How do you feel about pokemon forms? Like Shellos and Grastrodon. Do you think more pokemon should have various forms? I had this really cool idea of having Nidorans family come as possible ice/poison types if you found them in the north where they could’ve adapted to cold… and they’d be white with purple/blue points

I think they’re underused.  Pokémon is very good at celebrating the dramatic variety of life, and how vastly different one animal can be from anything else around it, but I think it could do more to look at the little differences, things like subspecies and regional variations.  I don’t think I’d really want to do things like make a whole bunch of different-typed variations of existing Pokémon; honestly part of me thinks it might be better to keep most form differences as a flavour thing (like Sawsbuck or Gastrodon, in contrast to Wormadam or Rotom) – and just let people have a bit of choice in their Pokémon that doesn’t have strategic ramifications for once.  I’d also like more use of gender differences, which reflects the often dramatic instances of sexual dimorphism we see in the real world.  Black and White have leaned towards having very few Pokémon with this kind of variation, but putting a lot into each one (Jellicent and Unfezant) – those are great, but I think it would be nice to have more, maybe with some minor differences in their skillsets (think Nidoking and Nidoqueen).

I’d like to draw attention also to Boltbeam’s Jaclant and Vegghoul, two fan-made Pokémon that make nice use of this kind of low-key variation.