#chimpep

[novemberhope]

Normalerweise bekommt man sein Starter Pokemon von einem Pokemon Professor. Hier bekommt man sie vom Champ persönlich.

[krokonoko]

ok so I?? realized I completely forgot to do this meme for the past, like... three games??? so here’s me remedying that dereliction.

Galar was an easy one. it has a bunch of Pokemon I think are alright, and loooots I cannot stand. but all in all I gotta say even among the Pokemon I like in Galar, there are few I really adore. most of them just kinda grew on me, like in the case of  Copperajah, or Chimpep, which I have grown to love a lot more since my initial response of “NOT ANOTHER MONKEY!!”

personally I think the only design that really slaps is Galarian Zapdos, everything ranges from a B+ to a B-.

on the flip side, we got a lot of designs that kinda piss me off lmao. I’m not even gonna get started on Inteleon and it’s creepy ass hands. but I will talk about how unhappy I am with the trend of Pokemon that have obviously been designed as 3D assets first and have been illustrated later, as is clearly the case for Morgrem, and especially Impidimp. I understand that the approach to coming up with Pokemon is changing in the times of 3D graphics, but models that are so clearly cobbled together from default shapes as these seem very lazy to me.

I decided to dedicate four slots to each of the new fossil Pokemon. despite the fact that I think some of the designs are alright, I hate the fact that all of them are basically constantly in the process of dying.

honorable mention goes to Appletun. I can see the appeal here, but I’m very on the fence about Pokemon made of food and it’s eyes creep me tf out.

generally not a terrible generation for new Pokemon, but not a fantastic one either.

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Hisui also gets a little extra meme cause why not. Hisuian Liligant might be one of my fav mons ever. the only drop of bitterness about it is that it basically replaced my Hisuian Decidueye, since they did not fix Decidueye’s abysmal speed stat and Hisuian Lilligant has the objectively better move pool. Hisuian Goodra is fantastic all around, and I personally feel like the huge snail shell is exactly what has always been missing about this design.

when it comes to least fav mons this game, I got a lot more opinions, especially on the starter forms. generally I think I’d like to describe Hisui forms and their evolutions with the phrase “missed opportunity”. that’s why Hisuian Arcanine is on my list of least fav mons this game, cause the potential of a Fire/Rock Arcanine was ginormous and the result extremely underwhelming, especially in 3D. Kleavor and Enamorous are a crime against nature. I actually had trouble believing they were real Pokemon and not badly stitched together fakes.

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alright so next up is Paldea. oh boy.

maybe I should preface this section by saying that the only reason I got this game is cause I’m participating in an event later this year where everyone needs a copy of Purple or Scarlet, and I only bought it secondhand on ebay. I wouldn’t have gotten this game at all, and I do not approve of the direction this franchise is headed rn.

alright, now that that’s out of the way, let’s talk about the mons I like first. I don’t think I need to say that I’m generally severely underwhelmed with the designs this gen. even among my faves, there are few that I really stan. and Slither Wing and Roaring Moon, which I actually really like, are basically legendaries that I couldn’t use in my run of the game. I mean four of the Pokemon on my fav list aren’t even fully evolved ffs. that’s especially sad in the case of Arctibax. I had one in my team and I really loved the simplistic, almost gen 1-ish approach to its design. but then it evolved, and for the first time ever I was sad that my pseudo legendary hit its final form :/ 

Ceruledge rocks, no further commentary needed.

the two honorary mentions are designs I think are pretty lame visually, but that I cannot help but stan either because of the concept (Maushold) or because of the personality (Flamigo). ....honestly Flamigo just makes me happy. also it got me out of a couple of pinches in the early game. love this dumb bird.

which brings us to. the list of mons I dislike. I tried to narrow it down to 10 + 2 honorable mentions, but I quickly realized that that’s a p hopeless endeavor. so here are most of the designs in this gen I cannot stand. yeppppp, really just a hater this time around. once again I have to talk about design philosophies, and how they change, and how that’s okay, yadda yadda yadda. throughout the last couple months, GF is CLEARLY into prioritizing ?quirky? designs. but there’s a difference between making a design kinda comical, and treating it as nothing but a joke.

I wasn’t sure whether I was gonna say more than that, cause people really be touchy when it comes to fans criticizing the franchise they have been into for over 20 years. but then I remembered that this is my blog and I can hate as much as I want on here. so I decided to give a quick reason why I dislike each of these guys, but I’ll try to keep it to one sentence.

