Lets be real if it had a spanish/japanese name no one would care about its lore origins, like Gyarados from Kanto despite it clearly being a fricking chinese dragon from some stupid chinese story
where the frick are the other two? also I guess this retroactively confirms poke-China as our next region. probably for the next Nintendo console as Switch is getting replaced next year
I don't remember it 100% but basically an eastern traveling merchant sold cursed items to a greedy Paldean king, and his greed awakened the cursed spirits inside those items
some powerful trainers then sealed them
That does help contextualize them being based on the Four Criminals a bit more, since I think most were expecting them to use the more spiritual versions rather than the conceptually politcal ones.
My current take would be:
Snail: Avatar of Slander/Malice
Deer: Avatar of Conspiratory Fear
Fish: Avatar of Accidents/Ruin
Weasel: Avatar of Rebellion or Violence
where the frick are the other two? also I guess this retroactively confirms poke-China as our next region. probably for the next Nintendo console as Switch is getting replaced next year
people have been expecting China for over a decade already because Chinese culture gets referenced constantly since Gen 4 but still nothing, wouldn't get ny hopes up
People are fricking stupid, they see burger companies break their necks to suck off china, yet forget the Japanese wanted to wipe them from existence during WWII. And that's discounting for any company to operate in China, they need to ally with a chinese company (with a one-way brain-drain as they do NOT share info) and allow the party to dictate what is allowed.
We'll be dead before Game Freak makes a china region and hopefully the series dies first before they need to go there.
>contemporaneously
lolno, correct about the others though. Rural china is great so long as the locals aren't assbackwards.
1 year ago
Anonymous
Average mediocre brainlet westoid coping over the immense and undeniable progress that modern China has undertaken on a domestic and international level. Sad.
1 year ago
Anonymous
>forgetting to praise the government
Uh oh!
1 year ago
Anonymous
Reported for racism. They are gonna close your bank accounts just like they did to Kanye, fire you from your job, ruin your personal relationships and have you arrested for hate crimes and force you into diversity training >westoid pretends he doesnt live under a social credit system
1 year ago
Anonymous
Well, there's reddit.
It's about which one is more obvious or appeals to the people more.
1 year ago
Anonymous
>Westoids do it for free
1 year ago
Anonymous
Recognizing the accomplishments of a nation that went from a poverty/famine-stricken feudalist rural backwater to a modern global superpower in the span of less than half a century is not the same as uncritically praising its government when it abuses its power, as all world governments do.
1 year ago
Anonymous
It only really improved once they moved on from their 60s/70s era communism. Great leap forward, sparrow killing, rightist movement, etc.
1 year ago
Anonymous
That’s the kind of superficial take you get from a garden-variety abysmal westoid education, sure, not that anyone should expect anything better on /vp/.
1 year ago
Anonymous
>muh westoid spam
If you enjoy killing your economy and your own people, go ahead. Not even the modern CCP looks upon that time period with a smile.
1 year ago
Anonymous
Go ahead with what, westoid? You don’t even know what you’re arguing here. Find something better to do, like reading a book perhaps. Surely you’ve been taught to do that at least?
1 year ago
Anonymous
>deflecting >still spamming
Yeah I think you need to go to the library if all your coping mechanism does is make you spurt words ad nauseum.
I don't think it's intentional China pandering. For the scourge that portion of our planet is, it IS a source of myths and legends to draw inspiration from.
The woke pandering is based on a culture that didn't even exist until a few decades ago.
>on a culture that didn't even exist until a few decades ago
Gays have existed for a long ass time and in many different cultures and so have trans/intersex/third gender/androgynous people
Yes a 0.001% of freaks who didn't conform to societal norms and had to be repressed due to their penchant for spreading diseases and destroying families have always existed but of course they weren't deserving of a culture for obvious reasons.
This fanatic pandering and encouragement of children to throw their legacy under the bus so they can be the pawns of corporations and politicians is a relatively new thing.
