After Talonflame I finally came upon yet another new Pokemon's entry, and what an incredible find it was. Pawmi was a cute little electric type that kinda looked both bulky and chubby at the same time. To me, it came across like a cute mix of a rodent and a bear cub, but with a very heavy emphasis on the rodent look. Its body was almost entirely orange. The only exceptions were its lower forelimbs, snout, and tail, which had a cream coloration, as well as the insides of its ears, which were green. Oh, and the yellow electric pouches on its cheeks had a different color as well. It also had a tuft on top of its head that added to its cuteness.
All in all, Pawmi looked incredibly cute as well as huggable, and I was pretty sure that if it had lived within alliance territory, Pawmi would have become the open favorite Pokemon of a majority of kids and women. I truly thought so, and I really got the urge to hug it as well as squeeze its chubby cheeks when I saw Pawmi's picture, though considering its electric pouches that would likely end up being a shocking experience.
Anyway, I moved on to the next entry and was not surprised to see what had to be Pawmi's evolution. What was a bit of a surprise, was that Pawmo seemed to be an electric/fighting type, though other than a change in its typing, the changes between Pawmi and Pawmot were quite mild. Pawmo essentially looked like a slightly bigger and slimmer Pawmi with a lighter fur color. It honestly reminded me a bit of Pikachu, though there were very distinct differences between the two, with Pawmo's bigger and longer arms, its tuft, and fluffy tail.
Either way, Pawmo was still very cute, and I really wanted to add it to Utopia if I could. Nonetheless, after admiring Pawmo's cute picture for a few more moments, I moved on to the next picture, wondering if the entry would contain yet another new Pokemon. I ended up being right, but not in the way I expected. I had thought that Pawi's evolution line had ended with Pawmo, but it appeared that I was wrong with that assumption. Apparently, Pawmi had a second evolution called Pawmot.
Honestly, to me, it looked like Pawmo had grown up, but gone back to both Pawmi's chubbier shape and its orange fur, even if it was not as deep of an orange as that of Pawmi, after deciding that light orange was not its color and that being chubbier was better. Oh, and its tuft had grown as well. While it was definitely not what I would have expected, I liked it because it looked cute as well, which was no surprise since Pawmot essentially looked like a bigger and older Pawmi. To me, it seemed like the only thing Pawmot seemed to have kept from Pawmo was its electric/fighting type and the little tufts below its ears, which it expanded by adding tufts around its neck.
Either way, I gave the entry a mental-like before moving on to the next one, which happened to be a "regular" one on Houndour. The one after that was naturally on Houndoom, and the few that followed ended up being "old" Pokemon as well. It was only when I reached index entry number 53 that I finally got to see another "new" Pokemon, or rather a variant specified as Paldean Wooper. They literally listed it as such, which made sense since some of the first settlers hailing from Johto probably carried a few regular Wooper or Quagsire, which had them label the local variant as Paldean Wooper.
Frankly, even if they managed to grow their numbers a little I did not believe that the "imported" Wooper/Quagsire could surpass the local population. Besides, it was also possible that the descendants of the regular Wooper/Quasire became Paldean variants as well. In fact, I was more inclined to believe that the latter was the case rather than the former.
Anyway, Paldean Wooper pretty much looked the same as the regular one body-wise, though it was impossible to confuse the two due to 3 distinct differences. The most obvious difference was that the Paldean Wooper was brown instead of light blue. The second visual difference was that the Paldean Wooper had two little bone-shaped gills instead of the branching ones that the regular Wooper has. The final visual difference was related to the three darker slightly curved markings Wopper had on their belly; Paldean Wooper had a fourth straight line going through the other three markings.
All in all, everyone would be able to tell immediately that the Paldean Wooper was a Wooper, but they would also be able to instantly determine that it was a variant and not the publicly recognized regular Wooper. Unless of course, they were blind, but that would be an exception and not the rule. Anyway, something else that had changed was Paldean Wooper's typing, which was listed as poison/ground. It appeared that the Paldean variant had actually lost its water typing and adopted a poison typing instead.
My first thought was that Paldean Wooper probably lived around marches with an abundance of poisonous substances which caused them to adapt to the poison, but I would see what the documented reasonings made by the Paldean Professors said on the topic once I began going through the details instead of just skimming through the Paldean Pokemon Index. With thought, I moved on to the next entry and had to take a second look to confirm that I was seeing what I was seeing because I did not see the Paldean Quasire that I was expecting.
Instead, there were two pictures depicting a brown roundish amphibian-looking Pokemon that had a resemblance to Quasire but was apparently a distinct species and more importantly new evolution of Wooper called Clodsire. The two pictures respectively showed a Clodsire with 6 visible pink spines along the dorsal fin on its back and one without the spines showing six pink dots instead, indicating that Clodsire was capable of retracting and extending those spines at will.
