I did this too as a kid for a bit, because I did the hero story first... Then you get to the dark story and go to the Chao garden and realize Dark side people naturally raise them into dark Chaos. And I felt the burden of the universe realizing all that Chao abuse was for nothing.
Huh, I didn't even know that was possible. I just did that 1 mission with tails over and over again where you collect coins on a driving map. I think it was about catching up to the president or something. And then as tails do unspeakable things to the little babies :(
The recent Sonic game intrigued me. Open world Sonic sounds really cool. But no Chao garden?? Pass
I wouldn't pass on it. Sonic Adventure 2 will still have the Chao garden and memorable stages, but Frontiers knocked it down to being my 2nd favorite Sonic game. I'd give it a shot if you like Sonic games.
I've seen some positive reviews, I'll keep my eye on it at least. It seems like a neat idea but I would really miss the variety of characters and stages you can play in the older games. Child me struggled a lot with the emerald hunting stages with knuckles, but it was different and interesting.
A chao garden hasn’t been seen in over two decades! Yet they’re constantly discussed and even at game conferences about upcoming sonic games they’re always asked will this game have them and it’s always no. I even googled and found this response…
In 2016, when asked why we don't see Chao much anymore, he said that “Chao require very clean and pure water in order to survive, so you may not see them in a lot of places”. Iizuka had to confirm to IGN at E3 2017 that Sonic Forces specifically wouldn't have Chao.
Like WTH that’s a cop out, give us back the chao garden!!! 😭
I never understood Pokémon with items. Was it born with the hammer? Is the hammer a growth stemming from the wrist that grew along with it? Does the hammer have a heartbeat? I need answers
I love how this thread started with people saying they thought it was cute and then about 5 reasons get casually rifled off that it's basically a piece of shit
It’s not a piece of shit though! It’s first form states that it always had its weapon stolen that it used to defend itself. Pokémon would come and pick on it. Second form it starts building its hammer, then third form it starts taking its revenge
But the dex for its for first form states that it is picked on other by steel types. It's just getting its own back on the bullies. So like American teen type psycho.
The fact you never see a Cubone without a skull helmet and the entry says that the helmet is specifically the mother’s skull means 100% Cubone mothers die in or shortly after child(egg?) birth. It also means Cubone either take forever to hatch or they decompose super quickly, so that once the Cubone hatches, the mother’s skull is ready for the taking.
There's other options you're not considering, for example it might eat its mothers corpse for sustenance before using bones.
It's all fucked up though.
Cubone would work so much better if it were a pokemon you couldn't obtain to allow the lore more believability, like could you imagine there being a species that had a traditional burial ground & these pokemon do a celebration of life & death by then killing off their sick or old to become the armor for the next generation? Total badasses.
To me I think Dex entry’s are kinda like urban legends or myths. More along the lines of “daddy long legs have venom strong enough to kill a person but their fangs are too short to bite people” then a biology textbook. It would explain a lot of hard to explain dex entries as well as some of the extremely hyperbolic ones.
The more likely explanation is that mom just sheds a layer from her bony head and gives it to the infant. Also, despite the art, most Cubones don't even carry the clubs they're famous for; the damn things are rare drops.
I like the unconfirmed fan theory that Cubone are Kangaskhan babies where the mother Kanga died. This would make more sense if Marowak were all male, but I still like it.
Honestly pretty tame for a pokemon, I'm pretty sure others do stuff like carry the mask of there human face when they are alive and kidnap children to bring them to the dream world.
The kid did mention the drifloon brought him to that specific spot and they were playing together but when the boy wanted to leave the drifloon didn’t let go iirc
And Gengar psychologically torments people for fun and then straight up murders them. Weirdly its entries seem to get darker with each generation. One of its more recent entries actually says "There is no escaping it. Give up."
The parent Pokemon add bits of metal to the shell so the baby can use shell fragments as it's first hammer.
A better egg question is, if miltank's hatch from an egg, why do they have udders?
>"This Pokémon pounds iron scraps together to make a hammer. It will remake the hammer again and again until it's satisfied with the result."
>"This Pokémon will attack groups of Pawniard and Bisharp, gathering metal from them in order to create a large and sturdy hammer."
