You're absolutely right! Even if I'll realistically never code my own fangame, I love creating my own Pokemon and revamping existing mechanics like types and the damage formula
yoo i drew the reuniclus at 9:51 !! thank you sm for featuring my stuff, love and respect your work so much as another artist who loves turning science concepts into character designs :) using s/m/l cones to make different forms is so cool
I love that you based them on different parts of the cell! My favorite has to be Regenerator, but all of them are fantastic. I also love how you did the shading.
@@prof.reuniclus21 thanks so much!! love the username lol, reuniclus is so underrated. i do biology research so i was rly excited to apply my knowledge from the field into these designs!! the guy whose research i based the regenerator form on actually saw my post and he thought it was cool, i think i peaked haha
@@Proxentauri That’s so cool!! Biology is such an underrated subject honestly, most people skip right to ecology instead and pretend that it’s all biology has to offer. There are so many ways to gather empirical data, and it also helps us understand ourselves. Having someone acknowledge you when you cite them has always been kind of my dream, lol.
This is something I thought about a LOT when I was 9 years old. I always wanted to try designing them myself, but I could never really draw anything that suited my brain's satisfaction since I wanted immediate results alongside just not being able to draw very well lol. I was very surprised to see your tweet and also see it start a new trend (and even seeing a friend of mine blow up).
Those are my Woopers at 8:47!! It’s great hearing your intentions behind the idea, cause’ that’s the sort of vibe I got from it too- everyone made awesome designs and there are still really cool ones I’m seeing posted every now and then, I can’t wait to see more!
The Pokémon Adventures/Pokemon Special manga did something to this effect in the Red/Blue/Yellow chapters with Arbok. Different patterns on its hood meant that each Arbok had different abilities - and ultimately, hiding those patterns negated the ability to use the ability.
I think ability "stances" could be really cool and more realistic. SV is already experimenting with multiple stances (out of battle, battle, flying, swimming, etc). For example a Raichu with Static would be more curled up and defensive looking, while one with Lightning Rod would be more active with its tail sticking up.
Honestly with how much this was getting posted in a server I was in, I was surprised at first there wasn’t a video being recommended to me about it. Knowing you were the one to start this is quite cool though.
This Trend was a fun concept to look at my timeline these past few weeks, as well as partake in. Thank you so much for coming up with this idea, and hope you're game becomes a reality one day.
I want to add that some people have a 4th color cone, its called Tetrachromacy, they can see WAY more colors apparently! I imagine the Rhodopto line could have a rare 4th form based on that :)
9:27 Thank you for featuring my Feraligatr forms! I had a lot of fun making ability forms for both Feraligatr and Porygon Z. All the forms for Chromato look amazing!
A good way to make this work ingame while still preserving the base desighn would be to have them transform when the ability activates. Like for examples gallade gets hit with a dark type move and as the stets raise he changes form.
The idea of pokemon being slightly different based on which ability they have is a cool idea. It would invite some nice creativity to their designs though it could come with a cost regarding competitive battles. Players can easily determine what abilities the opponents' pokemon have by recognizing their altered appearance, removing some surprise tactics. Regardless, this is a concept that I wish was explored more.
I feel like this relates to the Variant art I’ve seen for a long time. I’ve seen variants based on other mons, on things the animal was based on like a chikorita based on various plants or lillipup based on various dog breeds. This is really cool! I love seeing all the different ideas people have for variations between the different abilities
I like the idea of the different ability forms having ~subtle design differents, like how animals irl aren't all identical and they have slight variations
this was such a fun trend!! i really loved seeing all the art that stemmed from it and it's great to see a lot of it compiled in one place too! good luck on your own game! i'm sure itll be beyond awesome with how intentional you are with your design choices and research :)
Chromato and Slothsom are probably my favorite Stemas so far. I immediately fell in love with both, and definitely look forward to using them in the game when it comes out.
