Thread 57876042

Post weird yet cool/interesting pokemon.

I would love more of these abstract looking designs

the "mineral types" really do have a bunch of these, don't they?

>>57876042 (OP)
Do these count?

I've always though the Regis until gen 8 were a good mix of cool and strange. Wish the games did more with them.

>>57878334
I love how regidrago is this floating dragon skull that opens up and just has this silly ball guy inside with the simplest regi design idk why it's so hated

>>57878355
It's hated because the "dragon" skull that makes up the crux of its design is a fucking charizard head. It's entire existence is just nonsensical kanto pandering.

>Must evolve upsidedown
>One of the few mons with Simple Beam

Finding Cryogonal art is difficult
I get it, but still

>>57880556
But why can it learn attract?

>>57876069
The weirdest looking Pokemon imo, but cool design nonetheless.

>>57876069
>>57881565
It's based on the Nazca lines

>>57876063
I'm still upset they didn't immortalize MissingNo as the 1000th Pokemon

>>57881594
should be a dark type then

>>57878334
especially the sounds the anime gave them

>>57876067
unowns are creepy alpha or otherwise

>>57876069
should have been unown related, in the same way that alomomola should have been luvdisc related.

>>57885523
It's pretty clear that they made cross evos, decided not to include old mons, and then just kept the designs and pretended they were independent.

>>57887687
I was hyped about it first but I ended up not liking it much. Not sure why.

I like how uncanny this pokemon is. It looks lifeless with it's lifeless eyes and yet, it's actually very sentient. Even it's origin is weird and mysterious. According to Juniper, it just appeared around 100 years ago, making it one of the most recent pokemon species in the series with seemly no origin.

>>57876900
Nihilego my beloved

>>57886493
imagine the amount of work that goes into maintaining that glorious mustache

Giving it Ice Face was such an odd yet fascinating decision, I wish people didn't hate it as much as they do.

>>57884163
I'm never getting over that they gave it access to Steel Wing (TM 51).

>>57888667
I feel bad for these lil' fellas. Can't be easy moving around with a giant block on its head.

>>57876067
MSM?

>>57878673
>all dragons with two backwards pointing horns are charizard

>>57888159
Come on an adventure, anon

Fossils are also pretty weird and cool. Kinda funny that most still fall under 'weird mineral type' even though the rock typing doesn't actually show up much in their designs.

Not sure if it counts, but Alolan Raichu was confirmed via the leaked design documments to be an alien mutant that was altered by toxins brought from Ultra Space and then refined into spices used for Alola's pancakes and other dishes that the Pikachu line just so happened to like eating.
Then there's the whole Puka episode from way back in the early days of the anime with a blue eyed surfer Pikachu that seemingly had precognition.
>>57890330
I absolutely love Cradily, wished it got Regenerator, sea lillies and it's relatives all have amazing regenerative abilities, so it would be a perfect fit.

>>57890313
WOULD

Love sheddy.

>>57890843
what

>>57876063
Gen 1 creepypastas really freaked me out back in the day, especially stuff relating to the Pokemon Tower and MissingNo

>>57878673
Anon, the skull is referencing this dragon in the Dragons Den, not Charizard.

>>57890330
it just now came to me that cradily probably crawls around like this.

I really like this freaky poison crystal flower.

>>57890330
I was going to post Cradily but you beat me to it, it’s my favorite fossilmon

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>>57890330
I like it

>>57891380
Shedinja is my favorite ghost and bug.

Thought this thing was stupid until I caught one on a whim during my SV playthrough. Now I love it.

>>57876063
Unironically why do people basedface over the ghost/fossil sprites?
Yes, they appear as glitchmon like the Missingno. blocks but that's only because the game calls a sprite with an index number outside the 151-monster dex.
It isn't Ike they themselves are "lost", "glitch", or "scrapped" Pokemon. It's just a generic ghost and skeletons of mons already obtainable in the game. All of which are explained and viewable to a player during normal gameplay.

BUMP!

>>57876069
blood totem my beloved

>>57896678
thanks blood totem

>>57895698
Because they inspire the imagination.

If you're a kid and you accidently run into a missingno or related glitch, that's a little weird and spooky if you don't have prior knowledge. Now imagine you run into a literal pokemon skeleton that attacks you in the wild, and nobody you know believes you or can find it in their own games. For all practical purposes you may as well have seen an actual ghost.

>>57876042 (OP)
Are starfishes allowed

>>57897151
OG weirdmon

>>57897151
Alien starfish are definitely allowed.

>pretty much just a normal Anomalocaris with cuter eyes and feathers instead of scales
>still one of the weirdest pokemon designs
The Cambrian was crazy

>>57876042 (OP)
>Ctrl+F
>no pic or mention of porygon yet
We need more cyber & virusmons

>>57897450
some animals are so weird and complex that their pokemon variants seem more normal than the real ones
Durant and Kekleon also fit this category. They do less bizzarre shit than their real world counterparts

>>57878355
I actually like it a lot, and enjoy it's "unfinished" too.

>>57878355
The design behind the original regi trio was that they were golems, and they were made of materials that could feasibly be shaped/crafted, and Regigigas was later introduced as the one who made them.
My issue with it is this: what the fuck is "dragon material"

So is Hitmonchan wearing clothes or is thst like gross skin flaps?

>>57905900
It's the kind of material used for dragon these balls on your face.

I like the future sight and mysterious personality

>>57888159
Me in the front-left.

>>57905900
It's crystalized mana

>>57905741
I agree

>>57907704
I love that in PLA this thing just shows up in a medieval Japan with no context. You're just fucking watering your crops and you see this fucking thing come out of nowhere Rayman T-pose and aggressively spasm in direct defiance of everything you understand about the universe. I would have kicked the player out of the village too if they showed up with a demonic unreality bird.

>>57909148
>medieval Japan
Late 1800's Japan, which is arguably funnier because they probably heard of a car or a camera or some other newfangled technology and then that shit shows up.

I like how Shedinja doesn't even change expressions in PMD. Only the background color changes.

>>57914630
big doggie!

I always thought Pinsir was kind of a freakazoid.

>>57876069
Sigilyph is such a bro, magic guard is busted

>>57917213
how...?

Still an absolute unit of HP since Gen I

>>57917875
Don't think about it too much.

>>57917209
First thing that came to mind

>>57918303
regirock sits inside a rock cave

>>57876042 (OP)
my favorite kind of mons

>>57919787
Regirock also sees no distinction between rock and flesh, so that doesn't really matter.

Maybe not quite a weirdmon but it certainly sticks out among Pokemon

>>57925105
Looks pretty weird to me.

>>57917427
I am baffled (not i'm not, gamefreak being retarded is the norm) that gamefreak okay'd an Ability that's at least several abilities in one with no drawbacks
>immune to burns like Water Veil
>immune to poison like Immuntiy
>no Life Orb damage but you still keep the secondary effects unlike Sheer Force
etc.
I'm one of the most pro stall/defensive strategy people on this board and is sounds ridiculous in hindsight

I fucking love weirdmons.

>>57905902
Fur?

>>57931226
this is some sick art style

>>57880465
>Must evolve upsidedown
what's this dude's deal with that anyway?

>>57938570
Its body is physically inverted compared to Inkay

>>57942031
anon that’s just a snake

>>57886493
steve harvey

>>57928847
these niggas are jolly

>>57925105
I swear Eternatus was an Ultra Beast that they didn't have room to fit.

>>57934102
It's in tcg pocket, you could probably look up the artist from there. They may have done other pokemon cards.

>>57945088
Thanks anon, had no idea

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