Carnivine is obviously a venus flytrap-inspired guy, but... why does he have tentacle-roots? And some of them are red? And he can levitate? Guys, I'm seeing more "alien invader" than "plant" here, but okay. At least they didn't rip off the Piranha Plant design from Mario.
Though if they did, it would've ended up more threatening. Carnivine has this dopey, goofy grin on its face, and while I know that it can open up wide, it doesn't really look like it. The in-game sprites are better, but from this angle it looks to me like an egg-shaped head with a smile and snaggle teeth.
I guess I'm also not a fan of how thrown-together it all looks, to use even more hyphenated words. The head is there, on top of a seed pod thing, with dandelion leaves and then those tentacles. Maybe that's the look they were going for, a conglomeration of plants, but I don't like it.
I think we can all agree that Carnivine is one of the more bizarre, out of place Pokemon, though. Whenever you scroll through the Pokedex you go "oh yeah, shit, Carnivine. that was a thing, huh. weird."
Overall: 4/10
picture the image without the teeth and it kinda looks like one of those slimes from dragon quest. lame in that sense seeing how i cant get that derp image outta my mind
ReplyDeleteAlso, for obvious reasons, it has the levitation ability, which is really pointless, since one of the few resistances grass Pokemon have is only taking half damage from ground attacks, so it isn't like being immune to ground matters, there are still 5 types that are very effective against you. Pure grass types would benefit from something like the Solid Rock ability, so they wouldn't be completely worthless.
ReplyDeleteThats one of the instances where your other types (cosmic) WOULD fit in.
ReplyDeleteI mean an Alien Grass monster?
Thats awesome