I Know You Covered The Points In The Shelmet Post But I Would Love To Hear The Full Anti Trade Evolution

i know you covered the points in the shelmet post but i would love to hear the full anti trade evolution rant tbh

Alright first off, it goes against the point of the entire series. "Form strong bonds with your Pokemon!" and then once you do you have to take an action to get rid of them in order to evolve them. what the hell

Kind of tying into the above, but it's also counter-productive. If you want to keep your 'mon, then you have to undo the action you just did in order to get it back. what the hell kind of logic is that

There is literally nothing in place to prevent your Pokemon from getting stolen. really loved that Pokemon? tough shit, turns out the other person isn't gonna trade them back. finding people to trade with online helps with this but only a little

and god help you if you find a shiny

since trading is now online, it requires an NSO online subscription, effectively paywalling those Pokemon and potentially completing the Pokedex. trading through HOME normally is a way to get around this but whoopsie doopsie, Pokemon don't evolve when traded in HOME

(You can trade locally, but that requires you to have friends that own Switches with that specific game)

It also screwed people over when it was link cables as well, because you had to know a person IRL, softlocking most trade evos unless you were lucky

GameFreak's solution to the online thing seems to be to make trade evos available in-game in some fashion (such as through raids in SV), which at least fixes the 'dex issue but ignores the bond thing once again. I don't want to replace my beloved Haunter with a random Gengar, I want to evolve my Haunter

This is a minor quibble but the lore around it has never been explained and most Pokemon seem to outright ignore it. For example, Slowpoke canonically evolves into Slowking when bitten on the head by a Shellder, yet for some reason you have to trade it with a random (non-Shellder) Pokemon while holding a King's Rock

I think the Karrablast/Shelmet line is the only line to have a "reason" that they evolve via trade, with the 'dex acknowledging they evolve when both Pokemon are bathed with electric energy. still nothing about that requires trade however

The Pokemon that evolve via trade, Karrablast/Shelmet line not withstanding, are completely random. why does Machoke need to be traded to evolve? because shut up

(I guess you could argue the same thing with most item evos, but at least there's a rationale behind the items if not the Pokemon themselves, and item evos aren't even half as problematic to being with)

And what's frustrating is that PLA has a linking cord item that evolves trade evo because it's meant to be a single-player game (you can still evolve via trade as well if you prefer that). it's literally THAT easy of a problem to fix

Another option would be to have an NPC that will basically trade your trade-evo Pokemon back to you. Maybe you have to bring them a certain item or something for each trade so it's not overly easily

I also think GameFreak hasn't made a trade evo since like Gen 5, implying that they know it's an issue but are too cowardly to fix it

I feel like Palafin is sort of a "modern-day" trade. it's still an issue because you still need to either pay for NSO or know someone to evolve it with, but at least you only need the person to enter your game via multiplayer to evolve it instead of needing to trade it off, which is slightly better

thanks for coming to my TED talk

I was messing with the Incorrect Quote Generator as a way to kill time before deciding to sleep and after get one quote I had the sudden urge to draw my 'Through Shared Eyes AU' Archie/Groudon with it so that's what I did for the past two hours instead of sleeping. Not my best work but I can say it exist.

Day 30: Duck

Look I had too.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO THE GAME THAT IRREPAIRABLE CHANGED MY BRAIN CHEMISTRY

Some art I did for a contest on amino.

Moon totally looked like a villain in the DLC, holding Sun hostage in their eternal night

In retaliation to being held hostage by SUN in never ending DAY and eternal sleep of his own for who knows how long because of what the Afton Virus and Fazco combined did to them.

Sun was just the first one to realize—after being in Moon’s place—that in order to fix their relationship that he needed to somehow get them rebooted to reset their active state so they’d be forced to become Eclipse, whole, again.

Being AI, they can communicate and work things out inside their head and have a full on heart-to-heart in just a few millisecond.

Like—

You know how someone condensed the whole Bee Movie into a gif? *WARNING FOR FAST FLASHING IMAGES*

That’s how quick that conversation probably was.

And it worked with how tired yet content Sun sounded when he spoke up alone to thank Cassie at the end.

And according to Kellen