#GaraGara

[macabrecabra]

And an artfight of @plaguecleric character Garagara! Love me some bird characters and they seemed so fun to draw! Just a happy little guy on top of an inn!

[melaniagir8]

Inktober 2024, giorno 2 – Tipo Terra/Discover

This year my personal theme is… fairy tales! Can you guess the fairy tale?

Quest’anno il mio tema personale è… le fiabe! Riesci ad indovinare che fiaba è questa?

[inbarfink]

[tobiasdrake]

Episode 73 - Marowak's Bone Club

Last week before the Pokemon League begins, and training has been a total bust. Ash goes crawling to Professor Oak for any last-second cramming tips he might have. His response is not promising: "Hell are you still doing here!? You know you have to physically be at Indigo Plateau next week, right? Gary already left some time ago!"

So I guess training's over and it's time to cross Victory Road.

Along the way, he's challenged by a Trainer named Saizo/Otoshi. (They changed his Japanese name to another Japanese name. Okay, localizers.) Without revealing how many badges he has, Otoshi challenges Ash to a serious wager; A Pokemon match for all the Badges the other has. (This is definitely a trick.)

The battle begins with Bulbasaur vs. Marowak. This is good for Ash according to Type Chart because Marowak is weak to Grass. But the Type Chart isn't everything. As a fully evolved Pokemon, Marowak has a strong edge, particularly in physical stats and HP, to compensate for that disadvantage. Worse, Bulbasaur's Poison Typing neutralizes their Grass resistance to Ground, so the advantage is fairly minor.

Otoshi also makes use of more advanced tactics. Ash foregoes status moves to try and muscle his way to victory via Vine Whip. But Otoshi spends a set-up turn for Focus Energy before coming in with Bone Club. One good, solid crit with vastly superior Physical stats settles the match.

With his back against the wall, Ash sends out Pikachu. This should be a terrible idea but yet again, Pikachu's unique ability to ignore Type Immunity allows him to take down Marowak with a Thundershock. (I'm surprised that in nine generations of games, they've never just gone ahead and made "Ignores Ground Immunity to Electric" an Ability that Pikachu can have. There are similar Abilities out there.)

Otoshi concedes immediately and confesses that he has no Badges and was trying to rip off Ash's. He did put in the work and collect eight Badges, but he fell for an old-school Team Rocket pifall and had them stolen.

(I love how, even when they screw off to go rob someone else, Jessie and James still wind up going the same way as Ash. They really are just cursed to forever be in each other's lives.)

Marowak briefly has a crisis of faith with regards to being Otoshi's partner, but then just sort of gets over it and comes back. Jessie betrays James and tries to take the Badges for herself so she can enter the League. And we find out that James plays the Pokemon TCG to try and understand the game rules better, which is probably his problem right there. Very different ruleset.

But ultimately, retrieving Otoshi's Badges proves from these three lunkheads proves about as simple an affair as usual. And then it's off to Indigo Plateau!

[rollforalis]

Tokens

For me to use in my select page lol

[baliwisatatravel]

Gara Gara Kalah Slots Akhirnya Berujung Bahagia Bersama Wanita Setengahb...

[sailorfuncomics]

Assemble! (Super) Sailor Soldiers

Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon SuperS Kamishibai Based on: Episode 156

When the wicked CereCere targets a starving artist, the Sailor Team heads straight into action to save the day!

Please don’t repost to other sites without permission.

[funnysailorm00n]

Sailor Moon Weird Monsters II

Sailor Moon Weird Monsters I

[homuracar]

i wonder if it really is common that alot of europeans just assume everyone who isnt european on the internet is american

[palossssssand]

OKAYYY just scrolled thru ur art and im OBSESSEDDDDDD with how SHAPED your splatoon ocs are. SO SHAPED. the way trito and agara's tentacles are shaped to look like bunny/wolf ears respectively OUGHHHH!!!! agara specifically is so very wolf shaped overall....... and kinoga reminds me a lot of a jellyfish for some reason. ik you said they're based on pokemon so maybe i'm spot on idk i'm not. rlly a pokemon fan dhbfsnf... anyway just wanted to say I LOVE UR ART STYLE AND OCS SM OK BYE

