Gamefreak needs to give Paras a happy ending as soon as possible. I don't care if they justify it by saying the climate in the WW region makes it hard for the Paras mushroom to grow or what, but Paras need to come out healthy and happy.>inb4 "a bug/ghost evo would be cooler"
>>59088893I’m surprised it didn’t get a mega that curses it. It’s weird that they would make a KANTOOOOOOOOOO suffer like this
>>59088898>cursesI think you used the wrong word :c
>>59088893
the mushroom deserves to be happy too
>>59088893Third evolution where it reveals that the relationship between the bug and the mushroom is actually symbiotic and the mushroom only took over control because the bug was dormant in its 2nd form in order to grow stronger, and in the third form both minds co-exist .
>>59088893Bug/Ghost evolution ala Shedinja where its the spirit of the old Paras
>>59088920So every Pokedex entry saying the buge is almost dead will be wrong?
>>59088893Paras refers to the parasite, the mushroom is the pokémon, the bug is just a victim. So a happy ending for Paras is achieved by evolving to Parasect.
I feel like adding a happy regional evolution or split evo will just highlight how sad the fate of the ones unlucky enough to end up as Parasect truly are. Only thing I can really see happening is something like >>59088920
>>59088917Yeah mean “cures”, though a mega would unironically probably curse it and make the mushroom part stronger since that would be more inline with the consistent philosophy of megas. Shillmons becoming shilller, goofy mons become goofier, dying mons would go even close to death .
>>59088919t.
>>59088932No, it was in thanatosis
>>59088920>Ermh aksually they were in a wholesome chungus relationship :DDD Holy reddit just make it a fucking zombie instead
Did some big Youtuber do some video on saddest Pokedex entries or something? I feel like I've been seeing a lot more justice for Paras posts
>>59088967Pokopia had some dialogue where Paras talks about how the Bulbasaur line's plant is cool and how it can't wait to see what happens with its mushrooms.
>>59088917Oh no that pic resonates with me more than I would like it to
>>59088967Have you played Pokopia? Since we can understand Pokemon speech as Ditto, Paras and Bulbasaur were having a conversation about growing up, and Paras doesn't know she's basically gonna die when she evolves. When you encounter a Parasect (Paras doesn't evolve, both of them are present at the same time), Parasect speaks in broken English because it's just the mushroom now.
>>59088920Oh yeah and the near dead state lasts decades (which is why this new evoluton had never been seen before) so you can't just catch a Parasect and evolve it, you need to either catch it already evolved or its evolution requirement is to have an origin mark of at least 3 generations ago.
>>59088967Paras thinks it's going to grow a flower like Bulbasaur, not a mind controlling mushroom that's going to eventually kill it.
>>59088979>>59088986Jesus, they're really rubbing it in here aren't they?This just seems cruel.
>>59088982Imagine the shitfit that competitive Pokemon "fans" would have over being told to play the old games
>>59088982Well it IS a cicada. Some of them take 17 years to emerge.
>>59089011Official tournaments only allow Pokemon with the origin mark of the current generation. They'd have to catch an already evolved one to use it competitively. The evolution method would just be a neat thing for lore reasons and to reward old players.
>>59089053they were already throwing a shitfit over being told to play Arceus to get some Pokemon in SV. You think they wouldn't throw a shitfit over being told to play SM to get a Pokemon in WW? These people don't want to actually play games. They just want everything to be handed to them and even when GameFreak does all they can to do that it still isn't enough and they hack anyway
>>59089062The Enamorus thing was fair, because you needed to replay the entire game from start to finish in order to reroll it. You couldn't check stats without putting it into Home.
>>59088893>>59088932You have the order of operations wrong.The mushroom takes over BECAUSE the bug is almost dead.Imagine being a weak defenseless soiboi that never hit puberty, but you have a Venom symbiote that protects you but also lives on your blood. You're Crona from Soul Eater. And once you get senescent and feeble and demented, it takes over for you entirely to keep you both alive because without it in control you're just an inert empty husk of a man that's going to starve to death.That's paras(ect). It's a cicada nymph with neotenic paedomorphism, like an axolotl.In the anime, when paras were removing their tochukaso mushrooms and planting them because the environment was too bright due to team rocket mining, that was seen as a BAD thing, harmful to the paras.
>>59089011Of course... It all makes sense... That's why they re-released FRLG...
>>59089078According to the Pokedex, the mushroom on Paras/ect is placed on their bodies from birth, and it drains the host body of nutrients no matter how much the eat, until the body eventually dies and the mushroom completely takes over. It's why Paras is so hungry...
>>59089062I don't think you understand how origin marks work.A Pokemon caught in SM is not going to be allowed in WW tournaments.
>>59089102
Stop pretending you've always loved the Paras line, it's been a shitmon since the beginning
>>59089106
>>59089111>>59089109I always liked Paras, I didn't love him until I truly understood his plight. My Paras Sitting Cutie is in the mail right now. Fuck Parasect.
>>59089102your statement does not contradict mine.
