#speculative pokemon design

[tomatoderby]

I saw this drawing by @lizannamae on my twitter timeline and I very badly wanted to draw some fanart of it, it's so CUTE!

Please do not repost. Reblogs and likes are welcome and much appreciated!

[pepperochau]

Ledian: A Modest Proposal

Oh, Ledian. Beloved bugge cherished by many and belothed by just as many. A controversial reception which is easily understood by looking at its design and stats:

dreadful, isn't it? And that's to say nothing of the near-useless abilities it has—Iron Fist can do nothing off of a paltry 35 Attack, and the mon is likely to faint before Swarm is able to take effect. A cute, yet dreadful mon, and its not an opinion I'm alone in. Pokemon romhacks take particular interest in Ledian whenever it appears, often adjusting stats to mold the beetle into something more viable:

Renegade Platinum adds 60 points to the BST to turn Ledian into a mid-speed physical attacker as seen here:

The Emerald hack Elite Redux takes an incredibly similar approach, adding 60 points and emphasizing the attack stat, but also making Ledian much faster:

This is a similar approach taken by the Photonic Sun hack, again adding 60 points and emphasizing attack and speed:

YouTuber LivSama, no doubt thinking along similar lines, also changes Ledian's typing to Bug/Fighting from Bug/Flying but goes above the modest 60pt buffs to a full 100 in a spread not too dissimilar Mega Beedrill:

YouTuber Zen Mode takes a radically different approach in their attempt to fix Ledian, utilizing a number of minor changes instead of stat redistribution (Bug/Fighting, a few changes to the learnset, and most notably swapping Iron Fist for Technician) to make Ledian a serviceable pokemon throughout all of HGSS. (great video btw)

And lastly, perhaps my favorite Ledian fix comes courtesy of the Crystal Legacy hack. I have nothing to say about this.

If you're smart, and I know you are, you may have noticed a bit of a pattern when it comes to how romhacks handle Ledian: High Attack, High Speed, lower Sp. Atk by 20 points. Why people love to drop Ledian's Sp.Atk is beyond me, but I can at least surmise a reason for the former buffs it receives, which is another fairly consistent pattern among the fixes: Iron Fist. Excepting our delightful ladybird, no fully-evolved pokemon with Iron Fist has an attack stat below 104, and of those 8 mons, 5 have an attack stat over 120. People see Ledian's abilities first, then its attack, and say "well that cant be wrong" and bludgeon the poor dear into the mold of its brethren. I could be callous and argue that this represents a lack of creativity on the part of most fans, an assertion that I would argue is backed up by Zen Mode being able to realize the potential of Ledian's original base stats, I must rather instead accept the reality that Ledian, as it is seen by fans, needs to be a powerful attacker in order to be good.

So, how would I fix Ledian? I would like to draw your attention to the pokemon that Ledian is within a few BST of:

As you can see, barring a few insectoid exceptions locking into their 3rd stage, the 380-395 is home primarily to NFE's. Because of this and examples prior, I argue that Ledian does not need to be fixed, but rather that Ledian needs an evolution. And this is where and how I would like to throw my hat into the ring. Behold Ledinizer name pending):

To start with, Ledinizer will be keeping the Bug/Flying type. Partly because I feel like Yanmega, Ninjask, and Vespiquen are incredible pokemon even with a 4x Rock weakness, but also in part because I personally don't see enough justification to make it into a Fighting type, or into any other type for that matter. "B-but the dex entries say it throws barrages of punches" yeah you know what else the dex entries say? The dex says Ledian is weak as fuck, that it uses starlight as energy, scatters lucky dust, and prefers lands with clean air, and yet no one talks about making Ledian Bug/Psychic or Bug/Fairy or Bug/Dark do they? In fact, take a break from this post right now and go tell your friend that they should've made Ledian a Fairy/Psychic/Dark type, then ask how they'd feel about it being part-Fighting. Go on. That said, I am still taking those dex entries into account with its abilities.