Crocalor: bad shapes and bad color distribution.

Quaxwell: what’s the duck doing with that huge cake??

Spidops: Terrifying, ugly shapes, next please.

Pawmi, Pawmo, Pawmot: it’s the exact same Pokemon three times?!

Arboliva: why do the olives look like they’re just copy pasted on?!?

Squawkabilly: literally how do you fuck up a rockabilly inspired parrot design so hard that it looks like a kellogg’s knockoff mascot??

Naclstack: Minecraft.

Bellibolt: love the idea with the face, hate everything else.

Maschiff: looks like the annoyingly dumb villain in a western 90s cartoon.

Mabosstiff: hate the face, hate the colors, hate that GF doesn’t stop giving its animals beards.

Shroodle: sorry I just need more than a sentence here cause this might very well be the worst Pokemon ever conceived in my opinion. it’s definitely THE most egregious example of 3D assets lazily pushed together to create a design that is barely even readable. like, what is that thing sticking out its... nose? mouth? is that its tongue? its teeth? just looking at it makes me depressed. everything that’s wrong with Pokemon designs recently.

Grafaiai: Idk, I could maybe find it acceptable, but why GF, why has no one ever told you that you never mix two hues of black in one design, and you ESPECIALLY do NOT let them touch each other!!!

Bramblin and Brambleghast: they’re just bushes lol.

Klawf: it’s straight up Krabby again, like???

Capsakid: everything I already said about Shroodle, just that Shroodle already took the cake.

Scovillain: when I saw this one I almost backflipped away from the screen. what are those heads. those freakishly thin necks. what. are. those. ARMS. it’s like the person who was tasked with modelling this thing just gave up towards the end. soulless. we deserve better.

Rellor: oh okay that’s almost kinda coo- OH MY GOD WHAT IS THAT FACE??

Tinkatink, Tinkatuff, Tinkaton: yeah I know I’m getting in hot water here, but I’m sorry this is a straight up Sonic character.

Wiglett and Wugtrio: there’s nothing terribly wrong with these, I’m just tried of Diglet receiving extra attention.

Palafin: it’s just so funny cause people have been begging for a dolphin Pokemon for decades, and then we get... this fucking joke of a toothpaste tube.

Orthworm: why.

Greavard and Houndstone: so tired of ridiculously transparent manipulation tactics like coming up with three new evolutionary lines of high concept dog designs and going “PUPPER!! DON’T YOU ALL LOVE THIS SILLY LITTLE DOGGO?!”

Veluza: I coulda sworn we JUST had this exact same Pokemon last gen.

Tatsugiri: sorry I just hate its lore, which is especially funny cause a couple days before this Pokemon was revealed, I saw a fan design based on the exact same concept and it kicked so much ass and leaned so much into how disgusting the background idea was that I couldn’t help but love it. I can’t find it anymore, but it was like a creepy necro mermaid that sticks out of the body of its dead prey and uses it as a tail. why do people like that not work for GF? 

...I think that’s overall my question. literally every fan design I see, every redesign made by fans, it’s almost shocking? how they’re pretty much always better, there’s always more thought put into it, better inspiration, the lines flow better, the shapes are clearer, the movement is better, the designs are more appealing, have better color distribution... like, it’s not like there aren’t people with fantastic ideas out there. sorry, it’s just. kinda depressing.

EDIT: found it! check it out, it’s creepy and inspired and fantastic! (cw: body horror)

Dudunsparce: another one of these where it’s like... people were begging GF to give Dunsparce some love, an evolution, a regional form, anything. and what they get is this. I know this is me reading into things but it does start to feel like GF is just tired? of all of it?

Kingambit: insert “look how they massacred my boy” gif

Iron Treads: why would you fuck up a perfectly good design like Donphan’s like this.

Iron Bundle: no.

Frigibax: once again, too western, doesn’t fit its evolutions, what is going on.

Gholdengo: to make this the 1000th Pokemon truly is. a choice. then again, it is a stack of money, so.

Chien-Pao: it’s fangs clip through its mouth...!!!!!

notable mentions go to: Quaquaval’s legs and feet. once more GF’s obsession with making its monsters look like humans in costumes ruins an otherwise alright design. I’ve seen people give it more bird-like legs and immediately everything about this Pokemon came together way better. it’s just staggering how easily some of these guys could be fixed. the other notable mention is Iron Valiant’s dumb fucking pigtails, without which this design could have slapped.

