Variants thread. (The kind from before Gen VII.)

>franchise is over 20 (twenty) years old
>still no color variants beyond a single, usually shitty, shiny

explain yourself gamefreak

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Something like this?

>>32201524
>generation 8 only has a staggeringly low 47 new pokémon, the lowest yet. (also so gen 9 can be 151 away from 1000)
>to help make up for this, gen 8 introduces exactly 3 color variants for every single one of the now 849 pokémon
>shiny pokémon are no more; one of the three variants forms is the old shiny form, meaning all that in effect, all 802 pokémon gen two new pallets

Would you accept this?

>>32201664
if I can run a team of 6 milotics with unique typings and movesets, hell yeah

>>32201664
Yes

>>32201664
Okay, guess I had a seizure on the last line.

>shiny pokémon are no more; one of the three variant forms is the old shiny form. In effect, all 802 pokémon we currently have gain two new pallets

Also you can find these new pallets in the wild, but there's an item that lets you swap between them.

>>32201664
Yes. And instead of 849 new colors, they should select only half of them and give at leas a special move.

>>32201664
Color variants are version exclusive

>>32201664
absolutely
there are only a handful of new pokemon i've liked the past couple of gens, the rest are whatever
as long as you could find a variety in each route (read: stop shoving kanto mons everywhere) then it can still be interesting, even with a low number of new ones

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>>32201664
>People actually want this.
That is disgusting desu.
To be honest, if GameFreak should ever introduce a "pallet variation" feature that would affect every single Pokémon, it should rather be a more subtle, natural progression of colours instead of "Uhmagerd more shinies but no rarity". That shit would still be manageable to program, just like how they've programmed Spinda's millions of patterns. They've even done this before, actually, in Pokémon Stadium. Just make a feature that, depending on the personality value of every individual Pokémon, slightly alters the colours of said Pokémon's colour palette. Just small hue changes to every colour in the palette that would make every Pokémon just a little bit different from the rest of its kind. And then change the Shiny variant of all Pokémon so that it becomes extremely different from the main colour palettes. For example, all Feraligatr would still be blue, beige and red, albeit with different hues, but the Shiny would always be, for example, alligator green.

Other Pokémon could have hard-coded changes too, such as Aggron made of different kinds of metal akin to >>32201529. The Shiny variant here would then (most likely) be the most rare (in this case) metal, Gold/Diamond, or the most different-from-the-original one, Obsidian.

Some could of course also be Regional Variants, when the changes are very radical. Be even Regional Variants, who are essentially just alternate forms, would have their own colour palette variations.

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>>32201529
>double diamond

>>32201664
Absolutely. There are too many Pokemon already.