So, Wimpod is clearly based on a trilobite, but his name and

It's a Pokemon.

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If designed well, I wouldn't mind

Its name could be from "arthropod" and not "isopod". Or the more simple answer, that it's based on multiple things and >>27262883

it kind of looks like a horseshoe crab too. best bet would be to look up hawaiian shit. there is a reason they go to locations where they are basing games.

but yeah the evo will probably be more like an isopod.

>>27262893
ooh nice point i did not even think of arthropod! I'd just be p shocked if this was the fossil pokemon, or if they did a trilobite without making him the fossil.

>>27262843
Can Pokemon no longer draw from multiple inspirations?
>>27262890
If Wimpod doesn't become a speedy Pokemon, I hope it becomes a total tank and looks like this.

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>>27262843
so are we finally getting a scorpion bug type fianl stage?

>>27262932
I mean it probably is from isopod as a commonly water-associated, armored, segmented bug, but it doesn't necessarily have to be or be entirely an isopod. Mudkip is very blatantly not a mudskipper, among other Pokemon, despite it being the name AND being the "mud fish" Pokemon

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>>27262945
or a eurypterid!!!

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>>27262843
<Trilobite

More like a horseshoe crab.

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It's a Wharf Roach.

>Lives near water.
>Extremely skittish and runs away with little provocation.
>Eats garbage and detritus.
>Just look at the damn thing.

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>>27262843
>tfw no qt3.14 isopod gf

>>27263207
A wharf roach IS an isopod. When most people say "isopode" they think of the giant ones though. The problem with this comparison, isopods, copepods, etc. is that it doesn't have visible legs. The no legs is pretty clearly meant to evoke the "hovering" look of a horseshoe crab. It's probably just as simple as being based on multiple things though.

>>27263021
close enough, after drapion I can settle with this

>>27262843
>not named Shylobite
when will GF america ever learn?

>>27262843
its a triops. trilobites didnt have antennae

>>27262843
kinda surprised it's not one of our fossils for this gen, but I'm glad it covers a woefully underutilized typing rather than just being yet another rock/bug or rock/water

>>27263910
Because it's a Silverfish, it's a play on their behavior

>>27263187
Fuck off with this meme, it's closer to either a trilobite or a isopod than a fucking horseshoe crab

>>27264008
>silverfish

Are you actually retarded?

>>27262938
Its definitely a Trilobite, presuming if in reality it was structured similarly to a isopod.

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>>27263021
fuck I need that on my team

Is it a chiton?

>>27263274
Link to the rest? I found a Photobucket link one time but all the pictures were perpetually blurry.

>>27262843
It is based on the ancient Hawaiian myth of wish-granting armored shellfish that run away from people.

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>>27262843
Possibly a trilobite but kabuto already exists (triobite/horseshoe crab). Reminds me a lot more of these things.

>>27264801
This isn't remotely close to a horseshoe crab though.

It looks like an Isopod, but they put the iconic trilobite head on it.

>>27264784
with this as the flavor text.

>>27262843
sorry, but it's an isopod

it's japanese name is "small feet-bug"
it's french name is "save yourself if you can-lice"
it's german name references louses

names are very random

>>27264871
It is, but you gotta admit that head is very much that of a trilobite.

>>27264860
I just made that up.

>>27263187
This. Not even memeing. This thing is clearly a horseshoe crab.

>>27264933
They all suggest small, cowardly nature. Just the animal part that is obscure.

>>27264476
I'll let you think out the similarities, you miracle of God

I have a friend that's dead certain it's more of a Horseshoe crab, based on dex entry

Either way, i like it when they take more inspiration into things like this, and so far i really like this little guy

>>27264933
>save yourself if you can-lice
lel

>>27262843
Horseshoe Crab.

>>27264801
That thing is fucking adorable

>>27263187
You already have Kabuto and Kabutops, fuck off. It's the Trilobite's time to shine.

>>27264961
Then you successfully rused me, it sounded legit enough.

>>27265020
You mean the similarities tons of animals have, that aren't in any way exclusive to silverfish?

>>27264998
It's not in any way a horseshoe crab, this is a fucking meme at this point. Note the short body? The dual plates? The singular stinger?

Note how Wimpod have none of those iconic features of a horseshoe crab?

