#Pokémon beta designs

[pkmnprideflags]

We've all seen beta gen ii sprites but have you seen the designs from the diamond & pearl source code leaks

(In case it's unclear, in order: Torterra, Prinplup, Kricketune, Shinx, Luxray, Rampardos, Vespiquen, Garchomp, Hippowdon, Lumineon, Mantyke, Snover, Abomasnow, Lickilicky, Togekiss, Yanmega, Azelf, Giratina, and Arceus.)

[scarleteevee1]

Parallel Ghost Train 2

With such a busy Day the Twins didn't notice Finley Disappearce right away..

[overtheimaginationwall]

A story from another universe...

[yamchaisawesome]

So Lugia is a weird fucking Pokémon. Not because of its design, because it’s the only Pokémon not designed by Game Freak or Creatures Inc.

It was designed by Takeshi Shudo for the second Pokémon movie. He didn’t think it was going to be added to the games, nor did gamefreak plan for it to be.

This thing was meant to be the mascot for silver according to data mining, I honestly really like the design.

But Gamefreak liked the design and thought it would be profitable to have the one featured in the movie, and so Lugia was made official.

[vrime]

Prototype God

[themanthingbeyondtheveil]

You’re telling me that we could’ve had a fat fucking Simisear instead of the bland ass fire monkey we got now?

You don’t know how upset I am that GF didn’t go with this beta design.

[bitchikorita]

Why is no one on here talking about the enormous Pokémon leak that just happened?

[cyanthemewtwo]

I did a thing. Had fun with this one. And I had to do one with each of them because I can.

Credit for the template goes to @blues-sues

Credit for the ancient mew design goes to @phlurrii

[scarleteevee1]

Parallel Ghost Train 1

Fragmentary Station? What a weird name

So- I decided to Make another Comic Called Parallel Ghost Train! I hope you guys like it :>

Here's the second part

[pokemonbattletournament]

Announcing: the We Have Pokémon at Home battle tournament!

We are proud to present the follow-up to the Pokémon Battle Tournament: the We Have Pokémon at Home Battle Tournament! In this tournament, monsters from the monster taming/battling/collecting genre that are explicitly Not Pokémon will duke it out in a one-on-one battle tournament. This tournament will take on the same format as the Pokémon Battle Tournament, asking “who would win in a battle?”. For this tournament, we are taking submissions for which monsters to include. Monsters from non-pokémon franchises, pokémon parodies, fakémon and beta pokémon are eligible. Your own fakémon creations and unique outside the box suggestions are especially encouraged.

Submissions are closed, thanks everyone for submitting!

Answers to any questions you may have under the cut.

Q&A: Which monsters can I submit as contestants? Monsters eligible to be included in the tournament are:

Monsters from another monster taming franchise. A non-exhaustive list is included below, monsters from other franchises are eligible as well.

In-universe Pokémon parodies (think, for instance, of the Voidcritters from the Sims 4) are allowed and encouraged, provided individual species are documented somewhere online.

Fakémon are allowed and encouraged. Especially your own creations are encouraged as a special treat. Mons from published fangames are allowed. Fakémon variants of existing Pokémon are allowed. Fusion designs are allowed.

In the light of the recent leaks, beta versions of Pokémon are allowed. For leaked pokémon, any link to a post discussing the leak is sufficient as documentation.

Anything else you can think of that fits the criterion of “we have Pokémon at home”. Outside the box suggestions are encouraged.

Monsters ineligible to be included in the tournament are:

Official Pokémon or any of the canon variants thereof.

Monsters that lack an image or online documentation of an individual species.

Monsters not submitted as individual species.

What do I need to submit a monster? To submit a monster, you need an image link and a link to information about the monster, preferably a wiki page or an introduction post by its creator.

How many monsters can I submit? As many as you like. Go nuts.

Which monsters will be included? As many as are needed to round up or down to the nearest power of 2. Preference will be given to a variety of origins, so if a specific franchise or fakémon creator dominates the submissions not all of them will be included.

