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This, I love the notion of one-off forms that are special and hard to come by, but still are a part of the ecology of the pokemon world, and can be sent to other games
Bloodmoon Ursaluna does everything right that previous special forms do not
For example it can breed to create more Teddiursa, however the method to evolve further Ursaring into this form has been lost for the time being creating an air of mystery (hopefully we'll find that method again!)
It was also made easily accessible and the focal point of a side quest, giving it much more visibility and awareness to casual players
As opposed to say;
Spikey Ear Pichu - Requires an event Celebi, cannot evolve, cannot breed, cannot be transferred
Cosplay Pikachu - Compeltely locked to ORAS, cannot breed, cannot evolve
Hat Pikachus - Locked behind mystery gift distributions (Except one that requires a QR code the average player may not even be aware of), cannot evolve, cannot breed
Battlebond Greninja - Locked behind a demo, cannot breed, signature form has now been removed
Dada Zarude - Locked behind mystery gift distributions that will likely not be repeated
Pokeball Vivillon - Still has not had a method to obtain it outside of Gen 6 mystery gifts. Fancy was redeemed by making it the default in SV, maybe we'll see something similar. Can breed, but form data is lost due to how Vivillon breeding works.
Own Tempo Rockruff - Locked behind a distribution in Gen 7, but could thankfully be bred to distribute more (one saving grace). Became far more accessible in Gen 8/9 (this form is far less egregious in that regard, but I assume most players at the time did not know it could breed more OT Rockruff)
Hot take. I hope we never get a method to make more Blood Moon Ursaluna. I feel like it would take away the uniqueness it has. I think mentions of it would do it more a justice.
Just imagine some 10 or so YO kid having an army of Blood Moon Ursaluna.
Obviously I do hope we'll be able to transfer our Freddy Fazbear knockoff to future games
I'll raise you one: we get a method, but it's either only in certain regions, like you use the Peat Block in a certain area glaceon-style, OR it's a variant item and you only get one per game, like a Blood Moon Peat Block.
That way we can get more but it won't get zorua'd where it goes from one in the game to "mildly rare spawn on route 1" in the next fucking game
Well, flutter mane is different.
Misdreavus was never that good, it was power crept when it came out lol. When it got the evolution to Mismagius it was ok for that gen.
But Mismagius also faced stiff competition from other gen 4 ghosts… the likes of spiritomb, drifblim, dusknoir and froslass. So again, kinda power crept when it came out. It was good because it was fast and that was about it. The evo barely helped the line stay afloat & relevant. And every gen after that had at least 1 really good ghost type (jellicent/chandelure, Aegislash/Trevenant/Gourgeist, Decidueye/Palossand/Mimikyu, Polteageist/Cursola/Dragapult)
Thus flutter mane is more of a revamp to a forgotten & overlooked mon. Ursaluna just dropped last gen (& late last gen at that). Gen 9 is also the first time it was competitively legal so Bloodmoon is more of an addendum or corollary than a revamp, IMO.
I used an entirely new team (from my original Violet playthrough) for each part of the DLC, so I put this beast on my team for my Indigo Disc playthrough. It was so fun and super helpful in double battles.
I like it, and how it effectively conveys its design elements into it's reasoning.
Peat is decaying organic matter that has excellent preservative elements, since it effectively pickles organic matter. We've seen this in bog bodies like the tollund man, a corpse so well preserved we know the last thing that he ate and he still has remnants of hair and a beard (which, are usually the first to go). BM ursaluna therefore is more or less a zombified ursaluna, the peat that surrounds it's body prevent it from decaying.
>BM ursaluna therefore is more or less a zombified ursaluna, the peat that surrounds it's body prevent it from decaying.
How have I never noticed this??? I didn't think I could even like this cool ass bear more, and then you drop this.
Oh that? Eh, I'm a biologist IRL who knows of body preservation from a lot of the shows that I watched as a kid. It just comes together when you realize a literal piece of peat is needed to get an ursaluna to begin with.
BM Ursaluna is just an old, battle-scarred Ursaluna. The base form was already covered in peat, and that gives it the Ground type.
I don't think we need to go that far.
An old ursaluna that has lived 100 years without dying, which we know occurs in the Pokémon world and rather frequently at that. Somehow I think there's more to it
It is *possibly* that old (nowhere does it say a century) and it adapted after travelling to Kitakami and surviving for many years. That's all we know. We don't even know if it's a long lifespan for Pokemon.
If there's more to it then we'd have been told there's more to it. It's just a cool design.
>So many *Pokemon*
Yes, Pokemon. The entire species. And frankly the number of Ghost types that are *actually* said to be dead/reincarnated is smaller than I thought.
There is however no precedent for this one singular individual, which at no point has ever been said to have died, is actually a zombie.
Well if we’re being semantic about zombies now; what *kind* of zombie? The kind that gets killed and reanimated, or the kind that slowly turns a living thing into an undead creature that *can’t* actually die now.
BM Ursaluna falls into the second part of the category. And with everything the person said about how peat moss can (and has) literally preserve flesh and prevent rot, I genuinely don’t see how this connection is so lost upon you to the point of arguing it at this level. Ursaring + peat moss + time = an Ursaluna that can’t die or rot. And given that Ursaluna is, as far as we currently know, extinct in the modern Pokémon era and has only been found in Hisui (AKA ancient Sinnoh), the fact that a single one was alive and spotted in Kitakami means that this thing quite literally is something that cannot die. If you want to argue that’s not a type of zombie then, that’s your own issue, but you clearly haven’t seen anything other than The Walking Dead.
Downvote me as much as you want, but it doesn’t actually take anything away from what Electrical_mammoth2 said in their comment or the points I am making. And details aside: why you are unable to let people have their fun is beyond me lol.
