Even Pokémon that did appear in the final game had their sprites altered in mostly minor but sometimes major ways: an alternate Girafarig design appeared with its light/dark halves both looking more like the final design’s light half, Sneasel looked completely different, baby-Electabuzz Elekid looked like an adorable pointy-headed bee, Porygon2 was unrecognizable, and the “legendary beasts” Entei, Raikou, and Suicune underwent some big changes, just to name a few. Waaurufu, Urufuman’s more menacing fluffy little wolf evolution.Īt a total of 41 different Pokémon out of Generation 2’s roughly 100 additions to the series, the list is kind of staggering.Kyonpan, its evolved, less unsettling form.Maybe actually a “baby” Pokémon or some other special circumstance? It’s a ghost type that apparently evolves at level 1. Norowara, a creepy bear (panda?) doll with a nail through it.Raitora, its similarly chubby and cute evolved form.Kotora, a stout, adorable electric tiger.Bomushikaa, a flaming seal that seems to be an unusual fire/water dual type.Taaban, which appears to be a standalone version of the shell on a Slowbro’s tail.Tsuinzu, a pair of connected ghost pokémon.Gurotesu, a bizarre, eel-looking water/steel type.It evolves from Manboo 1, reminiscent of Carvanha/Sharpedo from later generations. Ikari, a shark Pokémon that’s mostly just a big shark head followed by an anchor.(A seal water started would eventually arrive with Popplio, generations later.) Kurusu, a seal that appears to have been the water starter before Totodile took its place.Borubeaa, Honooguma’s middle evolution.Honooguma, an adorable flaming teddy bear that looks kind of like someone set a small Raichu on fire, which seems to have been intended for fire starter Cyndaquil’s spot.Hanamogura, appearing to be an evolved form of grass starter Chikorita that was later scrapped for Bayleef.Riifi, a grass-type Eevee evolution that would eventually be replaced by Leafeon’s debut in later generations.Nameeru, an evolution of Lickitung that would be replaced generations later with Lickilicky.Purakkusu, a Pinsir evolution that never was.Happii, an evolved Chansey that was eventually replaced by Blissey.(Farfetch’d still has no official evolved form.) Tsubomitto, an alternate Weepinbell evolution through stone usage.Animon, the derpy, unicorn-horned Ditto evolution immediately beloved by all for its perpetual scream.(Qwuilfish still doesn’t evolve to this day.) Shibirefugu, a Qwilfish evolution that looks like a puffer fish.Jaranra, an evolved form of Tangela that would eventually become Tangrowth in later games.
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This isn’t exactly surprising, considering the original set of Pokémon went through many rounds of design and redesign as the series went from creator Satoshi Tajiri’s original ideas to the eventual reality. glitch in all of its various forms, as well as that some of them may have been used in the Gold/ Silver sequels. The theory goes that these missing Pokémon even still had data positions held open for them in the game, leading to the MissingNo. The original 151 Pokémon from the Game Boy versions of the game have become inextricably linked to the series at this point, but even those games were once intended to include more than that well-known number, supposedly 190 in total. (Still probably a lot.) For the second year in a row, we got some pre-E3 Pokémon news out of Nintendo, including several new game announcements, but fans’ imaginations have been captured instead by the series’ past-a part of it that never happened. Video game news is working itself up to fever pitch right now as E3 2018 approaches, with pre-show game announcements accompanied by the usual surge of leaks, leaving everyone to wonder just what we have left to see during the actual show.