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How complex do you think are the two- or three-stage evolution families with one branch at a time?

MrCarle
MrCarle Member Posts: 158
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Most Pokémon capable of evolutions can evolve into one or two stages at a time with only one single branch at time, while they sometimes can evolve into one of the fewer or several branched evolutionary stages at a time? Please let me know how complex you think are two- or three-staged evolutionary families of Pokémon with only one single branch at a time?

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  • MajorBrendan
    MajorBrendan Member Posts: 1,789 ✭✭✭✭
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    That would depend on what kind of Pokemon.

  • TheJeffers
    TheJeffers Member Posts: 1,398 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    I don't think it's particularly complicated. If anything I wish they would get more creative with evolution methods and branches.

    I think they need to avoid gimmicks, however. Things like needing trading, certain times of day or held items to evolve are neat to discover and showed off the new mechanics of their generations well, but they degrade into frustrating busy work once you know of their existence and want to train and evolve a Pokémon quickly.

  • puplover1118
    puplover1118 Member Posts: 531 ✭✭✭
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    Pokemon's evolution system is not that complicated. All Pokemon either evolve twice, once, or not at all. Most Pokemon also do not have branced evolutions, and out of those that do only very few have more that 2 separate evolutions. In addition, Pokemon lines are distinct: no one Pokemon has multiple pre-evolutions.

    In total, Pokemon's evolution system is one of the simplest, especially compared to something like Digimon. Now that puts the Web in World Wide Web…