Fanmade Pokémon Designs (Fakemon) - Tracers, garbage designers, and of course, furries

[Valstrax]

I like the concept behind the Typhlosion and Feraligatr lines, but they could use some work. The Feraligatr redesign could probably work better as a standalone Pokemon if it was tweaked to make it less similar to the original. The Croconaw redesign is pretty cute though.
On the other hand, the Meganium line, especially the final stage, is just abhorrent. Who thought those tiny ass heads looked acceptable?

To be fair, the idea of a lily-themed Pokemon is kind of neat, but we already have the Flebebe line for that!

 

[UntimelyDhelmise]

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idk, the Meganium is pretty interesting at least since it actually does something dynamic with the flower motif (the double necks reference stamens, the reproductive stalks of flowers that harbor pollen). The real Meganium always looked like a generic green dinosaur that merely got a big flower stuck on its neck to me.

 

[Valstrax]

idk, the Meganium is pretty interesting at least since it actually does something dynamic with the flower motif (the double necks reference stamens, the reproductive stalks of flowers that harbor pollen). The real Meganium always looked like a generic green dinosaur that merely got a big flower stuck on its neck to me.

You're right about the stamen part, no doubt about that, but I'm genuinely curious as to how it grows two heads during evolution, considering that the previous forms only had one head.

 

[UntimelyDhelmise]

You're right about the stamen part, no doubt about that, but I'm genuinely curious as to how it grows two heads during evolution, considering that the previous forms only had one head.

I don't know.

You.

Tell.

Me.

 

[Valstrax]

I don't know.
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You know what? Good point.

 

[Lapis Lazuli]

Can TemTem "count" as Fakemon? It's essentially an MMO with similar Pokemon mechanics that died in popularity fairly quickly.

"Just Gets Bigger": The Game.
Even funnier is how they evolve; whoever designed the mechanics must've been on something, because a TemTem evolves not by level, but levels gained.
So, say Gastly didn't evolve into Haunter at level 25, but rather every 25 levels, it will evolve into a Haunter, and if you don't evolve it, you'll need to wait another 25 levels rather than just evolve it later via gaining another level, which means that, assuming you hatched it from an egg, you only have roughly 4 chances to evolve it, or it's stuck like that forever.

Also, lol'd at how the platypus from the fake gen 8 leaks appears here.

 

[Mao Hao Hao]

Can TemTem "count" as Fakemon? It's essentially an MMO with similar Pokemon mechanics that died in popularity fairly quickly.

"Just Gets Bigger": The Game.

Also, lol'd at how the platypus from the fake gen 8 leaks appears here.

I remember all the 'hype' about this, saying it would beat pokemon and be the next big animal collectathon/battling game. And it went the same way as every other attempt at copying the success of pokemon has: being forgotten about as soon as it is released. People complain about pokemon designs being stupid/boring, but 90% of them are at least interesting in some way and not just 'half of these things have the exact same face'.

 

[Lapis Lazuli]

I remember all the 'hype' about this, saying it would beat pokemon and be the next big animal collectathon/battling game. And it went the same way as every other attempt at copying the success of pokemon has: being forgotten about as soon as it is released. People complain about pokemon designs being stupid/boring, but 90% of them are at least interesting in some way and not just 'half of these things have the exact same face'.

It was hyped up soley because someone donated enough money to get that platypus from the fake leaks onto here, which got people excited.
Also that it was reaching its Kickstarter goal, but then shit hit the fan as soon as problems arose with the MMO.
Peculiarly with how overly expensive cosmetics were, people getting banned for encountering bugs, everything looking ugly, and the fact the game is around 35$ and in Early Access.

 

[Coelacanth]

Can TemTem "count" as Fakemon? It's essentially an MMO with similar Pokemon mechanics that died in popularity fairly quickly.

"Just Gets Bigger": The Game.
Even funnier is how they evolve; whoever designed the mechanics must've been on something, because a TemTem evolves not by level, but levels gained.
So, say Gastly didn't evolve into Haunter at level 25, but rather every 25 levels, it will evolve into a Haunter, and if you don't evolve it, you'll need to wait another 25 levels rather than just evolve it later via gaining another level, which means that, assuming you hatched it from an egg, you only have roughly 4 chances to evolve it, or it's stuck like that forever.

Also, lol'd at how the platypus from the fake gen 8 leaks appears here.

I took one look at TemTem and realised that it was basically pokemon and was pretty much doomed to fail, even if the Dexit fanbase hailed it as the next big successor to pokemon. None of the designs really caught my attention. They're just glorified fakemon if you ask me.

I remember all the 'hype' about this, saying it would beat pokemon and be the next big animal collectathon/battling game. And it went the same way as every other attempt at copying the success of pokemon has: being forgotten about as soon as it is released. People complain about pokemon designs being stupid/boring, but 90% of them are at least interesting in some way and not just 'half of these things have the exact same face'.

Once again that's the mistake nearly every single monster catching/taming franchise seems to make. They're not bringing anything new to the table. If you're gonna make one you have to accept the fact that you'll never most likely be the next pokemon/digimon and just put your energy into making the designs of your 'mons as fun, interesting and memorable as possible as well as shaping the franchise's own identity.