What do you guys think it's going to evolve into? Will they keep the cowardly theme, or go in the opposite direction and pull a Kabutops and have it look dangerous as fuck?

>>27265598
It evolves into a Jewish-Italian New Yorker that comes up with crazy schemes to make money or take revenge on slights but always manages to have it blow up in his face.

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>>27265631

>>27265570
Pretty sure the "iconic feature" of the horseshoe crab is its shape

>>27265669
You mean that thing I literally described? Yeah.

Wimpod doesn't have that shape

>>27265653
Wimpstanza.

>>27265738
You are dumb. Do I have to literally make a silhouette of Wimpod and a horseshoe crab

>>27265893
Do it. Also include those for the other commonly claimed basis.

>>27265893
Yeah man, if your this confident of your horseshoe crab theory I'm not going to stop ya.

>>27265893
>>27265952
>>27265980
Literally going to dig himself into a deeper hole of stupidity by drawing the silhouettes wrong to suit his theory

>>27266038
C'mon man, give him some credit.

>>27266047
I'm sorry but I just don't get it. A horseshoe crab has two very easily recognizeable segments and a whiplike tail.
Wimpod has 5 segments at the least with a spined tail. It also sports two long antennae that are characteristic of a trilobite. As well as the very easily recognizeable head shape.
You could argue that a trilobite has many more segments but they couldn't very well make a small pokemon have that many segments without it being a mess.

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>>27265952
>>27265980
>>27266038
Absolutely NOTHING ALIKE AT ALL

Also fuck you I'm not doing this for everything it's meant to look like, I was going to but I couldn't even find a good shot of an isopod to make it fair, nothing looks at all like it, and it was harder than I thought it was going to be. And my point was only that they look extremely similar, not that that was all that it was or that it couldn't be based on multiple things

>>27266268
Called it.
You are literally either trolling or retarded.
Did you actually fucking draw an elongated tail on wimpod just to try and prove your point? My sides fucking hurt.

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>>27266325
You have to be a fucking idiot if you are seriously pedantic enough to call that an "elongated tail".

>>27266185
Its definitely an isopoda (probably a wharf roach given the long strands jutting from it's head) the trilobite skeleton head throws me off, but maybe the designer just taking creative liberties.

>>27266268
I think you actually are retarded, did you not see the video or the actual model? Do you know what perspective is?

>scribbling with black marker is harder than you thought it would be

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>>27266347
Learn perspective you fucking mong

>>27266354
Hey, I just went over the art. if you want to say the art is shit or inaccurate that's another issue entirely. You'd have to be absolutely blind to think these were not extremely similar.

>>27266394
I'm putting all future "its a horseshoe crab guys" in the same category as people who thought the grub should be a coconut crab, and thought roothoot was real.

>>27266380
the tail on yours is way too short. You're the one that needs to learn persperctive. From the perspective in the art, its tail is actually long, probably 2/3rds the length of its body at least. The proportions on your drawing are way off. That's why I used the actual art instead of drawing it like a retard

I know that in recent gens this has been less apparent, but Pokemon can be based on more than one creature simultaneously.

>>27265507
kabutops is a trilobite

>>27266446
You're actually trolling at this point.
The only way I can show you how fucking wrong you are is by doing a shit mouse drawing.
It doesn't have an elongated tail you dumbass. It's called perspective as 3 other people have now told you as well. There are 2 same length spines and 2 shorter same length spines. There isn't one long spine. Jesus fucking christ it's like explaining that the sun isn't the size of a skittle to a 5 year old.

>>27266495
No, that is not how perspective works and it is absolutely hilarious that you're projecting this "hurr troll!!" thing. Something short doesn't fucking look long when turned at that angle. that's not how it fucking works.

>>27263340
>it doesn't have visible legs. The no legs is pretty clearly meant to evoke the "hovering" look of a horseshoe crab
It has them. Watch the video again.

>>27266528
Horseshoe crabs have legs you goofus.

>>27266473
Yeah, and it's an isopoda with a trilobite head.

And 0% horseshoe crab

>>27264933
Those are referencing woodlice which are isopods.