Just looking at the alt forms montage at the end, if the official games had these forms my team would probably look waaaay different, that intimidate arcanine or technician scizor would just have to be added, so much cool art
I’m hella interested in this because this is such a unique idea and I plan on using it in my own region. I just need to build up the motivation to work on it :/
One way i could viably see this implemented in-game: new generational gimmick is a special type of ability patch that gives certain mons new (and more powerful) abilities. Mons who change their ability in this way are granted new ability forms. These abilities will typically be better than anything else the mon has, but the drawback is that your opponent will know about it immediately
4:26 I understand what you mean. It would be better if mons got their ability forms in their final evolution. Then for regional evolutions or cross-gen evolutions, that would be a different case. Take Piloswine to Mamoswine: in Gen 3, Piloswine would have ability forms, but in Gen 4, the ability forms of Piloswine would converge to a base form until it gains its evolution into Mamoswine, which would Ability forms from that generation onward. That could make sense, right?
Omfg, yes, I would love this to be their next gimick! Having variant designs based on ability would be amazing. I'd literally try for a living dex of every design. XD
This is something that is both cool, but at the same time, a completely bad change. Here's a couple reasons: 1- An entire bloat of new designs: Now, as cool as this concept is, we have to remember a little something... abilities didn't exist in Generations 1 and 2. This essentially means redesigning a lot of the Pokémon to have more variants. This isn't like when they gave over gender differences, where the changes were small, and not all Pokémon received them. 2- There isn't just one species: There's something else this causes, and that's having a lot of different variants mixed on one Pokémon. Things like people being split on "oh i love arbok", "which variant", "shed skin", "dude that looks like, awful, intimidate arbok is clearly the best." 3- Predictability: By doing this, you give away what your strategy is in multiple Pokémon. As an example, pick Clodsire. You never know if Clodsire is gonna run Water Absorb or Unaware. But doing this, the design clearly gives away what they're doing. The only predictions are in the movesets, but it's not as game changing as having to battle Clodsire on what strat it is, besides analyzing the team composition. Or Urshifu, on team preview alone, you don't know if it's Single or Rapid Strike. The prediction becomes a thousand times easier, and it makes competitive Pokémon less of a mind reading game than it already is. Which in my opinion, hurts multiplayer battles, because there's less gambles and brainpower required on winning a game. Thanks for coming to my TED Talk.
I absolutely love this, I get that it won't ever happen because it would be hell for the designers, but I love the idea of it being an anime/manga exclusive I'm playing a pokemon ttrpg right now, imma show them this so we can apply it to our pokemon to make them more unique and special for us
I like how with all the submission , hyper cutter, swift swim and intimidate were basically guaranteed to be banger designs Oh and unaware too, those ones all look adorable and I wanna give them hugs
Actual good fan designs! You love to see it. Given the sheer dedication to fan projects I've seen, I wouldn't be surprised if romhacks started doing this. Incidentally, I saw a _Palworld_ mod attempting this sort of thing the other day. Although it basically amounted to recolors, given the way the game handles its passive skill pool (too many potential combos!)
I feel like the in-game sprite should be kept the same, like the "average" form is what we've always known, but the ability forms are the specialized versions of this same species. Every species and breed has slight variations due to genetics!
Imagine if nature influenced the sprite/model appearance as well. I always imagine some variations in the mon's posture or face depending on which nature it has
I love the designs and concepts you come up with every video!! I also like how you mentioned colorblindness, whenever people talk about cones I don't hear them bring it up much. As a colorblind artist, I just think it's a fun, albeit frustrating, bit of differences in humans :33
Its a great idea. But you hit the nail on the head about the art and how much work itd be to make 1-3 extra variants for each mon. And we know how little time Gamefreak gets to make its pokemon games typically
Yeah this'll never be in the game but the fact that no one has thought of this idea before is honestly incredible considering how fun of an concept it is
If you want to make "15" versions of it, give each option a few color variants. Just a pallet swap, but used to represent the secondary or tertiary colors. Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, Orange... so even if it's just a pallet swap, it still has a fun level of creativity and thought, so it wouldn't feel "lazy". It could be like Shellos East and West in a way. Different designs, one Pokémon species.
