"Fusion" Pokemon?

[Benzo]

This is just for discussion, something I think would be cool to have added into the Pokémon games.

I will start off with asking: What do you think about fusing Pokemon together to get a new Pokémon?

Not like mixing the designs from two Pokémon together, but getting say a Fire + psychic type from breeding two (say Torchic and Solosis) to make a new Pokémon? No resemblances from the two at all.

I think that you could take two Pokémon, take them to someplace in a new game, like near the breeding house- place two Pokémon in there, and, receive a fused Pokémon in return.

I base this thought on how Zygarde has "%" forms, which this information came out recently.

IMO, there needs to be an addition to the Fairy, Steel, Dark, and Poison Pokémon lists. Perhaps Ice as well.

This would generate new Pokémon, a new mechanic, and, some good possible combinations to mix things up a bit. And it could not only bring in new Pokémon, but it will make use of some Pokémon that don't really get that much use in so many cases.

Not that the Fused Pokémon would be huge power-house Pokémon, the base stats and move sets could be adjusted to make them competitive and passive.

What do you all think?

 

[P_A]

Bring it on! Would be a breath of fresh air in a somewhat stagnating game series. Don't get me wrong, I still love the games, but with each new iteration I find less and less exciting new content. It might also be interesting to be able to breed and/or fuse "prime" pokemon.

 

[Benzo]

It would be awesome to get say for example an Ice/Fire type from a fusion result. Perhaps taking Normal types and fusing them with single-type such as Fire (even though Pyroar is Normal/Fire along with a small handful of others which are Normal/???)- this could expand typing and give the boost in variety to the battle scene.

Abilities could be expanded as well- the fused Pokémon could take on one or the other abilities from the Original two Pokémon. Or there could be a new ability for it in which it could only have that ability from the result of the fusion process.

Primal Fusion sounds great, don't get me wrong- but I do not want to see more power-house legends. Perhaps if you do fuse say Primal Groudon with a compatible fuseing Pokémon, your result would be a mini-mix version of the legend that adds a second typing to it, like Electric/Ground. Alhough it would be sorta cool to see Rayquaza + Groudon blend.

 

[vaporeon]

I was thinking of an idea where you could cross breed pokemon for stats and typing, like if you bred a pidgeot with a zapdos, you could get a pidgey with lightning attack and it becomes part electric.

 

[P_A]

That wouldn't be bad either. I think it might be hard to code all these changes into a game - but perhaps deleting all the excess crap - errrr, excuse me, .... stuff, like costumes (pants, shoes, shirts, hats, bags) out of the game might give enough room to make some interesting changes.

 

[vaporeon]

That wouldn't be bad either. I think it might be hard to code all these changes into a game - but perhaps deleting all the excess crap - errrr, excuse me, .... stuff, like costumes (pants, shoes, shirts, hats, bags) out of the game might give enough room to make some interesting changes.

A 3ds game cart has a max of 8bg on it so they can add all the stuff they would like.

 

[P_A]

Well, I honestly have no idea how much room it might take, but allowing for all the permutations sounds like a lot. If they take the time and effort to do this right, there's a lot of money to be made - considering how many people appreciate the series already.

 

[Benzo]

Look at how many Pokémon have potential as it is if a few things changed such as Base Stat levels. Abilities sometimes do no justice for it if it does have good Base Stats making it not competitive-playable. I understand that not every Pokémon is supposed to be battle worthy (in game in story mode it comes in handy, but only to get you through the story mode)- but out of the 720 available only a handful make the cut (including taking out legendries makes that list even shorter).

If GF does introduce a new mechanic to boost Pokémon to a higher status of being useable for competition besides a new form or evolution- them meta would get the breath of fresh air it needs to not become stale.

Fusing or even cross-breeding could mix it up so much, it will not only open the list for more anticipatable Pokémon to be used for competitions but expand on the strategy level as well.

Considering that it could be in December that we get the new format rules like previously done, the only thing I see that could be able to change up what we have now that GF could do is to release Gen 7 to really boost the scene from what it is now. To me, adding in new Pokémon is great and all, but, something needs to be done to change the game in a way that opens up more strategy besides singling out certain Pokémon to be battle worthy on the current system we have now.

I love the games, don't get me wrong- but adding new forms or adding just a new batch where only 4 or 5 (and legends that will not be allowed to battle) are worth using is not going to keep me interested in the competitive scene much longer. Even though this is an idea to be able to cross-breed or fuse, I just do not know what could shake it up so much that it is not only impressive, but competitive changing on a level that really gives team building that fun factor that is already there but fading fast due to repetitiveness and the lack of available battlers we have now.

 

[vaporeon]

Well, I honestly have no idea how much room it might take, but allowing for all the permutations sounds like a lot. If they take the time and effort to do this right, there's a lot of money to be made - considering how many people appreciate the series already.

It would be more of a type replacement rather than changing the model any. Pidgeot would become Electric/Flying rather than its Normal/Flying. We already had a electric pidgeot in the TCG so this is one I would like to see.

 

[P_A]

I also think it would be good if we could de-fusion the pokemon as well. My reasoning is that if you have raised a particular pokemon through breeding and effort values, and are only using it to get a particular fusion pokemon, it may have times where you need that particular pokemon back to make another specific pokemon. So I'd never want them to be locked in after a fusion.

 

[vaporeon]

I also think it would be good if we could de-fusion the pokemon as well. My reasoning is that if you have raised a particular pokemon through breeding and effort values, and are only using it to get a particular fusion pokemon, it may have times where you need that particular pokemon back to make another specific pokemon. So I'd never want them to be locked in after a fusion.

That would be nice. Its so annoying to have to re-breed a pokemon just because you want a different hidden power.