Do you Remember the crystal onix in the Orange islands arc? I feel it should have been implemented into the games somehow, like with the ability water absorb or whatever seeing how it had the immunity to water. I guess my question is, do you think other variants, other than shiny, of pokemon should be in the games?

I’ve thought about it.  Not sure how I feel, all things considered.  If there are obvious visual differences, then I don’t think there’s really any inherent balance issue from a competitive standpoint (assuming we even care about that at all).  It’d allow the introduction of regional variations, which would be nice.  I guess the main question is whether doing this would take away from time spent designing completely new Pokémon, and I don’t really think that it would.  Personally I’ve always thought it would be really funny to have a Psychic Nidoran variant, for no other reason than because male Nidoran can inexplicably get Confusion as an egg move.  Maybe that’s one way you could access these variant forms?  By breeding in an egg move that would normally be hilariously suboptimal for that species?  Then again, if you have a lot of these, then it will start to get silly… we’ve already got stats and movepools for seven hundred of the damn things to keep track of…