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{C} → Poison Sting
Flip a coin. If heads, the Defending Pokémon is now Poisoned.
{F}{C} → Slash : 20
illus. Kouki Saitou · LV.14
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It sails on the winds with its limbs extended to strike from the sky. It aims for the prey’s face.
Twylis
Gotta say, I think Gligar looked better back when it had the white claws. Lots of pokemon changed colors over time, but I think Gligar stands out for being changed so dramatically so late in the franchise — in the middle of a generation, even.
(specifically, the redesign happened with its new stock art for HGSS)
Ambassador
Only noticing this now. Wow, I hate it.
Ignis
I suppose they wanted the HGSS sprites to match the GSC sprites (and stuck with it from BW onward). The claws are only white in RSE and DPPt.
Ambassador
I wish they would stick with the GS sprites in better contexts.. when’s Yellow Banana Chiquita Chikorita coming back?
Twylis
Looking into it further, I think they actually did it to match the anime, which seemingly never had white claws in the first place. Gligar’s gen 2 Sugimori art had white claws, but the anime reference art from the same time period had magenta claws like modern designs. The magenta coloration also seems derived from the anime; game depictions prior to HGSS typically were more purple.
Daedric Etwahl
I went around and checked, and I’m not quite sure I follow this line of thinking. Gligar’s never had white claws. They’ve always either been pink or purple, both ingame and in art
Ambassador
I guess ‘claw’ isn’t the right word? The discussion was w/r/t the spike(?) on Gligar’s wing.
Twylis
I suppose the anatomically correct term would be unguis. We’re specifically not referring to the chelae/pincirs :U