Idk man. no closing words here. I already said everything I gotta say. sorry this doesn’t end on a more positive note, but imho GF needs to get a grip, badly.

[bbdeathz]

Folge 101 an sich auch nur nett, aber doch gut auf seine Art. Chimpep wird aktiver gezeigt und stiftet nicht nur Chaos und es war nett wie alle der Entwicklung geholfen haben. Gou wollte hier wieder an sein PKMN denken und es war ähnlich wie damals als er Kickerlo zurücklassen wollte.

[ratarttra]

The newest artworks from my last streams https://www.twitch.tv/leagarland Hope you like them ^-^

[moontopaz]

with this one all the starters are completed <3

[smilelovefat-e]

Starter Pick!

[vinula]

Nr.3 -> Sobble {#drawing#vinuladraws#grookey#scorbunny#sobble#pokémon#pokémonschild#pokémonschwert#pokémonsword#pokémonshield#chimpep#hopplo#memmeon#nintendo#nintendodirect#art#digital#simple#pastel} https://www.instagram.com/vinuladraws/p/BvCAFGLBUwK/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=2w1ig91qyojl

[aviculor]

About the starters

Grookey’s various names have a common theme of music. Grookey is groove + monkey, Sarunori is saru (monkey) + nori (rhythm), Ouistempo is ouistiti (marmoset) + tempo, Chimpep is chimp + pep, Qiāoyīnhóu and Hāauyāmhàuh are both hit + sound + monkey. Taking this into consideration along with how it was introduced banging a stick on the ground, it may evolve into a drummer of some sort.

Sobble’s names also have a cohesive idea. Sob + bubble, mesomeso (sobbing) + chameleon, larme (tear) + chaméléon, memme (sissy) + chamäleon, close to tears, tearful eyes + lizard. Whatever path Sobble takes, it apparently has to do with crying and its emotions.

Scorbunny’s names are all basically rabbit + fire, but something to take into consideration is the rectangle on its nose evocative of a nasal strip- used to make it easier to breathe during heavy exertion. And one thing of note is that in Japanese, Hibani is not just hi (flame) + bunny, but a wordplay with hibana (spark). It exerts itself in a way that involves sparking and being on fire.

What we are dealing with here is a band. Sobble is the lead singer, Scorbunny is the guitarist, and Grookey is the drummer.

[yume-tsuki]

Pokemon shield  Yume’s journey starts WIP :)  I couldn’t wait to show it to you x)  I finally started the coloring of my pencil sketch i did weeks ago. I’m happy that the fields look so nice yellow like in my imagination Starter: Pepp- Grookey (male)  (In german Chimpep, ;) thats why Pepp. When I saw the 3 starter first I fell in love with Grookey <3 and I will not stop loving it ever x) one of the best starters and evolutions ever First catched Pokemon : Sir Tobio - Rookidee  (male) (my baby. The best phrase was Sir Tobio seems to be afraid of the fight, but he looks to you and suddenly become calm again <3 love my baby Tobio  he wished to become a Corvignight Taxi member) Second : Zerstöror- Wooloo (male) The name is the one from Dipper of gravity falls when he is with the Manotaurs XDD in german; I needed days to remember where i heared the name again Third: Suu-Nickit (fem) :) and then I saw this cuty fox <3 I always thought, a dark  type pokemon wouldn’t be that long in my team. But in the end with her attack U-turn she always is an importand member of my team Fourth: Zeus- Yamper (male) No one knows what Zeus is thinking Oo he is a lovly chuppy good boy <3 always there. He loves to teas Suu who dislikes it a lot. When we play ball he first runs in the total different direction before he brings the ball (it’s probably normal xD but it looks so strange when he does.)

[languageduck]

German Pokemon Vocab 3/?

Pokemon names:

Memmeon (Sobble) - Memme (sissy, crybaby) + Chamäleon

Phlegleon (Drizzile) - phlegmatisch (phlegmatic; related to the element water)  + Chamäleon

Intelleon (Inteleon) - intelligence (engl) + Chamäleon

Hopplo (Scorbunny) - hoppeln (to hop) + Lohe (blaze)

Kickerlo (Raboot) - Kicker (Fußballer) + Lohe

Liberlo (Cinderace) - Libero (Sweeper- a position in football) + Lohe

Chimpep (Grookey) - chimp + pep (oomph, pizzazz)

Chimstix (Thwackey) - chimp + drumsticks

Gortrom (Rillaboom) - gorilla + trommel (to drum)

