This really bothers me, instead of pointing at someone who made a comment and expecting them to rebut your idea, without knowing what your definition of "what a Pokemon looks like" is kinda outlandish.
It's obviously a loaded question because they are now responding to an idea they know nothing about.
Any ways, "palette swap" is a bit exaggerated can we agree?
Alolan Ninetails
Gen 1 Ninetails
Not only is the actual design different with enough familiarity to recognize it's a Ninetails, but they took the time to make sure that it wasn't a simple color swap, they redesigned it completely.
If you want to get into other details, the Typing is different, the Moves sets prior to evolution and after evolution is different, the Base stats for each is different and the weaknesses are obviously different.
Regional Forms are not lazy IMO when Game Freak has taken the time to redesign the look, restructure the typing, move sets and weaknesses making the Pokemon literally play different than it's original form.
So yeah a "palette swap" is disingenuous at best.
A solution that just detects and flags future cloned Pokémon would never work because offline trading. You never will know which is the original and which is the clone, as a clone can appear online first than the original.
I have an original Pokémon.
You are not understanding... I also know how the PID/SID system works.... Who is the original trainer, that doesn't matter. What matters is who is the current legitimate trainer, of the original copy. It doesn't necessarily have to be the original trainer. There's no way to check that.
People just don't understand how hard Muk tries, how its existence perpetually hangs by a thread. Garbodor does not have that kind of devotion to living.Defending underappreciated Pokémons #2: Muk
So today we have a big boy. I feel that Muk has always been more hated than Grimer overall. Maybe because it's just a bigger version of Grimer? I don't know. But let's defend this gen 1 poison type.
So, a lot of people seem to dislike this slimy dude because it's "just" a blob.
But I think that this blob has too much personality to just be a blob.
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Muk looks like a zombie. Its pose looks like the classical picture of a zombie crawling out of a graveyard. I mean, just take a look a this and tell me that it doesn't have any similarities with the pose, the mouth and the "gross" aspect of it. Just tell me:
So, yeah. I definitely think that this thing being a zombie makes it cool, man.
Another cool thing about Muk is that he looks like he is constantly trying to stand up and seems like if he didn't do enough effort to keep himself looking like a Pokémon, he would just colllapse and end up being some gelatinous purple mass. Muk is trying his best guys, don't be mean please.
...But how would he keep using his strength to do this? Does he have any strength? Does this thing have muscles? Can a Grimer fuse himself with another grimer to become a Muk?
So many questions that are not anwsered.
Come on, how could you hate Muk, the slimy zombie in constant effort with the menacing pose and the mysteries around his biology?
Also, I have to say that the little strand of slimy goo in his mouth adds a lot to his design. Props to the designer here!
It has a funny shiny.
I don't see how that determines if a Pokemon was cloned vs just traded.
Well, they used their Doctor Who character a bit too soon, that much is apparent.
A promotional VHS tape we got through the mail. My parents put it on to shut me and my brother up.
I was pretty small, so I don't remember well. Think it was the anime as I used to watch basically anything anime on TV. I was into Nintendo stuff as well, so I got pretty hooked.
I mean that's a fair point, but 30% is stupid low for a brand new common pokemon.
It's not as good as it used to be and is outclassed by other Pokemon, but it's still up there. Fairy types really knocked dragons down a peg though.
Goodra and Kommo-o
Almost all of the pre-existing psuedos are bad or outclassed now due to changes with their typing. They would have to go with something different this time if they want it to be good.
