Although technically a virtual, manmade Pokémon, Porygon-Z does have a physical body. Its head is fuchsia and ovoid in shape with a short, blunt antenna protruding upwards and a blue bill similar to that of a duck. Its eyes are yellow and have black rings, similar to a bulls-eye. The head is completely detached from the body and floats slightly above it. Its smooth, ovoid body is fuchsia with a blue ring connecting its arms. Two arms are loosely connected to their upper body and, other than their blue color, have no features. The tail is also blue and featureless but slightly resembles a paddle.
Porygon-Z was given additional software in order to increase its abilities further, and its offensive power has greatly increased. The initial idea was to give Porygon2 the ability to travel through alien dimensions, but it did not work as planned. Instead, the resulting Pokémon began showing highly erratic, unstable behavior and twitchy movements, making it difficult to work with for research. As a result, it is believed the experiment to create Porygon-Z was a failure. This has been attributed to the incompetence of the engineer improperly updating its programming. Academics can't seem to agree on whether Porygon-Z should be considered a true Evolution of Porygon2. In ancient Hisui, people were confused about Porygon-Z and its evolutionary relatives due to them arriving through space-time distortions and being the product of far more advanced technology than what was available at the time.
A curious item induced this evolution. The Pokémon's offensive capabilities have greatly increased, but the strangeness of its behavior has magnified in equal measure. This worries me.
Porygon-Z appears as a trophy exclusive to the 3DS version of the game.
Trophy information
NA:Porygon is an artificial Pokémon created by humans. Given an Up-Grade, it becomes Porygon2. Then another mod turns it into Porygon-Z. You'd think two upgrades would make Porygon-Z the perfect Pokémon, but actually, the Dubious Disc used to make Porygon2 evolve seems to have introduced some bugs. Maybe a patch is in the works?
PAL:Porygon is an artificial Pokémon created by humans. Given an Up-Grade, it becomes Porygon2. Then another mod turns it into Porygon-Z. You'd think two upgrades would make Porygon-Z the perfect Pokémon, but actually, the Dubious Disc used to make Porygon2 evolve makes it a bit glitchy. Maybe there's a patch in the works...
Trivia
Porygon-Z is the only Pokémon whose Japanese name is spelled with a character from a foreign alphabet.
Porygon's evolutionary line has several unique attributes:
They are the only three-stage evolutionary line whose members were all considered fully evolved during their respective debut generations. For this reason, they are the only Pokémon that are part of a three-stage Evolution line to be capable of learning both Hyper Beam and Giga Impact.
In addition, despite never having appeared in the animated series outside of a brief cameo, it did receive an animated series-style voice in the aforementioned game, like every other Pokémon in it.
Porygon-Z is the only Pokémon to evolve from a Pokémon that evolves when traded.
Porygon-Z is a combination of Porygon and the letter Z. The latter may refer to the Z axis in a 3D coordinate system, or the fact that it is the final stage in its evolutionary line, with Z being the final letter of the Latin alphabet. Z could also be a corruption of the number 2, referring to its status as a glitched Evolution of Porygon2.
From 多邊形 / 多边形 duōbiānxíng, 獸 / 兽 shòu, and Z From 多边形 duōbiānxíng, 兽 shòu, and 乙型 yǐxíng with the character 乙 resembling the letter Z From 3D, 龍 / 龙 lóng, and Z
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