>unlimited character customization and japanese tropes are woke
We have really gone this far huh
1 year ago
Anonymous
I was in another thread and someone was b***hing about pokemon going "woke" and my assumption was the very obvious "uhhhhhhh Rhyme and the Ostrich/duck" but when pressed their issue was the fricking pig and the mice. People have really just all semblance of sense.
Chinese myth is the opposite of CCP propaganda. Winnie Pooh has been trying to scour their ancient religion and folklore becaise he wants people to only worship him and Mao Zedong.
These and the leopard look really good. Not very pokemon-like but I dig the designs anyway.
Shame about the deer looking lame. Still better than the abomination from SwSh DLC at least.
It’s obviously going to have its origin story in the other version. Meanwhile the snail will probably have something more generic in the other version. They alternate dex entries like this all the time.
I actually think it’s cool for it to be an agent of destruction without apparent malicious intent. Just a fish swimming around, except that in order to swim it needs to melt everything around it with flames hotter than lava.
The Four Perils in Chinese mythology are often >Hundun, a faceless being with 6 legs and 4 wings >Taowu, a tiger/boar creature >Taotie, a goat/ram that's an extreme glutton >Qiongqi, a winged tiger
So it's interesting they went with the more obscure variant
>They are opposed by the Four Holy Creatures: the Azure Dragon, Vermilion Bird, White Tiger and Black Tortoise
Wait, so you mean to tell me these fricks are supposed to be the opposites of the genies of all fricking things? Is that the only reason they even made the turtle one 10 years after the fact? Because they had planned the 4 perils to be the legendaries of gen 9 so their autism forced them to retroactively complete the quartet?
Does this mean the perils are gonna get humanoid forms too?
Either the Tatarigami (like Gozu Tennoh, Sugawara no Michizane, Emperor Sutoku and Taira no Masakado) or the consorts of Tamamo no Mae (King Zhou of Shang, King Kalmashapada of India, King You of Zhou and Emperor Toba of Japan as their humanoid forms
That makes it even better because the effect can't be negated by switching out that way. Ice and fire ones are going to ubers and the other two will be staples in OU.
>several Chinese myth inspired pokemon since Gen 1 like gyarados, ho-oh, infernape, emboar, suicune, etc. >autists suddenly crying about these ones being "Chinese pandering"
You can't be serious
Ganker is the only board when we can speak our mind instead of playing PC, the act gets tiring after a while. A healthy dose of reality benefits society so don't be mad about it.
These cuks are pissed because /misc/ exposes a lot of uncomfortable truths about their degenerate demographics. Truth always triumphs over censorship sooner or later.
>S-Sooner or later r-right guys?! D-drain the swamp am I right?
If you'd stop conforming to the ideals of your political and corporate puppermasters and realize that your fellow man is the only ally you'll have left when everything goes you might actually make some progress. Stop fighting amongst each other, and start fighting the ones kicking the ladder.
1 year ago
Anonymous
I try not to talk/comment on /misc/ stuff a lot, but i need to comment that I agree with this.
"sides" and "politics" are just things made to divide the common people. It doesn't matter which side is in power, they'll always stomp on the ones below them. History has been always people with power vs people without.
this shit is gibberish. what do the leaves have to do with anything? It doesnt say "a king", it's an implied understanding of the reader, yeah the king you know who that is.
Why do Wo-Chien and Chien-Pao both have Chien in the name? I know it's French for dog, but neither of them look like dogs, nor do they share something that would explain sharing half their name.
It’s Chinese, I saw a post explaining what each of their names mean but can’t recall of the top of my head. I think the ‘Chien’ part means something different in Wo-Chien versus Chien-Pao.
I can’t speak or read Chinese, but when you account for tones/accents it isn’t limited at all. 簡 (scroll) and 劍 (sword) can both be romanized as ‘jian’ (or Chien, apparently) but the accent on the vowels is different for each. Without the accents we (westerners) can’t distinguish them, but a Chinese person would be able to hear the difference in sound and meaning quite clearly.
It’s Chinese, I saw a post explaining what each of their names mean but can’t recall of the top of my head. I think the ‘Chien’ part means something different in Wo-Chien versus Chien-Pao.