For Reuniclus Overcoat would be a plant cell with cells walls, Regenerator would look like he is dividing. I guess Magic Guard would look like the base form with more organelles floating around.
This would be great. Even if it deletes the "surprise" factor in many battles, it would make WAY more sense. If Pokémon abilities are, well, certain abilities the user is able to perform in a passive and uncontrolled way, it would make sense that a Pokémon with a different ability lacked something to make it unable to perform said ability. For example, Breloom losing its "spore organ", so it can't make use of Effect Spore, and so on.
love how the hashtag exploded and everyone's just having a blast sharing their versions who knows maybe in the future we could manifest this in canon, alt versions fanart were a thing years ago waaay back then then regional forms then became a mainstay starting with Alola
I have a dumb idea so here it is: Some Stemas don’t seem to fit in put in the wild, so to differentiate from Pokémon, make them only accessible through labs that can be found, where you have to fight a trainer for each lab, and different labs hold different stemas. I also think it would be fun to have hard scientists protecting the advanced labs, where multiple types of stemas can form in.
holy crap, I had a very similar idea recently while looking at slowpokes in Azalea in johto redrawn. I thought it would be cool to have different designs to express various personalities in individual pokemon, though I went with natures, your idea of basing them off abilities is far more realistic lol
I really like the sillier onesXD That said, if this was to actually be adapted in the games, I could see it maybe working only with hidden abilities, and probably even then for a select few. The starters seem like it would work, since all the starters basically have the same base ability, just changed to apply to their main type, and then they have the hidden ability which is more unique. I feel like that could work
This is reminding me of td battles For those unaware, td battles is a tower defense game where you can control monkeys to pop balloons, with each money costing a certain amount of money depending on how good they are, you get mote money after each round with each round lasting a minute or so there are many different types of monkeys who have their fair share of strength and weakness (some more than others, though the better ones cost more money obviously) but that’s overall the concept (there are a few exceptions to this rule, i.e the spike machine which is just a machine or the banana farm which produces more money for you.) Anyway, my main point is in that game depending on what upgrade path you can down (which if we were to transfer this to Pokemon could be like abilities) the monkey will change appearance. For example, let’s take the super monkey. The super monkey is one of the best monkeys in the game but also the most expensive so is typically late game (Oh yeah I forgot to mention you pick between three monkeys at the start of the game) anyway, to start off with super monkey has these laser eyes that deal a lot of damage at a fast rate. The first two upgrade on ether skill tree you can do together, however, the third upgrade is where you lock into one path. You can ether choose to make him a basically a mech. Or you can choose to make him a sun god. Generally the sun god path is considered to be better but it costs more money and takes up more space on the board (oh yeah you only have so much space on the board) the important part here is that the appreance is completely different, ok well it’s not exactly the same as you wouldn’t be changing the appearance as much as it does in td battles but the general concept reminded me of that.
The game is called Btd battles. Also its a spinoff of the Btd series. Also in the most modern btd game there are 3 whole paths! The super monkey can even become batman. Also it is pretty cheap so I would reccomend buying btd6.
0:56 the levitate Gengar is just drawn an inch higher lmao
"drawn" is such a strong word here lol
@@viiranen true haha
guy don't even try do draw a floor or shadow lol
Afro is cooking with this design 😂
What do you mean ?
Hes litery perfect
This singlehandedly create some of the greatest fan alt forms Pokemon designs on Twitter I've ever seen
Yeah! My favourite was the a agron one shown at the end. It was so detailed!
I'm convinced that one of Pokémon's big selling points is as a starting point for people's imagination and creativity
You're absolutely right! Even if I'll realistically never code my own fangame, I love creating my own Pokemon and revamping existing mechanics like types and the damage formula
Whoever made that Gengar Cursed Body vs. Levitate drawing is a genius XD
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yoo i drew the reuniclus at 9:51 !! thank you sm for featuring my stuff, love and respect your work so much as another artist who loves turning science concepts into character designs :) using s/m/l cones to make different forms is so cool
I love that you based them on different parts of the cell! My favorite has to be Regenerator, but all of them are fantastic. I also love how you did the shading.
