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pokemonbiologyirlthetabletop · 1 year

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Magikarp & Gyarados

Magikarp (#129)

Serpiscis miserabilis

General Information: Magikarp is a fish-like Pokémon often seen in many bodies of water. They average in at 2’11 feet long (0.9 M), and 22 pounds (10 kg).

Habitat: Magikarp are actually native to the Old World (and the world’s oceans), found in any body of water large enough to support their diets. With that said, Magikarp were introduced to the New World’s interior water bodies during the Columbian Exchange. Magikarp are not considered invasive, but Gyarados are! Magikarp and Feebas are some of the few fish Pokémon who can naturally thrive in both freshwater and saltwater for extended lengths of time. Additionally, Magikarp and Gyarados are extremely tolerant of pollution.

Life Cycles: The thing is, Magikarp seem like they’d be simple Pokémon, right? Simple behaviors, simple life cycles, all that. Nope. Now, in the wild in general Magikarp are not typically the ones who reproduce because they often evolve into Gyarados before the next breeding season occurs. But, this isn’t true for all Magikarp, as researchers have discovered remote locations where schools of Magikarp will swim upstream and lay their eggs, then return to the ocean. Some Magikarp have even been recorded returning to these sites multiple years in a row! Clutches are typically between 500 and 750 eggs per season. When is the breeding season? Who knows! Different populations of Magikarp seem to have different social patterns on breeding, though there does seem to be a general preference for the breeding season to be in the winter for ocean-bound populations, and spring for the lake-bound. And the number of breeding seasons varies from once or twice a year, depending on the climate and resources available.

Magikarp are predated upon by any predator big enough to eat it, especially Pidgeot, but with the stark exception of Gyarados. Frillish, Jellicent, Tentracruel, and Sharpedo are common ocean predators.

Behavior: Magikarp are highly social Pokémon, and need other Pokémon around to make it happy. Perhaps consider a Feebas for a friend? Magikarp are overwhelmingly good, docile, and relatively harmless Pokémon, who make excellent companions (if incredibly weak) who will love their trainer dearly if treated right!

Diet: Algae, whatever floats into its mouth. Trainers, you can give your Magikarp standard fish Pokémon food and it’ll be quite happy with that.

Conservation: Least Concern

Relationship with Humans: Magikarp and Gyarados have a long and complicated history with humans. Magikarp are treated as food sources (well, not good food sources), pets, nuisances, jumping athletes, and harmless. They are incredibly common in urban water bodies, in large part due to humans bringing them there on purpose. Most urbanites like Magikarp, having the same charm as pigeons (affectionately) but this does mean there are many who dislike Magikarp for no particular reason except that they exist. The Evolutionary family of Magikarp is under much scientific research due to their intrigue, their mystery, and their extreme prevalence to humans, and they make great test subjects in experiments.

There is also a long history of Magikarp domestication, particularly from East Asia, which results in there being many color variants available from breeders

Color Variants: There are canonically 32 color variants of Magikarp + its shiny form (according to Magikarp Jump) and this holds true in this universe. What makes a shiny form different? There’s literally some magical property to shiny Pokémon that causes them to sparkle when they attack or come out of a Pokéball, while color variants are just that, a color variant. Importantly, these variants only exist in domesticated stock, not wild ones, and in the wild these variants tend to be naturally selected against by predators (because they can be singled out in a school). Wild-caught Magikarp will near-invariably look like the Standard pattern.

Note: Whether or not these color variants translate into the Gyarados having variant patterning, is up to the player or Game Master

Classification: Magikarp is in the genus Serpiscis alongside its closest relative, Feebas. For reasons that are unknown to science, Magikarp is natively found in the Old World and Feebas in the New World, but both can be found in the ocean.

Gyarados (#130)

Serpiscis feroces

General Information: Gyarados is a water and flying type Pokémon, known as the Atrocious Pokémon. It’s scales are as hard as steel and its fangs are said to be able to crush stone. When they evolve from Magikarp, something changes in their brain chemistry that triggers aggression and violence, and their rampages have been known to last for up to a month.

Gyarados can Mega Evolve! Mega Gyarados is a Water/Dark type. Both average in at 21’04 feet (6.5 M) tall, and regular Gyarados weighs about 518.1 pounds (235 kg), and Mega Gyarados weighs about 672.4 pounds (305 kg).

Habitat: Magikarp may not be considered invasive, but Gyarados sure are! Well, sort of. They used to be more invasive than they are, but Gyarados have begun to naturalize to the New World, though local and federal agencies will still relocate troublesome ones to the ocean.

Life Cycles: Researchers believe that Gyarados are typically the ones who reproduce in the wild, if nothing else because of numbers. Gyarados lay clutches of Magikarp eggs close to the 1000s each breeding season, and they are in fact actually quite protective of Magikarp. Truly dedicated researchers have found that Gyarados will defend their babies from predators for at least a couple of weeks after hatching. But as different populations have different social patterns on breeding and reproduction, Gyarados are surprisingly enigmatic creatures.