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>>27266511
I'm trying to tell you it's a split tail and not one elongated whiplike tail you dipshit

>>27266535
>every pokemon that has legs is now a horseshoe crab

>>27266555
this

>>27266561
You have to be fucking with me. Your. Your complaint was that the tail was too long. And this picture completely shows off your totally wrong your drawing was proportion-wise as well, which is kind of fucking important considering the main fucking complaint hat you had scrounge up to nitpick about was that the tail was too long.

>>27266600
Nah you can fuck off already. You thought it was one long tail surrounded by tiny spines. Now you're just diverting attention away from that in an attempt to win a completely separate and irrelevant argument.

>>27266600
Now take that split tail with two long sections, and look at the trilobite in op's image.

MYSTERY FUCKING SOLVED ISN'T IT?

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>segmented dome
>split tail
>skittishness
>eats garbage
>antennae
It's a fucking wharf roach

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>>27266630
That sounds exactly like whst you're doing. I drew it as close as possible to the picture. You totally fucked up the proportion with that can be shown to be clearly wrong, with your own image no less, to win some argument on the internet.

>>27262843
It's possibly a combination of a wharf roach, silverfish, and horseshoe crab which are animals native to hawaii and fit the dex entry too similarly. Trilobites roll up in defense when startled, but wimpod scurry away like a silverfish.

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It is a thing.

>>27266666
The quads confirm, it's a wharf roach

It just has a trilobite shaped head for reasons only the designer knows.

>>27266683
Nigga, wharf roaches are skittish too.

A lot of small creatures are very skittish to giants in fact.

>>27266666
Those things are gross as all shit. Good thing they're super shy.

>>27266692
It's probably supposed to evoke the idea of a trilobite, but still mostly designed after a wharf roach.

>>27266681
Literally go read my first reply. My one argument was that you drew the tail like it's one elongated spine just to try and make it look like a horseshoe crab. Yeah I drew my spines too short but it's fucking irrelevant. You drew it as one long spine without taking perspective into consideration. You're literally grasping so hard that it hurts. It's not a horseshoe crab you god damned moron.

>>27266666
Why didn't they drew its legs on it? Same as with more general isopods as well. I agree that its probably some combination of isopods and horseshoe crabs

>>27266692
Those are gleeful satanic quints mate.

>>27266742
Trilobites probably hid the legs under it's shell as well, and it fits the description way better than the horseshoe crab

>>27266732
>Yeah I drew my spines too short but it's fucking irrelevant. You drew it as one long spine without taking perspective into consideration.
>LITERALLY IT DOESN'T MATTER THAT I WAS WRONG IT ONLY MATTERS THAT YOU'RE WRONG
Do you knwo what the purpose of that picture was? To show that I drew the spines very similar to how they were in the original picture. How the fuck did I drew it "elongated to make it look like a similarity"? The proportions and angle are the same as in the picture. And why the fuck is that a different thing than you not drawing its tail long enough to make it NOT look similar?

>>27266765
I always thought the things on the side of a trilobyte WERE its legs.

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>>27266774
Here I fixed it to sate your pedantry.
Now that it's out of the fucking way.
It's not a horseshoe crab so please argue some more you idiot.

>>27266805
>"My" pedantry
>YOU were the one who literally first bitched about the tail being too long and go on soem bullshit about perspective withotu having a clue what the perspective even was on the image, since you thought the image was making its tail look long when it was actually short evne though that's literally not how it fucking works at all
Holy shit

It is actually a clam with a shell that mimics a crustacean and runs away so that the ruse is never exposed.

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?

>>27266841
Actually trolling.
I said ONE.. ONE long elongated spine. Which is what a horseshoe crab has. I also said "I'm trying to tell you it has a split tail"
But seriously I can't believe I've given in to replying this much.
I'm done now. If you're willing to try this hard then you'll never give up. Even if GF came out and said it's not a horseshoe crab you would argue with the person who designed it.
Bye

>>27266841
>>27266805
Also if you REALLY want to be pedantic, the tail is actually too long now. Its tail is shorter than its body but not by much

>>27266864
Why is this not a bug-type?

>>27266912
Aquatic crustaceans are not considered "bugs".

>>27266927
A lot of things people call bugs and are bug-type in pokemon aren't considered "bugs"

>>27266927
So we can determine that Wimpod is a land creature that just has water powers.