>>59089147It does though. You're making it seem like the mushroom is helping Paras. >>59089078>Imagine being a weak defenseless soiboi that never hit pubertyThis is the mushrooms fault>once you get senescent and feeble and dementedAlso the mushrooms fault>it takes over for you entirely to keep you both alive because without it in control you're just an inert empty husk of a man that's going to starve to deathThis is ALL the mushrooms fault.
>>59089109>implying people can't like shitmonsNot everyone is a compfag
>Ghost/GrassMushroom takes over Parasect's body fully; it's now a dangerous husk of an insect, a zombie of sorts. Abilities could be anything from Mummy to Cursed Body to even something like Disguise or Regenerator. Could also keep Effect Spore and Dry Skin, would still be interesting.>Bug/FairyThe body manages to completely free itself from its fungal host and it becomes a supportive bulky mon with an ability like, again, Regenerator, or Poison Heal would also be quite good, or maybe Wonder Skin or Multiscale.>Bug/GrassA proper symbiosis of the two aspects of Parasect's body, where they learn to cooperate for gain. The trick here is that it gets Wonder Guard. With its typing it wouldn't even be OP.
>>59089277>You're making it seem like the mushroom is helping Paras.It is, at least the same way that the mob does indeed provide protection from horrible nogoodniks while extorting you for the protection money. It's still parasitic, the mutualism is lopsided. But better an oppressive leeching than die young to random violence.>>59089277>This is the mushrooms faultNo. It's just a cicada nymph. Ground-dwelling beetles, nearly all omnivorous burrowing mammals, spiders, an entire dedicated species of parasitic wasps, birds, amphibians, copperhead snakes, EVERYTHING eats them. It is totally defenseless prey without the poison spores of the mushroom.>Also the mushrooms faultThe mushroom does not make you age fambino.
>>59088893Parasect should be grass/ghost not bug/ghost, and I agree that there should be a separate evolution line where Paras overcomes the fungus or something. It could even have multiples lines such as1. The OG2. Defeats the fungus3. Co-exists with the fungus
>>59089007There's no way they subject a brand new generation of kids to this shit and don't add a new evolution in Gen 10... right?
>>59088959This is a children's game. A wholesome chungus moment is appropriate
>>59089104YOU don't understand how tournaments work
>>59088893>acshually paras is just a dying insect and the mushroom takes overwhere does this insane shit come from and is it from an official source
>>59089306>Ghost/GrassNo need to prolong the original evolution chain imo. It's fine where it is.>Bug/FairyWhy would it get fairy?>Wonder GuardAbsolutely the fuck not... Shedinja is only balanced with Wonder Guard because every form of chip damage kills it.
Paras DESERVES to SUFFER
>>59089399It's literally based on Cordyceps
>>59089399This has been the lore from the beginning. It's literally in the Pokdex. The mistake that some people make is that the cicada is "dead". It's not dead, because that's not how the real life fungus (Ophiocordyceps unilateralis) works. The body is alive, but it's brain is controlled by the fungus.From the Ultra Sun Pokedex entry: "The bug is mostly dead, with the mushroom on its back having become the main body. If the mushroom comes off, the bug stops moving."
>>59089416keked at it's only "mostly dead"this kids game is dark as shit sometimes
Parasect is a top five favorite for me, but a lot of that appeal is specifically because it's a zombie cicada controlled by a fungus. That's literally sick as fuck. In nature some animals literally do evolve such effective ways to exploit other animals that it becomes nothing but a cycle of abuse, pokemon doesn't lean into the darker aspects of nature outside of dex entries so it's cool to see it in a real pokemon.
>>59089418The ant is fully conscious during the take over, but has no control over its body and moves without understanding why.
>>59089422I love how the eyes go white. Second favorite bug type. My first is Shedinja. The souless husk of a cicada clinging to life is a fantastic concept
>>59089416Jeez, so it's not new info, why did it pop up now?Also this is on the level of that dollmon that is actually a child spirit, or the balloon that kidnaps kids
>>59089448People are talking about it more now because the Paras dialogue from Pokeopia made them sad. See >>59088979 and >>59088986
>>59089382Bold of you to assume the Pokemon Company cares about fan sentiment.
>>59089068It was Ursaluna that was the actual issue. 'Least that's what one the hacknigs got kicked out for and not Enamourus.
>>59089422>pokemon doesn't lean into the darker aspects of nature outside of dex entriessometimes they'll reference the dex entries in gameplay aspects. mainly predation.
>>59089448You sound kind of new to pokemon anon. I hope this place doesn't end up ruining it for you.
>>59089546HAPPY END FUCK THE SHROOM
>>59089078>>59089358Bottom line, mushroom is bad. 1/3.
>>590895912/3
When pokopia released and people started talking about this, i though i remembered that paras did have an evolution line that didnt involve the fungus taking over.I was misremembering and confusing it with oddishThey should do this with paras tbhdesu
>>59089593Lampent is visiting Parasect because he smells like death. 3/3
>>59088979Damn this is like children with cancer tier shit but it literally is that
>>59089606Does Paras and Parasect have any conversations together?