AUUUU AOUUHHH THANK YOUUU I’M GLAD YOU LIKE EM they are currently the loves of my life I’m obsessed with them I rotate them all the time

Trito is based on gastrodon, Kinoga is based on Breloom, and Agara is based on alolan marowak! Their naming scheme comes from me taking a chunk out of respective pokemon’s japanese names

[villainstearoom]

GaraGara girl, JaraJara Jou and PeroPero from the Kondansha TV picture books

Source

[jabberwockprince]

future prince i need you to write down that TWEWY AU for R1999 because the idea of putting all blorbos in different clothing brands from TWEWY is too good to pass up and getting erased in the reaper's game can be switched to getting reversed and oohhhhh you need to cook this so bad

[leidensygdom]

Another revenge, this time for @plaguecleric ! Garagara is an adorable kenku wizard, and this Artfight I wanted to draw a few more anthros, so this was a very fun opportunity!!

[inbarfink]

[tobiasdrake]

Orange League, Episode 28 - Tag Battle! The Final Gym!

Liucheng/Kumquat Island, home to the final Gym. It's time for Ash to face the North Star of the Southern Cross! I mean, first there's a giant Rocket mech to deal with.

Where are they getting the money for these mechs? It was an explicit plot point in the early season that the Rockets are having to operate low-budget because they're on thin ice with Giovanni. That's why they downgraded their Gyarados sub to a Magikarp sub. That they're penniless has been alluded to multiple times since.

But ever since Lugia, suddenly they can build mechs again. Did they ransack Dipshit's sky fortress after it crashed?

Whatever the case, Ash and North Star Ruriko/Luana put Team Rocket away in short order and officially begin Ash's Gym Challenge.

Luana's a bit ahead of her time. She introduces Ash to Tag Battle, a prototype for the Double Battles that will be introduced way off in Gen 3. The rules are the same as a Double Battle, except you lose as soon as either of your Pokemon gets KO'd.

Ash intends to lead with Pikachu and predicts Luana will use the Alakazam she demonstrated in the Rocket battle. He needs to come up with a counterpick.

Personally, I recommend Snorlax. Alakazam's a monster; Extremely fast and with intense Special. But they have to sacrifice physical stats and HP for that, and that's a vulnerability that can be easily exploited. Even Reflect only brings Alakazam's resistance to physical attacks up to decent.

Alakazam lacks access to Hypnosis and Thunder Wave means fuck-all to Snorlax. The reality is that Alakazam simply can't hang in the ring with Snorlax's brutal STAB Normal smashes, up to and including the Hyper Beam that they demonstrated last episode.

Ash goes with....

Tag Battle: Pikachu and Charizard vs. Alakazam and Marowak

Not a bad choice. Charizard's got some strong Normal attacks to exploit Alakazam's vulnerability, and their Flying subtype grants immunity to Marowak's STAB moves. Offensively, however, they're going to want to stick to those Normal attacks and ignore their own STAB moves; Marowak resists and Alakazam's Special, as previously mentioned, is through the roof - 135 to Charizard's 85 before EVs.

This isn't Ash's best option, but it's far from his worst (Bulbasaur). For Ash's first ever experience with Doubles-adjacent battling, this works.

Pikachu honestly seems like the weak link, especially since this format ends at the first KO. Luana could easily score a one-turn win by focus-firing Psychic and Bonemerang on Pikachu.

In any case, this definitely goes down as one of Ash's outside-the-box victories. He baits Marowak into throwing Bonemerang, then distracts them with a Thunderbolt that they resist entirely, but that pulls their attention away. This allows Charizard to lead Bonemerang into Alakazam, who is in the middle of prepping a Hyper Beam. The Bonemerang knocks out Alakazam, whose Hyper Beam misfires and takes out Marowak.

There is absolutely no mechanism for anything that just happened. But it was pretty cool.

Ash Wins!

One last destination remains before wrapping up Ash's journey in the Filler Archipelago. Onward to Kankitsu/Pummelo Island!

[plaguecleric]

my sweet Kenku wizard, GaraGara ...less stylized and cartoony than I normally draw him