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>>433494
nonner you misspelled her name
>>433245
I don't know what Pokemon could represent my country other than Arboliva because it's Mediterranean.

>>433245
Cute! Toxtricity can represent my Britbong city, we're associated with punk music and shit like that

>>433494
Beautiful cover photo, it's still hard to believe that Rachel Lillis passed away this year… She really is a Pokemon treasure and Misty & Jessie were just not as fun (imo) when Rachel got let go from voicing them.
RIP Rachel Lillis, you will be sorely missed.

>>433477
Archaeopteryx was kind of a weird choice for Gamefreak to base the Unova (New York) fossil-species on. North America is much more known for stegosaurus and tyrannosaurs. Iirc the best T Rex specimens have mostly been found in the United States. Archeops and Tyrunt should have swapped places, with Archeops being found in Kalos (France) and Tyrunt being found in Unova (U.S.). I think Trubbish is cuter than Muk or Grimer, and I'm okay with it being a Murrica Pokémon lmao. The Samurai-inspired-Oshawott line is a bizarre choice for a region based on America. I feel like the water starter should have been a surfer or something instead. Damask and Kofagrigus were weird, too, like why is there Egypt-inspired stuff in the America region? I feel like there are way better American cultural concepts they could have based a ghost Pokémon off of. Honestly? Pumpkaboo and Gorgeist shouldn't have been in Kalos, either. Pumpkins originate from North America and are heavily associated with American Thanksgiving.

>>433580
>I think Trubbish is cuter than Muk or Grimer, and I'm okay with it being a Murrica Pokémon lmao.
I agree! It's the better "trash/waste" pokemon we've gotten, it's actually cute and friendly and I like the idea of trash becoming sentient and/or that it feeds on trash which is good for the environment

>>433580
Not all pokemon fit into the region they originate it, like what do pandas have to do with France? Overall they do make maybe 30% that seem to reference the real life country/region, but most are just normal pokemon.

Though I do think it's fun to TRY to see if it was intentional so here's my attempt:
>Archaeopteryx was kind of a weird choice for Gamefreak to base the Unova
>Damask and Kofagrigus were weird, too, like why is there Egypt-inspired stuff in the America region?
I think this may not be intended to tie into American history, but to the fact that the Nacrene city gym is also a museum. So it's more that they thought "what kind of cool stuff can you find in a western museum" and went from there. Also kofagrigus could be a reference to movies, since Hollywood is also heavily referenced in BW.
>The Samurai-inspired-Oshawott line is a bizarre choice for a region based on America
Possibly because they see America as a melting pot of cultures, so every starter is from a different culture. Especially because to them as Japanese people the US isn't "home" so they didn't care to make the starters feel native to the region. They don't care that there isn't a "true American" starter, they just want to have a Japanese samurai starter they can play with there as Japanese people visiting. I think that's a shame, I'd love a gimmicky cowboy starter kek
>Pumpkaboo and Gorgeist shouldn't have been in Kalos, either.
Perhaps they were partly thinking of it in terms of fairy tales, like how it transforms in Cinderella into a carriage. Fairy type had it's debut in Kalos so it wouldn't surprise me. Sometimes it may also just be their personal experience. We know they sometimes go to a country to do research on it, so if they happened to go to modern France around halloween and saw pumpkins they may very well use that as if it was a French thing because to them it is. I have to say it's very funny that they gave the French region a frog starter, that is a bold move kek

>>433587
>it's very funny that they gave the French region a frog starter, that is a bold move kek
Agree, that's hilarious. Something also appropriately French that I remember about XY is how Route 7 is full of landscape painters and Smeargles. I feel like Smeargle is a very French-seeming Pokémon, what with its little barret and striped arms.

Having a dedication thread where you misspell her name seems disrespectful, if I'm being honest.

>>433613
Sorry about that, by the time i noticed it was too late to delete

>>433613
Nonna, is it really a thread on lolcor.barn if the thread doesn't have some spelling mistakes?

>>433628
Is it really a thread on lolcow if you don't get dragged for your mistakes? It's part of it.

>>433627
don't worry nona, half of the anons on this site can't even read anyway kek
we all know it was well-intended so let's not fight over it

New thread, new hate! Tell me a pokemon you hate (or just dislike) for a reason you know is stupid and undeserved!

I'll go first, I can't stand cherrim anymore because the overcast form's face is by the legs like this and I found it so ugly I felt betrayed when I first found out about it

>>433758
Castform because its default form looks like it has a scrotum. It's such a cute concept for a Pokémon ruined by retarded design choices. How hard would it have been to just make the body more cloud-like?

>>433758
i never much liked pikachu (raichu superemacy) but i hate him since i started playing UNITE. he's extremely annoying in game with the constant loud pikapika cries (no other poke cries out constantly) and he's totally broken.
the tourist skin makes it worse, he looks like every other american or japanese retard in paris who feels the need to wear striped shirts and berets from a souvenir store

>>433758
Delphox because I was delusionally hopeful that we wouldn't get yet another bipedal fire starter, and I was let down. I have an inordinate amount of bitterness toward this Pokemon because the fan evolutions looked so good, and Delphox is so ugly by comparison. Maybe I wouldn't hate it so bad if I hadn't gotten my hopes up.

>>433813
Castform is indeed ugly wasted potential.
>>433758
My petty Pokémon grudge is Chien-Pao. Its sword fangs are a legitimately cool concept, but for some reason the designer made them clip through its face and give it hideous black spots. I can't get over such a noticeable and retarded design choice kek

>>433898
God same, when all the pokemon leaked I thought that one was so nice but then I noticed the stabbed swords on its face.
Also I don't get why we got chinese legendaries on a spanish region. Not that all pokemon should follow a region's inspiration, but Spain has some cool legends and history to use and reading those names caught me off-guard.

>>433892
I don't know how else would they design a witch Pokemon while having it remain bipedal. And Delphox being a witch is central to its design.

>>433758
Palafin's hero form. It's ugly, gross, stupid looking and it ruins Finizen which is a very cute pokémon.

>>433920
>Also I don't get why we got chinese legendaries on a spanish region.
It's basically tradition at this point, gen one had a native american thunderbird and western phoenix, gen 3 had hebrew golems, gen 6 had nordic mythos etc I think they more often than not use another country's legends. I don't mind it too much, I don't think a region should be too tied to the real life country.
>reading those names caught me off-guard.
This I will agree with though, using fully chinese names in a non-chinese region is a bit too far. I can accept the tapus having hawaiian names in the hawaii region, especially when the dex establishes that there are basically "hawaiian" names for pokemon like vulpix. But to randomly throw in chinese out of nowhere seems weird. I'd rather they call them frostcat or whatever so we can have a relationship to the names that isn't just "oh they're from real world china, which doesn't even exist in the games at this point in time"

>>433994
>I don't know how else would they design a witch Pokemon while having it remain bipedal.
Your lack of creativity doesn't mean others can't figure it out! And I don't get why it would even have to stay bipedal to be a witch, zacian is a warrior that carries it's sword in it's mouth, samurott is a samurai and serperior reads as an arisorcrat despite not having legs at all!

>>433999
What are your ideas for a quadruped Delphox?