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cosmicheiress999 · 5 months
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ngl, the most pokemon ever
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chakibphenix · 3 months
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Ghostly Whimsy: Gengar-Inspired Fashion and Accessories
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forestofdragons · 3 months
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some sketchy attempts at drawing Giratina
I love them so much but for some reason I am just incapable of drawing them. Not sure why my brain refuses to draw pokemon but eh actually like these
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carcatart · 7 months
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Busy pondering my orb 🔮🦇
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hecatine-writer · 8 months
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i don't trust anyone who doesn't like mimikyu. mimikyu is cutest pokemon, best pokemon, the only thing mimikyu deserves is love and cuddles and maybe therapy.
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deadcactuswalking · 1 month
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My top 10 favourite Pokémon
It’s really easy to get attached to something you have nostalgia for. You’ll get to lush and reminiscence about things you hold dear, memories you’ve made, people you connected with. It’s also really easy to detach from those things, and that’s why my favourite Pokémon is Garbodor. This is not a pop music review, this is my side gig. I’m cactus and today I’m explaining my 10 favourite Pokémon.
My top 10 favourite Pokémon of all time
Now I want to bring something up that relates to that introduction: a lot of my favourite Pokémon are ones I’ve never used in a playthrough. There’s a lot more to the Pokémon experience - the anime, the card game, the manga, but also just the culture, especially online, surrounding it. These Pokémon are on this list for many reasons, from aesthetic to nostalgic, and I’ve wanted to make this list for a long time so things have changed since, sometimes based on playthroughs, sometimes not. Also some disclaimers: this is not the most solid list of all time, in that my top seven is set in stone but the rest could change wildly and the order is not very rigid. Additionally, the positions I’m using cover whoever I want it to: sometimes it’ll be one Pokémon, an entire evolutionary line, only certain members of a line, or in some cases, pretty much a specific version of that Pokémon I played through a game with. It’s also not a balanced or sensible list, based largely on instinct, and because of that, I do feel like I need to list some honourable mentions.
Honourable Mentions
I don’t need to explain or analyse any of my picks outside of my top 10… though you know I would. Therefore, this is just going to be a simple list of Pokémon that just barely missed the cut - try and see if you can see any trends? I really don’t know if you could, I don’t make much sense. Anyway, narrowly missing out in no particular order are Shuckle, Haunter, Marill, Relicanth, Swalot, Wailord, Magcargo, Cubchoo and Beartic, Litwick and Chandelure, Sableye, Feraligatr, Genesect, Spiritomb, Squirtle, Carnivine, Palossand, Cofagrigus, Rayquaza, Cryogonal, Arbok, Snorlax, Tyranitar, Venusaur, Pelipper, Rowlet and Decidueye, Alolan Exeggutor, Tropius, Darkrai, Wobbuffett, Shedinja, Phantump, Gliscor, Victreebel, Drifloon and Drifblim, Turtwig and Torterra, Ferrothorn, Obstagoon, Ludicolo, Carracosta, Tsaraeena (would), Mismagius, Alolan Vulpix and Ninetales, Guzzlord but basically all those ugly Ultra Beasts, Staraptor, Slowking, Zygarde, Scizor, Magneton, Octillery, Greninja (yes, because of Smash), Gardevoir and Gallade, Oshawott, Snover and Abomasnow, Probopass - I’m not joking, and finally, in terms of the Pokémon who were literally in my top 10 but got kicked out as I was writing this: Bronzong, Sandile and Rotom, who got the boot mostly because I was unsure if it counted as a Legendary and I didn’t want any Legendaries on the list. My deepest, sincerest apologies to those three species, they could be in this list proper on another day. Also, assume that all members of an evolutionary line I discuss from #10 to #1 are also honourable mentions if not basically on the list.
Now I don’t think I’ll be able to write as much about these Pokémon as I write about songs: I’m a music reviewer, not a video game reviewer and I simply don’t know enough about the game lore or art and design rules to evaluate these guys beyond vibes and my personal experience. This is a dumb, out-of-specialty list, just bear with me on these. In addition, I’ll attach my favourite Pokédex entry and TCG art piece with each entry in the list just to spice it up a little, and I also have visual accompaniment from my good friend Yvonne @sheenzys for a few of the top entries - thank you very much indeed to her for agreeing to lend their talents to this little side project. Additional special thanks to the fantastic archives and databases of Serebii and Bulbapedia for helping with all this, and of course the programmers, designers, artists and writers at Game Freak, Nintendo and the Pokémon Company for making the games and designing these characters I love.
#10 - CLODSIRE
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“It lives at the bottom of ponds and swamps. It will carry Wooper on its back and ferry them across water from one shore to the other.”
