Clobbopus took only 7 hours and 40 minutes to find. After the last hunt went so fast I was expecting this one to go long.
I didn't even see or hear the sparkles, I just looked down and thought "...Oh."
These are my favorite pokemon designs from this gen, and I'm sad about how dirty they were treated. You meet the evolved form five minutes before you find the baby, well after your team is probably settled, and then it has meh stats and a meh movepool. And it's not even half water type which would have really helped.
But he's here, he's my Blorbo and I love him. And his shiny is fantastic.
And with that my team is assembled. Here they are in order of capture. Fritter was Masuda method, but I also got pokerus so I figure it balances out. This accidentally turned into a physical moves only run but I guess I enjoy the challenge.
195:45 is the final time to get a full shiny team of six for this Sword Dream Team playthrough. I started this file at the end of February and caught the first one March 1st. End date August 14th. (Glad I finished before gen 9!)
I'll make one more post once I beat the game.
Click this link to see the other posts I made for this quest.
top: Grapploct’s normal (left) and shiny (right) colors.
bottom: 3 of my shiny recolors, the middle of the 3 is my least favorite, but I’m tied on the left and right ones, they’re both so good.
I, personally, don’t care for Grapploct’s shiny colors. especially when its normal colors looked THAT Good. it just feel disappointing?? idk, may just be me, but I just wanted to try my hand at some possible recolors for it cuz I really love to play around with colors and palettes.
Have you reviewed the Grapploct line? Thanks as always for your thoughts!
I actually really like Clobbopus here. I feel like a fighting-type octopus that uses its tentacles for punching, while a fairly obvious concept, is a good one, and Clobbopus does a good job of representing that with its dark-colored "boxing gloves" and markings that make a wrestling mask of sorts.
I also just like the general aesthetics here. The off-white and orange are a lovely combo, and the blue eyes work well with it. The "gloves" being a dark gray helps them pop out against the rest of the design, with just a small fringe of the same color at the bottom to carry it through without distracting from the tentacles. The blue eyes and their rectangular shape are also super cute.
However, I'm not really that big on Grapploct. It's one of those evos that looses most of the best attributes of the first stage.
To start, I really don't care for the sudden color change. There's no actual reason it couldn't be the off-white with orange, and making the entire body dark gray means you lose any emphasis on the tentacles that the original had. Using navy on this dark color also means that the design blurs together, making it hard to read save for the yellow mask and suckers. Ironically, the shiny keeps a closer palette to Clobbopus (not exact, but closer), and frankly I think it's much better:
On top of that, they also changed the eye shape again for no reason, and it seems to have completely lost the boxing theme. It still has a wrestling motif with the mask, and I guess it's gone from boxing to jujutsu given the "belt" around its waist, but I don't think that reads very clearly conceptually compared to the simplicity of the boxing gloves, thus making the design feel less coherent.
On the plus side, it is at least identifiable as belonging to the same line, and I do think it standing up on two tentacles is interesting, but otherwise it's just pretty "eh".
Overall, Clobbopus is great. Grapploct isn't terrible, but it's not half as good as Clobbopus either due to a muddled color palette and less identifiable theme.