Found it. Wo-Chien means ‘Snail-Scroll’ and Chien-Pao means ‘Sword-Leopard’. The words for scroll and sword appear to be spelled the same but would be pronounced slightly differently in Chinese.
if I recall correctly:
Ting-Lu: ‘Cauldron-Deer’
Chi-Yu: ‘Energy-Fish’
All of their names seem to be pretty straightforward descriptions of what they are.
WHY THE FRICK DO THEY HAVE OUTRIGHT CHINESE NAMES.
LIKE THAT'S JUST FRICKING CHINESE.
I wouldn't have minded a chinese pun, or chinese derivative, while still it being a clear pokemon name.
You know, Mienshao, Hariyama, they're obvious jokes and they still sound cool.
BUT THAT'S JUST FRICKING CHINESE.
WHAT THE FRICK IS A WO-CHIEN.
The tapus and ho-oh get a pass because they are first capturable in their home/native region where the myth originated. These however, have Chinese name in a Spanish region, how do you even justify that? This is similar to the time where they implemented the Yin Yang trio and ideology in an America region.
>Ho-oh is Chinese phoenix >therian formes of the genies are Chinese Four Symbols >ninetales is a nine-tailed fox whose myth originates from China >gyarados is chinese dragon gate carp myth >arcanine straight up mentions china and hisui version is based off of jap's version of Chinese lion statues >frickton more chink inspired mons
Names or no names. it's the same shit once you know the origins. just stop giving a frick.
Atleast they did not have Chinese names, how to do explain that the Spains just automatically know Mandarin when they arrived, iirc legends do not cry out their name like normal pokemons, they just make loud and autistic screeches.
Alola is literally the only region that had legendaries related to the culture it’s based on. Stop expecting every region to work like Alola when eight out of the nine total regions so far have not.
Because there are koalas in hawaii you frick.
You stupid NOOO THE REGION MUST BE 110 PERCENT ACCURATE fricks are the ones stifling this franchise.
Im fricking sick of IRL Location theme parks because its just dull as frick, surface level bullshit. THEY DIDNT EVEN HAVE BELLOSSOM IN ALOLA BUT THEY PUT IT ON AN IN GAME BILLBOARD WHAT THE FRICK
BTW if anyone is curious on the lore, in order to access the legends and start catching them you need to attend a history class in the academy where they give you the lore.
Basically an butthole Paldean King purchased ancient artifacts from a shady merchant and was such an butthole he reawakened the grudges sealed within the artifacts
Can someone with the chink mons tell us exactly what their ability does?
I heard that its not a -1 but its an aura effect.
How much does the aura decrease?
its an aura that gives minus 1, so functionally the difference in singles is if a mon switches out from Chien Pao for example, the new mon that switches in will still have -1 defense
>permanent -1 def/sdef that you literally can't switch out of
Smogongays are quickbanning this as soon as they can aren't they.
But the ones that decrease attack stay because muh stall.
In both this and the Pokemon cases, I like that they're weird and esoteric. They could've easily just gone with some big, evil-looking designs with frickall subtlety
I don't think the snail is based on any of the four Perils
I tried to find any variations of the myth buy none of them have one that resembles a snail at all.
I feel like once we get the dex data mine from Violet we’ll get more ominous entries for Chien-Pao and Chi-Yu and more lighthearted entries for Ding-Lu and Wo-Chien, so you only get the full pictures from both games’ lore.
It’s because they alternate the content of dex entries. Look at what’s mentioned for the Tapu across Sun and Moon for example. You’re getting the origins for the fish and cat in Violet.
>gay just types in digimon 4 perils into google >downloads the first thing he sees without realizing they're fan made
no frick off you disingenuous frick, stop trying to cause strife between digimon and pokemon
Can anyone post a good picture of Chein-Pao's model? Planning to draw all 4 and having a hard time getting good reference photos. Picrel is the first one I've drawn so far.
>When a name and lore ruins a Pokemon
What a shame
>When a name and lore ruins a Pokemon
How so?
