Just A Little Doodle In Aseprite.

The principal difficulty of having a Pokémon pick up your groceries for you isn’t getting it to understand the concept of a grocery list, but getting it to understand the concept of capitalism.

One might assume that Meowth is the exception, given that Meowth is literally the capitalism Pokémon; the trouble here is that, while Meowth does understand capitalism, Meowth also understands shoplifting.

Pokepinion-tober: 4

Woo I'm on time!

Welcome back to me generating a random Pokémon for each day of October and giving my opinion on it.

So far we've got; Draglage, Skuntank, and Cramorant.

Let's start

4: Lechonk

Of course the most perfect thing about this piggy is the name. The fact that Pokémon actually used the word chonk in the name, is hilarious. It's name is literally the chonk. I love the name

The rest of it? Eh. I mean it's not a bad take on the early route normal type trope, but I don't have that much to say about it.

It is super duper cute. I love the brown pattern around the face that makes it look like it's been digging around in the dirt, like how real pigs search for truffles.

Also the little pattern under the eye that makes it look like it's crying is also cute. Not that the little guy crying is good, but it feels like it's reacting to everyone making ham sandwiches. They even summon normal types for gods sake.

The shiny is also nice, making reference to the traditional pink piggy look.

6/10. Slightly better than average, but not much else. It has some nice cute design elements, but the main appeal to me is the name.

I will never under why people insist the Paldean gym leaders need their other jobs “because the league doesn’t pay enough”. Maybe I’m misreading something, but so many gym leaders imply or outright say that the gym position came later than their other job and clearly don’t prioritize the gym itself. If anything, I would wager being a gym leader is the side hustle or a PR thing and not the other way around. Also if I were chasing the bag I prolly would not be doing abstract sculpting

LOOK AT IT

I love it so much.

Give your reasons in the tags!

John holding a small child :)

PokePinion-Tober: 10 + 11

Time for another double feature! I honestly like these more so they may become more frequent instead of singles.

So far we’ve done: Dragalge, Skuntank, Cramorant, Lechonk, Delibird, 

10. Raticate

It’s a rat.

That’s literally all I have to say about this thing. Like, it’s not even cute like other early route normal things. 

Sure it’s not bad early game, getting moves like Hyper Fang early is always good, but it’s so ugly.

4/10. Just no.

11 Hattrem

Cute!

I love this whole line and the concept behind them and Hattrem is super cute!

Can you tell I like cute things?

The blue and pink together make me think of candy floss, which is always good. I like who it moves around on its hair, it looks very ridiculous but it works pretty well. 

Also the big pretty eyes. 

7/10. Cutie Patootie that must be protected.

someone explain the jewish holidays to me like i'm 5 years old

Still be careful about what you use him in, as Disney is likely still going to be very protective of their mascot!

(Not a lawyer by any means, just don't want anyone to get in trouble on this ceremonious day)

mickey going public domain on jan 1st 2024

So I'm certainly not the first person to notice this but I've literally never seen anyone else talk about it so screw it. i will

Scarlet and Violet seem to have his really big theme with the characters and them defying expectations and having things you just wouldn't expect (I hope I'm explaining this well lol)

Honestly there's too many examples to list them all so I'm going to stick with Team Star because I love them.

Even the whole storyline has this as the thing because you're introduced to them as just these delinquent kids who cause trouble but as you go through the story you learn that there's way more to them than just that and that they're honestly pretty nice.

Giacomo being a dark type trainer can weigh into this as dark types can be associated with evil acts and criminals in Pokémon but he ain't evil. Also having someone part of the evil team but also being a huge rule stickler in the past is contrast as well.

Mela being really shy underneath her outward appearance works like this too as she looks threatening and mean but is just shy is contrast. It also works and goes against preconceived notions with fire trainers in the franchise being loud and boisterous (there are other exceptions though like Kabu).

Atticus follows through with the previous trends of poison trainers being ninjas but breaks other things. Like having him interested in sewing and having him make all the clothes goes against gender stereotypes in a way y'know like a male character sewing???

(again I know that he isn't the first Pokémon character to break gender ideas but let me gush ok)

And then there's Ortega who is a very cutesy fairy trainer but also is kind of the meanest in the team and like openly insults people semi-regularly. Also having the fairy specialist being the mechanic is kind contrasty because fairies are weak to steel so yeah. Also rich boy mechanic, you love to see it

Eri is certainly the most intimidating looking of the team but in probably like one of the nicest people in this game. Also unrelated but I like how frilly and princessy her clothes are and she even has a cute little tiara but she also could beat you up like you don't have to choose between being a princess and beating people up.

And then Penny

Oh boy Penny

Like shy nerd is the true mastermind??? Like who could've thunk it and like even though she looks very non threatening and sweet and stuff she stole from practically like the school board/government and nearly gets away with it. Another bit is like she sounds so confident and mysterious as Cassiopeia but the we get to see PENNY and she's so shy and stammering and it's just perfect.

so TLDR: I really like Team Star and breaking expectations.