>stats are the same>types are the same>moves are the same>literal palette swaps of each other>only difference (hidden ability) isn't even unique to each formIs it just me or do alt forms feel like they are getting lazier with every passing gen?
>>58892788>Is it just me or do alt forms feel like they are getting lazier with every passing gen?the genies were in gen 5 so nah
>>58892796>bare minimumKlink line exists in gen 5 so nah
>>58892796sweet shiny tho, cute, clever, not lazy
>>58892788but how will you re-enact West Side Story if they're not different colors?
>>58892791You could have mentioned Basculin (which is similar to Squawkabilly in gimmick) and you chose the genies who actually do have great alt forms?
>>58892791>>58892804gen 3 did it first
>>58892791But those have different typings, movepools, and unique looking alternate forms. You can mention Basculin, but even BW gave them unique abilities. The better answer to this would be either Spinda (which is a joke in and of itself) or Gastrodon.
>>58892788They could have at least tied them to different natures or something
>>58892791>>58892804please stop noticing things
>>58892843Spinda is so ridiculous and unique that it becomes interesting in its own right.
>>58892804>it's ok when magnemite do it
>>58892788>Is it just me or do alt forms feel like they are getting lazier with every passing gen?You tell me.
>the same faggot immediately seethes about gen5 every thread Does this guy just not have a job?
>>58892788gamefreak has a bad habit of introducing a concept and then using it for something that should be an entirely separate concept. These should just be individual variation, and individual variation should exist for almost every single pokemon species. Slightly different patterns on fur for stuff like liepard, arcanine, incineroar. Scale and scute textures that vary for charizard or krookodile. Differing lengths of horns or whiskers for gyarados, dragonair, whiscash. Slight color variation so that your swampert is a lighter blue with redder cheeks than your friend's swampert who's almost navy blue with dark orange cheeks. And then, of course, more wild individual variations, with squawkabilly among many mons that simply come in multiple coat, plumage, or morph patterns. Arbok gets his variety of frills back. Weezing sometimes has the cross above his head. Ursaring could be blond or brown or black. Krabby and Clauncher could both be red or blue or white or yellow. Lillipup could have any color or fur length. Etc. Etc. These would be trivial to implement by the way, giving models different shape keys and blending between them or selecting from multiple options at random is supremely easy, and can be handled by the existing individual mon ID systems they already have.
crazy how mods are letting obvious genwar trolling now
>>58892788if the mechanical differences between forms are so insignificant why even bother having them as separate forms in the first place (and not alternate skins like gastrodon/sawsbuck/vivillon/etc)>>58894551small indie studio, please understand
>>58895132>OP asks question>someone answers it>”TH-THEY’RE GENWAR TROLLING!!”???
>>58892788I don't know why people consider Wattrel the regional route 1 bird when this thing exists and you can actually catch it in the first area.
>>58893256anyone still on /vp/ in 2026 is highly likely to be unemployedanyone with better things to do isn't here
>>58895245It doesn't evolve.
>>58892788Not to defend these dogshit forms, but you guys wouldn't stop complaining about Alcremie being wasted effort and dex slots even
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>>58892788>they are getting lazier with every passing genWho coulda guessed
>>58892788I really like these birds, they normally suck but za gave them the opportunity to giga impact on something every blue moon.I appreciate that.
>>58892788That's funny because I clearly remember /vp/ crying every time there's a pokémon with an elaborate form gimmick
>>58895234>(and not alternate skins like gastrodon/sawsbuck/vivillon/etc)those are different forms though
>>58892826>greatmaybe landorus but everyone else sucks ass
>>58895807>but za gave them the opportunity to giga impact on something every blue moon.Moving to real-time battles really did help a lot for many Pokemon that people would normally never use.It's a damn good thing too since the Speed stat is pretty much irrelevant in ZA so slower Pokemon can actually have some success for once.
>>58893256that's yawnfag for you
>>58892788This is just how Gastrodon works.
>>58894551That is a very big rant and it's completely understandable.Even my mom's dog had a skin coloration pattern that made it different from other similar dogs.
>>58894551Pumpkaboo's form gimmick became an individual variation, so the forms had to be renamed from Size to Variety. Good luck telling a large Small and a small Large apart now.>>58895782This shouldn't have been a form. Resolute Keldeo was already pushing it.>>58895302I like Alcremie's forms, but I don't like how they're determined upon evolution.
>>58896574>Good luck telling a large Small and a small Large apart now.geg
>>58894551Stadiumchads, we really were ahead of the curve, weren't we?
>>58896644What did stadium do
>>58892788Any time i hear these motherfuckers cry they sound like yoshi, and i assume its a Nacli situation and completely intentional. They even have multiple color schemes like yoshis do
>>58897387Mons had color variation based on their nicknames.
>>58897507God the illumination design for Yoshi is such SHIT he looks like a deviantart vorefag was put in charge
>>58897963almost certainly was