Honestly, I thought that the spineless Clodsire looked kind of cute with its roundish body shape and in my opinion dopey face. Clodsire did continue Paldean Wooper's ground/poison typing, and it was undoubtedly this typing that led to Wooper undergoing an alternate evolution. I was curious if Clodsire's total racial value/base stat was higher than that of Quagsire. Unfortunately, my Observe did not work on pictures and people here did not have a way to absolutely determine the numerical representation of a species' racial values like I did.
Hence, even if I read through the report(s) on Clodsire, I would at most get a general answer such as it being equal to Quagsire or it being a base, low, mid, high, top, or apex species. Quagsire with its 430 RV/BS was at the upper rung of the mid-species grade, and Clodside was most likely there as well. I had to determine the exact total racial value ranges that corresponded to those species' grades. It was not easy to do so since there were disputes among the science community about how some of the species should be classified, which was why I actually ended up with two systems.
I was sure I did a pretty good job, and yet there were still a few outliers in each group due to the classifications made by the people of Terra. Both classification systems assigned any Pokemon with a BS/RV at or below 200 to the base grade species. I set it up this way because the Terran science community had classified Sactterbug, Magikarp as well as Feebas as base species and all three had 200 BS. Meanwhile, Cascoon, Silcoon, and Pichu were classified as low-grade species even though they only had a BS of 205.
Hence, why I set the limit for the base grade as 200, and it nearly matched perfectly with the Pokemon listed as base-grade species in this world. There was just one Pokemon that ruined the perfect match, and that was Ralts. Ralts had a total racial value of 198, which I had confirmed with my Observe. Yet, terrans had recorded Ralts as a low-grade species, which differed from my list where Ralts were listed as a base-grade species.
Moving on, the low species grade of both systems was identical as well and had even more exceptions because people here had given multiple species a lower grade than they should have according to their RV/BS while giving a slight push to a single one that should have gotten a low grading but got a mid one instead. According to my analysis, the low species grade should range from 201 RV to 339 RV, but Unown with its 336 RV was placed among the mid-grade species.
Meanwhile, Pawniard, Stufful, Swirlix, Spritzi, Clamperl, Pancham, Scraggy, and Buneary were assigned to the low species grade. They were seen as the top percentile of that group along with the initial stages of the apex and royal lines, even though each one of them had an RV higher than 340, with Buneary's being 350. One could argue that they did that because those Pokemon were still in their initial/first stage, but the fact that Mantyke, Koffing, and Rhyhorn were classed among the mid-grade species refuted that.
I had to call it as I saw it and accuse the people who made these assignments of being biased against Pokemon that looked small and/or cute while favoring big or dangerous-looking ones. I was pretty sure that Espurr only escaped being downgraded because it was a psychic type, which balanced out its cute look and small size. Either way, it was at this point that my classification system split in two. The first classification system set the mid-species grade range from 340 to 440, while its high-species grade range went from 441 to 499, which made any species at or above 500 RV a top-grade one.
The second classification system, on the other hand, set the mid-species grade range from 340 to 471, while its high species grade ranges from 472 to 517, which made any species at or above 518 RV a top grade one, raising the conditions to count as a high-grade species or a top grade species. There were naturally still outliers since no one except me had concrete numbers, but these two classification systems pretty much summed up the species pyramid(s) established by the people/scientists of Terra. Documents or books that addressed a Pokemon's species specified which system they used, but I could say from experience that the first one was used more often than the second one.
Well, I ended up digressing again, so I focused back on the Paldean Pokemon Index and moved on to the next entry, which happened to be of Psyduck, so I kept jumping to the next entry until I came upon yet another new Pokemon species. Entry number 71 showed a picture that had me scratching my head in confusion. The picture showed two little bipedal white mice-looking rodent Pokemon, who seeing how the picture showed two of them instead of just one apparently somehow represented a single Pokemon.
The only thing I could think of was the two bodies sharing one overarching mind or soul similar to Exeggcute or Falinks. They were called Tandemaus and had a normal typing. I was honestly not sure what to think when I moved on to the next entry, and it got even worse when I saw that Tandemaus could seemingly evolve and that its evolution apparently led to a split evolution seeing how there were two pictures showing Mousehold. The fact that Mousehold looked like the two Tandemaus grew up and had either one or two children was what increased my confusion since the number of children seemed to be the only difference between the two pictures.
Honestly, rather than an evolution, this looked like a Tandemaus family, and I decided to just ignore the lot and move on since I could feel that I would start to digress again if I kept thinking about how this was possible, so after confirming that Mousehold stayed a normal type, I moved on to the next entry. That said entry showed another rodent was a bit funny, though it was thankfully not another evolution showing a village of Tandemaus or anything like that. No, the entry was on the initial stage of the most popular rodent Pokemon species to ever exist, said species obviously being Pikachu, which made the entry about Pichu.
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