I love all these new Pokemon variants. Dragon Exeggcutor will take some getting used to though. Loving the new Ice type Vulpix and Ninetales.
It's clear gf likes to go in chronological order with these thingsYes please, I'd love to see this happen.
One leak going around has an Alolain Pidove mentioned.
To an extent, yes, but this is a celebration of the franchise as a whole, not just one particular part of it. Pokémon is much more then just Gen 1 and it shouldn't forget that, so a balanced respect to all aspects of the franchise should be want is aimed for then being completely stuck in one part of the past.
That same rumor also mentioned that some pokemon, like Arbok, would get cosmetic variants. The white pidove could just be that, rather than a proper Alolan variant. The way that rumor was structured was kind of vague though.
It's clear gf likes to go in chronological order with these things
Why the paranoia and the whining?!
You saw kanto get their starters before hoenn for the oras series. It's clear that other gens will EVENTUALLY get attention. Are you seriously mad and angry just because a measly 3 alt forms were revealed for kanto?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?
You do know other gens get butlicked too. Blaziken getting a mega before his peers. Gninja and his exclusive form. Just childish this fanbase is. Wow
The fact that it's completely white makes me think it's another Ice-type Alola form though. Seems like a pattern.
there is a rumor that we're getting a Bug/Psychic Butterfree and a Water Arcanine along with Fighting Alakazam and Dark Raticate in the Chinese leaks which seems to be mostly if not 100% true so I'm willing to think this will happen. We'll have to see.
Yeah, that seems reasonable.Dark Raticate would be interesting, because with the new Alola formes I was wondering; Maybe Ratata or Raticate IS the pokemon Yangoos was introduced to Alola to control? But it is a alola variant forme of Ratata/Raticate?
Gen 1 really didn't see any special attention until gen 6 though. I felt like those pokemon were fading away after the remakes until then.Play nice kids. To be fair, generation 1 does get special treatment and extra attention, and I agree that the 20th anniversary should pay homage to the series as a whole. That being said, it is technically the 20th anniversary of the original games and I can see that being a good argument as to why it should get more attention. In the end though, I trust that GameFreak knows that there are way more fans that started off with gens other than the first than there are people who started with gen one, so even if they don't get as much love this time, which is a little too early to tell I think, then in the future they will definitely be getting the homage they deserve.
That same rumor also mentioned that some pokemon, like Arbok, would get cosmetic variants. The white pidove could just be that, rather than a proper Alolan variant. The way that rumor was structured was kind of vague though.
I understand, but if we go into specifics, this is the 20th Anniversary of the first generation. No one's stuck in an era of time, and there will more than likely be more regional variants in the future of different generational Pokémon.
You saw kanto get their starters before hoenn for the oras series. It's clear that other gens will EVENTUALLY get attention. Are you seriously mad and angry just because a measly 3 alt forms were revealed for kanto?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?
You do know other gens get butlicked too. Blaziken getting a mega before his peers. Gninja and his exclusive form. Just childish this fanbase is. Wow
. . . when other franchises celebrate their landmark dates, they usually don't just celebrate the first game/movie/book/etc. of their franchise, they celebrate the whole thing.
Not every franchise chooses to celebrate their anniversaries the same. GF has already seemingly demonstrated that Gen 1 is their pride in this franchise, and I think it's perfectly reasonable if they only decide to use Gen 1 Pokémon in the delegation of Alola variants. Pokémon from other generations will get their chance.
Nothing specifically says we can't have an Alolan Arcanine and the Arcanine we have historically known both occur in the same game. We're only inferring because they're called "Alolan" forms.
Weren't those videos from earlier on? If so, things are definitely subject to change.
there is a rumor that we're getting a Bug/Psychic Butterfree and a Water Arcanine along with Fighting Alakazam and Dark Raticate in the Chinese leaks which seems to be mostly if not 100% true so I'm willing to think this will happen. We'll have to see.
One could argue that future regions will have there own forms, because it would be a travesty in my mind if we get this as a region exclusive feature.Not really, because once we leave Alola. There will be no more Alola forms.
I don't think I saw a wild Butterfree in the trailers, but there was a wild Caterpie. Likely, as like someone mentioned about Exeggcute's evolution shown in the trailer, that Caterpies caught in Alola or are the offspring of Alolan/offspring of the offspring of Alolan Caterpies could evolve into the hypothetical Bug/Psychic Alolan Butterfree. Also, I'm pretty sure the Chinese leak also predicted Salandit and variants.True, it's not stated anywhere. But we know that there are no wild Non-alolan exeggutor, Vulpix, Ninetales, Sandshrew and Sandslash based of off their lore. So why would we be seeing wild pokemon native to the Alola region without Alolan variants?
Having them both there would take away from the new forms. And I could understand trainers having Non-Alola forms, but the Butterfree and Arcanine in the trailer were wild.
I think Iceshrew and Iceslash are based off Lemmings. Maybe more Sandshrew.
You do know other gens get butlicked too. Blaziken getting a mega before his peers. Gninja and his exclusive form. Just childish this fanbase is. Wow
I doubt it with the game being this late in development. I think it's probably just the leaker dropping false info in the mix.
Not every franchise chooses to celebrate their anniversaries the same. GF has already seemingly demonstrated that Gen 1 is their pride in this franchise, and I think it's perfectly reasonable if they only decide to use Gen 1 Pokémon in the delegation of Alola variants. Pokémon from other generations will get their chance.
One could argue that future regions will have there own forms, because it would be a travesty in my mind if we get this as a region exclusive feature.
It is ultimately up to them, but just because they can do it in the future doesn't mean they certainly will get that chance. With Alola variants or similar concepts, they can shuffle that out for something new as Pokémon as a whole has a tendency to trade out its mechanics for new ones all of the time, nothing says that they'll keep it for sure outside of the current existing set of Pokemon.
Not really, because once we leave Alola. There will be no more Alola forms.