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Why doesn't every region have teams trying to create new evolutions for Porygon? Realistically scientists would be making dozens of new Porygon evolutions every year.
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Gamefreak mindbroke Porygon as punishment for his crimes
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>>59038148
In a world where he wasn't, Porygon would be what Rotom is now.
Loaded onto every PC, every phone, managing all the boxes.
I like to imagine there's some niche group in the world of pokemon who use Porygon like a Linux distro so they don't have to put up with the Rotom company.
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>>59038229
Original Porygon program was held together by duct tape and glue and no one knew how it worked. Only that it did work. Porygon 2 was successful but it is difficult to tamper with the code further without it all falling apart.
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>>59039243
What would you install Porygon into?
>>59038735
I hate cloud computing.
Older software you bought on a disc used to come with a perpetual license. You just kept the serial numbers and put them in whenever you needed to install it on a new computer.
Porygon would be more like that.
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Im happy they acknowledged this.
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>>59043669
Huh, so they still haven't used Earthquake years later even if it's one of the best moves
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>>59038113
Why is Porygon normal type and not electric?
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>>59038201
I hate that the Poryphone is locked to the shitty mastersex phone game.
I'd be ecstatic if Prygon got a larger role in future games. Hell, I'd be praising GF if they made an updated PorygonZ or an alt third evolution that wasn't insane/corrupted.When I went to Japan last year, out of the five pokemon centers I visited, only one had a porygon plush (which had labelling for a limited event that wasn't even on any more). It now lives on the headboard of my bed alongside Tokyo Station train driver and both of the Kyoto Kimono Pikachus
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>>59044569
I really, really, really want a Mega Porygon-Z that’s just a hard MissingNo reference. The color scheme is already there, you just take PoryZ and make him flicker in and out via static and let his contorting poses give him the L shape now and again in his idle. Give him a unique ability “memory overflow” that causes the effects of his held item to apply twice (if possible) as a reference to the item dupe glitch.
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>>59044569
The fact that Porygon-Z exists and HASN'T been used for exploring Hyperspace Wormholes that vomit out Z-Power is mind boggling to me.
It's right there. It's right fucking there in its name: Z.
It's a pokemon made to explore other dimensions. It should be all up in every Ultra Beast's business, it should be harassing the piss out of Giratina in its distortion world, it should be bumming around with the Unown making Arceus give it weird looks.
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>>59038113
Porygon would be perfect for hacking or protecting digital infrastructure. Modifying its code allows for all kinds of alterations, making it a potential (anti-)virus.Too bad hackers never realized this possibility, as Arceus made sure that no living being would ever conceive these thoughts, following a reality-altering incident involving an electric rat.The only other pokemon capable of interacting with cyberspace would be Rotom, though it tends to take over a device, making it its body rather than a realm to traverse and operate in. Which a Porygon could conveniently exploit.
>>59047483
>it's a bike, how would it battle
ramming your opponents at high speeds is always an option
>>59047380
Has "Z" a special meaning in Japanese culture? Another example I can think of would be Dragon Ball Z.
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>>59047623
My best guess is that "Z" is the last letter of the English alphabet and the Japanese use it for things that should be the ending.
Dragon Ball Z was presumably given the Z because it was meant to be the final arc of Dragon Ball, but then it wasn't and dragged on.
Porygon-Z is the final evolution of Porygon.
As for Z-Power, I have no idea why they named it that. Maybe Z for Necrozma? But the in-universe characters giving it that name didn't know about Necrozma when they named it Z-Power, did they?
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>>59047623
>Has "Z" a special meaning in Japanese culture? Another example I can think of would be Dragon Ball Z
It's like omega, the last letter of an exotic alphabet that's a symbol of something ultimate or a final form.
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>>59047623
Porygon-Z is a 1337-sp33k spelling of Porygon2, he’s supposed to be a glitchy warez/modded version of Porygon, which is why it’s the same model but broken (inverted head and body) and why you need a “dubious disc” to upgrade to him. The Z has nothing to do with the usage in Z-moves (which probably do use it because it feels “ultimate” as the last letter)
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Porgyon's next form should be based on the internet, it's really the only place you can go after Porygon2.
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>>59047483
At the very least, Pokopia seems to be implying we'll finally be getting a new battle-eligible Rotom form in WW, they specifically bothered giving Stereo Rotom a brand new type and physical attributes despite not being a game with battles or having any relevance in that regard.
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>>59053170
No one's ever given a shit about morally dubious modifications to Pokemon in-universe in mainline Pokemon anyway unless it's someone like Team Rocket causing it, else Cara Liss would've been jailed for facilitating the creation of incorrectly restored abominations that can barely function without extreme degrees of human care and maintenance.
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>>59053252
Because otherwise you might make the kiddins think they're the bad guy for wanting the freaky fish head on a dragon body that rapes everything with Fishious Rend, including mons that should tank the hit due to dual-resisting water moves.
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>>59053264
>you might make the kiddins think they're the bad guy
Then explain this
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>>59038113
I think it partially has to do with international red tape prohibiting scientists from making a hundred new artificial Pokémon and complicating classifications. After Castform, new artificial 'mons are usually made under para-legal circumstances like Genosect (who seems to reuse some of the same technology in Porygon given it has Download and can also change its type) and Porygon-Z.
