Thursday, October 31, 2024

No. 941: Kilowattrel

or in America, Poundwattrel
 Kilowattrel artwork by Ken Sugimori
 Kilowattrel looks like one of those classic Pokemon designs - take a recognizable animal (bird), tweak it a bit (big throat sac), and then add something cool (electric powers). But it turns out, the frigatebird is an actual bird that already looks exactly like this, except red. It even has the throat sac. So all they did was copy an existing animal and make it yellow.

So I guess I'll have to credit Mother Nature for the design, but it looks pretty cool anyway! aside from the eyes, those are Gamefreak originals and still pierce into my soul and weird me out. But the black-and-yellow color scheme looks sharp.

Kilowattrel is the odd Sp. Atk focused Flying-type, and combined with skyhigh Speed, it felt very strong to me and was almost on my final team.


Overall: 8/10

5 comments:

  1. oh, the real bird this Is based on Is actually really cool

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  2. Me acting like Anton Ego in Ratatouille when you mention the old Pokémon design formula again.

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    1. That formula still exists for plenty of Pokémon, why would it create such a dramatic feeling?

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    2. What I meant was, StrawHatSamurai used to mention that formula a lot in the old days of the blog.

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    3. For over 14 years now:

      https://notallpokemonareequal.blogspot.com/2010/09/no-015-beedrill.html?m=1

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