You call that a Pokemon evolution?

If you've played Pokemon, you know how your Pokemon will evolve into a stronger Pokemon after achieving certain prerequisites (certain level, given a certain item, trade with someone else, etc.). Usually, the evolved form usually just looks similar enough to the base Pokemon.

But when it doesn't, you have to wonder just how it works out.

Here's an example: We all know Remoraid, right?



Small fishie, like a remora, sometimes found hanging off the fin of a Mantine?

Well, when Remoraid evolves, it doesn't become a bigger fishie, it becomes this:



It becomes Octillery, an... octopus?

How does that even work?

Discuss! (and discuss other weird evolutions too)

Well, if you plant a seed into the ground, it eventually grows into something; be it a plant or a tree or something.

I got another one.

Say hello to Dratini!



Of course, when Dratini becomes Dragonair, it gets bigger and fancier, right?



Of course!

So it should stand to reason that its final evolution, Dragonite, should be much bigger and more awesome, right?



Of cour- wait, what the heck?!

ohh dragonite is not that hard nya its just the representation of a comon water dragon a chinese air dragon and a european dragon

you want weird then please explain these ones nya

magikarp:


gyarados:


and these

feebas:


mylotic:


cause man thats the most weird evolution pathern one can get on pokemon nya =P

The Magikarp one is easy to explain. There was this one episode in Pokemon where there was a bunch of Magikarp that had to swim upstream or up a waterfall (can't remember) to evolve into a Gyarados. I believe it was the Orange Islands. In Japanese folklore/myths, when a carp or koi (same thing really) is able to swim up a stream/waterfall, it becomes a water dragon.