#graploct

[my-shiny-pokemon]

852-853 - Clobbopus Line

[yusuke-of-valla]

I’m curious if all the gym leaders aces are going to be themed around like “Pokemon that look like they should be one type but aren’t but we can MAKE them that type with Terastalization”

I hope the water type gym leader uses Graploct

[kokorowoutsu]

-- NPC: Savannah Hemsworth

Name: Savannah ‘Savvy’ Anita Hemsworth-Rutherford.

Age: 24.

Gender: Female.

Species: Human.

Birthdate: December 18th. (Sagittarius)

Occupation: Galar League Champion.

Residence: Wyndon City, Galar. (from Snowbelle City, Kalos)

Height & Weight: 5'8, 153 Ib.

Bonded Legendary: None.

Sexuality: Straight.

Relationship Status: Married to Dante Rutherford.

Faceclaim: Asuna Yuuki from Sword Art Online.

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Savannah is a woman who comes from a high-ranking family in the Kalos Military. Her father taught her discipline and to never let herself run wild, and when she received her starter, an Eevee, it was to be a Glaceon and nothing else. Rigid and cold as the ice and snow she grew up in, her Eevee despite its gung-ho personality and its desire to be a fire-type, she was left to evolve her Eevee into a Glaceon. The look on her Glaceon’s face being forced into such a state is what broke Savannah away from her family and caused her to rebel. Her father sent her to study under an old friend in hopes of ‘rehabilitating’ his daughter, but it had the opposite effect as when she met Mustard at the tender age of twelve, she was taken in and raised by him with her father now deployed and her mother dead and any other family members refusing to take her in… well, that left him to teach her some values that loosened the icy cold grip on her heart and instead brought in something more flexible to work with. Savannah’s father would go on to realize he couldn’t control his daughter and instead disown her and Savannah would spend the next decade or so with Mustard and gain a team of pokemon that she trained alongside Avery and Klara with as her rivals. She would meet Leon who came over from the mainland and after some things sorted, would eventually become the Champion of Galar and gain the title of the Maelstrom Champion. Later she would meet and marry Dante Rutherford.

Her team is diverse but it mainly runs Glaceon, Tyrantrum, Urshifu (Rapid Strike/G-Max), Eelektross, Pyroar (Female), and Malamar. She’s been known to have other pokemon such as Cinderace, Graploct, and Gengar just to name a few. Her rotation is never the same except for Glaceon, Tytrantrum, and Urshifu (Rapid Strike/G-Max).

[artesesarthouse]

Galarian forms: Grapploct

This is different from the usual galarian doctor who forms because Grapploct is native to galar, but between this and octilerry, grapploct fit better for the look of the oods 

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[accidentally-logince]

Why is Graploct’s mouth,,,, there,,,,

[doubleddenden]

Decided to finally name my swsh crew now that I have a firm grasp of the species names

Corviknight: Raven

Rillaboom: Dankey Kang

Drednaw: Cousin Clem

Toxtricity: Rocko Taco

Centiskorch: Tamno Dabolo

Graploct: Bappy Pancher (she's the baby and she punches)

Perserker: Ed

Thievul: Swiper

Coalossal: Debra Smith (not after anyone in particular, that's just what popped in my head)

G Rapidash: Unicorn Dash

Inteleon: I technically can't rename it since it has a name in Japanese but I'll say he's Inceleon

Dragapult: I can technically rename her because her name is actually Katapuldra, aka its German name, and as it has evolved its German name changed too. This was too cool so I kept it as is

G max Drednaw: Grendyl

Gmax Charizard 1 and 2: Ryuga and Rizardon

Gmax Sandaconda: Konda

Cubchoo: Baby Boi

Beartic: Momma Bear

Dracozolt: Frank

Falinx: The Teds

Flygon: Üretëëz

Gmax Eevee: Leer, after both my Let's Go Eevee and my dog Leer

Cutiefly: same gender and nature as my Cutiefly from Phoenix Rising. I have no choice but to assume this is my boy crossing dimensions to meet me and thus have named him CutieFrank

[trustandblasters]

What pokemon do you think the cast of Trust would have?

Ffff, I'm terrible with these kinds of questions tbh but I love them anyway XD

Sans would definitely have a Cubone. Like. Seriously. I cant decide if it would evolve into Kanto or Alolan Marowak tho. Other pokemon would probably be Stunfisk, Mudkip, Sableye, and Chatot. Mostly for Memes/Trolling

Papyrus: LUDICOLO is definately one I could see him having. Politoad, Whimsicott, Blissey, Maractus, Obstagoon/Incineroar (absolute dorks trying to be tough guys), and I absolutely see him with a Shaymin and/or Zamezenta because he is friendly enough to befriend legendaries/mythicals and not realize it.

