I got bored waiting for the leaks so post a pokemon and I'll

>>29085459
Mankey

Aggron

>>29085459
Magnemite

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okay anon, explain this why is it that mew can learn every move but can't learn crabhammer?

Volcarona

Voltorb and Grimer

>>29085459
Nidoking.
Specifically how it produces poison and how it has access to every special move.

Durant

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>>29085459
Hey! Botanist here. Obviously love grass pokemon. I can help out with grass type biology!

>>29085459
>>29085516
It CAN learn every move, but that doesn't mean that YOU can TEACH it every move.

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>>29085459
Him

>>29085516
Because it can't hold a hammer with its cumpy fucking arms

>>29085548
so when are they holding an event mew with crabhammer?

>>29085542
tfw im studying horticulture next year

plants are awesome

>>29085602
Whenever it is, it's not soon enough.

>>29085609
Fuck. If I could do it all over again, I would study plant biology

>tfw fell for the computer science meme
I-It's ok, at least I'll have a job?

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>>29085459
explain zorua's illusions

>tfw OP lied to you

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>>29085516

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>>29085459
Why are it's legs so small?

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Please explain fire horse to me and how it dosen't burn the trainers it trusts or whatever.

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Please do Volcarona.

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This little guy.

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>>29085609
Do it!! Its such an interesting topic, you can do so much with it! If I could suggest one thing, make sure that you spend time learning about plants in your area, not just agricultural plants. And look into agroecology. Probably the coolest class I ever took!

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Wow, did not expect this thread to take off.

>>29085473
Mankey's an interesting one due to its unique skeleton. It lacks some vertebrae, and its body is shortened and condensed. Because of this it does not have a lower body which is not protected by ribs, Mankey must either give birth to very small live young, or carry only one fetus at a time.

Its head has receded into the body with a shortening of the neck in order to protect from damaging blows. However, this means the pokemon must now swivel its entire body to look around. Its long arms likely make up for limited flexibility that its highly modified body form causes.

Its small size and relatively light weight allow it to use its tail to navigate the trees. They live in colonies of 10-20 pokemon. The strongest Mankey leads the troupe, but occasionally a Primeape has been found leading a group of Mankey. Their colonies are very tight knit, and to prevent aggression within the group, they will often attack other pokemon or humans. Body language is extremely important to this pokemon.

>>29085500
I'll do this next

>>29085516
Magic

Please excuse my terrible touchpad rendition of bones

>>29085542
Sweet. All my advisors wanted me to do plant bio but I couldn't resist the bugs.

>>29085665
what would you be trading that mew for?

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>>29085772
Hey, nothing wrong with bugs! Not necessarily my cup of tea, but without insects my job would be pretty....nonexistent!

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manaphy please

>>29085772
>must either give birth to very small live young, or carry only one fetus at a time.

it lays eggs, you dumb fuck

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>>29085772
This is bretty cool.

Wanna explain this evo-line sometime? Sloth to gorilla, why?

Someone explain Jynx ffs

>>29085639
a job is important for sure, im hoping i'll have a decent job after my studies.

>>29085770
thank you for your tips and that amazing artwork :D

>>29085750
i love the lil fella

>>29085459

Do you have a theory on how Water Pokémon can make so much water for their Special attacks? I always thought they share a kind of sac, or specialized organ, that manages to quickly condense water in the air they breathe.

>>29085876
He is talking about fetus and eggs not actual egg it comes inside.

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>>29085811

Another Mew

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>>29085459
mismagius

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Aggron's helmet is keratin covered bone, in the same way that antelope horns are. This pokemon's diet is rich in iron, yet it cannot metabolize it and it is secreted as what appears to be armor. These plates are formed in the same way that the plates of armadillos are, and function similarly. As new metals are only secreted at the bottom of the plates, any damage to the plates remain. Therefore, one can tell how many battles one of these pokemon has been in just by looking at them.