Behavior: Gyarados are extremely temperamental creatures. If a trainer raised it right as a Magikarp (or otherwise won over a wild Gyarados’s loyalty, somehow), then congratulations you have a loving and overly protective sea serpent as your companion! If not, then look out because they will try to hurt you. Wild ones especially are known for being extremely dangerous, not at all helped by the fact that they like to live in herds (also called storms). Like Magikarp, they are highly social Pokémon who benefit greatly for the company of others.

Diet: Gyarados are carnivores that eat other fish.

Conservation: Least Concern

Relationship with Humans: Gyarados’s relationship with humans is not as benign as Magikarp’s. They have historically been treated as dangerous since even ancient times (old cave paintings depict their rampages), on top of being a nuisance, great companions, and sometimes even revered as the deity of destruction. Many legends surround Gyarados, almost exclusively surrounding its violent nature and the forbearance of doom and destruction should they appear. Mega Gyarados is even worse.

In modern times, the prevalence of Magikarps in urban areas does mean that occasionally one of those Magikarp will evolve into a Gyarados in the middle of a big city, like Chicago, and the local Taskforce has to come in and handle it. Urban Gyarados evolutions are an infrequent but persistent danger to urban environments, but they can only really be handled as they occur.

Classification: Gyarados is mostly closely related to Milotic and Feebas, and are members of the O/M/G clade.

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kuravix · 11 months

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Love the pokemon crossovers!! For teams hmmm, how about Killer?

Thank you! Glad you like them 💜

I'm thinking masks and scythes mainly.

Definitely: Sandslash (matching hair) Scyther Glalie Overqwil (for the pun) And a noodley Pokemon like Tentracruel, Toedscruel or Wugtrio nicknamed Spaghetti

Consider: Kabutops Galarian Slowking Shiftry Zangoose Weavile

#pokemon au

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emareep · 4 months

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Custom Kanto Dex Collection

Page #9 ~ #073 - 081

Hello bloglooker. Today I bring you 9 fine pokemons, numbered sequentially for easier browsing. Todays lineup features such hits as:

The girls (tentracruels) are fighting, Hidden and not so hidden boulder creatures, small and big horse about to run into each other, some pink guys, and a metal orb. And hidden within them is...

#1 Card of the Page

Slowbro ~ HeartGold SoulSilver 52/123 ~ Sumiyoshi Kizuki

Sumiyoshi Kizuki is another one of those artists I love for their simplicity in both design and palette. She uses around 10 colors, but the layout, and the crayon-like lining style used, help fill out the scene. I'd like to start a collection for her art one day.

Slowbro is thoroughly vibing in this image. Just entranced by the water. Also, I never noticed this before. This card lists Slowbro as "Hermit Crab Pokemon". This is very strange to me, I never considered the connection. I thought he was more a lizard in a situation. If you could remove the shell thing, would it just be a large slowpoke? There are many things to consider in the world of Pokemon.

BEST QUALITY:

The bro is so enchanted by the water that they have not realized they should be sinking.

About This Series of Posts:

This collection started when I wanted to have a set of the original 151 Pokemon. However, getting the cards with their first appearances would cost a lot of money. I decided to make a set of the original 151, made out of my favorites of the cheaper options available (though I did allow myself to splurge a few times on ones I really wanted).

Each post features photos of one page of the collection, an impulsively chosen favorite card of the page, a detail on that card, and general writing on the contents of the photos.

search "emareep kanto dex collection" for more.

#emareep #emareep kanto dex collection #kanto region #pokemon card art #pokemon trading card game #gen 1 pokemon #Slowbro #sumiyoshi kizuki #heartgold soulsilver

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kariachi · 4 years

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Gen-specific pokemon team for Martin Mystery!

Gen 1

Gloom

Parasect

Tentracruel

Muk

Weezing

Ditto

Gen 2

Feraligatr

Ariados

Crobat

Forretress

Shuckle

Magcargo

Gen 3

Dustox

Shedinja

Swalot

Cacturne

Cradily

Gorebyss

Gen 4 (holy shit this one was a bitch to narrow down)

Vespiquen

Skuntank

Spiritomb

Carnivine

Yanmega

Gliscor

Gen 5

Scolipede

Sigilyph

Cofagrigus

Garbodor

Ferrothorn

Chandelure

Gen 6

Spewpa

Malamar

Barbaracle

Dragalge

Goodra

Trevenant

Gen 7

Alolan Muk

Crabominable

Araquanid

Shiinotic

Mimikyu

Dhelmise

Gen 8

Rolycoly

Applin

Cursola

Runerigus

Dracovish

Dreepy

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crypticcharmander · 5 years

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DETECTIVE PIKACHU IS CONNECTED TO 🗡SWORD & 🛡SHIELD maybe???