When it came to the stat distribution, I kind of felt like I was playing with fire. I wanted to avoid the trope of Iron Fist maximization, and Pokemon often change stat distributions as they evolve—Electavire and Magmortar are great examples of what I mean with this—, but Ledian comes from an era where stat distros tended to be linear improvements across evolutions, so with this in mind I wanted Ledinizer to maintain its Special orientation and focused on that, but also without giving Ledian an avenue for abusing eviolite. The decision to reduce the speed stat comes from similar turns in the series—Poliwrath, Octillery, and Ursaluna to name a few—but also stems from a conscious decision to avoid a cliche.

Iron Fist is, in my mind, the greatest limiter of Ledian's potential in the fandom. Zen Mode showed that Ledian can work wonders without it, and since this is all in good fun anyway, I did away with Iron Fist in order to give Ledinizer some potentially very broken, but I think very interesting, abilities. Will to Power's flavor text is as follows:

Drawing on the power of the stars, the pokemon’s Special Attack stat is used when calculating the damage of physical attacks.

While 90 attack isn't particularly worth writing home about, I would argue that having an effective BST of 534 lets Ledinizer slide very comfortably into the arena of fully-evolved pokemon. Now, how this abilitiy functions under the hood is: stat stages are still used normally when calculating damage; Atk for Physical, SpA for Special. What this means is that Calm Mind isn't going to let you do more damage with Drain Punch. There's also a number of other complicated interactions with this ability: while active, Physical moves count as Special for the purposes of Battery, Ice Scales, and other Abilities which modify Special damage; Cannot be copied, passed on, traced, or replaced by Wandering Spirit. When attacking a pokemon with Unaware, Mold Breaker, Teravolt, Turboblaze, or Mycelium Might, this ability will fail to activate. I took some heavy inspiration from Water Bubble for these interactions, and the intention for these interactions is to provide unique defensive utility for Mold Breaker type abilities, while also leaving open the option for offensive synergies. Moves like Simple Beam and abilities like Mummy and Neutralizing Gas, which simply overwrite the ability, still function as normal. There's probably some interactions in there that I'm not aware of though lol, but now onto my real favorite of the two, an ability I made specifically for Iron Fist fans, Force of Will, whose flavor text is as follows:

Drawing on the power of the stars, the pokemon increases its Attack stat as its HP lowers.

Force of Will, in essence, is an extreme version of abilities like Swarm. And similar to Water Bubble quietly boosting Water-type moves, this ability has the sneaky effect of, boosting the base power of moves by 10%. Seems small, but let's look at the how it boosts damage:

and lets not forget the host of other interactions: Cannot be copied, passed on, traced or replaced by Wandering Spirit. Suppressible. Affected by Foul Play. While this ability is active, Strength Sap will always work on this pokemon. The Strength Sap and Foul Play interactions are here basically entirely for the purposes of keeping Ledinizer from being banned at locals, lol. Now, I am very fond of this ability because I feel like it explores a niche that TPCi hasn't quite touched yet. Sure we have Zen Mode, Shields Down, and Schooling, but they aren't as dynamic as I'd like. I want to see HP management on razor thin margins, in a way not too dissimilar from how the Persona series uses HP to cast physical attacks, or Binding of Isaac's Eve, where more power comes at more cost. But because this is pokemon, and pokemon battles are not roguelites nor 4vX affairs, it takes advantage of Ledinizer's traditionally very weak type combo of Bug/Flying by turning that weakness into an avenue for strength. If you can't take it down in one or two hits then it will knock you out as thanks. You want a massive attack stat? Well you're going to have to play smart and earn it.

Anyway, I hope you found this to be an interesting little exercise. I would've included a photo of Ledinizer if I had the knack for character design, but for now just imagine a Ledian with Kamina glasses and Knuckles gloves. If I had to shoehorn a moral into this overlong post, I guess it would have to be: do what the fuck you want. Don't let yourself be constrained by what it currently is, throw it all out if you want and start over. And please be more creative than a flat +70 to Attack.

