Half of the Megas would make good Normal Evo with Mawile being a perfect example

10:09 technically blipbug and dotter are based off of ladybird beetle larvae and pupae respectively, so it does still make sense. But a superhero ladybird becoming a psychic sci if supervillain also makes sense, so it could work either way.

Whiscash , flabebe and Ledian really look like pre evolutions to said pokemon 😭😭😭

I’m not entirely sold on Ledian evolving into Orbeetle. But I could see the line leaning more onto the superhero theme and becoming basically a Kamen Rider.

Swanna being connected to Psyduck makes no sense.

It also doesn't help that in Pokémon Advanced during the Trainer's Choice segment of an episode, they incorrectly stated that Arbok evolves into Seviper.

Psyduck and Swanna are better separate. First, Psyduck is not a "plain duck" by any means, it's actually heavily characterised: for example it has some traits that are more similar to platypus, namely the lack o wings in favour of "hands", a trait that carries on to Golduck having fins on all 4 instead of 2 fins and 2 wings like normal ducks. Also the concept of Psyduck revolvers on the struggle to contain it's psychic powers causing him migraine (If there's a missed opportunity here, it is the Psyduck line not being psychic type). Ducklett is actually the "plain duck" which evolves into a swan as a reference to the ugly duckling's tail. Both the lines have finite concepts that manage to settle the two ducks apart (and also they're both solid concepts in my opinion, but this is more subjective), sure, one might be more forgettable than the other but that's not strange out of 1000+ Pokémon. For the others I can mostly see the connection however, if there's two Pokémon based on similar things, I think they should rather settle apart from eachother in an effective way instead of being forcedly related. I don't think this is a good way to "save" a forgotten 'mon, they would probably become even more forgettable or perhaps even actively hated by the fans for being recognised as "foreign bodies" into an established line (muck like Bellossom is often criticized for not being connected enough to the Oddish line, for example).

Wishcash has the most amazing feat = stronger than a masterball!

Praying for Ledyian (Bug/Fighting)to have a new evolution 🦦

OH MY GOD YES FINALLY IM SO VINDICATED WITH SOMEONE ELSE WHO SEES WHISCASH EVOLVING INTO DONDOZO

Mega Banette ABSOLUTELY should've been a normal evolution. It's so cool looking

I’ve thought of a lot of these before this video, but the Flabebe and Comfey connection makes so much sense and I’ve literally never thought about it before. Great video!

3:00 fun fact EC, psyduck has literally been available in every main series game to date, so yeah “pretty much every game” is accurate😂

The Charcadet line and the Ralts line could be related like Garchomp and Sharpedo are theorized to be

For Blipbug becoming a ladybug, it’s based on ladybug larva, which are somewhat caterpillar-like. It’s not a perfect 1-to-1 match but I see the connection.

Pretty much all non-3rd stage pkmn that got a Mega should have gotten a normal evolution instead. Absol, Heracross, Kangaskhan, Mawile, Pinsir are in the same situation as Houndoom. Kangaskhan didn't even need to change its stats (just like Scyter share its BST with its evos), as Parental Bond would already boos it. I have always thought that Karrablast looks like a pre-evo of both Heracross & Pinsir. It could keep Excavalier with the same evolution method. On that note, Wiscash could evolve if there's a Tatsugiri in the party. I really like ideas that link older pkmn with those from Unova, but the case for Psyduck was kinda weak imo.

It's been an assertion of mine for a while that Comfey is actually directly related to Klefki and the similarities it shares with Flabébé are the result of convergent evolution.

I would love to see Ledian get an evolution. It deserves it honestly.

The only person that thinks seviper is related to the ekans line is ash in trainer’s choice most snakes are poisonous so two of them isn’t surprising

I still have hope that we could someday get a baby mon linking Tauros and Miltank. A single baby species with distinct male and female formes whose stats correspond to their evolutions.

It is also worth mentioning the possibility of Zangoose being an evolution of Gumshoos, to further go with the theme of its rivalry with Seviper. I also wish that Houndoom would get an evolution in the Kalos region, so the opportunity to be 666 I the Pokédex wouldn't be wasted on a freaking butterfly.

