Because I have to take time out of playing the game to actually get that dealt with. I’m missing some Sword Exclusives… and I’m missing some Pokemon that only evolve by trading. At the time of this writing I’ve mostly completed my Crown Tundra and Isle of Armor Pokedex. You’re asking for extra steps with another player that don’t really enhance the gameplay. If the item can do it, just let the item do it. I dislike trade evolutions, but what I really dislike is trade evolutions that require a specific item. Onix has three forms and its later forms are just… less good. It still looks too short, it has a weirdly flat face, it has crystals now for some reason, and what’s with the blue hexagons? Oh, and the crystals aren’t even sharp so it looks LESS dangerous than Steelix did. Shrink that thing down and we’ve got a much better serpent. It seriously looks like this thing needs to keep growing, and it’s all because of its ridiculous, massive head. ![]() This thing is thirty feet long but because its head is so big compared to the rest of it, it looks more childish than Onix does. The metallic sheen and tail spike are cool, and I do actually really like the head redesign, but the crossbars don’t strike me as anything that do anything but make it harder to go through tunnels, they look kind of goofy like stubby arms and legs, and Steelix’s huge head makes its body look short. I really like the design of this long, hard beast. Its size makes it scary, it blends in with the terrain enough to make it clear why it’s advantageous to look like that, and it’s design is simple but also detailed enough to not look silly. Onix is a huge serpent made of boulders stuck together, with an inexplicable spike on its head, and you know what? It gets the point across. Look, I’m not saying Onix is inherently a metaphor or was designed to be one, but just as we use euphemisms in the real world, there is absolutely no way that the men of Kanto don’t refer to their “Rock Snake Pocket Monster” and mean something entirely different from an actual Onix.
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