User:Amiosi/List of design discrepancies: Difference between revisions

[[Generation I]], for instance, had the original designs tweaked in some places, with Pokémon Blue giving the original roster new sprites, though the back sprites were consistently left untouched. [[Pokémon Yellow]] would later update the front sprites once more, this time explicitly basing them after the Pokémon's appearance in the [[Pokémon_anime|animated series]]. In this game, the bulk of the issues stems from the {{OBP|List of Pokémon by color palette|Generation I|updated palettes}}, which namely caused {{p|Rattata}}, {{p|Shellder}}, {{p|Cloyster}}, {{p|Starmie}}, {{p|Ditto}}, {{p|Porygon}}, {{p|Dratini}}, {{p|Mewtwo}}, and {{p|Mew}} to be visibly miscolored.

In [[Pokémon Gold and Silver]], the sprites for the [[Kanto]] Pokémon are mainly based on contemporary Red and Blue artwork, with some of the new elements tentatively introduced there (like Nidoqueen's fangs) making a return. Much like with Yellow, [[Pokémon Crystal]] later changed a good handful of sprites, taking a Pokémon's respective artwork as a basis. This namely affected the [[Johto]] Pokémon, and this time around the back sprites were also updated here and there.

[[Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire]] is likely when the artwork was starting to be drawn before the sprites, leaving most of the inconsistencies to changed colors or somewhat off-model sprites. However, many of the Generation I and II Pokémon were either copied directly from Crystal, or based on Red and Green or Red and Blue artwork, as those Pokémon had yet to be redrawn for FireRed and LeafGreen.

| style="text-align:left" | Originally had round ears instead of triangular ones. The Red and Blue sprite has missing claws.

| style="text-align:left" | Originally had round ears instead of triangular ones, while it had two leaves instead of four. This stayed the case until Generation III. The Red and Blue sprite also depicts Ivysaur as bipedal, something which was never seen again.

| style="text-align:left" | Originally had round ears instead of triangular ones, while the Red and Green sprite shows a rather different flower design when it comes to the petals and stalk shape, all the while having only two leaves instead of four. Petal-wise, it started off only having five, which stayed the case until Generation IV.

| style="text-align:left" | Originally lacked pupils of any kind. The Red and Blue sprite has two pincers, not unlike Beedrill's, as depicted in the [[Pocket Monsters Carddass Trading Cards]].

| style="text-align:left" | Pinball has much longer eyebrows, as seen in Pidgey's Blue artwork.

| style="text-align:left" | Originally had a white belly, as depicted in the [[Pocket Monsters Carddass Trading Cards]] and early artwork. The Red and Green and Red and Blue sprites also have a misshapen tail.

| style="text-align:left" | Back sprite has misplaced spikes, and the Red and Blue sprite has no horn and different ears. Pinball's portrait has an extraneous tail, as seen in Nidoran♀'s Blue artwork, while the animated sprite lacks whiskers.

| style="text-align:left" | Back sprite has a different ear design. The Red and Blue sprite has cheek patterns.

| style="text-align:left" | Back sprite has a completely different crest design. The Red and Green, Yellow, and Pinball front sprites all lack a tail.

| style="text-align:left" | Originally had a white tuft of hair instead of a pink one, as seen in Wigglytuff's artwork from Red and Green and Red and Blue. Red and Green and Pinball have a stomach pattern which doesn't reach over the mouth. The back sprite and the Red and Blue front sprite both lack the white eartips.  

| style="text-align:left" | Originally had dark paw and tail accents, like Meowth. Red and Blue sprite has pointy ears instead of round ones. Back sprite has the back of the ears black instead of cream.

| style="text-align:left" | Originally had gloves instead of fingerless mitts, which stayed the case until FireRed and LeafGreen.

| style="text-align:left" | Red and Blue sprite only has four fingers.  

| style="text-align:left" | Red and Green have a different talon arrangement, whereas Red and Blue only has three talons.

| style="text-align:left" | Red and Blue sprite has a horizontal shell as opposed to a vertical one.

| style="text-align:left" | Originally had more than three fingers. The Red and Green sprite also has a more compact dark pattern, as seen in its back sprite.  