>>59089546glowpoke line is awesome and would work fine with regular paras as well
>>59089606Is Pokeopia actually fun? I've never had much interest in these Animal Crossing-esque games, but people act like this is the best Pokemon game in a decade
>>59089541Wait till anon reads the mega evolution pokedex entries and learns that half the megas are in excruciating pain.
>>59089591>>59089593>>59089606mushroom necessary evil.Again, it may be shortening its theoretical lifespan, but it's extending its actual life expectancy because it's not living as a bubble boy. A paras without its mushrooms will live a very healthy, very spry life for those 36 hours before something is digesting it.Though probably depressed because it will be a pokemon largely incapable of battle during that short time, and pokemon love growth through battle.Like the ultimate problem is just that paras is thoroughly fucked regardless. it cannot live a happy life by nature of being a paras. the mushroom is just a tradeoff that fixes most of its more basic immediately pressing problems but gives it whole new slew of slow burn ones.
>>59088979>>59088986>>59089619
>>59089659If you liked Minecraft but want more story, you’ll like it. 100% it’s one of those games where you can look at everything it offers and say ah not for me and be correct. It’s just a really good version of those games.
>>59089661Or randomly becomes evil.
>>59089659> I've never had much interest in these Animal Crossing-esque games, It might not be for you then. However it has more focus then others in genre since there’s specific things you need to to make to attract specific pokemon, there’s a bit of an overarching story, and pokopia seems to respect player time in that in has some QOL things not in others animal crossing like game. >but people act like this is the best Pokemon game in a decadeThat’s more because most Pokemon games in the past decade have been insultingly bad. But it’s the characterizations of the Pokémon that are capturing people, the pokopia peope respects Pokemon far more than the main series people have written, which is weird because game freak of all people were responsible for the writing
>>59088920I'm almost certain they'll do something like this with a possible mega/evolution. They'll make it Bug/Psychic and give it mind powers. They're still scared of making a fast Spore user so it'll be slow and tanky. Possibly a special attacker.
>>59088917this pic is kino on so many levels
>>59089707Please don't be a mega. Just give it a normal evolution
Paras is a predator, learn leech life to imply it drinks fluids from prey, think it's only natural it becomes prey itself.
>>59089792the mushrooms made him do it
>>59089792Poor ditto :(
>>59088893LAWL
>>59088893>Parasect wanted to be like Ivysaur instead of a zombie This is heartbreaking :(
>>59089977>>Parasect wanted to be like IvysaurBetter to die yourself than live a slut
>>59088893Yeah god forbid this "product franchise" have any semblance of artistic integrity and liberty these days
>>59090018>slutUmm Ivysaur is a trad God-fearing girl
>>59089707You called?
>>59090071
>mushroomfags in vpkill yourself, fungi
>>59088979>Have you played Pokopia? Nope, still waiting for the ROM image to get dumped on EmuParadise. Imagine still paying for Nintendo games in 2020+6
>>59089384Same children game with a ginger hitler who wants to genocide poke france
>>59089707It has to remain Bug/Grass if it's going to be symbiotic.
>>59088893>>59088920>>59088893It could be based on those crabs that let sea anemones attach to themselves to ward-off predators.
Crossgen evos are dead. Bury it.
Maybe we're all just cynical adults and that's why the Pokopia dialogue is so sad? Maybe it's intended to be hopeful and the eventual evolution really ought to be treated like a good thing because it does become stronger? Children wouldn't see a tragic side to it.
>>59090945>Crossgen evos are dead.we literally had some in gen 9... the most recent gen... the current gen... retard
>>59090928Now you're thinkingThe mushrooms are symbiotic for paras so the anemones will replace that relationship, but they won't take over when it evolves and remain so
>>59090945We just got some.
>>59088893Not sure why we're at page 10, maybe someone doesn't like Paras :c
>>59091132Those are regional evos.
>>59088893It's going to get a Mega, where the Mushroom is the whole Pokemon and not a trace of Paras
>>59092534Annihilape?
>>59092534Farigiraf? Dudunsparce? Arch?
>>59088893give it an alternate line if you hatch a paras while a foongus is in your party
>actually evil all alongThis episode is to blame for people figuring out only now that evolving a paras is this fucked up.Our heroes happily said their goodbyes not knowing they helped this nice girl they just met kill her own pet just for her traditional chinese medicine.Just like that thousands of kids were fooled. So many dead paras...
>>59088893You misunderstood. Paras is the mushrooms the bug is just an unintelligent creature. You only care about the bug because it looks the closest to an animal but the mushroom is the only one that can understand you and give you love.
>>59088979That's the mushroom speaking through the bug. It doesn't know it's actually a fungi yet.
>>59088943Also Parasect has only slightly more BST than lvl10 regional bugs like Beedrill.The line needs a third stage, not another 405 BST branch
>>59092552>>59092558Yes, paldea-exclusive evos.
It's funny because legends arceus made everyone absolutely hate this guy because they were such aggressive little cuntsAnd now everyone wants to protect his smile
https://youtu.be/J2MF6t_N8vo?feature=shared
>>59093210Paras is just a cute little mushroom pokemon while the bug is a braindead insect that Venomoth eats once in a while.
