lol

Sometimes it be like that, it's all good lol

Funny Fat Frogo

Reveal another “pokemon” huh? dw jpr I would hardly call that a pokemon

WHEN SOMETHING IS BAD YOU EXPRESS THAT IT’S BAD! 😡.

"a new Jynx" NO

@@ras_alhim she’s the only one of the trio that hasn’t gotten one yet.

Jynx not getting an evolution confused me. Yes, its BST is different than Magmar and Electabuzz and it doesn’t have the same gender ratio, yet it was close to them in the National dex order, even their baby forms that all evolve at level 30. And the rate in which they learn new moves is the same (every 4 levels until level 28) and they’re usually variants of one another. Like them learning the elemental punches of their type at level 28.

@@IgnitedQuils we all know the reason why Jynx never got one

Watch it evolve only in paldea

Not to mention Wrydeer as well.

@@Mario87456 ... he did mention wyrdeer

@@_DewGaming I see well the point was that you didn’t mention it for some reason.

@@Mario87456 I didn't mention it because he mentioned it already

Basculegion is also by technicality not a regional evolution. The Basculin in Legends Arceus is NOT Hisuian Basculin, but instead Basculin White-Stripe. I only bring this up as an attempt to convince myself maybe it will show up outside Hisui because god damn that is one cool fish.

Or Gamefreak just casually adds Psyshield Bash to Stantler's level up learnset. I wouldn't mind, lol.

Except Magmortar or Rhyperior.

@@metalmilitia89 nah those are good too

​@@metalmilitia89 Rhyperior's always been awesome to me, Magmortar not so much but he's really grown on me after using him in Platinum. I get why some people don't like them though, their designs are kind of divisive, you either love them or you hate them. Same with Lickilicky

@@madduxnagel6935 use an eviolite Magmar, and now a Classic is even better

@@madduxnagel6935 I think Gen 4 should have added that damn luvdisk evolution

They can just straight up level up learning a move thing, like everyone else has.

I don't see why we wouldn't, it's not like Gliscor, Electivire and Magmortar were locked to Sinnoh. You could still have them in Alola.

Why not hoenn obstagoon and kanto sirfetchd

appreciate it!

@@JPRPokeTrainer98 yeah. Who designed it for you? Curious

Eh no not better than regional forms

@@primarinegaming6761 regional forms are cool but new evos are way more hype than a reskin. Everyone agrees an evo for Dunsparce would be better than another form. Happy Dunsparce is getting an evo u3u.

Each one depends on the Pokemon. Cross evolution is better for single stage pokemons, whereas regional variants are better for pokemons that already have evolutions.

@@Max-qw8eq Yeah. Like Perrserker and Sneasler were great, but not Sirfetch'd or Obstagoon.

I think is on par with regional variants.

They turely do tbh. And I still can help but love all 4 of them.

I wish Bisharp have gender-different evolution since their line is based on chess pieces. Kingambit (male) is more defensive and a Queen (female, most powerful chess piece) is offensive. I don't mind if the Queen has a higher base total than the King.

@@ALLI3802 agreed

Question, do you think original Mawile having buffed up stats is better than Mawile having a Mega Evolution? Or would you rather have the Mega Evolution be a permanent evolved form with stats that make it a regular evolved pokemon? (ie. Stats that make Mega Mawile OU instead if Uber) Curious to hear your opinion. One day I may critique all the cross gen and Mega evolutions.

What would it even evolve into? Just a bigger mawile?

@@razzdiamond6447 Yes.

@@THGMR-ox7sd Look it up. There's several ideas out there. Admittedly, some do give it two mouth heads similar to the mega. There was this old one I really liked that is sadly long gone now. I hate when awesome artists vanish and take their stuff down.