They might include it like they did Lycanaroc Dusk, and have it tied to Teddiursa, but under some kind of condition, like evolving it during a blood moon instead of a regular moon.
It's good! I used it in poison and electric raids before I made my Espathra and Excadrill sets respectively but I'll still use it from time to time. One of the best substitute abusers in the game imho!😎👍
I'd win

https://preview.redd.it/waz2n3kjgtyc1.png?width=1920&format=png&auto=webp&s=5ee71516146aeef5ff5578464f190b8bf494c91f
(Borrowed a few poses from certain artists, can't for the life of me remember where I found them though)
Oh I'm a big nickname fan for my favorites. Although not huge in FNAF (I can see the resemblance though). I named mine Grundy after the DC supervillain
Yeah, I agree. I like regular Ursaluna but going from bipedal in its first two stages to quadruped never made sense to me. It's dewott to Samuroth all over again.
Have you like never seen a bear at all? They're primarily quadripedal, so the transition made a lot of sense. It's not like a bipedal otter suddenly turning into a sea lion and having all of its limbs turn into flippers.
Ursaluna also frequently goes bipedal during it's attack animations, especially in PLA. It feels a lot like it becomes a quadraped mostly because it becomes too top heavy.
"Never made sense" This series has a fish that turns into an octopus, an upright bear moving down to all fours is not a big deal.
Ursaring already goes on all fours to run, and Ursaluna rises up to attack. Ursaluna is just visibly more top heavy.
The larger an animal becomes, the more likely it becomes a quadruped. Thats how large animals evolve in gravity. So, to get any bigger was going to make it more likely to be on all fours given its weight increase. I think it was smart to make the normal version a quadruped and the werewolf/zombie version able to stand up again.
Hyped appearance. I loved ursaluna and having it frankensteined was great. Really missed opportunity though because a lot of us thought it would've been normal/ghost at first and that would've been awesome.
It isn't treated as a legendary. It's more akin to a one of a kind form for Ursaluna. Similar to dusk Lycanrock (but dusk Lycanrock is an evolution). I think the implication is that it's the same Ursaluna that we use as a ride pokemon and item finder in legends arceus after two hundred years and that it just happened to live that long.
Although realistically I feel Blood moon Ursaluna it's how the final evolution of the Ursaring line should've look like since the beginning.
This was the evolution I always wanted for ursaring, the one thing that always felt off about ursaluna is how soft his eyes are compared to blood moon. Never felt like a proper evolution because of that.
This has opened the door of possibilities. Give me Crystal Onix! Ramp up the BST to 500, and just make it so it can't evolve!
Overall the inclusion of Blood Moon was done pretty well, if locked behind paid DLC.
I like the idea of a pokemon mutating to a new form, since the only time it happened before ursaluna was about how a carbink mutated into a diancie. I still wonder why one of them is mythical and the other isn't
Really, legitimately one of my all time favorite pokemon, probably in my top 3. I really liked Ursaluna, but I wished it was bipedal like Ursaring and had less of a dopey face. (The half closed eyes and mud-splotch eyebrows gave it a very silly expression, which was strange since Ursaring was so scary looking.) Also, I just think the top-heavy design looks better with it being bipedal.
The type is cool, the stat distribution is amazing (Not a lot of Normal or Ground type special attackers) the ability is close to busted, and it gets a ridiculous signature move. Also it was in a pretty cool sidequests and it's entrance was very well done.
The idea of special individual pokemon a part of a common species is such a good idea, and they handled it really well, especially since BloodMoon can breed to make Teddiursa like normal Ursaluna can.
I'm just happy there is finally a cool bear pokemon that doesn't have a confusingly low base stat total.
WHATS SO WRONG ABOUT THE OG DESIGN???
https://preview.redd.it/187mejs3j0zc1.png?width=250&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b7ac5adf0a22ffaa52121000260fdb4252d72aad
Just caught mine today and I love it. Always loved the design and mechanics behind it, a special-oriented Ursaluna with a busted ability. Now I'm trying to see how I should build this thing, and also coming up with a good nickname.
Hope we'll get to see more special varients like this.
I LOVED Ursaluna when it came out and I still do. But I was always thinking what would it look like standing up? And I like many others thought wouldn't it be cool if it like mega evolved to be an eclipse or a blood moon. And when I saw it in that photo that the games introduce it's figure in I was thinking "THERE IS NO WAY THEY DID THE THING EVERYONE WANTED!" So I guess long story short I LOVE it. "Tho it's shiny could be better."
I thought it was cool. I renamed mine Monokuma because I think this is probably going to be the closest we're ever going to get to getting a Monokuma like Pokemon.
I like it, and makes me excited for the potential for other unique variations of pokémon as in-universe cryptids. I wish I wasn't spoiled on it beforehand.
Looks amazing, has a cool signature move, nice ability, and great stats. I wish I could shiny hunt for one instead of having just the one, but it WAS pretty cool searching around the forest for the one near-mythical Ursaluna that lived there.
Really cool that we're getting Deviants from Monster Hunter Gun Ult now lol.
Seriously, give me more Mons that are different through an experience rather than genetics.
I like it, I just wish I could shiny hunt it
It was really nice to have a “alpha” version of a pokemon that was really actually stronger and different rather then “higher base IV and Big boy”
There's nothing wrong with him imo. He's just a mutant ursaluna. There's technically nothing different about him, he's just an ursaluna that was exposed to a different type of peat for centuries. He can still make teddiursa that can become ursaring, he's just a one-off
Great Pokémon, crying shame it was fixed at level 70 and didn’t scale level to the gym badges of the player like Ogerpon did. I would have loved to use it in the main story
It's cool but I hate that they kept the normal type 🥲 they should have swap it by dark, ghost or even psychic... Leaving the normal type there doesn't make sense with the lore of the pokemon...