Tune in next time when I figure out how to fix carnivine.

[galacticsabc]

Pokemon gijinkas but make it dnd.

[voidarkana]

I keep forgetting about Tumblr and it's been going for long enough so I'm just gonna dump all the "reimagined paradoxes" in here, not gonna make a separate post for each of them 💀 But in general, I based the past ones off of real life fossil organisms or things that might have been present in our past, and the future ones were mostly based off of spec evo or some other form of natural progression I think that pokemon species might have but not like a regular evolution or mega, if that makes sense??? Anyways let's hope I don't make the next post in 5000 years 💀💀💀

[nemo-namikaze]

I liked a couple of those sketches, so I expanded a little on them.

[artechoceneexplorer]

Remember that wheel I posted like half a month ago? I finally finished it!!

Now here's some close-ups with the characters that are featured in it :>

Red section!! Featuring Garnet from Steven Universe, Red from The Sea Beast, Hornet from Hollow knight, the Scarlet Caviearer from Bivaltopia and a pointy creature by Equiëtum ❤️🍄❤️

Orange section!! Featuring Calcifer from Howl's Moving Castle, Enoch from Over the Garden Wall, The Core from Amphibia, Rahang Besar from Project Temere and the Pomegranate King by Miguel11to.

Yellow section!! Featuring Bill Cipher from Gravity Falls, Jake the Dog from Adventure Time, the Plasm Wraith from Pikmin 3, the protagonist of Abzū, the Pangaloon from The New Dinosaurs and Amphinatans mirabilis from Polinices 💛🌟💛

Green section!! Featuring Kermit the Frog, Diamondhead from Ben 10, Link from Skyward Sword, Tighnari from Genshin Impact, the Emerald Bombardier from the Dragonslayer Codex and a Samara Fairy by samuelele_draws 💚🍀💚

Cyan section!! Featuring Rika from Pokémon, a Na'vi from Avatar, the Flish from The Future is Wild, the Giant Severateel from Sinedey and Furcagnathodon from the Kiatra project 🩵🐬🩵

Blue section!! Featuring Stitch, Modecai from Regular Show, Shiver from Splatoon 3, Dory from Finding Nemo, the Inkilatura from Tales of Kaimere and an aquatic sapient from Scylios 💙🌀💙

Purple section!! Featuring Amity Blight from The Owl House, Chameleos from Monster Hunter, Double King by Felix Colgrave, Thanos, the Amoebic Sea from Darwin IV and the Violet Bunting from the Birds of Novasola 💜👾💜

Pink section!! Featuring Nimona, Al-An from Subnautica: Below Zero, Kanroji Mitsuri from Demon Slayer, Perfuma from She-ra, an Axolotl from Minecraft and Apocleavis magnifica from the The Future is Far project 🩷🌸🩷

The B/W and final section!! Featuring Tui and La from Avatar: The Last Airbender, Spiderman Noir from Spiderman: Into the Spiderverse and Umbragrus huxlwyi from the Dragons of the World project 🖤🐧🤍

Hope you like it, took me like a month to finish :")

[disgustedorite]

Like virtual pets, adoptables, and/or closed species? Check out this website!

On this site, you can adopt a variety of creatures and host your own species, and like most virtual pet sites you can explore, breed, customize, and more! Here's an example of a species that I'm hosting on the site, called a spripot:

The site's still in beta, so registration is only open on Saturdays. Join using the link above if it's Saturday, or save this for later if it isn't!

Tagging virtual pet sites and various places I've seen people posting species sheets - I think a lot of you guys might like this.

[eternal-gromnommer]

Bug-type variant Meowth and its regional evolution, Purrasite.