>>27266912
They're pretty inconsistent with this. I do actually believe Wimpod is PART horseshoe crab but I think it's also part isopod and just takes its general shape from horseshoe crabs. Anorith and Kabuto pretty accurately show how inconsistent they are with it.

>>27266956
Anorith is an Anomaridudemyfaceisgiantclaws and Kabuto is a rock with legs that imply looks like a horshoe crab.

>>27266935
Such as? I can't find a single example besides Arceus.

>Wimp Out
>When this Pokémon's HP drops below half in battle, it will run away or swap out for another Pokémon.

So we have to put up with a really weak and shitty Pokemon for a while. Here's hoping it turns into a Gyarados" MAKE FUN OF ME AGAIN FUCKER" Pokemon.

>>27266981
Centipedes are not bugs
Any insect based pokemon is not a bug which covers a rather large amount of them
Off the top of my head

>>27266981

Dwebble/Crustle are hermit crabs.

>>27266590
Blaziken is a horseshoe crab

>>27266999
Any arthropod besides mostly aquatic crustaceans are called "bugs" in informal speech.

>>27267009
They have no relation whatsoever with water so they're considered bugs in the Pokémon world.

>>27267054
Anorith is based on a sea creature that I believe is rather closely related to shrimp

>>27267054
>>27267067
Also Cradily was based on some kind of barnacle or something isn't it? But it ended up being grass instead of Water like Anorith ended up being bug instead of water. I guess they are kind of oddballs.

>>27266742
Well, the gimmick of quite a few isopods are that they roll up into a ball (ie the pillbug), so quite a few of them keep their legs right underneath their body and not extended.

>>27266956
I don't think it's part horseshoe crab at all still, its way more isopod/trilobite, much like how kabuto is horseshoe crab/trilobite.

>>27266935
>>27266927
The bug type is basically the "arthropod type", with the exception of ones that people actually eat.

Cause people don't want to really think they're eating something related to a wasp for some reason, even in japan.

>>27267067
Anorith is an exception since the animal is based on is neither a crustacean nor an insect.

>>27267105
Why is Shelmet a Bug-type?
It seems to be a mollusk.

>>27267105
Yeah, but this is pretty clearly not based on a pillbug or anything. I'd sooner just assume they were mashing together horseshoe crabs and the sea-dwelling type of isopods. A lot of people commonly confuse horseshoe crabs and trilobites. It's the same deal with Kabuto really. The average person really just doesn't differentiate the two and it's very commonly assumed the two are related or the same kind of thing. I'm sure it's the same deal here. I just learn horseshoe crab over trilobite because of the long tail and it being a "modern" creature as opposed to kabuto which I feel leans more towards trilobite due to being a fossil, especially as Kabutops. But I don't think either are based on any one thing, if only because of the misnomers or confusion and not with any intentional basis with someone going "i explicitly want to combine a horseshoe crab and a trilobite" for example.

>>27267172
Cause people unironically believe slugs and snails are bugs.

Just looked it up, anomalocaris apparently isn't related to shrimp at all other than being a descendant of the very broad category of "arthropod" so my bad

>>27267196
Slugma, Shellos, Goomy, etc. are not. There is some sort of difference that is being overlooked.

>>27267172
Snails are sometimes referred as bugs for some reason. It seems to be loosely based on bagworms too so maybe that's the actual explanation.

>>27267196
Technically only six bug type pokemon are actually based on bugs
still more than the amount of grass types based on grass

>>27266446
Ok, they did screw up the length some, but that tail is not 2/3rds its length. At best it's not even half

>>27267224
Shelmet and Accelgor are ones that really bug me. I'm PRETTY CERTAIN Shelmet LOOKS like a clam or something, but is SUPPOSED to be a snail, and that Accelgor is supposed to be a slug, but those are probably the most incorrect bug-types next to Anorith if that's what they are, so I honestly have no idea what they are supposed to be. I know it's probably a combination of things but I still don't know what the things are or why. why would they combine a clam and a snail and why would it end up bug-type?

>>27267187
Kabuto clearly leans more towards a horseshoe crab, trilobites didn't have shells (common misconception)

I didn't say it was literally a pillbug, but that pillbugs were a type of Isopod, and used it as an example of an isopod rolling up into a ball.

