing in the same debut region

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 22 Nov 2025 10:15:23 No.58653285 Report

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>>58652136
Convergent Species did it better. Looking similar but being an entirely different pokemon is cool.

Alolan pokemon were cool because on these islands, certain specific events caused these pokemon to change and adapt. Cool. But it should have stayed as a one off thing unique to alola. But then they started doing same shit for paldea and galar and shit, but if you were gonna make galar and paldean forms, why didn't any of the other regions have regional forms?

>>58652774
And this is what i'm talking about Rimeshrew and Rimeslash would totally make sense in any snowy or cold region, not just alola.

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Anonymous Sat 22 Nov 2025 10:21:05 No.58653292 Report

Quoted By: >>58653662 >>58655083

I fucking hate paldean tauros. it's so fucking dumb.

why make three different breed all fighting types and then make them all look almost exactly the same?

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 22 Nov 2025 11:07:53 No.58653372 Report

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>>58652690
>>58652712
These + Electric Terrain
>252+ Atk Choice Band Galvanize Tera Electric Golem-Alola Explosion vs. 0 HP / 0 Def Zekrom in Electric Terrain: 282-332 (82.6 - 97.3%) -- guaranteed 2HKO

Bulkiest quad resist iirc

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Anonymous Sat 22 Nov 2025 11:19:38 No.58653396 Report

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>>58652136
>>58652447
would

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Anonymous Sat 22 Nov 2025 11:45:53 No.58653431 Report

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>>58652772
Shell Smash was all the original needed.

A regional with a spike-stacking signature is a fun concept though

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 22 Nov 2025 14:05:08 No.58653662 Report

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>>58653292
I swear there was an early SV leak that said one was fighting and one was dark and then one was dark/fighting or something

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 22 Nov 2025 14:16:06 No.58653675 Report

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The only reason that they don't get as much hate as other gimmicks is because they technically don't affect the pokemon that you already own.

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Anonymous Sat 22 Nov 2025 14:47:40 No.58653745 Report

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>sun/moon
This pokmeon lives on a mountain, so it is smaller and has white fur.

>every pokemon since then
This pokemon lives in our in-universe equivalent of London, so it has a tophat. Also it spews fairy gas? Good enough!

The gamefreak way.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 22 Nov 2025 18:26:54 No.58654370 Report

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>>58652774
I agree, but they messed up the naming scheme if they want regional forms to be available everywhere.
Alolan Sandshrew can theoretically exist in any icy environment, but it’d be weird to explore the Crown Tundra and stumble across an “Alolan” mon.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 22 Nov 2025 20:16:10 No.58654810 Report

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>>58654370
they already let Alolan Ninetales be found in Hisui so it seems like they don't care about the name thing

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 22 Nov 2025 21:21:46 No.58655083 Report

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>>58653292
I wouldn't mind it if the different forms weren't totally exclusive. I still wouldn't LOVE it if it had a way to swap types like Oricorio or Ogerpon, but right now it doesn't even feel like a finished concept.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 22 Nov 2025 21:38:18 No.58655142 Report

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>>58652136
An excuse to not even try anymore when it comes to designs.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 22 Nov 2025 21:43:01 No.58655153 Report

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>>58652136
Great when they're not shitty gags

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 22 Nov 2025 21:45:18 No.58655160 Report

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>>58654810
It wasn’t found in Hisui. The only one you get without Home is from someone who comes from Alola.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 22 Nov 2025 22:02:37 No.58655213 Report

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Preferred to megas

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Anonymous Sun 23 Nov 2025 03:23:18 No.58656411 Report

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>>58652136
Does Seviper deserve a regional form or what

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