History VideoGame / PokemonInfiniteFusion

** At the Cinnabar Island lab, one [=NPC=] will allow you to fight a trainer with a very strong Pokemon. Defeating it will grant you the Infinite Splicers essential item. After the postgame, you can fight the other three trainers, which will give you the Infinite Reverser essential item and upgrade your Infinite Splicers.

*** Duskull and its evolutions are popular fusion components due to often making awesome-looking fusions (with Duskull creating skeletal mons and Dusknoir making intimidating ghostly beasts). However, the only good stat the fusion inherits from that line of Pokemon is one of their defenses, as their other stats are too low to be of much use.

* LevelLimiter: [=RageCandyBars=] can be used on a Pokémon to lower their level by 1. The options menu also lets you cap your Pokemon's levels to that of the next gym leader's highest leveled Pokemon.

* TakeAThirdOption: Instead of choosing between one of the starter Pokemon after the player picks theirs, Blue will instead take both and fuse them together.

** [[spoiler: During the "Mysterious Lunar Feathers" sidequest, the second feather's clue mentions that it can be found in "a pokemon playground". You may take a while to search where the feather is, before figuring out that you're supposed to go to the Celadon's Daycare.]]

* BodyHorror: Several fusions result in ''horrifying'' amalgamations, such as Zubat/Tentacruel and Gardevoir/Parasect.

** Once you complete enough quests, you will be rewarded with a Sleeping Bag, which allows you to sleep anywhere in the game.

** The karma mechanic is an interesting concept, as it rewards you with positive karma whenever you do good deeds or negative karma if you decide to do bad actions. However, you're not told that various seemingly inconsequential actions, such as destroying sandcastles or how you respond to the Team Rocket recruiter will affect your karma.
*** Accessing the guaranteed Mew and Darkrai encounters is dependent on your karma, with Mew requiring a minimum of +10 karma and Darkrai a maximum of -10 karma. Your only hint to know when you have the proper level of karma is to visit a house at Ecruteak City with two [=NPCs=], one of which will tell you a vague message.

** Morning Sun and Moonlight can be used to respectively change into day and night, which can help a lot when searching for a specific Pokémon.

*** Accessing the guaranteed Mew and Darkrai encounters is dependent on your karma, with Mew requiring a minimum of +10 karma and Darkrai a maximum of -10 karma. Your only hint to know when you got enough karma, is to visit a house at Ecruteak City with two [=NPCs=], one of which will tell you a vague message.

** The karma mechanic is an interesting concept, as it rewards you with positive karma whenever you do good deeds (ex. completing quests, cutting trees at Ilex Forest and giving the right direction to tourists), or negative karma if you decide to do bad actions (ex. buying Pokémon from Team Rocket's black market at Celadon City, stealing Goldenrod Daycare's eggs or giving wrong directions to tourists). However, you're not told that destroying sandcastles also counts as negative karma. You're also not told that your response to the Team Rocket grunt at Nugget Bridge trying to recruit you or whether you save all the Silph Co. workers will affect your karma.

* BadassFamily: A few Kangaskhan fusions will have the mother accompanied by more than one baby.

* NonSequitur: Due to being comprised of different halves of their components' dex entries, the Pokédex entries of fusions tend to not flow together very well. For example, a fusion with Gengar as the body will usually have an entry that starts off describing the fusion's behaviour or abilities before randomly following with "It is actually a [fusion] running past you, pretending to be your shadow."

** Gastly/Exeggcute results in a distraught-looking Gastly [[GivingUpTheGhost emerging from]] a cracked open and seeping yolk Exeggcute.

''Pokémon Infinite Fusion'' is a ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' FanGame in UsefulNotes/RPGMaker that incorporates [[FusionDance fusions]][[note]]Originating from a Pokéfusion generator site, alongside a bunch of other custom made sprites later on in development[[/note]] into the world for the many Pokémon of the first seven generations (the latter five to a lesser extent). The result is a Pokédex totalling over '''ten thousand''' different Pokémon to obtain from fusions.

