Thankfully, you're not in charge. We won't be doing that.

That's why Convergents exist

>>59182767
Regional forms were a knee jerk, panic reaction to the number of pokemon getting too high.
It happened anyways, but Alolan and Galarian forms were just a scam to make pokemon cross the big 1000 a bit slower
Notice they didn't add any Paldean forms, and just made shit like Toedscruel have dex entries, because they were going over 1000 anyways

>>59182767
They don’t and won’t

>>59182820
Your Paldean Wooper? Your Paldean Tauros?

>>59182818
They are functionally the same thing. Just reclassify the existing regionals as convergences, and retire the original idea

>>59182848
But they're not. Regionals are pokémon known as one type in another region introduced to a new and adapting to its new climes, convergents are pokémon that developed to look like another pokémon, but have no actual relationship to the originals.

>>59182875
Regionals are the Pokemon we already knew, but adapting to a new climate through natural selection
convergents are Pokemon with a Common ancestor to the ones we already knew, having adapted to a different environment and evolved through natural selection
>Alolan Diglett is Digglet if it adapted to a tropical environment
>Wiglett is Diglett if their ancestor adapted to a tropical environment
Unnecessary

I will not accept that these are supposedly so fundamentally different that one deserves a new dex entry but not the other

>>59183007
>Pokemon with a Common ancestor
They don't have a common ancestor. They're just random Pokemon who happen to look/act the same. Like Sinestea and Poltchageist are just two completely different ghosts who happened to both inhabit tea containers.

>>59182767
They are different Pokemon, really. But they would have been backlash if they did it that way back then. Now that we are over 1000 mons anyway it would have been ok to do so I feel

>>59183007
>>59182848
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convergent_evolution

>>59182767
they did exactly that in gen 5 and you zoomzooms cried about it thobeit

>>59182767
Do you also want Wormadam to each have a different dex number?

>>59183007
Wigletts are eelektross that evolved to be more diglett like.

>>59183859
I wouldn't object desu

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Playing GO is funny when you've only played the older games and don't know all these new Pokemon or variants
>wild pokemon on screen
>"a wild Meowth appeared!"
>OH MY GOD JESUS CHRIST WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT THING THATS NOT A MEOWTH