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If this beta Tangela's beta pre evolution returns with the beta evolution I'm calling it Doe.

Also if I ever get back into Neopets then calling this Meowclops Doe also.

Also Doe reminds me of Mawile.

I'm mad there is no fanart where Doe is one of these.

I know all Realtors are Palossands.

I can also see Doe as a Espurr and Meowstic line.

Daily Pokemon Review Day 339 - Espurr and Meowstic One of X/Y's most memeable mons, the Espurr family is another interesting line, notably because gender differences which automatically pique my interest in a pokemon. Does it build up and pay off or is this another "Hey, it's that thing, I forgot about that haha" day? Starting design, Espurr is a bipedal kitten mon that seems based on the scottish fold variety. It has a folded over ears, big lavender eyes that seem devoid of all emotion and thoughts, and some white tips at the ends of its limbs and ears. It's very fluffy and adorable, which is presumably what you want out of first stage kitten mon, suck it glameow. Espurr's psychic nature probably draws inspiration from the japanese yokai Nekomata, which are former housecats that lived for a very long time until their tails split and they gained supernatural powers. Nice inspiration for a pokemon. Meowstic's appearance is dependend on Espurr's gender, with the Male being the predominantly dark blue with the greenish eyes and white accents, and the Female being predominantly white with yellow/red eyes and dark blue accents. Very good evolutions, keeping the cute and not going the ugly monster route that they could have, I appreciate that. Still a little not quite there for what I would want and a bit boring for a psychic cat yokai, but it's definitely a passable look. Onto battle, both of Meowstic's genders are mono Psychic and have the same Stat breakdown: 74 HP, 48 Attack, 76 Defense, 83 Special Attack, 81 Special Defense, and 104 Speed. The two genders do differentiate in one other regard; both share Keen Eye and Infiltrator as Abilities but as for Hidden Abilities Female Meow gets Competitive and Male Meow gets Prankster. Pretty easy to see who won that coinflip. Prankster and Infiltrator are both primo Abilities, but sadly don't add a lot to either Meowstic due to their incredibly average Stats. The best way to play is with a Male Prankster and do what literally every other Prankster mon does: Spam Screens or Thunder Wave. There are some good gets in the pool besides that playstyle, Nasty Plot is a key bonus alongside Calm Mind, Dark Pulse, Energy Ball, and more, but they're still largely wasted on Meowstic with its 83 Special Attack. At least the Speed is good so that helps Prankster quite a bit, but not enough to actually warrant using this mon in the competitive scene. Final Rating 4/10 Pulling my punches a bit, but even with that Espurr and Meowstic don't make it through the gauntlet very well. The nekomata aesthetic and the gender differences are very big bonus points for this family, it's just a shame that they forgot to study for the battle portion of the... - I hope this isn't an Electrode, because I need a Master Ball | Facebook

John Doe would be a Giratina since he distorts the player in a loop and changes forms.

Favorite Giratina Form | Pokémon Amino (aminoapps.com)

Images not mine but links are there.

Gotta Critique 'Em All (bogleech.com)

Neopets Meowclops Petpet Plushie - With Tags! | eBay

Gelanla | Pokemon Wack Wiki | Fandom

My Top 5 Favourite Mega Evolutions!! | Pokémon Amino (aminoapps.com)

Palossand - #770 - Serebii.net Pokédex

Randomly found these John Doe Game endings fandubs.

I hope we get a really good asmr of Maison Talo and the other Realtors someday.

Or a Weird Al sounding Doe asmr.

Videos not mine but link is there.

John Doe Ending 1 FANDUBBED | JOHN DOE VOICE | (read description) (youtube.com)

John Doe Ending 2 FANDUBBED | JOHN DOE VOICE | (read description) (youtube.com)

John Doe Ending 3/4 FANDUBBED | JOHN DOE VOICE | (read description) (youtube.com)

BetaPokemon Redesign #13-14 - Tangel, Gelanla

Redesigns for what would of been a baby stage and final stage for Tangela before Tangrowth. In my redesign, I reimagined them more as a cousin to Tangela.

Type: Grass

Tangela

Masterlist

Tangel: Grass: Breed a Tangela or Tangreeper with an Ivy Incense. Then level it up with friendship and Vine Whip.

Dex: A tiny creature whose vines are too small to cover it. It’s shy and likes to hide in the undergrowth of forests to sit in the mulch. The waste they leave behind is highly nutritious for gardens so these Pokemon are well liked among those just beginning to learn botany as well as professional botanists.

Tangreeper: Grass/Dark(?): Level up Tangela with Nature Power.

Dex: These Pokemon creep along the forest floors and among the trees with their vines. They’ve developed a control over the vines that cover their bodies that allows them to maneuver around with silent ease. They’re often a nuisance to those who are not botanists who know how to take care of them. They much prefer to creep around at night and like a cool, damp, habitat to live in. The longer the vines the older the Tangreeper is, and the more vibrant the color the healthier it is.

Ivy Incense: A rare incense that is only found in Tolba as the ingredients inside it are indigenous to the region and cannot be found anywhere else. It raises the power of Grass-type moves. It is used to breed a specific Pokemon.

Pokemon Sword and Shield will be coming out soon!

I COULD be drawing the new Pokemon that have been revealed or even the leaked Pokemon, but being the big weirdo I am, I felt the urge to draw unreleased beta Pokemon instead. 

Specifically, I wanted to draw Gelanla, the evolved form of Tangela that was in the beta version of Pokemon Gold and Silver.

Even though Inktober is over, I still wanted to try out some traditional art! So I drew up this Gelanla drawing on a 4 x 6 canvas! Hope you guys don’t mind!

