True but Grubbin was the first catch I made of Sun and I went in, relatively blind, unaware how to evolve my Charjabug. I finally looked it up once he hit level 45.
*coughCharjabugshould'vebeenabletoevolveatBlushMountaincoughcough*
Since IGN just confirmed these will be the last mainline games for the 3DS before the series moves over to the Switch, it's gotten my hopes up for USUM, hopefully they went all out.
As a fan since gen 1 I wouldn't count on the empty plots becoming anything for sure. Remember we've had them before...
https://archive-media-1.nyafuu.org/vp/image/1367/54/1367541618820.gif to
All the semantics about what they mean by "alternative" being discussed I'll point this out:
We literally don't know what they meant by it yet, it could be a number of things, nobody is right or wrong yet.
Yeah Slugma & Bellossom should've been in the Alolan Dex, it was one of my biggest shocks of the games' Pokedex (along with no Solrock or Lunatone...seriously wtf?).
I'm not sure about walking with your Pokemon coming back, I'd love it but it's possible that the game just couldn't handle that much happening on the screen at one time and that's why it was cut.
Just wanna say something important here about when we'll next get news:
CoroCoro may not have anything in this next issue and maybe even the issue after that. CoroCoros tend to be light on info for the first issue or 2 after a game is announced, so nobody get angry when we don't get anything...
This. I think it likely that we get SOMETHING during E3 otherwise why show us beforehand? Or maybe they showed us beforehand because there won't be anything at E3...Did I just talk myself out of it? Hmmmmmm I guess we just wait a week and see.
Other wants that I just thought of: Change up location based evolutions so you can do them earlier.
IE:
-Crabrawler -> Crabominal @ Tapu Village
-Charjabug -> Vikavolt @ Blush Mountain