Clodsire is a Poison/Ground-type Pokémon from Paldea and yes, this list is affected ever so slightly by recency bias because I just started playing through Scarlet and this guy is already my absolute favourite on my team. It’s an adorable, unbothered little fish that just lies flat on the ground and takes up a tad too much space but you don’t mind because it’s adorable doing it. I always loved Wooper and Quagsire too, specifically their Johto versions, because of how peaceful and empty their minds always appeared to me, they’re just little guys, but they don’t stand out as much when water-blue as when they’re poisonous little desert creatures. I think you’ll find on this list that I tend to like Pokémon that cut a fine line between adorable and just downright ugly, and with Clodsire’s awkward retracting toxic spikes, derpy face and the fact that during the first Team Star raid against the fire-type gang, he just sat there and stalled this woman’s massive car, which I’m told is a Pokémon but to me, that just looked like a fancy car. I don’t know whether in a year Clodsire will be off this list entirely or within the top five but for now, I like him here, and I think he’d be okay with that.
#9 - EMPOLEON
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“It avoids unnecessary disputes, but it will decimate anything that threatens its pride.”
Empoleon is a Water/Steel-type Pokémon from Sinnoh - that’s a unique typing too - and the final evolution to Piplup and Prinplup. This is mostly a nostalgia pick: Sinnoh’s my favourite region, and Piplup was my starter when I first played Pearl. That cute little penguin who couldn’t hurt a fly (canonically it can, does and will hurt flies - sorry, Ninjask) eventually turns into this noble knight of esteem and order, and listen, I’m not particularly masculine of a person but I still want to be him. My Empoleon was over-levelled to shit the entire game but I loved him all the same because I rarely ever needed a second member of my party to step up to the plate, and even outside of just looking cool, many formative Pokémemories were made with this line and they’ve stuck with me since. Also, come on, just look at him. Dawn’s Piplup in the anime is adorable too. Next up, we have another uniquely-typed early-game Water-type Pokémon from Sinnoh…
#8 - BIBAREL
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“A river dammed by Bibarel will never overflow its banks, which is appreciated by people nearby.”
Bibarel is a Normal/Water-type Pokémon from Sinnoh and come on, just look at this dumbass beaver. I had a Bibarel, I used it for HMs like any good Gen IV player should… but it’s on this list purely because look at this dumbass beaver. It’s got the buck-tooth, it never looks quite right in any pose it takes, but it’s loving life and it’ll learn all these HMs and do whatever you want it to do. It’s a loyal dumbass beaver, a loveable companion there primarily for comic relief but I mean, you love it just the same. I know people parade around Bidoof as a meme God like Omastar but its evolution is my favourite in the line. He’s silly, he’s goofy, but he’s got a kind heart and I feel like he’s a family man. He works a blue-collar job building dams but he provides for his family and he loves his wife dearly. Also his wife is a Roselia, normalise inter-species breeding… in video games, not anywhere else (they cannot breed, they do not share an egg group). The little goof even got an ability banned in competitive play for a while due to people abusing his unpredictable hidden ability, and then people ended up using Bidoof instead using the same methods. Keep it stupid, Bibarel. We love you for it.
#7 - DITTO
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“Ditto rearranges its cell structure to transform itself into other shapes. However, if it tries to transform itself into something by relying on its memory, this Pokémon manages to get details wrong.”
I mean…Ditto is a Normal-type Pokémon from Kanto but really, it’s anything. It can be anything but it doesn’t retain its HP or level, and in the anime, everything Ditto copies has that dumb little head-empty smirk on its face. There’s something resonant to me that this Pokémon can replicate everything, down to less surface-level occasions like stat boosts and EV yields but it can never fully be a perfect replica due to Ditto’s own “shortcomings”, not that those shortcomings matter when you can be absolutely anything you want. I don’t know, I know they often play the angle that this was a failed science experiment, and the lore with Mew can be compelling, but I think it just speaks to humans and how it’s in our nature to implement parts of other people into ourselves but we can’t escape from our real identity that is much deeper than just appearance, type and even stat modifiers. Yes, that’s right, I like this stupid pink blob for philosophical reasons. Zoroark sucks, by the way.
#6 - SYLVEON
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“Its ribbonlike feelers give off an aura that weakens hostility in its prey, causing them to let down their guard. Then it attacks.”
