The Delta Species

The Delta Species are Pokemon with a rare mutation that causes a really different typing, different appearance, and (occasionally) different Abilities. Before you go off and say that this already has been, or will be, implemented, remember that this ain't your ordinary Combee/Snow Combee. A Delta Combee, for example, could bee Poison/Grass as opposed to Ice/Bug. These creatures would behave like a regular Pokemon prior to hatching. In other words, Delta Species hatch from the same kind of Egg as its Regular, Shiny, Albino, and Melanistic (or as I call it, Shiny Albinos) counterparts. If a user is lucky enough to hatch a Delta Species, there will be a blue lowercase Greek letter Delta next to the gender and all other such symbols. Delta Species can Mega Evolve if and when they can. Such Mega Stones have the word Delta in the name. Example: Niet has a Fairy-Type Delta Absol who is holding a Delta Absolite. Upon Mega Evolution the Delta Absol becomes Fairy/Flying-Type. Delta Species, in terms of regular Evolution, have all the required methods as their non-Delta Species counterpart. A Delta Charm can be available to those who wish to Delta Hunt. This can be purchased with ZC in the same way as the Shiny and Uber Charms. This mutation is as rare as the Shiny, perhaps even rarer (though not as rare as the Albinos). There will always be a chance at a randomly hatched Delta Species. There will be a Deltadex, and the type and appearance of each species is up to the only Absol that can code here (AKA Niet). Positives: Diversity Negatives: None that I can find. Critique me that is the only way anybody can get this right is to critique!!!!!!!

Going to slide this here because technically it was rejected. I know Delta species isn't exactly inverted Pokemon (or really type change) to a extent but the issues in that thread implies here. The staff (Graphic Team) will have to take the time to actully come up with delta Pokemon and seeing how they are working on things such as megas and other pieces of artwork, this will be great.. Also, did you get delta Pokemon from Pokemon Insurgence or the TCG? Cause while they do have similar ideals, those are two entirely different things.

I'm kinda against this :/ First reason is that I can think entirely of Pokémon Insurgence with their Delta Pokémon and Delta Megas (Delta Venusaurite for example). And if implemented, would be kinda idea stealing in a way. Second reason is that.. don't we already have Melanistic Pokémon as top target? Why expand, or duplicate (?), the amount of Pokémon if we already have enough (imo)? Also, there will be Gen 7 coming up next year, so the spriting team should work in "official expansion" instead of basically fakemons?

No support. While it sounds nice on paper like Ilyriss said, Gen 7 has already been announced and once it comes out that's however many Pokemon with however many type variations they have for the graphics team to work on plus this idea. Not to mention it would affect the already existing 721 Pokemon plus PFQ exclusives and add another dex type on top of the normal, Shiny, Albino and Melan dex which is way too much work for just one coder (who doesn't even have the rest of the site done yet, no offense Niet just saying your plate's already full with the recode) and such a small art team. We already have a super rare Pokemon type to hunt, Melanistics. We don't really need another one. In addition to the above, how would this be implemented? How would you be able to pair the Pokemon with the extra type?

This doesn't need to happen right away. I would rather have this implemented when the apparently ADD Absol is able to. And I would like to remind you that if Niet finds this worth the effort, he will do it no matter how much code there is to it. The Delta Species aren't as rare as the Melanistics, Ilyriss. I believe I typed it out at the beginning of the post.

But following the idea that Delta Pokémon are entirely new pokémon based on existent ones, there are shiny versions of it and consequently, albinos and melans. So yes, if the idea is implemented, will be Delta melans. I believe my argument of expanding the top targets in PFQ is valid.

I actually really like delta Pokemon. I'm sure they could do it when they have time. It would take a while, but dammit, I want my electric ralts.

Fun fact: Already planned. Like ages ago. The thread we have for it is quite literally 3 years old. We're still working on other things, unfortunately - but yeah. So uh. Look forward to it? ;) Edit: Also - just want to add. In this thread - >Many people making assumptions about things when they either don't know what they're talking about or they've simply got it completely wrong. No offence intended - but let me pose the following: Why would the sprite dramatically change? In the cards, delta Pokémon get an aura of their type-change. They don't physically change. And an aura is... With the right coding knowledge... Very possible. Even if it was done by hand, outlining and then changing aura colours would be very easy - many art programs (SAI, for example) have a hue slider (and other things, it's not just hue but you get the idea xD) and such to allow for easy colour alterations to the selected layer. :D

To be fair, I think some people (myself included) were thinking about Pokemon Insurgence Delta Pokemon, rather than the TCG Delta Pokemon (which I assume that's what you mean based on the mention of cards). Because of the success of the hack/fan game/whatever you call it, people equate Delta Pokemon to the one from that. That's why I ask the person of this thread if they were referring to the TCG Delta or the Insurgence Delta. ^^

Think of it this way. That's not Pokémon-based. Not canon. Sure it's based around Pokémon, but that's far from actually being a canon-accepted variation of Pokémon - and since we're about sticking to the actual franchise (and only deviating minorly where it makes sense), it would be disloyal of us (and in my personal opinion, rather disrespectful) to turn around and use a non-canon variation of something that they already have canon variations of.(Bolded for emphasis and nothing else :) ) This situation poses the question of - Why would we use a different variation of something that is already perfectly and validly explained and accepted within the canon universe of the Pokémon franchise?