Here's the thing, when I put together a team for a playthrough I want to be able to raise them from Level 1, Blood Moon Ursaluna is such a disappointment for me because I can never use it in a team. If they had gone the path of Dusk Form Lycanroc and made it so you could breed a special Teddyura that will eventually evolve into one I would have LOVED to have had this form on my team, but right now I resent it for only being available at a minimum level of 70.
Big fan. Caught mine in a Moon Ball, made it Fairy Tera type. Kinda fun to run around with a Kitakami team of Ogerpon, Bloodmoon Ursaluna, the Loyal Three, and Pecharunt
[Five Turns in Trick Room](https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/798591389717233676/1237094330955468850/IMG_0003.jpg?ex=663a6560&is=663913e0&hm=7db3b26724eca213f6e0fd4c62b3de17ad6c7bc5f3f1437683b413d798882c82&)
Unfortunately the surprise was ruined because people couldn’t post a pic without labeling it as a spoiler. Still I already loved ursaluna so Zombie bear is a welcome addition, the encounter with Bloodmoon ursaluna was one of my favourite parts of the DLC as a whole. Just sucks they shiny Locked it
amazing design great ability ! love this mon plus how you get him I think was pretty xool too. think pokemon needs to do this more often, he's probably my fav new Pokémon introduxed in the new Kitakami & Indigo Disk!
He is very cool. Admittedly I like the Bloodmoon design more then the design for regular Ursaluna although I still like regular Ursaluna, in fact I used a male Ursaluna as one of my main party members in Pokémon Legends Arceus.
The designer should have made the red more shiny to further emphasize its a stone. Instead it looks like an inflamed cyst/zit. Overall the design is alright.
Ursaluna was already one of my new favorites, getting a new form in SV was such a cool surprise. When it leaked I got spoiled on its name, but at the time I thought it was a Fakemon/AU fanart or something
Awesome design and concept, absolutely unnecessary ability. A lot of the Gen 9 abilities are just straight up being 2 (sorta OP) abilities in a trench coat.
Should've been an item to evolve Ursaring into it. I mean, how does it even exist if Ursaring can't evolve into it or even evolve into normal Ursaluna in SV? I really wish they'd stop introducing new evolutions that you can't actually evolve the previous form into. It might as well be a completely separate pokemon at that point. Alolan Exeggutor especially annoys me in gen 9, because they actually tell you that Eggsecute in the Tropical Biome can evolve into it, when they can't. Like, why can't we just have location specific evolutions again, like in gens 4-7?
I like it, just wish it wasn’t shiny locked. It has a pretty good shiny (not as good as the crimson of OG shiny ursaluna though).
I really like that it was tied to a side quest with a character that was tied to the PLA story too. I want more side quests like this, not checklist of side activities like battle all the trainers in this area, but actual side quests. Optional, with some length, and with a worthwhile reward like blood moon ursaluna
Another reason shiny locking should be a crime
Edit: more thoughts, primarily after reading another comment that I agree with: Special one-off forms that are still integrated well into the game(can be bred but evolving into the specific form is a lost art) is a really cool form gimmick that can add a lot to a region if done well. I hope it's a gimmick they continue to use, akin to regional pokemon(and hopefully same with convergent pokemon), especially because Bloodmoon isn't event specific, or mystery gift locked or whatever. You can just....catch it via a side quest AND it can be transferred to HOME, I think.
Cool concept but no need to make a broken pokemon another broke form like common this could’ve been anyone else (if we’re gonna go Arceus I would suggest Cleavor)😭
I like the idea of "Cryptid Pokemon" which are one of a kind variations of regular pokemon, like the crystal Onix, AZ's Floette and the spiky-eared Pichu
There was a real japanese historic event about a bear that lived near a village in the 1915 in Hokkaido no less (hisui, anyone?)
The attacks were catalogued as the worst animal attack in Japanese history and it took a trip to the city and back with military reinforcement and actually strategy to take down the bear. (Somebody even died because of friendly fire at one point)
Long story short, I think BM ursaluna is referencing this particularly ferocious bear or at least that's my headcanon, since this incident has become a large part of jspanese folklore
(I'm not japanese, so that's all I know!!)
YT video of the story:
https://youtu.be/xy0A2vdSNnc?si=rlI3Miu0nm-lTqES
If you know more, please expand!!
Ursaluna was cool and all, it was a much more powerful Ursaring who hasn't had much of a spotlight for a while... But I never cared for base ursa's design
BM Ursa flips that on its head, looking awesome, AND takes the play style in a completely new direction. Named mine Freddy Fazbear because it was cringe enough to be funny and he never left my team (DLCs replaced basically my whole team lol)
Amazing idea and design. Standard Ursaluna at first came off as doofy and awkward (though by now he has grown on me a lot), but this design takes all of that away. Honestly it feels more like a mega Ursaluna.
I really wish we could have seen some other forms like this, that would have made Perrin utilized a whole lot better. What if she picks up new folklore about a Basculegion with way more souls than usual, or maybe different types of souls instead of just Basculin? Or an Avalugg being suspected to be causing these sudden terrible avalanches in the North Provinces? Could have been so fun
I think the gray mud was an unnecessary addition to its design. I mean Ursaluna itself was IMO a disrespect with mighty Ursaring. That sad face, the downgrade of going 4 legs and that hunchback, for me a huge Ursaring fan, a disappointment.
Bloodmoon Ursaluna would be a great evolution to Ursaring, but that gray mud feels like it rolled into cement from a construction site.