The reason I'm including trilobite at all is strictly for the head shape, if it didn't have that head crest I would be adamant it was a giant isopod / wharf roach.

>>27267262
Measure it with the line tool, and also remember it's even longer than it appears because of perspective (foreshortening) and based on >>27266561

>>27267277
I know, but Kabutops is definitely way more trilobite because of its spiny appearance. The point is that they were combined because they are similar and are often confused of just combined for the sake of simplicity, and that Kabuto was proof of that in the context of Pokemon

>>27267265
Because it is the prey for Karablast's motif animal, but instead of eating it it just steals the armor, leaving a weak form behind. If it is based on a bagworm, would be like the female ones and never turn into a moth like Forretress, but naked.

>>27267255
Like the other guy said, bug type is really the arthopod type, and the majority of bugs fall into this.

Except for ones that aren't considered weird food (lobsters and crabs)

>>27267224
The difference is there not being anything else to slap onto it. Its not on fire, it's not water based, it's not secretly a dragon etc, it's just a weird clam snail thing and a slug thing.

It will be an alternative evolution to Kabutops.

>>27267325
Horseshoe crabs have spines to my knowledge.

>>27267329
Why the fuck we have three lines based on bagworms? It's kinda super specific isn't it.

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>>27266495
>>27267262
Have you even seen the thing?

>>27267262
>>27267304
I screwed up on the length but I didn't care honestly. It wasn't the point I was trying to make so my effort went more into showing number of body segments and overall shape. It's whatever though.

>>27267353
>crabs and shrimps
>weird food
Where the fuck do you literally live.

>>27267391
Huh. I fucked up and mistook one of the sides for a top spine

Guess I need to relearn perspective

>>27267255
>Technically only six bug type pokemon are actually based on bugs
Which ones? I thought the proper meaning of "bug" exclusively referred to stinkbugs.

>>27267353
Bug can pretty much just mean "land-dwelling invertebrate" even though it's actually just a relatively small order of insects

>>27267372
Why would we have two unrelated dream-eating tapirs?
Why would we have two unrelated dead cicadas controlled by something inside them?

>>27267446
Wow, that's pathetic

>>27267325
Its really a reverse evolution they like to play around with.

Take a more modern looking horseshoe crab, and then have it evolve into a bipedal trilobite.

With wimpod, I only see the trilobite aspect and none of the horseshoe crab.

Like you said tho, they do get confused sometimes, but think of it like this.

Trilobites are essentially an ancestor to both isopods and horseshoe crabs, being basically the first arthropod, so it makes more sense for them to be drawing inspiration from the ancestor more so than the distant cousin.

>>27265454
You can buy eggs and kits for them on amazon. They only live for a few weeks though.

>>27267457
Nincada, Ninjask, Shedinja, Paras, Parasect (cicadas)
Shuckle (scale insect)

ITS A GODDDAMN HORSESHOE CRAB LIKE WTF ARE WE EVEN ARGUING OVER THIS FOR??

I CAN UNDERSTAND MISTAKING IT FOR A TRILOBITE BUT WE GOT THIS ONE NIGGER SAYING ITS A FUCKING WHARF ROACH FOR FUCKS SAKE

ARE YOU FAGGOTS FUCKING BLIND JESUS FUCKING CHRIST

>>27267458
Huh... I never thought of Parasect as dead or even really a cicada. Seems weird the first cicada pokemon wouldn't become the distinctive full-fledged cicada.

>>27267433
I said aren't considered weird food.

As in they aren't weird food.

>>27267490
Its only you being blind as fuck to the fact it doesn't have a giant dual segmented shell on it's back.

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>>27263187
>>27264998

This place literally believes that foxes are dogs, you can't debate with these retards.

>>27267490
If it is a horseshoe crab, it's only part. I think its shape is much more similar to a horseshoe crab than the typical giant isopode or the more specific kind of isopode wharf roach. But its has way more segments and has antennae which are definitely not horseshoe crab.

>>27267488
You forgot Surskit.

>>27267533
Guess it's time to go to sleep.

>>27267490
see
>>27267551

Also reminder that owls are not birds

>>27267490
see
>>27266666
>>27266728
There is absolutely nothing about it that is shared with a horseshoe crab that isn't more apparent with a wharf roach and a trilobite.