@@prof.reuniclus21 thanks so much!! love the username lol, reuniclus is so underrated. i do biology research so i was rly excited to apply my knowledge from the field into these designs!! the guy whose research i based the regenerator form on actually saw my post and he thought it was cool, i think i peaked haha
@@Proxentauri That’s so cool!! Biology is such an underrated subject honestly, most people skip right to ecology instead and pretend that it’s all biology has to offer. There are so many ways to gather empirical data, and it also helps us understand ourselves.
Having someone acknowledge you when you cite them has always been kind of my dream, lol.
just imagine kingdra with a military sniper in his mouth
bro theyre gonna look like moonscorched Levi from fear and hunger lmfao
That one Peashooter variation in GW2 but as Kingdra would go hard
@@Korbreetodear god...
@@bigpoggers6507the Gatling pea
@Korbreeto you just gave me a visual i wish i’d never seen…
let him cook
Let him cook now
let him cook
I SAID, LET. HIM. COOOK
He’s COOKING!!!
*edit music*
Very happy to have my drawing shown there
Congrats man 🎉
SAME!!
Congrats man it's damn cool 🎉
This is something I thought about a LOT when I was 9 years old. I always wanted to try designing them myself, but I could never really draw anything that suited my brain's satisfaction since I wanted immediate results alongside just not being able to draw very well lol. I was very surprised to see your tweet and also see it start a new trend (and even seeing a friend of mine blow up).
🥷 Is that JackCanada
is that jack canada 😱
Technician breloom looks like the “Nothing personnel, kid” meme
Those are my Woopers at 8:47!! It’s great hearing your intentions behind the idea, cause’ that’s the sort of vibe I got from it too- everyone made awesome designs and there are still really cool ones I’m seeing posted every now and then, I can’t wait to see more!
The Pokémon Adventures/Pokemon Special manga did something to this effect in the Red/Blue/Yellow chapters with Arbok. Different patterns on its hood meant that each Arbok had different abilities - and ultimately, hiding those patterns negated the ability to use the ability.
Kaephoon's Gooey Goomy referencing the character from Kirby actually made me laugh really hard
Now I want to see an actual Pokemon one day with a different design for each ability, and maybe even different stats!
As much as I want different ability forms for each mon, having different stats is no different from a separate species/regional form of that mon
That feels like Lycanroc with fewer steps.
1:49 ribombee with the pollen cloak is both genius and extremely cute!!
I think ability "stances" could be really cool and more realistic. SV is already experimenting with multiple stances (out of battle, battle, flying, swimming, etc). For example a Raichu with Static would be more curled up and defensive looking, while one with Lightning Rod would be more active with its tail sticking up.
Honestly with how much this was getting posted in a server I was in, I was surprised at first there wasn’t a video being recommended to me about it. Knowing you were the one to start this is quite cool though.
im so happy this concept went viral cus its such a good idea I NEED TECHNICIAN BRELOOM TO BE CANOOOOON
This Trend was a fun concept to look at my timeline these past few weeks, as well as partake in.
Thank you so much for coming up with this idea, and hope you're game becomes a reality one day.
I want to add that some people have a 4th color cone, its called Tetrachromacy, they can see WAY more colors apparently! I imagine the Rhodopto line could have a rare 4th form based on that :)
thank you for featuring my bronzongs at 0:52 !! rhodopto & chromato are super cool & unique!
The poison heal looks cute
9:27 Thank you for featuring my Feraligatr forms! I had a lot of fun making ability forms for both Feraligatr and Porygon Z. All the forms for Chromato look amazing!
I drew the phantumps at 9:33 !! thank you sm for featuring my stuff, it's so crazy to see my work featured by an artist I truly adore!!
I love the people that made meme versions but ofc the people who took the idea seriously are awesome.
A good way to make this work ingame while still preserving the base desighn would be to have them transform when the ability activates.
Like for examples gallade gets hit with a dark type move and as the stets raise he changes form.
Thank you so much for featuring me! Loved the concept and seeing so many peoples artwork!!!