The leaked Spaceworld Pokemon Gold demo that has redefined Gold and Silver

It’s not everyday that everything you know about your fandom as a child gets legitimately retconned.   The data mine from the Spaceworld demo of the original Pokemon Gold revealed so much cut material that was far into development that...it’s almost a distinct Pokedex.  A missing piece that somehow transports me to the news cycle before GS when I was twelve, making me question whether the release really happened, or whether I’ve really played the whole game that it was supposed to be.  This is the Dead Sea Scrolls of Pokemon fandom lore.

To celebrate, I’m going to do what I did when I was twelve - stare at the sprites and contemplate them.  Ahh, sprites. 

15+ Cut Evolutions

I just imagine hatching litters of baby Meowsy kittens today and I ask, why cut the baby form of Meowth?  Or the cute baby form of Tangela, Tangel?  Is Twinz, the ghostly twin spirit pre-evolution of Girafarig somehow not interesting enough to keep?  It only explains the entire nature of Girafarig’s species!  Also, remember Farfetch’d?  Well, you might if it got that evolution.  And I swear I already knew Ditto’s screaming metallic evolution, Animon, but then again I’ve always thought GameFreak telepathically feeds on the dreams of its fans and then uses them to create Pokemon.

Lost Across Time

We’ve known multiple cases of GameFreak cutting Pokemon and then adding them later, but we didn’t know how often this happens.  Tangrowth, Leafeon, Lickylicky, and Mime Jr. are all here, albeit with varying designs and different names.  I like the designs for Gelanla and Likk a lot more than Tangrowth and Lickylicky - why didn’t they keep that mouth poking out of the vines?  Lickylicky looks a lot better with whiskers!  (And somewhat like Whiscash...)  Also, Leafoen once had Celebi’s role! 

The last two are debatable, I guess, but I see Togedemaru and Flabebe.  Only, this electric chinchilla-shaped tiger cub, Tigrette has a round tiger evolution, Electiger.

Suspiciously Similar

Here are some other beta Pokemon that aren’t quite as obvious, but still oddly familiar.  The seal water starter is reminiscent of Oshawatt or Popplio’s line, while the anchor shark, Anchorage seems like a common ancestor between Sharpedo and Dhelmise.  We’ve known that they mix and divide designs when coming up with Pokemon since that picture of early Latias/Blaziken. 

The black bell cats, Rinring and Belboyant are distinct enough to be their own line since they have a theme of bells.  But as dark cats with a ring motif, they’re in the vicinity of almost every feline evolutionary line that comes after them.  Delcatty, Glameow, Liepard, and Espurr all have similar markings and half-ring motifs.  I’d still like to see these black belled cats true to their original theme in a future generation!

Created With a Different Theme in Mind

Apparently we don’t know Umbreon and Bellossom as well as we thought we did, because they were both designed as poison types!  Umbreon’s well-known yellow or blue lunar rings actually serve as a poison warning.  Bellossom’s origin also explains why her colors were changed between Generation 2 and 3 - without the poison type, it no longer made sense to color her purple, so they changed the petal colors to something more sunny. 

The presence of a Poison Stone for Bellossom, Umbreon, and the earlier Weepingbell evolution Belmut might indicate that the poison type was going to be major, until many of them were reclassified as dark types.  Also, Espeon evolves with a “Heart Stone” and Sunflora is Grass/Psychic!  That would have been helpful.

This isn’t scratching the surface of the demo really, and there are more unreleased Pokemon as well as beta versions of familiar ones to see.  The demo’s map of Johto is much bigger than the final region, spanning all of Japan, so with all that content cut, the game was clearly downsized mid production.  This is probably what Pokemon Gold looked like before Satoru Iwata had to reprogram it to fit the cartridge.

Hope you enjoyed this massive post!  Hey, I’m really happy about this.  Not only is there plenty to talk about with the Let’s Go announcement and the 2019 game, but this is leak is very special to me.  And I think any Pokemon fan from that era feels the same.

i love this weird and smug tangela evolution (?)

top 10 Great Pokemon designs that should have been in the final games

Tried my hand at the discarded Tangela line. I like them more than Tangrowth tbh. There’s some thematic dissonance because Tangela’s vine aren’t styled as hair like the others, but a few adjustments on the pre evo’s design would fix that easily. Shame they didn’t keep them.

To differentiate from Tangrowth I guess Gelanla could be a Grass/Dark type. Idk, I like odd type combinations. Are there Grass/Dark types already? Oh yeah, Nuzleaf, Shiftry and Cacturne. But Gelanla is still very different and would be a cool addition.

Blossomole sprite and thoughts

psycho jenny, but pokemon

I really love Tangel and Gelala (probably way more than real Tangrowth) so I wanted to draw the whole family that could have been!

I love the scrapped Pokémon designs from the Gold/Silver demo. I mean, Tangrowth is cool too, but I kind of wish they went with this creepy tangled mess.

A few of those nice beta-mons

Jaranra/Gelanla

Gamefreak created perfection, then scrapped it and went on to make Tangrowth instead. Why? I’m actually annoyed by this. Tangrowth is just a bigger Tangela with arms, while Jaranra is literally perfect. Look at her lack of actual feet! Look at that smile! Look at that beautifully styled, hair-mimicking mass of vines she probably uses as both arms and legs! She’s horrifying and lovely and deserves everything.

Bonus doodle:

Sprite edit of Gelanla I did for the fankid blog.

I had an alternative edit going with the theory those two bottom tentacles are actually red shoes, but it looked off enough that I really do think they’re meant to be tentacles.

Feel free to use if you’d like.

Tried to draw/color all in one layer (bg doesn’t count)