>>59088893I hope WiWa gives Paras a pure Bug evo where it destroys the mushrooms before it gets overtaken. Then it's basically just a bigger Paras. Alternatively they could make it part Psychic or Fairy and say the mushrooms grew due to the magical energy that Paras has or something.
You could argue the cut baby form is the result of laying the eggs in mushrooms that provide protection and food until it evolves.
Me on the left.
>>59093234Even though Annihilape appears in ZA?
>>59093344Wind Waker?
>>59093234
>>59089661>megas are in excruciating pain.Literal a plot axis in legends z-a, the flipside is this NOT occur when the mega is activated with a keystone
>>59089546This has more SOVL than anything Nintendo has shat out in the past 10 years. Its fucking awful we'llnever get thi on the grounds they can't do anything that could be tangantially related to fan design.THIS is why Nintendo is MASSIVELY floundering on all fronts. If I had an executive role at Nintendo, I would be having a team going around the inernet scouting for good ideas and talents and RECRUIT/PURCHASE fan content and design on the grounds that my current employees working on Pokemon are completely washed fuck-ups.ROMhack makers? More like recruitment pool!
>>59093546If TPC actually did this, this board would have multiple threads talking about how derivative it is and how Pokemon has no new ideas.You people are unpleasable
>nothing about Parasect indicates it would be grass type>Mushroom itself constitutes the grass typingSo it the mushroom it's own separate pokemon that's entire line just parasitizes the Paras line? It has it's own typing.
>>59093484Winds and WavesWW is the official and most common abbreviation for Wind Waker
>>59093670Pokémon uses an old system that included mushrooms as vegetables.Similar to Blastoise is the Shellfish Pokémon, because an old Chinese system that included all edible marine animals with shells, including turtles, crustaceans, bivalves, and snails.The old term Nezumi also included all small, furry animals, mixing rats, mice, muskrats, gophers, moles, and shrews.
>>59093670same for bulbasaur
>>59088893Not like this..
>>59092701That’s a good episode but it did kind of gloss over how Paras becomes zombified after evolving into Parasect.https://youtu.be/aWrNkZFvI2E
>>59088893>let's remove the entire concept behind the pokemon because it makes me feel sadThe thing that makes paras cool is the mushroom zombie husk. Abandoning that for a momentary feelsgood moment before you forget about it entirely is the opinion of a selfish toddler. The tragedy and harsh reality of nature is the entire point.
>>59093904No one is getting rid of anything. People just want another branching evolution line.
>>59090825Reminder that in-game your Parasect loves you as much as it did before it evolved, so there's no reason to assume the mushroom doesn't consider Paras's friends its friends as well.
>>59088917>Evolves into philosophical zombieBleak
>>59089676In Pokémon games I always breed as many Paras eggs as possible. I like to pretend I'm those Toadline Pitbull breeders who bring violent and hideously deformed suffering abominations into existence for the amusement of humans.
>>59093377You mean lays the eggs on a bug.
>>59093904No one's demanding Parasect be removed or have its whole point be nullified, they just want a regional variant or a split evolution that explores other possibilities for Paras.
>>59094287It'd be cool if the Parasect had at least 10 to 25% of the consciousness-time.
>>59088979>>59088986yet another reason why Pokopia is a horror game
>>59089306>Bug/Grass>A proper symbiosis of the two aspects of Parasect's body, where they learn to cooperate for gain. The trick here is that it gets Wonder Guard. With its typing it wouldn't even be OP.I don't think that Game Freak wants to give Wonder Guard to anything with more than 1HP.Maybe it could have a spin-off ability of Wonder Guard, like "Wonder Spore" or something, making it resist every move that's not super-effective against it. Like an inverse Technician ability. And that way it could still have normal HP and defenses.
>>59088893No they don'tI continue to beg gamefreak to not touch pokemon I like with the shit artists they have today
>>59094323>It'd be cool if the Parasect had at least 10 to 25% of the consciousness-time.The Mushroom lets Parasect resume control briefly whenever its hit by a fire attack.
I hope you guys are ready for it to get the dumbest name you've ever heard in your life like "Symbioshroom" or something
>>59088979>>59088986YAMEROOOOO
>>59093478Z-A is a spinoff so it doesn't follow the same rules.>>59093493Not relevant considering it's a regional form and slowbro/king are its normal evolutions.
>>59093644>Oh yeah you think that's a good idea?>Well Injust imagined you getting that and actually hating it and complaining about it instead. How about that?
>>59090928save that for the ecologically similar Pokemon, Searas & Searasect.
>>59090945Well they're back somehow.
>>59094449kek
>>59094546Z-A follows all the same evolution rules as a regular Pokemon game.
>>59093484nobody says WiWa when talking about Wind Walker
>>59093670Considering how much the dex likes to talk about how fucking dead Parasect is you'd think it'd be Bug/Ghost.
>>59094584It doesn't have to care about whether an evolution line makes sense to be available, just like how it includes mons in its dex that aren't from kalos, like gen 7/8/9 mons.
>>59094594It would be Grass/Ghost, not Bug/Ghost.
>>59094596BW2 included Pokemon that weren't originally from Unova. Things change over time.
