April Fools' Day Sprites

[Abscadabra]

the celebi unanimously disapprove

what da hellllll

 

[CritsMakeMeForfeit]

Also I was hoping that maybe the sprites could be posted by generation? If that's a ton of work then nvm, it just would be fun to get to scroll through (all one thousand pokemon)

 

[Arcae]

God I have been looking for the Torterra for ages.. Anyone know where I could find it? xd

 

[ImaginaryNeon]

Okay but where would I hypothetically submit some hypothetical april fool's sprites to hypothetically commit comedy

 

[Cobalt Pink]

The legendaries of this gen all look fenomenal <3

 

[Pangolin Master]

Is there a place we can see all the April Fool's Day sprites, including the past gen Pokemon?

mod edit: https://play.pokemonshowdown.com/sprites/afd/

 

[Chimbly]

So how would someone be able to make some sprites for next year's april fool's day

 

[LarryBetraitor]

History of April Fools’ Day Sprites
Approved by A Cake Wearing A Hat . Written by platinumCheesecake and sharpclaw


The year is 1997. Little Timmy loves playing the new Pocket Monsters game his mommy got him for Christmas. It hasn’t been two weeks, but little Timmy’s already beaten the game using the totally awesome Charizard he got from Professor Oak. Little Timmy thinks he’s hot shit. Little Timmy is a spoiled brat because his pushover parents let him play video games for ten hours a day. And little Timmy is brimming with the naive confidence of an infant sloshing around in a loaded diaper.

Smug little Timmy invites his only friend, Next Door Kyle, over to battle. His sweaty hands can barely plug in his link cable, he’s so eager to show off his Charizard. It knows Fire Spin, Flamethrower, AND Fire Blast.

“Daaaamn, Timwad,” says Kyle moments later through a mouthful of Gushers and Pepsi Blue, having 6-0’ed Timmy’s entire team with a single Golduck. “You’re so bad at this game. I bet you don’t even know what Rhyhorn evolves into.”

“Of course I do!” little Timmy whines. “It’s Rhydon—”

And Next Door Kyle bellows a response that would echo through time.

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It’s been over 25 years since little Timmy’s fateful gaffe. Today, historians recognize Next Door Kyle’s ensuing proclamation as the oldest Pokemon joke ever made. As April Fools’ Day scholars, it’s our duty to preserve these moments of timeless comedy so future generations can appreciate the glories and disgraces of the past. The April Fools’ Day spriting team in particular has been hard at work cataloging relics of outdated Millennial humor to carry on Next Door Kyle’s heroic legacy.

We recall how, in 2013, the Based God (bearing that most splendid and universal moniker of everlasting hilarity) called down to his oracles and warned of a great flood of shitposts. Wisened prophet Layell heeded the call, and set about gathering four of every Pokemon sprite—front, back, front shiny, and back shiny—to usher onto the good ship Pokemon Showdown. And with this effort came Showdown’s first April Fools’ Day collection, a staggering catalog of some 700 sprites, jokes, and whatever the hell that Celebi gif is. To honor this tireless campaign, the Based God (again, hysterical) smiled upon Layell’s epic memes and spared society from a Chuck Norris roundhouse kick of uber proportions, lol lmao roflcopter.

After this first Great Work, the April Fools’ Day project lay mostly dormant until 2017. With the seventh generation of Pokemon released that previous November, and the months until the anniversary of the project quickly ticking down, it seemed no one would answer the call to create sprites for a new generation of hopeful gamers. But then, lo, a second prophet arose from the crashing seafoam of obscurity, beautiful and urbane. User LifeisDANK, with a glint in their eye and a song in their heart, arose from the jetsam and shouldered the heavy, magnificent burden of Layell’s legacy. On the first day of spriting, LifeisDANK said let there be light—and the Solgaleo sprite came into existence. In the following six days (give or take two months) LifeIsDank single-handedly drew the entire Alola Pokedex, But Funny. And it was good.