Funnily enough. Using pokemon rules, having a high crit chance is kinda like having a high chance to ignore defensive buffs when attacking
10:18 You just can't hit me with the immediate psychic damage of Dark Aura Polywrath Mr. Frog I've been laughing for like three minutes!
The idea of pokemon being slightly different based on which ability they have is a cool idea. It would invite some nice creativity to their designs though it could come with a cost regarding competitive battles. Players can easily determine what abilities the opponents' pokemon have by recognizing their altered appearance, removing some surprise tactics.
Regardless, this is a concept that I wish was explored more.
I love how levitate Gengar is just Gengar but lifted up slightly, like yeah what did you expect?
All of those golurks at 8:24 has 4 times the personality i will ever have, each.
I feel like this relates to the Variant art I’ve seen for a long time. I’ve seen variants based on other mons, on things the animal was based on like a chikorita based on various plants or lillipup based on various dog breeds. This is really cool! I love seeing all the different ideas people have for variations between the different abilities
This is the most unique Pokémon idea I’ve heard in years ngl
Regular cat skitty is not real it cannot harm you.
Regular cat skitty: 9:26
the idea of a pokemon having the gimmick of changing form (and possibly evolution) per ability is a cool concept i hope game freak does at some point
9:55 That Smoliv art is amazing
I like the idea of the different ability forms having ~subtle design differents, like how animals irl aren't all identical and they have slight variations
If I were doing a competitive pokemon with an ability, I would have a set up for its opposite ability to confuse them.
Honestly, as an artist, Chromato is now my favorite
The post on X blew up, holy crap congratulations. You inspired a lot of people to make some really cool designs
I love this art trend a lot. So many artists have made such fun and inspired designs of their favorite Pokemon, and it makes me happy to see it.
The fact that this was a trend on Twitter. I love the creativity many artists were able to express with their work
Chromato is going directly into my top 5 faves.
8:33 that aftermath voltorb is plain goofy
I love this. It goes far more into the show not tell direction. It tells the characters story far better and it is super cool
10:18 is that... mr frog from smiling friends for the dark aura version? pefection.
Yes it is, hello
@@robinsr4745 hi :D
"Hello, can I pull your hair?"
-Mr Frog shortly before tugging on Pim's exposed nerve ending
You should do a series on giving Pokémon scientific names. And steam creatures
This was such a good idea! I did the scraftys at 8:48 ! It's amazing how some little changes can give such personality to all these different Pokémon!
You started an entire movement
Soundproof pokemon should always look at its trainer when awaiting commanda
this was such a fun trend!! i really loved seeing all the art that stemmed from it and it's great to see a lot of it compiled in one place too!
good luck on your own game! i'm sure itll be beyond awesome with how intentional you are with your design choices and research :)
8:37 thank you so much for featuring my Ogre sisters and I loved the mantis shrimp inspiration for this video's creature!! :3
So many brilliant ideas and designs! Thank you so much for featuring my Victreebel artwork at 10:10 and congrats on a great vid!💚
Nah that No Guard Golurk looks like its about to mess someeone up
its nice that you gave credit to the artists bc i saw these images on instagram
I love how you made a stemamon (that’s what I call em) based off a mantis shrimp they are so beautiful
I love the artworks. The community of pokemon truly knows how to imagine the limitless possibilities of pokemon. :3
Ability Forms sound sick, they should add it.
Man, poliwrath really has that raw, bad boy edge the real mister frog had at 10:18
Chromato and Slothsom are probably my favorite Stemas so far. I immediately fell in love with both, and definitely look forward to using them in the game when it comes out.
Thank you for making this trend on twitter the other day. All the art that came from it was and is so good.
Speed Boost Blaziken would look like Sonic. The two already have similar proportions.
Just looking at the alt forms montage at the end, if the official games had these forms my team would probably look waaaay different, that intimidate arcanine or technician scizor would just have to be added, so much cool art
I’m hella interested in this because this is such a unique idea and I plan on using it in my own region.
I just need to build up the motivation to work on it :/
I'm really curious what is it called?