Its weird because in the English dub, there was a error where the anime told us Arbok does evolve to Seviper.

I want a region like sinnob that a solid dex chunk is new babies and evos to make pokemon feel complete. With dex sizes getting decent again, no excuse not to or to have so many new standlones. Take some legendaries spots as they need fewer

Karrablast with a split evolution into Pinsir and Heracross

It’s been how many years now and despite hinting at it numerous times Game Freak still hasn’t made Tauros and Miltank related. 😑

For Ducklett, they could have made it a Pre-evo for Psyduck and have Swanna be a branched evo via the Dawn Stone.

Mega Houndoom as an evo is the first thing i agree with. Reminds me of Marowack

If Seviper would be from Ekans, then perhaps Zangoose could be from Yungoos.

But the thing is psyduck isn’t a duck it’s platypus which isn’t actually a bird or related to one so it wouldn’t make any sense since they aren’t even close to being related

I loved wishcash growing up. Used it in my 2nd ever ruby playthrough as a kid. Swampert, quagsire and gastrodon all overshadowed it over the years.

Already waiting for part 2 👀

My Secret Pokémon relatives is klawf and Crustle they’re both rock type Crabs to I know one of them is a hermit crab but they’re both crabs just add the bug typing to klawf

On Houndoom; perhaps this is a product of me being 7 when gen 2 came out but I always intrinsically linked Houndour and Growlithe in almost every way. My thought was that they lived in the same grass, with Growlithe at day and Houndour at night (I wasn’t allowed to play at night so couldn’t test it) I always thought it’d be cool to have them be a kind of Lycanroc situation or else a Pancham situation, where Houndour is just a Growlithe who grew up dark. Then Houndoom/Arcanine are them fully realising their paths.

i just need to now what the intro music is, I recognise it and can’t ever place where it’s from

And also back then during the advanced and battle frontier series during oke of the trainers choices they literally said that arbok evolve into serviper and question is that image with that woman and the golduck from the new horizon anime the one at the 3:03 minute mark in the video?

4:47 I literally thought dondozo was a wishcash evo when I first saw it

Great video and i agree with all the choices. I alway argue to make less new pokemon line and just improve the one we have withregional, co-evo, or just plain evolution

Oh, that's a nice map at the beginning. Anyone recognise where it's from?

1:31 Or Poison/Steel 6:57 Gallade and Armarouge are both Psychic-types

Since the reveal, I've always figured Cramorant would have been better as a regional evolution for Wingull. If you invert the white and blue on it you're already there. If you give the line eye, it's perfect.

No one ever expects the butterfly

Despite its name, I don't think psyduck is actually a duck. It's wide bill and little hands make it look much more like a duck-billed platypus to me. Psyduck's bill is much more duck like but it still has hands and not wings.

for Ledyba, hear me out. They Make Orbeetle an Evo of Ledyba, and Gmax and evo from there. Ledian gets a Bug/Fighting third stage.

7:31 The entire Pawmot line 😅😬

Not gonna lie, when you mentioned Swanna, I thought you were going to suggest a branched Wingull evolution.

What baffles me is that a 110 stat is wasted on Ledian. It has a pathetic 35 attack stat and its only decent stat beyond SpD is an 85 speed. Its ability is also wasted given how weak it is. I would swap its Attack and SpD stats to at least try to make it a somewhat fast glass-cannon. I mean, with only 55 HP it doesn't matter if its defenses are 35 or 110, it will go down in one hit.

There were new evolutions in Hoenn. I can think of some pre-evolutions at least; that counts.

I think wingull instead of psyduck would work better

Love the ideas of Dondozo & Mega Houndoom having should've been evos

I completely agree with the Mega Houndoom thing, but the Ledian to Orbeetle arguement makes no sense beyond "ladybug becomes bigger ladybug". There is no thematic basis to it at all. How would Ledian have anything to do with psychic power when Orbeetle is all about that? Also, Blipbug does make sense as the first stage, but thematically instead of physically. It's a nerdy kid that becomes a researcher that becomes a mad scientist.

Sir Psyduck is a platypus. It only got the duck in its name because of its duck-like bill.

Orbeetle's line is a based off of the Ladybug life cycle.

