Create Your Own Pokémon
Everyone has a favorite Pokémon. However, it can be even more fun to create your very own amazing Pokémon by combining animals and elements in interesting ways. A few suggestions are explained below.
Steps
Pokémon Fantasy
- Pick an animal, an object, or a plant. It doesn't matter which one, as Pokémon can be any of these.
- Pick one or two elements. For example, ground, water, fire, flying, steel, electric, normal, etc. (check the Pokémon equivalent first, like lightning is electric and earth is ground in Pokémon)
- Taking the animal/plant or object you chose, give it effects that make it seem like its element(s). For example, you could choose a mountain lion and give it fire powers, such as adding fire to its tail-tip, the mane around its neck, or random fire strips on its back.
- To make it seem more Pokémon-like, add random body-parts, or an unnatural color. For example, if you had a water pig, you could make the pig blue and give it fins on its back.
- Give it a name. This is a bit tricky, but it helps if you know the scientific names of both your animal and element.
- Give it cool attack moves having to do somewhat with both the element and animal.
- Give it evolved forms. Make it have something to do with the type of animal and its element.
Fakemon
- Look at exotic creatures, like a hummingbird or even better a goblin shark or a panda ant. (Yes, those are real animals, you may look them up.)
- Think of an element that goes well with the animal you've chosen. For example, in X and Y, they based Dragalge on a leafy sea dragon and declared it a Poison/Dragon-type. This is normally easy, but for fun you can use another type combination.
- Add new body parts to make it look more Pokémon. For example, a bushier tail, color change, a lightning bolt tail, flame tail, etc.
- Think of some moves your pokemon might know. Or, better yet, create your own moves.
- Choose names. This can take forever, so how about this: for a turtle, combine it with a Flying-type. Research words that mean sky. How about heavens? That's easy. Combine the words you found, it can be three, four, or even two. For this example, you could call it Turavens or Heartle. Choose one.
- That's great! Now, do you know any similar animals? Or, just make a standing version and change the body features into new ones, maybe add a new element, and you've got an evolution!
Tips
- Try to be creative, not just taking a real Pokémon and changing it a bit.
- You can also make a Pokémon out of a hybrid of two animals, or out of an object, such as an alarm clock.
- The name should be a distorted word to do with the elements / theme of your Pokemon.
Warnings
- Try not to overdo steps 3 or 4.
- Don't add too many evolved forms. Having as many as Eevee wouldn't be good, unless it's an Eevee evolution.
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