| style="text-align:left" | Back sprite has relief, and the larger pincer is on the wrong side. The Red and Blue sprite has symmetrical pincers, instead of only having a single large one. As a side note, while the Red and Green and Yellow sprites are on-model, the larger pincer appears on the wrong side in battle. This is because in Generation I, a Pokémon's sprite gets horizontally flipped in its Pokédex entry. This suggests that this sprite was made with the Pokédex in mind.

| style="text-align:left" | Has a small circle on its lower half, as seen in Voltorb's Blue artwork, which stayed that way until Generation IV.

| style="text-align:left" | Has a circle on its upper half, which stayed until Yellow. TCG and Pinball instead have a circle at the base, much like Voltorb, as seen in its Blue artwork.

| style="text-align:left" | Red and Green sprite has smoke hands, as seen in its corresponding artwork and the [[Pocket Monsters Carddass Trading Cards]]. Red and Blue has the skull-and-crossbones marking above its face.

| style="text-align:left" | Originally had black skin, which was later changed to purple in subsequent games (and the Virtual Console version of Yellow). Jynx also started off with four fingers, which was changed to five starting in Yellow.

| style="text-align:left" | Red and Blue and Yellow sprites both lack the extra two forehead stones.

| style="text-align:left" | Originally had white ear tips. Blue sprite has more fennec-like ears.

| style="text-align:left" | Originally had a bulkier, more dog-like build, with a black nose and fangs. Its head fin was connected with its dorsal ridge, the back of its ears was fully black, and its ruff appears to have been more akin to a bib. Both the Red and Green and Red and Blue sprites also feature ankle flippers which never seen again.

| style="text-align:left" | Lacks the relief on its shell and has a different "eye" placement. The Red and Blue sprite also has a different design for the extremity of the shell.

| style="text-align:left" | Originally had three fingers, which was bumped up to five starting in Emerald.

| style="text-align:left" | Originally had its wings fully engulfed in flames, ass seen in its Red and Blue artwork. The Red and Blue front sprite features a normal feathered tail and wings.

| style="text-align:left" | Originally had a striped underbelly as opposed to a smooth one. The Red and Blue sprite also has a more exaggerated snout shape.

| style="text-align:left" | Originally has an extraneous dorsal ridge. The Red and Blue and Yellow sprites lack the head horn.

| style="text-align:left" | While properly colored in Gold and Silver, Pidgeotto's beak was recolored to brown.

| style="text-align:left" | Still has pawpads, which were later removed in Crystal. Back sprite has an upside-down tail, which stayed the case until Generation IV.

| style="text-align:left" | While properly colored in Gold and Silver, Golduck's beak was recolored to light blue.

| style="text-align:left" | Originally had a striped underbelly, much like Slowbro, as depicted in the [[Pocket Monsters Carddass Trading Cards]]. While the International versions of Silver removed the stripes, the Gold and Crystal sprites were left untouched.

| style="text-align:left" | Has nine screws instead of seven, just like in Magneton's Red and Blue artwork.

| style="text-align:left" | Still features the light markings on its wing tips. The Gold sprite also has an incorrect coloration inside of the wings which was later fixed in Crystal.

| style="text-align:left" | Lacks the lighter end on its tail feathers. Was later fixed in Crystal.

| style="text-align:left" | The animated Crystal sprite mistakenly lacks parts of the chest plate, as seen when Rhydon's mouth is closed.

| style="text-align:left" | The Japanese back sprite has a vertical line down its back instead of a horizontal one, which was changed in the International versions and later Crystal.

| style="text-align:left" | While accurate in Gold and Silver, the back sprite was made off-model in Crystal. Namely, the ruff looks less jagged, is shinier, and connects differently to Vaporeon's neck.

| style="text-align:left" | Its head protrusions are too rounded, which was corrected in Crystal.

| style="text-align:left" | Still has its wings fully engulfed in flames, like in its Red and Blue artwork.

| style="text-align:left" | Originally had yellowish skin, as seen in early artwork. Later changed in Crystal.