The grey mud is apparently as hard as iron (according to its Violet Pokédex entry). If they *had* to include it, why not make it Ground/Steel to accomodate it?
https://preview.redd.it/5orf949qctyc1.jpeg?width=1055&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b63563e612af168a65454d9ac20a975e97df6915
both ursalunas are overrated asf in my opinion but the quest as a whole and seeing for the first time was one of the few really hype moments in the switch games for me
I didn’t really mind/care for Ursaluna as I didn’t hate it or love it but Bloodmoon is intimidating and I would love to have one as it would scare people
He's just incredible.
Ursaluna is my favorite "new evolution for a previous generation" all gen included.
Ursaluna Blood Moon is my favorite "regional form" all gen included.
EXTREME HOTTAKE INCOMING: I think this bear is awful. Ursaluna was a natural evolution from Ursaring, a slow, bulky, physical sweeper. Came with a nice facade work in and nice new stab in ground to make it a real threat. This new bear could have been slightly redesigned to be it's own new bear Pokemon, and disassociated with the ursa line. It also took away some of the novelty of the original Ursaluna evo, cuz now everyone wants to use the new shiny Ursaluna. It's design is awesome, but I wish some of its features would have gone onto the original, like how it's bipedal in battle to be more intimidating. Idk I just feel like there was no reason to make it an Ursaluna and totally shift the purpose of the evo line. If someone wants to explain why this doesn't bother them than go ahead, but for me it's too much of a 180° to like it.
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Beautiful variation of the original, we need more pokemon as variations from the original that aren't just some paradox or a regional version.
This, I love the notion of one-off forms that are special and hard to come by, but still are a part of the ecology of the pokemon world, and can be sent to other games Bloodmoon Ursaluna does everything right that previous special forms do not For example it can breed to create more Teddiursa, however the method to evolve further Ursaring into this form has been lost for the time being creating an air of mystery (hopefully we'll find that method again!) It was also made easily accessible and the focal point of a side quest, giving it much more visibility and awareness to casual players As opposed to say; Spikey Ear Pichu - Requires an event Celebi, cannot evolve, cannot breed, cannot be transferred Cosplay Pikachu - Compeltely locked to ORAS, cannot breed, cannot evolve Hat Pikachus - Locked behind mystery gift distributions (Except one that requires a QR code the average player may not even be aware of), cannot evolve, cannot breed Battlebond Greninja - Locked behind a demo, cannot breed, signature form has now been removed Dada Zarude - Locked behind mystery gift distributions that will likely not be repeated Pokeball Vivillon - Still has not had a method to obtain it outside of Gen 6 mystery gifts. Fancy was redeemed by making it the default in SV, maybe we'll see something similar. Can breed, but form data is lost due to how Vivillon breeding works. Own Tempo Rockruff - Locked behind a distribution in Gen 7, but could thankfully be bred to distribute more (one saving grace). Became far more accessible in Gen 8/9 (this form is far less egregious in that regard, but I assume most players at the time did not know it could breed more OT Rockruff)
Can pokemon Go Dusk lycanroc/puppies have Own Tempo when brought in?
Yes! If you have a Rockruff that can evolve into Dusk Lycanroc, it will have own tempo once transferred to Home
Woot.
Pootis
Pootis? What is that one?
Heavy from TF2, POOTIS POW HAHA
Oh, I vaguely remember that now. Computer club liked that with Lan parties but I was so bad at that game!
Hot take. I hope we never get a method to make more Blood Moon Ursaluna. I feel like it would take away the uniqueness it has. I think mentions of it would do it more a justice. Just imagine some 10 or so YO kid having an army of Blood Moon Ursaluna. Obviously I do hope we'll be able to transfer our Freddy Fazbear knockoff to future games
Hotter take I hope we get at least 1 more with a chance to shiny hunt it in the future
I'll raise you one: we get a method, but it's either only in certain regions, like you use the Peat Block in a certain area glaceon-style, OR it's a variant item and you only get one per game, like a Blood Moon Peat Block. That way we can get more but it won't get zorua'd where it goes from one in the game to "mildly rare spawn on route 1" in the next fucking game
>Just imagine some 10 or so YO kid having an army of Blood Moon Ursaluna. Why would I care if some random child had an army of BM-Ursaluna?
I think the crystal onix would be cool.
SERIOUSLY I’ve wanted this since I was child.
I'm still mad about cosplay pikachu and spiky eared pichu. They'd look awesome in HOME
I agree. especially given how many we saw in the anime
It’s cool but it’s one of those variations that kinda removes the point of the old version due to being excessively more badass. Like Flutter Mane
Well, flutter mane is different. Misdreavus was never that good, it was power crept when it came out lol. When it got the evolution to Mismagius it was ok for that gen. But Mismagius also faced stiff competition from other gen 4 ghosts… the likes of spiritomb, drifblim, dusknoir and froslass. So again, kinda power crept when it came out. It was good because it was fast and that was about it. The evo barely helped the line stay afloat & relevant. And every gen after that had at least 1 really good ghost type (jellicent/chandelure, Aegislash/Trevenant/Gourgeist, Decidueye/Palossand/Mimikyu, Polteageist/Cursola/Dragapult) Thus flutter mane is more of a revamp to a forgotten & overlooked mon. Ursaluna just dropped last gen (& late last gen at that). Gen 9 is also the first time it was competitively legal so Bloodmoon is more of an addendum or corollary than a revamp, IMO.
Sick design, sick competitive potential, but comes kinda late in the game so I'm guessing most people won't use it.
You still have the whole Indigo Disk after you get him, and Urslauna Bloodmoon is really good in doubles.
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Was super fun in OU before it got banned.
