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6th Gen Evolution/Pre-evolution Speculation

RedWing

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A female alternate evolution for Roselia would make more sense, to me. Roserade already looks male, even appearing somewhat like the Phantom of the Opera. Perhaps a feminine evolution obtained by holding an item like "Gracadia Petal" that drops the Poison subtype could be added? It would basically make the Roselia line a counterpart to the Oddish line (As far as typings are concerned).

If we do get new Eeveelutions (As I mentioned earlier in this thread), I'm very much hoping for Ghost and Flying, or Ghost and Poison.

Also, for the love of Arceus, please give Combee a male evolution. Male Combee are utterly useless! The least they could give us is a male, drone-like Pokemon that is Bug/Fighting.

EDIT: On a final note, to everyone saying some Pokemon don't require evolutions simply because every Pokemon need not be strong: The entire idea of Pokemon is based on the principle of competitive battling (No, not online, but just battling for fun) and the idea of growing stronger. Mentioned several times in the anime, games, and manga, Pokemon battle to become stronger. So, despite that principle, why are their still Pokemon that are weak and/or without evolutions? It may be a somewhat unsettling thought, but I do believe there will be a point in time where every Pokemon will have at least one evolutionary stage. As it is, each generation only has about 6 Pokemon that do not evolve at all. So that's what, a total of about 30 Pokemon that will evolve within the next few generations?
 
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OmegaRuby and AlphaSapphire

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I'm hoping we get three eeveelutions Ghost,Psychic, Fighting (this type trio was last seen in gen I with Gastly,Abra,and Machop)to mimic generation I somewhat.

Also a Maractus evolution and pre evo.
 

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Eevee evolutions please! Just love them so much. Love the above idea of Ghost, Psychic and Fighting too :)
 
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Eevee evolutions please! Just love them so much. Love the above idea of Ghost, Psychic and Fighting too :)

I think there's no need to have another Psychic Eeveelution because Espeon was already out since Gen II.
 

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A female alternate evolution for Roselia would make more sense, to me. Roserade already looks male, even appearing somewhat like the Phantom of the Opera. Perhaps a feminine evolution obtained by holding an item like "Gracadia Petal" that drops the Poison subtype could be added? It would basically make the Roselia line a counterpart to the Oddish line (As far as typings are concerned).
I actually like the idea of Roselia gaining another evolution similar to Oddish's evolutionary line. However, if it's based off of gender, I think it should be a male alternative. Roselia's entire line has always seemed more feminine than masculine to me, including Roserade in my opinion.

On the topic of alternative evolutions, I actually wouldn't mind seeing Buneary get a male alternative evolution that turns out Normal / Fighting. A fighting bunny could turn out pretty cool if you ask me.
 
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Absol could use a line, He's always been one of my favorite designs, im sure they'd do a great job
 

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Parasect is kinda forgotten though. Honestly I think they'll be going for Pokemon that have a little bit more popularity. :x

Actually something comes to mind here, what if the games allow actual evolving of legendaries, how would you all feel about that...? And if so, which ones?
 

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The idea of evolving legendaries would defeat the entire principle of them being "Legendary" to begin with.

We know them as legendary because there are only a few of them in the world, or single entities, and they possess great power. To give them evolutions would destroy their legendary status and would effectively break them as Pokemon since their stats would have to be re-distributed instead of boosted.

Terrible idea, in my opinion.
 

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If a legendary Pokémon had an evolution... then it wouldn't be a legendary Pokémon. That is why they're called a Legendary Pokémon, since there is only one of each legendary Pokémon in the game, you really feel like you'd have to capture it. If they had an evolution, it would make them much more over-powered. xD
 

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But things we've considered almost legendary, such as Volcarona, and Phione (not exactly but close enough) have evolutions, and given that this is likely the generation featuring DNA and such it seems like it would be more likely to actually occur than not. Plus they could just be alternate evolutions, like Giratina-O's stats compared to Giratina, but for these to -actually- be evolutions.
 

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But things we've considered almost legendary, such as Volcarona, and Phione (not exactly but close enough) have evolutions, and given that this is likely the generation featuring DNA and such it seems like it would be more likely to actually occur than not. Plus they could just be alternate evolutions, like Giratina-O's stats compared to Giratina, but for these to -actually- be evolutions.

Thinking about it... it could be a possibility, knowing that Game Freak has never made a real Legendary Pokémon evolve before (except if you count Phione as one, which could only be obtained by breeding but cannot evolve). But having alternate formes of Legendary Pokémon would be more likely to come than real evolutions of a Legendary Pokémon.

But we never know, they might just put evolutions of a Legendary Pokémon to be achieved in a certain way like trading or something like that, which would be pretty cool. ^^
 

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I forgot about Espeon...in that case they should be Ground and Ghost and could be owned by Agatha and Bertha who Shauntel refered to meeting in B2W2...
Anyways a Volcarona evolution would be cool, it could be made to look even more sun like and get stats equal to Togekiss who irc is the strongest none psuedo or legendary pokémon in terms of stats.

Also a Rotom evo which get's fused into it's device upon evolution.
 
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Yeah just something brand new if that were to happen, since male doesn't necessarily mean night, imo. ;x Though I like the line how it is, but idm if there's something new added to it.

