Why does infernape have the gold knee/shoulder guards? I know he is based off the monkey king and the fighting style muay thai, but I cannot se how the gold knee/shoulder guards relate to those.
>>25667855
>muay thai
you fucking what
monkey king is chinese. he uses fucking kung fu/wushu/shaolin
>>25667889
>Sunkern is now overdesigned
>>25667889
Actually forget Sunkern
>Mew is now overdesigned
>>25667889
le genwunner bogeyman
>>25667889
I thought people who were nuts over AESTHETIC were retarded but this is just a whole other level right here. Are there really people who give a shit about this as much as this faggot?
>>25667897
Hold on, let me paraphrase that for you.
>I am a massive faggot that thinks a Pokemon cannot be inspired by more than one thing
now does anyone know why the gold stuff is there?pls no genwars
>>25668127
Sun Wukong is royalty. Royalty usually has some type of golden adornments. Best answer I can come up with.
>>25668127
Maybe somewhere in the biology of Infernape the golden growths are capable of igniting into a flame? It could make sense for physical Fire-type moves like Flare Blitz, but it's hard to think of anything else otherwise.
>>25668143
I see, that makes sense.
ty for the non shitpost
>>25668127
there's literally not a single element of muaythai in infernape and you're retarded for thinking it, you trying to argue that it's somehow a valid mistake in principle doesn't change that it's entirely wrong given the specifics of the actual subject.
>>25668254
Just doin my bit.
>>25667855
I think it's more an elaboration on the golden highlights to be more visually overall thematic.
just chalk it up to what was more visually pleasing when it was being drafted.
>>25667855
Junichi masuda knows the answer to that question.
twitter.com/junichi_masuda
>>25667855
The golden rings are incorporated from the monkey king's golden banded staff, his favored weapon which he stole from dragon king. It technically wasn't a weapon but given its strength and magically variable size Sun Wukong uses it as one. The chest band on Infernape in particular however is a variation on the classic design of the golden headband that the monk Xuanzang uses to control Wukong in the course of the journey west story. In most depictions it is a single golden hoop with curled end. Sometime it's smooth and round, sometimes it can be a little blocky instead, looser or tighter, and other times more ornate, but always two ends met in an upward curl.
>>25668346
Point being, he wears Wukong's crown around his chest, and his arms are made to look like the gold band staff: red with golden capped ends. The knees are just there to balance things out I assume.
>>25667889
So Mew's not a Kanto Pokémon?
>>25668346
>>25668366
top shit, ty
>>25667855
idk if it's just me, but the way the gold bits whisp up kinda remind me of a cloud. Might be a reference to sun wukong's flying cloud?
Maybe they just thought that the design would simply look better with them.
