#box28

So... yes.  It was going to bother me to just have those two empty spots in Box 28 as far as my own personal listing and organization of my Pokémon goes, and hey, even Pokémon Home doesn’t even know where these guys truly belong, so... it only seemed fitting.  That and I trained these guys on the Let’s Go games, so we’ll just sneak ‘em in here.  Liquid metal is just one of those cool things that I like as a concept, so having a couple of Pokémon based around it is pretty neat.  Now if only Pokémon Go wasn’t kind of a pain in the tail for me to play out here in the middle of nowhere...

Inktober n°28

Looking at all four of the Therian forms, I’m guessing they were going for a reference to the four symbols of the Chinese constellations, though admittedly colors don’t add up.  You would have the Azure Dragon of the East (Thundurus), the Vermilion Bird of the South (Tornadus), the White Tiger of the West (Landorus), and the Black Tortoise of the North (Enamorus).  So... really Thundurus is the only one that would properly match the color.  Interestingly though, the Black Tortoise is usually depicted as a tortoise entwined with a snake, so that would seem to make the connection all the more.

Monster trainer games in general are a genre I do tend to enjoy, though it’s hard to find ones that strike a balance I really enjoy.  Like, Coromon had some level issues, Nexomon has a problem with movepool starvation (monsters can’t learn moves outside their given types, so very little variation), and Temtem, main thing I recall from that one was breeding had very annoying limits to it.  Siralim Ultimate though is really fun and I got super into it.  Unfortunately I don’t think it would make for particularly good videos, one of those where playing it yourself and enjoying the crazy level grinding and trait strategies is the real fun.

Finding an image tame enough for this card was... a thing.  Yeaaaaah, image searching for frostbite really wanted me to see all the severe cases first.  Definitely not an image search for the squeamish... which I can be sometimes so definitely take my experience as a warning, haha.  As for poor Avalugg here... yeah, he’s another where his typing didn’t do him any favors.  Ice / Rock is not exactly a great type combination.  Not only that, but his stat spread does show a bit of an issue.  He has very high physical defense... but PAINFULLY low special defense... so the whole “tank” thing doesn’t quite work out for him...

Sneasel is one of my favorite Johto breeds, so I was really happy to see a new form of them, along with a fairly interesting typing, too.  Just keep the poor thing away from Psychic types.  Meanwhile, as for Mangle, every time I see them, I keep thinking of a video that had a clip where Mangle was hanging from the ceiling, making staticy sounds, and then suddenly saying “And now, the weather!”  I don’t know why that sticks in my head so much, but there it is.

Man, I love how Hisuian Arcanine looks....  Sadly the typing does NOT do it any favors...  Hey, you’re already weak to Water and Ground right?  Let’s make that even worse!  Still, really cool design visually, very striking.

Helmaroc King in Hyrule Warriors was always a bit of a thing to me.  I had so many instances where I’d go to smack it with the hammer to get the weakpoint gauge going, and it would just miss even though it looked like a direct hit.  Still not as annoying as dealing with Imprisoned though, so I’ll give it that.  It’s weird, when I first saw Hisuian Braviary, I didn’t think it looked much different from the normal Unovan Braviary, but I think I just forgot a number of details on it, it definitely looks enough like its own thing.