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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