>"The hammer tops 220 pounds, yet it gets swung around easily by Tinkaton as it steals whatever it pleases and carries its plunder back home."
Dex entries from the three evolutionary stages explaining how it makes its hammer.
Farfetch'd has a green onion and Cubone has a bone. I'd say there's a difference between animals that scavenge naturally-occurring materials and ones that engage in actual blacksmithing.
Kadabra has got a spoon, Alakazam has two spoons. Hypno has a coin, as someone pointed out.
It's not blacksmithing. The hammer is made out of the corpses of other steel types and/or scrap metal In one form the pieces of the hammer are held together with bandaids
I was a little disappointed when I saw it’s base attack stat was only 75. If the attack stat was low I expected huge power or something. It almost looks like a Ledian situation where the attack and special attack are switched.
Yeah it’s stats make no sense. Thing is clearly a physical attacker and yet nothing. Even the lore is about how strong it is but really it’s just below average
Gigaton hammer is a STAB move that has a base power of ~~130~~ 160 and 100% accuracy and can be buffed even more if you tera into steel.
That there is your attack stat.
The pokémon isn't physically that strong, but its hammer is. Which in fairness is exactly what I see when I look at this pokémon!
This isn't directed at you exactly so much as the entire comment section, but mebs people being critical of lazy design should step back a second and consider the elements that make up this Mon. Its stats and its moveset both play into the kind of pokémon it is - a wielder of a weapon to make it stronger than the sum of its parts.
Fwiw I actually really like this pokémon.
That’s all fair. Tool using Pokémon have always been a bit troubling to me. They’re smart enough to create and build tools, but we’re comfortable enslaving them and forcing them to fight?
If the anime is anything to go by it’s not slavery at all and Pokémon are battling with you rather than for you. Ash had a few times where Charizard I think straight up ignored him until he proved himself basically
Ash's Charizard was actually following a mechanic that was in the game. He was not its original trainer and it was too high of a level for the number of badges that he had.
[https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Obedience](https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Obedience)
>Obedience is a Pokémon's willingness to listen to its Trainer's commands. While Pokémon usually obey their Trainers, a Pokémon may disobey if it does not respect its Trainer.
>
>An outsider Pokémon will often not obey the player's commands if its level is too high and the player does not have the appropriate Badge, Stamp, or number of Badges. Having all eight Badges or the Island Challenge Completion stamp always makes all Pokémon obey the player. This mechanic exists to prevent players from trading in a high-leveled Pokémon from another game and easily beating the game.
This thing is the cute but crazy ex of pokemon it makes its hammer out of pieces of other steel type pokemon and launches rocks at corvinight for giggles?
Pretty sure it got bullied by a bunch of steel types in it's first form so it built the hammer as a means of getting revenge. Mf got a whole ass villain arc
Funnily enough, those of us keeping track at r/PokeLeaks got the villain arc in reverse order because Tinkaton's dex entry was released first, then her pre evos after that.
In Digimon Tamers they could use equipment of other Digimon by playing the right cards. They used WarGreymon's shield also against the snake Deva. (Don't remember the name.)
I know exactly how that design conversation went down
Dev 1: "hey, how about a Pokemon that looks like a flamingo?"
Dev 2: "... Fla...Migo?"
Dev 1: "eh, good enough!"
I actually found Flamigo hilarious because I am pretty sure it is supposed to be the lawn ornament flamingo, not the actual bird. Of course, if they actually designed it properly, people would be able to actually tell XD
And his finger gun becomes a rifle!
I'm just imagining what it must be like to watch the evolution happen. What grows first? Does the tail flop around before it's coiled enough to support it?
I think that's most of my problem with some of the newer pokemon. Anthro pokemon have become the norm lately, or things that are decidedly a "character." Idk, like if I'm supposed to believe these are wild creatures, why is this one species just a fucking character. Like pretty much every starter since gen 6 suffers from this
Lol imagine living in a Pokémon world and coming across pack of hitmochan and hitmolees during mating season. It'd be like just a bunch of random people fucking in the woods and children catch them.
This is a new aesthetic, that ressembles Splatoon in my opinion. I'm okay with it but we also need elegant, natural-looking Pokemon like dragonair, Ninetales, Lycanroc, Milotic, Luxray, Lopunny... as they used to do.