It's a glowie terrified by China. They're all over.
Lets be real if it had a spanish/japanese name no one would care about its lore origins, like Gyarados from Kanto despite it clearly being a fricking chinese dragon from some stupid chinese story
>as Switch is getting replaced next year
I don't know about this, can you enlighten me?
I mean the thing was officially revealed over 6 years ago. the next gen Nintendo console will be either next year or 2024
Unlikely to come unless the chip shortage ends by next year
They are not dumb enough to release a new system now that we are entering into a new recession, also this
The name and lore are awesome what are you smoking
what even is the lore
I don't remember it 100% but basically an eastern traveling merchant sold cursed items to a greedy Paldean king, and his greed awakened the cursed spirits inside those items
some powerful trainers then sealed them
That does help contextualize them being based on the Four Criminals a bit more, since I think most were expecting them to use the more spiritual versions rather than the conceptually politcal ones.
My current take would be:
Snail: Avatar of Slander/Malice
Deer: Avatar of Conspiratory Fear
Fish: Avatar of Accidents/Ruin
Weasel: Avatar of Rebellion or Violence
https://yokai.com/tairanomasakado/
Last one sounded like this dude
Chi-Yu
Teenie tiny goldfish guppy
small fimsh
where the frick are the other two? also I guess this retroactively confirms poke-China as our next region. probably for the next Nintendo console as Switch is getting replaced next year
people have been expecting China for over a decade already because Chinese culture gets referenced constantly since Gen 4 but still nothing, wouldn't get ny hopes up
People are fricking stupid, they see burger companies break their necks to suck off china, yet forget the Japanese wanted to wipe them from existence during WWII. And that's discounting for any company to operate in China, they need to ally with a chinese company (with a one-way brain-drain as they do NOT share info) and allow the party to dictate what is allowed.
We'll be dead before Game Freak makes a china region and hopefully the series dies first before they need to go there.
China is based, though. Geographically I mean. And historically. And culturally. And contemporaneously. All around a cool place full of cool people.
Based and true.
>contemporaneously
lolno, correct about the others though. Rural china is great so long as the locals aren't assbackwards.
Average mediocre brainlet westoid coping over the immense and undeniable progress that modern China has undertaken on a domestic and international level. Sad.
>forgetting to praise the government
Uh oh!
Reported for racism. They are gonna close your bank accounts just like they did to Kanye, fire you from your job, ruin your personal relationships and have you arrested for hate crimes and force you into diversity training
>westoid pretends he doesnt live under a social credit system
Well, there's reddit.
It's about which one is more obvious or appeals to the people more.
>Westoids do it for free
Recognizing the accomplishments of a nation that went from a poverty/famine-stricken feudalist rural backwater to a modern global superpower in the span of less than half a century is not the same as uncritically praising its government when it abuses its power, as all world governments do.
It only really improved once they moved on from their 60s/70s era communism. Great leap forward, sparrow killing, rightist movement, etc.
That’s the kind of superficial take you get from a garden-variety abysmal westoid education, sure, not that anyone should expect anything better on /vp/.
>muh westoid spam
If you enjoy killing your economy and your own people, go ahead. Not even the modern CCP looks upon that time period with a smile.
Go ahead with what, westoid? You don’t even know what you’re arguing here. Find something better to do, like reading a book perhaps. Surely you’ve been taught to do that at least?
>deflecting
>still spamming
Yeah I think you need to go to the library if all your coping mechanism does is make you spurt words ad nauseum.
Kino
Great concept. Not sure why it needed to be sexy, tho'
It’s a fricking fire element goldfish, you quasi-human degenerate
I can swallow queer transgender character design and homosexual starters, but CCP propaganda is where I draw the line.
I don't think it's intentional China pandering. For the scourge that portion of our planet is, it IS a source of myths and legends to draw inspiration from.
The woke pandering is based on a culture that didn't even exist until a few decades ago.
