This Pokémon's Got An Evolution After 23 Years, And It's Such A Troll - Kotaku

With Pokémon Scarlet and Violet now astir arsenic comprehensively spoiled arsenic a crippled tin beryllium anterior to release, particularly aft yesterday’s 22-and-a-half hr livestreaming of the game, radical are starting to dive into immoderate of the nitty gritty spoilers you whitethorn not deliberation to inquire astir anterior to release. Most of these, we’re avoiding proceeding ourselves, fto unsocial telling you, but 1 is excessively bully to miss.

Via GamesRadar, Dunsparce, the Gen 2 Pokémon from 1999, is yet getting its archetypal evolution. And it’s a beauteous portion of trolling, from the looks of it.

Mostly due to the fact that the gag is—and carnivore with me, Dunsparce stans—entirely harmless. At 23-years-old, Dunsparce has been 1 of Pokémon’s astir unloved monsters. The mediocre Normal-type “Land Snake Pokémon” is bland to look at, a benignant of squirmy bug-thing you that if you saw it successful a pond you’d wonderment if it needs cleaning. It has vestigial wings that let it to hardly float, arsenic if mocking the beast with the always-denied anticipation of flight. It has eyes, but it can’t unfastened them. The mediocre bastard happening conscionable lives its miserable beingness successful Diglett tunnels, ne'er evolving from nor into anything. Until now!

People of Earth, fto maine present you to: Dudunsparce!

That’s genuinely what it’s called; they conscionable added a ‘Du’ to the commencement of the name. That naming unsocial already the monster dependable similar a jeer, like, duh. But it gets mode better/worse than that. If you’re wondering what’s really antithetic here, past you’ve caught connected to what radical are fixated connected close now. Dudunsparce is conscionable a somewhat longer Dunsparce.

Seriously, astatine archetypal glimpse you won’t announcement immoderate difference. Look again and you tin spot it’s present made of 4 segments, alternatively than two, and sports an other brace of near-pointless wings connected its backs. Oh, and has a 3rd spike connected its non-mouth, and a bluish headdress connected its drill tail.

It’s arsenic if they were thinking, “People person been begging for Dunsparce to yet get its Caterpie-like translation for decades. Let’s...let’s wholly ruin that for them.”

Granted, it’s imaginable they ne'er intended for this to beryllium a troll astatine all. Slightly incremental evolutions aren’t unheard of, but there’s a crushed radical were expecting thing much here. Weedle metamorphoses into Beedrill. Larvitar gets to germinate into Tyranitar. Magikarp gets to go the almighty Gyrados. But Dunsparce? It gets Dudunsparce, it’s the aforesaid but conscionable a small spot much of it. And let’s beryllium honest, the champion it could ever anticipation for is Dududunsparce.