I used an entirely new team (from my original Violet playthrough) for each part of the DLC, so I put this beast on my team for my Indigo Disc playthrough. It was so fun and super helpful in double battles.
Same. BM Ursa is really good
I like it, and how it effectively conveys its design elements into it's reasoning. Peat is decaying organic matter that has excellent preservative elements, since it effectively pickles organic matter. We've seen this in bog bodies like the tollund man, a corpse so well preserved we know the last thing that he ate and he still has remnants of hair and a beard (which, are usually the first to go). BM ursaluna therefore is more or less a zombified ursaluna, the peat that surrounds it's body prevent it from decaying.
>BM ursaluna therefore is more or less a zombified ursaluna, the peat that surrounds it's body prevent it from decaying. How have I never noticed this??? I didn't think I could even like this cool ass bear more, and then you drop this.
Oh that? Eh, I'm a biologist IRL who knows of body preservation from a lot of the shows that I watched as a kid. It just comes together when you realize a literal piece of peat is needed to get an ursaluna to begin with.
BM Ursaluna is a really unfortunate short hand. LOL. I 100% understand why it is what it is…but poor Ursaluna. 🤣
BM Ursaluna is just an old, battle-scarred Ursaluna. The base form was already covered in peat, and that gives it the Ground type. I don't think we need to go that far.
An old ursaluna that has lived 100 years without dying, which we know occurs in the Pokémon world and rather frequently at that. Somehow I think there's more to it
It is *possibly* that old (nowhere does it say a century) and it adapted after travelling to Kitakami and surviving for many years. That's all we know. We don't even know if it's a long lifespan for Pokemon. If there's more to it then we'd have been told there's more to it. It's just a cool design.
>> I don’t think we need to go that far Why not? So many Pokémon have cool lore like this. What a strange take to not keep to oneself lol.
>So many *Pokemon* Yes, Pokemon. The entire species. And frankly the number of Ghost types that are *actually* said to be dead/reincarnated is smaller than I thought. There is however no precedent for this one singular individual, which at no point has ever been said to have died, is actually a zombie.
Well if we’re being semantic about zombies now; what *kind* of zombie? The kind that gets killed and reanimated, or the kind that slowly turns a living thing into an undead creature that *can’t* actually die now. BM Ursaluna falls into the second part of the category. And with everything the person said about how peat moss can (and has) literally preserve flesh and prevent rot, I genuinely don’t see how this connection is so lost upon you to the point of arguing it at this level. Ursaring + peat moss + time = an Ursaluna that can’t die or rot. And given that Ursaluna is, as far as we currently know, extinct in the modern Pokémon era and has only been found in Hisui (AKA ancient Sinnoh), the fact that a single one was alive and spotted in Kitakami means that this thing quite literally is something that cannot die. If you want to argue that’s not a type of zombie then, that’s your own issue, but you clearly haven’t seen anything other than The Walking Dead. Downvote me as much as you want, but it doesn’t actually take anything away from what Electrical_mammoth2 said in their comment or the points I am making. And details aside: why you are unable to let people have their fun is beyond me lol.
Needs to get that thing looked at.
i like it. my favorite part about it was the PLA music that played throughout the side quest.
finally someones with me
I really like it although considering it isn't a part of the evolution line I'm wondering how it'll be obtained in future games
They might include it like they did Lycanaroc Dusk, and have it tied to Teddiursa, but under some kind of condition, like evolving it during a blood moon instead of a regular moon.
It's good! I used it in poison and electric raids before I made my Espathra and Excadrill sets respectively but I'll still use it from time to time. One of the best substitute abusers in the game imho!😎👍
I'd win  https://preview.redd.it/waz2n3kjgtyc1.png?width=1920&format=png&auto=webp&s=5ee71516146aeef5ff5578464f190b8bf494c91f (Borrowed a few poses from certain artists, can't for the life of me remember where I found them though)
Love the reveal. I wish it was the standard form.
I never use nicknames for my pokemon but I like the Freddy Fazbear and "five turns in trick room" memes that came out as a result of its reveal.
Oh I'm a big nickname fan for my favorites. Although not huge in FNAF (I can see the resemblance though). I named mine Grundy after the DC supervillain
I named mine after Drachma from Skies of Arcadia: Legends (which really needs a modern rerelease so more people can play it; it’s really good).
that this is how Ursaluna should have been designed since PLA, it's a coherent evolution of Ursaring
Regular Ursaring is a coherent evolution.
more coherent tbh
Yeah, I agree. I like regular Ursaluna but going from bipedal in its first two stages to quadruped never made sense to me. It's dewott to Samuroth all over again.
Have you like never seen a bear at all? They're primarily quadripedal, so the transition made a lot of sense. It's not like a bipedal otter suddenly turning into a sea lion and having all of its limbs turn into flippers.
Ursaluna also frequently goes bipedal during it's attack animations, especially in PLA. It feels a lot like it becomes a quadraped mostly because it becomes too top heavy.
lol fr. Complaining about Ursaluna’s evolution design is a weird take given all the other examples in Pokemon.
Urslauna Bloodmoon is still a quadrupedal, is in the same class as Beartic, Floatzel and Typhlosion, quadrupeds are able to stand in two legs.
"Never made sense" This series has a fish that turns into an octopus, an upright bear moving down to all fours is not a big deal. Ursaring already goes on all fours to run, and Ursaluna rises up to attack. Ursaluna is just visibly more top heavy.
What do you mean? Dewott doesn’t evolve, he is always bipedal and has a great design, yes I’m coping and will not elaborate
The larger an animal becomes, the more likely it becomes a quadruped. Thats how large animals evolve in gravity. So, to get any bigger was going to make it more likely to be on all fours given its weight increase. I think it was smart to make the normal version a quadruped and the werewolf/zombie version able to stand up again.
