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Pokémon Evolution/Capture/Release Thread

sevenfive

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my input

Pikachu- obviously won't evolve
mamepato- Satoshi has never had his bird not reach the final form so I think it is safe to say that she will evolve all the way to kenhorou.
Mijumaru- I think Mijumaru will eventually evolve into Daikenki however it will be a case similar to Chimchar where it will remain in its first stage for a large portion of the region and then go through two stages of evolution very quickly.
Pokabu- I think the writers are going to have Pokabu evolve twice because of what I've seen of it so far it doesn't have a very distinct personality that needs to be preserved by keeping it in its first form. I see it just evolving and being a powerhouse throughout the series.
Tsutarja- I actually think Tsutarja will evolve very quickly because in the episode of its capture it was mentioned that it was already at a fairly high level. It will be the first starter to reach its final form.
Meguroco(if the speculation is correct)- I think it will evolve at least once and I think there is a good chance it will evolve twice.

I think this will be the first series where all of Satoshi's pokemon reach there final forms, with all the captures happening so quickly I think the writers have set up the series so that they have time to develop personalities while having enough time to have each of them evolve.
 

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You're forgetting about Heracross

Fair enough, but that wasn't by Satoshi's choice. Oak only asked him to let him hold on to Heracross after it was temp-swapped for Tauros so he could study it. Muk was the only time he ever actually said of one of his main party members "screw it, I don't want you right now, give me something else."

thank you. man it might not have happened recently but it has happened good gracious we are acting like nothing out of the ordinary can ever happen. be it hardly ever does but still.
if or when Ash might put a pokemon from isshu with Oak it will not be a starter. it wont be the bird unless it is replaced by another. it will be that sixth and final slot that will become the merry go round especially if Ash goes Kanto and catches seven or more pokemon.

Just to be clear, I'm not saying it can't happen, I'm saying that it's extremely unlikely and I think it's a ridiculous speculation to say that it probably will happen.
 

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Well for one thing, the starters/bird never leave Ash's roster until a saga ends.

We can assume Ash will keep the same 5 Pokemon for all of Isshu. Its only the 6th slot that gets rotated.

So either Ash really isn't going to capture anything else for the rest of Isshu, (which is quite possible), or he'll capture 1 more new Pokemon halfway through, and the croc will get Oak'd.

I don't see the writers doing back to Kanto's style of captures. Even in Johto Ash did not capture that much, only 6 captures the whole region.
 

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Porkabu,There was never a situation in Johto and Cyndaquil evolving 10 years later,don't mean anything as wrong with it and deal with it, Cyndaquil was always Ash's strongest Pokemon before it evolve.


This is the 5 gen with only new pokemon and the BW series is a new retool of the show,Ash will get a lot more of new Isshu Pokemon.
 
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So now that Ash's snakey has beaten it's evo, how do you assess it's future? The pattern has been that every time a poke beats it's evo, it will not evolve. Will they defy this? If you think so, then I'd like to know why. I personally think it's guaranteed it will not evo.
 

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I think there's still a chance. I feel like personality wise, Tsutarja's sorta like Treecko so I doubt it'd be the type to not evolve. And it's not like its battle vs. Janovy was the main event of the episode like Buizel vs. Floatzel, Pika vs. Raichu, etc.

Besides, I think it'd be interesting to see Ash with a serpent pokemon. With Attract as one of its moves, it could prove to be an interesting, unique battler if it evolves all the way.
 

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How many of Ash's pokemon have actually gone up against their evolved form though. Pikachu, Buizel and in a sense Squirtle are all I can think of. Pikachu is never going to evolve and Buizel and Squirtle were fine the way they are. Seriously its just a fanmade taboo that the writer's probably aren't even aware of and just a coincidence that it's happened up until now. I doubt that any of of the starters are gonna stay in their base forms this gen
 

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How many of Ash's pokemon have actually gone up against their evolved form though. Pikachu, Buizel and in a sense Squirtle are all I can think of. Pikachu is never going to evolve and Buizel and Squirtle were fine the way they are. Seriously its just a fanmade taboo that the writer's probably aren't even aware of and just a coincidence that it's happened up until now. I doubt that any of of the starters are gonna stay in their base forms this gen

Treeko and Gligar have gone up against their evolved forms and both later evolved, though both lost their battles to their evo's.
 

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Turtwig too...

But Turtwig wasn't up against one of its evolved forms, it was up against another Turtwig, but if we are counting that as well then Swellow fought Winona's Swellow and Infernape fought Flint's Infernape. Also I guess technically Charizard battled Liza's Charizard though it only lasted about a second.
 

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Looking back at Ash's habit not to evolve his water pokemon (apart from Kingler), I would bet that Mijumaru won't evolve.
 

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Ironically Kingler is one of his strongest water types, despite having been with Ash for the least amount of time (possibly the least screentime of all his pokemon considering Muk shows up occaisonally with telephone calls to Oak)

Squirtle and Lapras are no longer with him, this leaves Totodile, Corphish, Buizel, and the new Mijumaru...

Out of those, I would say Kingler is the strongest outside of maybe Corphish...

Now compare that to the Grass, Flying, and Fire lines Ash has in storage... For this reason I think Mijumaru will evolve at least once
 

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Obviously evolution does not mean a pokemon is stronger, but you have to take into account the battles that those pokemon were in...

Admittedly Kingler had few battles, but it won nearly all of them, including league battles. The same cannot be said for Totodile
 
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