Personally i love regional forms for pokemon because its like how real animals will have regional variants like the African vs European honeybee. And its really good to see them given to more than just kanto Pokemon, i think currently a bunch of mons from Johto, Hoenn, Sinnoh, and Unova are probably deserving of new forms. (But I recognize the problems with these forms stated in the video like how Obstagoon makes regular Linoone seem even less appealing because the original wasn't buffed, just given a different form exclusive to some games)

no it shouldn't lmao you guys are so superficial

@@bilis2866 what

@@pokaay3163 their concepts are different, ppl who want luvsdic and alomomola be family just see "pink" and "fish" and go with it. one is a slow support healer the other is fast with annoying status moves

@@bilis2866 their roles in a battle shouldnt correlate to how compatible they are design-wise. Because design-wise, they are REALLY compatible, as in, they’re similar enough to warrant confusion when someone doesnt know that luvdisc DOESNT evolve into alomomola. They dont have to be related, but its not “superficial” to think they should have been. It’s more like going along with what we already expect out of pokemon evolutions- something thematically similar but different in that the previous stage has been made more complex or given additional flairs to look like an evolution. Anyways. I was definitely surprised as a kid when I first realized that luvdisc and alomomola were two different lines.

​@@pokaay3163 they indeed are pink and fish

name a few mons that benifit from megas. I guarantee you, only a handful of mons that have a mega actually NEEDED a MEGA

@@GravityIsFalling Aggron, Beedrill, Pidgeot, Sableye, Banette, Mawile, and Pinsir are just a few that come to mind that needed them, and some of them *REALLY* need them. Even though cross gen evos should be more regular, there's a lot of sub standard three line evos that need a buff, and a new Mega evo is the easiest way to assure actual change can happen.

I mean it would be easy enough to retcon mega evolution to not necessarily require the final stage, kinda like how G-max only exists for the lower stages in some evolution lines. I don’t really know how dedicated Gamefreak is to preserving the sanctity and consistency of a mechanic that they likely have no intention of going back to in the near future.

@@sssspider: this. Honestly eviolite probably did more to "doom" a Pokémon from ever evolving, because an inability to benefit from it could be taken as "proof" a Pokémon could never evolve by any means. I think it's no coincidences that after the introduction of eviolite in gen-5 is likewise why cross gen evolutions disappeared for the next two generations and even when they returned in gen-8 it was only for regional variants. Because Pokémon like Mr.Rime and Sirfetch'd only evolved from forms exclusive to Galar it sidestepped the question of why the origin Kanto version can't use eviolite.

@@EmeralBookwise Eviolite is definitely a consideration. However while held items haven’t been removed for quite a while (a quick Google says it last happened in Gen 4), it would be easy enough to just cut eviolite if they really wanted to go all-in on non-regional cross-gen evos without worrying about how it may unintentionally buff the newly non-evolved base forms. Compared to Dexit, I doubt removing a single item that’s only relevant in competitive to like, 10 Pokémon is going to result in much widespread backlash. However, I think regional forms and evolutions are generally more marketable so there just isn’t much reason to go for straight evolutions.

