Still eternally grumpy that they never decided to fix this

I don't care if we have decades of precedent. *gestures at the Ralts, Snorunt, Sandlit lines*

@DarkOverord Don't they have different movesets or stats too? Though I guess they could create some kinda exception for that, I think other pokemon with other formes have extra changes too...

@Aether Yeah both Meowstic (Gen 6) and Indeedee (Gen 8) are mons with gendered learnsets

Technically because they're two different forms but then, you'd do the same with Nidoran. The evolutions can remain as is.

Just Nidoran the base form I want resolving X3c

@DarkOverord Oh I get it, I agree. I was just pondering if there could *possibly* be other reasoning than Game Freak (or maybe it's Nintendo) being really stingy about certain backwards changes~.
... we got big changes with Physical/Special and Fairy, so... \ o -o/

@Aether I think before Let's GO Pikachu/Eevee and Sword/Shield it would be having *every* pokémon's ID (as they don't match dex number) in the game and maybe not wanting to change that

But since locking down the total mons in the games I don't see much a reason to keep it as is

Other than I guess precedent haha

@Aether Actually quickly checking and Raichu's Index in SV is 01A and it was 1A in GSC so I guess it really might be "We do not want to touch the Index :|c"

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@DarkOverord @Aether Index numbers have been the same as national pokedex numbers since gsc, it was only rby where they didn't match
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@Felthry @Aether I stand corrected then, I thought the form change pokémon always had unique IDs :V

@Felthry @Aether (But eitherway like I said, given that they've had the same Index numbers for decades they probably don't want to fix the Nidoran issue even if it bothers me because it's probably a lot more work than "Just do this" in that it would have to be a brand wide thing

@Felthry @Aether Doesn't stop me wishing they didn't keep it in to 2023 :B

@DarkOverord @Aether i think it's more a thing of not wanting to change pokedex numbers than anything, since nidoran(m) and nidoran(f) have two different pokedex numbers
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@Felthry @Aether Yeah like I said, it would have to be a brand wide thing.

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