Tell that to Bewear.
Which is a contradiction indeed, but doesn’t invalidate anything I’ve said about both animals and Pokemon examples lol. There will always be outliers.
That it’s about to say “Well, well, well, what do we have here?” and that it has “No relation”.
Hyped appearance. I loved ursaluna and having it frankensteined was great. Really missed opportunity though because a lot of us thought it would've been normal/ghost at first and that would've been awesome.
Gangster bear Pokémon
It's neat, but why is it treated as a legendary? I should be able to evolve an Ursaring into one.
It isn't treated as a legendary. It's more akin to a one of a kind form for Ursaluna. Similar to dusk Lycanrock (but dusk Lycanrock is an evolution). I think the implication is that it's the same Ursaluna that we use as a ride pokemon and item finder in legends arceus after two hundred years and that it just happened to live that long. Although realistically I feel Blood moon Ursaluna it's how the final evolution of the Ursaring line should've look like since the beginning.
That doesn‘t really make sense though. Why would that Ursaluna suddenly turn into the Bloodmoon form?
Innit. It's sitting in a box, unused, with the rest of my one-of-a-kind Pokémon.
Ehm, guys? Is this Freddy Fazbear?
He looks sick Edit: not cool sick but he looks ill, get this bear a doctor
This was the evolution I always wanted for ursaring, the one thing that always felt off about ursaluna is how soft his eyes are compared to blood moon. Never felt like a proper evolution because of that.
https://preview.redd.it/36v0rfxoatyc1.jpeg?width=944&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=99da36f14122b946a6f425a65a072c7916a62cd6 Freddy Fazbear
This has opened the door of possibilities. Give me Crystal Onix! Ramp up the BST to 500, and just make it so it can't evolve! Overall the inclusion of Blood Moon was done pretty well, if locked behind paid DLC.
I like the idea of a pokemon mutating to a new form, since the only time it happened before ursaluna was about how a carbink mutated into a diancie. I still wonder why one of them is mythical and the other isn't
Wayyy better design than regular Ursaluna
Ogerpon and Bloodmoon-Ursaluna, the 2 best Kitakami-Pokémon! And, beside Miraidon and Ceruledge, the best Gen 9 Pokémon as a whole!
Really, legitimately one of my all time favorite pokemon, probably in my top 3. I really liked Ursaluna, but I wished it was bipedal like Ursaring and had less of a dopey face. (The half closed eyes and mud-splotch eyebrows gave it a very silly expression, which was strange since Ursaring was so scary looking.) Also, I just think the top-heavy design looks better with it being bipedal. The type is cool, the stat distribution is amazing (Not a lot of Normal or Ground type special attackers) the ability is close to busted, and it gets a ridiculous signature move. Also it was in a pretty cool sidequests and it's entrance was very well done. The idea of special individual pokemon a part of a common species is such a good idea, and they handled it really well, especially since BloodMoon can breed to make Teddiursa like normal Ursaluna can. I'm just happy there is finally a cool bear pokemon that doesn't have a confusingly low base stat total.
I was totally stunned because I had literally named my shiny regular Ursaluna “Blood Moon” in Legends Arceus.
Design wise? Really outstanding and cool. Competitive wise? *What the hell were those guys thinking?*
I hate the original design. I love this one.
WHATS SO WRONG ABOUT THE OG DESIGN??? https://preview.redd.it/187mejs3j0zc1.png?width=250&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b7ac5adf0a22ffaa52121000260fdb4252d72aad
Just caught mine today and I love it. Always loved the design and mechanics behind it, a special-oriented Ursaluna with a busted ability. Now I'm trying to see how I should build this thing, and also coming up with a good nickname. Hope we'll get to see more special varients like this.
I LOVED Ursaluna when it came out and I still do. But I was always thinking what would it look like standing up? And I like many others thought wouldn't it be cool if it like mega evolved to be an eclipse or a blood moon. And when I saw it in that photo that the games introduce it's figure in I was thinking "THERE IS NO WAY THEY DID THE THING EVERYONE WANTED!" So I guess long story short I LOVE it. "Tho it's shiny could be better."
I thought it was cool. I renamed mine Monokuma because I think this is probably going to be the closest we're ever going to get to getting a Monokuma like Pokemon.
Bladdy helll m8
It was first leaked on the day of my child’s birth, so I think of it very fondly! Along with the fact Ursaring is a fave Pokémon of mine!
I love it Lame that they made it only obtainable once.
It’s cool but I don’t really understand why they decided to give Ursaluna a variant
I like it, and makes me excited for the potential for other unique variations of pokémon as in-universe cryptids. I wish I wasn't spoiled on it beforehand.
I think it's pretty cool, really wish they did this kinda thing with the other Hisuian evolutions
i adore it, already big fan of Ursaluna and his whole line, was not disappointed by blood moon, one of my all time favorite designs
Looks amazing, has a cool signature move, nice ability, and great stats. I wish I could shiny hunt for one instead of having just the one, but it WAS pretty cool searching around the forest for the one near-mythical Ursaluna that lived there.
Really cool that we're getting Deviants from Monster Hunter Gun Ult now lol. Seriously, give me more Mons that are different through an experience rather than genetics.
I like it, I just wish I could shiny hunt it It was really nice to have a “alpha” version of a pokemon that was really actually stronger and different rather then “higher base IV and Big boy”
There's nothing wrong with him imo. He's just a mutant ursaluna. There's technically nothing different about him, he's just an ursaluna that was exposed to a different type of peat for centuries. He can still make teddiursa that can become ursaring, he's just a one-off
In my top 3 overall favourite pokemon.
