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WindieDragon — Emboar Ground Forme
Published: 2011-03-28 01:04:38 +0000 UTC; Views: 7728; Favourites: 106; Downloads: 89
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From the beginning Emboar's design was just a huge disappointment to me :C. I really think they should have made it quad, and NOT part fighting :/. Anyways, I complained in the artistic way by drawing this
.It's for the alternative formes contest, where we had to design a forme for a pokemon. This is a ground forme, and it's achieved by Emboar holding the Spiky Boulder (which you see there on his tail). It can be used as a weapon for bashing opponents or tough patches or earth/rock. This means it can dig in any kind of ground, no matter how hard (except for something ridiculous like steel
). He does retain fire as his primary type, with ground as the secondary.Yes, the rock can be set on fire. Emboar's supposed to set his fists on fire with his beard so I continued that idea only with "mane" and "rock" instead XD.
In my opinion, this should have been his real design xD.
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I see this as more of a middle stage evolution, but it still looks awesome 
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Thanks
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I got use to Emboar and really started to like it, but I never could get used to Pignite, this does look much better however
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Thank you. I'm used to the design now, too. I just HATE that it's yet another fighting type. Here's to hoping for a pure fire type for the next generation!
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I like this better than emboars official design. After tepig i don't like the rest of its evolutions
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I know, so tired of the fighting combo already D:.
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And then it's killed by Samurott too easily where Fire/Fighting lets it take hits much easier from lack of dual weaknesses.
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All the more reason to keep the starters pure. I still don't see why Samurott didn't get the fighting instead of Emboar :/
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Pure type starters shouldn't really happen either, as it ruins the potential for some starters. It's the very reason why Emboar is the best offensively from it's Fighting type. Basically, Emboar is the best, Samurott is in the middle, where everyone's beloved Serperior is probably the worst I've ever seen. Access to so many boosting moves but no attack moves to take advantage of them with.
Besides, name me on type when paired with Fire that neutrals the damage to Rock and NOT give it a double weakness? The answer? Fighting. Clearly Game Freak doesn't want Fire type starters to be useless like Charizard and Typhlosion are: Because both are weak to Stealth Rock.
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I don't play competitively, so I'm not that worried about whatever uselessness they might be trying to prevent 
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No matter how hard you try you can't really do such a thing. Grass as a type is already very weak anyways, but even then, I honestly see the Starter choice as choosing a difficulty. Fire is usually Easy, Water is usually Normal, and Grass is usually Hard. That's how I always saw it and how it's worked with me before with R/S, since Fire types had an advantage against Steven Stone, Water types had neutral, where Grass types had a disadvantage against them. Fighting does far more than you'd think though, since it gets rid of said Steel types that trouble Grass types. Fire does even more given the fact that more Steel types are weak to Fire than they are to Fighting or Ground.
I can BARELY use Charizard and Typhlosion as much as I can Blaziken, Infernape, or Emboar, since neither of those two have any kind of defense against Rock types. Blaziken, Infernape, and Emboar's Fighting type not only neutrals out the damage from such moves, but also gives Fighting type moves to use against said Rock types. Did I mention the most #1 used move in 4th Gen OU is Stealth Rock which deals damage based on Resistance or Weakness to Rock type moves?
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Funny you should say that, because I always thought it was the reverse. (Then again, I'm judging difficulty by how hard it is for the first two gym leaders, since that's when you're the most limited pokemon-wise.) Fire was the most challenging because most of the games started with a rock type gym leader, but that's where the fun was. I recently played through my Diamond game with turtwig and I found the beginning was ridiculously easy, especially considering it was a Nuzlocke playthrough. I know they're probably doing it so people can just race through the game on just their starter, but it's just not as fun when they make it so much easier.
I don't know how it works in competitive battling, but as far as just playing the game through the story I don't see why it makes that much of a difference whether the fire starter is suited to take rock type attacks
Outclassed or not, it's kind of funny to think that charizard has the advantage over the other fire starters since they're weak to his flying 
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Now this is how Emboar should had been. I freaking love the mace tail.
Come on Gamefreak, did we really ANOTHER fire/fighting starter?
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Thank you 
OMGGGG I know D:. Infernape was forgivable because it was a monkey so it kinda made sense to be fighting, but pig=/=fighting in my brain.
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This form is awesome. The whole fire/fighting combo was killed after the second one. :c I love my fire starters but come on.
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I think blaziken didn't work at all, but I thought it was ok for infernape. I didn't like that it was redundant, but it was forgivable because it fit. This one, however, just saddens me to no end 
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I thought both were fine, but come emboar I was just disappointed. They're torturing fire starters with bad stats, bad designs and bad creativity.
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I think Emboar's real design is awesome, most of people just mind about his typing, not his design or anything else...
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I'm just bitter because he's not a quad like I'd hoped for
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This deigns is awesome
I think what ruined Emboar a bit was his face. It looked more mole-like than pig-like to me XD
And no I don't hate Emboar, just in case. I'm something between neutral and like.
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Yeah his face is too round to make a nice pig...he should have had a snout like grumpig.
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Yeah, he would have looked more badass that way
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Except for the spike ball, I think this design would be have been more accurate than the real Emboar, this looks like it came from Tepig
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Tepig does have a ball on his tail, though, and one could assume that with evolution the ball would get fiercer (hence the spikes).
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The first ime I saw Tepig's tail I started imaginating it glowing when using fire type attacks, and being on fire in it's last evolution ^_^U
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I would have much preferred this form compared to its official. Ugly, ugly thing.
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You're welcome.
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TOTALLY awesome, I wish this was Emboar's true form - I love Tepig, I just hate letting him evolve in a part fighting type. ><
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same here. I hate having to watch out for flying types D:. *remembers the good old days when you could take quilava to fight Falkner*
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Seriously, it pisses me off when a flying type can kick my Emboar's butt without even trying - and psychic types, GRRRRR. Emboar doesn't even LEARN any decent fighting type attacks!
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I taught mine Brick Break as soon as I got the TM. Very handy for those pesky Stoutland and Watchog
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Lol, I still have Heat Crash - extremely useful for most scrawny pokemon, even those annoying psychics. XD
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I'm thinking about reteaching Emboar that. Do you think it's worth losing Flare Blitz?
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Eh, I don't like Flare Blitz since it causes damage - Heat Crash is nice since alot of the Gen 5 pokemon are scrawny things.
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There are too many fire-fighting types now!
This one is better than the official and it has a unique type combination
This reminds me of the giant boars in Princes Mononoke
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OMG! I wish that was official! Pretty awesome design and not fire/fighting!
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I was disappointed about his two-leggedness too, but now that I think about it, if they made Emboar stand on four legs he might have been too similar to Terrakion.
And I love Terrakion and his bros so I'm content having a bipedal, fire-fighting, based-on-a-Journey-to-the-West-character Pokemon again.
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I think he'd be more similar to Tauros than Terrakion, if anything.
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For me Emboar is the best from all 3, but yours is pretty cool
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