 

[Sangria]

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And then it evolves back into a single sword with a shield. So what happened to the other one? Did it die to become the shield?

Can TemTem "count" as Fakemon? It's essentially an MMO with similar Pokemon mechanics that died in popularity fairly quickly.

"Just Gets Bigger": The Game.
Even funnier is how they evolve; whoever designed the mechanics must've been on something, because a TemTem evolves not by level, but levels gained.
So, say Gastly didn't evolve into Haunter at level 25, but rather every 25 levels, it will evolve into a Haunter, and if you don't evolve it, you'll need to wait another 25 levels rather than just evolve it later via gaining another level, which means that, assuming you hatched it from an egg, you only have roughly 4 chances to evolve it, or it's stuck like that forever.

Also, lol'd at how the platypus from the fake gen 8 leaks appears here.

I think the biggest reason as to why Temtem failed was that its creature designs just didn't stand out. They look like generic creatures found in any of the dozens of low-budget fantasy games on the Google Play store, and they weren't very interesting concept-wise. There's dozens of other factors behind the game's downfall (poor competitive, lack of innovation, bad publicity around the creators' politics, etc.), but the monster designs were probably the most major.

 

[Lapis Lazuli]

And then it evolves back into a single sword with a shield. So what happened to the other one? Did it die to become the shield?

I think the biggest reason as to why Temtem failed was that its creature designs just didn't stand out. They look like generic creatures found in any of the dozens of low-budget fantasy games on the Google Play store, and they weren't very interesting concept-wise. There's dozens of other factors behind the game's downfall (poor competitive, lack of innovation, bad publicity around the creators' politics, etc.), but the monster designs were probably the most major.

Yeah, there's also the fact it is in early access and costs 35 dollars. Ah yes, because something like this, in such an unfinished state, would be worth that much money. Especially when people are claiming that they got banned for using the trade system "too frequently" (like these guys here), to the point where out of the original 30,000+ players, now only 1,500 hang around.

 

[UnsufficentBoobage]

Oh god, so much ugly. Also, lol at some blatant "it started as pokemon redesign" and ugly prevo-spotting Marowak clone...Monster Crown has one, too, why is it so hard to make your skull/stone-covered-head creature NOT vaguely reptilian?

And that evolution mechanic is something clearly made by non-gamer.

If you're gonna make one you have to accept the fact that you'll never most likely be the next pokemon/digimon and just put your energy into making the designs of your 'mons as fun, interesting and memorable as possible as well as shaping the franchise's own identity

But that is haaaaard...then again, there used to be some unique-looking, stylish mon like Catchabeast*, they still went the way of dodo.

*which, blatant Mew copy aside, also managed to have a decent degree of originality. And no, never played it.

 

[Lapis Lazuli]

Oh god, so much ugly. Also, lol at some blatant "it started as pokemon redesign" and ugly prevo-spotting Marowak clone...Monster Crown has one, too, why is it so hard to make your skull/stone-covered-head creature NOT vaguely reptilian?

And that evolution mechanic is something clearly made by non-gamer.


But that is haaaaard...then again, there used to be some unique-looking, stylish mon like Catchabeast*, they still went the way of dodo.

*which, blatant Mew copy aside, also managed to have a decent degree of originality. And no, never played it.

Looked up "Monster Crown." Whilist its focus on breeding is an interesting concept in that offspring created from two species are always different and/or hybrids (Something that hasn't been done in actual Pokemon yet), it seems many of its designs suffer from being too simplistic or cluttered, and their names are pretty generic (seriously, it's like they just made up words as they went).

The only one that diverges from the "turn based" combat that I could find is Kindred Fates, but even then, they have their own Ralts and Gardevoir ripoff, and the Raccoon literally has Joker's mask.

 

[Xerxes IX]

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I can't get over the fact that they slapped Palmon's head onto Chikorita's body. Yes, you could argue it doesn't really look similar, but the design cues from Palmon really stand out to me because it doesn't look related to its evolutions.

 

[LucasSomething]

Temtem designs are literally "worse than edgy romhack fakemon" tier

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(it stretchted lol)

A bunch of them have no noses, muzzles or snouts so they look like shitty deviantart ocs. There are only 2 designs i can think now i like and one of them is an an actual fakemon making the worse designs even more depressing.

Temtem designs sucks mostly because they're not designed around any clever theme so if the design sucks they have zero charm. Like, sure people hate the last gen starters but at least "drum gorilla", "secret agent cameleon" and "soccer bunny" are much stronger concepts than "rock turtle", "fire monkey" and "mental tentacle thing".

 

[Lapis Lazuli]

Temtem designs are literally "worse than edgy romhack fakemon" tier

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A bunch of them have no noses, muzzles or snouts so they look like shitty deviantart ocs. There are only 2 designs i can think now i like and one of them is an an actual fakemon making the worse designs even more depressing.

