The thing on Slowbro's Tail ???? Page 2

Started by Sajin April 1st, 2009 8:55 AM
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Well, some random Pokedex quotes:
SLOWKING undertakes research every day in an effort to solve the mysteries of the world. However, this POKéMON apparently forgets everything it has learned if the SHELLDER on its head comes off.
Gold: If the tail-biting Shellder is thrown off in a harsh battle, it reverts to being an ordinary Slowpoke.
So it suggests that if it comes off, it becomes a slowpoke again. Interesting...

As for the fact that the Shellder looks different on the slowpoke's evo's... well, another idea is that it merely has a different shell - after all, they don't necessarily all have the same shell - and a shellder's typical shell sitting on top of a Slowking would only look stupid/funny IMO, so they might have gone with that. The Pokemon shellder after all isn't the shell, but the creature inside of it - it merely 'uses that shell for protection' and all (just look at the Pokedex entries for that). Just throwing that one out - could be one of the other theories though.

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I remember seeing an episode during the Johto series that a Slowpoke was putting it's tail on the water of the pond, and then a Shellder bit it's tail and they together evolved into Slowbro...

So yeah, I guess it's just a Shellder, forever stuck with Slowbro... :\

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I remember in one of the Pokemon movies, it shows a Slowbro evolving into a Slowking. A Shellder jumped out of the water and started biting Slowbro's tail. It turned into a Slowking.

Ever since then, I have always thought that that is how a Slowbro evolved into a Slowking.
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Here's my thought on this one: it is nothing. Slowbro was first introduced in Green Version (Japan),but the pokedex said nothing about Shellders. Real-life hermits hide themselves in spiral shells, that belonged to a living organism, but are not themselves living organisms. So, the designers probably intended to make Slowbro hide in an empty shell, but since Slowbro is pretty "stuffed", only the tail would be able to fit. Then they added a set of eyes and jaws to the shell, to make it more interesting (otherwise, it wouldn't really differ from Slowpoke).
The whole Shellder-bitting concept appeared a couple of years later, in the anime, but it only made things more complex...
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