They have a social structure similar to that of pack animals when young, but this disintegrates as they grow older and require more food sources and come of age to mate. It is not uncommon to see a mother Aggron with two calves if one hikes high into a mountain after breeding season has ended. Due to their large size and formidable armor, female Aggron do not consider humans or small pokemon a threat, but don't be surprised if the calves practice headbutting you! Fortunately, Aron lack the large horns of their elders.

It is the males that hikers need to worry about. They defend a large territory and will attack any intruder, no matter how small. It is not advisable to climb mountains that are known to be inhabited by Aggron during mating season.

>>29085876
If you wanna make everything a Monotreme then just swap what I said for eggs

>>29085902
Carnivorous human mimic

>>29085527
>>29085529
Gonna do these two next

Lucario

Reuniclus

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>>29085459
I missed those threads. Thanks anon.

I want to know how water Pokemon in general work. Water attacks in general blatantly defy the mass conservation laws.

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Keep up the good work OP, I am interested.
Think you could give Electivire a shot?

>>29086136
>This pokemon's diet is rich in iron, yet it cannot metabolize it and it is secreted as what appears to be armor.
Never would have thought about that that is pretty interesting

Man this stuff is so neat and interesting

How about one that is actually challenging?
Beheyem.

>>29086270
Internals are all just like pokeballs

>>29086343
How do psychic attacks work as a scientific basis

Salamence

Hey great thread OP
I'd like to hear about Dunsparce when you have the chance

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Please explain how my main man works

Mr mime

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>>29085459
Do Dodrio

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Can you please explain to me why the sun legendary is weak to fire?

>>29086449
He's a mother fucking landshark what else do you want.

Not OP but...

Desert mon. Deserts are hot. Fins function lik the large ears on rabbits to cool him down. Maybe also good for communicating with other landsharks? "Torpedos" on head are sensory organs that help them detect prey vibrations on the sand(or something else i dunno).

Maybe spikes are sexual too, bigger spikes = better mate? Excess [insert nutrient] from food becomes spikes, bigger spikes mean eats more, eats more means better hunter, bam the ladies love em.

>>29085529
Nidoking is a classic example of a pokemon that sequesters poisons from what it eats. Much like poison dart frogs and some aquatic invertebrates, it is able to capture and use the toxins from its diet. A likely candidate for this is the larvae of the Beedril line, as a large armoured pokemon like Nidoking would be able to raid a hive without being injured.

>>29085527
Volcarona has undergone mutations in the HOX gene which led to a pair of legs becoming a set of wings. It has been associated with the sun since ancient times, which has led to legends of it being able to produce fire. In addition to this, its habitat at the foot of volcanos only added fuel to the fire. However, this evolutionary line is not in fact capable of producing their own fire. It is their easily shed scales and fur-like hairs that combust easily in their volcanic habitat, and give the illusion of spontaneous flame.

>>29086539
bc he steel and the sun is not made of fire

>>29086534
For two heads -> three heads, dodrio was always a three-mon pokemon but one of them simply develops at a later stage?

And perhaps it has multiple heads because unlike animals irl, when the mutation occurred of multiple heads it was actually beneficial? Perhaps the species simply is excellent at communicating with other members and as such the multiple heads worked together in all scenarios (two headed animals irl have problems with the heads fighting each other).

Not OP obviously

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>>29086539

>>29086637
THE SUN IS NOT MADE OF FIRE THERE'S NO OXYGEN IN SPACE REEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

>>29085706
>Cool flames were accidentally discovered in the 1810s by Sir Humphry Davy, who noticed that certain types of flame did not burn his fingers or ignite a match.

It pretty clearly just varies the fuel type depending on whether or not it is engaging offensively.

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Thanks OP and everyone else contributing to this thread, it's one of the nicest I've seen on here in a while. If I had time I'd draw up some skeletal diagrams based on these descriptions.

>>29086652
Yeah, but the sun is made of very hot gas. So a fire typing would make sense, in a way.

>>29085892
Sloth is just baby Gorilla that's stretching out while sleeping, but looks like a sloth to you.

>>29085671
It never needed long ones, never had a mutation resulting in long legs, long legs are detrimental (maybe put it off balance?), or long legs just aren't beneficial enough to spread through the population.

