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If a Pokémon cannot be caught in any game and must be evolved or breeded, that's fine. That ought to be mentioned. However, it should never be suggested that in order to evolve or breed, you must be playing one game and not the other. Sticking "White/White 2 only" in there suggests that. This error is existing in numerous Pokémon articles (not just in Black/White entries) and should be corrected; I thought I'd start with the earliest instance and try to establish a precedent rather than appear to wreak havoc throughout all of the articles. It quickly seems I will have a challenge doing this. [[User:CycloneGU|CycloneGU]] ([[User talk:CycloneGU|talk]]) 00:56, 9 August 2012 (UTC) | If a Pokémon cannot be caught in any game and must be evolved or breeded, that's fine. That ought to be mentioned. However, it should never be suggested that in order to evolve or breed, you must be playing one game and not the other. Sticking "White/White 2 only" in there suggests that. This error is existing in numerous Pokémon articles (not just in Black/White entries) and should be corrected; I thought I'd start with the earliest instance and try to establish a precedent rather than appear to wreak havoc throughout all of the articles. It quickly seems I will have a challenge doing this. [[User:CycloneGU|CycloneGU]] ([[User talk:CycloneGU|talk]]) 00:56, 9 August 2012 (UTC) | ||
:You're right, you can trade/transfer just about any Pokémon to a fifth generation game and evolve it into any of its possible evolutions. But by that logic, every evolved Pokémon that's not otherwise available in should just say "evolve <previous species>, but that's not exactly useful information. So that suggests you can transfer a Bayleef from a SoulSilver cartridge to a White2 one, evolve it, and the page should say you can get a Meganium in White2 by evolving Bayleef. But it already says so at the top of the page that you get Meganium by evolving Bayleef. | |||
:So the way these tables work, essentially, is to tell whether or not the Pokémon is a version exclusive, as in where you can find its evolutionary family in the paired version without trading for one. So the table should say Metapod is "only in White/White2," since the Caterpie family is exclusive to those games. [[User:Dimenticare|Dimenticare]] ([[User talk:Dimenticare|talk]]) 01:40, 9 August 2012 (UTC) | |||