** Porygon-Z/Porygon-Z resembles Cresselia.

** Only 420 Pokémon[[note]]out of 1,010, not counting regional forms, as of Generation IX[[/note]] are present. This is due to software constraints; were every Pokémon present in the game, the sheer number of fusions would result in the game's performance tanking due to having to process ''millions'' of sprites. However, as the game engine got updated, the developers added 48 additional Pokémon[[note]]Tecnically 43, but Oricorio's four forms, Lycanroc's two forms, Ultra Necrozma and Meloetta's pirouette form are considered separate Pokémon[[/note]], bringing the total to 467.

*** The Duskull line are popular fusion components due to often making awesome-looking fusions (Duskull for creating skeletal mons and Dusknoir for making intimidating ghostly beasts especially). However, the only good stat the fusion inherits from that line of Pokemon is one of their defensive stats, as their attack stats, speed, and HP are too low to be of much use.
*** Despite the scores of creative custom sprites for fusions with Gardevoir as the body, said fusions tend to end up as either a MasterOfNone or a mediocre GlassCannon because they inherit Gardevoir's mediocre physical stats in addition to its respectable speed.

*** A common method of making awesome skeleton fusions is to include a Duskull, which has unusually good defenses for an unevolved Pokemon at the cost of all its other stats being abysmal. Its evolutions share the issue: Dusclops is useful for making StoneWall fusions that can still get a boost with Eviolite, while Dusknoir fusions excel at being visually intimidating. Their sole useful contribution to fusions is their sky-high defenses; both sets of attack stats are nothing to write home about, and their speed and HP are incredibly low.
*** A fusion using Gardevoir as the body is typically going to wind up either being a MasterOfNone or a mediocre GlassCannon, even though many such fusions have creative, lovingly-crafted designs.

** Pokémon that only evolve from trading (Machamp, Gengar, etc) still have that requirement here, but they also have the alternate requirement of reaching level 40, making them more feasible to obtain in a strictly single-player run.
** Evolving Eevee into Espeon or Umbreon can be expedited by using the Sun or Moon Stone respectively, without having to wait for the right time.

** Unevolved Pokémon, as well as JokeCharacter species, can at times make for incredibly cool fusions despite being terrible choices in terms of utility. Examples include Unown/Torterra, Magikarp/Magikarp, and many fusions involving Duskull.
** Some fusions look awesome, but have subpar stats due to the components' stats not meshing well with how fusion stats are calculated [[note]]they have an average of the two Pokémon's base stat totals with HP and special stats weighted towards the head's and attack, defence, and speed towards the body's[[/note]]. For example, a fusion using Gardevoir as the body is typically going to wind up either being a MasterOfNone or a mediocre GlassCannon, even though many such fusions have creative, lovingly-crafted designs.
** Sometimes one of the fusion options has a cooler sprite but it also has a worse typing/stat distribution

** Eviolite is nerfed to only boost defense and special defense by 25% instead of 50%, since it's possible to fuse an unevolved Pokemon with a fully evolved one to get an absolute StoneWall of a mon with huge defensive stats stats that's still compatible with Eviolite.

** Route 1 has a hidden area that allows you to catch rare Pokémon such as Duskull, Eevee and Ralts early, but accessing it requires doing the otherwise completely optional Blue fight on Route 22; if you defeat Brock without completing that battle, the save file is permanently locked out of the secret area. Making things worse, this area is the only way to get more than one Eevee in a non-randomized playthrough, effectively locking you out of the majority of the Eeveelutions and their fusing beyond a single Eevee you get in a quest.

* LoadsAndLoadsOfLoading: Version five of ''Infinite Fusion'', depending on the computer running the game, suffers from long load times of 20-30 seconds after each battle, including for the transition from a building into the overworld. The only way to mitigate this and reduce it to only a few seconds requires using the alternate launcher bundled within.

* MortonsFork: This occurs when you encounter the Team Rocket Grunt at the end of Nugget Bridge who asks you if you want to join Team Rocket, where you're given a Yes/No option. Selecting "No" causes him to get mad at you for refusing and battle you. Selecting "Yes" has him recognize you as the one who messed up their plans in Mt. Moon, which causes him to take the offer back and battle you anyway.