>>59094599If you count fungus as a Grass, sure.
>>59094607>Shroomish: Grass.>Foongus: Grass/Poison>Morelull: Grass/Fairy>Toedscool: Ground/Grass>Brute Bonnet: Grass/DarkGame Freak sure do.
>>59094607That's how gamefreak decides it yeah
>>59093904The thing about a Ghost/Grass Parasect evolution is that everyone can see it coming from a mile away, so I feel like they might deliberately do something different just to mess with people, similar to how they made a Dunsparce evolution that wasn't a cool Normal/Dragon type like everyone was hoping for.
>>59093904Ah, yes, the selfishness of not wanting to see your pet bug having its body hijacked by a parasitic mushroom.>Paras is the mushroom!Sure, but everyone and their mothers consider the bug to be the pet, and I say it as someone who likes mushrooms, the Shiinotic even being one of my favorites.
>>59088920no i don't want a retcon that further neuters all the cool monster designs from older gens.i want a regional evolution, perhaps by trading paras while holding an item only found in this region that eliminates the infection
>>59089792what are these from
if arceus is real why would he let this happen?
>>59094868it would just be a fat-ass overgrown nincada then.
>>59095222God forbid mons being similar to one another! I hate autists like you that thinks it's bad when more than one mon fills a particular niche. We should have choices for particular animals and design styles...
>>59094907To teach Paras to be humble
>>59094907The mushroom prayed to be able to walk and talk, and the bug wished it had no responsibilities. He was just killing two birds with one stone.
>>59088893bug/ghost evo the mushroom won.Bug/fairy evo paras won.
>>59088893>be trainer visiting from Kanto>have a Parasect I love and raised from Paras>see regional Parasect>no mushroom>no white eyes>they look at my Parasect in horror and won't interact with it>my Parasect starts spazzing out cause the mushroom can't thrive in this environment>realize I killed my ParasCan you imagine the horror it'd be to see that Parasect got a regional?
>>59094878Bandai Carddass Pokémon cards, it was a card series that displayed the official art of a pokemon but also featured unique art never used elsewhere depicting pokemon using a move tbey learn. As far as I know these were done by Sugimori.
>>59096145
>>59096194That nidorina isn't the smartest
>>59095698it would be ghost/grass though
>>59096429They should subvert everyone's expectations by making it yet another gen 1 grass/poison as the shroom sheds the last bits of bug
>>59094607>>59094617Grass/Ghost it is. even if it annoys me
>>59096556kek, it's kino
>>59095755Evolutionary lines that entail the death of the original Pokemon are interesting though.
>>59097024Annihilape is funny/interesting because it's a callback to a previous Pokédex entry but otherwise comes out of nowhere. Paras' line being just its slow death feels too mean-spirited.
>>59096429>>59097024They should just make a grass/ghost third stage that's just like "the spirit of the original paras has possessed it's former body taken over by the mushroom."The easiest way to describe it would be if you died to a zombie bite, and then your ghost possessed your shambling corpse.
>>59097054It's funny that a regional form or cross gen evo being a reference to a pokedex entry involving the mon fucking dying has happened twice, with Annihilape and Cursola
seen a variety of ideas for what the type of a theoretical split evo would be>pure bug, bug/flying, or bug/normal to represent it being uninfected and what it'd naturally evolve into (bonus points for bug/normal not being a typing that exists yet)>bug/steel to represent paras' shell becoming immune to fungal infection>bug/poison or bug/fire to represent paras destroying the mushroom through different means>bug/fighting or bug/psychic to represent paras' willpower to resist the mushroom taking over>bug/ground because of the nincada connection theory>bug/ghost because it dies
>>59097331Basculin too, but really adding a ghost typing to a mon is the easiest thing when designing new forms/evolutions. Doesn't even need to die, just lose something. Watch:Sunflora? A regional that from a northern region that gets very little sunlight a day grass/ghostDurant? Same as paras with a mushroom infection, that where the infection is known from after allFalinks? All but one soldier dies in battle leaving the remaining survivor as fighting/ghostDelibird? Krampus evoLuvdisc? Broken heart themeDruddigon? Scary gargoyle evo that only happens at nightSee, easy.
>>59097348Maybe I'm alone in this but I actually don't want to see the mushroom die, it's just as much a pokemon as the cicada is, not having eyes and a smiley face doesn't change that.
>>59088919nah, kys.
>>59097348
>Mushroom wins>Absorbs Paras's spirit and becomes Ghost/Grass>Spirit possesses the mushroom>By fully succumbing to the infestation, Paras ironically gains full control of itself for the first time since it was born>Uses its newfound power to...spitefully spread the mushroom's sporesAbility would basically be a passive combined Worry Seed/Trick or Treat
>>59097348How about Bug/Fighting? Because it fought off the mushroom!
>>59097410>not having eyes and a smiley face doesn't change that.How am I supposed to know that you're a friend if you don't have eyes or a smiley face? How can I trust anything that can't go :3?
>>59097369>Falinks? All but one soldier dies in battle leaving the remaining survivor as fighting/ghostThis would be awesome especially if falinks got a prevo that was a single falink (???) so it would be a mono-stage baby, get a group of friends, then they all die and it grows up to be a warrior on its own. It would be what the kids call "absolute cinema".
