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HOLY MOLY
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>>57244346
magnum opus strikes again
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>>57244346
OMG
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>>57244346
WHAT
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>>57244353
Regieleki is the golden armor and Regidrago the black marks

Grass bros it's our turn
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SkunTANK
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Roserade has thorn vines
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Latias human form
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>>57244346
why orange and not grey since the other 2 colour come from their skin
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Did you know that pika means electric and chu is the sound mice make in japanese
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>>57244411
its not an "A" its the greek letter alpha "α"
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>>57244378
More like riot control, but instead of water loaded with pepper spray
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>>57244418
what Pi, Rai and Goro mean then?
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>>57244387
I don't want to sound paranoid, but anyone could be a Pokemon, don't trust anyone.
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BIRD
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>>57244437
Now you remember that South Poke-America is canon
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>>57244434
I think the ditto one feels the best
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>>57244451
looks like Paldea
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kitty
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>>57244434
>no black panty
>no thong
>no band aid panty
>no comando
gay artist
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>>57244428
Rai means thunder (Raijin, Raikou, Raiden).
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>>57244466
It is a combination of Argentina (The Town on no map, Apricorn Forest), Chile (Misterious mountain, Jessie's mother died here), Peru (Underground Lake, Ancient ruins), Costa Rica (Mistery zone), and southern Mexico (Undersearuins), while Brazil and Guyana are portrayed as a gigantic jungle.
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>>57244551
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>>57244584
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>>57244364
this is cool, although i still feel like tinkatink could've been axed from the line
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>>57244600
I forgot to mention Split Earth, which represents the Colca Canyon in Peru, it is full of fossils and to the north are the Nazca lines.
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>>57244418
>>57244428
>>57244515
Chu comes from チューチュー (chūchū), the onomatopoeia for the squeaking of a mouse.
Rai comes from 雷 (read as kaminari by itself and rai when part of other words). It translates to thunder, same as the move name, but thunder is the sound caused by lightning so it implies the presence of lightning.
Pika comes from ピカピカ (pikapika) which is the onomatopoeia for twinkling.
Goro comes from ゴロゴロ (gorogoro), which is a heavy rumbling sound like from thunder clouds.

Also in Japan, there's a set of three Sanrio characters known as Goropikadon (ゴロピカドン). They're three little oni named Goro, Pika, and Don from the Land of Thunder, and this is back when the oni style involved wearing yellow furs with black stripes, which is part of the design inspiration for Electabuzz. You can also see it in the characters of Urusei Yatsura. In case you were wondering where the don comes from in this name, it's an onomatopoeia often used in Japanese to indicate heaviness, a thump, boom, or impact, and it appears in Japanese Pokémon names like Lizardon (Charizard) and Sidon (Rhydon) to denote their size and heaviness.
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>>57244569
That does not look official in any way in the slightest. Bird details are all wrong.
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>>57244618
>Goropikadon
It's just a coincidence, but they fit together like the male Kami, one controlling the thunder, another the wind, and the third as leader or guardian.
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>>57244618
>Pika comes from ピカピカ (pikapika) which is the onomatopoeia for twinkling.
It also means electric
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>>57244680
No it doesn't. In terms of etymology, it probably comes from 光 (hikari; light)
ひかり (hikari)
ぴか (pika)

They do a thing in the anime around DP where Dawn (whose Japanese name is Hikari) gets called Pikari because of how she and her hair twinkled after being zapped by Plusle and Minun when she was younger.

Words revolving around electricity tend to include 電 (でん; den), and more often then not, the onomatopoeia used for characters who have been zapped by electricity is ビリビリ (biribiri), which implies a tingling.
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>>57244749
You're wrong
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>>57244815
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ぴかぴか
https://jisho.org/word/ピカピカ
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>>57244868
Wikipedia is not a authority on Japanese language

Look man we're all autists here but give us some credit every person on the planet even villagers in brazil know that Pikachu is the Electric Mouse Pokemon unless you want to be that annoying kid in school going um aaaaaaaaactually miss mendez the sky isnt always blue it turns black at night
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>>57244346
>>57244353
>>57244364
insightful
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>>57244378
called Skuntank because the spray nozzle is shaped like a tank's cannon
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>>57244418
>>57244618
pika is an actual real life rodent
pikachu is named from that
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>>57244437
ah
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>>57244749
And by a powerful coincidence (Or Atsuko is a liar) there is a relative of the rabbit who lives in the mountains and can predict the weather with its behavior, whose call sounds like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVaR4-ML4VU
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>>57244346
Do people not know this one?
>>57244353
Coincidence.
>>57244364
Actually I didn't notice thise one. Nice.
>>57244411
Fucking obviously.
>>57244437
No.
>>57244467
The antennae looking like eyes is literally the entire point. Who doesn't know this one.
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>>57244890
Pikachu is the Mouse Pokémon (ねずみポケモン; nezumi pokemon)
https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Pokémon_category

Its name Pikachu (ピカチュウ; Pikachū) comes from ピカピカ (pikapika) + チューチュー (chūchū). Pikapika means twinkling/glittering/sparkling and is derived from hikari, meaning light. It does not mean electricity in the same way those words do not mean electricity, even if you may be able to associate those words with electricity. Everybody believing something doesn't make it so, nor does someone saying "dude trust me" make them the authority on the Japanese language. Pikapika isn't an obscure word in Japanese. Do you want a Japanese NHK dictionary link, maybe a screenshot from rikaikun or Yomichan?