[jils-things]

eeeekk hi again everyoneee!!! i'm gonna allow myself today to post one art because i miss sharing my stuff on my blog :]]

red sprites: (x)

[catella-ars]

I absolutely love your concept of chansey as a bird-like pokemon. It's such a unique idea and it works so well. Now I'm picturing audino as something similar but smaller. Perhaps the two had a common ancestor? IDK, it's just fun to think too deep about this stuff.

So sorry it took forever to get back to you! Life was very busy and then by the time I had crafted a response, my scanner died ;a;

But I'm glad you like my art, and I love the idea of Chansey and Audino sharing a common ancestor! Here's my attempt at some weird little dudes.

I think Audino's "feelers" evolving from whiskers is kind of fun idk

[inprogresspokemon]

Berylian Pikachu

Electrodent Pokémon Type: Electric/Dragon Size: 2'00" | 26.5 lbs Ability: Fluffy or Thunderous: The Pokémon electrifies its body, allowing it to deal additional Electric damage with its physical moves and to attackers that make direct contact. The effect increases with an active Electric Terrain, but is canceled by sandstorms and other sand and mud-based moves. Hidden Ability: Electric Surge Evolution Method: Evolves from Pichu by leveling up with high friendship while in the Beryl Region

Description: Berylian Pikachu, unlike their temperate forest-dwelling counterparts, are adapted to the harsher, less wooded environments of Beryl. By changing their diet and becoming gluttonous, they have evolved to be larger, fluffier, with more muscle and fat, sacrificing speed and agility for enhanced physical attack, defense, and stamina. This allows Berylian Pikachu to deliver powerful blows, run long distances, and better protect young Pichu from predators. The mystical energy of the Beryl region also granted this line a Dragon-type, making them more aggressive and hostile towards most Pokémon, except other electric rodents. Berylian Pikachu's fluffy fur retains the electricity that is discharged from their cheeks, enabling them to electrify their physical moves or generate an electric shield when overcharged. Unlike the common Pikachu, the Berylian variant is nomadic, rarely staying in one place for long. When colonies meet, half of the newly evolved Pikachu migrate to new groups. Annually, during the rainy season, the oldest Pikachu gather in crystal-rich areas, causing storms as they dance until triggering their evolution into Gorachu.

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Gorachu

Jackalope Pokémon Type: Electric/Dragon Size: 4'07" | 154.3 lbs Ability: Fluffy or Thunderous Hidden Ability: Electric Surge Evolution Method: Evolves from Berylian Pikachu while using Dragon Dance with an active Electric Terrain

Description: After completing the mysterious ritual, Berylian Pikachu evolve into Gorachu. While Gorachu become more friendly towards other Pokémon, they remain fiercely protective and aggressive when their colony is threatened. They develop belly pouches to carry young Pichu and their food, ensuring safety from any dangers during travels. In the wild, Gorachu collectively care for all the young Pichu, treating others' offspring as their own. Once trained, they become loyal partners, even babysitting their trainers' own children and other baby Pokémon. Using their powerful legs, Gorachu are able to leap great distances; however, their large size and lack of agility make it hard to stop or change direction quickly. When facing an opponent, they can lash by bashing them with their fluffy, electrified tails and jabbing with their horns, which are made of crystallized electric energy. If their horns break, they will grow back larger than before, symbolizing strength and experience. Berylian people craft accessories from these horn fragments, believing they bring luck and happiness. Some researchers speculate that Berylian Pikachu and Gorachu are the original forms of Pikachu and Raichu, with common variants being adaptations to less harsh environments; Kantonian myths and an article in the Scarlet book support this theory.

Berylian Pikachu and Gorachu were commissioned, designed by, and belong to Daraen. Thanks!