>>59098073You can check Parasect's happiness and see he still loves you :)
>>59098075Paras is gone. I am what remains.
>>59098201Fucking creepy, but awesome.
>>59097348>overcoming parasites infesting your entire organism through sheer willHoly capeshit
>>59098260I buy it a bit, like the way a hypochondriac can make themselves sick, you could force your immune system to wake the FUCK UP and react to the invading fungus, but with DETERMINATION instead of paranoia
>>59098280The other problem is that paras doesn't even know what's happening to it, it thinks it's living normally so there's nothing to really fight back against in the first place, unless the argument is that its own body is doing the fighting without paras even being aware of any such thing happening
Paras, who doesn't understand what's happening to it.
It's time, to post this video:https://youtu.be/aWrNkZFvI2E?feature=shared>>59098321I mean, our immune system is always fighting off stuff without our knowing.
>>59098321could easily be that it was made aware...
>>59098201This is slick
>>59098260This is literally how some people get better
>>59097410What if Parasect got a Nincada-style split evo?When Parasect evolves it become Survisect, a Parasect that survived and expelled the mushroom.If you have an open slot in your party and an extra ball you also get Parashroom, an expelled mushroom that absorbed enough nutrients to survive on its own.
>>59098321Its trainer could never educate or prevent it otherwise, definitely the paras’s only choice is to die.
>>59098647Oh wow I wasn't expecting them to just end it like that. Not even a bittersweet ending. Good stuff.
>>59088979>>59088986It's not like the parasitic mushroom isn't sentient.Like it can still talk to ditto, it has it's own wants and needs, it can make friends. That mushroom is as sentient as any Pokemon
>>59099429That's an awesome way of doing it too honestly. Make them complimentary types like Grass/Dark and Bug/Fairy or something and give one of them a doubles ability like tatsugiri has.
>>59088893I'd love to see an unfucked regional variant of Paras.
>>59093872I love how Pokopia isn't shy about how fucked up Paras evolving is.
>>59088920>The bug is mostly dead, with the mushroom on its back having become the main body. If the mushroom comes off, the bug stops moving.
>>59088893What Gamefreak needs to do is give him a Grass/Ghost evolution where is revealed the mushroom finally took over. But the soul of Paras hasn't left. He has clinged on life, and now he is sort of a fungal puppet. The spores will spread, but the soul of Paras remains, so it becomes in a "frog and scorpion" scenario. He tried to return to his colony, infected the larvae, and ran away. When asked about it, he just says "I can't help it, is my nature now". But the dex must say that, even when he is just a husk of what he was, he appreciates those who still get close to him, trying to keep their friendship.
>Bug is mostly dead>Mushroom spores are used as medicine>Medicinal value of spores depends on the surrounding environment>In a new region, the Mushroom accidentally develops spores potent enough to heal the bug back to full health
>>59088979kinda surprised at some of the pokedex lore stuff that made it into the game. like how cubone keeps talking about its dead mom or implying that drifloon stole away kids.
>>59098647>trying to give her friends berries without realizing that they're already zombies >she died alone and likely not even aware that she was dying or alone >life moves on without missing a beat I'm not saying mass shooters are right, but I can understand the despair of realizing that
>>59097348i like this but the face should be slightly different, maybe a little happy/cocky
is the mushroom tasty though?
>>59098260pokemons been capeshit since gen 2
>>59101655It sells relatively well. The big ones at least.
I had an idea where Paras goes to the desert and the mushroom dries up. Its evolution would be known for eating the dried mushroom on its back when it's bored. I started to draw it out but it didn't look that great and threw it.
>>59101555The mushroom is sentient too. This is the Pokemon world. They can talk to ditto just fine, they’d probably hit it off with a Shinotic
>>59101777(me)It's Bug/Ground btw
>>59101784>they’d probably hit it off with a ShinoticThey actually canonically battle over territory. It says so in one of Shinotic's dex entries.
>>59097024 The weird thing about this is there was a fake leak about primate getting a ghost evolution, but it was totally the opposite thematically and was at peace after dying
>>59089109I like a lot of usually considered niche Kanto lines, Paras and Venonat, Tentacool, Shellder, Slowpoke, Oddish, Omanyte, Kabuto, Porygon, Meowth, Doduo etcThey are nice and cute or evolve into cool mons, not everyone can be lame tier like Goldeen's line.Couldn't say the same for most of the gens from gen 4-5 onward.
I found this old site on google like a decade ago while searching for Parasect fans. We have one soldier. https://www.ashido.com/nplu/parasect.htmlWhoever they are, they love Parasect
>>59101777trips means you have to post the drawing
>>59101806Holy shit, Plants vs. Zombies>>59101784I mean, yeah, if a magic demon raccoon or something took over your body and continued communicating with the people in your life, it being sentient wouldn't really change the fact that it killed you and basically took over everything you were while the world just goes on
>>59101925Just pointing out a lot of the discourse on this does kind of ignore the fact the mushroom entity is a fully sentient and sapient creature itself. It can talk as well as Beldum and Porygon, a bit robotic and cold, but it still has wants and needs and likes and dislikes
This thread gives me a new appreciation for Paras and Parasect even if I'll never use em in a playthrough.