In 2019, the eighth generation of Pokemon was announced, and as before, AFD’s previous muse had moved on. But now, tradition loomed large, and some began to whisper that there would come another. That the project would. Not. Die. In the deepest reaches of a fabled realm of chaos and Discord, a new cabal plotted to overthrow the status quo. In a server mysteriously dubbed “Hoopacord,” a small yet devoted group of degenerates, has-beens, and shitlords saw their chance to seize the great project and instill within it a renewed and terrible vitality. With a great gnashing of teeth and slapping of dweebs, they wrestled the spriting project from the hands of the Ancient Ones and began drawing dated 2000s references with blistering speed. They worked, and worked, and chuckled, and worked—and when the fiftieth Spongebob joke was finished, the spriters gazed upon their creations and smiled, knowing this blesséd, curséd collection of .pngs would mark them the heralds of a new and momentous era of Fools.

Having tackled the Gen 7 alternate forms, CAP pokemon, Gen 8, and now Gen 9, historians agree the Hoopacord era is still “going strong.” The spriters’ strength is in their unity, allowing them to better gorge their egos upon the praise they receive from proposing one dank sprite after another. It is unclear how long the Hoopacord era will last. But no matter the shepherds who toil under its long and terrible shadow, the AFD project shows no signs of stopping any time soon.

Furret Walk is Canon now

 

[UberSkitty]

Furret Walk is Canon now

A cannon that shoots out furrets to furret walk the target to death

 

[tntblader]

Furret Walk is Canon now

how can you hate bliss landorus landorus therian and tapu lele.

 

[Mystora]

I think I (somehow) found a sprite that doesn't have an AFD version yet in Roaming form gimmighoul

 

[ImaginaryNeon]

this for pichu's sprite when

 

[A Cake Wearing A Hat]

This thread has been re-pinned and updated with this year's new sprites. Thanks to everyone who helped!

https://www.smogon.com/forums/threads/april-fools-day-sprites.3719011/post-9563490

 

[DaddyBuzzwole]

I think I (somehow) found a sprite that doesn't have an AFD version yet in Roaming form gimmighoul

i mean there are bigger problems, there are a bunch of alcremie sprites that technically don't have an afd equivalent. we'll get around to fixing it at some point

 

[Ivy]

Vinemon bros... we made it.

the poltchageist immaculate version made me lol

 

[ImaginaryNeon]

Okay but where would I hypothetically submit some hypothetical april fool's sprites to hypothetically commit comedy

Still wondering about this btw

 

[kiru]

Give all the artists an honorary April fools badge likeeeee

 

[A Cake Wearing A Hat]

Still wondering about this btw

Send me a smogon conversation with a sprite submission

 

[DaddyBuzzwole]

Give all the artists an honorary April fools badge likeeeee

that should absolutely be a thing. instead of a gym badge it should just be the clown emoji

 

[Akhromyn]

AFD are hilarious as always! >:3
I have a suggestion for a sprite update

Nobody can tell me they are NOT twins

 

[hold me underwater]

the full credits for the initial 2013 wave were lost a long time ago, but i'm working on getting the new-wave credits moved over from my art thread to here

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AlE-z_7XubBNdHl6em9xdlpzREd5MFZnRHA2d29CYWc

 

[FireBlaze]

Poltchageist Artisan Looks Kinda mentally insane! Still funny asf tho! Great work!

 

[ImaginaryNeon]

Time, AFD Thread? Is it really that... time again?

 

[A Cake Wearing A Hat]

And here we go! Sorry we missed a year, we'll make it up.

We added a new member to our team, Mozonite! They made some solid sprites these past couple years. Great addition to the team!

2025 April Fool's Day Sprites

misc sprites

Plusle and Minun by Mozonite

Umbreon by PacInBlac

Koffing (regular and shiny) by whoever made these logos idk

Buzzwole (Back) by DaddyBuzzwole

Kabuto by DaddyBuzzwole

Grumpig (regular and shiny) by DaddyBuzzwole

Voltorb by Mozonite,

backsprite by me

Kricketot by platinumCheesecake

Shiny Alolan Sandslash by me

Rhyspherior, by me

Vanillish (regular and shiny) by TheHungryBidoof

Crawdaunt (regular and shiny) by TheHungryBidoof

Jack Spearow, by DaddyBuzzwole

Hat Pikachus (Original, Partner, Hoenn, Sinnoh, Unova, Kalos, and Alola) edits made by DaddyBuzzwole