@@Ashera5469 I haven’t named it at all, I just call it California Region or a random collection of letters when I make a project doc for it
BRILLIANT I love little details like this
I love how scattered among the entries are a few memes.
One way i could viably see this implemented in-game: new generational gimmick is a special type of ability patch that gives certain mons new (and more powerful) abilities. Mons who change their ability in this way are granted new ability forms. These abilities will typically be better than anything else the mon has, but the drawback is that your opponent will know about it immediately
4:26 I understand what you mean. It would be better if mons got their ability forms in their final evolution. Then for regional evolutions or cross-gen evolutions, that would be a different case. Take Piloswine to Mamoswine: in Gen 3, Piloswine would have ability forms, but in Gen 4, the ability forms of Piloswine would converge to a base form until it gains its evolution into Mamoswine, which would Ability forms from that generation onward. That could make sense, right?
Omfg, yes, I would love this to be their next gimick! Having variant designs based on ability would be amazing. I'd literally try for a living dex of every design. XD
This is something that is both cool, but at the same time, a completely bad change. Here's a couple reasons:
1- An entire bloat of new designs: Now, as cool as this concept is, we have to remember a little something... abilities didn't exist in Generations 1 and 2. This essentially means redesigning a lot of the Pokémon to have more variants. This isn't like when they gave over gender differences, where the changes were small, and not all Pokémon received them.
2- There isn't just one species: There's something else this causes, and that's having a lot of different variants mixed on one Pokémon. Things like people being split on "oh i love arbok", "which variant", "shed skin", "dude that looks like, awful, intimidate arbok is clearly the best."
3- Predictability: By doing this, you give away what your strategy is in multiple Pokémon. As an example, pick Clodsire. You never know if Clodsire is gonna run Water Absorb or Unaware. But doing this, the design clearly gives away what they're doing. The only predictions are in the movesets, but it's not as game changing as having to battle Clodsire on what strat it is, besides analyzing the team composition. Or Urshifu, on team preview alone, you don't know if it's Single or Rapid Strike. The prediction becomes a thousand times easier, and it makes competitive Pokémon less of a mind reading game than it already is. Which in my opinion, hurts multiplayer battles, because there's less gambles and brainpower required on winning a game.
Thanks for coming to my TED Talk.
I thought about the same thing when I saw this video pop up, I agree
9:06 Thanks for putting my mamoswine!
I absolutely love this, I get that it won't ever happen because it would be hell for the designers, but I love the idea of it being an anime/manga exclusive
I'm playing a pokemon ttrpg right now, imma show them this so we can apply it to our pokemon to make them more unique and special for us
I like how with all the submission , hyper cutter, swift swim and intimidate were basically guaranteed to be banger designs
Oh and unaware too, those ones all look adorable and I wanna give them hugs
I really want something like this
small changes but different forms, like this, or the “what if every Pokemon had a atk/def/spd form like Dioxis”
Actual good fan designs! You love to see it. Given the sheer dedication to fan projects I've seen, I wouldn't be surprised if romhacks started doing this.
Incidentally, I saw a _Palworld_ mod attempting this sort of thing the other day. Although it basically amounted to recolors, given the way the game handles its passive skill pool (too many potential combos!)
i like how when you showed the open team sheets example 5/6 of the pokemon shown only have one possible ability
I feel like the in-game sprite should be kept the same, like the "average" form is what we've always known, but the ability forms are the specialized versions of this same species. Every species and breed has slight variations due to genetics!
This channel is so wholesome. I love your vids.
The Twitter trend that you started because of this was the greatest trend ever
Imagine if nature influenced the sprite/model appearance as well. I always imagine some variations in the mon's posture or face depending on which nature it has
I love the designs and concepts you come up with every video!! I also like how you mentioned colorblindness, whenever people talk about cones I don't hear them bring it up much. As a colorblind artist, I just think it's a fun, albeit frustrating, bit of differences in humans :33
I WAS LATE NOO-
But still,banger video, and congrats to everyone featured! Fun to see what forms people came up with for their favorite Pokemon!