Eh, "many" is a big stretch. First, the numbers: there are 18 megas of stage 2 pokemons, 15 megas of stage 1 pokemons, and 13 megas of basic pokemons. So that's 28 ruined lines? Not really. First, of the basic Pokèmon, 5 of them are legendaries (Mewtwo, Rayquaza, Diancie, Latios and Latias). So that leaves 8 "regular" basic pokemons that may need an evo (legendaries certainly do not, unless they are MADE to be evolved like Cosmog or Kubfu). Of these eight, at least 4 don't need it, either because it would make them too strong (being them already decent) or because it wouldn't make much sense lore-wise or appearance wise. What's evolved Kangaskhan going to look like? A grandma? (Kangaskhan absolutely need a pre-evo though, being her cub, and the cub could be both male and female and have A DIFFERENT male evolution. That I'd be on board with, it would be kind of like Nidoking/Nidoqueen or Gardevoir/Gallade, totally sick. Yeah I know the Nidos are technically different Pokémon, but that's just because back in Gen I sex wasn't a mechanic, if they were made today Nidorans would totally be the same pokémon with splitting evolutions based on sex). Kangaskhan, Aerodactyl, Pinsir and Heracross shouldn't get an evo. Megas were a great middle ground to spice them up, but a "stronger version" with no strings attached would be too much. That leaves Sableye, Mawile, Audino and Absol that wouldn't mind an actual evolution. Absol looks like a completely evolved Pokémon but he needs a power up badly in terms of in-game strenght. Now, the stage 1s. No legendaries of course, but again a lot of them shouldn't get evolutions for any reason. Gyarados, Scizor, Houndoom, Lucario, Abomasnow, Slowbro, Steelix, Sharpedo and Camerupt all either look or fight as final-form pokémons. Stuff like Gyarados, Scizor and Slowbro would be broken since their base forms are already strong, not to mention the fact that the stage 1 would then access Eviolite, and those who aren't broken are still clearly "mature" from a design pov. Also, Megas don't "forbid" new splitting evolutions, as Kleavor shows. That could potentially be the path to be followed (when it makes sense to do so, and besides Scizor and Slowbro which already have them, I can't see the others getting a "new brother". Maybe Steelix, idk, but it would just be easier to give him a regional form, even if Onix stays the same, the way there's no Galarian Koffing but regular Koffings evolve into Galarian Weezing in Galar. But an entirely different Pokémon may make sense if it's not made of metal: let's say there's a population of Onix near a volcano and their regional evo is made of magma, it wouldn't make sense for it to be "Steelix", it would need a different name, idk, Magmix, Moltix or Lavix lmao). It's clear that those stage 1 Pokemons are not "young, growing" animals that don't have access to their full potentials, even if their line has just two stages. If we had to add something and make all of them stage 2 lines, we'd have to insert either a "youngling" stage 1 between the pup and the adult (see Houndour/Houndoom, he goes from pupper to Cerberus) , which is something that they never did, or add a pre-evo (see Snover. It feels like a Stage 1 to me, with Abomasnow being a stage 2, and the basic form... not being there lmao). Stage 1s that wouldn't hate a new real evo would be Manectric, Medicham, Lopunny, Banette, Glalie and Altaria. All of them feel, both from design and in-game strenght, that they could have something above them. So, all in all, just 10 Pokémons were "locked" out of a new evolution because of megas. And if you asked me "would you prefer for those 10 pokémon to get an actual evolution, or the 48 megas that exist?", I'd say it's worth it. Sucks to be them but it's a small price to pay for Megas lol

@@sssspider: oh, I absolutely agree they could just remove eviolite with little to no controversy. It's likewise probably no coincidence that the lack of held items entirely in Legends Arceus also came along with the inclusion of new cross-gen evolutions that weren't tied to region exclusive forms. The fact Scarlet/Violet seem to be continuing that trend with Farigiraf could well mean eviolite has been cut... assuming held items are even returning at all, which I can't recall having been confirmed yet one way or the other.

Was gonna point this out too. There's a good chance Farigiraf might end up being region-locked in future games

But it evolved from a regular Girafarig so it's definitely cross-gen.

Honestly, same. Regional forms are cool, but they don't really fix old Pokemon, sometimes they make the original lame by comparison.

All of the pika clones deserve a Raichu counterpart.

That anteater thing? Yeah I think it needs a major redesign or something, I hate those lame forgettable one stage pokemon.

Heatmor is perfect, Dragonite, Blissey and Quagsire, THOSE are bad pokemon

And now add Archaludon to the party, and to an lesser extent Dipplin and Hydrapple

It's possible to know someone and not live the exact same life as them, I assure you.

To bad the latter is currently gatekeeping the former.

Except Mega Evolution ended up doing more damage than good, if not worse than standard new evolutions, due to rather abysmal execution. While some Pokémon like Mawile, Sableye, Pidgeot, Kangaskhan and Abomasnow appreciated their Mega, it went too far with popularity, and too far with power creep within Generation 6.