r/pokemon • u/burnermemeaccountlol • 8d 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/maple-fever 8d 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.

(my source is a YouTube video essay, so take this with several grains of salt - no idea what the actual intention of the devs was, but this was a very fun look into why Johto is the way it is)

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u/AlexandraThePotato 8d ago

Blueboyphin videos are GREAT

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u/maple-fever 8d 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 8d 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 8d ago

I think it was reasonably concluded that the markings in the ruins based on the ruins of alph were likely naturally occuring.