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Temtem designs sucks mostly because they're not designed around any clever theme so if the design sucks they have zero charm. Like, sure people hate the last gen starters but at least "drum gorilla", "secret agent cameleon" and "soccer bunny" are much stronger concepts than "rock turtle", "fire monkey" and "mental tentacle thing".

Hell, Game Freak did a better monkey and turtle starter.

From further insight, it seems TemTem did spin the starter thing a little; instead of the typical "fire grass water" set up, it's "Mental, Melee, Crystal". There could've been a more clever "mind, body, soul" theming here (like what gen 6 did with RPG classes), but alas.

 

[verygayFrogs]

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Ok so I’m about to go on a tangent/sperg

What the actual fuck did they do to all of them? Chickorita looks like a generic lizard with a flower pasted on it, Bayleef looks like a stereotypical teen girl and Meganium has some serious neck problems while wearing a flower like a bow tie. Cyndaquil looks like a cheap ass cat toy, Quilava looks like a dead animal and Typhlosion looks like something from a cheap knockoff bootleg on the Apple store! And don’t get me fucking started on that goddamn Totodile “Redesign” it’s not even a redesign, it’s shit. Absolute shit. They massacred my fucking first starter Pokémon.

Rant over. Also, a while ago I liked fucking with some of the gen 5 sprites and made these two as an electric counterpart to the Pan Trio bc I always see it as a quartet bc of there always being a pretty good electric type (Pikachu bc it’s a mascot, Ampharos, Manetric, Luxray, Tynamo, Helioisk, Vikavolt and Toxtricity) so hopefully I didn’t commit any of the design sins

 

[LucasSomething]

Hell, Game Freak did a better monkey and turtle starter.
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From further insight, it seems TemTem did spin the starter thing a little; instead of the typical "fire grass water" set up, it's "Mental, Melee, Crystal". There could've been a more clever "mind, body, soul" theming here (like what gen 6 did with RPG classes), but alas.

Even ignoring the high quality of the designs, gamefreak still makes them clever. Infernape's gold parts reference sun wukong (that's why it's fighting type) and torterra is based on dinosaurs and the world turtle. Temtem's starters are so forgetable they dont even look like "starters". It's so bad i genuinely got confused and had to look it up who they were and i still got their types wrong.

Like, look at these colors. Can anyone blame me for thinking it's fire?

Melee has no real color and varies wildly. Crystal is the worse cause sometimes it's green others it's red. These types dont even have any rules among themselves. The crystal types are not minerals but animals with a few rocks sticking out. The mushroom mon is not actually nature type. I dont know what the fuck "neutral" means because there only 1 pure neutral and others are a neutral/crystal or neutral/melee. Digital are straight up human made machines but they look like animals?

It's so messy. Sure, those cheap mobile ripoffs have shit designs but ripping off pokemon at least makes their types easy to understand.

Ok so I’m about to go on a tangent/sperg

Rant over. Also, a while ago I liked fucking with some of the gen 5 sprites and made these two as an electric counterpart to the Pan Trio bc I always see it as a quartet bc of there always being a pretty good electric type (Pikachu bc it’s a mascot, Ampharos, Manetric, Luxray, Tynamo, Helioisk, Vikavolt and Toxtricity) so hopefully I didn’t commit any of the design sins
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The monkey trio is based on the 3 wise monkeys (see, hear, speak no evil) but there is a rare fourth budhist monkey that represents "do no evil". Also, despite the hate their evolutions get, they're still themed around it and simply take it to the next level by having their designs look like bancho (foul mouthed ), biker (hears no one) and girly/gal (likes fashion).

What i'm saying is, while the idea might sound unnecessary at first, it doesnt actually break their theme. A fourth eletric monkey with their arms crossed would be really clever.

 

[Nauseated Courgi]

Rant over. Also, a while ago I liked fucking with some of the gen 5 sprites and made these two as an electric counterpart to the Pan Trio bc I always see it as a quartet bc of there always being a pretty good electric type (Pikachu bc it’s a mascot, Ampharos, Manetric, Luxray, Tynamo, Helioisk, Vikavolt and Toxtricity) so hopefully I didn’t commit any of the design sins
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It's alright, though, I feel that "Panzap" and "Simizap" (Yes, that's my name for them) should have a more unique look to him. Like maybe give it some spikier hair to compliment the Lighting bolts.

 

[Sangria]

Ok so I’m about to go on a tangent/sperg

Rant over. Also, a while ago I liked fucking with some of the gen 5 sprites and made these two as an electric counterpart to the Pan Trio bc I always see it as a quartet bc of there always being a pretty good electric type (Pikachu bc it’s a mascot, Ampharos, Manetric, Luxray, Tynamo, Helioisk, Vikavolt and Toxtricity) so hopefully I didn’t commit any of the design sins
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Not bad, but as Nauseated Corgi said you should work to make them more distinct rather than just recolors. The lightning bolt on "Panzap" also looks a bit tacked on imo, but it's a good start overall.
Since the original Pan Trio is based off of the See/Hear/Speak No Evil monkeys, I think you should base them off of the fourth "Do No Evil" monkey. Maybe have them cross their arms?