>>27267561
Oops, I guess that makes seven true bug bug types

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>>27267602
Are you implying that they are

>>27263274
Excuse me?

>>27267731
>tfw Cactowl will never ever be OU

>>27263274
>in a distant future people will be able to breed with whatever

>>27264933
I do get some Sand Fiddler/Sea Louse vibes from it

nigga is a silverfish

>>27267468
Eh, at least I owned up to it

>>27268049
Silverfish memers are actually the roothoot guys.

At least horsecrab has a similar head.

>>27264688
That arm is so vascular.

>>27267372
Japan has a boner for them.
Execution is different with Pineco and Foretress being eyes under exterior and possibly that toy bug in a box, Burmy and co. having environmental cloaks and based on how real ones work, and Shellmet being squishy being cloaked in metal and cloth like ninjas.

>>27267551
Foxes are not domestic dogs, but both are canids.

>>27266847
I like this

>>27267067
No anorith is based on anomalocaris, part of an ancient cambrian group of arthropods with no living descendants and only distantly related to anything alive today.

They're p cool.

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I hope he keeps his typing with the final evo. Water / Bug is a fucking amazing type combo. 2 of the best STABs in the game, fighting, ground, ice, steel, water resistances (that means he resists all of the priority in the game besides quick attack).

Really good coverage all around. High hopes for this guy, hope they don't cheat him out of his typing like they did with trapinch!

>>27269332
Doesn't resist bravest bird and m-pinser quick attack

>>27262843
I think it's a silverfish based on its description and general appearance. It's likely that no one source was used for information but I'm pretty sure the influences were eutrypids, silverfish and possibly trilobites.

>>27269393
>2 counters
Oh no!
This is a great typing. Only surskit has it at the moment and that pokemon is unusuable.

>>27269332
Come to think of it, how is there not a priority electric attack yet? You'd think a type based around quickness would have a priority move by now

This thing is literally the only design I care about so far
I really hope they don't fuck up his evolution like they did with the bullet shrimp in X&Y

>>27263021
Bug/Dragon FUCKING WHEN

>>27268468
Yeah, well if he let's go of that monster there will be a dead kitten on glorious nippon happy hour. Of course he is going to deathgrip it.

>>27264933
>>27262843
It's just a skittish arthropod drawn as a chibi children's game character.

It will look like a lot of specific species because it just represents the general body plan, not a specific species.

>>27267391
So a giant horse vs a fruit.

plot twist: The fruit is the predator.

It's a chiton people, move on

>>27268734
We've been over this
Being a canid does not make it a dog

>>27262893
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>>27265313
Really, I'm pretty sure Wimpod takes inspiration from all of these

Typical case of Pokemon designs not always meshing with the names.
Gamefreak aren't the Illuminati. Not every Pokemon design is some deep conspiracy. I mean, Mightyena is a dog, not a Hyena.

>another trilobite Pokemon
>it's actually Bug/Water
About fucking time. I really hate that every fossil has to be rock type, as though every fucking Pokemon from a million years ago was rock type.

>>27273682
But it's an isopod

>>27273682
It's not a fossil though, just like how lapras and tropius aren't fossils. They make them part rock to symbolize the fact that fossils are rock.

Sides, its an isopoda with a trilobite head.

>>27271195
There isn't an ounce of silverfish in it. I know your just trying to be diplomatic, but your just being dumb.

Theres nothing adding silverfish to the equation does that the others don't explain better. Occam's Razor that shit and we get just a isopoda (giant wharf roach) with a trilobite head.

>>27266981
Galvantula and Ariados are spiders. Spider =/= bugs.

>>27274498
Most arthropods are considered bugs in informal speech.
The amount of pokémon based on scientifically true bugs can be counted on one or maybe two hands.

>>27263187
If there's one thing it's definitely not based on, it's a fucking horseshoe crab.
It's back has multiple segments while a horseshoe crab has two solid segments.
It also doesn't have a horseshoe rudder.
It also isn't fuggin brown.
Everything else in this thread is a more likely inspiration than a horseshoe crab.

>>27271195
except horseshoe crabs

>>27264688
Litten and wimpod confirmed for best buds.