>>59101874Unfortunately, the original sketch was gone. But in honor of the trip, I did a quick sketch of what I was thinking. The idea around Parasect's new form is that it's a desert traversing bug, so it should be fairly aerodynamic.
>>59101869>https://www.ashido.com/nplu/parasect.htmlBased early internet.
https://youtu.be/aWrNkZFvI2E?feature=shared
>>59101985i like it, the shades-for-eyes is clever for a desert dweller
>>59101985Cool guy, I like the design. Makes the line feel kind of like, starry-eyed sick kid overcomes his illness and becomes a badass biker type guy.
>>59102229Thank you :)>>59102306This is so cool! You nailed the swiftness of this dude. I actually intended the five dots to be spikes, as if it were digging through the sand, but the dot/holes give off a biker vibe. Thank you so much!I just remembered why I made this guy up>I wanted more Bug/Ground Pokémon>but more importantly, I named it Saharasect.
>>59101869>>59102020>April 1998>this guy was making Parasect tribute pages online before I was even 2 years oldI can't believe this guy is probably 50 by now.
>>59102494Zarla sounds like a girls name, but it’s hard to say way back then
Saharasect>National No. +1000>Type: Bug/Ground>Species: Dried Mushroom Pokémon>0.6 m (2'0")>4 kg (9 lbs)>Abilities: Sand Veil, Dry Skin, Compound Eyes (hidden ability)>Base Stats: HP - 60, Atk - 90, Def - 50, Sp.Atk - 40, Sp.Def - 80, Spd - 80>Pokédex Entry: Often found riding the dunes, this Pokémon relieves itself by snacking on the dried mushrooms on its back. These dried mushrooms are a favorite in high cuisine.
consider: parasect but the host and parasite roles are reversed
>>59102541Jesus Christ how horrifying
>>59102541>me trying to be the fungi at the party
>>59088919t. parasite
Justice for my bro. Fuck mushrooms and fuck cordyceps
>>59101985>parasect vs COOL parasect
this thread has convinced me that paras and parasect are some of the coolest mons with the most potential and I'm mad gamefreak will never touch them or do any of this
>Pieros>Pierrotsect>Clown Mite PokémonThe fungi has grown on it's stomach instead of it's back, and it now uses the oddly shaped fungus' tip to rapidly rotate like a spinning top
Just got paras in Pokopia and got.its dialogue with bulbasaur>gets 90 leppa berries for paras to eat
GF doesn't need to do shit on your behalf Ivytroon, unless your'e secretly part of the Saudi royal family with a billion bucks to spare in order to buy a majority stake in TPCi's public trade stocks.
>>59103285Take your meds
>W-what do you mean it’s gotten bigger? I’ve just been extra hungry lately, I’m a growing girl after all!
>>59102541cute, I like it.
>>59103270The mushroom is grateful to you for helping to sustain its host.
its weird as fuck to me how people just eat the mushrooms and use them for cooking and stuff guess bugs are just like that
>>59103604cant tell if this is AI or just naturally dogshit
>>59103604Don't fall for temptation, is the mushroom seeking another host.
>parasects regional variant is where it infects a krabby instead >the uninfected bug from kanto paras line is now fishable and now has a symbiotic relationship with anemones
>>59096194>Pin Missle>Growl>Bite>Roar>Leer? >I have no fucking clue>Horn Drill>DoubleSlap>Metronome
>>591043826 is leer, the middle one is just not doing anything
>>59088917he's just like me frfr
>>59104322Too kino for pokemon. Especially if it's a regional Mareanie that makes up the symbiosis.
>>59088893I like the idea of evolutions that would be possible when trained but not in the wild, give Parasect a new evolution that only happens because of proper treatment causing the mushroom to be symbiotic rather than parasitic, an evolution between a Zangoose / Seviper offspring because they need to be selectively bred, a male Salazzle because the trainer themselves allows them proper nourishment to evolve, stuff like that
>>59088893>>59089277>>59090825>>59088979>Pokopia turned Bulbasaur into a gyaru and also the dream goal of Parassomeone in the staff must really love Bulbasaur
>>59089606I don't think he LITERALLY smells like death(dried out bug husks don't), but Lampent is using 'smell' as a euphemism for his weird soul sensing abilities because he waits for people to die to use their souls as fuel. A non-soul eater wouldn't smell anything weird. Lampent is just mad someone got to Paras before him
>>59102513(me)>Pokédex Entry: A surprisingly social Pokémon, Saharasect will guide lost travelers and Pokémon towards safety. It also chaperones packs of Paras, teaching them how to slide down sand hills.
If you want your unfucked Paras line, perhaps a place where bugs can thrive but fungi cannot. How about the desert?