Don't get me wrong, I love the line, Roserade's my favourite Pokemon after all. It's just that having a male Roselia evolution might be nice considering that having male Roserades are sometimes awkward. Kind of a Gardevoir situation.
 
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I've read through and saw that most people want pre-evolutions, to be honest I don't think a lot of pre-evo's will become available.

I'm calling that there will be 3 Pre-Evo's and 4 New-Evo's.

In regards to Eevee, if I recall there was to be another 'hidden' Eeveelution in a movie that was dedicated to Eevee (though I believe this may just be a rumour) however it would definetly tie in with Pokemon X and Y and allow for a new Eeveelution - although what type would it be? That would be the greater speculation; Ghost perhaps? Or maybe Steel? OR Dragon Eevee (Fangreon xD) :|

If anything, I would find a Pre-Evo of a Legendary most amusing and rather interesting. Just think, a smaller version of Entei or even Celebi (teh cuteness :3).

But seriously, a Pre-Evo of; Heracross, Tauros and Evos of Carvanha and Sharpedo.
 

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But things we've considered almost legendary, such as Volcarona, and Phione (not exactly but close enough) have evolutions, and given that this is likely the generation featuring DNA and such it seems like it would be more likely to actually occur than not. Plus they could just be alternate evolutions, like Giratina-O's stats compared to Giratina, but for these to -actually- be evolutions.
I think Volcarona is a prime example of why Legendary Pokémon shouldn't be able to evolve or breed. In Black and White, it was treated very much like its own legend. High stats, encounter at LV. 70, revered as a "sun god" and even learns a move at LV. 100.

Yet, I don't see it under the legendary light due to having the capability of evolving from a pre-evolution and being able to breed as many as you want. It loses its unique status in my eyes with those capabilities.

I wouldn't be against some legendaries getting an alternative form maybe, but a straight up evolution [or pre-evolution], I don't think I'd be much of a fan if they started doing that. Which is why I liked that even though you could breed Manaphy and hatch a Phione, it was still never able to evolve into a Manaphy. We could only have one.
 

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Great to see that so many had thoughts on this!

Thinking about it... it could be a possibility, knowing that Game Freak has never made a real Legendary Pokémon evolve before (except if you count Phione as one, which could only be obtained by breeding but cannot evolve). But having alternate formes of Legendary Pokémon would be more likely to come than real evolutions of a Legendary Pokémon.

But we never know, they might just put evolutions of a Legendary Pokémon to be achieved in a certain way like trading or something like that, which would be pretty cool. ^^

Yeah and because of that it doesn't mean it'll carry on forever (in regards to legendaries not involving).

I forgot about Espeon...in that case they should be Ground and Ghost and could be owned by Agatha and Bertha who Shauntel refered to meeting in B2W2...
Anyways a Volcarona evolution would be cool, it could be made to look even more sun like and get stats equal to Togekiss who irc is the strongest none psuedo or legendary pokémon in terms of stats.

Also a Rotom evo which get's fused into it's device upon evolution.

Volcarona evolution please no. :( I was only using it as an example. XD; Too strong it'd be tho imo.

I like the Rotom evo, though! The current defensive Rotom would definitely benefit a lot from eviolite and the evolved formes could change up a few current metagames. :3

Don't get me wrong, I love the line, Roserade's my favourite Pokemon after all. It's just that having a male Roselia evolution might be nice considering that having male Roserades are sometimes awkward. Kind of a Gardevoir situation.
idk I've always seen Roserade as male for some reason, it just has this look to it where it doesn't really look like a female, whereas Roselia does? But if it did get a male evolution then I hope they redesign Roserade tbh because it looks manly to me.

I think Volcarona is a prime example of why Legendary Pokémon shouldn't be able to evolve or breed. In Black and White, it was treated very much like its own legend. High stats, encounter at LV. 70, revered as a "sun god" and even learns a move at LV. 100.

Yet, I don't see it under the legendary light due to having the capability of evolving from a pre-evolution and being able to breed as many as you want. It loses its unique status in my eyes with those capabilities.

I wouldn't be against some legendaries getting an alternative form maybe, but a straight up evolution [or pre-evolution], I don't think I'd be much of a fan if they started doing that. Which is why I liked that even though you could breed Manaphy and hatch a Phione, it was still never able to evolve into a Manaphy. We could only have one.

But I guess if legendaries could breed it could be like real life, y'know how legends in history do have children, and legendaries having babies doesn't seem that strange because although they're something to look up to they've still got to have time of their own and have their own legacy imo.

If anything, I would find a Pre-Evo of a Legendary most amusing and rather interesting. Just think, a smaller version of Entei or even Celebi (teh cuteness :3).

THIS. Pre-evos of current legendaries wouldn't be so overpowered and extremely cute toooo like you said! :3
 

OmegaRuby and AlphaSapphire

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I was joking Forever xD Volcorona is okay...for now.
I read this here rumor in the Pokejungle rumor list "There are indeed new evolutions and pre-evolutions, most of them focused on Gen V Pokémon. However, a few older Pokémon, including Gen I classics, are getting surprising new developments" If it's true I wonder which Gen 1 pokemon it'll be... so far only Taurus, Lapras, Ditto, Farfetch, Pinsir and Aerodactyl don't have either a pre evo or an evo from gen 1. Though it could also be an addition to a two line like a Scyther pre evo, or a Jynx evolution. I want this to be real, it gives me hope for a Jynx evo.
 
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