Sandile by TheHungryBidoof

eSPeon by not a racist

Tentacruel by TheHungryBidoof

Banette and Mega Banette by TheHungryBidoof

Diggersby by DaddyBuzzwole

Cyndaquil (regular and shiny) by TheHungryBidoof

Mothim by Mozonite

Electivire by TheHungryBidoof

Missingno by me, original design by the Siivagunner team

Elekid by TheHungryBidoof

Camerupt by TheHungryBidoof

Lapras by DaddyBuzzwole

Claydol by TheHungryBidoof

Mega Sableye by TheHungryBidoof

Larvesta by DaddyBuzzwole

Xerneas-Neutral by me

Gimmighoul (Chest form) by me (Roaming now has the old reddit-based Gimmighoul sprite)

Lopunny by Mozonite

CAP

the CAP Shox by me

Chuggalong by DaddyBuzzwole

Chuggon by DaddyBuzzwole

Draggalong by DaddyBuzzwole

2026 April Fool's Day Sprites

Z-A megas

Mega Clefable (with base Clefable for comparison), edited by me

Mega Victreebel (front and back) by Fusion Flare

Mega Starmie (regular and shiny) by DaddyBuzzwole

Mega Dragonite by Fusion Flare,

shiny by TheHungryBidoof

Mega Meganium by me

Mega Feraligatr by Mozonite

Emboar and Mega Emboar by Mozonite

Mega Skarmory by Clem

Mega Froslass by TheHungryBidoof (we know the japanese is poorly translated)

Mega Excadrill by rineko

Mega Scolipede by DaddyBuzzwole

Mega Scrafty by DaddyBuzzwole

Mega Eelektross by me

Mega Chandelure (regular and shiny) by TheHungryBidoof

I drew a crown on chesnaught

Mega Delphox by TheHungryBidoof

@DaddyBuzzwole flipped shiny greninja upside down and drew a shuriken at its feet

Mega Pyroar by Fusion Flare

Mega Floette by me

Mega Malamar by DaddyBuzzwole

Mega Barbaracle (front and back) by TheHungryBidoof

Mega Dragalge edited by me

Mega Hawlucha by DaddyBuzzwole

Mega Zygarde by me

Mega Drampa by Fusion Flare

Mega Falinks (regular and shiny) by TheHungryBidoof

Mega Raichu X and Y by DaddyBuzzwole

Chimecho and Mega Chimecho by TheHungryBidoof

Mega Baxcalibur, edited by me

Mega Zeraora (regular and shiny) edited by me

Mega Absol Z (regular and shiny) by TheHungryBidoof

Mega Staraptor and Mega Lucario Z by DaddyBuzzwole

Mega Garchomp Z by Fusion Flare

Mega Golurk by rineko

Mega Crabominable by me,

shiny by DaddyBuzzwole

Mega Meowstic (male and female) edited by DaddyBuzzwole

Mega Golisopod by DaddyBuzzwole

Mega Tatsugiri (Curly, Stretchy, and Droopy) by TheHungryBidoof

Mega Glimmora by TheHungryBidoof

Mega Magearna and Mega Magearna-Original by Fusion Flare

Mega Heatran by DaddyBuzzwole, requested by dhelmise and rineko

Mega Darkrai by Fusion Flare

Mega Scovillain (front and back) by DaddyBuzzwole

Miscellaneous and CAP

you do not need credits for these edits, you just need to know we added some little bits to respect some special numbers

Kevin got traded again so not a racist continues his eternal task with Durant Number Four

Gogoat by DaddyBuzzwole

Gourgeist (Small, regular, Large, and Super) edited and processed by DaddyBuzzwole

Bewear by PacInBlac

Mega Houndoom by DaddyBuzzwole

Kakuna by DaddyBuzzwole

Mega Tyranitar by TheHungryBidoof

Ramnarok (dormant and radiant formes) by Mozonite

Flox by Samirsin

I hope you all have enjoyed the festivities today!

 

[DiegoVstar]

Amazing sprites this year guys! Some things to say:
1. Idk the Pyroar reference. I know that wild zone 17 is the scariest of the all, but I don’t get the reference.
2. I thought for sure Mega Garchomp Z was going to be Patrick ballin’ but ig that Mega Starmie took the Patrick meme already.
3. Mega Malamar was comdedy gold.