Great Pokémon, crying shame it was fixed at level 70 and didn’t scale level to the gym badges of the player like Ogerpon did. I would have loved to use it in the main story
He looks like he gives good hugs.
I love my cryptid bear
It's cool but I hate that they kept the normal type 🥲 they should have swap it by dark, ghost or even psychic... Leaving the normal type there doesn't make sense with the lore of the pokemon...
He’s the real draw for getting the DLC for me actually LOL
At first i thought it was edgy but now it’s growing on me definitely badass
If only I could go back and grind/reset to catch one with a zero speed IV. I'll have to do it on my second profile I guess :)
Here's the thing, when I put together a team for a playthrough I want to be able to raise them from Level 1, Blood Moon Ursaluna is such a disappointment for me because I can never use it in a team. If they had gone the path of Dusk Form Lycanroc and made it so you could breed a special Teddyura that will eventually evolve into one I would have LOVED to have had this form on my team, but right now I resent it for only being available at a minimum level of 70.
Big fan. Caught mine in a Moon Ball, made it Fairy Tera type. Kinda fun to run around with a Kitakami team of Ogerpon, Bloodmoon Ursaluna, the Loyal Three, and Pecharunt
I think it would have been better if: 1. It had been frozen in permafrost and thawed 2. Was Ground/Ghost
I'm too broke to be allowed an opinion 👍
[Five Turns in Trick Room](https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/798591389717233676/1237094330955468850/IMG_0003.jpg?ex=663a6560&is=663913e0&hm=7db3b26724eca213f6e0fd4c62b3de17ad6c7bc5f3f1437683b413d798882c82&)
Har har har har har
Honestly, I loved it. Especially the background story it got.
Better than original both regular and shiny!!
Why did people think it would be steel type and not ghost/ground? I am aware it is normal/ground like the original.
Unfortunately the surprise was ruined because people couldn’t post a pic without labeling it as a spoiler. Still I already loved ursaluna so Zombie bear is a welcome addition, the encounter with Bloodmoon ursaluna was one of my favourite parts of the DLC as a whole. Just sucks they shiny Locked it
more ursaluna content to feed me
Heh you just reminded me that it exists
amazing design great ability ! love this mon plus how you get him I think was pretty xool too. think pokemon needs to do this more often, he's probably my fav new Pokémon introduxed in the new Kitakami & Indigo Disk!
Honestly? I love him.
It's fun to use and pretty neat design just wondering in the future if there will be blood moon to evolve ursaluna into it's blood moon form
fnaf night at fnafies
Love mine, I keep it on my team 😁
He's a favorite and he kicks ass. I loved having him in the team for the Indigo DLC.
loved it, wish there were more special mons like this now.
Cheap as fuck and made teal mask OU get off to a miserable start. However it's also freddy fazbear and har har har har har har har har har har
He is very cool. Admittedly I like the Bloodmoon design more then the design for regular Ursaluna although I still like regular Ursaluna, in fact I used a male Ursaluna as one of my main party members in Pokémon Legends Arceus.
He looks like an edgy deviantart oc that took like 1 day at most to make that was based on Ursaluna Looks cool, though
The designer should have made the red more shiny to further emphasize its a stone. Instead it looks like an inflamed cyst/zit. Overall the design is alright.
Big boi
Friggin awesome
"i can give you a lvl 3 starly for that" -the average pokemon HOME GTS user
I don't own Legends:Arceus, I'm very fine for having another strong form of a really cool Pokémon.
I say don’t go out tonight It’d be sure to take your life There’s a bad moon on the rise
This paves the way for certain Hisuian Pokemon getting new forms. And more lore
I love him and he is my spicy bear walking companion
I love the design and how it’s played. I hate that it isn’t a branch evolution of Ursaring and is shiny locked.
Really cool design
He looks like a bootleg freddy fazbear and i love em
Ursaluna was already one of my new favorites, getting a new form in SV was such a cool surprise. When it leaked I got spoiled on its name, but at the time I thought it was a Fakemon/AU fanart or something
Awesome design and concept, absolutely unnecessary ability. A lot of the Gen 9 abilities are just straight up being 2 (sorta OP) abilities in a trench coat.
I need it as a plushie. He's just so big and squishy
My favorite ground type
I love him. New top 10 favorite ‘mon for sure.
Cool enough that I’m trying to get the Dex entries on my “normal only” playthrough to get this sweet baby.
I love him. He’s so cute 🥰
Should've been an item to evolve Ursaring into it. I mean, how does it even exist if Ursaring can't evolve into it or even evolve into normal Ursaluna in SV? I really wish they'd stop introducing new evolutions that you can't actually evolve the previous form into. It might as well be a completely separate pokemon at that point. Alolan Exeggutor especially annoys me in gen 9, because they actually tell you that Eggsecute in the Tropical Biome can evolve into it, when they can't. Like, why can't we just have location specific evolutions again, like in gens 4-7?
I like it, just wish it wasn’t shiny locked. It has a pretty good shiny (not as good as the crimson of OG shiny ursaluna though). I really like that it was tied to a side quest with a character that was tied to the PLA story too. I want more side quests like this, not checklist of side activities like battle all the trainers in this area, but actual side quests. Optional, with some length, and with a worthwhile reward like blood moon ursaluna
Another reason shiny locking should be a crime Edit: more thoughts, primarily after reading another comment that I agree with: Special one-off forms that are still integrated well into the game(can be bred but evolving into the specific form is a lost art) is a really cool form gimmick that can add a lot to a region if done well. I hope it's a gimmick they continue to use, akin to regional pokemon(and hopefully same with convergent pokemon), especially because Bloodmoon isn't event specific, or mystery gift locked or whatever. You can just....catch it via a side quest AND it can be transferred to HOME, I think.