When are the submissions due? Submissions will run for two weeks, until December 20th. Depending on the rate of submissions, I reserve the right to cut off submissions early if the number of submissions runs in the thousands.

When will I know if my submission made it? When the polls for round 1 go up! A huge part of the fun of the first round is, to me, the element of surprise, so you will find out at the same time as everyone else who is in the tournament.

The pre-approved non-exhaustive list of franchises from which monsters can be submitted is as follows. New franchises may be added to the list as submissions come in:

Digimon

Monster Rancher

Shin Megami Tensei

Spectrobes

Bakugan

Bugsnax

Coromon

Dragon Quest Monsters

Neopets

Robopon

Telefang

Temtem

Yo-Kai Watch

Monster Hunter Stories

Nexomon

Yu-Gi-Oh

Palworld

Slime Rancher

Casette Beasts

Ooblets

Loomian Legacy (Roblox)

SquisherZ (Hypnospace Outlaw)

Fossil Fighters

Voidcritters (The Sims 4)

Beastieball

[birdyaviary]

*leans very close to mic* mister thepokemoncompany I am going to steal your knees

no comments I just love them so so much

[avielsusej]

Regional Girafarig variant thoroughly based on its beta design (and the pokémon reforged fangame!). I'm very rusty when it comes to the Sugimori artstyle so I figured I'd try something simpler, I've been itching to do some fan content for a while! If this gets enough attention I might do a Farigiraf or a polished version of design B!

[pawmesan]

I wanted to stay away from the big leak for Pokémon mostly (although beta Pokémon designs are always super interesting) but I got way too curious about anything regarding the anime, since I had a suspicion that the end of Journeys and the mini series after that was not planned.

And the leaks do indeed confirm: The mini series with Ash, Misty and Brock was NOT initially planned and mostly shoved in to pad time until Horizons! That explains so much, because for them to make a series only involving the og trio they would have to find a reason why Gou wouldn't wanna travel with them, since the story never gave him a reason why he wouldn't wanna keep traveling with his best friend.

So that's why suddenly, only two episodes before the end (four if you count Gou suddenly thinking he relies on his Pokémon too much), they give him this change of heart and basically start a whole new character arc of Gou actually having to travel by himself after all.

Also explains why the supposed celebratory special opening for the mini series was just a slide show of old scenes lol they literally didn't have the time to actually make something new.

Idk why, but knowing this just makes me really happy, because it shows that everyone who was saying that there's multiple reasons why Gou wouldn't leave Satoshi was not just huffing copium, but actually more likely than not correctly read the original intention and also correctly identified that there was a barely covered last minute change regarding the ending. Not sure if the end of Satoshi's journeys was still planned or not, it probably was. But I suspect they were initially going for a less abrupt end and switch to Horizons more smoothly.

Also, very important, the leak also contained a character sheet for Gou among things. And it said that he is a "feminine looking boy who feels self-conscious about his looks, so he purposefully dresses more boyish". Also he speaks in a Yokohama dialect (because that's what the city he lives in is based on), likes to play Pokémon video games online and is a perfectionist who doesn't like doing things that he doesn't consider himself perfect at (explaining for example why he didn't want to battle in that tournament). The latter definitely changes through Satoshi encouraging him to try out new things and all.

I'd share the exact sources for this post, but I don't want GF to be knocking on my door lol but you can find all these infos by doing the deep dive into the GF tera leak.

[esmeebeek]

I got to draw beta Celebi for @thelostdex, a fanzine featuring all of the scrapped Pokémon designs. Super honored to have been a part of it!

[wtf-drawing]

yall can't leak a beta design of my favourite pokémon and expect me not to make a model

[bigboobshaunt]

When beta designs leak I'm usually on the "These are neat, I like seeing these and wish they weren't so cagey about them, but yeah the actual Pokémon we got are way better in the end"

Except like, the ones I'm seeing that were scrapped from XY... I feel like I could like those games way more if those had gotten added.