>on a culture that didn't even exist until a few decades ago
Gays have existed for a long ass time and in many different cultures and so have trans/intersex/third gender/androgynous people
Yes a 0.001% of freaks who didn't conform to societal norms and had to be repressed due to their penchant for spreading diseases and destroying families have always existed but of course they weren't deserving of a culture for obvious reasons.
This fanatic pandering and encouragement of children to throw their legacy under the bus so they can be the pawns of corporations and politicians is a relatively new thing.
>unlimited character customization and japanese tropes are woke
We have really gone this far huh
I was in another thread and someone was b***hing about pokemon going "woke" and my assumption was the very obvious "uhhhhhhh Rhyme and the Ostrich/duck" but when pressed their issue was the fricking pig and the mice. People have really just all semblance of sense.
You’re an absolute psycho. Do you think you sound normal?
even beer-chugging rednecks in the hills of ohio would think that you sound like a fricking freak for saying shit like this y'know
Meds. Now.
Chinese myth is the opposite of CCP propaganda. Winnie Pooh has been trying to scour their ancient religion and folklore becaise he wants people to only worship him and Mao Zedong.
These and the leopard look really good. Not very pokemon-like but I dig the designs anyway.
Shame about the deer looking lame. Still better than the abomination from SwSh DLC at least.
theyre keyed
Wood Snail
Lava Fish
What are they based on? I don't remember a snail and goldfish Chinese myth.
>Farenheit
>Feet and inches
>Pounds
I'm so tired of this shit.
dumbest part is that in Japanese, they're all metric
Actually yeah, now that Pokemon is global, and it's designed to be a franchise for everyone, why not give the option to switch?
>cool lore implying that mon is actually the resentful spirit of a dead person
Meanwhile
>Fish swim and is really hot xd
What did they mean by this!?
While I mostly agree, the fact that it swims in the lava it creates itself is really cool
It’s obviously going to have its origin story in the other version. Meanwhile the snail will probably have something more generic in the other version. They alternate dex entries like this all the time.
>Wo-Chien: "the grudge of a deceiver of the king's court who was punished by.."
>Chin-Yu: "it's a a really hot fish"
You cannot make this shit up
I actually think it’s cool for it to be an agent of destruction without apparent malicious intent. Just a fish swimming around, except that in order to swim it needs to melt everything around it with flames hotter than lava.
>give them chinese names
>China bans the game for cultural appropiation
angy feesh
Kung-Pao
It once was a humans but turned into darkness and pokemon n' shit
Why gamefreak pandering to china now?
You guys... do know that Japan love Chinese stories right?
>Japan love China
haha nice one anon
bait or moronic
ever heard of a little thing called journey to the west
I'm not talking about China in general. You can hate a race, but that doesn't mean you have to hate the stories (culture) they made.
But China hates Japan, so why bother?
life isn't so black and white. dragon ball z one of the most popular anime is based on a chinese story
Do you morons not know China is basically to Japan what the UK is to america?
You do know Japan was colonized, yes?
>now
Your gen 5 games gave china an even harder blowjob.
>now
Why do they pander to the biggest market in the world? No clue man
It's a chinese world. You're just living in it
A lot of Japanese culture is just adopted from Chinese culture.
I can't believe China bought out Gay Freak
Why are they so small
Pokemon are usually smol
I'm wo-chien you Wazowski, always wo-chien...
The Four Perils in Chinese mythology are often >Hundun, a faceless being with 6 legs and 4 wings
>Taowu, a tiger/boar creature
>Taotie, a goat/ram that's an extreme glutton
>Qiongqi, a winged tiger
So it's interesting they went with the more obscure variant
>So it's interesting they went with the more obscure variant
They want people to think that Gamefreak is very smart
>They are opposed by the Four Holy Creatures: the Azure Dragon, Vermilion Bird, White Tiger and Black Tortoise
Wait, so you mean to tell me these fricks are supposed to be the opposites of the genies of all fricking things? Is that the only reason they even made the turtle one 10 years after the fact? Because they had planned the 4 perils to be the legendaries of gen 9 so their autism forced them to retroactively complete the quartet?
