Iron Treads

So the prehistoric paradoxes are what you get in Pokemon Scarlet, but if you buy Pokemon Violet, you get the "futuristic" Paradoxes! Whoa, like, we get to see the speculative biology of Pokemon millions of years from now!?! Well...no. "Pokemon from the future" apparently means "robots," much to the disappointment of basically everyone who heard about the concept before seeing any of the designs.

"Futuristic Donphan," a counterpart to Great Tusk, isn't too shabby on its own merits though. In fact, it's pretty awesome looking! Not as simple as just a roboticized elephant, it has an almost spherical chrome colored body, legs visibly designed to fold neatly into the sphere, and Donphan's "tire tread" trunk, now illuminated with panels of red, can actually curl completely off the face, which consists of just a black LED screen with pixelated eyes. It's honestly pretty creative! It gives all the right impressions of Donphan, but anatomically it's very different. It's predictably a ground/steel type, but surprisingly one of the only steel types of these "robots."

We get little information about most Paradox Pokemon, but this one is specifically rumored to be a weapon made with "technology not of this world." I will say that it's probably about damn time there were full blown robot-like Pokemon other than basically just Genesect, but what a strange way to introduce them? It's odd how allergic Pokemon is to explicitly mechanical designs, given how popular they are. I respect their reluctance to flood the setting with mechanoids, of course, this ain't Roblox or Robopon, but you'd think there might at least be one per generation, or something. We've got sentient objects and we've got the digital entity known as Porygon, shouldn't there have long been some outright "machines" that came to life as Pokemon, secondarily?