Sylveon is a Fairy-type Pokémon from Kalos and you just know an Eeveelution had to be on here. Now like most Pokémon fans, I love all forms of Eevee but if I had to rank them… Sylveon’s on top, then it’s Leafeon, Vaporeon, Glaceon, Espeon, Umbreon, Jolteon and Flareon. This is the objectively correct best-to-worst ranking of the ‘lutions and I will hear nothing to the contrary. So why’s Sylveon making the list? Well, Glaceon was close, but ultimately, Sylveon is just a girly fashionista with way too many ribbons and tassels and that’s why I love her. She’s a hyper-feminine dragon-slayer coated in pastel colours that dazzles and sparkles but still packs a decent punch against some of the strongest Pokémon in the game. This is basically just me putting “women” at #6 instead of Sylveon, but I did use Sylveon in Ultra Moon and it was the Pokémon I attached closest to. Why? I don’t know, it’s girly, sometimes I want to be a teenage girl with Backstreet Boys posters on my wall and the pink “Ulterior Motives” boombox. Is that too much to ask?
#5 - CYNDAQUIL AND TYPHLOSION
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“When heat from its body causes the air around it to shimmer, this is a sign that it is ready to battle.” (Typhlosion)
Alright, so here’s where it gets a bit confusing: I couldn’t pick between the Fire-type starter of Johto and its final evolution so both are here. I prefer Cyndaquil a tiny bit but mostly because I have had a plush of Cyndaquil since I was a child that’s not really the same material as other plushes, it feels a bit firmer and more special in that regard. This is also a very personal one - whilst I personally picked Totodile in SoulSilver, my sister, who I often bonded with over Pokémon, has always been a big fan of Typhlosion and I remember battling and trading over that Pokémon God knows how many times, it might still be in my box in Pearl. Johto has some of the most consistently fun designs to me - I love Cyndaquil’s perpetually closed eyes and little anteater snout, and Typhlosion’s mane of fire running down its back when it’s fighting is just badass, especially in the sprite era, which by the way, has an aura that can never be replicated with 3D models and hurts the games tremendously. This hit Typhlosion pretty hard as he now looks kind of inert in resting form, but it’s not like you can’t go back to those old games and see him in his pixellated glory. I really don’t care for its Hisuian form though, probably knocks it down a couple points to be honest.
#4 - GOODRA
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“Sometimes it misunderstands instructions and appears dazed or bewildered. Many Trainers don't mind, finding this behaviour to be adorable.”
Okay, so… I like slimy Pokémon. If there’s any coherent theme other than ignoring Galar entirely, it’s that I like blobs and goops. Goomy is the cutest slime in the game, and I love its grey cheeks, the lavender colour scheme and seeing it open its little mouth. Sliggoo is fine, it’s still cute but Goodra… I just want to hug it so badly. I never used a Goodra ever, but this Dragon-type Pokémon from Kalos won my heart anyway through its bubbly design, chubby belly and just generally peaceful vibe, one curated out of formless goo into a beautiful little psuedo-legendary dragon. I like how it’s pure Dragon type despite it just being goop, I like how its Hisuian form looks like it’s carrying something slightly too heavy for it to handle in its tail and whilst I was too old to be watching the anime religiously, whenever I saw clips of Ash’s Goodra I grew fond of that too, especially the honestly kind of touching arc of him having to release it. The anime does very few things all that well and that was one of them, at least to me, so, yeah, Goodra makes the list. Goomy in spirit also.
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#3 - GRIMER AND MUK
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“Muk's colouration becomes increasingly vivid the more it feasts on its favourite dish - trash.” (Alolan Muk)
Yes, all four versions of this line’s species are making the list. Grimer and Muk are Poison-type Pokémon from Kanto with regional counterparts in Alola that gain the Dark-type and again, what did I say about slime? I love how you can find Grimer in the ponds of Celadon City because it’s so polluted and whilst I doubt they’re making a statement with any of this and more just an observation, it’s really interesting to see something so inhuman as a formless blob of slime as a way of representing the very human act and consequence of pollution, and I love how Grimer is just a silly little nuisance but once it evolves, it essentially just gets bigger and meaner instead of any meaningful developments. Muk is a downright villainous blob of slime, and his Alolan form makes him an even more charming antagonist with the genius idea of colouring him like graffiti. It’s almost like a tie-dye blob of toxic goop, I love it. I had a Muk when I played Ultra Moon and even though it was disgusting, rubbing that little vile sludge with my 3DS stylus always felt so satisfying. That… that’s gross, cactus, let’s move onto the next one.
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#2 - PORYGON-Z
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“Some say an additional program made this Pokémon evolve, but even academics can't agree on whether Porygon-Z is really an evolution.”