Might as well ask why one bird is green but another is blue.

>>29085459
How has no one asked Girafarig?

>>29086270
That would be difficult since they would need to have one area of the body that was kept cooler than the rest to form condensation.

My guess is something about their blood being very dilute with excess water, in addition to perhaps a water storage organ depending on the species. When water was needed, it would be moved out of the blood into a sac, and then excreted.

>>29086343
Ripped that pretty much straight from my invertebrates class, not gonna lie. If you stop thinking about things like vertebrates, it opens up a whole new possibility of weird things.

>>29085586
Machoke's belts are passed down through family lines. Before the advent of metalworking, they were made from woven grass or fabric. They have advanced in a way that mirrors human civilization. In this species muscularity is sexually selected for, and the head frill helps the hairless pokemon regulate its temperature.

>>29085534
As they prefer to nest in mountains, minerals are available to them which they consume and use to excrete an exoskeleton much stronger than chitin. This behavior evolved because their typical diet of leaves does not contain the necessary nutrients. Much as parrots eat clay, the Durant sought out and consumed dirt and stone to gain these minerals. It was only after thousands of years of this behavior that the ones who excreted small amounts of minerals in their exoskeleton survived and reproduced to become the pokemon we know today.

>>29085640
Sequestered hallucinogenic compounds from its diet

>>29085892
Pretty much don't apply real life species to pokemon. The infant Slakoth are carried by their mothers everywhere, and so when placed on the ground stay in the same place. In the past, Slakoth who wandered off become lost and starved to death or were eaten by predators. Much as mother sea otters fluff up their babies so they cannot move while the mother is hunting, Slakoth babies have evolved so that they are not able to wander away.

>>29085772
Kyle?

>>29086972
>Ripped that pretty much straight from my invertebrates class, not gonna lie.
Scaly-foot gastropod, right?

>>29086539
It's less a fault in typing and more a fault in ability. He uses the fire to purify his metal. But it should have had an ability that, if it absolutely HAD to be a reskin of an existing one, should have been a reskin of Flash Fire

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>>29086280
Electrivire is a large monkey-like pokemon. Shaggy fur allows it to generate static electricity, which it then funnels into its tails. This pokemon is rumored to eat electricity, but in fact, its diet consists of metals. This is what allows it to store electricity and conduct through its two tails.

Electivire are social but competitive pokemon, living in small familial groups. When male Electabuzz mature, they set out to a new area to join an unrelated group or start their own.

>>29085861
A shell-less pelagic snail pokemon. They swim by flapping their "arms" and the tentacles on top are bioluminescence to attract the phototrophic plankton they eat.

>>29086974
No, but that's decently close to my name.

>>29087003
Hadn't heard of that one before but it's cool as hell. We just did sponges and I was thinking of their silica secretion.

>>29085892
>Gorilla
Jefferson's ground sloth

>>29086430
What we believe to wings are actually vestigial forelimbs once use to propel Dunsparce through the dirt. Over time its tail evolved to be more effective, and the limbs degenerated. It keeps its eyes closed because it has very poor eyesight, and its other senses have evolved to compensate. It may open its eyes aboveground when there is no chance of foreign debris getting in them. Dunsparce's small feelers allow it to sense vibrations.

>>29085811
How good are you at sucking cock?

>>29086972
But then, how exactly Slakoth's line works? once it becomes a Vigoroth it's much more active, but when turns into a Slaking it's lazy again

>>29086757
Goddamn plasma, you science-less bitch

>>29087616
Maybe Vigoroths are virileand aggressive and instead of a mating season have a mating stage of life. Then when they evolve into Slakoths they emit a musk that scares away all the Vigoroths and says ge the fuck away from my harem.When they die all the little horndogs fight each other for a place as the fuck king or maybe divide the bitches amongst themselves and evolve into a Slakoth. Rinse repeat.

>>29087616
As juvenile ape pokemon they must compete for a position in the social structure. Once they evolve into Slaking they have established their strength, and their sheer size allows them to keep their position comfortably. Think a young male gorilla trying to establish himself versus a silverback.