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[voidarkana]

man I'm terrible at keeping this up huh Anyways welcome back to my ramblings, today's topic is ✨Paradox Pokemon✨ or more like what could have been I guess yet again a more accurate term would be what I wanted them to be But anyways, I present to you ⭐What if Paradox Pokemon were based on prehistoric stuff and spec evo⭐ because why not and because I wanted to practice sugimori style, yknow, for when I open commissions in the future or something But anyways, first up we of course have

✨Woolphan and Donphlight✨ Donphan's ancestor and descendant respectively

Let's start in the beginning:

Shiny is white because ice age = snow, and snow = white

It's based on the cartoonish caveman stone protowheel, as well as of course the very popular whooly mammoth, and it also has a few details similar to Copperajah, like the 4 horns on top of its head.

Let us now move forwards to the future.

Since Donphan is also lowkey a car, what better way to represent the future of a car than with flight? That's right! Donphlight is now a flying car, and it's also based on Dumbo because it's the only other elephant that flies, really. It also has way smaller tusks to reflect the way some elephants might have better chances of survival because of them being poached for their tusks, which is honestly terrible.

Anyways, that's it from me for now, let's hope I make the next post some time between the weekend and 2025

[nemo-namikaze]

My realistic Pokemon art has returned from the war.

In descending order: Breloom and Shroomish inspired by theropod dinosaurs. Mareep as a mix of a sheep and a hadrosaur dinosaur, I like the idea of the Mareep line being sheep-shaped dragons rather than just sheep (because Ampharos). And finally Sneasel, obviously a mustelid specifically a stoat as reference. And a very dead Pikachu somewhere in the mix.

[mod-jazzy]

I was asked so! Here are my silly lil prompts for my personal month challenge thing!!!

NOTE: This is not a official thing or what have you, I was just asked to share the prompts for my lil self challenge, so I am! This is my own personal little challenge because I've had these prompts since 2019 and I want to use them

I'll put under a readmore because it is... like. 30 things lmao

Day 1: First Askblog OC The first blog OC you made! Day 2: Most recent askblog OC Can be a side or main character, just the most recent OC you've made for a blog! Day 3: The Modsona Draw your modsona! Self love n all that Day 4: Redraw a silly/funny askblog panel Find a old silly/funny or shitpost panel from one of your blogs and redraw it! Day 5: Evolution scene Draw your OC evolving! Can be past event, future event or something that already happened for a silly redraw! Day 6: Blog Swap Draw one of your blog OCs as a character on one of your other blogs! If don't have more than one blog, switch up their role with someone else on your current blog! Day 7: Favoritism wins Draw your absolute favorite OC from your blog! Indulge a little Day 8: "Nothing bad happens" What would your OC look like if their plot had nothing bad happen Day 9: Redraw a sad panel Redraw a old sad panel! Last prompt was too cheery, redraw that angst with your updated abilities! Day 10: Favorite Magic Anon Blast from the past, relive that glorious magic anon Day 11: Easiest OC to draw Draw that easy fellow, relax a little! Day 12: Difficult OC to draw Back on that grind, draw that one guy who is the absolute most difficult for you!! Day 13: Redraw your least favorite panel We all have that one panel that just, didn't come out right. Try again! Maybe it'll be nice to see your improvement.. or maybe you'll hate it again. Anyways, chop chop Day 14: Injury Draw that dramatic/important injury your character went through. Past, present or future! Day 15: Beach episode What it says on the tin, we love a filler episode. Can be plot relevant but hey, they deserve to relax too Day 16: Favorite blog Draw some fan art for your favorite blogger! Whether they are a friend, inspiration or what have you! Extra challenge: redraw some old fan art you did for them Day 17: Plot Changer That one moment... the thing that made everything twist. That really hit a hard turn in your storyline! Can be past, present or possible future! Day 18: Scrapped Idea What was that scrapped concept again? Or was it a character.. or even something as silly as a slight design change? Day 19: What's a God to a Blogger Most of us have that one god. That one important guy in the sky... or the ocean.. or under a truck... man pokemon is weird. Day 20: Canon Compliant Stylization is so interesting and unique!... but strip that away. Be close to pokemon canon. Day 21: Shiny Beam A easy one... make that little guy shiny!!... Oh they are already shiny?... well then undo that. Silly. Day 22: Dream interaction What's a interaction with your characters that you would really love to see or are excited for? Can be within your own storyline or a interaction with someone else Day 23: Real World Sighting Draw your OC(s) in a real life photo! Bonus points if its a photo you took. Take this chance to go for a nice walk and take some pretty pictures!.... touch grass. Day 24: A spoiler that.. wouldn't make sense to others That's right. Be vague. Spoil a little bit in the most vague manner. It's always fun to see others speculate. Day 25: In blog ship Draw your favorite ship within your own blog! Friendship/romantic ship/hate ship... Just whatever one makes you smile Day 26: Out of blog ship Same prompt as 25.. But with your OC and someone ELSE'S! again, friendship/romantic ship/etc etc! Day 27: Different Art Medium! That's right. Draw/sculpt/etc your OC in a different art medium than normal. This will either be fun or horrifying for you Day 28: The Inspiration VS the OC Draw your OC with their inspiration! Can be the storyline that inspired them... or the character that desired them! Etc etc Day 29: Song drawing Yeah that's right. Draw your OC/Blog with the song that you associate them with! As a treat Day 30: Redraw first blog post / Thank you Cliche ending alert!! Redraw your first ever askblog panel you have ever made. Not the first post on a more recent blog.. no. THE FIRST ONE. EVER. Or be corny and draw a heartfelt thank you to all of your friends and followers you made Or hell.. maybe even both