* NonSequitur: This is common in the Pokédex entries for the fusions, as a result of how they're usually created (they take the first half of one of the head's canon entries and the second half of one of the body's and put them together). For example, a fusion with Gengar as the body will usually have an entry that starts off describing the fusion's behaviour or abilities before randomly following with "It is actually a [fusion] running past you, pretending to be your shadow."

** You can rematch with trainers to get more experience. However, they won't give you more money if you win, which prevents grinding. However, one particular Cool Trainer in Rock Tunnel averts this, giving you both money and a potion every rematch.
** The Mankey Paw guarantees critical hits, but halves the hit rate. This sounds ripe for abuse with No Guard, but Mankey Paw seems to override No Guard, so moves can still miss.
** On the subject of No Guard, in the official games, No Guard makes the normally PowerfulButInaccurate OneHitKO moves (Fissure, Sheer Cold, Guillotine, Horn Drill etc.) always hit, but the only way to get one of these on a No Guard user is hacking. In this game, it's possible to get both through fusion, so to prevent abuse, OneHitKO moves are unaffected by the No Guard boost.
** Eviolite is nerfed to only boost defense and special defense by 25%, since it is possible to fuse an unevolved pokemon with a fully evolved one to get a mon that has big stats that is still compatable with eviolite.

* TimedMission: One mission in Vermillion City requires you to get Krabby legs from St. Anne, but upon pick-up, they must be given to the character who requested them within 30 seconds.
* TurtleIsland: While an unfused Torterra already qualifies, many of its fusions will feature various landscapes & even buildings on its shell that reflect the 'mon's typing, natural habitat, physical features, powers, etc. For example, Mr. Mime/Torterra has a circus, Duskull/Torterra has a graveyard & Trapinch/Torterra has a desert.
** Special mention goes to [[spoiler: the triple fusion Torterneon]], who has landmass resembling a map of Sinnoh on it's back.

* AdaptationalJerkass: Eusine, who attempts to out-and-out con the player, and later [[spoiler:floods an entire town]] in an attempt to attract the legendary beasts, denies doing it, and then leaves the player to sort out the mess once he fesses up.

** The most obvious inclusion is the [[FusionDance fusion gimmick]], allowing the player to fuse any two Pokémon into a whole new Pokémon that derives their stats, moves, and abilities from. And when considering the total roster of Pokémon included in the region, the fusions multiply it to equal thousands upon thousands.

** Only 420 Pokémon[[note]]out of 1,010, not counting regional forms, as of Generation IX[[/note]] are present. Many had to be left on the cutting room floor because of software constraints, as the game would have been impossible to run without crashing due to the sheer amount of data contained, if a big amount of pokemon were added. However, as the game engine got updated, the developers added 48 additional Pokémon[[note]]Tecnically 43, but Oricorio's four forms, Lycanroc's two forms, Ultra Necrozma and Meloetta's pirouette form are considered separate Pokémon[[/note]], bringing the total to 467.

* BoringButPractical: It is usually better to evolve a fusion even if the fusion's evolution has a sprite that isn't as cool as its current form.
* CallForward: An Absol, which are known for appearing just before disasters, appears at Cinnabar Island, with a woman nearby hoping that it doesn't mean that anything bad will happen to Cinnabar. As would be eventually revealed in the Gen II games, Cinnabar would be soon destroyed in a volcanic eruption.

** Some fusions fall into this, not because the Pokémon involved are ''weak'' per se, but because their stats don't mesh well with how fusion stats are calculated [[note]]they have an average of the two Pokémon's base stat totals with HP and special stats weighted towards the head's and attack, defence, and speed towards the body's[[/note]]. For example, a fusion using Gardevoir as the body is typically going to wind up either being a MasterOfNone or a mediocre GlassCannon, even though many such fusions have creative, lovingly-crafted designs.