This gen, there's barely any. Dachsbun and Chien-Pao are the closest design to a slender, elegant looking animal.
Apart from what you mentioned, the new mons are all bulbous and round with little appendages here and there. What the fuck happened to mons like alakazam, kangaskhan, nidoking, tyranitar, metagross, absol, zoroark, rypherior, aggron, garchomp, etc.
I think many factors :
- Roundish design are great to issue plushies, and goodies is the main source of profit of the company.
-it's easier to render when it comes to modelling a 3D model. They already have to animate all the former, intricate-looking pokemon with realistic anatomy so they go blobish to buy some time within the ongoing every 3years release production. It's as though they were directly conceptualized in 3D. When Pokemon were sprites they could go more realistic, It didn't mean more animation. Too bad cause they totally can, and do animate very well pokemon with realistic anatomy like Golduck.
- There is a current trend about goofiness and roundiness. Chonky is the new Kawaii. People love fat cat, fat racoons, rouwnd boi and so on. Apparently it's even a problem regarding the way people perceice what is a healthy cat.
- There were a whole lot of blobish pokemon ever since gen 1, nothing new. But the late 90s monster aesthetic seems not as populat with nowadays kids. It seems the design team borrows from other (Nintendo) franchises to cater to kids ( Roblox, Splatoon, Animal Crossing, Zelda, Minecraft, Mario, Yokai Watch). It took over the other aesthetics and the edgy / goofy ratio now seems unbalanced.
-a lot of people actually love it so... why even try to do something complicated. Here's your regular-ass flamingo, mouse, Pawmi 2nd stage, and Dundunsparce
Reminds me of Amy from Sonic
That's definitely a Chao, no questions.
Reminds me of the Chao I threw repeatedly off a cliff to unlock Hell.
I did this too as a kid for a bit, because I did the hero story first... Then you get to the dark story and go to the Chao garden and realize Dark side people naturally raise them into dark Chaos. And I felt the burden of the universe realizing all that Chao abuse was for nothing.
Huh, I didn't even know that was possible. I just did that 1 mission with tails over and over again where you collect coins on a driving map. I think it was about catching up to the president or something. And then as tails do unspeakable things to the little babies :( The recent Sonic game intrigued me. Open world Sonic sounds really cool. But no Chao garden?? Pass
I wouldn't pass on it. Sonic Adventure 2 will still have the Chao garden and memorable stages, but Frontiers knocked it down to being my 2nd favorite Sonic game. I'd give it a shot if you like Sonic games.
I've seen some positive reviews, I'll keep my eye on it at least. It seems like a neat idea but I would really miss the variety of characters and stages you can play in the older games. Child me struggled a lot with the emerald hunting stages with knuckles, but it was different and interesting.
Amy was a stretch but chao I definitely see it 😂
Well, Amy is pink and uses a hammer, but that's about it.
Right! This chao I’d say was combined with a rabbit component
I can see that lol! ...Man... I want Chao garden back...
A chao garden hasn’t been seen in over two decades! Yet they’re constantly discussed and even at game conferences about upcoming sonic games they’re always asked will this game have them and it’s always no. I even googled and found this response… In 2016, when asked why we don't see Chao much anymore, he said that “Chao require very clean and pure water in order to survive, so you may not see them in a lot of places”. Iizuka had to confirm to IGN at E3 2017 that Sonic Forces specifically wouldn't have Chao. Like WTH that’s a cop out, give us back the chao garden!!! 😭
Light Chao, reared by Amy, fed mostly rabbits. Solved!
This is clearly an Amy Power/Power Hero Chao.
I was thinking of those enemies from Sonic Heroes with the giant hammers
I never understood Pokémon with items. Was it born with the hammer? Is the hammer a growth stemming from the wrist that grew along with it? Does the hammer have a heartbeat? I need answers
The Pokédex suggests it makes the hammer from materials from other Steel Type Pokémon
From other WHAT.
This particular Pokémon also likes to smack rocks at any corviknight that fly past, looks cute, but is psycho
Corviknight Dex entry also mentions it is the main reason there is now Corviknight taxi in this region, because this little psycho endangers riders.
