Gen 1 bracket round 4 #2

Ew, low poly polygonish porygon

mew

@clasingla wheres the new mystery dungeon chapter? No pressure

Both are very interesting from a lore perspective. And Mew is obviously an iconic and powerful Pokémon. But for the reasons stated in the previous bracket, I choose Porygon.

Porygon by contrast is underexplored and alludes to a lot of interesting Pokémon lore from the gen 1 days.

Its existence suggests that Pokémon may not be entirely organic beings and its colour scheme and the fact it came from the Team Rocket owned Game Corner implies it might have been another failed attempt at cloning Mew, perhaps attempting to glitch the Pokémon Storage System or something.

Pokémon are in a digital form when stored in a Pokéball or on the PC, so maybe they tried a dupe glitch.

Then there is its evolution methods. The Upgrade and the Dubious Disk. The former implies that whoever made Porygon, be it Team Rocket or someone else, was still working on improving Porygon. The Dubious Disk is perhaps a more radical attempt to improve it, someone else's homebrewed attempt at an upgrade, or even a malicious attack on the Porygon species.