Does this mean the perils are gonna get humanoid forms too?
most likely
SV is a sort of remake of Gen 5
Except they lack balls of having a dex full of new mons in the main story
Either the Tatarigami (like Gozu Tennoh, Sugawara no Michizane, Emperor Sutoku and Taira no Masakado) or the consorts of Tamamo no Mae (King Zhou of Shang, King Kalmashapada of India, King You of Zhou and Emperor Toba of Japan as their humanoid forms
I mean sort of? Humanoid avatars.
Gameplaywise they seem to evil homie Tapus
More like the four penis gottem
given
what do you think will be the leader of the 4 perils?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gonggong
Probably this guy
cool
i prefer this
That head looks like a fricking wojack
beetlejuice lookin mfer
WTF is this chink pandering and CCP propaganda, Johtosisters....
>now
I just got the snail and there's no stat debuff when its sent out, just a message that attack was lowered. Do we know how the ability works?
i think the effect is applied costantly, like Xerneas and Yveltial's aura
That makes it even better because the effect can't be negated by switching out that way. Ice and fire ones are going to ubers and the other two will be staples in OU.
>Pokezoomers when they realize a huge amount of east asian mythologies originate from ancient china:
yeah many mytho elements shared within asian countries originated from ancient india and china
>several Chinese myth inspired pokemon since Gen 1 like gyarados, ho-oh, infernape, emboar, suicune, etc.
>autists suddenly crying about these ones being "Chinese pandering"
You can't be serious
people can't believe buddhism and hinduism started in india
Hoenn is israeli propaganda and Sinnoh is christian propaganda
>Sinnoh is christian propaganda
Sinnoh is Shinto propaganda
THREE KINGDOMS POKEMON WHEN
NO, POKEMON CONQUEST IS WARRING STATES
How's their battle theme?
How soon can I catch these?
we need more explicitly chinese pokemon
what about based on nezha? that shit is popular
flaming lotus pokemon :O
troonymon? I think we already have a few
anon nezha is a boy
Be honest anon, how many times do you think of trannies every day?
he's like the chink anime protagonist
Hoopa-U
>shota who has a superpowered form with hoop like shit
yeah checks
/misc/ needs to be fricking obliterated from this site
i have no idea if it would do good or bad. The people that lurk 24h on /misc/ would just migrate to other boards
They already browse other boards, deleting /misc/ would at least make a chunk of them migrate to some other shithole forum
Ganker is the only board when we can speak our mind instead of playing PC, the act gets tiring after a while. A healthy dose of reality benefits society so don't be mad about it.
>"speaking our mind" is posting about trannies and call everything and everyone a troony 24/7
These cuks are pissed because /misc/ exposes a lot of uncomfortable truths about their degenerate demographics. Truth always triumphs over censorship sooner or later.
>S-Sooner or later r-right guys?! D-drain the swamp am I right?
If you'd stop conforming to the ideals of your political and corporate puppermasters and realize that your fellow man is the only ally you'll have left when everything goes you might actually make some progress. Stop fighting amongst each other, and start fighting the ones kicking the ladder.
I try not to talk/comment on /misc/ stuff a lot, but i need to comment that I agree with this.
"sides" and "politics" are just things made to divide the common people. It doesn't matter which side is in power, they'll always stomp on the ones below them. History has been always people with power vs people without.
what king? what punishment? who wrote this?
anon that's in-line with usual spooky dex stuff
this shit is gibberish. what do the leaves have to do with anything? It doesnt say "a king", it's an implied understanding of the reader, yeah the king you know who that is.
hell the concept of moon rabbit is a chinese creation as well
random royalty anon, not much different from any other pokemon that has random family or person
what other pokemon has an implied understood person like this?
out of my head, aegislash
no implied understood person, just that it chooses kings. in sword and shield it mentions "a king".
no more different here
same with a girl's toy for shuppet, etc.
When and how do you catch these?
I like how they dont have cartoon anatomy
They don't even look like Pokemon it's more like an SMT design or some shit.
