man, I should've kept my mouth shut
why are they making such a big deal out of this? it's just another grass/ghost, like we need anymore
but the entire Pokemon.com homepage is covered in matcha (reminder that the site hasn't changed one bit since BW released), the twitter logo is partially covered in matcha
maybe they thought it'd be really popular or something? That, or it's another bafflingly overproduced marketing tactic...
I appreciated the short, it clearly had effort put into it and I actually like the origin tale quite a bit
But seriously,
why?
Here's the design, btw
It's another one of those "one single specimen's origin story counts for an entire species" sort of mon, which I'm really not a fan of (see also: Cubone, most Legendaries, Banette)
especially if this ends up being an evolution and not an RFake or Convergent or whatever they want to call the shitty recolors (but it has too much effort put into it to be one of those, so I don't think it'll happen, which is strange since we already know it's not a regional variant)
Anyways, I didn't like Polteageist much and I don't like this any more than that
although it's admittedly better than the other "new "evolutions"" they showed off in that Presents because of how fucking low the bar is.
The hands were the worst part of Polteageist yet one of the only characteristics they chose to keep for Poltchageist, the eyes look like Sinistea's except crying mascara for some reason, and I don't understand why it needs a massive tumor for a forehead other than to remind people that this is actually a Pokémon instead of a matcha jar with eyes.
Seriously, though. Why does it need to be Grass/Ghost. Why do they keep making Grass/Ghosts and Grass/Darks. Stop this madness, I beg of you.
EDIT:
Official reveal video is out now and
HAHAHA THAT MODEL IS SO FUCKING BAD
Man it never ceases to amaze me how bad the 3D models are
Anyways
Wii-tier texturing aside
Apparently this thing always holds a stirring stick (with two fingers), but uses it like a sword
very human-like mannerisms, blegh
That's all the video shows, btw, half of it is just ads for other stuff
The best part of it is the music, which actually isn't bad. A bit generic, but I like how it's infinitely more peaceful than any other music in SV's soundtrack so far.
Here's its key artwork; it doesn't look entirely traced (if only for the terrible hand on the left), so it makes me think that they left all the hand-drawn artwork for the DLC mon (if so, scummy)
and again it seems to be a weirdly big deal-
it's the only newly-revealed DLC mon with its key artwork actually available as a .png ahead of time...
It's a Convergent mon. It's not an evolution or anything.
And, of course, the obligatory "broken unique ability"... is actually not super broken and only works in Doubles.
I really don't understand why GF does this. Doubles are nonexistent in the basegame and almost nobody actually plays competitive. Those who do definitely won't be using what's probably a pre-evolution.