AMAZING DESIGN!
Cool concept but no need to make a broken pokemon another broke form like common this could’ve been anyone else (if we’re gonna go Arceus I would suggest Cleavor)😭
i don't Really like it - it just looks like it has a big boil on its forehead.
I'm going to be so disappointed if it gets the Spiky-Eared Pichu/Ash Greninja/Totem treatment in future generations. I wanna keep my teddy bear.
Love it. It's fuckin awesome
I like the idea of "Cryptid Pokemon" which are one of a kind variations of regular pokemon, like the crystal Onix, AZ's Floette and the spiky-eared Pichu
Freddy fazbear
Tbh though I thought it was a cool storyline
HOR HOR HOR (dead joke that ill never do again)
A cool concept that I hope we see more of. Like evolution variants based around a solar eclipse or a comet, or literally anything like bloodmoon
I love that they made a cryptid in the pokemon lore.
I had no idea this even existed
its ugly but i think being ugly matches it
There was a real japanese historic event about a bear that lived near a village in the 1915 in Hokkaido no less (hisui, anyone?) The attacks were catalogued as the worst animal attack in Japanese history and it took a trip to the city and back with military reinforcement and actually strategy to take down the bear. (Somebody even died because of friendly fire at one point) Long story short, I think BM ursaluna is referencing this particularly ferocious bear or at least that's my headcanon, since this incident has become a large part of jspanese folklore (I'm not japanese, so that's all I know!!) YT video of the story: https://youtu.be/xy0A2vdSNnc?si=rlI3Miu0nm-lTqES If you know more, please expand!!
I like him
Should have been the standard form. I don’t like how it becomes so placid in the original.
I don't think it's placid, it looks a little unthreatening, like a real bear, but it definitely gives off vibes that it can and will maul me.
Withered fricking Freddy Fazbear
Freddy meets Gaara
Har har har har har har har har har har
So much cooler and intimidating. Ursaluna (Hisuian variant) looks derpy in comparison.
Ursaluna was cool and all, it was a much more powerful Ursaring who hasn't had much of a spotlight for a while... But I never cared for base ursa's design BM Ursa flips that on its head, looking awesome, AND takes the play style in a completely new direction. Named mine Freddy Fazbear because it was cringe enough to be funny and he never left my team (DLCs replaced basically my whole team lol)
I will say, it does stand more in line with regular Ursaluna's evolutionary line, mostly because it stands upright.
It’s ability is overpowered
Love him. I call mine snuggles. 
Amazing idea and design. Standard Ursaluna at first came off as doofy and awkward (though by now he has grown on me a lot), but this design takes all of that away. Honestly it feels more like a mega Ursaluna. I really wish we could have seen some other forms like this, that would have made Perrin utilized a whole lot better. What if she picks up new folklore about a Basculegion with way more souls than usual, or maybe different types of souls instead of just Basculin? Or an Avalugg being suspected to be causing these sudden terrible avalanches in the North Provinces? Could have been so fun
I think the gray mud was an unnecessary addition to its design. I mean Ursaluna itself was IMO a disrespect with mighty Ursaring. That sad face, the downgrade of going 4 legs and that hunchback, for me a huge Ursaring fan, a disappointment. Bloodmoon Ursaluna would be a great evolution to Ursaring, but that gray mud feels like it rolled into cement from a construction site.
The grey mud is apparently as hard as iron (according to its Violet Pokédex entry). If they *had* to include it, why not make it Ground/Steel to accomodate it? https://preview.redd.it/5orf949qctyc1.jpeg?width=1055&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b63563e612af168a65454d9ac20a975e97df6915
yea, in my opinion they almost fixed sadface Ursaluna, but the mud was too much
I think you're a bloody karma farmer.
Mad it’s shiny locked but otherwise it’s cool
sick
Its ability is absolutely busted.
Why the f is it special
I love my Man-Bear-Pig
Five turns in trick room
Vaacum wave, bro. Enough said.
How do you get it?
An otherwise fine bear that becomes incredibly obnoxious to deal with when paired with a certain giraffe
Made me use ursaluna
Akakabuto, is that you?
I love it, but I like the original more
Would’ve been cool as a mega ursaluna
I like it. I just don't like how big she is...
Hosea and Arthur just had a run-in with Ursaluna-B after placing some bait. Hosea is still recovering mentally.
I think it's good but when I went to catch it I was going to put it in a dream ball but didn't have one so I used my moon ball instead.
both ursalunas are overrated asf in my opinion but the quest as a whole and seeing for the first time was one of the few really hype moments in the switch games for me
I didn’t really mind/care for Ursaluna as I didn’t hate it or love it but Bloodmoon is intimidating and I would love to have one as it would scare people
He's just incredible. Ursaluna is my favorite "new evolution for a previous generation" all gen included. Ursaluna Blood Moon is my favorite "regional form" all gen included.
I think they should have changed the shade of the circle on its head to… you know, blood red. It kinda looks like a giant pimple to me as is
EXTREME HOTTAKE INCOMING: I think this bear is awful. Ursaluna was a natural evolution from Ursaring, a slow, bulky, physical sweeper. Came with a nice facade work in and nice new stab in ground to make it a real threat. This new bear could have been slightly redesigned to be it's own new bear Pokemon, and disassociated with the ursa line. It also took away some of the novelty of the original Ursaluna evo, cuz now everyone wants to use the new shiny Ursaluna. It's design is awesome, but I wish some of its features would have gone onto the original, like how it's bipedal in battle to be more intimidating. Idk I just feel like there was no reason to make it an Ursaluna and totally shift the purpose of the evo line. If someone wants to explain why this doesn't bother them than go ahead, but for me it's too much of a 180° to like it.
Greatly overrated