Why do Wo-Chien and Chien-Pao both have Chien in the name? I know it's French for dog, but neither of them look like dogs, nor do they share something that would explain sharing half their name.
It’s Chinese, I saw a post explaining what each of their names mean but can’t recall of the top of my head. I think the ‘Chien’ part means something different in Wo-Chien versus Chien-Pao.
Is chinese/mandarin really such a limited language that they couldn't express two different concepts without resorting to homonyms?
I can’t speak or read Chinese, but when you account for tones/accents it isn’t limited at all. 簡 (scroll) and 劍 (sword) can both be romanized as ‘jian’ (or Chien, apparently) but the accent on the vowels is different for each. Without the accents we (westerners) can’t distinguish them, but a Chinese person would be able to hear the difference in sound and meaning quite clearly.
Found it. Wo-Chien means ‘Snail-Scroll’ and Chien-Pao means ‘Sword-Leopard’. The words for scroll and sword appear to be spelled the same but would be pronounced slightly differently in Chinese.
Howabout the other ones?
if I recall correctly:
Ting-Lu: ‘Cauldron-Deer’
Chi-Yu: ‘Energy-Fish’
All of their names seem to be pretty straightforward descriptions of what they are.
WHY THE FRICK DO THEY HAVE OUTRIGHT CHINESE NAMES.
LIKE THAT'S JUST FRICKING CHINESE.
I wouldn't have minded a chinese pun, or chinese derivative, while still it being a clear pokemon name.
You know, Mienshao, Hariyama, they're obvious jokes and they still sound cool.
BUT THAT'S JUST FRICKING CHINESE.
WHAT THE FRICK IS A WO-CHIEN.
>a chinese pun, or chinese derivative
> Hariyama
...
Has to be bait or you're moronic if you don't know what I meant.
Chien-Pao is a Chinese pun for "without a dick" in Portuguese
Chinese is Kanji based, so any pun won't make sense when written in the latin alphabet.
The tapus and ho-oh get a pass because they are first capturable in their home/native region where the myth originated. These however, have Chinese name in a Spanish region, how do you even justify that? This is similar to the time where they implemented the Yin Yang trio and ideology in an America region.
Not that anon, but you're wrong about Ho-oh. it's just their reading of fenghuang.
>Ho-oh is Chinese phoenix
>therian formes of the genies are Chinese Four Symbols
>ninetales is a nine-tailed fox whose myth originates from China
>gyarados is chinese dragon gate carp myth
>arcanine straight up mentions china and hisui version is based off of jap's version of Chinese lion statues
>frickton more chink inspired mons
Names or no names. it's the same shit once you know the origins. just stop giving a frick.
Atleast they did not have Chinese names, how to do explain that the Spains just automatically know Mandarin when they arrived, iirc legends do not cry out their name like normal pokemons, they just make loud and autistic screeches.
>What the frick is a [foreign name]
Are you trying to be a stereotype of an ignorant American right now
it's because they're Tapus 2: Electric Boogaloo. those had Hawaiian names instead of Pokemon names as well.
But why are they Chinese legends in the Spain region? Alola was Pokemon Hawaii, Hawaiian names were appropriate there
Spanish king imported Chinese shit into his region. Was an butthole and activated them
Alola is literally the only region that had legendaries related to the culture it’s based on. Stop expecting every region to work like Alola when eight out of the nine total regions so far have not.
Because there are koalas in hawaii you frick.
You stupid NOOO THE REGION MUST BE 110 PERCENT ACCURATE fricks are the ones stifling this franchise.
Im fricking sick of IRL Location theme parks because its just dull as frick, surface level bullshit. THEY DIDNT EVEN HAVE BELLOSSOM IN ALOLA BUT THEY PUT IT ON AN IN GAME BILLBOARD WHAT THE FRICK
what does chien mean
dog
in Chinese
Wo-Dog
that's fricking AWESOME
BTW if anyone is curious on the lore, in order to access the legends and start catching them you need to attend a history class in the academy where they give you the lore.