* CoolSword: Many fusions which utilise the Honedge line as the fusion's body will lead to a fancy-looking sword taking inspiration from the other Pokémon which was fused in. See LivingWeapon below.

* DangerousForbiddenTechnique: Triple fusion is this. While the result is a powerful Pokémon, creating one takes lots of resources and comes at the risk of killing the fusion components.

** You normally don't have access to Saffron City, as its gate are blocked by Team Rocket grunts requesting an hefty toll of 100.000 poké, and you're required to defeat them in order to proceed. However, if you manage to get all that money (either by cheating, or with the help of a randomizer giving you good items to sell) and pay the grunts, you'll get access to Saffron City early, allowing you to skip Rock Tunnel. However, you will be unable to go to Silph Co., until you proceed with the main story.

* FusionDance: The entire premise of the game is taking two Pokémon, with the aid of a DNA Splicer item, and combining them into one. Team Rocket plans on going [[ExaggeratedTrope even further with this trend by combining three Pokémon at once]], [[spoiler:eventually leading to the capture and fusion of the Legendary Birds.]]

** The karma mechanic is an interesting concept, as it rewards you with positive karma whenever you do good deeds (ex. completing quests, cutting trees at Ilex Forest and giving the right direction to tourists), or negative karma if you decide to do bad actions (ex. buying Pokémon from Team Rocket's black market at Celadon City, stealing Goldenrod Daycare's eggs or giving wrong directions to tourists). However, you're not told that destroying sandcastles also counts as negative karma. You're also not told that either refusing or accepting to join Team Rocket at Nugget Bridge, and either saving or not helping all Silph Co. workers will give you positive or negative karma.
*** Another issue of the karma mechanic, is that two guaranteed Pokémon encounters, Darkrai and Mew, rely on it. The first one requires you to enter a house with a boy suffering nightmares at night, with -10 or lower karma, while Mew can randomly spawn in the overworld at Viridian River if you have +10 or higher karma (and even then, you have to exit and enter Viridian River multiple times until Mew spawns). Your only hint to know when you got enough karma, is to visit a house at Ecruteak City with two [=NPCs=], one of which will tell you a vague message.

** There's a secret area you can find on Route 1, which allows you to get Pokémon such as Duskull, Eevee and Ralts earlier, as well as some revives and potions. However, to be able to enter, you need to do the optional Blue fight on route 22. If you defeated Brock before doing that, you won't be able to access the area, unless you start a new game.
*** Said area is even worse if you don't use a randomizer as it is the only place to get multiple Eevee's in a normal game, effectively locking you out of all Eeveelutions and their fusions except the single Eevee gotten by a quest.

* LivingWeapon: While unfused members of the Honedge line already qualify, fusions using them as the "Body" are comprised of a wide variety of handheld weapons that adopt (often organic) qualities of the "Head" 'mon it's fused with. For some examples, Caterpie/Honedge & Weedle/Honedge become flails, Ratata/Doublade becomes a pair of scissors, Haxorus/Aegislash becomes a battleaxe, Rotom/Aegislash becomes a chainsaw, Beedrill/Aegislash has a Beedrill stinger for a blade & a honeycomb cell for a shield, etc.

* GottaCatchEmAll: Subverted. Professor Oak realizes that it wouldn't be possible to actually capture every single Pokémon species as there are more than 175,000 of them thanks to Fusion, but he still hopes that you try.
* GlitchEntity: Fusions with Porygon-Z will usually create this, featuring visual distortions or error messages overlaid on the sprite. Fusing it with the Azumarill line, for example, causes it to resemble a UsefulNotes/BlueScreenOfDeath.

''Pokémon Infinite Fusion'' is a ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' FanGame in UsefulNotes/RPGMaker that incorporates [[FusionDance fusions]][[note]]Originating from a Pokéfusion generator site, alongside a bunch of other custom made sprites later on in development[[/note]] into the world for the many Pokémon of the first five generations (the latter three to a lesser extent). The result is a Pokédex totalling over '''ten thousand''' different Pokémon to obtain from fusions.