I'm not entirely sure how to go about this or how to search how something like this should happen but with several short of 500 posts with shadow pokemon tagged, I feel as if their tag should be sorted as a species tag, like how legendary pokemon are.

Sounds fair to me...

shadow pokemon *aren't* really a species though, it's like... a mental state. Basically depressed*pokemon.jpg

Shadow pokémon, as versp said, are more of an altered form/state of being than a species... but then again, tags of forms/states like mega evolution are treated as species tags... so I'm a bit torn. Hm.

Versperus said:
shadow pokemon *aren't* really a species though, it's like... a mental state. Basically depressed*pokemon.jpg

They do have coloration (and sometimes morphological) changes, though. It would be no worse than shiny_pokémon.

Watsit said:
They do have coloration (and sometimes morphological) changes, though. It would be no worse than shiny_pokémon.

the only canon I'm aware of that have colorization change was lugia, and it's temporary.

ImpidiDinkaDoo said:
Shadow pokémon, as versp said, are more of an altered form/state of being than a species... but then again, tags of forms/states like mega evolution are treated as species tags... so I'm a bit torn. Hm.

In saying that, I don't think that mega evolution or shiny should be a species tag. Not to say I don't think the tag should exist, but be classified as general like... melanistic for example.

Versperus said:
shadow pokemon *aren't* really a species though, it's like... a mental state. Basically depressed*pokemon.jpg

Psychologically_traumatized_pokemon.jpg?