[macabremadness]

introducing iron bomber and iron instruction! two of my future paradox designs :]

iron bomber - dragon/flying

"its appearance matches up with a certain machine described in an old book. one occult magazine speculates that they were created for the sole purpose of aerial warfare billions of years in the future"

iron instruction - normal/steel

"this pokemon bears resemblance to iron instruction, an object described in an old book. it is said that they were designed as instructive toys for children, or so claims a paranormal magazine"

PLEASE DON'T CLAIM THESE DESIGNS AS YOUR OWN THEY AREN'T YOURS but i hope you like em :] credit me if you do anything with em i wanna see

also bonus doodle with my turo:

[adobe-outdesign]

Thoughts on mega jynx? They finally found it in the leaks…

(Note: I'm not doing proper reviews of beta Pokemon, because they're basically WIPs and it's not fair to judge designs that were never meant to be seen. That said, I'm fine just offering quick opinions and whatnot.)

Kind of amazing we have a design for Mega Jynx at all after vaguely knowing about its existence for years through audio files. Finally, after years of speculation about what the design was and why it was scrapped, we finally get to see it, and it's... kind of mid?

In terms of it being a mega, not much seems to have changed in a way that gives a sense of progression, if that makes sense. The dress is different, but not really more complex. The eyes are different, but once again, not really in a way that connects to the original design. The body shape is the same, minus maybe the breasts being bigger (which, side note, is the last thing I really wanted to see progress here). The hair is drastically exaggerated, but when people think about Jynx, I don't think hair is the first thing that comes to mind.

I do like some of the changes made here—the eyes seem to have a vague hypnosis idea to them because it's a psychic-type, and the dress in particular looks very winter-y and actually gives the design something to make it look like an ice-type, something badly missing from regular Jynx (side note: where are its legs??). But as a whole, it doesn't really look like a mega Jynx; almost looks more like a regional form or something.

To address the elephant in the room, we have confirmation from the leaks that this design was scrapped due to fears of controversy. I don't think it's any worse than regular Jynx—things like the eyes in particular at least move away from the worst parts of Jynx's design. However, I think a mega Jynx, in general, is a bad move because this is the alternate design. Any form where you have to draw attention to regular Jynx all the time is kind of a poor idea. It's why I've advocated for Jynx getting a regional, as that's the one form where you wouldn't need to interact with the original in any capacity.

Overall, though, I think scrapping this was a good choice. Controversy aside this was kind of a bland design anyway, so I don't think Jynx fans are missing out by GameFreak cutting this one.