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I have no idea how I ended up on a mosquito plus a ninja/samurai idea, but that's what it is in the end.

I wanted a Pokémon that would be like the Beedrill line where it evolves early so you can get an early game boost but falls off in the late game. I also doubled in a Shedinja like effect. Because I was designing around a rougelike/nuzlocke permadeath mechanic, I thought it would be cool to have a Pokémon that you could only get when it faints. The idea would be that if you have a Sketurai if it faints it is replaced by a Mosprito in your party permanently. This makes it so it's a Pokémon you can have sacrificially later in runs for some benefit adding just a little layer of complexity.

I also wanted it to represent a very specific threat for players when it's a wild Pokémon because it's a Pokémon that can easily apply Poison to your party, which is more of a problem in a Nuzlock/permadeath environment. For Mosprito, which might appear in the wild later in the game it represents a threat in that it learns a lot of moves that sacrifice itself to damage your team ex: Destiny Bond.

Overall, I just think they ended up looking really cool like some kind of hybrid of a Raven/Crow and a Mosquito with a very Japanese Samurai/Ninja vibe. They definitely have a bad guy Pokémon vibe, so they'd probably be Pokémon on the Team Rocket-esque team.

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I have no idea how I ended up on a mosquito plus a ninja/samurai idea, but that's what it is in the end.

I wanted a Pokémon that would be like the Beedrill line where it evolves early so you can get an early game boost but falls off in the late game. I also doubled in a Shedinja like effect. Because I was designing around a rougelike/nuzlocke permadeath mechanic, I thought it would be cool to have a Pokémon that you could only get when it faints. The idea would be that if you have a Sketurai if it faints it is replaced by a Mosprito in your party permanently. This makes it so it's a Pokémon you can have sacrificially later in runs for some benefit adding just a little layer of complexity.

I also wanted it to represent a very specific threat for players when it's a wild Pokémon because it's a Pokémon that can easily apply Poison to your party, which is more of a problem in a Nuzlock/permadeath environment. For Mosprito, which might appear in the wild later in the game it represents a threat in that it learns a lot of moves that sacrifice itself to damage your team ex: Destiny Bond.

Overall, I just think they ended up looking really cool like some kind of hybrid of a Raven/Crow and a Mosquito with a very Japanese Samurai/Ninja vibe. They definitely have a bad guy Pokémon vibe, so they'd probably be Pokémon on the Team Rocket-esque team.