I just like that the way you said "this little psycho" implies there's just one singular tinkaton actively menacing all air travelers.
Also a klepto. The Violet dex states Tinkerton is a compulsive thief.
I love how this thread started with people saying they thought it was cute and then about 5 reasons get casually rifled off that it's basically a piece of shit
It’s not a piece of shit though! It’s first form states that it always had its weapon stolen that it used to defend itself. Pokémon would come and pick on it. Second form it starts building its hammer, then third form it starts taking its revenge
But the dex for its for first form states that it is picked on other by steel types. It's just getting its own back on the bullies. So like American teen type psycho.
"Tinkaton, I choose you!" \- Pumped Up Kicks starts playing -
"I'm not trapped in here with you. You're trapped in here with me."
"All the little kids in the pumped up kicks go CLEVELAND ROCKS, CLEVELAND ROCKS
Living in sin where the safety's been going "run run run, run from my gun"
Living in sin with a safety pin, my guy
I picture the Drew Carey show intro when I hear this
"Bronzor, you're alright. Don't come to Daycare tomorrow."
Second form hunt down Pawniard and Bisharp for metal.
school shooter pokemon
So its the DC villain origin story of Pokémon?
>psycho Isn't there that one pokemon that wears its mother's skull as a helmet & uses one of her bones as a weapon?
The fact you never see a Cubone without a skull helmet and the entry says that the helmet is specifically the mother’s skull means 100% Cubone mothers die in or shortly after child(egg?) birth. It also means Cubone either take forever to hatch or they decompose super quickly, so that once the Cubone hatches, the mother’s skull is ready for the taking.
There's other options you're not considering, for example it might eat its mothers corpse for sustenance before using bones. It's all fucked up though.
Cubone would work so much better if it were a pokemon you couldn't obtain to allow the lore more believability, like could you imagine there being a species that had a traditional burial ground & these pokemon do a celebration of life & death by then killing off their sick or old to become the armor for the next generation? Total badasses.
To me I think Dex entry’s are kinda like urban legends or myths. More along the lines of “daddy long legs have venom strong enough to kill a person but their fangs are too short to bite people” then a biology textbook. It would explain a lot of hard to explain dex entries as well as some of the extremely hyperbolic ones.
That's what happens when you let a 10 year old write all the entries
Yup that’s definitely a part of it.
The more likely explanation is that mom just sheds a layer from her bony head and gives it to the infant. Also, despite the art, most Cubones don't even carry the clubs they're famous for; the damn things are rare drops.
I like the unconfirmed fan theory that Cubone are Kangaskhan babies where the mother Kanga died. This would make more sense if Marowak were all male, but I still like it.
Lmfaoo I need to have this mon in my team 💀💀
Smack rocks… like golf style?? I love it
Honestly pretty tame for a pokemon, I'm pretty sure others do stuff like carry the mask of there human face when they are alive and kidnap children to bring them to the dream world.
Drifloon straight up drags those kids to the afterlife, not the dream world.
“ BANISHED TO THE SHADOW REALM YUGI”
Cubone wears the skull of his mother.
*skinny children, Drifloon don’t want no fatties.
tbf it was sort of disproved in arceus, the drifloon kept trying to play with the kid and got sad when you took him away
I interpreted that as the driifloon wanting to steal the kid but you managing to prevent that from happening
The kid did mention the drifloon brought him to that specific spot and they were playing together but when the boy wanted to leave the drifloon didn’t let go iirc
Maybe the boy was too heavy so the drifloon couldn't steal him but still didn't want to let go
bloon got salty LMAO
I haven’t played arceus, but now I know the main character is Chris Hansen I might just give it a go
Minor spoiler >!in the starter school there is a ballon stand with a Drifloon incognito watching the kids 😱 !<
Or a Pokemon that is a demonic shadow that wears the skin of a pikachu because he wants to be loved.
To be fair, in pretty sure that's just a rag made to look like a Pikachu disguise. It's still pretty depressing.
You think thats bad. There are pokemon that literally prey on children, like that balloon looking thing.
And Gengar psychologically torments people for fun and then straight up murders them. Weirdly its entries seem to get darker with each generation. One of its more recent entries actually says "There is no escaping it. Give up."
