10/02/06 Continuity Broken
v.v How typical is it that as soon as I've announced the completely unbroken continuity of evolutions in D/P, they go break it? I'm sure they did it just to spite me... <_<
Anyway, the basic story is that Coronis revealed a few new evolution methods (that post and a couple of successive ones). It basically says that:
- Tangela evolves into Moshanbo, Yanma into Megayanma and Piloswine into Manmuu by levelling up while they know Ancientpower. No problem there, as none of them was capable of learning the move until in Diamond and Pearl.
- Aipom evolves into Eteboosu by levelling up while it knows Double Attack, which is a new move and thus obviously not a problem.
- Mime Jr. and Bonsly evolve into Mr. Mime and Sudowoodo, respectively, by levelling up while they know Mimic. While Mimic is an old attack, Mime Jr. and Bonsly obviously didn't exist before anyway, so you wouldn't land in the situation of fulfilling the requirement yet not evolving.
- Tamanta evolves into Mantine by levelling up while you have a Remoraid in your party. Of course, as with Bonsly and Mime Jr., Tamanta didn't exist in the previous games so no problem there.
- Dusclops evolves into Yonowaaru if traded while holding a Spirit World Cloth, a new item.
- Porygon2 evolves into PorygonZ if traded while holding an Eerie Patch, which is also a new item. Looks like some company decided to make an evil patch for the Porygon2 program. o.o
- But, the subject of this article, Lickitung evolves into Beroberuto by levelling up while it knows Rollout and - while it's very close - Lickitung could learn Rollout by move tutor in Emerald.
Gah, so very, very close. x.x I don't know if they overlooked that fact, or if they just thought "Oh, well, we can break it once." Of course, you can explain it by saying that the Pokémon must have learned the move on its own accord to be able to evolve. 8)
EDIT: Okay, Iveechan got me to check another source and my initial suspicion that Piloswine could learn Ancientpower by breeding turned out to be true. That breaks the continuity as well, then, and kind of wrecks the "learning on its own accord" theory as well. v.v Ooh, hey, I know. The ability to use those moves does not actually evolve the Pokémon, but gives them the physical ability to, and once they have this physical ability, they still need to be aware that they are capable of evolving, which only happened now with some more research. :O Mwahahaha. I can think of logical explanations for anything that does not make sense. Fear me.
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Floop (Website)
That sucks. >> They should've caught that.
KorwatisRicky (Website)
Maybe YOU overlooked something! >O *shot* Maybe they changed Rollout slightly from generation to generation. Have they done that before? P:
Iveechan
I thought a lot of those Pokemon could learn Ancient Power by breeding?
Butterfree (Website)
Well, I thought Piloswine could, but Eevee's Pokédex said it didn't...
*checks Serebii's Pokédex*
Um... okay, it could. <_<; *goes to tell Eevee* Oh well, this is the Cave of Speculative Theories after all.
Negrek (Website)
Actually, Eevee's 'dex only lists egg moves on the pokémon's base form, so ancientpower (and other egg moves) isn't listed for piloswine, but is for swinub.
The weird continuity disappoints me. The whole "requires a certain" move method seems a little strange in general. Though I think it would be sort of nifty if they made a sort of reversable evolution, where the pokémon would be in its final form whenever it had a certain move in its set but would revert back to another form if it forgot that move at some point, then evolve again if it was relearned later.
sandos
I never liked the consistency, and I always liked exceptions to common rules, so I like it!
Huntress
Aww that's dumb :( But... Your explaination is totally brilliant XD Of course it makes sense eh? *fears*
Huntress
:( aww stupidness *stabs triple post* DX I'm sorry! *hides under a rock* ilu
Butterfree (Website)
I deleted the triple post for you.
Huntress
Thank you and I'm really sorry DX
Piika
Well, at least it's only one move. If it was a moveset, then I would destroy the pokemon..... well maybe not, but Likitung should've been able to learn stockpile. Er... wait can it already?