Pokémon: Monkey
Franchise/Origin: Rhythm Heaven
Type: Normal
Ability: Adaptability
Moves: Rhythm Strike, Body Slam, Celebrate, Copycat, Defense Curl, Double Hit, Double Edge, Encore, Entrainment, Fake Out, Follow Me, Helping Hand, Me First, Simple Beam, Uproar, Bulk Up, Branch Poke, Leaf Blade, Fling,
Z-Move: Monkey and its forms can all use
Go For A Perfect!
Stats: 80/80/80/80/80/80 [480 BST]
Pokémon: Monkey-Showtime
Type: Ice
Ability: Slush Rush
Moves: Monkey’s Moveset + Ice Hammer, Hammer Arm, Dragon Hammer, Wood Hammer, Aurora Veil, Hail, Ice Ball, Ice Shard, Haze, Mist, Spotlight
Stats: 80/120/90/60/110/70 [530 BST]
Pokémon: Monkey-Tap
Pokémon: Monkey-Tap
Type: Fighting
Ability: Tap Trial - Iron Fist but for kicking moves
Moves: Monkey’s Moveset + Double Kick, Triple Kick, Jump Kick, High Jump Kick, Low Kick, Blaze Kick, Mega Kick, Thunderous Kick
Stats: 80/115/70/85/60/120 [530 BST]
Pokémon: Monkey-Watch
Type: Steel
Ability: Tempo Up
Moves: Monkey’s Moveset + Bullet Punch, Gear Grind, Double Slap, Wake-Up Slap, Metal Sound, Electro Ball, Fly, Double Team, Zing Zap, Perish Song
Stats: 80/105/85/85/95/80 [530 BST]
Pokémon: Monkey-Acrobat
Type: Flying
Ability: Unburden
Moves: Monkey’s Moveset + Acrobatics, Aerial Ace, Agility, Swift, Fly, Sky Attack, Sky Drop, Tailwind, Stuff Cheeks, Night Slash, Spotlight, Swords Dance
Stats: 80/125/75/80/75/95 [530 BST]
Pokémon: Monkey-Pajama
Type: Psychic
Ability: Psychic Surge
Moves: Monkey’s Moveset +
Sweet Dreams, Rest, Sleep Talk, Lunge, Snore, Yawn, Psychic, Zen Headbutt, Bounce, Hypnosis, Moonblast, Tri-Attack, Calm Mind
Stats: 80/70/95/130/80/75 [530 BST]
Reasoning: Well, this is a lot to cover, isn’t it?
Monkey is one of Rhythm Heaven’s most recurring characters, and has starred in 12 different Rhythm Heaven Minigames!
Base form Monkey represents a variety of games that didn’t have quite enough to make an entire form out of:
- Tambourine can be seen in Follow Me and Entrainment
- Fan Club has Uproar and Encore
- Fling fits for both Hole in One and Exhibition Match
- Leaf Blade and Branch Poke represents Monkey’s appearance in Clap Trap
Base Monkey also gets flat stats for being the base form, and gets Adaptability due to how many roles it has throughout Rhythm Heaven. Now that base form is out of the way, now onto Monkey’s forms!
Showtime was a game exclusive to Rhythm Tengoku, in which Monkey utilizes a hammer to hit food to Penguins jumping by. As such, it gets Hammer Moves, higher strength, lower speed, and Slush Rush to represents the Penguins Sliding about.
Tap Trial has recurred in almost every Rhythm Heaven Game, in which two Monkeys tap their legs about in various patterns you must follow. This is represented by making Monkey-Tap heavily Kick focused, both in moves and ability. The game is quite fast, so the stats reflect that.
Monkey Watch is what many could consider an incredibly annoying game to play. To reflect that difficulty to keep up with all of the Monkey High-Fives, it gets the previously made Tempo Up ability. It also gets slap and mechanical moves, as well as perish song due to a watch keeping track of time, and this move puts the opponent on a timer.
Monkey Acrobat has high attack and middling speed, which can be boosted with unburden, as Monkey Acrobat needs to not hold anything to swing around. It gets mostly Flying type moves, as well as some theatrical stuff to mimic how the game is displayed. Also, Stuff Cheeks is a fun little nod to a certain Donut Remix.
Pajama Party is a rather… weird game. These Monkeys jump around alongside a little girl in a fantastical dreamscape. Pajama Monkey gains Psychic Surge to mirror the switch to a Magical world mid-song. Sweet Dreams, from Madotsuki, is also here to mirror a certain move in the minigames where the Monkeys, one column at a time, fall to the ground and go to sleep.
This was certainly my largest sub yet, so if I missed explaining anything, my bad.
Theme: Monkey stars in several sports-related minigames. Monkey-Acrobat represents both Acrobatics and Gymnastics, the latter being represented in the Olympics. Not to mention, Monkey also stars in Exhibition Match, a baseball minigame, and Hole in One, a Golf minigame.