Why does Slowbro’s tail not resemble a Shellder/Cloyster colouration? I believe the Shellder does also evolve so it’s change of colour is fine although, I’d prefer it stayed similar. That or better yet, Slowpoke and Shellder evolved with a blended colour scheme of pink and purple. We actually get this colouring funnily enough with the Galarian Slowbro, which probably makes no sense now, as I don’t know if they’re still mentioning Shellder or forgetting about that part.
It’s also a shame that we haven’t been given any more information about this Shellder form/evolution yet we have had Slowbro, Slowking, Mega Slowbro, Galarian Slowpoke, Galarian Slowbro and Galarian Slowking.
It’s a strange evolution gimmick for the anime that a lot of people probably don’t know about to this day. If they have only played the games and never watched the original anime, I believe this mechanic isn’t in any game.
Give Rayquaza’s blue tongue back! It’s blue tongue sprite was released in Ruby and Sapphire in Japan on November 21, 2002 and it’s first TCG artwork in Japanese on June 25 2003. Although they had made the change to have a red tongue, I don’t know the between information but I think it really stood out as blue!
*Also on that small colour change note, give every Pokemon their saturation back that lost it going from 2D to 3D renders. We lost so much.
Last week I had a dream that shiny rayquaza was red. I like this look on sweet baby ray because it makes it look more intense and less muted than the black shiny.
This video explains all about shiny pokemon. And it seems this algorithmic method of shinifying pokemon applies at least up until gen 4. But I suspect it goes further.
to answer @mrbubbles this is why the draonite line is what color it is. a color shift for blues turn pink, and pinks turn blue. the pinkish ditto turns blue. The pink mew turns blue. the blue dratini turns pink. Dragonite is orange, and it thus turns that funky green. Also remember that brown is just dark orange, so look at how many drown pokemon turned green too.
@jaxlax21 while your idea of pokeball types is neat, red and blue in one of the methods of shiny creation are a method. so their red is turned blue. It is hard to say if they did this on purpose to sort of match the great ball or not. But I don’t know if there was official images of pokeballs besides pokeball and masterball at the time or not.
@enkaycards pink mudkip because, like with dratini, blues get changed to pink in the shiny making method.
@Dyl eevee got the worst kind of shinification, the HSB method of just turning down saturation. But since its brown, it would have likely been the same green that dragonite got. So many, thats a good thing.
Thats your lesson in shiny pokemon for today. This is why I like custom recolors because they have more attention and care than these broad methodologies. Once pokemon transfered from the limited color palette of the gameboy color up, they really could have tweaked the shinies a bit on some of them…oh well.
