And I'm not done!

A couple more Favorite Pokémon Picker options have been added, since I'm on a roll. First, another very common feature request: you can now individually include or exclude regular Pokémon, legendaries, mythicals, Ultra Beasts, or Paradox Pokémon. Let me know if I accidentally miscategorized anything; I did this manually, and according to how they're categorized on Bulbapedia because I gather that's based on whatever the official word on that Pokémon is (even if I personally think it's kind of dumb to call something like Type: Null a legendary Pokémon). Koraidon and Miraidon count as legendaries and thus not as Paradox Pokémon because it seemed inane to implement the ability for a Pokémon to be multiple categories just for those two.

Secondly, something brought up by Risan in the guestbook today that struck me as reasonably straightforward to do and intuitive: you can now choose whether a form's generation is treated as being when the form was introduced or when the base Pokémon was introduced. Right now, gender differences will still count as being when the base Pokémon was introduced regardless, rather than having a whole pile of them in Gen IV, both because I have a hard time imagining a situation where you'd truly want them to all show up under Gen IV and to let the default setting behave the same as it used to, but if someone wants to e-mail me and argue I should change that, feel free.

Also, the alternate mega forms of Tatsugiri and Magearna are now classed as both Mega Evolutions and aesthetic variants, so that you need to have both enabled for them to show up; I'd forgotten that was a thing I could do with the form classifications.

Unrelatedly, I have also been making some accessibility-related tweaks, most noticeably darkening the link color for Butterfree style. Let me know if anything's weird.

And finally, because this is the sixth update in a short time, I figured it was a bit of a shame that these frequent updates are pushing the previous, still very recent updates off the front page, so I tweaked it to a hybrid of the old-TCoD approach of including the latest month of updates and the new one of including the latest three: now it'll include at least three updates, but if there are more than that in the current month, it'll show everything since the beginning of the month.

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How about that update streak, huh?

The Favorite Pokémon Picker now has an option to include shiny Pokémon as separate Pokémon. This has been a common feature request, mainly stopped by the technical aspect of how doubling the number of Pokémon would be problematic for the shortcodes used in the shareable list links. I have now made a change to the shortcode parsing, so that if xx is a given Pokémon, the shiny version of it is identified by .xx, and added a setting to include them as separate entries.

This is separate from the existing shiny mode, which simply involves displaying every Pokémon as shiny – the old shiny mode is still what you'll want to use if you want to find your favorite shinies, while the new mode is for if you want to be able to pick Charizard and Shiny Charizard independently, sort of as if they were two different Pokémon. Most people will probably not want to turn this on, but I've had enough requests for this over the years to know some people really wanted this.

Once again, let me know if anything's not working as it should!

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It is now possible to include or exclude base Pokémon under the "Include forms" setting in the Favorite Pokémon Picker. This makes it possible to, for instance, use the picker to select your favorites from all the Mega Evolutions without also seeing all the Pokémon from the sixth generation – something I imagine many people might want to do right now.

If you have a saved state, it should automatically enable base Pokémon if it detects you had some base Pokémon in your state, so it should not affect your existing state. Continuing from a saved favorite list will assume you do want to include base Pokémon in the settings unless the list contains 10+ Pokémon and all of them are alternate forms; obviously the line I chose to draw there was kind of arbitrary.

In any case, as always, let me know if you do bump into any issues with it!

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Since Pokémon Home has finally added compatibility with Legends: Z-A and given us official artwork of both the normal and shiny versions of the new Mega Evolutions introduced in the game, I have now duly added them to the Favorite Pokémon Picker as well. Since I originally added the Pokémon introduced in Legends: Arceus as its own halfway 'generation', I did the same here for consistency.

What with the game having been out for months now, I figured there wasn't too much point marking any of them as spoilers – although I will if anyone requests it. I did unmark the previous spoiler Pokémon, as well as re-adding Eternal Flower Floette (which used to be present in the picker back when Gen VI came out and then got removed when we transitioned to later generations that had no artwork for that form at all – if you had a shareable link to a favorites list from Gen VI that originally had Eternal Floette on it, it will now show up back where it was, since it has the same shortcode identifier it used to!). Finally, I reclassified Tatsugiri's forms as major forms, since I happened to notice it was pretty incongruous that they were classed as minor while Original Color Magearna was considered major. (Tatsugiri's alternate mega forms, on the other hand, are considered minor aesthetic variants.)

I tried to test it decently in both normal and shiny mode, but as always, if you bump into anything odd with it, please let me know. Happy picking!

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Glad you all enjoyed yesterday's April Fools' Day joke. I have now undone the style override and added a bit of a writeup on it to the April Fools' Day joke archive, as well as adding the style made for the occasion to the style switcher page.

For good measure, I also fixed the issue where a couple of the Caterpie illustrations on the actual 'post' came out awkward on mobile – the text will now only wrap around them on bigger screens.

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