#793 Nihilego

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[gotta-draw-em-all-daily]

Day seven hundred ninety three 793 Nihilego

[thexstitchpokedexproject]

#793. Nihilego

One of several mysterious Ultra Beasts. People on the street report observing those infested by it suddenly becoming violent.

Colour and symbol charts can be found here.

A note on colours: in my experience, floss looks different irl than in online pattern makers. If you think a different colour will work better, go with your gut!

[my-shiny-pokemon]

793 - Nihilego

[pokemonlolitaproject]

The next coord is inspired by pokemon #793 Nihilego 

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#678 Meowstic

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#683 Aromatisse

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#703 Carbink

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#793 Nihilego

Nihilego outside

#869 Alcremie

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#978 Tatsugiri

Tatsugiri chopstick rests

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Rosa cosplay

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Serena (Pokémon X / Pokémon Y) catches a fletchling

Miscellaneous

Food and Treats

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Pokémon Sword and Shield Sausage Curry

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Let’s Talk About Pokemon - UB-01 Symbiont - Nihilego

793: Nihilego

Only a few months after Sun and Moon's hype cycle had begun, Gamefreak went and threw an at-the-time hardball at us. Introducing a new brand of creature that they weren't even going to call a Pokemon. But rather, have it be called an Ultra Beast with only a codename to refer to it at the time. For a while, its name was mysteriously blurred out, only reading as “UB-01 ???”. This is yet another bit that had theory-crafters raving, but it's understandable that they'd want to keep its fake name secret until the game was out because that would've almost surely given away its importance in the plot.

UB-01 “Symbiont” is a mostly featureless jellyfish creature with not even a face; or even anything resembling a face. Just a glassy jelly with a floral pattern and something of a motif what gives it the appearance of a hat with dangling hair for tentacles. The tiniest of implications that this thing is actually Pokemon's version of a head-leech much like your Metroids or Facehuggers. Which is amazing that such a concept has made it into Pokemon in the first place, let alone have it be played full-force in such a creepy way.

Nihilego's plot-relevance lies in how it relates to the game's main antagonist, Lusamine, who has an unhealthy obsession with UB-01 here. Said obsession starting with the disappearance of her husband through the Ultra Wormholes that the UB-01, and indeed other Ultra Beasts, emerge from. This obsession with the Ultra Beasts and Nihilego in particular has lead to her being a particularly controlling woman.

Enter Lillie, Lusamine's daughter. She's about the spitting image of Nihilego up there, isn't she? Not too long after you befriend her ingame, she mentions how her mother always decided on how Lillie dresses herself. Only further getting the point across that Lusamine is totally enraptured with these interdimensional space jellyfish. What's up with that?

Nihilego hosts a typing that's bizarre when you first look at it, being a Rock/Poison type. Seems like an odd typing for a jelly, right? But actually, its body is described as being transparent and glass-like, hence the Rock typing. A bit easier to figure is the poison half of its typing, given jellyfish are known for being rather venomous.

Nihilego in particular though, when attaching itself to a host, injects a neurotoxin that affects the way its host acts. Said to make its host feel an intense sense of excitement and loss of mental inhibitions. Making them much more prone to outbursts of violence and anger. Which brings us to this monstrosity.

In a fit of rage, Lusamine subjects herself to a Nihilego and transforms into this thing. A big hulking and intimidating human jellyfish that... then throws out a Pokeball and initiates a regular trainer battle. Dang, they were real close to having a non-Pokemon “final boss” there. But whatever the end result in the game may be, this was all to put into scope the sort of thing Nihilego is capable of, providing one of the coolest designs in the whole series's history from, of all things, being fused to a human. With the creepy eye motifs and making Lusamine herself appear as sludge-y as you'd figure she'd be.

In the aftermath of all this, you get equipped with a new type of Pokeball called Beast Balls (Funnily enough, in Japan they’re just called Ultra Balls because the Japanese name for Ultra Balls is Hyper Balls. Ergo, Localization screwed themselves 20 years into the future and now we’re stuck with the rather silly named Beast Balls.) that you get to use to catch the Ultra Beasts like they were any other Pocket Monsters. Disappointing? A little bit. At least, for a while I thought it was interesting that they were bringing in these Ultra Beasts as essentially non-Pokemon boss monsters to fight, but in the end you only fight Nihilego the one time in the middle of the game.

But I can't deny that it is nice to be able to capture these weirdos. The Ultra Beasts as a whole are some of the series's most creatively abstract designs, and it'd be at least a bit of a shame if you couldn't use them yourself in the end.

Not to mention Nihilego is creative in the way it represent head-latching parasites in a uniquely Pokemon way. With the way it attaches itself to its hosts making it look like it's wearing the Nihilego as a “hat” with its drooping tentacles posing as “hair.” I can appreciate the hell out of anything that's neat but also terrifying.

What we also get to see for this initial batch of Ultra Beasts is the different dimensions they live in. The only one present in the original versions of the game is the Ultra Deep Sea, which is an odd thing to call a place with no obvious water in sight. Clearly, it's called this because supposedly all that lives in this area are deep sea creatures that merely float around like Nihilego does. But it's at least a bit disappointing to hear these Ultra Beasts don't all live in the same dimension.

The Ultra Deep Sea itself is really pretty in a creepy, dark sort of way. Mysterious and everything. It’s just a shame for all these different dimensions we’re left to believe their only inhabitant each is just The One Species of UB that happens to live there.

Personal Score: 9/10

We're in for a good end-of-the-Pokedex this time!

[Archive]

[mehyawl]

Day 097

Nihilego #793

[pokemonaday-artillerytortoise]

Pokemon A Day - Nihilego / UB-01 Symbiont (#793)

Nihilego is a tight combination of cute and unnerving. Also I suppose drawing the ultra beasts will be my late Halloween celebrations. Have you seen some of those worlds? Spooky. 

[badpokemondraws]

Jellyfish!

[unofficial-pokedex]

Nihilego’s form changes when it is feeding on a host. Scientists are curious about what this form is, and what it is capable of. Unfortunately (or perhaps fortunately) the methods to learn such things are considered unethical.

[pokemonxniccage]

#793 Nihilego

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PokéSketch #21: Nihilego (PokéDex #793) #pokemon #nihilego #warmupsketch #nintendo #gamefreak #ultrabeast #ultrabeastpokemon #gen7pokemon #pokemonrSunMoon #alola #pokemonultrasunmoon #quicksketch #pencilsketch #coloredpencils #artistsoninstagram https://www.instagram.com/p/CEXVusvjyWv/?igshid=7qwik8iz8cae

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#793 Nihilego; The Parasite Pokémon

A life-form from another world, it was dubbed a UB and is thought to produce a strong neurotoxin.

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Reblog if your favorite pokemon is

[pokemon-ash-aus]

But what about Nihilego!Ash?

(I was thinking 793 cause the irony of it being Nihilego’s Pokédex number is perfect)

Probably XD

If anything his nickname would be Squid or Octopus and Pikachu would get the opposite