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Zeraora!!!!!!
Zeraora’s our first mythical pokemon to review, and I suppose I should explain what mythical pokemon are, particularly in contrast to legendaries. Where legendaries are generally rare pokemon that only appear once in the games they’re found in, mythical pokemon are rare pokemon that usually don’t appear in the game AT ALL. Not naturally, anyway; the only way to obtain them is through special distributions, either over wifi, with a password, or worst of all, through an in-store distribution from somewhere like Gamestop. This often makes mythicals prohibitively difficult to obtain, and it’s further compounded by the fact they can’t even be traded over the GTS. I get that it makes them more special, but it’s incredibly annoying too.
Because they lack any sort of substantial in-game presence, mythical pokemon instead rely on their associated movies to get their recognition and marketing, and pretty much every single mythical gets one. Zeraora’s is The Power of Us, in which Zeraora is a reclusive pokemon who hates humans due to their mistreatment of the environment, having to save numerous pokemon from a massive fire in the past. It’s later drawn out to save a little girl from a rockslide, rushes to save vulnerable pokemon from another fire, then saves Ash and the little girl from falling debris; in short, Zeraora is defined by its heroism. This heroism earns it the respect of the population, and Zeraora’s hostility towards them dwindles. Neat!
As a design, Zeraora’s pretty rad, being an Electric-type anthropomorphic cat with a similar body plan to the likes of Zoroark and the ever-popular Lucario. It also OOZES style, with a vibrant yellow-and-black colour scheme accented with bright cyan, big ol’ paws, lightning bolt whiskers, and a tail-like appendage coming out of its shoulders. It all feels very electric, and has a striking silhouette suitable for a mythical pokemon – but also quite distinct from any mythical pokemon prior.
Ability-wise, Zeraora can notably run as fast as lightning strikes, which for those of us who don’t know how fast lightning moves, is apparently 220,000 miles per hour (about 354,000 km per hour) when moving downward. That’s pretty dang fast!!! Apparently it emits strong electrical currents from its toe beans, which is wonderful, and can even levitate somehow using the magnetic currents that that produces?? It can also electrify its claws to tear its opponents apart, which can electrocute them even if Zeraora misses. According to the official site it actually lacks an electricity-generating organ, which is odd, so presumably it stores electricity from static and stuff.
Zeraora’s got a wonderfully stylish white shiny, mixing up the colour distribution and shade of the yellow and cyan for something that feels distinct yet still maintains the feel of the original.
I love Zeraora, though like many mythical pokemon, I do wish it wasn’t so hard to actually get. When I play the games, I like to USE the pokemon I like, and that’s generally impossible when it comes to mythicals. Still, that’s hardly Zeraora’s fault, and it doesn’t detract from what a strikingly cool cat this guy is.
Static toe beans/10.
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How about luxray?
Luxray!!!!!!!
Luxray’s a lion lad that just EXUDES coolness. Its dark, contrasting colour scheme feels unique yet appropriate for an Electric-type, and it still maintains the subtle Leo constellation theme it had as a Shinx with the star-tipped tail. The stripes are neat and break up the design in an interesting way, and the jagged mane and fur contribute nicely to its silhouette. Its eyes in particular are quite striking, giving it some very intense vibes that make it feel quite fearsome.
These eyes are notable, as Luxray is known as the Gleam Eyes Pokemon: its conceptual gimmick is X-ray vision! Luxray can see through solid objects, an ability it has numerous uses for: it can track down hiding prey, find lost young, and scout for potential danger. Interestingly, use of this ability drains its electricity, and it needs to sleep for extended periods to recharge. Describing the ability’s power source as electricity is neat, as it implies the ability actually does work like an X-ray by using electromagnetic radiation, but I’m not sure that would actually work since light needs to reflect back to the eye for objects to be perceived and if you’re just shooting radiation out of your eyes that goes through everything then it can’t really bounce back. Maybe just a little bit bounces back, enough to see? Hm.
But yeah, for real, Luxray is INTENSE. It’s actually the third-most-popular Sinnoh pokemon according to the Pokemon of the Year poll, and always had a very strong reception amongst fans. Because of Shinx’s early availability and the line’s cohesive three-stage evolution pattern, the Luxray line has to me always felt like honorary starter pokemon for the Electric-type, a fact seemingly referenced by Shinx’s playability in the Mystery Dungeon series. If Luxray WERE a starter, it might actually be my favourite of all of them!
Shiny Luxray thankfully keeps shiny Shinx’s golden colour scheme, producing an even more striking effect with Luxray’s higher proportion of black in its design. It does unfortunately drown out the eyes a bit, which maybe should’ve been blue or something to maximise the contrast, but it’s not that big of a deal. Definitely in the higher tier of shinies still.