Basically an butthole Paldean King purchased ancient artifacts from a shady merchant and was such an butthole he reawakened the grudges sealed within the artifacts
Can someone with the chink mons tell us exactly what their ability does?
I heard that its not a -1 but its an aura effect.
How much does the aura decrease?
its an aura that gives minus 1, so functionally the difference in singles is if a mon switches out from Chien Pao for example, the new mon that switches in will still have -1 defense
Damn.
Isn't the aura stronger than fricking Yveltal and Xerneax's ability? That only gave 1.3x
>permanent -1 def/sdef that you literally can't switch out of
Smogongays are quickbanning this as soon as they can aren't they.
But the ones that decrease attack stay because muh stall.
Where the frick are the stakes for these things
>the Four Perils
In both this and the Pokemon cases, I like that they're weird and esoteric. They could've easily just gone with some big, evil-looking designs with frickall subtlety
>4’11”
Andddd it’s ruined
Cool pokemon and serves as a warning to those who would dare cross Leader Xi
Everything about this implies ghost type, not dark
>evil
>Region based on Mexico
>Legends are Chinese
>region based on Bolivia
>legends are Cambodian
based on america
are Chinese and france
>Region based on Iesso (Yet not part of Japan/Russia)
>Legend is a greek Llama and its ugly bastards
They're going extra hard with the death and blunt themes after Legends Arceus. "This is a human that died" "this is a dog that died"
Whoa, Chien became a Pokemon? He finally did it!
>dark/grass snail
moronation
>chinese legends
>no rooster of barcelos
>no gaudi dragon
The box legends are the dragon.
The Rooster of Barcelos will be the third legendary
I don't think the snail is based on any of the four Perils
I tried to find any variations of the myth buy none of them have one that resembles a snail at all.
Yeah they’re not going to be 1:1 with the animal basis. Weather Trio and Tapus for example weren’t close to their origins in terms of animal theming.
And these ones aren't even close to the concept.
They are chink but it's a really big stretch.
the moose entry was posted late last night in another thread
>Negative feelings, curses, and grudges manifest as monstrous abominations by cloaking themselves in earthly materials to gain physical forms
>Just animals that can move around in elements
I'm on the fence with this one. Half sound so cool while the other half is so lazy.
I feel like once we get the dex data mine from Violet we’ll get more ominous entries for Chien-Pao and Chi-Yu and more lighthearted entries for Ding-Lu and Wo-Chien, so you only get the full pictures from both games’ lore.
It’s because they alternate the content of dex entries. Look at what’s mentioned for the Tapu across Sun and Moon for example. You’re getting the origins for the fish and cat in Violet.
Not related to the legendary quad, but anyone got this fishe's dex entry?
gotchu anon
Thanks anon.
>unnecessary flesh
what the frick pokemon
Go funnels!
So how tf do you pronounce their names?
>speaking in the enemy's tongue
frick that. they'll always be confucius snail, lava fish, mud moose, and sword ferret for me
>moose,
???
NTA, the ground one is a moose/deer
One of the most moronic things I’ve ever read on this site, it’s almost impressive.
so are these found by pulling out those coloured swords or whatever?
yes
Digimon did it better
those aren't even real
and they're still better
>gay just types in digimon 4 perils into google
>downloads the first thing he sees without realizing they're fan made
no frick off you disingenuous frick, stop trying to cause strife between digimon and pokemon
>falseflagger accidentally outing himself
hehe
Scarlet dex entries datamined https://pastebin.com/KiGpcbAK
> Chien-Pao: This Pokémon can control 100 tons of fallen snow. It plays around innocently by leaping in and out of avalanches it has caused.
Evil kitty cat
I like their battle theme
Can anyone post a good picture of Chein-Pao's model? Planning to draw all 4 and having a hard time getting good reference photos. Picrel is the first one I've drawn so far.
Much appreciated!
>tusks are a broken sword
Pretty cool actually
i just hate the chinese. get this chink shit out of my childrens videogame
t. Lugiagay
Kinda hard to when a lot of Japanese stuff is based on Chinese stuff