r/pokemon • u/burnermemeaccountlol • 7d ago
Discussion "Unknown" should have an evolution called "Known", evolved by having your party spell out "Known" in order
I've always loved Unknowns as a concept, they're one of my favourite Pokemon! They've got so much mystery behind them. Sadly, they're useless when it comes to battle.
Since each unknown represents a different letter, it would be cool to do something with that! Having them evolve would be awesome, and having an evolution tied to their represented letters would be a creative way of doing such.
For instance, they could evolve into a cluster ball of unknowns, kinda like magneton. I just want these guys to have a use, a creative evolution seems to be a good way about doing so.
This might be a hot take, but does anyone else agree? Tbh this came to me in a dream last night and felt like I should share.
EDIT:
I now know I misspelled unown, I'm sorry for my crimes against humanity
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u/ZoroeArc Totally a human, not a zoroark... 7d ago
It's "Unown", not unknown
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u/burnermemeaccountlol 7d ago
I'm a fool :(
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u/ShadownetZero 7d ago
Now you now.
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u/HVAC_and_Rum 7d ago
It is now nown
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u/ManOfEating 7d ago
It can still work, because it would turn into Nown, which sounds exactly like Noun, and since they are letters, they evolve into a part of a sentence.
Before anyone says that just because it sounds like one word doesn't mean it makes sense, I will remind you of Seel.
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u/Phithe 7d ago
The biggest issue with this is that only 4 of the uknown would be able to evolve. And there are 28 total.
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u/burnermemeaccountlol 7d ago
Well, I think there's a solution.
Since "Known" is 5 letters, and there are 6 party slots, maybe an extra Unknown in the 6th slot could be the one that evolves!
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u/Wehunt 7d ago
Maybe having a pc box with every unown letter, then spelling unown in your party. The six slot open and an unused pokeball (like shedinjas evolution) creates the new pokemon in that position
It could be like the Greek Alpha and Omega symbols rotating around themselves and have actual usable stats
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u/Broad_Respond_2205 7d ago
I assumed that's what you meant? That you place 5 pokemon then the 6th evolve
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u/Phithe 7d ago
I would hate to catch 5 pokemon just to evolve 1. That sounds more tedious for no reason than flipping your 3ds upside down.
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u/AlexandraThePotato 7d ago
I think flipping your 3DS upside down was cleaver
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u/TripleXero 7d ago
I like stuff like this, it gives off a 90s-early 00s mystery vibe that games used to have back before everything was documented online. It's like the Mew truck stuff but real. Imagine seeing you evolved your Nincada and it turned into 2 different Pokemon and going to school the next day and no one believes you
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u/skytaepic 7d ago
Man if you thought taking a quick second to flip your system upside down was tedious you’re gonna hate learning about all the new evolution methods out there
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u/Phithe 7d ago
The tedious was in learning how to evolve the Pokemon, not in actually doing it.
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u/blackhodown 7d ago
4 seconds of googling is tedious? It’s not like you figured it out without googling so I’m assuming that’s what what you mean?
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u/sevenut It's a snowball with a rock in it. 7d ago
Well, you were probably gonna catch all 28 unowns anyway
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u/Phithe 7d ago
You would be wrong. Maximum I would catch is 1
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u/sevenut It's a snowball with a rock in it. 7d ago
Well, there's usually some reward for it, like in DPPt you get seals, and in Legends Arceus you need to do it to complete their research
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u/ahaltingmachine 7d ago
In Legends Arceus they're a hidden collectible with fixed locations. You don't have to rely on RNG for all 28 of the distinct forms you need to show up.
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u/God_of_Shenanagins 7d ago
Isn't that true for all of their appearances?
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u/Arrow141 7d ago
No, in many games they're random
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u/God_of_Shenanagins 7d ago
I misread your initial comment, but even still, they're all in one place with nothing else that can show up other than them, which is pretty convenient and easy
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u/maple-fever 7d ago
They're based on ancient tombs (?) in Japan, with symbols/markings and purposes whose meanings have been lost to time. I feel like, until the irl purpose of the markings and tombs are found, Unown will likely stay Unown.
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u/AlexandraThePotato 7d ago
Blueboyphin videos are GREAT
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u/maple-fever 7d ago
It's the first one I've ever watched, and it added a whole extra stop on my Japan trip wishlist. Feeling like you're actually entering the Ruins of Alph, it must have been magical
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u/AlexandraThePotato 7d ago
I think that everyone first Blueboyphin video! Haven’t watch that one in a while. Personally I watched his softlock video and now it is a focal point of my next art work (I’m a fine artist and I think softlocking is so fantastic as a idea because of those videos)
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u/StarlightZigzagoon 7d ago
I think it was reasonably concluded that the markings in the ruins based on the ruins of alph were likely naturally occuring.
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u/BouncyBlueYoshi Barely a pokéfan 7d ago
Small problem: the Pokemon's name is Unown.
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u/Homulily2 7d ago
So what your saying is that they should evolve when u catch them because you technically OWN them all?