The other part of it is that same said groups funding artificial 'Mons lost interest in further developing Porygon as soon as the process that made Mewtwo could be recreated without blowing up your lab, leading to the creation of their Mega-evolutions.
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>>59056338
It feels like Rotom got tricked into being this computer slave with the phones when it just wants to be a little mischievous trickster. Unless all the Rotoms are in on the joke where they're all one day going to just stop working and leave everyone high and dry, it feels so out of character for them to be so cooperative.
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>>59038113
I might be schizo but I'm pretty sure Silph Co. implanted copy protection or some shit so you can't just make "cracked" Porygons that easily. Like the only reason Porygon-Z exists is because of Pokemon crime orgs having shit loads of cash and resources.
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>>59038735
>Porygon+
>Even stronger than Z and can actually take a hit
>But you have to pay a fee for each turn it's in play
>Run out of money and it gets truant as an ability (You have to watch an ad before it can go again)
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>>59054819
Every Pokemon gives off the energies of every type how else do you think they can use moves not of their main one or two types, but the energy they give off the most is what their type ends up being so for Porygon it gives off a lot of normal energy
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>>59047380
The entire point of Z is that it doesn't work properly.
>>59047623
Sounds cool and is the last letter of an alphabet.
Much like we have Omega on things.
>>59055761
Null and Silvally also came out after Castform and the alola trio are all legal.
>Mons lost interest in further developing Porygon
We know you can develop Porygon because Clemont did so as stated in the USUM power plant.
>as soon as the process that made Mewtwo could be recreated without blowing up your lab, leading to the creation of their Mega-evolutions.
Outright headcanon
>>59058966
Null's development documents confirm types exist at genetic level.
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>>59062996
Z feels like it would work properly if it could get to another dimension where the physics are different.
It not working properly in the primary dimension is more like a symptom of it not being designed to work under these conditions. Which is still a big oversight on whoever modded its part.
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Porygon 1 and 2 where made by team rocket scientists working at silph co. They lost the source code when it broke up after gsc. Plasma tried to mod it and we got Porygon-Z so clearly they can't handle jailbreaking it. If you want a porygon 3 you have to get the gang back together.
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>>59038113
>Realistically scientists would be making dozens of new Porygon evolutions every year
Realistically? The fuck do you mean? Its not just a program, its ALIVE. One porygon is a fucking miracle. Realistically it should be a damn mythical.
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>>59078963
The chinks even tried virtue-signaling about it. They've been trying to paint themselves as this champion of environmentalism when the whole reason they keep selling that dirt is because they're the only ones willing to contaminate their own occupied territories just to extract that shit
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>>59038661
keked
I can't believe we got two fucking streamer influencers in a row
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>>59052091
It's computer-generated. That's the whole gimmick. Polygons from a video game.
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Its moves? Abilities?
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>>59042435
There were no reports of any child suffering from epileptic fits as a result of the episode. It was a rumor that turned into a mass panic. The scene in question wasn't any more intense than was common for anime at the time.
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>>59092462
It's not that kids were faking, they just felt a little nauseous after the scene (which is normal when the screen flashes and you're sitting too close to the tv) and the media convinced them/ their parents that pokemon almost killed them.
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>>59038113
The idea for Vivillon should have been applied to Porygon instead not some forgettable derivative shitmon
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Burnet came from a gen 5 spinoff before her and Kukui got hitched.
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>Dubious Disk: "A transparent device overflowing with dubious data. Its producer is unknown. "
>B2W2: "Its programming was modified to enable work in alien dimensions. It did not work as planned."
To obtain Porygon-Z you need to install malware onto a living creature without it's consent which was made for the travel of "alien dimensions" that "failed", whatever that means.
Is Porygon-Z the single most unethical pokemon to own?
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these two sound connected...
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>>59038201
I like to imagine there's a universe where people read the pokédex entries that explain the world to those ignorant of it. Porygon's copyrighted and locked down. Rotom's the open source option (likely why poryphones never took off, too expensive and clearly inferior to something as hot-swappable as a Rotom).
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>>59038113
>Why doesn't every region have teams trying to create new evolutions for Porygon?
why would they
>Realistically scientists would be making dozens of new Porygon evolutions every year.
the pokemon world is an idealistic society and already has things like teleportation, time travel and functionally infinite energy
why would anyone need a new evolution for porygon, especially considering how the last one led to porygon-z (who is canonically defective)
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>>59099767
what would an evolution of porygon do in-universe that isn't already accomplished by porygon2
>inb4 make it le better at it
a. we have no reason to believe porygon2 is bad at what it does
2. they tried that already and it didn't work
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>>59038113
it's like asking why there aren't a bunch of Mother games coming out. the original creator isn't interested, the fans who are interested are incompetent, and people who are competent have better things to do with their time
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do some missingno shit with z or make a regional evo where you have to a "glitch" to get it to evolve
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>>59110021
For that to happen, Pokémon would have to be digimon AND not give a shit about curating their additions.
