Corsola prevo/evo

I've always liked Corsola, and I thought it needed a pre-evolution and/or evolution. I've got a some here:

Polypso (breed while holding coral incense)
The polyp pokemon
water type
Because of stupid technology, I cannot upload concept art.
dex entry: They float around the ocean in search of a place to latch down on the sea floor. It is said that they can float for over a hundred miles without tiring.
location: found while surfing
moves:
Start:Tackle
Start:Charm
Level 2:Harden
Level 8:Bubble
Level 10:Lucky chant
base stats:
HP: 30
Attack: 30
Defense: 55
Sp. Attack: 35
Sp. Defense: 70
Speed: 20
Abilities: same as Corsola
Evolves into Corsola with friendship, then Reefien when leveled up at <undetermined underwater location>

Reefien
the reef pokemon
dex entry: They attach themselves to the bottom of the ocean, and provide a home for many water dwelling pokemon. If a ship lands on them, however, it can be ripped to shreds by their sharp spines.
location:(rarely) found while diving
Moves: More help please?
Base Stats:
HP: 85
Attack: 85
Defense: 105
Sp. Attack: 80
Sp. Defense: 105
Speed: 30
abilities: same as Corsola
Evolves from Corsola when leveled up at <undetermined underwater location>, which evolves from polypso with friendship.

Constructive Criticism is appreciated, so thank you!

i think Polypso should be pure Water, and it should be found while surfing. Other than that, this is good.

King Dedede wrote:i think Polypso should be pure Water, and it should be found while surfing. Other than that, this is good.

Good idea. Changed.

Since Polypso isn't part rock, maybe its Defense and Special Defense should be switched. In addition, baby pokemon tend to have pitifully low stats and shallow level-up movepools, so maybe you can change it accordingly. You can probably stand to lower all the stats except its defense and special defense. Go look up the stats of other baby pokemon (igglybuff, pichu, magby, cleffa, etc.) to see what I mean.

Also, this is more of a technicality, but maybe you should remove the "coral" part from the species name of each pokemon so that Polypso and Reefiens are just "the Polyp pokemon" and "the Reef pokemon" respectively.

Gelatino95 wrote:Since Polypso isn't part rock, maybe its Defense and Special Defense should be switched. In addition, baby pokemon tend to have pitifully low stats and shallow level-up movepools, so maybe you can change it accordingly. You can probably stand to lower all the stats except its defense and special defense. Go look up the stats of other baby pokemon (igglybuff, pichu, magby, cleffa, etc.) to see what I mean.

Also, this is more of a technicality, but maybe you should remove the "coral" part from the species name of each pokemon so that Polypso and Reefiens are just "the Polyp pokemon" and "the Reef pokemon" respectively.

That's all probably true. I'll fix it. Oh, and in case anyone was wondering, the names come from calypso, the Greek goddess, and alien. The alien isn't like space alien, but alien as in strange. You'll understand more once I get the concept art in.

I like these and the stats are pretty good! You need help with the moves? Just see corsola's moves and remove some of them to make polypso's movepool especially if corsola has hyper beam, or giga impact! You can add moves created here too or other to make reefien's movepool!

Well, against my better judgment, I have decided to try my hand at spriting. I know it sucks, but I tried. What do you think?

The sprite itself isn't bad, but the design is a bit childish. At least that's my opinion.

It's a baby pokemon, so it's supposed to look kind of childish, if that's what you mean.

EDIT: Oh, and I finished the sprite for Reefien. I'll put it in the OP now.

You should definitely try messing around with Game Freak sprites before trying to make your own. There's pretty much no shading on your sprites and the outlines aren't dark enough and don't flow with the shading. I suggest putting up your concept art instead. I'm not trying to insult your work, just letting you know what you did wrong.

I like the design for Polypso, but Reefien shouldn't really be placed on the ground. Also, its body just seems like a big jumble of junk with no real body shape. Even Garbodor, which literally is a big jumble of junk, has a cohesive design. I always imagined Reefien looking like a bigger version of Corsola, except it was brown with hollow eyes and had branches sticking out from all parts of its body.

Gelatino95 wrote:.I always imagined Reefien looking like a bigger version of Corsola, except it was brown with hollow eyes and had branches sticking out from all parts of its body.

Yeah, me too: a big corsola with longer and more sotisficated branches and perhaps it could have a little corsola on it.(coral reefs are composed for milions of polyps so the idea of having a little corsola or preevo on it may represent this idea). And for the sprites i advise you the same as Gelo; try observing real sprites; sharped body-try at the begining making the outline black and lights. In addition, i don't see polypso stucked on the ground, you could make some type of feet (like corsola ones) or something like cradily.

We are only trying to make the idea better and make you improve!!

I think polypso is a good concept art for anemoniac or anemoster. Corals need to be different!

Yeah, I thought those were pretty bad too. from now on, I'll stick to pencil and paper. I'll completely redo Reefien's design. As for Polypso looking like an anemone, that's what coral polyps look like.

Yeah, but Anemonster and Anemoniac have eyes like Lileep and are different colors.


On the note of it being a baby Poke'mon, I think Polypso is ok. As for Reefien, I like Dimafo's/Gelo's design, but I also have my own design idea: it'd look like Corosola, but larger with slitted eyes. In it's hands fan corals would be growing and one large floppy one would grow of it's back to make a cape. I imagine it's feet looking like high heels made of Ramshorn coral, and it would have a crown-like polyp on it's head.


If you use my idea, you might want to change the name to "Coralty".

King Dedede wrote:Yeah, but Anemonster and Anemoniac have eyes like Lileep and are different colors.


On the note of it being a baby Poke'mon, I think Polypso is ok. As for Reefien, I like Dimafo's/Gelo's design, but I also have my own design idea: it'd look like Corosola, but larger with slitted eyes. In it's hands fan corals would be growing and one large floppy one would grow of it's back to make a cape. I imagine it's feet looking like high heels made of Ramshorn coral, and it would have a crown-like polyp on it's head.


If you use my idea, you might want to change the name to "Coralty".

I actually like that idea a whole lot. Although I really want to keep 'reef' in the name, since it's to symbolize going up in scale (reefs are made op of corals, which are made up of polyps). I'm going to try to get some concept art in either by tomorrow or tonight, depending on how much free time I have. As for the name, how about monareef(from monarchy and reef)?

some ideas for polypso, there are pleny of ideas for baby corsola on internet, all of them better than these drawings but i encourage you to see them as they really look fantastic. I can't say this from mines, but anyway, here you have them!

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I quite like the first one. Looks like something small that would drift freely in the ocean. Maybe we can take some inspiration from barnacles and make the Pokedex entry something like this:

Polypso drifts in the open ocean until it finds a suitable place to attach itself, usually on the ocean floor. From there, it develops, eating small bits of food that drift by, and grows a hard exterior, allowing it to evolve into Corsola.

Yes first one definitly!