>>29085459
Can you explain Beheeyem?

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Please explain the spooky lamp, Chandelure.

vileplume, if you want!

I have a couple of thoughts that I've been trying to satisfactorily answer or justify, would you take a go at them?

>zubat's feet/tails and whether they can stand on them or what they are used for otherwise

>how pokemon like weepinbell and geodude move

>onix's segmented body and how it controls the rocks

>the bones cubone and marowak hold (not their heads)

>how koffing/ glalie float (not being psychic or ghost type)

>what happens to wooper's horns when it evolves into quagsire

>a better explanation as to why tyrogue evolves into each of it's evolutions (rationalising the stats)

>roselia/roserade's flowers

>the rocks on camerupt's humps/ what's going on in there as well as numel & torcoal's backs

>the ice on ice-type pokemon bodies (are they made of ice, or do they produce it?)

>timburr line's objects (square log, girder, concrete slabs)

>>29088067
Not OP, but Wooper's horns are actually external gills like real salamanders, Koffing is filled with bouyant gas, Geodude jumps by slapping the ground with its powerful arms, and Timburr fights logs into shape, Gurdurr used to carry large rocks but began carrying girders after their invention, and Conkeldurr canonically know how to create concrete.

>>29088067
Not the OP, but

>Zubat's "tails" are undeveloped feet which Golbat and Crobat posses. They act as sensory organs for the Zubat, as it has not developed eyes yet.

>Weepinbell uses an external vine system to move around trees, it is extremely slow otherwise. Geodude uses its arms for both manipulation and movement.

>The bones which Cubone and Marowak hold are the femurs of their mothers, which are extremely durable and able to be used as a boomerang

>The gas which Koffing and Weezing regularly secrete is mostly hydrogen. Think of them like mini spheroid zeppelins. I have no idea how the fuck Glalie would float.

>Wooper is based off the Axolotl, an animal that lives mostly in a state of neoteny where it can breed in a juvenile state. IRL this is because it is unable to secrete a developmental hormone in certain environments. Because this is not the case in the Pokemon world, it eventually loses its head fringes as it ages into a Quagsire.

>Ice on Ice bodies vary based on the species. Beartic for example creates ice around its mouth to use as a sharp object when biting into prey

>Camerupt's humps are not rock, but keratin that is extremely heat-resistant. Torkoal's shell has similar properties.

>>29086540
>[insert nutrient]
Calcium most likely

How do Pokémon that are artificial in nature live? Do they have anything slightly resembling organic anatomy or are they just like robots?

Are Ghost types actually spirits or just organisms with very unique traits?
If so, how do they work?

>>29089395
Ghost types are ghosts possessing things or just very non corporeal things like gaseous pokemon, so definitely unique traits

and it seems that a lot of steel types/artificial pokemon are just either robots or very unique organisms or maybe spirits possessing the objects that aren't ghostly enough to be ghost type

How Klinklang live? Its not even artificial

>>29089901

Animism.

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>>29085516

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A little emphasis on its life cycle, please.

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So how does this guy work?

So I've had a theory about Cubone/Marowak. That they are NOT Kangaskhanh. But in fact Charmanders who's mother died and never actually had the fire lit on it's tail by it's mother. The new Alola region and species/types nearly confirms this no? Will elborate if anyone wants.

>>29090516
The ancients figured out a way to channel energy from the void. There's a self-sustaining reactor in his chest.

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Do Feraligatr you fucking hackfraud

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Not OP, but I have this.

>>29086972
>mother sea otters fluff up their babies

I know we're talking about Pokemon, but can you expound on this? This is interesting

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Here's an attempt to explain Banette

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>>29092155
Related to what you're thinking about.

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>>29092212
This is legitimately terrifying.

I'd be pissed it that happened to any of mine, though.

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>>29092407
They need to make the substitute thing an actual pokemon already.

>>29092503
Another artificial Pokémon. Seems fair.

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Tell me, why is Rampardos a forest dwelling predator when the creature it's based on is a desert herbivore?