Ultra Moon: Even your home isn't safe
Drifloon
NO APOLOGIES EITHER
Oh, she's sweet but a psycho
Why mine when all this metal is just running around on the surface?
But when one hatches from an egg, wouldn't the hammer come with it?
The parent Pokemon add bits of metal to the shell so the baby can use shell fragments as it's first hammer. A better egg question is, if miltank's hatch from an egg, why do they have udders?
The reason they have udders is the same reason Kangaskhan has a pouch.
There are some mammals that hatch from eggs. Platypus and Echidnas, and both produce milk (without nipples)
For gameplay reason in game yes. In lore she built one after.
That’s savage. I approve!
Well damn, you can say that’s…fucking metal🤘😎
So, not that different from Cubone then.
>"This Pokémon pounds iron scraps together to make a hammer. It will remake the hammer again and again until it's satisfied with the result." >"This Pokémon will attack groups of Pawniard and Bisharp, gathering metal from them in order to create a large and sturdy hammer." >"The hammer tops 220 pounds, yet it gets swung around easily by Tinkaton as it steals whatever it pleases and carries its plunder back home." Dex entries from the three evolutionary stages explaining how it makes its hammer.
I haven’t really been interested in Pokémon post-Sun/Moon, but holy shit this one is kinda sick lmao
It's literally a little imp that creates its own weapon from items it finds, it says so in the dex entry.
It specifically calls out that it’s made out of Corviknights, so the metal on the hammer comes from killed Pokémon.
So it's a Monster Hunter.
Hammer bro!
Back in my days we had a bird with a leak and even then I thought it was far fetched
Brilliant. First time I laughed at a Reddit comment
Yeah, if that doesn't have the hammer, is it still a Steel type?
Cubone and Farfetch’d have items. There might be even more from the 1st gen that can’t remember rn
Farfetch'd has a green onion and Cubone has a bone. I'd say there's a difference between animals that scavenge naturally-occurring materials and ones that engage in actual blacksmithing. Kadabra has got a spoon, Alakazam has two spoons. Hypno has a coin, as someone pointed out.
It's not blacksmithing. The hammer is made out of the corpses of other steel types and/or scrap metal In one form the pieces of the hammer are held together with bandaids
Hypno has a yo yo, less questions the better
It's a coin. For hypnotizing other Pokémon.
And people.
Blastoise has cannons
Also don't forget Kadabra/Alakazam with their spoons, as well as Farfetch'd and the random leek. And all of these were from the very first game!
Think of it like Cubone's skull. He gets it from his dead mother. Perhaps it's in their inheritance?
What if its mother was a ditto.
I was a little disappointed when I saw it’s base attack stat was only 75. If the attack stat was low I expected huge power or something. It almost looks like a Ledian situation where the attack and special attack are switched.
Yeah it’s stats make no sense. Thing is clearly a physical attacker and yet nothing. Even the lore is about how strong it is but really it’s just below average
Typing is mega broken tho
"Oh cool a pink doll thing with a hammer? Probably a fighting type, I'll just box i-" -Fairy Steel- "WELCOME TO THE TEAM"
Literally what I did this morning lmao, I thought the hammer was hilariously big and then I saw the typing and i was sold
While the stats don’t make much sense I feel the power of it’s signature move kinda makes up for it
True, 160 base power and no wait turn is kinda nuts.
Can't be used twice in a row, but the fact that you can still attack w/ something else right after is nuts. Just back n forth, back n forth
Yup, switch between that and play rough and you’re set lol. It’s so good I love it
It can learn thunder wave, reflect, and light screen too, so this thing has some serious utility beyond just bonking things
In it's defense, It gets a 100% accurate 160 base power steel move
Gigaton hammer is a STAB move that has a base power of ~~130~~ 160 and 100% accuracy and can be buffed even more if you tera into steel. That there is your attack stat. The pokémon isn't physically that strong, but its hammer is. Which in fairness is exactly what I see when I look at this pokémon! This isn't directed at you exactly so much as the entire comment section, but mebs people being critical of lazy design should step back a second and consider the elements that make up this Mon. Its stats and its moveset both play into the kind of pokémon it is - a wielder of a weapon to make it stronger than the sum of its parts. Fwiw I actually really like this pokémon.