Because frankly, despite how obsessed shitbags are with it, Game Freak see it as an embarrassment. A clarion call of how unable they were, to allow such a glitch to propagate. And that means they don't give a fuck for digikeks who think they should add a video game glitch because it existed
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>>59110983
No, I'm saying digimon would be more likely to throw in a glitch as an actual digimon, because it's set in the digital mainframe, where it makes sense a computer glitch could turn into a monster to be trained.
Missingno's the result of a specific letter-dependent glitch, due to concessions made to fit the game on cart (the game storing the player's name in the "last pokémon encountered" table while it flashed up the old man's battle screen) with certain values then drawing garbage data from scrubbed pokémon index slots (which if caught and transferred to Gen 2 resolve to Gen 2 additions that hold the same index no. as the Gen 1 catch) and the game as an overall whole shitting itself on encounter (max items in the 6th slot in the bag, wasn't it?). It's not a Mew situation where it was a SECOND hidden pokémon, it was all entirely the game having a shitfit because the player forced its hand. And added to the fact Game Freak consider their world a near-earth equivalent, they'd actually be unable to justify a computer glitch (not an artificial pokémon, like Porygon) existing as a living creature.
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>>59110722
Pokopia added some more.
Daily Porygon2 notes
Companies involved in the space exploration industry are at each other's throat these days. I'm feeling the pain of it myself, as I've been put in charge of caring for some Porygon2 meant for planetary exploration. It's a lot of work!
Today, one of those three Porygon2 seems unwell. I ordered a patch that sounded effective and applied it, so I hope it will feel better tomorrow.
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>sold at Rocket Game Corner for a premium
>Team Rocket was strong-arming Silph Co for an unspecified amount of time
>scientists in Silph Co mention they worked for Team Rocket and Silph Co at the same time as a double agent for Team Rocket
>Up-Grade is given to you at Silph Co in Gen 2, implying it is manufactured by them
Porygon is an artifical Pokemon made purely to sell for profit by the mafia, created by undercover scientists working for said mafia. The even made literal DLC for said Pokemon for future profit.
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>>59126579
>Porygon was specifically made to someday become sophisticated enough for space travel
>like a rocket
>Team Rocket
>this was their calling card and it took advantage of the lingering mystique from the space race to seem innocuous
>the only reason Porygon2 happened is because the remnants of Team Rocket following Giovanni's humiliation ritual needed funding to move their operations to Johto and managed to strike one final deal with Silph
>when Team Rocket went fully defunct after they got mogged at the Goldenrod Radio Tower, there was no longer any reason to develop Porygon as a project because they no longer feared Team Rocket coming back and demanding continuation
>once Silph discovers Ditto can breed with Porygon to bypass copy protection, they use this to cheapen the production process and let Porygon become a luxury mon mass purchased by socialites like Mr. Backlot and high class facilities like Blueberry Academy, taking advantage of their utter stupidity that they don't know Porygon isn't Ditto-proofed so they buy vast quantities instead of just one Porygon
>Silph cites difficulties in progressing Porygon2's spacefaring capabilities to let themselves bow out of worrying about keeping up the cover story (but they still produce and sell Up-Grades to further nickel and dime the idiots, of course)
>double agent scientists continue their work in secret regardless, but without the grey zone luxuries and black market connections Team Rocket once gave them, their attempt to take the Porygon project into their own hands and make it into something practical goes horribly awry, thus birthing Porygon-Z
It's a lot of bullshit, but I'd believe it.
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>Tfw we'll never get a Mega Porygon-Z that, when flooded with mega energy, realizes it's in a videogame and gains 4th wall breaking capabilities
>Tfw Prygon-Z has been secretly pissed off at (You) for purposely corrupting it's data, and everytime you mega evolve it it has little animations & flavor text showing it's 100% aware of the player yet is still confined to the player's control.
>Tfw it'll sometime pull some Sonic.exe tropes like appearing behind the opponent with red eyes or cutting to black upon using a move that'd for sure faint a Pokemon
There's no way in hell Gamefreak would have the balls or witt to do this, but it'd be mad fully.
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just make it like erebus from basederpunk 2077
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95cxlcYe7k8
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>>59053226
>Stereo Rotom is Normal type
They're going to do it aren't they? Fucking Rotom will get STAB Boomburst before Porygon line
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Ask the gold as gold skarmoury tards how expecting Good As Gold Skarmoury turned out for them, before assuming Rotom-S gets Boomburst.
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>>59038159
While you say this, Pokemon is in the club of permaexistence being featured in literally every generation after the dexcut
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>>59044569
Porygon-2 should have another evolution that's just a direct upgrade over Eviolite P2. While Z should get mixmaxed and lose like 30 points in HP and the defensive stats and shove it all into Speed and maybe Sp.Atk.
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>>59047380
This is so true. Game Freak wasted so much potential with Porygon.
>>59038201
>In a world where he wasn't, Porygon would be what Rotom is now.
Rotom sucks, for the simple reason that it's in everything. What make Porygon cool, is that he's created for specialized uses.
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