| style="text-align:left" | Originally had longer neck buds than what could be seen on the back sprite. Later changed in Crystal.

| style="text-align:left" | In Gold and Silver, the flower has fewer petals, said petals also having a different design. While the front sprite was updated in Crystal, the back sprite wasn't.

| style="text-align:left" | Gold, Silver, and the back sprite have their eyes entirely red instead of just the irises. While the front sprite was updated in Crystal, the back sprite wasn't.

| style="text-align:left" | Body pattern is mirrored. Gold, Silver, and their back sprite have a different crest, which was later changed in Crystal.

| style="text-align:left" | The Japanese Gold and Silver sprites have the underside of the tail white instead of blue. Feraligatr started off with two toes and eight fingers, which was changed to three and five respectively starting in Generation III.

| style="text-align:left" | Originally lacked the segment on its abdomen, which was later added in Crystal.

| style="text-align:left" | Was originally purple instead of green, which was later changed in Crystal.

| style="text-align:left" | The Japanese sprites have extraneous yellow cheeks, which was changed in the International versions and later Crystal.

| style="text-align:left" | The Japanese sprites have collars with two spikes on the front and three on the back instead of the opposite, which was changed in the International versions and later Crystal.

| style="text-align:left" | Is yellow instead of white, has an odd pattern, as well as a different design for the back of its head. Crystal later went on to change all but the pattern.

| style="text-align:left" | The white and red on the wings is swapped, which was later changed in Crystal.

| style="text-align:left" | Gold sprite has an extraneous wing spot and missing white body stripes. Silver sprite has a red stomach pattern instead of a black one, and one of its body stripes is black instead of white. The cat eyes on both sprites are also white instead of red. Crystal later changed the front sprite, though the back sprite was oddly left untouched.

| style="text-align:left" | The Japanese sprites doesn't connect the neck and head wool which was changed in the International versions and later Crystal.

| style="text-align:left" | Originally had a reversed ear pattern, and differently spaced tail stripes. Later changed in Crystal.

| style="text-align:left" | Silver sprite has a different spot arrangement. Back sprite has an extra spot which was removed in Crystal.

| style="text-align:left" | The Japanese sprites have three extraneous back spots, which was changed in the International versions and later Crystal. The animated Crystal sprite mistakenly lacks the yellow marking on the back of Politoed's hands, on top of giving it extraneous claws.

| style="text-align:left" | The Japanese sprites doesn't have the stomach pattern, which was changed in the International versions and later Crystal.

| style="text-align:left" | The Japanese back sprite has the middle stripe shorter than the others instead of longer, which was changed in the International versions and later Crystal.

| style="text-align:left" | The Japanese back sprite has an extraneous dorsal ridge, which was changed in the International versions and later Crystal.

| style="text-align:left" | The W Unown originally had a different shape, looking more like an eye with curly lashes. Crystal later changed the front sprite, though the back sprite was oddly left untouched.

| style="text-align:left" | The Japanese back sprite has the spots connected to the dorsal ridge, which was changed in the International versions and later Crystal. The Gold and Silver front sprites, meanwhile, have less spots, which were also later added in Crystal.

| style="text-align:left" | The Japanese back sprite has an extra tail spot, which was changed in the International versions and later Crystal.

| style="text-align:left" | The Gold and Crystal sprites lack arm spikes, while the back sprite has visibly duller spikes.

| style="text-align:left" | Originally had brown fur, cyan feathers, longer pupils, a nose, a white forehead spot instead of a gem, and ears with a depression in them. The International sprites tweaked the eyes and ears, and Crystal later changed the rest.

| style="text-align:left" | The Japanese Silver sprite lacks the pawpads. Later corrected in the International versions.

| style="text-align:left" | Originally had less than five fingers, which stayed the case until HeartGold and SoulSilver.

| style="text-align:left" | The Japanese sprites have extra lava bubbles on its back, which was changed in the International versions and later Crystal.

| style="text-align:left" | Had a different color scheme, as well as a different shell design. Later changed in Crystal.

| style="text-align:left" | Back sprite has stripes which don't connect all the way. Later changed in Crystal.