Overall, I adore Luxray. With an absolutely stellar design and concept, Luxray’s one of my favourite Electric-types and it deserves all the popularity it has. Frankly, though, it should be even MORE popular!!! It’s just so cool!!! I mean, look at it!!!!!!
Lovely lightning lion/10.
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Also requesting my favourite pokemon, Lucario!
Oh DANG, it’s Lucario!!!!!!
Lucario’s HUGE. Literally the second-most-beloved pokemon in the franchise according to the Pokemon of the Year poll, Lucario represents a perfect storm of factors all coming together to result in an ASTOUNDING degree of popularity. It’s…..rly big. For comparison, Pikachu got 19th in that same poll.
It all started with a movie, Lucario and the Mystery of Mew, released about a year before Gen IV’s Diamond and Pearl did, with Lucario being one of the first looks at the upcoming generation. Because Pokemon movies up to this point had featured legendaries, people had assumed Lucario, too, was a legendary, and the movie did little to disconfirm this. It could talk, it had a unique anthropomorphic design unlike most other pokemon seen thus far, and it had special powers that seemed unaffiliated with any particular type, dubbed “aura”. Already a recipe for hype!
Once Gen IV came out, it became apparent that Lucario was actually just a normal pokemon, a Fighting/Steel-type (for….some reason), even having a pre-evolution in Riolu. But it still felt special: neither it nor Riolu could be found in the wild, with a Riolu egg instead being obtained through an optional sidequest trekking through a cave on Iron Island. You would be accompanied by someone named Riley, whose design harkened to a movie character named Sir Aaron, and who himself used a Lucario. As a reward for your help, he would bestow you with an egg, that would then hatch into Riolu and you could then evolve into Lucario after raising its friendship level.
Lucario’s popularity was practically sealed. It had a massive amount of marketing through the movie and other media that built up to DP’s eventual release, and when DP finally did come out, Lucario had a perfect balance of difficulty to obtain it with how likely a player was to actually encounter it. It just felt SPECIAL, in a way no other pokemon ever quite has, before or since.
As a design, I respect Lucario. It’s certainly got some peculiar quirks to it: the anime mouth doesn’t sit right on the face with respect to the snout, the oddly-bent tail feels kinda haphazardly glued on, the aesthetic of wearing parachute shorts is kinda weird, and the only allusion to it being Steel-type seems to be its rather nonsensical spikes. But an anthropomorphic blue jackal with a clear Anubis-inspired silhouette is undeniably cool, and I feel positively toward it overall despite some odd decisions. And I actually like the dreads!
Naturally, it would later be a recipient of a Mega Evolution in XY, and a pretty alright one overall. However, one result of its popularity led to it missing part of what made it so popular in the first place: all players would receive one from a gym leader as a natural part of XY’s story. Appropriate for such an iconic pokemon to introduce Mega Evolution, sure, but it made it apparent how much of that “special” aspect Lucario had since lost. Being gifted one for free just didn’t hit right. As a design, Mega Lucario’s red markings feel a bit excessive, and I’m not as into it as I am the base design. It’s not bad, though, and the floofy tail’s an improvement.
Lucario’s shiny swaps the blue and yellow, albeit with the yellow now a more unnatural citrus tone. Suitably distinct from the base form, but not really an improvement. Mega Lucario keeps the general colour scheme, but shifted darker into a rather unpleasant olive shade.
Overall, I like Lucario. It’s got some weird aesthetic choices, but on the whole it’s pretty neat and VERY iconic. I don’t particularly vibe with it myself these days, but I definitely understand those who do, and I find its immense popularity both justified and unsurprising.
Also furbait/10.
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In light of recent lis bts events
Max, wtf
Inspired by this post
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When you're Pricefield trash but you want to see Chloe and Rachel all gay and shit
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me before playing before the storm: don’t get attached to rachel you know damn well what’s gonna happen and it’s gonna fuck you up. don’t do it
me after playing before the storm:
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I've been dying to do an artwork of the "new" Lars after I saw the 'Lars of the Stars' sneak peak footage so here it iiiis
Steven Universe is my favourite show right now and I should really make more fanart :s
I'm super rusty at this (been doing art on and off) and even tried a new colouring technique but I think I pulled it off really well
High-res: http://fav.me/dbi6r8d
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On this higher level I can breathe you.
‘Open My Eyes’ is out now.
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I saw this, and I wanted to hear it so badly, so here it is.
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Donald Duck voiced by MajinVA
Mickey voiced by me
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Stop girls who ship loads of gay ships but are uncomfortable with lesbians 2k15
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