Paras line deserves pretty much every single option in this thread.>parasect evo where bug wins>parasect evo where shroom wins>parasect evo where they form symbiosis>regional form where the mushroom is shroomish/breloom>regional form where the mushroom is foongus/amoongus>regional form where the mushroom is morelull/shiinotic>regional form where the mushroom is toedscool/toedscruel>convergent/??? mon where the mushroom is parasitized by a paras variant>convergent mon where it's a crab(or paras as a regional whatever) with anenomes (mareanie or otherwise)>alternate evo for paras that doesn't have mushrooms because they're dried up>mix and match whateverWe should genuinely have ALL of these. Absolutely nobody would complain. Add 2 new regionals of paras that are version exclusives and have a new evo and make them the regional bugs of winds and waves. Do whatever!
>>59105460Parasmon
>>59105708this but unironically
>>59105731>RTS spinoff starring ParasI'd buy it.
>>59093872back mushroom titty physics.....
We can't save Paras, but we can save Corsola my savagely killing Toxapex and Mareanie.
>>59106067I wanna see this as art now: flatty bratty paras with fake mushroom titties
Blessed entire thread for the best boy.(In Finnish Paras means Best)
>>59106227Bestect
>>59103395No need to, I already trust the fungus.
>>59088893the ghost typing would only further make it all the more agonising, soul still tethered to the body
>>59097348This one is my favorite.
>>59107042Gen 2 has the best sprites.
>>59105460>>regional form where the mushroom is foongus/amoongus>level up with ancient power>Brute bonnet replaces amoongus
>>59105460>>parasect evo where shroom winsid make that a trade evo where the mushroom gains full sentience and grows legs using the crabs body as armor and hands and would replace the bug type with darki cant draw for shit so heres 3 billion hours in ms paint
>>59105460>>59107941I wonder if you could do something like karrablast and shelmet where the mushroom hops from paras to another monIf the games ever set up a trade system where you don't have to have 1:1 mons on either side you could also have a parasect split into 2 mons mid-trade where one side gets the bug and the other gets the shroom, kind of like nincada/ninjask/shedinja
Now the question I have is does the mushroom know that it's the mushroom And is the bug truly just brain dead or is it still there but the Mushroom's desires have just become the desires of the bug So although it's being controlled is not aware of that fact and just feels perfectly fineSince clearly there is enough of a brain somewhere that it can follow commands from a trainer
>>59109302paras is one of the most popular pokemon.
Niggas in Paras
>>59108437It knows it's a fungi
>>59108437Considering what Parasect says to Lampert, I'd imagine the fungi absorbed the brain, and somehow earned sentience.Nothing too bright anyway. The fungi ony leanred to control and have basic speech, but it's only purpose is to still absorb and reproduce.Reminds me of a game's final boss. Does anybody played EVO: the search for Eden? The final boss is a giant unicellular blob called Bolbox. But in the japanese version, the name is Volvox, a type of unicellular being. And all it did was eat and spread as well.That monster had intelligence and could even create more life. But all it wanted to do was reach Eden to keep absorbing everything on its path.
>Non-fungal Paras in WiWa>Fungus never made it to these remote islands>Original form absent from the game and cannot be traded in>Dex states "Due to its tendency to catch severe fungal infections, no foreign Paras are allowed to be brought into this region"
>>59088893you want a happy ending from a generation of mewtwo, ditto and hypnos?
>>59110674>hypnosWe already did.
>>59097348I hope something like this happens. Hell, just pay the artist for this design.
>>59088898Its always the case anon, also forgot the marowak of lavander tower?
>>59110780>aislop
>>59110780>aikino
>>59110780I want one now!
>>59093644You sound like the miserable bastard instead of him.
>>59110780>merges the back 2 legs>treats the pincer mouthparts as a vertical mouth>makes it drip inktreata the black/purple on the top of the mushroom as a spike on one of the two antenna/appendagesjeets still think this ISN'T complete shit
I think Paras can benefit from three branched evolutions.Paras > Parasect > ????Paras > Mushroom-free evo > ????Paras > Alternate evo > ????Or give Paras its baby form and increase Parasect's stats tremendously.
>>59088893It’s about time we sued GameFreaks for tormenting their Pokémon like this…
>>59112033>Give Paras its baby formAt that point make it a branch evo like Wurmple. One where he has the shroom, and another where he grows without it.
>>59110731The allegations remain unbeaten until the Sevii Islands files are released.
I was thinking about this. Maybe reverse it. Instead of the parasite being the mushroom, the parasite is the insect instead.
>>59102541Yeah, basically this.
>>59112391Didn't the leaks sound that Paras had a baby pre-evolution?
>>59111883Sorry to hear about your patreon.
>>59112452It was a beta, but it was dropped off. Probably because it looked the bug lived inside the shroom, so the whole "parasite mushroom" thing didn't make too much sense.
>>59112472Sorry about Sora.
>>59112508Not a good comeback.
>>59112524Then why did you respond to it?
>>59112550Also not a good comeback.
>>59112559Can you ask ChatGPT for a better response?
>>59112573Yet another bad comeback.
>>59112452Uh, yeah. That's what that guy was replying to said.
Paras is cute.
This was a good thread.
>>59112639>>59113080Based way to end it. Wholesome.
JUSTICE FOR PARAS!
