#beta gold pokemon

[lasloser-mc-useless]

I drew djinn

[pokemonbattletournament]

We have Pokémon at Home!

Round 1 matchup 74

Propaganda for Bludgeeon:

"A primordial form of Eevee accessible through Ancient Power! It is thought that all Eevee once looked like this before their relationship with humans encouraged them to become gentler and more adaptable to many environments! It pulls rocks from the ground with it's powerful tail!"

Propaganda for Kotora:

"Round friend. They would have been so many people’s favorite Pokémon."

More info under the cut

More information about Bludgeeon:

More information about Kotora:

[b-dangerous]

WOOPER GOLD SILVER BETA

[glamrockstarmaverick]

A re-imagining of beta Umbreon.

[reimagining-johto]

Rinring #023

The Demanding Pokémon

Normal Dark type

Rinring are extremely bratty Pokémon, believing they are entitled to having everyone cater to their whims. They ring their bells to put those nearby in a light trance, making them more susceptible to their commands. If displeased, Rinring will yowl, moan, hiss, and scratch everything around them, in a display of loud and destructive pettiness.

[jazzmandd]

The 100 Pokemon Assemble is finally complete!

Pokemon from all Generations are here! and a special row of Pokemon dedicated to the weird, the beta and funny things in the Pokemon franchise.

Thanks for tuning into my art posts for these for the last couple months!

[cdgzilla]

I made a beta Pokemon tier list.

[its-ya-girl-phoeni]

@zay-does-things

Shoutout to the scrapped Tangela pre-evolution (named "Monja" after the Japanese word for "unkempt hair") and evolution (named "Jaranra", a corruption of Tangela's name)

[adobe-outdesign]

Togepi’s Secret

This is the very first Togepi card ever released, from the Neo Genesis set. It has Poison Barb as an attack. That’s a bit weird, right?

This one is the second ever Togepi card, released as a Wizards Black Star Promo... except over in Japan, this card was released before the Neo Genesis one, in 1999. If you don’t notice anything odd about this one, check the Pokedex description:

Still only a hatchling, it uses poison to chase off its enemies when threatened.

This Pokedex entry mentions poison again, and it’s not actually used anywhere in the games.

The reason this is relevant is that beta/unused Pokedex entries have been known to end up on early Pokemon Cards before. This makes it very likely that this card’s description was once Togepi’s beta Pokedex entry, which hadn’t yet been updated at the time of this card’s release in 1999.

Finally, there’s this card from Southern Islands. The scan makes this almost unreadable, but the description on this one reads:

This Pokémon is still immature. When threatened, it releases poison from its head and tries to drive its enemies away.

This was the third Togepi card ever released. After this point, the descriptions start lining up with the Pokedex entries we actually got.

Basically, the implication of all this is that Togepi was originally designed to be a poison-type. Those seemingly random spikes on its head were meant to be its way of distributing poison.

Note that its category, the “Spike Ball Pokemon”, probably references this beta, as something like the “Egg Pokemon” would be more fitting with the final version. Likewise, its Japanese name references spikes as well. To quote Bulbapedia:

Togepi and Togepy may be a combination of 刺 toge (spike) and ピヨピヨ piyopiyo (onomatopoeia for a bird chirping).

Also worth noting is the Spaceworld demo. While Togepi is a normal-type in the 1997 build, The Cutting Room Floor notes this:

Dex placement indicates a late addition. Is quite larger than its final counterpart. Has no evolution.

It being a late addition is likely due to it having been revised from the earlier poison-type version, which may have had a different design. The fact that it was larger and didn’t evolve meant that either it was intended as a single-stager originally, or it had a poison-type evo that had already been scrapped by the time this demo was created.

TL;DR: Togepi was likely a poison-type at one point in Gen 2’s development.

[conradforrest]

Bomushika!

I fell back into the Pokemon vice and I love the world of beta versions

[katlimeart]

Mario girls cosplaying as female characters from Pokemon games

Wi-Fi Plaza Girl

2 - 4. Teala (Wireless Club Girl)

5. Jasmine (Gold and Silver Beta)

6. Kris (Crystal Beta)

7. Professor Tetra

8 - 10. WiFi Club Girl

[lasloser-mc-useless]

Beta suicune

[b-dangerous]

QUAGSIRE GOLD SILVER BETA

[proudfreakmetarusonikku]

also like. on the topic of pokemon development. wild as fuck changes and incredibly hectic and stressful changes to the game creating a chaotic and messy dev cycle is like, the furthest thing from new in the franchise. the thing is- gold and silver were like, delayed. they were allowed time to actually fucking finish the game, because if you look at the leaked builds the game would Not be finished at it’s planned release date. like, even more than stuff like scarlet and violet. the 1997 demos are. i mean one really cool and i am sad some of the pokemon did not make it in rip my boy koonya i hope his design is recycled for a psychic type regional Meowth form or something. but it also shows how sometimes game development can be hard as shit and drastic changes happen way more than we could ever realise. and i think if you look into gold and silvers development it makes what’s happening with the modern games a lot more understandable. these are complex games with a lot of finicky design decisions that likely have to have drastic changes done if something doesn’t work out but unlike with gold and silver they couldn’t just delay the game for two years anymore. bc they’re not “just” one of the hottest nintendo properties they are literally factually the top dog franchise in the world that rakes in so much and is so pivotal stuff like gold and silvers delays just… can’t happen anymore.

[reimagining-johto]

Kurusu #007

The Land Lubber Pokémon

Water type

Kurusu live on coasts and riverbanks. Despite having legs, it is clumsy and unstable on land, making it vulnerable to attacks from stronger Pokémon. In contrast, Kurusu is fast and agile underwater and could easily spend all its time submerged if it didn't need to surface for air every half hour.

[pokesmashorpokepass]