As Generation 7 begins to close its doors, I decided to look back on a certain Pokemon that has never been released since Generation 6: AZ's Floette, or officially known as Eternal Flower Floette. Many of you may have heard about this event, as it's the first to go completely unused in a Pokemon game. This Pokemon is quite unique and notorious as a result. I have done some digging myself and decided to document some stuff regarding this, as well as ironing out some rumors as well. The reason Eternal Flower Floette is the first Pokemon to go unused is because Events for Generation 6 are no longer run. As a result of this fact and how you cannot transfer Generation 7 Pokemon - regardless of the generation they were introduced - to Generation 6, Eternal Flower Floette is officially unused. This will never change. If it is released in Generation 7 later, however, it will not be unused there, but still in Generation 6 due to these facts. So, this is Eternal Flower Floette, with the Normal and Shiny Sprites (left and middle). Apologies for the resolution and present-ability, finding the animated models is a nightmare. As you can see, it is quite different to the normal Floette on the far right. It holds the flower in the opposite direction, and has a different coloration and general model. The Non-Shiny model for Eternal Flower Floette is also used during the AZ Cutscene in the ending of Pokemon X and Y. It's quite comical to look at when you know it's a battle sprite, but the scene is still cute and tear-jerking when you know the lore. It's still extremely unusual to see how it was never released during the XY Era. After all, it is a big part of the lore. Smogon has an analysis page for this Floette, as there's a policy to document all Pokemon in preparation for release. Obviously, Floette has sort of...not been released. Anyway, as you can very well see, this Floette has obnoxious stats in comparison to the original. In fact, the original Floette has 371 BST, while Eternal Flower Floette has 551 BST! A massive increase! The stats gear it towards being a Choice Scarf user or possibly a Life Orb attacker. Smogon played around the idea of a Wish Tank, and I agree that it would work well like that, especially with its unique attack. The differences don't end here either. Normal Floette gets Ally Switch, which this variant does not. What this variant does get is its own signature move in Light of Ruin, which is a 140 Base Power, 90 Base Accuracy move that deals half the damage in recoil. It also has a unique cry. This is the normal cry. Due to being an Event, Eternal Flower Floette has no access to Egg Moves. Luckily, the Flabebe Line only get these Egg Moves;
Eternal Flower Floette also gets its own Pokedex Entries in Pokemon Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon. Ultra Sun: The flower it's holding can no longer be found blooming anywhere. It's also thought to contain terrifying power. Ultra Moon: Terrifying energy is concealed within its ominous flower, but Floette still swings it about innocently. So, the flower the Pokedex is talking about must be the "Eternal Flower".
The funny thing is, Pokemon Bank itself actually has no hackcheck, which allows players to upload clearly hacked Pokemon into the system without punishment. I, myself, have tested Eternal Flower Floette in-game thanks to the QR Code Exploit back in the XY-ORAS era. I still have it...in Bank. Have had for quite a few years now, actually! Pokemon Bank reads the stats perfectly fine, and even has a sprite for it. Hell, it lists Light of Ruin with no problem either. So, what gives? It's clearly intended for use at some point, why hasn't it? It's been in the files for multiple generations, plus Bank. They also used Eternal Flower Floette for debugging in Bank in the past. Given how this Pokemon is completely in limbo right now, I don't really know what to say about its future. Given the Pokedex Data being added in USUM, one could say that it is ready to be introduced. However, there have been many opportunities TO release it in the past. Pokemon Generations Episode 18 (the finale that featured AZ), the end of the XY Anime, Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire since they mention AZ, the middle of the USUM Era due to the Pokedex Data...so many have been missed. It's so, so weird. If it isn't released by Generation 8, I'm pretty sure it'll be absent entirely in the eventual Main Series Switch Games. It's usually how Nintendo and Game Freak operate: use the old games as a base, then reset completely when the next console rolls around. In which, this really cool Event Pokemon will simply fade into obscurity. I really don't want that to happen, since it'll become the first official Unused Pokemon. So there we have it as it stands: Eternal Flower Floette has a ton of stuff going for it, but it has yet to be released. Will it ever happen? Well, I don't want to doubt it. It's honestly got a really cool design and a lot of interesting lore. It would be cruel not to give the Pokemon out for some cool event with AZ in Generation 8. I feel this could be the best way to release it at this point: as a cross-generational event, like the Celebi and Zorua, and Legendary Beasts and Zoroark Movie Tie-Ins. Those events were really cool and encouraged utilizing transfer features. Here, it could work just as well. Let's just sit back and hope this doesn't become a beta element for a second time...
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To be more accurate, the name is Tārban. It's been almost a month since I last made an article, and I apologize for that. I'm not very good at upkeeping blogs, but I am still alive! So I'm continuing on the "Cut Pokemon" article trend since I haven't really got any new, expansive theories to bring out. This one is from the Spaceworld Demo, and will be familiar to uhhh basically all of you. So, meet that "Shellder". Yep, you're seeing this. A Pokemon called Tārban was in the demo, and it was Slowbro's shell all alone. However, it was quite unfinished.
For starters, Tārban only learned three moves: Harden, Water Gun and Body Slam. Not exactly great, huh? It didn't have the stats finished either (50 all around like the others that had them dummied out), so we don't really know what it was meant to be. It was Mono Water Type, with no evolution links. Overall, just, well, unfinished. It's quite jarring, especially since it has no real link to the Slowpoke or Shellder lines. It doesn't evolve from Shellder at any level - in fact, it's standalone - nor does it influence the evolution from Slowpoke into Slowking (the King's Rock WAS implemented already, so it makes sense). Overall, it's just a little fat shell that does nothing. I'm pretty sure the reason for its removal was because of the anime and the previous games. They all specify the thing on Slowbro's tail is a Shellder, rather than anything else. Thus, Tārban would create some weird lore issues if it were to be added then or even now. I do hope Tārban comes in another game though, since the idea of something linking two evolution lines would be so cool. Like Remoraid with the Mantyke line! Goofy evolutions like that tickle me. |
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