Piondragi (Drapion) - Skorpion + Dracula

Garstella (Mareanie) - garstig (ghastly) + stella marina (lateinisch. Seestern [starfish])

Kastadur (Ferroseed) - Kastanie (chestnut) + durus (lateinisch. hart [hard])

Fleknoil (Woobat) - Fledermaus (bat) + (Fell-)Knäuel ((fur)ball)

Fukano (Growlithe) - Funke (spark) + canis (lateinish. Hund [dog])

Knapfel (Applin) - knabbern (nibble) + Apfel (apple)

Piepi (Clefairy) - piepen (to squeak, chirp)

Phrases:

Das Pokemon hat sich befreit! - the pokemon freed itself!

Es ist festgeschlagen! - it failed!

Es hätte beinahe geklappt! - it almost worked!

Fast hätte es geklappt! - it almost worked!

Du bist entkommen! - you escaped!

Words:

verabreden - arrange

sich verabreden - make an appointment

kreidebleich - ashen-faced; pale

die Schatzkammer(n) - vault/treasure chamber

das Gerücht(e) - rumour

der Wandteppich(e) - tapestry; wall hanging

eifrig - eager, keen

die Schande - disgrace

finster - sinister, dark

die Finstre Nacht - the Dark Night (Eng version: The Darkest Day)

die Rache - vengeance

Rache nehmen - take vengeance

die Heia(s) - beddy-byes

Heia machen - to go beddy-byes

[faline-cat444]

The other names

The Games themselves:

German-Schwert and Schild

French-Épée and Bouclier

Italian-Spada and Scudo

Spanish-Espada and Escudo

Grookey

German-Chimpep

French-Ouistempo

Scorbunny

German-Hopplo

French-Flambino

Sobble

German-Memmeon

French-Larméléon

[eegahisms]

I want to take Sobble, too. Especially since I‘m afraid that Chimpep will get ugly in the last evolution 😅

we have absolutely 0 guarantee hahaha look how mudkip turned out

[ubassembly]

speaking of playing in german some of the pokemon names I’ve seen rock. chimpep! love that

[bbdeathz]

Folge 59 jetzt nicht die krasseste, sag ich ehrlich. Hab ich damals eventuell gut wahrgenommen, ejtzt ist sie eher nett. Ich mag Chimpep aber, und obwohl es keine wirkliche Entwicklung macht, ist es ein weiteres PKMN; welches später immer draueßn ist und rumalbert. Und sowas mag ich ja, zudem der Fokus dann geändert wird. Ja, mehr gibts hier nicht, die Folgen hat zwar paar nette Szenen, aber fühlte ich diesmal nicht so

[oswaldnjenny]

Excuse me, CHIMPEP!? THAT IS THE CUTEST NAME EVER!!!

STARTER NAME MEANINGS

 Grookey = groovy + monkey

- Japanese: Sarunori = saru (monkey) + nori (rhythm)

- French: Ouistempo = ouistiti (monkey) + tempo

- German: Chimpep = chimpanzee + pep

- Korean: Heungnasung = heung (excitement) + wonsugi (monkey)

- Chinese: Hāauyāmhàuh = hāau (knock) + yām (sound) + hàuh (monkey)

Definitely going to be some sort of dancer, drummer, or musician.

Scorbunny = scorch + bunny

- Japanese: Hibanī = hibana (spark) + bunny

- French: Flambino = flamme (flame) + albinos (albino)

- German: Hopplo = hoppeln (hop) + Lohe (flames)

- Korean: Yeombeoni = yeom (flame) + bunny

- Chinese: Yìhmtouyìh = yìhm (flame) + touyìh (rabbit)

Not much to go on that we don’t already know. “Spark” could maybe hint to an electric typing down the line, but the word relates to fire as much as electricity.

Sobble = sob + bubble

- Japanese: Messon = mesomeso (sobbing sounds) + chameleon

- French: Larméléon = larme (tear) + caméléon (chameleon)

- German: Memmeon = Memme (cowardly) + Chamäleon (chameleon)

- Korean: Ulmeogi = ulmeogida (about to cry)

- Chinese: Leuih'ngáahnsīk = leuih'ngáahn (tears) + sīkyihk (lizard)

Poor little Sobble, this doesn’t bode well for him. I think a banshee-inspired evolution seems plausible given the region, but no matter what he becomes, he’ll probably be crying.

[moontopaz]

may i present to you - it is the holy stick!