| style="text-align:left" | Originally lacked the sideburns. Crystal later changed the front sprite, though the back sprite was oddly left untouched.

| style="text-align:left" | Has a longer beak, one less wing blade, and an extra tail. Later changed in Crystal.

| style="text-align:left" | Originally had its skull reach further back, which was later changed in Crystal. Front sprites have orange paws, instead of black ones.

| style="text-align:left" | The Japanese Silver sprite has the underside of the trunk gray and striped instead of black and smooth, which was changed in the International versions and later Crystal.

| style="text-align:left" | The Japanese sprites lack the spots on the hindquarters, which was changed in the International versions and later Crystal. Crystal later changed Stantler's tail to be cream-colored, as seen in its artwork of the time, something which stayed until Generation IV where it reverted back to the brown tail.

| style="text-align:left" | Originally had a different stomach pattern, which was later changed in Crystal.

| style="text-align:left" | Originally had a different back pattern, which was later changed in Crystal.

| style="text-align:left" | The Japanese Silver sprite has the right wing not fully covering the shoulder, which was changed in the International versions and later Crystal.

| style="text-align:left" | Originally has a different muzzle, no ears, no whiskers, smaller fangs, an orange mane instead of a purple one, and a second, black collar. Was later changed in Crystal.

| style="text-align:left" | Originally has smoother chest fur and had no sideburns. Was later changed in Crystal.

| style="text-align:left" | Back sprite has a blue chin instead of a white one, which was mistakenly added on the Crystal front sprite.

| style="text-align:left" | The Japanese back sprite has an additional body segment, which was changed in the International versions and later Crystal. In all versions of Gold and Silver, the leg-like protrustions are placed one segment too low on the front sprite.

| style="text-align:left" | Retains the off-model back spikes design from Gold and Silver. This is reflected in FireRed and LeafGreen's intro as well.

| style="text-align:left" | Features red eyes instead of brown ones, as well as a blue beak and talons, like in its Red and Green artwork.

| style="text-align:left" | Features a partially feathered tail, like in its Red and Green artwork. Later changed in {{2v2|FireRed|LeafGreen}}.

| style="text-align:left" | Has white claws instead of pink ones, as seen in Gligar's Gold and Silver artwork.

| style="text-align:left" | Spikes are black instead of blue, as seen in Lugia's Gold and Silver artwork.

| style="text-align:left" | Has a yellow iris instead of a red one. Worth noting is that the eyes do look more orange-ish when playing on original hardware.

| style="text-align:left" | Has a darker face, and wings that are orange/brown instead of pink/purple. Back sprite lacks the spot and eyelashes. Pinball features much longer eyelashes.

| style="text-align:left" | Animated Pinball sprite lacks the back spots.

| style="text-align:left" | Retains the off-model back spikes design from Gold and Silver. Later fixed in Platinum.

| style="text-align:left" | Still has a different head conjunction. Later fixed in HeartGold and SoulSilver, though it returned in Black and White.

| style="text-align:left" | Still has the underside of its pouch be the wrong color. Later fixed in HeartGold and SoulSilver.

| style="text-align:left" | Only has one body segment. Later fixed in Platinum.

| style="text-align:left" | Features red eyes instead of brown ones, like in its Red and Green artwork. The front sprite was later fixed in HeartGold and SoulSilver, but the back sprite was left with a red eye. This color returned in Black and White.

| style="text-align:left" | Has an incorrectly colored shell pattern. Later fixed in Platinum.

| style="text-align:left" | Still has pink claws. Later fixed in HeartGold and SoulSilver.

| style="text-align:left" | Still has less than five fingers. Later fixed in HeartGold and SoulSilver.

| style="text-align:left" | Back sprite lacks the spot and eyelashes. Later fixed in Platinum.

| style="text-align:left" | Antennas are incorrectly coloured blue. Later fixed in the international versions of Platinum.

| style="text-align:left" | Has golden eyes instead of green ones. Later fixed in Platinum.

| style="text-align:left" | This sprite is based on the off-model Diamond and Pearl sprite.

| style="text-align:left" | This sprite is based on the off-color Diamond and Pearl sprite.