Side Note: the 512 Pokemon in Idol 2 [permalink]
Posted by Frost on 17 May 2009 at 9:25pm PDT
People keep asking where we got 512 Pokemon from. This is the last time I'm going to explain it:
There are 493 Pokemon according to the Pokedex.
494 - Attack Deoxys
495 - Defense Deoxys
496 - Speed Deoxys
497 - Ground Wormadam
498 - Steel Wormadam
499 - Origin Giratina
500 - Sky Shaymin
501 - Fan Rotom
502 - Frost Rotom
503 - Heat Rotom
504 - Mow Rotom
505 - Wash Rotom
All of these extra Pokemon have their own slot in the game's internal code, so they were easy choices to include. The rest were:
506 - Hail Castform
507 - Sun Castform
508 - Rain Castform
509 - Ground Burmy
510 - Steel Burmy
511 - East Shellos
512 - East Gastrodon
These extra Pokemon forms are, other than Unown, the only ones that have distinguished forms/cards in the TCG. As for Unown, the 28 different letters/symbols of Unown aren't that different from each other, plus how many people care about the 28 different Unowns in the first place? Other than that, Overcast Cherrim is pretty much ignored by every aspect of the franchise, so it was expendable. And we certainly weren't including 18 different Arceus that look exactly the same, other than typing and some minor color changes, nor were we including Pokemon with even less important alternate "forms" like Spinda or the Pokemon with gender differences.
So there you go. 512 Pokemon.
There are 493 Pokemon according to the Pokedex.
494 - Attack Deoxys
495 - Defense Deoxys
496 - Speed Deoxys
497 - Ground Wormadam
498 - Steel Wormadam
499 - Origin Giratina
500 - Sky Shaymin
501 - Fan Rotom
502 - Frost Rotom
503 - Heat Rotom
504 - Mow Rotom
505 - Wash Rotom
All of these extra Pokemon have their own slot in the game's internal code, so they were easy choices to include. The rest were:
506 - Hail Castform
507 - Sun Castform
508 - Rain Castform
509 - Ground Burmy
510 - Steel Burmy
511 - East Shellos
512 - East Gastrodon
These extra Pokemon forms are, other than Unown, the only ones that have distinguished forms/cards in the TCG. As for Unown, the 28 different letters/symbols of Unown aren't that different from each other, plus how many people care about the 28 different Unowns in the first place? Other than that, Overcast Cherrim is pretty much ignored by every aspect of the franchise, so it was expendable. And we certainly weren't including 18 different Arceus that look exactly the same, other than typing and some minor color changes, nor were we including Pokemon with even less important alternate "forms" like Spinda or the Pokemon with gender differences.
So there you go. 512 Pokemon.