>>57244934
>>57244923
Could be a factor or could be coincidence.
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>>57244437
Fucking love this

To add to the thread, Vullaby and Mandibuzz use the skull and the nandible of the same head
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>>57245042
G. Grimmsnarl
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>>57244943
>sigiph being abstract bird
>no
are you perhaps retarded?

>Coincidence
I see, you are
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>>57244437
birb
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>>57244346
The Elekid line goes from plug to socket
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Nickit's tail is a broom that sweeps away its footsteps.
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>>57244437
Was this not obvious?
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Gigantamax Eternatus is made up of the same pieces that form Eternatus
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>>57245393
incorrect
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>>57244422
that's the same letter

>>57244437
...
dear god
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>>57244467
the pokedex literally says they're eye spots.
that's why it has intimidate.

>>57244815
>>57244890
Dunning-Kruger moment.
Dude clearly knows japanese.
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>>57245182
everyone knows that
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>>57245393
you're thinking of necrozma
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>>57245478
>>57245421
no he's right. it's eternatus too, the only difference is the head frills become thick fingers. everything else just spreads out or rearranges.

kind of makes terropagos the odd one out.
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Why is this horse showing me his asshole?
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>>57245494
>>>/mlp/
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The mane around the horn is heart-shaped
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The "tie" is arms
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Mr. Mime was probably never supposed to have red circles on its cheeks and fingertips. Someone messed up down the pipeline. In reality Mr. Mime is pushing on an invisible wall in this depiction so it just looks like that
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>>57245022
Just like "everyone believing your religion doesn't make it true."
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>horizontal and vertical line representing the interwoven fabric of space-time
>diagonal lines signifying that the laws of both don't really apply to giratina
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>>57245209
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>>57245151
Yeah an abstract bird, not a literal bird. The wings aren't even on the same ring as the original. If you have to completely mutilate and rearrange a pokemon to make it look like something, then it isnt.
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>>57245494
Run, that's an attack!
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>>57245572
>>57245580
I doubt that wasn't the intention
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>>57245572
>>57245580
>>57246123
For the original 151, the sprites came first, then Suigmori came along and unified them via actual art, so anon's guess that the dots in the sprite could be pressure marks holds some weight
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>>57245022
>>57244618
>>57244749
Pikachu was originally one of these things
I think "Pikas" being an actual thing is a coincidence
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>>57244346
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>>57244934
God, animals making noises always looks so weird. Have you ever seen a crazy person or remember the special ed kids? How they just fucking make sounds for no reason. Animals always making sounds looks and sounds exactly like that.
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>>57245209
No, it’s a campfire. It’s more obvious in game
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>>57245572
Just to add to that, the original Primeape sprite, portrays it as a literal explosion, with bits flying around. But then, when the art was done, it portrayed it with just spikey fur. The same goes foelr Graveler and Golem. Thwir original sprites portray them with just four arms each, two of which Golem uses to stand on, no legs at all. But then, Sugimori gave Graveler an extra st of legs and maflde Golem's second pair of arms legs as well. Hence the limb discrepancy in the line.
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>>57246652
>Their original sprites portray them with just four arms each, two of which Golem uses to stand on, no legs at all. But then, Sugimori gave Graveler an extra set of legs and made Golem's second pair of arms legs as well.
What the fuck? Fuck you, Sugimori. No wonder shit made no sense.
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>>57244618
Same for Groudon, the former heaviest Pokemon.
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>>57245209
>>57246563
you're both retarded
it's a loot bag
the fucking thing is a thief
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>>57246652
Huh, so that's why Golem lost a toe between generations.
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>>57244943
Alright smartass
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These threads are always cool until some autist comes in and starts crying about how their headcanon is better than some other headcanon.
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These threads are always cool until some autist comes in and starts crying about how these threads are always cool until some autist comes in and starts crying about how their headcanon is better than some other headcanon.
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>>57246230
Puns can be layered.
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>>57244473
I think you confused the Ditto copy with the real Hex Maniac.
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The tails of Tepig's line represent bomb detonation
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>>57246784
>Loot bag
LMAO
It's a sand pocket for storing extra pocket sand to make quick getaways and use as a weapon when full.
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>>57244346
Yeah it's called soul.
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>>57248942
gaylord
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Unironic SOVL thread.
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>>57248858
So cool
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>>57245209
why is he wearing boots on the front legs?
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>>57248858
its so ugly
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>>57244437
Ohhhhh. That's neat!
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>>57248858
ah
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>>57244353
My favorite detail is that all 4 of them are weak to fighting.
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>>57246652
Its fur still just looks spiky, but it does appear more like an explosion in the RG sprites. I'm surprised they didn't give it Explosion or Selfdestruct.



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