We’re nonetheless getting new info from the huge Pokémon information breach that occurred earlier this month, and whereas there have been some particulars about upcoming tasks within the combine, it’s largely consisted of design docs and different details about previous video games we’ve already performed. We’ve seen starter Pokémon that by no means had been, mega evolutions that weren’t included in Pokémon X and Y, and now we all know one other monster that by no means made its manner out of the ideation part: a flying Eevee evolution.
In accordance with a design doc within the leaks, a flying-type Eevee evolution was deliberate for the collection’ seventh-gen video games, Pokémon Solar and Moon. A translated suggestions sheet says that the design Recreation Freak had within the works too intently resembled fan mock-ups, which led to the crew shelving the concept. Sadly, we don’t have any pictures of the flying fox in the intervening time.
That being stated, the best way fan artists had been ready to reply to the information by instantly whipping out their present mock-ups of the hypothetical Eeveelution form of means that Recreation Freak’s personal concepts had been possible being cannibalized by fan artists on the time, too. Eevee’s total schtick is that it might probably evolve into considered one of a number of Pokémon, every with a distinct elemental affinity, so followers have been drawing mockups of attainable Eevee evolutionary traces for many years, together with flying-types.
Eevee is without doubt one of the hottest Pokémon within the franchise, having change into a secondary mascot to the collection alongside Pikachu. Eevee even received its personal recreation in 2018’s Let’s Go, Eevee! on the Swap. It’s been a very long time, nonetheless, because it received a brand new evolution, with the final being Sylveon, who debuted in 2013 as one of many introductions to the fairy typing that was added in Pokémon X and Y. Whether or not or not Eevee wants extra evolutions stays a subject of a lot debate amongst followers, with some content material with the eight it already has, whereas others want to see Eevee get a type for all 18 elemental sorts within the collection. It feels like Recreation Freak isn’t against the concept, so long as it might probably discover one which feels wholly authentic, and given how lengthy folks have been making fan artwork of pretend Pokémon, that feels like a troublesome proposition.
