Pokémon Evolution/Capture/Release Thread

[Aura_Sphere]

Evolution in anime is often used as a storytelling device than a progression of strength. They have Pokemon who should've have evolved by now with all the training and battles they got but don't for story reasons (namely how they don't want to evolve).

If Hatenna does evolve, it's probably going to be story-related unless Liko starts focusing on her training instead of just Floragato all the time which then it could be a mix of both.

 

[nickdt]

Fuecoco might not even evolve though, due to it being way more popular (And as such way more marketable) than Skeledirge, this unlike Sprigatitto, who is not the most popular stage of its line (That is Meowscarada).

 

[Nichole the Otter]

Well today's episode saw the evolution of Sprigatito into Floragatto, making the first time we've seen a main characters Grass type starter evolve since DP

The preview shows Ann returning, her Oshawott now a Dewott, giving me hope we might see Samurott for the first time since BW

The Grass Starter Curse is finally broken!

Took us a whopping 14 years to get there... really shows how less marketable the Grass starter evolutions were since Sinnoh.

 

[Die-Hard Dragon Devotee]

The Grass Starter Curse is finally broken!

Took us a whopping 14 years to get there... really shows how less marketable the Grass starter evolutions were since Sinnoh.

Huzzah!

Yeah, crazy how it took 14 years and 4 whole generations to get to this point, huh? And you're right about the Grass starters being less marketable-with one exception. Rowlet's problem was that Japan was utterly obsessed with it, and it proved waaaay too marketable, so much so that it eclipsed its evolved forms in popularity. Hence, in a similar case to Dawn's Piplup (I guess Japan is just almost exclusively obsessed with round birds/penguins, huh?) Ash's Rowlet never evolved. (Such a shame.......I'm still sad/mad about it even now, as Decidueye is one of my favorite Pokemon.........

 

[RileyXY1]

I agree with the unbalanced part, but Hattena doesn't really feel like it would be a battler period so it kinda HAS to evolve without doing stuff before it can... start doing stuff because Hattrem is more fitting for combat.

It's the same reason why Bounsweet evolved early. It just couldn't do much in its current state and needed to evolve in order to become more involved.

 

[Aura_Sphere]

Huzzah!

Yeah, crazy how it took 14 years and 4 whole generations to get to this point, huh? And you're right about the Grass starters being less marketable-with one exception. Rowlet's problem was that Japan was utterly obsessed with it, and it proved waaaay too marketable, so much so that it eclipsed its evolved forms in popularity. Hence, in a similar case to Dawn's Piplup (I guess Japan is just almost exclusively obsessed with round birds/penguins, huh?) Ash's Rowlet never evolved. (Such a shame.......I'm still sad/mad about it even now, as Decidueye is one of my favorite Pokemon.........

Makes me glad for once the Grass starter is the favorite of the starters based on how popular Meowscarada is and how much promotion it gets.

 

[Die-Hard Dragon Devotee]

Makes me glad for once the Grass starter is the favorite of the starters based on how popular Meowscarada is and how much promotion it gets.

And thankfully its the final evolution of a Grass starter this time, and not the base form.

 

[Tom1291]

This is a 1st anniversary of Ash leaving the show (Sobbing)

 

[Eclipsical]

It looks like merchandise may have confirmed/spoiled some future developments.

Spoiler

 

[Articfoxgamez]

Oh boy I have to bring it here. That company releases a bunch of this kind of merch, its not always anime related. They released a thing with all three final stage starters on it forever ago for example.
This releases sometime this month, we know from titles and summaries that quaxly and fuecoco are probably not evolving this month, they would have no reason to tease this now.
(Especially since they have never teased anything through merch from what I know, its just them revealing merch that releases AFTER a capture/evolution becuase you have to do that, thats how merch works.)

 

[Eclipsical]

Oh boy I have to bring it here. That company releases a bunch of this kind of merch, its not always anime related. They released a thing with all three final stage starters on it forever ago for example.
This releases sometime this month, we know from titles and summaries that quaxly and fuecoco are probably not evolving this month, they would have no reason to tease this now.
(Especially since they have never teased anything through merch from what I know, its just them revealing merch that releases AFTER a capture/evolution becuase you have to do that, thats how merch works.)

I just posted it because it has the Pokemon Horizons logo specifically and we just had Floragato merch come out 5+ episodes before it actually happened.

 

[Articfoxgamez]

I just posted it because it has the Pokemon Horizons logo specifically and we just had Floragato merch come out 5+ episodes before it actually happened.

Thats fair, just letting people know. It always has the Horizons logo on it even when its not at all related.

Spoiler: Examples

 

[SamurottMan]

I believe this is the second Crocalor appearance in merch lately, so it might have some truth.

Quaxwell being marketed is probably a big sign this it's happening, because why would they use Quaxwell for any type of promo unless the anime will feature one. (I'll miss Quaxly so much ;-; )

 

[Eitarou]

The Pokémon Pan covers always feature a wide variety of Pokémon. The starter evolutions being featured are not hard confirmation we’re getting evos so soon. Not to say that they won’t ever evolve, mind you.

For example: here’s one from Journeys, featuring a Pokémon that literally does not show up in any capacity outside of a Pokédex scan image.

Spoiler

Also, we’ve had merch of the starter evos for months now. It’s been a thing for awhile.

 

[Tom1291]

This is a 1st anniversary of Ash leaving the show (Sobbing) Bit sad is it? Bit like Obi-Wan Kenobi