How can slowpoke evolve without a shellder?

Apr. 30, 2017

regardless of weather I have a shellder weather I could possibly be near a shellder or if shellder is even in the game I’m playing, slowpoke will evolve and the tail-shellder will materialize out of nowhere. if I trade my slowpoke with king’s rock from terminus cave to lumiose badlands a shellder appears on slowking. What?

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The Pokemon designers made some Pokemon based on a mythical creature called thesazae-oni, and they wrote Pokedex entries to help players understand why a pink platypus-hippo matured into an upright pink platypus-hippo with a snail shell on its tail. However, during the first two generations, they probably wanted to keep gameplay simple, so they didn’t really implement a Shellder-requiring evolution. Additionally,evolving a Slowpoke in a way that makes sense would require sacrificing a Shellder, which players were probably not willing to do.These represent my best guesses, but I hope it makes enough sense to answer the question.