Pokémonday voting 59 (03-18-2024)
Added 2024-03-18 15:00:12 +0000 UTC
Welcome to the fifty-ninth Pokémonday voting post!
Last week's prompt was:
...ideas for the fourth Gym Leader!
I love it when you all come up with slightly left field ideas that I hadn't thought of myself. This week had some real gems. Check out the poll below to see the ones I picked!
And now it's time to reveal last week's winner!
Prompt: Ideas for an ecologically-similar (convergent) Pokémon!
Winning idea: A bokken/shinai version of Honedge, Doublade and Aegislash (by Generic Hero)
Runner-ups:
2: A jellyfish version of Shroomish/Breloom (by The Wesinator)
3: A mountain goat version of Skiddo/Gogoat (by Aetos)
4: A plant version of Shellder/Cloyster (by Gabriel Silva)
I changed chambara to bokken/shinai, because apparently chambara isn't really a thing. As in: not in a way you could use it as an inspiration for three Pokémon. Chambara (more commonly spelled chanbara) is Japanese samurai cinema. I replaced it with Kendo, in which they use Shinai and Bokken (wooden swords) to fight. They don't use shields in Kendo, so I thought it wasn't fitting to give Mokubash a shield. Instead, it's a big Bokken ho wears classic Kendo-style protective headgear and wields two little Shinai.
Thank you all for your creative ideas and good luck to the ideas in this poll. May the best idea win!
Comments
This seems like another pokemon the first gym leader would use
Haelerin wants to know where the Luigi Fanfiction is, Gamechamp!
2024-03-18 16:11:07 +0000 UTCOh, I didn't realize chambara was a genre of cinema. Truthfully I chose the name because that's what they used in Nintendo Switch Sports for the game. 😁
Generic Hero
2024-03-18 15:20:49 +0000 UTC