Just my speculation-

But I think that maybe we can link Dynamaxing to a lot of mysterious events in the Pokémon series? We’ve gotten glimpses of certain things like this before, like: Mega Gyarados, Alolan Exeggutor. So why not giant Pokémon? Here’s some references from the anime and games about instances of giant Pokémon:

Giant Dragonite

100 ft Bellsprout mentioned at the base of Bellsproute tower

Ancient Giant Pokémon

Giant Trevonant

The Tentracruel from the banned episode/theme song

Giant Onix that Bruno was trying to catch

Totem Pokémon (even though their size is influenced by the Ultra wormholes)

Pokémon Go Raid battles/bosses

Detective Pikachu doesn’t state which region Rhyme City is located in, I doubt it’ll be confirmed as Galar, but it was filmed in London! The scientists at the genetic Pokémon lab, PCL, are experimenting on Torterra - AND MAKING THEM HUGE. Not just huge like “legendary” sized... huge in like DYNAMAX size??? The super sized Torterra in the movie are literal MOUNTAINS.

Were PCL scientists messing around with the science behind Dynamaxing? I don’t think it should be an idea left alone! Their whole thing appeared to be trying to make Pokémon “genetically” “superior”. Not just giving them a stone (mega-evolution), not just powering up their moves ( z-stones)... But their goal appeared to be trying to make permanent, genetic change.

PCL scientists could have started with the concept of Dynamaxing, and then tried using whatever power is behind it, to permanently keep the Pokémon at that ginormous size! ( It doesn’t seem like they were successful in the permanent sense, though, because I recall it being mentioned near the end of the movie that they were going to work on turning the altered Pokémon back to their original states.)

Does anyone have any more thoughts to add?

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skunkysorceror · 7 years

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Alright, y’know, I’ve seen a lot of people express their dislike for Misty and what with be completely okay with her being cut from the 20th movie. And you know what? That’s okay! Everyone’s entitled to their opinion, but when you say that Misty never contributed to Pokemon or Ash’s development as a character or was useless? Then I’m going to have to stop you right there.

Misty has proven herself to be quite the strong character despite her flaws of being either overly bitchy, whiny, or etc. Misty was the first female companion to watch Ash grow from a mediocre trainer to a compassionate and strong trainer who had to deal with saying goodbye to his Pokemon, his gym losses, but also happy moments such as his first victories. This is also the girl who had to deal with her own personal issues as well. This is a girl, who mind you is 12 years old, and literally had to watch over a gym because her 3 sisters were too busy traveling the world or because they had little to no experiences as gym leaders. This is the girl who literally overcame her own fear of Gyarados and managed to tame one because she didn’t want to see anything bad happen to it. She literally had to use her own knowledge of understanding water Pokemon in order to help tame it and in turn, she took it in as her own. Misty also had to deal with loss herself besides having to say farewell to her best friends. Pikachu and Ash might have been the main duo of the show but you cannot deny and say that the mother and baby bond between Misty and Togepi wasn’t sweet. Misty could have kept Togepi for herself but saw that once it had evolved into Togetic? That it was no longer her baby. It had grown and was needed elsewhere and thus she let it go to protect the other Togepi that needed its protection. Remember in those Orange Island episodes and Misty could have stayed with Rudy as well? Even if this guy did have feelings for her? That’s right. She chose to stay with Ash because she knew that Ash needed her and because she wasn’t ready to leave that boy yet due to her caring about him. She even states this herself in the second movie:

“And Ash is never really alone because he’s got..me.”

Misty, unlike Serena who was already crushing on Ash since Day 1, viewed him as whiny little kid at first, only to develop a deep bond with him later on. And this really showed when Misty literally thought that Ash and Pikachu were truly gone in the Tower of Terror episode or in the first movie when Ash turned to stone.

Another example of Misty proving herself to be a strong character is also that one episode in which she literally stood up to an angry Tentracruel in order to calm it down and understand it. She neither scared nor angry at it’s frustration. She knew that it was angry because people were harming it and the Tentacool’s home. Misty is also a pretty mature character for her age as well and despiter her angry shortcomings. During the Hoenn episodes, she was able to bond with May’s little brother, Max, and make him see that while being the youngest sibling isn’t the best? May is only trying to look out for Max and that sometimes having sisters aren’t so bad. There is a lot of examples that spotlight Misty’s strong character but these are but a few examples. And this isn’t to take a stab at Amourshippers but it’s sad to see that people think that Misty was literally useless and did nothing to contribute to the anime. Misty was there since the beginning and its a damn shame to see that the movie totally shoved her and Brock out. This was supposed to be the 20th anniversary movie. A big movie and while some people might say that Ash getting new companions is entirely new? That’s true but you can’t expect people to not get upset when you have a movie literally revisiting a piece of their childhood. Misty is no Serena but she was an amazing character with her own deep story arc and a lot of people will never forget her.

#Misty #Pokemon #Pokemon: I choose you #Pokemon movie 20

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