Jimothy
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I just had a crazy thought.
So we’ve been trying to figure out how Pikachu and Eevee as starters is going to work— Eevee has way more evolutions, so it seems imbalanced, and Yellow famously wouldn’t let you evolve your starter, but Eevee’s whole appeal is the number of evolution choices you have.
And I realized— there’s a ridiculous amount of Pikachu merchandise that revolves around costumes. Mega Charizard X Pikachu. Santa Pikachu. Hawaii Pikachu. Guzma Pikachu. Team Rocket Pikachu. Gyarados Pikachu. Ash Hat Pikachu.
And granted, that’s almost all Pokémon Company, not Game Freak— but I could see them expanding the Cosplay Pikachu concept to change this special Pikachu’s moves, but also its ability, stats, or even type.
So we get a special Pikachu or Eevee that don’t evolve and stay with us the whole adventure, but that are unprecedentedly customizable. They could even include a surfboard, balloons, and detective outfit among Pikachu’s costume options.
There’s also a fair amount of costumed Eevee merchandise, although most of it revolves around it dressing as its evolutions, and an Eevee in an Umbreon poncho isn’t as appealing to me as an Umbreon. But I could see them doing something like that to preserve Eevee’s game mascot status with the added bonus of not being locked into one form, like a normal evolving Eevee would be.
I dunno, I’m just trying to think outside the box as to how they’re going to make this work, and it would drive me nuts if something like this wound up happening and I hadn’t said anything.
So we’ve been trying to figure out how Pikachu and Eevee as starters is going to work— Eevee has way more evolutions, so it seems imbalanced, and Yellow famously wouldn’t let you evolve your starter, but Eevee’s whole appeal is the number of evolution choices you have.
And I realized— there’s a ridiculous amount of Pikachu merchandise that revolves around costumes. Mega Charizard X Pikachu. Santa Pikachu. Hawaii Pikachu. Guzma Pikachu. Team Rocket Pikachu. Gyarados Pikachu. Ash Hat Pikachu.
And granted, that’s almost all Pokémon Company, not Game Freak— but I could see them expanding the Cosplay Pikachu concept to change this special Pikachu’s moves, but also its ability, stats, or even type.
So we get a special Pikachu or Eevee that don’t evolve and stay with us the whole adventure, but that are unprecedentedly customizable. They could even include a surfboard, balloons, and detective outfit among Pikachu’s costume options.
There’s also a fair amount of costumed Eevee merchandise, although most of it revolves around it dressing as its evolutions, and an Eevee in an Umbreon poncho isn’t as appealing to me as an Umbreon. But I could see them doing something like that to preserve Eevee’s game mascot status with the added bonus of not being locked into one form, like a normal evolving Eevee would be.
I dunno, I’m just trying to think outside the box as to how they’re going to make this work, and it would drive me nuts if something like this wound up happening and I hadn’t said anything.