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Day 185:
was experimenting with a few pokémon in @MaxOKE_'s "wacky" artstyle and knuckles
#APoliwagADay
@PillsPhils we did it gentlemen. another major win for all the he/theys out there.
19. Polikazan
instead of poliwrath, i wanted to make a new evolution to complete the hisuian poliwag line.
the basis for polikazan’s design were dormant volcanoes and old japanese illustrations of frogs.
now it makes much more sense for it to have evolved from poliwag! to think that a frog evo may’ve been planned from the get go! so these guys MIGHT be the beta to beta politoed. but i didn’t include them in the drawing, cus then that would be 22 polis, and i’m only 20. (5/5)
this backsprite from before spaceworld 1997, and this likely linked front sprite from later, are the earliest forms of politoed. but it might go back even further, because you know what that politoed backsprite looks a lot like? THESE BACK SPRITE MFS FROM BETA GEN 1. (4/5)
13. Grass Type Poliwrath
this design dates back from a drawing i made in school in early 2019.
here he is based on a horned toad that camouflages as a leaf. i ended up sort of revisiting the idea back in 2020, but i think i prefer the 2019 version more.