Make mega Houndoom the 3rd stage and call it "Houndred"

1:37 What? Why? Every gen has a basic bird and mammal but no one linked that back?

Did anyone else press this video for some crab action only to be disappointed when not a single crab Pokemon was mentioned? No? Just me? Ok...

The point of ducklet is its not a duck Its a swan

I really dont get how ppl think seviper was be an arbok evo, it would be such a downgrade

RIP Ducklett

You do know that Seviper is in the fluctuating exp group while Ekans is not right?

I really hope if we get a new legends jhoto game it gives us a new ledian and sunflora evolution

4:33 Wishcash is highly respected as a tank, what?

To be fair about seviper, snakes are basically the first animals that come to mind when one thinks of venom, and there are definitely more than one species of venomous snake, so it doesn't seem too farfetched to have more than one line of venomous snake pokémon. Though I guess its sharing a colour scheme with ekans doesn't help making it comparable to that line, not to mention its being given to Jessie, which may or may not have been misinterpreted by some 4kids intern as her arbok evolving, hence that mistaken Trainer's Choice segment. I find swanna a bit hard to connect to psyduck due to their not sharing much features apart from resembling waterfowl. Plus, while yes there were duck pokémon before ducklett, there weren't duck pokémon that could fly and swim like an actual duck, which is something that remains unique to ducklett, so I prefer it and swanna being their own line. Dondozo... actually just might have worked as an evolved form of whiscash. And it might have been neat to bring back the friend-induced evolution that mantyke had, but this time making it a cross-regional evolution. I don't mind its being a one-off, though, because, again, if there can be more than one species of actual catfish, there can be more than one species of catfish pokémon. As for ledian, as pointed out before, there's more than one species of ladybird, and the five-spot and seven-spot ladybirds are different species. Not to mention, it's kind of neat how orbeetle's weakness to both bug and flying puts it at a major type disadvantage to ledian, which reflects real-life Japanese ladybirds being a serious problem for English ladybirds, which are being outcompeted by them. On the other hand, I'd be perfectly glad if blipbug didn't evolve into a ladybird, and the first bug/psychic pokémon could be based on a completely unused sort of insect, as I kind of found making it another ladybird was a bit of a weak debut for a new type combination.

That’s not comfey’s tail it’s just carrying it

have gamefreak ever hinted that Pokemon are distantly related to others? (ie like regional variants etc)

i would like to see a branching evolution of cacnea into cacturne or maractus

Hot take, Serviper and Zangoose should have a trade with each other evolution shelmet style.

this was posted at 6 am for me, why so early Mr.Cubone

I hate mega Sableye because it means that we will never get a real evolution for it.

All regional bird pokemon should be branched evolutions of Pidgey

the Nidoclan

Not sure u agree with ladian sure they’re both ladybirds but one has a physical design focus (even if the stats dispute it) and the other is obviously psychic focused I do want ledian to evolve but it should fit the theme more and have them go from side kick to main hero, go full super sentai and add the fighting type Also since it’s already the 5 star Pokémon a fun little design space could be basing them off the golf ninja steel ranger and give them a cowboy motif

Gonna be slightly honest, a lot of this list kind of just feels like there could only really be one type of animal and one type of Pokémon, which just sounds very limiting like for example, the ladybug Pokémon being related even though they both do completely different things like one is more punchy oriented, and the other is a lot more focus on its brain to the point where transform into a UFO I don’t know it’s a bit weird

I really really dislike the psyducj evolving into Swana idea. Im not even sure why i dislike the idea. But i like Swana and i like that its has its own identity. Making it a psyduck evo takes that away in my opinion.

Luvdisc>alomamola, tauros>bouffelant

I think Raichu should evolve from Dedenne instead of Pikachu. Raichu's appearance shares so many similarities to Dedenne that it could work as an evolution.

Blipbug is based on ladybug larvae.

Why can't we have separate species? Idk why you want to tie things together

gen 3 was the original gen 1 and and 2 remake design wise. pretty much every pokemon in this generation is a remake or a gen 1/2 pokemon and seviper is just that. its a remake of arbock which is why it dosent need to be part of a branch evolution. gen v was the second attemp of remaking pokemons. besides. swansa and golduck are based of different animals. golducks is obviously and duck while swana is a swan.