>>29092503
>Substitute Pokemon
>It can use Substitute
>Has an ability that lets it use Substitute when a sub is already out, adding another layer of defense

If this ever happens, I would use it. It'd probably be a gimmicky shitmon, but I'd still use it.

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>>29086553
>Volcarona
very nice.
nice.

>>29089264
>spikes are sexual
Don't give any of the autistic furfags any ideas.

>>29086553
its like youve never heard of a fucking moth before and are just spouting unrelated (poor) observations

Someone explain stingulor

>>29085459
>>29085459
Groudon

>>29085516
Mew can learn any move, it is the trainer who can't teach it.

>>29086347
Not OP but I see Beheeyem as cyberorganic

>>29087616
Slaking are the alphas, their higher social status turn them lazy just like male lions.

>>29088067
Koffing/Glalie
Gas lighter than air

>>29085459
explain how Wobbuffet works and if the theories about it actually being an Unown in the tail are true.

here's a difficult one:

how can poison types like Weezing or Muk do Thunderbolt attacks and Fire attacks?

how can a normal type like Lickitung can learn all kinds of elemental moves like that too?

>>29092811
>>29092646
Drink my butt sweat you two.

>>29088709
on glalie it could have a superconducting material inside it uses like an electromagnet to levitate

>>29096160
helium instead of hydrogen

helium can't combust

>>29096160
Muk and Weezing are filled with pollutants. Flammables and battery acid are common pollutants.

Think of normal types like White light. It's a mix of every color rather than the absence of color.

>>29096980
>Flammables and battery acid are common pollutants.

that actually makes sense. I guess if Weezing goes from eating rubbish or inhaling toxic fumes, the battery stuff is something it normally wouldn't skip then.

>Think of normal types like White light. It's a mix of every color rather than the absence of color.

I like this interpretation but it doesn't have anything to do with biology. nice going though.

>>29098658
>*to inhaling toxic fumes

typo

>>29085706
>when it burned Ash's hand twice in a row

his balls were up for it too. sadly that didn't happen.

>>29085459
spheal maybe?

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How about this one?

op here, I have to go to class but I'll pick up later today or make a new thread if this one drops off.

>>29092792
What if its ability makes it generate a substitute as soon as it switches in, kind of like Imposter for Ditto

>>29092764
they didn't give it rockhead
and if an actual pachy rammed into anything with its dense skull it would have died

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mawile please

>>29085516
It can learn it, it's just not physically able to use it.

>>29096879
that makes a lot of sense, it is ice type

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>>29103101
I second this

>>29103101
>>29103487

Mawile have metallic horns that form from eating iron rich foods, and split apart eventually into two spiky mouth-like appendages. It uses these "jaws" as a way of killing prey that it lures in with its calm, sweet demeanor.

>>29099817
Espeon has psychic power that it uses as defense, and it is enhanced by using its forked tail as a sort of channel for energy, as it connects directly to the brain. The crystalline nodule on its forehead is formed from the chromium in the food it eats, and is created when intense psychic power is used, as the chromium seems to concentrate there.

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>>29086856
My favorite psychic type

Girafarig is a pokemon with a decently strong brain, in the way of telekinesis at least. It almost always has a vestigial twin on its lower back, forming into it's tail. The girafarig and it's twin have almost the exact same brain patterns, so it uses this to communicate telepathically, especially if danger is near.

>>29087861
Chandellure are spirits that have an energy level close to a calm, but hot flame. They possess things that can produce fire, such as candles, lamps, and chandeliers, and will change between them as it grows stronger. It alters the flame of the object it is possessing to match it's energy level, so it makes all flames on its body extremely hot, but also calm. They seem to pull in energy in the air for fuel for their flames, especially the energy that leaves a dying organic being.

>>29105149
>chromium
espeon eats only brewer's yeast

>>29106794
Wait really? When was this stated?

>>29106819
wait, nevermind im a retard, i read that wrong

>>29106794

>>29106819
brewer's yeast is incredibly rich in chromium

>>29106861
I remembered after I posted, kek