Thread 58135718

I feel like this "genre" of Pokémon is rarer and rarer as gens go on.
Not based on a specific animal, not based on an object, not based on a job, not based on mythology.
Ones where they're nothing but a Pokémon.

>>58135718 (OP)
Are they slugs, anthropomorphic stomachs, or just generic blobs?
Who knows!

>>58135718 (OP)
I always saw shuckle as kind of turtle-like.

>>58135818
They're stupid and ugly, and they weigh down an otherwise perfect regional dex.

>>58135718 (OP)
They’re cells, but cells of what creature?

>>58135986
speak for yourself

>>58135718 (OP)
>>58135928
it's a slime mold + a turtle. definitely pretty unique, but it does have inspiration.

>>58136038
>The Avianoid pokemon
It’s a bird

>>58135718 (OP)
>>58136046
What the fuck is wrong with this place. It's snake wine, it's the "fermentation pokemon" in japanese

Beta sprite. Snakes in a vase fermenting. It's a berry gimmick. Someone post that anime webm of it making "juice"

>>58136046
It's also inspired by snake alcohol, which is why it ferments berries into berry juice. Earlier iterations of Shuckle's design make this more obvious.
No idea why it became a bug later on.

>>58136081
I don't have this, but have the neat art it got for TCG Pocket.

>>58136081
it's all of the above. the overall silhouette is obviously based on a turtle, the concept of the Pokemon is based on fermentation/snake wine, fermentation can also be achieved via fungus hence the slime mold and the design of its body within the shell.
idk why people think Pokemon can only be based on one thing, it has multiple inspirations.

>>58135718 (OP)
It can be anything but in reality it's actually nothing

>>58136095
It's not that fucking deep you moron you're just reciting the Bulbapedia origin page. The concept was a vase it snakes but it looked too on the nose so they made it more organic/ambiguous looking. The beta makes it unquestionable, it's not like after the fact they were like "hmmmm what if we also made it a turtle and since fermentation can also be achieved via mold maybe we should make the snakes kinda like a slime mold"

>But how could we have known before the beta?
>Gen 2 Pokedex: The Berries it stores in its vase-like shell decompose and become a gooey liquid.
It's obvious for the japanese, especially since there's no moronic "mold pokemon" mistranslation muddying the idea

>>58136081
What's bizarre is that it was only rock type originally, I wonder why bug was suddenly added on to it. It's not like Johto was lacking in the type.

>>58136047
>avianoid
>oid
It explicitly is not a bird.

>>58136047
No, it's a plane

>>58136206
I guess they didn't want the vase to be the only thing determining the type and in this context they felt that snakes were close enough to the realm of creepy crawleys. And along with snakes some invertebrates are also often used in these brews, scorpions and large hornets are particularly popular. Really I feel like it should have been rock/poison

>>58135818
Their theme got scrapped. Gulpin was supposed to be a thief bag and Swalot was a Faberge egg. I don't have the sprites on-hand but Gulpin's little yellow feather was a tie and Swalot was a golden egg-shape. I don't know why they got turned into stomach lumps but it was clearly an idea they didn't know what to do with but also didn't wanna scrap the line

>>58136082
Unironically a pun, the JP word for Snake 蛇 features the Kanji for Bug 虫

worm wine

>>58136027
Homunculus

Dude it's right in it's name(the japanese name too)

>>58136038
Probably a bait post but obviously the nazca lines

>>58136416
it's nucleus actually

what is this ugly piece of geometric shit even supposed to be?

>>58136081
>>58136082
Y'all must be fun at parties

>>58136433
Reuniclus
RanKURUSU (JP)

Homunculus (HomunKURUSU in JP)
Nucleus (Kaku in JP)

Don't try it

>>58136426
Fake fan didn't even post the right one
jk i'm just joshin, sigilyph is one of my faves

>>58136457
Industrial boiler

>>58136081
>B-BUT THE BEYTAH!!!!
not relevant

>>58136489
Read the pokedex.

>>58136135
the slime mold thing is debatable but it clearly does resemble a turtle in a shell. I don't know why it's so difficult for some people to wrap their heads around that Pokemon can have more than one inspiration. it's not that complicated.

>>58136501
>it clearly does resemble a turtle in a shell
no it doesn't

>>58136529
This. I would sooner associate it with a barnacle

It is a creature.

>>58136426
>>58136469
Based Sigibros. I used this beautiful bastard to setup Cosmic Power/Stored Power circles around my friend group back when BW first came out and he's been one of my signature fellas ever since. The gf and I have plans to vacation in Peru in a few weeks and we're taking a flight over the Nazca lines, just so I can finally officially justify myself as a true Sigilyph trainer. Keep up the Sigilove, my dudes, I am always with you.

>>58136668
sigilyph deserves an evo, it's so interesting compared to most mons

>>58136609
To be fair, I may have worded my OP badly.
I should've specified that things which are so far from their inspiration that they're beyond recognition also count.
Like >>58136541
Slowpoke is apparently a hippo/otter/salamander, but looking at it, it's just Slowpoke.

>>58135718 (OP)
>Shuckle
>isn't really anything
it's the first Pokemon with an ability

Magmar is based on this alien from 50s movie.
It even breaths fire as magmar does.

>>58136668
I really hope they will expand this line one day

>>58136047
What mother fucking bird do you know of that's looks like that!?

>>58136751
Draw a bird slightly stylized (like an old native culture or something) one eye facing you, two wings, legs outstretched either side, tail feathers hanging down. Looks weird because it's so stylized. Now take that drawing and make it 3d - the one eye facing you in the center of its now conical head, two wings on either side, the legs are now little arms that are fork-shaped, and the tail feathers hang down like streamers.

Draw Sigilyph from the front on some paper and think of it as a drawing of a bird, it's actually super clever, I love this guy. And having to wrap your mind around it making it psychic... yeah. Great mon.

>>58136722
so it's not a yokai it's a kaiju

>>58136767
Draw my cock going into your mum's mouth

>6818
Heavily biased brimstone vantablack tranny bait. Get new material.

>>58135718 (OP)
mew?

>>58137010
Fetus. Even has the whole "stem cells" and cloning thing going on.
It's also a bit of a cat design wise, of course.

>>58136081
But why is he bug type?

I like Shuckle

>>58136426
>>58136469
So Sillyglyph is....a Fearow seen from above?