Luvdisc to alomamola do i need to say more

I think ledian and dondozo is perfect

Psyduck and swanna doesn’t rlly make sense since psyduck isnt a duck its a platypus

If they actually went back and gave Pokémon’s that had Mega’s or Gigantimax forms an evolution, I’d be so happy. They have done it for both Applin and Durladon by giving them new evolutions, so why not do the same for future games. Even having ancient evolutions that were once lost like in Legends Arceus being apparent (while some are not obtainable in Scarlet/Violet like Wyrdeer, Ursaluna, and Kleavor). GameFreak has the potential to change the script and give some of these Pokemon new evolutions or pre-evolutions. May even say some of the Pokemon we had in the past were actually convergent of existing Pokemon before it became a thing. Like Buffulant and Alolamola. It would make up for all the Gen 5 Pokemon being carbon based copies of other Pokemon. (Still pining for pre-evolutions that would link up some Pokemon) Heck for Gen 6 I thought Treevorant was an evolution of Sudowoodo because we haven’t had any other tree like Pokemon aside from Snover and I guess Eggexcutor. Was a bit disappointed to see it wasn’t but how cool would it be if it was?

Psyduck to Swanna?? Just because it has “duck” in its name doesn’t mean that Psyduck is a bird Pokémon ;-;

Alolan Marowak into Kangaskhan

Hear me out: Instead of tying Orbeetle and Ledian together, we get a fighting/bug (or fighting/flying) type evolution as a kind of Kleavor equivalent whenever Legends Johto comes out

I think mega mawile and bannete are the most obvious options

Wish Mawile and sableye would've kept their Megas as proper evolutions.

Blipbug, Dottler, and Orbeetle are the larval, pupa, and adult stages of a ladybug. How is that less believable than a ladybug, ladybug, and ladybug evolution?? 🤣🤣🤣

Personally if Whiscash got an evolution I want it to not even be a catfish at all, why should it still be one? Barboach isn't a catfish. I feel it would be much better for them to stay consistent with their inconsistencies. Plus there's a whole lot of smaller, more subtle differences between Whiscash and Dondozo that make it abundantly obvious it just doesn't belong. If Dondozo is lacking that signature blue fin with the three black dots then why bother?

I think most of these Pokémon need buffs instead of evolutions. Ledian could work with Huge Power just like Azumarill or Iron Fist with a decent attack buff. Houndoom I also feel the same since I don’t know why it has the Early Bird ability. Competitive of Berserk would be a much better fit.

Man, a good amount of the examples here either miss the entire idea GF had with the evolutionary line, sounds more fitting in Digimon than in Pokemon or both.

I've never liked that Delcatty isn't the Normal type Eeveelution.

Id rather see Swanna as branch evo of Wingull

Buff STARAPTOR

I thought this was going to be about Pokemon taxonomy, instead I got mad ramblings about how Pokemon with unrelated origins and basic resemblances should evolve from one another... Still, interesting ideas, I thought the Megas made the most sense, and all the other Pokemon here I'd rather get brand new evolutions instead of newer ideas being forced to work for older Pokemon they weren't designed to work with. I don't hate this idea, I just think there's better ways to pull things off than what is presented here to give forgotten Pokemon attention, and Gamefreak has been doing it since the second generation. I also think just mentioning Pokemon are related in dex entries is a good way to make new related Pokemon too... I'd just like it if a Scorpion wasn't said to be related to a Millipede.

Honestly, I don't think Tauros should evolve into Bouffalant. I mean, Tauros is already the better one in battle

Luvdisc to Alomomola

That image claiming Venonat should evolve into Butterfree and Caterpie should evolve into Venomoth really irritates me because since when did caterpillars have look like their butterfly form? Like Wurmple doesn't look anything like Dustox yet nobody is out making theories about how "Dustox was supposed to have a different first stage because it looks so different from Wurmple" Anyway, there are many many species of venomous snakes and Arbok only represents cobras so I see no problem with Seviper being another poison type snake

664 Scatterbug 665 Spewpa 666 HOUNDEVIL LORD OF HELL 667 Vivillion I guess

Psyduck is a platypus not a duck to become swanna