decided to find Pokemon for all of the notable characters in DQB2 after some consideration and deciding
Isle of Awakening:
Builder (male) - Pikachu
Builder (female) - Buneary
Malroth - Zorua (Unovan form)
Lulu - Sylveon
Hairy Hermit - remains the same (original form remains unknown)
Brownbeard - Samurott (Unovan form)
Hargon - mostly remains the same but looks akin to a Vaporoark fusion
Furrowfield:
Rosie - Floragato (shiny)
Bonanzo - Rillaboom
Perry - Leafeon
Wrigley - remains the same
Pastor Al - remains the same
Britney - Lucario
Clayton - Nuzleaf
Lillian - Bounsweet
Saffron - Steenee
Dog Girl - Lilligant (Unovan form; dog form remains the same)
Ghostly Guest - remains the same (original form remains unknown)
Khrumbul-Dun:
Babs - Raboot -> Cinderace (after Silver Bar is finished)
Den - Diggersby
Magrog - Arcanine (Hisuian form)
Digby - Machamp
Dougie - Conkeldurr
Goldirox - remains the same
Serge - Glaceon
Ordelia - Lopunny
Jules - remains the same
Moonbrooke:
King - Pyroar
Gerome - Mabosstiff
Warwick - Umbreon (shiny; monster form retains the rings)
Anessa - Vaporeon (shiny)
Zara - Boltund (shiny)
Esther - Lycanroc (midday form)
Jeremiah - Stoutland (shiny)
Haydin - Espeon (shiny)
Other:
Molly - Oranguru
Gillian - Machoke (considering she reuses the exact same model as Barbella from DQB1)
Finn - Grapploct
notes:
some of these picks may change
i've chosen to keep monsters and animals the same as they are, so i was tempted to make Wrigley and Goldirox an Orthworm and a shiny Golem respectively but decided against it (but the monsters have Pokemon typings now)
i was going to challenge myself not to use too many mammalian Pokemon but in the end, i was was "fuck we ball" and just did it to my heart's content
Tommy definitely has a galvantula! for him having a pseudo legendary i could see it either being a goodra or kommo-o, maybe even a dragonite? deviating from the electric type i would love if he had a sandshrew (but im biased bc i love sandshrew).
Gordon with a mudsdale is so real and true, I can also see him with aggron.. perhaps even a tauros..... also random geodude gordon found is besties with joshua instantly (i am not biased at all (lying))
dr coomer grapploct and scizor no comment. i reallly want bubby to have a golisopod bc of grapploct but.. not sure if that would fit better with someone else
gman's 'main' pokemon is articuno. to me
srory for Paragraph in your asks, i dont know shit about pokemon lore i just think they're neat :3
Ohhh yeah! and Goodra's shiny form is yellow if you want to stay color coordinated ha ha. And if Gordon mainly uses Normal (even if i want him to have mainly ground) with the exception of Mudsdale I see no problems with Tommy having a Sandshrew ha ha ^^
Another pokemon that I feel fits Gordon is a Rhyhorn that gradually evolves with each act that eventually evolves into a Rhyperior with the final act. (LOOK AT THEM AND TELL ME THEY AREN'T PERFECT POKÉMON FOR HIM)
Grapploct is a perfect Pokémon for Dr. Coomer. No further comment is needed ^^
AND WITH THE GOLISOPOD THING i'd find it hilarious bc the whole trend of Dr. Coomer and Bubby fighting for one to claim to be the "Alpha male now" but instead having their pokemon fight just to have- yknow what happens ><
I just imagine Dr. Coomer commenting "nature is beautiful" after winning/losing and their pokémon being fine a minute later.
Now i'm thinking that G-Man has a team of bird pokémon. Honchcrow and Corviknight are pretty fitting alongside Articuno.
and it's all good! I love hearing stuff about this- the more the merrier! >:))
Tamaki Amajiki 'Suneater' Pokemon team (mostly using animals that Tamaki manifested, with some exceptions): Shiny Grapploct: A phisically strong Octopus, Tamaki's main weapons, and shiny for the color. Mega Blaziken: manifested Chicken Talons. Kingler: crab claws. Cloyster: clam shell shields, Tauros: Beef Centaur, Solgaleo: It's called 'The Beast that Devoures the Sun,' & Tamaki's name is 'Suneater'. Also viable to Tamaki are: Volcarona, Octillery, Espeon, Decidueye, & Slither Wing
If Toga wasn't a Ditto I'd assign it to Amajiki, because Jesus can he become anything ever
(Also tagging once again @dragonoffantasyandreality, @jotaro-spengler, @teapotteringabout, @mothmannerly, @alexthefly, @dreamycloud, and @n-chu4ever! ^^)