Its a great idea. But you hit the nail on the head about the art and how much work itd be to make 1-3 extra variants for each mon. And we know how little time Gamefreak gets to make its pokemon games typically
Yeah this'll never be in the game but the fact that no one has thought of this idea before is honestly incredible considering how fun of an concept it is
If you want to make "15" versions of it, give each option a few color variants. Just a pallet swap, but used to represent the secondary or tertiary colors. Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, Orange... so even if it's just a pallet swap, it still has a fun level of creativity and thought, so it wouldn't feel "lazy". It could be like Shellos East and West in a way. Different designs, one Pokémon species.
Thank you for including my Flareon!
So basically what Spectrobes: Beyond the Portals did but with abilities instead of defensive and offensive variations
For Reuniclus Overcoat would be a plant cell with cells walls, Regenerator would look like he is dividing. I guess Magic Guard would look like the base form with more organelles floating around.
Poison heal breloom looks so polite, I love them
This would be great. Even if it deletes the "surprise" factor in many battles, it would make WAY more sense. If Pokémon abilities are, well, certain abilities the user is able to perform in a passive and uncontrolled way, it would make sense that a Pokémon with a different ability lacked something to make it unable to perform said ability. For example, Breloom losing its "spore organ", so it can't make use of Effect Spore, and so on.
love how the hashtag exploded and everyone's just having a blast sharing their versions
who knows maybe in the future we could manifest this in canon, alt versions fanart were a thing years ago waaay back then
then regional forms then became a mainstay starting with Alola
I have a dumb idea so here it is: Some Stemas don’t seem to fit in put in the wild, so to differentiate from Pokémon, make them only accessible through labs that can be found, where you have to fight a trainer for each lab, and different labs hold different stemas. I also think it would be fun to have hard scientists protecting the advanced labs, where multiple types of stemas can form in.
holy crap, I had a very similar idea recently while looking at slowpokes in Azalea in johto redrawn. I thought it would be cool to have different designs to express various personalities in individual pokemon, though I went with natures, your idea of basing them off abilities is far more realistic lol
I absolutely LOVE this concept
I really like the sillier onesXD That said, if this was to actually be adapted in the games, I could see it maybe working only with hidden abilities, and probably even then for a select few. The starters seem like it would work, since all the starters basically have the same base ability, just changed to apply to their main type, and then they have the hidden ability which is more unique. I feel like that could work
Breloom thumbnail, instant like
Darn it I miss the stream. But I do like the concept of the abilities changing an appearance.
Oh my god not the Crewmate ditto lol
This is reminding me of td battles
For those unaware, td battles is a tower defense game where you can control monkeys to pop balloons, with each money costing a certain amount of money depending on how good they are, you get mote money after each round with each round lasting a minute or so there are many different types of monkeys who have their fair share of strength and weakness (some more than others, though the better ones cost more money obviously) but that’s overall the concept (there are a few exceptions to this rule, i.e the spike machine which is just a machine or the banana farm which produces more money for you.)
Anyway, my main point is in that game depending on what upgrade path you can down (which if we were to transfer this to Pokemon could be like abilities) the monkey will change appearance. For example, let’s take the super monkey. The super monkey is one of the best monkeys in the game but also the most expensive so is typically late game (Oh yeah I forgot to mention you pick between three monkeys at the start of the game) anyway, to start off with super monkey has these laser eyes that deal a lot of damage at a fast rate. The first two upgrade on ether skill tree you can do together, however, the third upgrade is where you lock into one path. You can ether choose to make him a basically a mech. Or you can choose to make him a sun god. Generally the sun god path is considered to be better but it costs more money and takes up more space on the board (oh yeah you only have so much space on the board) the important part here is that the appreance is completely different, ok well it’s not exactly the same as you wouldn’t be changing the appearance as much as it does in td battles but the general concept reminded me of that.
The game is called Btd battles. Also its a spinoff of the Btd series. Also in the most modern btd game there are 3 whole paths! The super monkey can even become batman. Also it is pretty cheap so I would reccomend buying btd6.