Grillby: Appletun, Magmortor, Shuckle, Sunflora, Gourgeist, and a Houndoom stick out to me for various reasons. I could also see him with a Slugma and a Slurpuff.

The dog pack: ANY canine pokemon with a few felines because Elci. I specifically see Dogamy having a Rockruff and Dogressa having an arcanine. Greater Dog would likely have Entei. Because they are one huge group no one knows who actually owns which pokemon. Not even the trainers or pokemon. It's all cool tho

Speaking off...

Elci: PERSERKER. Holy shit she would definately have that feral furball. Other pokemon would be Liepard, Persian, Lycanroc, Sawsbuk, and Dragonite.

Alphys: she would have a Rotom and you will never convince me otherwise. Other pokemon would include Sandslash, Tyrunt, Litwick, Elekid/Electabuzz, and Eevee/Sylveon, and a Garbador

Undyne: Undyne strikes me as the kind of person who would be told "that pokemon is to weak for competative" and then take said pokemon and turn it isnt a powerhouse monster out of pure spite. Not entirely sure which pokemon exactly but I could definately see her packing pokemon like Shuckle (there is a guide on how to get it to do up to 1 million damage), Butterfree, Spinda, Pachirisu, ect.

From a more serious perspective she would definately have pokemon like SirFetched, Escavelier, Dragonite, Hawlucha, Kommo-o, and Exploud

Gnash and Frank: these two would probably share pokemon but Gnash easily would have an Aggron or Rhyperior while Frank has a Wishcash. Other pokemon the two might have are Audino, Mamoswine, Wailmer, Gallade, Comfrey, Drampa, Eldegoss, Graploct and Sealeo

Asgore: he has like... several Wooloo. He is the Milo of Undertale. So many Wooloo and Mareep and Flaffy. Also a ton of flower pokemon, Sunflora, Floette, Bellossom, Vileplume, Comfrey, Tsareena, Lilligant, ect, and long lived pokemon like Golurk or Torkoal and then he just throws a fucking curve ball by having a fucking Solgaleo or Suicune or fucking Mew to remind you he Is King for a reason.

W.D. Gaster: this guy is the epitome of Bastard so he is the most likely to have man made pokemon with Zero friendship like Mewtwo, Type:Null, any fossil pokemon (especially the galarian ones) and the Porygon line but he would also totally pack more dickish pokemon like Malamar, Toxapex, and Gengar.

Berdley: Definatelt flying type like Pidgeot, Staraptor, Altaria. Thanks to Nora he would probably branch out more and get something like a Reuniclus and Vespiqueen. I am totally sure he got something like Zapados or Articuno at some point to shut his birth mother up.

Nora Geep: she would definately have a Dubwool, Ampharos, and Gogoat. Other pokemon would be Polteageist, Banette, Chandelure, Uxie, Spiritomb, Hoopa, Dragapult, and Togekiss. I could easily see her packing a Giratina or Darkrai as well.

Let me know if there are any I missed that you wanted more specifics on.

[doubleddenden]

So I beat some more gyms. I think today I beat the 6th, 7th, and 8th gym, as well as the league and all that stuff. Saving post game story for tomorrow.

Some thoughts

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Gordie is kinda forgettable other than his shades. I really want those. Other than that I beat him okayishly easy.

Team Yell ended up being just as bad as I thought. It's interesting how Piers, the first dark type gym leader, was the leader, but I don't feel like it was proper build up at all. Also, Spikemuth is just a hallway. Wtf??? I do like Piers tho, and Marnie is pretty likeable too. Both are reasonable people among weirdos in the pokemon world.

Plot starts getting weird here. Pokemon are suddenly dynamaxing- sure would love to see it! Why does Leon have to take care of it all? I get lore wise but from a gameplay perspective it just kinda feels insulting.

Raihan's gym battle was actually pretty damn cool. A double that makes use of weather, mixedish typings, and overall challenges. To beat his 4 pokemon, I needed 5/6 of mine, if that says anything. This was SUCH an anime fight. Duraludon gmax vs my Dmax Corviknight and my Rillaboom felt like such a ditch effort anime fight. Rillaboom goes down and Toxtricity claims victory. I really enjoyed this fight!

The semi finals were... meh. I feel bad for Marnie because I like her so much more than Hop. I beat both with the same two Graploct, Centiskorch, and for Hop I needed Rillaboom. I was vastly over leveled here and one shot so many pokemon after they both Swaggered Centiskorch.