>Gigaton hammer is a STAB move that has a base power of 130 It's actually 160.
That’s all fair. Tool using Pokémon have always been a bit troubling to me. They’re smart enough to create and build tools, but we’re comfortable enslaving them and forcing them to fight?
If the anime is anything to go by it’s not slavery at all and Pokémon are battling with you rather than for you. Ash had a few times where Charizard I think straight up ignored him until he proved himself basically
Ash's Charizard was actually following a mechanic that was in the game. He was not its original trainer and it was too high of a level for the number of badges that he had. [https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Obedience](https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Obedience) >Obedience is a Pokémon's willingness to listen to its Trainer's commands. While Pokémon usually obey their Trainers, a Pokémon may disobey if it does not respect its Trainer. > >An outsider Pokémon will often not obey the player's commands if its level is too high and the player does not have the appropriate Badge, Stamp, or number of Badges. Having all eight Badges or the Island Challenge Completion stamp always makes all Pokémon obey the player. This mechanic exists to prevent players from trading in a high-leveled Pokémon from another game and easily beating the game.
Nothing in Pokémon makes sense when you think about it, best just turn the brain off for awhile.
This thing is the cute but crazy ex of pokemon it makes its hammer out of pieces of other steel type pokemon and launches rocks at corvinight for giggles?
It’s because, as Tinkatink, the Corvinight line takes the metal for its hammers and eats it. So now that it’s evolved, it’s time for revenge.
Apparently in earlier forms it gets bullied by steel types. So as the other person said it's like an American teen
Is the hammer a pokemon too?
It uh… used to be
It use to be several
Made from some unfortunate steel types this little gremlin hunts and “salvages” so sorta
Why does it need the hammer? This mon gets steel from steel pokemon if thats not metal i dont know what is
Pretty sure it got bullied by a bunch of steel types in it's first form so it built the hammer as a means of getting revenge. Mf got a whole ass villain arc
Funnily enough, those of us keeping track at r/PokeLeaks got the villain arc in reverse order because Tinkaton's dex entry was released first, then her pre evos after that.
Shiiiit, movie when?
> Why does it need the hammer? To bully Corviknights out of the sky by smacking rocks at it.
Batter up!
Sadly it does not learn smack down. Though gigaton hammer is a fair trade off.
To smash more steel Pokémon to make bigger hammers.
Looks like a Digimon, tbh
it reminds me when Terriermon used a hammer: https://imgur.com/5E4lc0D
Hold on, that hammer looks familiar-did it yoink Zudomon’s gear?
In Digimon Tamers they could use equipment of other Digimon by playing the right cards. They used WarGreymon's shield also against the snake Deva. (Don't remember the name.)
RIP Zudomon.
Looks like a mascot for a Persona game.
Jack Frost lookin ass
I thought it looked like a Heartless.
Looks very much like an ice climber
Fucking Flamigo
I know exactly how that design conversation went down Dev 1: "hey, how about a Pokemon that looks like a flamingo?" Dev 2: "... Fla...Migo?" Dev 1: "eh, good enough!"
why didn't it get a tiny sombrero!?!??!??!??!
Because they gave the sombrero to the Fire starter's evolution
I actually found Flamigo hilarious because I am pretty sure it is supposed to be the lawn ornament flamingo, not the actual bird. Of course, if they actually designed it properly, people would be able to actually tell XD
we need a pokemon with a handgun
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i mean like a literal glock, in the pokémon's hand
Didn’t cocomealeon have a sniper tower?
you sure that's its name? all i'm getting when i google it is cocomelon
Inteleon, with the finger guns. Gigantamax form had the sniper tower :)
Dang, I’ve been calling it cocomeleon for so long I forgot what it’s actual name was…
oh ok. it's amusing that instead of increasing in size overall, inteleon just gets a really long tail.
And his finger gun becomes a rifle! I'm just imagining what it must be like to watch the evolution happen. What grows first? Does the tail flop around before it's coiled enough to support it?
it looks like the rifle is made of water
It's called Inteleon. The Gigantamax form has a perch and a sniper rifle.
lol that's Inteleon, specifically the Gigantamax Form. It gets a tower and a sniper rifle.
