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CAP 2 Smogon "Create a Pokemon" Part Deux: Art Thread
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Shuppet = a play on the words Shadow and Puppet while Banette = a play on the words Banter or Bane and Marionette.
So the evo should should have a play on a relatively dark word...or use one of the pokemon's features and use it like how I had Hanged and Marionette to make Hangette ... also sounds like hang it.
So the evo should should have a play on a relatively dark word...or use one of the pokemon's features and use it like how I had Hanged and Marionette to make Hangette ... also sounds like hang it.
Marionetto
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Marionetta
both could work. we could change the last letter for male and female. kinda like how pokemon change their shape as male or female.
or
Marionetta
both could work. we could change the last letter for male and female. kinda like how pokemon change their shape as male or female.
True, must be the reason why Nintendo hasn't made their own evo for Banette....the naming for the next evo would be strange.
Maybe if I check the Thesaurus for another word for marionette we can use that as a replacement for "et" endings.
Concept starting words, Banshee, Shriek, Ghoul, Lynch. I'd have more but I'm kinda lazy with this part. *might have more later when I think about it.....
Bannete is a play of the word "Banter" or "Bane" and Shuppet is "Shadow" as I said before....so, we either go the banette way with a ghoulish sound, or shuppet way with a dark word.
Naming might as well be one of the hardest parts of making the pokemon
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Just call it Bigbannettewithwood, why dontcha. I'd call it something like Sombrangle, personally: sombre = "grave"/ombre = "shadow" + dangle/tangle.
Anyhow, here's a update on the rapier/fencing concept.
What's wrong with a feminine sounding name? Other than that it will offend 13-year-old boys with too much testosterone who want this Pokemon to be named 'Scarfucker'. I suppose you also think that male Gardevoirs and Roserades are 'wrong'. Such a silly way to not-deal with gender.
Anyhow, here's a update on the rapier/fencing concept.
I liked this one.
That's a great suggestion. It's Italian, like it looks.
I see that etymologically it's not related to phantom, either. Fantoccino is from Latin's infans = child, whereas phantom is from Greek's phantos = visible.[SIZE=-1]ETYMOLOGY:[/SIZE]Italian, pl. of fantoccino, diminutive of fantoccio, puppet, augmentative of fante, child, short for infante, from Latinnf
ns,
nfant-, infant. See infant.
It's a bit sad that everyone has already focused in on KoA's design. Is it because it's insanely original, because he's well-known, or because everyone's been waiting for Banette to get a marionette evo since it was released and its exciting to see it happen just the way they expected?
Oh, no, I think it's good that it's not related to phantom, sorry I didn't spell that out better. Makes it more pun-like. Pokemon is full of puns (and bad English, like 'Your Pokemon are growing up good'.
I'm looking forward to that a lot. The only problem I really have with your Banette evo is that it looks exactly as I imagined a Banette evo would look. I like surprisingly evolutions, I sure as heck didn't expect Mamoswine, for example (although in retrospect I should have).
Vendegrave (vendetta + grave) combines nicely. It looks oddly like vengence, and 'degrave' rhymes nicely with the word degrade (as corpses do). There is a lot going on there. People might want a shorter, snappier name though.
I think all the designs posted so far look like ghost/fighting ones, even the bad ones. I don't think KoA's looks much like a fighting type, but it looks like it might move like a fighting type, which is close enough to being the same thing.
I'm a French speaker and can say with authority that Babelfish destroys sentences. Could be the best Pokemon naming resource ever though!
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