The finals was an interesting idea executed strangely, bud Bede showing up when he did was unexpectedly cool. He looks even more like my grandma, but I do love how his character ended up. He was actually a decent challenge since most if not all of his team are both psychic AND fairy. He's strong.

Nessa, unfortunately, fell from grace. It was an amazing full circle though, since Dynamax Toxel couldn't even scratch her, but Dynamax Toxtricity totally one shot her gmax Drednaw.

Now Bea was a bit more interesting. I think I had a bit more of a challenge with her this time.

But Raihan? Boi delivered! Such a great fight! Such amazing team building around weather. In the end it was Rillaboom vs Duraludon, both d/gmaxed. I think I barely won.

However the whole Macro Cosmos thing felt like it came from nowhere. Why are they suddenly evil? Olivia was a bit of a challenge at the least. The Rose Tower was a really cool spot for a battle, but the grunts felt really tedious, especially with Hop tagging along.

The entire sequence leading up to the fight with Chairman Rose just feels so weird. Visually everything is spot on, but story and sound wise it feels so off. Very forced.

The Eternatus, Zamazenta and Zacian part, though? I have to say, that was really fucking cool. Eternatus, even though he came from nowhere, was a powerful foe and the visuals for the wolves was just breath taking. I do hate that you're forced to catch Eternatus, but overall a very cinematic fight.

Now, I was so scared that because almost every other league fight was a cake walk, that Leon would be too. Oh. Oh no. I was SEVERELY UNDERLEVELED. ABD I LOVED IT. It was such a difficult fight I had to bust out REVIVES. Sure his team is poorly balanced with two ghosts and two fire types, but the raw power makes up for it. In the end, even our dynamaxes ran out, and my Corviknight just barely survived to beat his Charizard. Such an incredible fight.

The ending credits needs some working on though, ngl. Btw, I spotted the mouse cursor. It's real. I laughed so hard. What a fail after winning me over.

I also tried to get my own gmax pokemon, but they are hard to find. I found a gmax Drednaw, but jesus christ, he's so difficult to beat when you're barely able to get 1 human player to help. He kept winning by knocking out the stupid weak ass npc's the game didn't bother scaling for the fight. God I wish I had better internet and a GMax Corviknight. That's all I really want. I still think it's so stupid you can't do something to make your hand raised pokemon like Corviknight able to gmax.

I accidentally started a bit of post game story and Hop is just. Idk. I hate how annoying he is and always EVERYWHERE. But I kinda feel bad for crushing his dreams. Fuck Sordward and Shielbert's jiggly ass hair though.

I think I can give a fair assessment of Sword. Ready?

If these were stand alone games, not at all connected to past games via transfers and the like, or if they just had the national dex built in, they would easily be pretty great. The games have AMAZING leaps for the series when it does things right. But then when it does things wrong, it does things WRONG. Like why am I seeing a huge distracting scanline in Wyndon? Why do we have poop trees in the wild area? Why is Spikemuth a hallway? Why is Hop so annoying and Team Yell so utterly pointless? Why does the mushroom forest and fairy city look so great? Why are some fights pathetically XY tier easy or amazing BW2 /HGSS tier challenging? Why are some points of the story so bland compared to others? Or forced?

It's so weird. Everything done right is 10 tier, but everything done wrong is 1 tier. It's both incredible and awful at the same time. I don't understand how. Like by being really amazing and really trash, it somehow makes this polished diamond in a cow pile average at best. Everything is either a 1, 5, or 10, and there's no in between.

I feel very conflicted here. I feel like ultimately this was purposely made controversial among fans to keep its name relevant. Because again, just slap the national dex in and it's a perfectly average pokemon game.

70 feels about right, yet not. I enjoyed it more than Let's Go, but I feel like I should rate it lower. As a 20 year pokemon veteran, I feel so confused, amazed and terrified. It's not as bad as initially thought, dare I say way better, but also far worse. Like imagine winning billions the lottery and then getting beat up by clowns after finding out you can't see your pets and friends again when you move into your huge mansion with hot service people, along with a really annoying neighbor that will not leave you alone, but a really cool one that gives you cheese cake. The best and worst day.

I am human and need sleep, so I'll finish the rest tomorrow. My e4 team is as follows

Corviknight- the fav and now in my top 5 favorite pokemon

Graploct- the baby

Toxtricity- the cool uncle

Centiskorch- the big bug I've always wanted

Drednaw- the reliable friend

Rillaboom- the drummer that's okay

I'll post more pics tomorrow