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I'm sorry the "new" style disappoints you. I'm glad there's probably some of these edits you actually like. But yeah, The albino was "washed out" and the colour jump was likely off. I think exactly as I explained in my previous post about Pokemon version albinos. I do kinda feel like a portion of what I said was missed, so do pardon me piecing apart your post to answer. Last Paragraph of my post. Bolded 2 sentences. Pokemon are based upon a rainbow of creatures. All 800+ of them. Pokemon use aspects of stuff in real life, apply it to some degree, and add their own mix to things. This is why I pointed out Pokemon like Purrlion and Shiny Tauros. Albinos, in real life, are primarily white with few tints, where as Pokemon are of various colours and can literally make a rainbow if you line them up right. When Albinos, and by extension Melans, were 1st released, they were simply done however, even so far as taking away the lining. It was only Looker, Ledah, Sei and Mila. Making them ghosts. They all looked the same. While yes, in real life, some albinos would typically be white and such, Like I explained in my quote above. To which, I bring up again (and do excuse me for sounding like a broken record) Pokemon aren't all the same. What we did and what the Art Team hold by, is that Pokemon are colourful. We have their albinos and melans continue on with what we already have established by seeing their normal and shiny. Instead of dulling or making the colours white, or saturating or making colours black. We continue on and have the albino and melan be different to normal and shiny. Having each version be different. Have each one still be colourful. Granted we continue with having Albinos be called as such, even though they're actually better called leucistic, or something else entirely. Leucistic seems to be the closest term. I'm sorry but the melan being a completely different colour in melan forme makes sense where as the albinos don't? So its fine that a Pokemon can be shifted to another and darkened for the melan, but doing the same thing but lightening them for Albinos (Again, actually leucistic) isn't? Frankly, it makes me happy to hear one of the 2 makes sense. Though, allow me to note that if that Pokemon's normal is purple but the shiny is say, grey. That Melan isn't going to be red or blue. It wouldn't then be colourful. If said shiny is say, yellow-tinted grey, The melan would have a slight tint in it as well, but not very vibrant. A Missed opportunity to follow real life logic to something that doesn't hold all of said logic? Its like trying to get water from a bucket with holes. The argument is to make them like real albinos to creatures vast in colour. To a System we have, which is following the pattern present in the normal and shiny and reflecting that in the albino and melan. To keep them colourful. So, by that logic, in making them more "realistic", that means bug type Pokemon, like Heracross are incredibly incorrect. As, if I vaguely recall, Rhino beetles and Hercules beetles can be told apart from being rare or albino by the the colour of their eyes. That most insects don't actually have albinos and the closest thing to albinos are variants that also happen to be white or if they're shedding their exoskeletons, as they're soft and very light when they do. Some of which then turn white. The whole site's only indicator of a Bug type being albino would be the red star by its name. That's also rather boring. If you really want to really want us to put more realism into Pokemon, Then Pokemon that have no melanin would not have a melanistic (i.e: Magnemite.) Yes, it surely would be 'easier', to void the over 800+ Pokemon of majority of colour. Or even just having the very slight of tints. Then most Pokemon would lose some of their markings, which is also boring and I'd be sure some people would like to still see. Some Albinos we currently have, I personally think could be lighter, as we have a few dark ones. But no where near the 'realistic' approach. I would also simply just put a suggestion to properly name These Pokemon, from Albino to Leucistic, as they should be, as again, leucistic is the closer term than albino. You feel as such, and that's perfectly fine. I'm sure a number of people follow the same idea as you do, as evident from a few people who commented in this thread recently. But not everyone. I personally feel that if a Pokemon has an evolution, the colours need to be worked on together. I'm also very much sure that there are also quite the number of people who also care about what the colours look like. Their colours have a pattern that match its normal or shiny. Some Pokemon lines, like Chansey's line, have a unique thing that actually ties the whole line together, with Chansey being the odd ball out with its shiny. This concept gets followed in the albino and melan. I also feel that if the Pokemon has a Sub species/form-change/Regional variant/Site Exclusive variant, they should be worked on together. If they have the same base species name, they should have their colours continued to be different through their names as they follow through with being albino and melan. The hard on restriction of "can't use this colour cause its on this one" will break because of it sometimes, but it very much doesn't hinder us from finding something that works and matches them. This follows up with Shiny Ninetales and Shiny Alolan Vulpix/Ninetales, as their purples are slightly different from each other. Their melans pretty much end up being similar to each other. But their albinos would be very much different. I'm also sorry you think that studying the sprites of Pokemon, The patterns they have, the colours that link between evolution or to variants isn't the 'best product'. That Making sure that Albino and melans that have Gender differences keep the same dimorphism established in the normal and shiny instead of any what colour isn't the 'best'. That going through few hours to days of conversing about colours to get on a similar page that 9 other people with varying minds, likes and preferences. Because despite how you, and a number of individuals, who don't care what or how its done so long as its good an makes sense. We do. Cause, funnily enough, we also very much love the site and love Pokemon. And we took up the "silly rules", as you say, to make them as best we can.