Evolution/Pre-evolution Speculation

[Clemstar]

An alternate male form of Roserade would be lovely. Maybe evolving it with a dusk stone?

[Hikari10]

Originally Posted by Aerilyn

All the more reason to give Farfetch'd an evolution if you ask me. If it's not well received by its design or poor stats, then what's the hurt in giving it a new stage in evolution to possibly correct those errors? It already has a decent movepool to learn from, and with Gen VI those set of moves will only expand. Should it gain an appealing evolution with stronger stats, I could see many fans changing their perspective on Farfetch'd. It certaintly wouldn't hurt if it's general popularity among the fans aren't that large in number anyway.

Personally, I like Farfetch'd's design. I see nothing wrong with it. I'd just like to see its stats get a good boost with an evolution since I think it's one of those older Pokémon that currently deserves one. My only real concern is how do you top a name like Farfetch'd?

I'd definitely want to see Farfetch'd get an evolution, especially if they fix the stats up. It might get more love this way.

[MiTjA]

Originally Posted by Clemstar

An alternate male form of Roserade would be lovely. Maybe evolving it with a dusk stone?

That could be interesting (...but it wouldn't use an existing evolution stone.)

[Forever]

Originally Posted by MiTjA

That could be interesting (...but it wouldn't use an existing evolution stone.)

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.

[PokémonShinySilver]

I just kind of wonder if Cryogonal will get either a pre-evolution or an evolved form? It would be rather interesting to see a new evolution of Cryogonal, knowing that it doesn't have a pre-evolution and doesn't evolve.

[legendhunter14]

seeing tropius and skarmory with a pre-evolution would be awesome :D

it is possible for more eeveelutions, because in every generation with an even number, 2 new evo's were introduced:

Gen.II; Espeon & Umbreon
Gen.IV; Leafeon & Glaceon

You see that in gen II, 1 eeveelution is super effective against the other (Dark - Psychic) and in Gen IV, the same thing happened ( Ice - Grass)

[Forever]

Originally Posted by legendhunter14

seeing tropius and skarmory with a pre-evolution would be awesome :D

it is possible for more eeveelutions, because in every generation with an even number, 2 new evo's were introduced:

Gen.II; Espeon & Umbreon
Gen.IV; Leafeon & Glaceon

You see that in gen II, 1 eeveelution is super effective against the other (Dark - Psychic) and in Gen IV, the same thing happened ( Ice - Grass)

So basically we could have a possibility of steel/ground, for example, and it wouldn't be totally unlikely! I wouldn't be surprised if they just introduced one, though.

[MiTjA]

Originally Posted by legendhunter14

seeing tropius and skarmory with a pre-evolution would be awesome :D

it is possible for more eeveelutions, because in every generation with an even number, 2 new evo's were introduced:

Gen.II; Espeon & Umbreon
Gen.IV; Leafeon & Glaceon

You see that in gen II, 1 eeveelution is super effective against the other (Dark - Psychic) and in Gen IV, the same thing happened ( Ice - Grass)

And the first one, which is odd.
Gen I: Eevee & Flareon/Jolteon/Vaporeon

..

but anyhow
2 instances ARE NOT A PATTERN.

Like, how do you know they don't "wait" always +1 generation in between?
1- yes
2- yes
3- no
4- yes
5- no
6- no
7- yes
8- no
9- no
10-no
11-yes
...

Of course this is just as ridiculous and gamefreak probably decides whetehr they make an eeveelution on actual reasons, not because of a pattern.

Things they would include in such a consideration would be like,
-what kind of generation it is (evolutions or reboot)
-if they have good ideas for more
-if they even want to make more, or whether Eevee fulfilled its purpose already with the 7.
Things like that.

Whether a generation is even, I assure you, doesn't have any direct relevance to the matter.


As for "one of duo weak against other".. its also irrelevant.
For example Umbreon was also immune against Espeon, while Glaceon doesn't even resist Leafeon.

Its simply because if you pick 2 random types, there is a high chance one will be weak to the other.

[RedWing]

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?

[Magmaruby and Aquasapphire]

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.

[Autaven]

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

[mhention]

Originally Posted by Autaven

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.

[Aerilyn]

Originally Posted by RedWing

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.

[Mistafro1]

Absol could use a line, He's always been one of my favorite designs, im sure they'd do a great job

[Meta Scoot]

I think Parasect needs a evolution that gets rid or that zombie mushroom
or something like that

[GreatTornado]

^ What he said
Zombie Parasect thing would be awesome.

[funguy10]

Suddenly, Dragon, Ground and Ghost type Eeveelutions sound very good!

[Forever]

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?

[RedWing]

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.

[PokémonShinySilver]

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

[Forever]

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.

[PokémonShinySilver]

Originally Posted by Forever

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.

[Magmaruby and Aquasapphire]

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.

[Clemstar]

Originally Posted by Forever

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.

[SnowOz]

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.