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Were/are alpha pokemon real?? I grew up with my mother telling me stories about an alpha ursaring that totally definitely lived in the woods and would come eat me if I didn’t sleep at my bedtime. I grew up, thought it was completely fake, then my grandmother casually mentioned the TEN FOOT TALL ursaring skeleton excavated in the woods decades back?? So. I have questions?? Are they any different from weirdly big pokemon? Why don’t we see them anymore? Or . Maybe we do? I’m so out of the loop man what

alpha pokemon are a documented occurrence, yes! the term is used to refer particularly large, aggressive pokemon found in hisui before the region was industrialized. there's evidence of their existence in other regions, but hisui is where we see some of the best observations about them.

there is a marked difference between them and just particularly large individuals of a species, as we have notes distinguishing them by their territorial behavior and aggression towards both humans and pokemon. based on those qualities, we can guess that alpha pokemon likely had some sort of hormone imbalance causing excess testosterone- similar to the effect that pokerus has on a pokemon's system. there are even some scholars who theorize that alpha pokemon were wild pokemon that were infected with pokerus early on and survived to maturity!

as for why we don't really see them anymore, it's probably because being that large is...well, it's really tough on the body! being bigger and stronger means you need more resources, and it's not a guarantee that you're going to impress a potential mate to pass your genes on. being conspicuous can also have its downsides, especially as humans have expanded into formerly-wild areas. it doesn't matter if you win a lot of fights if you don't survive long enough to reproduce. it's possible there may still be some alpha pokemon out in more remote parts of the world, but if someone found them today, we would definitely hear about it.

So were the other Lv40 Pokémon roaming around at the beginning of the game 💀

Shiny Lopunny PMD oc concept with inspiration from Mega Lopunny

I'm sorry but Alpha Samurott sounds like more of a motor than Pokemon and I cannot get over it

Alpha pokemon are still awesome like

Look at this thing? Huge fucking pigeon. Incredible.

After all this time with Legends Arceus, I finally got my first ever shiny Alpha pokemon!! And he wasn't even a planned hunt, I did a random single outbreak to just reset for outbreaks for a potential shiny alpha buizel im looking for for my side files Npc shiny quest!

He is such a good boy and I don't know if i should evolve himb ;w;

Now I need to track down a normal male alpha sneasel and then I got 'Ingo and Emmet' XD

Pokémon Legends Arceus photo dump featuring my Hisuian Typhlosion and my alpha Espeon :3

This game is literally so beautiful if we got a pkm game with these graphics, a similiar game play loop and catching mechanics but with a story and OST as strong as in Scarlet/Violet I would be at peace

Kitties!

ALPHA PIKACHU LEGENDS ARCEUS

Art fight attack against a lot of @psychic-nature/@mew-sanctuary's Mews! I couldn't pick just one

Alpha Hisuian Typhlosion oc! his name is Mystic!

hisuian family