Grave-E

You know what I think is one of the coolest things about pokemon? When, long after a 'mon is revealed, you can be going about your everyday life and stumble across something that suddenly makes you think '...ohh, THAT'S where they got the idea from!'

I was browsing google not too long ago, looking for reference images of obscure animal species in order to do some character design work. I came across this one picture of a lanky black monkey called the Francois Langur, which is otherwise ...

http://sixthrock.tumblr.com/post/17657250391/im-exaggerating-of-course-but-not-by-much

It's like they went inside my mind and put forth the words that my fingers would mash onto a keyboard.

Makes me want to finish that Super Effective thing so I can gush about personal favourites. And by 'finish' I mean 'get 2 or 3 done and then get bored and forget about it.'

WATER

Favourite

LUDICOLO

Following in the footsteps of Slowpoke Rodriguez and continuing the trend of cartoon characters perpetuating negative ethnic stereotypes, we have Ludicolo.
Just look at him. So jolly and happy, just wanting to boogie down. It makes me sick.
With dance fever. Cue the water-type-tight court cases!

Ludicolo is always going to be in my top

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DARK


Favourite

SCRAFTY

He spits on people. He hangs around in gangs. He gets involved in turf wars. His skull is as thick as the crap that comes out of his mouth (namely "Ruzuruz! Zukin!").

But despite the likelihood of having several asbos, a double sided criminal record and being the father of

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GRASS

Favourite

SIMISAGE

Eeeeeey!

Jumping sharks is no problem for this sly looking simian.
‘Cause he’s a grass type. Haw.

Primates are awesome, so Simisage was already guaranteed to get into my good books, but then they go an make him the definition of 70’s cool with his huge pompadour and the opportunity to nickname one in-game as ‘The

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