File talk:0550Basculin.png

Add White-Striped Form?

I know it was designed much later, but it seems odd that the generic Basculin image only includes Red-Striped and Blue-Striped Basculin, when White-Striped Basculin is just as much a Basculin form as the other two. This image is just a composite of the Sugimori art for the other Basculin forms, so shouldn't we add the Sugimori art for the White-Striped Form to it? Storm Aurora (talk) 21:59, 2 January 2026 (UTC)

insofar as we dont combine these with other regional forms or even forms of the same pokémon on the same image most of the time, im actually more of the opinion that they should be separated entirely as seperate images. 4iamking 22:02, 2 January 2026 (UTC)

We already have File:0550Basculin-Red.png, File:0550Basculin-Blue.png, and File:0550Basculin-White.png as separate images; plus various other species have all their forms displayed in the base filename, such as File:0902Basculegion.png, File:0422Shellos.png, File:0413Wormadam.png, etc. If we already have this as a combined image, it would make sense to have the form that was introduced later in there too. → SuperPikaPool13 04:29, 3 January 2026 (UTC)

Its still something we don't ever do for regional forms which white-stripped Basculin defacto is. if we do combine them; we should be combining every regional pokémon as well thats all im saying. 4iamking 04:46, 3 January 2026 (UTC)

I think the fact that White-Striped Basculin is inconsistently considered a regional form (See Hisuian form#White-Striped Basculin) makes it enough of an outlier that it's OK to add it here but not combine other regional forms. Storm Aurora (talk) 05:17, 3 January 2026 (UTC)