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>>58795306
pokeballs in the first two generations didn't have the black band and button. they were just spheres. capsules, to be exact. like the little prize balls you'd find at an arcade.

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Anonymous Wed 31 Dec 2025 14:43:22 No.58795357 Report

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>>58795306
>FLYING AROUND AT THE SPEED OF SOUND

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Anonymous Wed 31 Dec 2025 15:23:26 No.58795430 Report

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>>58795355
While I'm sure this was the original intent and why Voltorb looks the way it does, it was changed in the games by Gen 2.

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Anonymous Wed 31 Dec 2025 15:44:23 No.58795489 Report

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>>58795355
Shoulda redesigned Voltorb then.

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Anonymous Wed 31 Dec 2025 15:45:14 No.58795492 Report

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I'm kinda fine with the original

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Anonymous Wed 31 Dec 2025 17:53:29 No.58795780 Report

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>>58795306

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Anonymous Wed 31 Dec 2025 17:55:35 No.58795783 Report

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>>58795492

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Anonymous Wed 31 Dec 2025 17:56:32 No.58795785 Report

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>haunter possesses a pokeball to give factory workers a spook
>because of the properties of a pokeball it can't free itself
>instead of phasing out of it it just explodes

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Anonymous Wed 31 Dec 2025 17:57:20 No.58795790 Report

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>>58795355
You can look at any gen 1 artwork or promotional art Sugimori did before the games were released and they’ll have the black band and button

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Anonymous Wed 31 Dec 2025 22:28:12 No.58796542 Report

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>>58795780
Ha! I (>>58795320) told you niggas!

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Anonymous Wed 31 Dec 2025 22:31:19 No.58796553 Report

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>>58795306
Considering how pokeballs look in gen 1, and how items in the overworld look.
Yeah, it was a good mimic.

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Anonymous Wed 31 Dec 2025 22:45:09 No.58796626 Report

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>>58795306
I wish they made Voltorb and Electrode gimmickmons with the same attack stat as its speed with it's whole gimmick being that it can only learn Explosion and Selfdestruct with Galvanize as it's ability or Aftermath adds the 25% damage effect after an explosive move for earlier gens, would make training it a pain though

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Anonymous Thu 01 Jan 2026 08:24:38 No.58797792 Report

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>>58795790
Sugimori artwork for Gen 1 was made way after the pixelart for the game, which is what anon is refering to. In Gen 1 and 2 the Pokeballs in game don't have the button, they are just double colored spherical capsules. That's what Voltorb and Electrode were designed to mimic.

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Anonymous Thu 01 Jan 2026 09:42:26 No.58797886 Report

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>>58796553
So the current designs are vestigial early-installment weirdness that needs fixing, got it.

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Anonymous Thu 01 Jan 2026 09:56:48 No.58797904 Report

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>>58795355
Except gen1 concept art and official artworks show the balls having buttons
And I'm pretty sure there's some stuff in RBY with proper pokeballs in it

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Anonymous Thu 01 Jan 2026 13:33:06 No.58798182 Report

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>>58797792
I assumed OP was talking about the mimic thing not making sense in universe which also imo applies to Foongus and Amoongus. In which case Voltorb and Electrode don’t make sense even in gen 1 since they don’t look like Pokeballs shown in artwork enough to fool someone unless they have the same ability they do in the anime where they transform into pokeballs.

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