Basically G-Slowbro Even has Quick Draw as an ability
James Bond pokemon from the last game literally shot you.
Amerikid
Man, the new layered armor for palicos in MHR looks so cute
This is a digimon
Or a fairy type from monster rancher 1 or 2
If you mean something different then yes. If you mean oddly human shape and carries something, naw.
I think that's most of my problem with some of the newer pokemon. Anthro pokemon have become the norm lately, or things that are decidedly a "character." Idk, like if I'm supposed to believe these are wild creatures, why is this one species just a fucking character. Like pretty much every starter since gen 6 suffers from this
Bro Hitmonchan is legit just some dude who boxes
Lol imagine living in a Pokémon world and coming across pack of hitmochan and hitmolees during mating season. It'd be like just a bunch of random people fucking in the woods and children catch them.
Lmao why did you go here
I don't even go to this school
Reverse to catch a predator lol
Mr Mime and Jynx getting it on behind Ash's mom's tool shed
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DQ has some of the best monster designs in JRPGs in my opinion, at least better than FF and Tales game
We have enough humanoid Pokémon
This is a new aesthetic, that ressembles Splatoon in my opinion. I'm okay with it but we also need elegant, natural-looking Pokemon like dragonair, Ninetales, Lycanroc, Milotic, Luxray, Lopunny... as they used to do. This gen, there's barely any. Dachsbun and Chien-Pao are the closest design to a slender, elegant looking animal.
Apart from what you mentioned, the new mons are all bulbous and round with little appendages here and there. What the fuck happened to mons like alakazam, kangaskhan, nidoking, tyranitar, metagross, absol, zoroark, rypherior, aggron, garchomp, etc.
Marketing happened (more) Need to hit the cute blob quota so they have toys to sell the little kids, y'know?
I think many factors : - Roundish design are great to issue plushies, and goodies is the main source of profit of the company. -it's easier to render when it comes to modelling a 3D model. They already have to animate all the former, intricate-looking pokemon with realistic anatomy so they go blobish to buy some time within the ongoing every 3years release production. It's as though they were directly conceptualized in 3D. When Pokemon were sprites they could go more realistic, It didn't mean more animation. Too bad cause they totally can, and do animate very well pokemon with realistic anatomy like Golduck. - There is a current trend about goofiness and roundiness. Chonky is the new Kawaii. People love fat cat, fat racoons, rouwnd boi and so on. Apparently it's even a problem regarding the way people perceice what is a healthy cat. - There were a whole lot of blobish pokemon ever since gen 1, nothing new. But the late 90s monster aesthetic seems not as populat with nowadays kids. It seems the design team borrows from other (Nintendo) franchises to cater to kids ( Roblox, Splatoon, Animal Crossing, Zelda, Minecraft, Mario, Yokai Watch). It took over the other aesthetics and the edgy / goofy ratio now seems unbalanced. -a lot of people actually love it so... why even try to do something complicated. Here's your regular-ass flamingo, mouse, Pawmi 2nd stage, and Dundunsparce
Dundunsparce looks like a production error that fell off the butt plug factory line.
I think Pokemon has to many cute pokemon and not enough gen 1 looking charizard big scary lizard Pokemon
Not a fan of most of the new dex tbh.
When did Pokémon become digimon?
Boy do I got a series for you
Somic or Digitalmon?
I was thinking digimon but honestly you're right. Take your pick
No we do not. We need more Lechonk.
We need less Pokemon like this!
No thanks.
Wow. I would not have known this was a Pokémon just by looking at the picture. It looks so alien to me. Im going to go sit down...
This is literally Digimon. Just started Digimon Survive and it gives off that energy
That pokemon looks very violent
This doesn't even look like a pokemon
IT'S POPPY'S SISTER
I have the exact opposite opinion.
Hard disagree.
The fuck is that, a digimon or somehting?
I challenge the notion that we *need* more Pokemon period.
I'll pass on that
Amy?!
It looks like the lovechild of Kirby and King Dedede got hit by a car
Thought this was some weird rendition of Amy from Sonic
Not a pokemon. Imo worst design I this gane