This is basically a spot that represents the entire Porygon line but Porygon-Z is ultimately my favourite due to its design. I find it fascinating that this artificial, obscure Pokémon - a Normal-type from Kanto that got evolutions in Johto and Sinnoh - keeps popping up and having upgrades, or malfunctions, but is basically banished in both the regions it appears in, where it is incredibly rare or relegated to trading or… gambling, and real life due to the “Cyber Soldier Porygon” controversy. You have a line that could hypothetically be fully-evolved at level one but it’s also unwise to really call Porygon-Z a final evolution: it’s actually just a broken Porygon2, which in itself is an almost cynical attempt to recreate the blocky cyber duck in a sleeker, Y2K form. It doesn’t know or comprehend love in the same way that damn near every other Pokémon can: it almost feels wrong to have it outside of a PC box. Those making the anime seem to want to avoid it like the plague despite the fact that it was really Pikachu who caused the flashing lights and really, the episode had a positive impact on epileptic seizure prevention in exported anime anyway. By all means, Porygon is a bit of an unsung hero, with the blame deflected onto it because it was a scapegoat, and its “evolutions” are barely different in size or stats, they evolve not through experience but through humans trading it with other humans, to the point where both of its evolutions actually weigh less than the original. It’s fascinating to me that this unnatural and unloved Pokémon seems to carry the same reputation in the real world as it does in the games. Why do I like Porygon-Z the most? Well, it’s from my favourite generation, I had one in Pearl, and it has some of the saddest entries in the entire Pokédex, constantly referring it to it being an unstable, out-casted failure. There are very few Pokémon, if any others, that are created purely to be as charmless as this one. Except maybe…
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#1
I never used this Pokémon for more than 10 minutes - I caught one on a whim when playing White, briefly evolved it much later. I don’t own any merchandise about it, I don’t really care for its pre-evolution, I haven’t seen an episode of the anime with it in. So why is it my favourite Pokémon? …I genuinely don’t know.
#1 - GARBODOR
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“For a time, their numbers increased explosively in Alola. Since the arrival of Grimer, their population has decreased dramatically.”
When there’s thousands of these little things to choose from, I think my mind immediately wants to go to the obscure, rejected and unloved, but I can’t say that really applies fully to the Unova Poison-type Garbodor. There’s plenty of Trubbish merch I’ve seen around, nearly every Gen V Pokémon got some love at least briefly in the anime, manga and events because of how they basically did a summary execution of everything that wasn’t Unova for a while, and it even got a Gigantamax form in that game no-one likes. For a couple of years now, it’s been my favourite Pokémon, it’s been my profile picture on several websites, it’s what I have identified myself with. It’s not as classic as Grimer and Muk, which it was unfairly and pejoratively compared to back in 2010. It’s not the Pokémon I have the most nostalgia for - that’s probably Cyndaquil or really, Pikachu - it’s not my favourite design, that’s far-and-beyond Porygon-Z. It’s the sworn enemy of my #3 pick according to Alolan Pokédex entries. Sadly, I can’t really put it into words other than… there’s just something about Garbodor. The pink and blue remnants of plastic in its otherwise indistinguishable splodge of brown, the ripped-up bin bag masquerading as a face that makes it look like it wants to be freed from prison, cardboard keeping its arms together, floofs of garbage that acts as impromptu ears, all a product of its surroundings. I guess, at my worst, I feel like Garbodor? I don’t know if I want to treat it that personally. I love the design, Trubbish is cute enough, and I think its entries make it fit well within the lore of its region. It’s deathly, but it doesn’t look like it wants to be. I don’t know, maybe above all, it’s just… consistent? Porygon-Z should probably be here but I’ve drawn too many MS Paint sketches of Garbodor, saved too many anime images of it making a funny face, just thought about it too much, for me not to put Garbodor at #1. The Unova games aren’t even my favourite generation, Poison - despite it appearing thrice on this list - is not my favourite type - thinking about it, I always say it’s Ghost but it’s probably Normal. I just really like this heap of garbage. What can I say?
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Well, that was a lot of rambling about video game characters. Thanks to @sheenzys once again for the art and thank you for reading if you got this far! What are your favourite Pokémon? Don’t tell me, I don’t care. This is way too long. I’ll see you next Friday for some actual music reviewing.
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nev4chii · 2 years
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I have more Skitty art, this one is kind of old though, but I still think it looks cute heheh
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You know what? You're really cool! :D
*Shows you the Magikarp Pages*
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kingwolfie08 · 11 days
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sylbeon
i randomly decided to draw sylveon, with a somewhat different colour palette.
so here it is:
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Behold
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I drew a mudkip
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minatofalcon · 11 months
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Get over here!
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espressobean · 3 months
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My choices are the objectively correct ones.
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xen-void · 1 year
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time to give Mudpie a bath
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spazztasticstiles · 7 months
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Guys...... I made a thing and felt like I should share.
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karmatheanimator · 1 year
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A wip
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luchavee · 1 year
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Happy International Eevee Day!
They deserve all that love, all of it for the best pokemon ever! 🔪 🔪
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