#golisopod

Sketch dump

got au art if Meg if Arceus dropped her off in Alola instead of Lumiose and team skull found her and took her in.

Got Podder eating raspberries.

(No Pokemon review requests in the inbox right now. This is the last standard Pokemon review until the next gen, but I'll take shiny requests if anyone has them.)

I'm not going to lie, I don't really get what Mega Golisopod's going for. When it first came out I couldn't even tell what was different without directly comparing the two, and even figuring it out I'm...still not sure what it's going for.

Basically, Mega Golisopod now has four legs instead of two, arranged in a square formation. The arms under its torso are retracted, and there's now two extra arms above its back that it can shoot the claws out of like cannons. It also has a longer "beard", jagged "eyebrows", and yellow eyes, plus some extra fur around its main arms.

You also will notice that GameFreak did the same color-changing trick they did with other similar-looking megas like Charizard, Greninja, and Zeraora to make it look more different than it actually is. In this case, Goliopod is now dark gray and dark purple. I'm not a big fan of this change in all honesty—if the purple areas were now white or something it could've worked, but as-is it's very low-contrast and the palette looks muddy.

Mostly, though, I'm just left scratching my head over why these changes were made. Golisopod starts off as a cowardly wimp that evolves into a badass, except not really because it's still low-key a wimp. It's also a samurai and an isopod. Which of those themes is Mega Golisopod building off of? The answer is neither. And I wouldn't even mind that if there was rhyme or reason to the changes made, but again, there doesn't seem to be other than some general cyborg inspiration (which in and of itself still has nothing to do with Golisopod).

alt form(s) under the cut, beware of potential spoilers