Pokémon VG Megathread

[blueblur121]

Um..that's not a shiny.

It has several color schemes.

forget.

[Ad Bot]

[sir dooble]

forget.

:3
They have different flower colours depending on which sort of flower-patch you encounter them in.

[Truce]

I'd imagine it's because Chansey has more bulk than Blissey with Eviolite, so it can be swapped in during times where a rain-boosted/sun-boosted attack is used, whereas Blissey does not get the advantage of Eviolite, but with leftovers it can take the damage from the hail and sandstorm effects, and simply heal up after, amirite?

I've decided to stick with Chansey for now because I'd like to see how big of an effect Eviolite has.

Pretty much. Chansey is bulkier, but since it won't be holding Leftovers, residual damage hurts it.

[Ticonderoga]

Um..that's not a shiny.

It has several color schemes.

lololololol

[blueblur121]

lololololol

I think you are the first one to do that in YEARS. At this point it's not even an acronym.

[MegaScientifical]

:3
They have different flower colours depending on which sort of flower-patch you encounter them in.

Wow, that's a richard move. Although I get the feeling this also happened in previous generations... Which other Pokemon have variants in this way? I'm forgetting, but I feel like I've heard of this before X/Y.

[Flamecannon]

Wow, that's a richard move. Although I get the feeling this also happened in previous generations... Which other Pokemon have variants in this way? I'm forgetting, but I feel like I've heard of this before X/Y.

burmy although you can't be that silly to not notice the texture difference and it NOT SHINGING when you look at it
and in this game vivillion has a buncha diff designs
can't think of an other one right now

[Masterlegodude]

I thought a Pikachu with a heart tail was a special kind of Pikachu, but then i remembered that it was because it was a female

[MegaScientifical]

burmy although you can't be that silly to not notice the texture difference and it NOT SHINGING when you look at it
and in this game vivillion has a buncha diff designs
can't think of an other one right now

Just remembered: Spinda.

And I was talking about previous generations. AKA It's a richard move to make the same Pokemon with different palettes, but then I remembered it isn't unique to this generation and just couldn't remember specific Pokemon from previous generations. I believe there are more from the past, too, if you can remember them.

Edit: Did Kecleon have this, as well?

[Crazy Salt]

The hippopotas line had different palettes for male and female and the shellos line had different forms with very minor differences other than color depending on where it was caught.

[Flamecannon]

Just remembered: Spinda.

I wouldn't look at 2 Spindas and say "oh this one has different spots must be a shiny"
I wasn't confused by the flabebe's different coloration as well, because I MEAN LOOK AT AZ'S MAYN

The hippopotas line had different palettes for male and female and the shellos line had different forms with very minor differences other than color depending on where it was caught.

meowstic

[chaos 2]

npkI think all you need is to get to the pokemon village and use surf to get to the cave.

i went off the victory road and a guy was infront of the cave and he didn't allow me to enter unless i beat the champion.

[MegaScientifical]

But those are... new to the last generation... Like I don't even know those. Hmph. So Spinda is the only Pokemon with pattern/palette variants before the last generation? Unknown were shape variants, which is not what I was thinking of... I was sure there was at least one other Pokemon from earlier generations which had such differences between each other.

By the way, was it ever explained by Secret Bases didn't continue into more recent generations? I actually enjoyed finding little secret places, fixing them up, setting up a room. It'd have to have been unpopular for some reason, but why? Or did they just find it a waste of coding?

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I wouldn't look at 2 Spindas and say "oh this one has different spots must be a shiny"
I wasn't confused by the flabebe's different coloration as well, because I MEAN LOOK AT AZ'S MAYN

I mean, I'm trying to remember another non-shiny wild Pokemon with palette differences. Spinda is one that came to mind for a pattern difference. I'm not trying to insult you, I just thought there was another Pokemon which might be an example. It really would be horrible for palette-changed Pokemon to exist whereas such confusion can arise.

[Flamecannon]

i wasn't really moved don't worry about it
but who wouldn't want az's flabebe it looks pretty cool!

[sir dooble]

But those are... new to the last generation... Like I don't even know those. Hmph. So Spinda is the only Pokemon with pattern/palette variants before the last generation? Unknown were shape variants, which is not what I was thinking of... I was sure there was at least one other Pokemon from earlier generations which had such differences between each other.

By the way, was it ever explained by Secret Bases didn't continue into more recent generations? I actually enjoyed finding little secret places, fixing them up, setting up a room. It'd have to have been unpopular for some reason, but why? Or did they just find it a waste of coding?

I dont think any other pokemon have had colour changes quite like flabebe before.
There were differences available in some pokemon from Gen 3 onwards.
Spinda obviously had a large range of spot patterns available. Then there are also pokemon with region specific colourations. Shellos and its evo were either pink or blue depending on where they were caught, and Basculin come in red or blue eyed variants. Colour based gender differences have existed as well, as mentioned above in the form of Hippowdon (although I think they did also have some shape differences too).
But flabebe is the first pokemon to have such a wide range of colour changes, and are the first to be based on the specific tile theyre in rather than in-game location, gender or international region.
I dont know what the specific reasons were for removing hidden bases, but it was probably to do with wanting to focus development on other locations.
As I recall the Hidden Bases in Gen 3 required  you to cable-link to share them with others (if it was even possible to have friends play in them) and that didnt make it an easy feature to share.
In gen 4 it was better in the Sinnoh underground, but it only worked through local console-to-console wireless connection, which made it limited when you didnt have other friends nearby with the game.
They could have reimplemented it in Gen 5 but it would face the same issues as Gen 4 being on the DS system, which didn't have great online access/play.
They couldve brought it back for Gen 6 as online play is much better on the 3DS, but the logistics of fitting it in might have made it difficult, and working out how best to make it online may have been an issue. It's also just arguably not worth their time to try programming it in. It was nice, but perhaps there's not much call for it.