Pokemon Fan Shares Prehistoric Unown Designs

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Fans are imagining prehistoric Unown variants, with artist Matratzfratz creating unique forms based on ancient cave paintings.
Fans are excited about the concept of Unown evolving over time, from mimicry of cave art to cuneiforms to the modern alphabet.
Many fans feel that Unown has potential for improvement and are eager to see it evolve or fuse for better battle capabilities.

A Pokemon fan has shared their concepts for what prehistoric Unown could look like if they were to be added to the games. While it's been quite some time since Unown got any new forms or was the focus of a mainline Pokemon game, it seems that fans are still imagining creative new ideas for the Pokemon.

Unown is unique among Pokemon for having a multitude of potential appearances. The Pokemon line is based upon the Latin alphabet, with 28 different forms. This hasn't changed since Gen 3 of the Pokemon games, but fans have come up with new Unown forms regardless.

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On Reddit, Pokemon fan artist Matratzfratz has shared their idea for what Unown could have looked like in prehistoric times. Their version of Unown turns the Pokemon into a Psychic/Rock-type, and the lore indicates that the Pokemon were illustrated onto cave walls by ancient people. As a result, these versions of Unown look like some of the common subjects of ancient cave paintings in real life, like bulls and wild animals. Matratzfratz specifically based the unique Unown forms off of birds, mammoths, fish, rhinoceros, bulls, and lions.

Pokemon Fans Discuss Concept of Prehistoric Unown

In general, fans seem to be really pleased with the concept of ancient Unown that predate the use of the modern alphabet. Some fans imagined Unown gradually changing over time, morphing from mimicry of cave paintings to cuneiforms, and finally to the Latin alphabet-based 28 known today. Some were reminded of the Nazca lines looking at these takes on Unown, while others added more ideas, like the notion of a Pokemon game based on the Pokemon world's take on Norway having rune-like Unown. Others suggested that if all of these prehistoric Unown were gathered together, they should fuse together into a single Pokemon.

A common sentiment that was also shared is that Unown could have been better than it ultimately ended up being in the actual games. As noted, the official Pokemon games seem to have largely moved on from doing anything significant with Unown, who hasn't seen any real changes since Gen 4, when modifications were made to how an Unown's appearance is determined. Fans have previously imagined unique Unown based off of hieroglyphics and other language systems, so it seems that fans would be happy to see more of the Pokemon, especially if it got much-needed tweaks or changes by way of evolution or fusion, making it more suitable for intense battles.

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