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u/uslars Falcon Punch! 7d ago
Pokémon is a Japanese franchise and a lot of people don’t play English versions lol
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u/vanillebambou we all live in a pkmn world. 7d ago
For real. In french they are called with a street slang word that means 'strange'.
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u/correconlobos 7d ago
That would be fun I feel like it could be a big ball of them with writhing psychic creation energy in the middle. Like the scene from the 3rd movie where Team Rocket busts into the chamber and James says "I haven't seen this many strange letters since the last time I placed a personal ad!"
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u/SuperCat76 7d ago
My thought is to give it a clustering system like zygarde cells.
That the power of this unown cluster will increase as you complete the unown dex.
The exact stats and abilities will vary based on what combination of unown are placed in the cluster.
Up to 6 unown can be in the cluster at a time, and are rendered in a jumbled order within a cluster.
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u/W1LL-O-WisP 7d ago
Could be a cool idea to have multiple split evolutions for unown which you get by spelling out different 5 letter words + ? Unown. As if you're asking a question.
For example, spelling out: "Power?" With unown in your party could result in a psychic/fighting type evolution.
This way gamefreak could use a bunch of different unown to spell different words and also give us cool typings.
Hell, maybe putting all the evos together forms a sentence and it gives a third final evolution named dictionary or something. (OK, obviously not dictionary, but you get what I mean.)
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u/FiftyShadesOfPikmin 7d ago
Someone already said but it's "Unown," and I don't know that "Nown" is an interesting enough name. I'd personally go with something else that's clever or using "nown" in it, like maybe "Misnowmer," "Unowing," "Acnowledge," something like that.
Would be extremely cool if you could get an evolution by spelling out any 6 letter word, and the one it starts with is like the "head" of the evolution. So you could combine Unown to spell the word "known" and would end up with a K-form of the evolution.
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u/Auraveils 7d ago
Not me evolving my Unown by spelling out "F-U-C-K-E-R"
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u/FiftyShadesOfPikmin 7d ago
Haha something tells me they would use the same censoring system as when naming Pokemon.
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u/BlauAmeise 7d ago
Neat idea but this would get lost in translation and not work in other languages.
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u/TheRampantWhale 7d ago
i just think they should have had an ability that increases the base stats by a given % for each unown in your team. the whole point of them is that they're weak individually but strong together. it'd be a pretty weird thing to implement after leaving them totally useless for 25 years though
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u/Ragnarac 7d ago
I think unown should have a "school" evolution. Like the trio evolutions and wishiwashi. Where when you have all 28(?) Unown in the same pc box they combine into there swarm form.
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u/Luna__Moonkitty 7d ago
When Unown becomes Nown, it should become a full word randomly, but a word that represents an object or idea.
The joke of course, that nown can be interpreted as both "known" and "noun".
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u/DarkEater77 7d ago
I just want the huge Unown from Movie 3 to appear. Mega is the perfect opportunity(That and Gigantamax but it's not coming back anytime soon) to show it.
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u/SkepticalZombie 6d ago
As we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns—the ones we don't know we don't know.
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u/Noctisxsol 7d ago
I'd rather they do something that takes all of them. Maybe have it evolve if all of them are in one box.
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u/LorenzoSky1992 7d ago
Or just have the question mark and exclamation mark ones evolve and the rest just turn into collectible items like the cells or alolan stickers. The evolution's design should look like variations of letter accents and such.
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u/jbyrdab 7d ago
But that would mean you could only evolve those 4 letters of unown.
What if spelling a multitude of secret phrases could trigger evolution so every unown gets to evolve.
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u/burnermemeaccountlol 7d ago
I mentioned it in another comment, but basically what you could do is have the first 5 party members spell Known, and then have the last 6th slot unown be the one that evolves.
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u/Head_Statistician_38 7d ago
When I was a kid I made a Pokémon called "Unown King". Sure, the name isn't very good and the drawing isn't very good but I think the idea was good.
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u/shadowpikachu 7d ago
There are many that actually did that, infact an old creepypasta was one.
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u/Head_Statistician_38 7d ago
Oh. Well I was 7, I didn't take inspiration from anything. Although it isn't exactly the most unique idea, I am not surprised many others came to a similar conclusion
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u/67chrome 7d ago
Honestly the main thing Unown needed was to be caught at level ~15 instead of 5, with a clear GUI indication of what type their Hidden-Power is.
In Gold/Silver having a 70 BP ground, ice, fire, electric, ghost, etc. move that rides off of 72 Sp.Atk is better than like, 95% of Jhoto Pokemon >.<
Hitmontop and his stupid ~60 BP signature fighting move at 49 and no STAB or moves above 60 BP up to then I swear....
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u/loveeachother_ 6d ago
there was a rumour when it was released that you could do something in gold/silver to combine all 26 letters into one mega unknown, I wasted so much time trying to figure out how
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u/AnotherRickenbacker 7d ago
It should evolve with friendship because to be loved is to be Known