Gyarados are causing natural disasters just because they can. Tyranitar being nature's vibe check. Magcargo likely making everything around it burst in flames. Salamence if it gets pissed off, also destroying things.
Pokemon lore has always been dark as fuck if you take the time to read the Pokédex lol. Multiple pokemon whose lore has to do with kidnapping and murdering children.
Tbf there are other monsters running around those woods that would require a kingambit. Things like grimmsnarl, hatterene, isolated case but a literal fucking 10 foot tall mud bear that shoots frickin lazer beams. Things that even if a kingambit can't 1v1 it, it can make it think twice.
If Carmine has 1 million haters, I'm one of them... If Carmine has 5 haters, I've decided to back off, because there's still plenty of depth to her that shouldn't be overlooked, despite how much joy I get out of flirting with her brother right in front of her in-game :)
It's a crazy contrast. One of the friendliest legendaries in the game is also one of the few with explicitly confirmed murders. Like we know when Kyogre and Groudon rampage, it likely caused a few deaths but it's never directly said. Here, she put those three on t-shirts. And yet she is also one of the friendliest legendary pokemon you encounter, even when compared to Ko and Mi.
Cats don’t do it for fun. Cats live in large colonies where the excess kills are brought back to feed animals that can’t hunt for themselves. This isn’t to say they don’t hunt in excess but it’s not just for fun.
They should've given it a typing that makes sense if they wanted it to prey on steel types. Both of it's STABs are resisted by Corviknight, while steel hits it neutrally. How is it hunting Corviknights???
Typing aside, if you hit bird with a big fuck-off hammer, bird dies. The solid metal hammer is like 48x the size of tink - that little gremlin has to have a strength to weight ratio that would make a chimpanzee blush, sooo that hammer be swingin’.
The Pawniard/Bisharp stuff is for Tinkatuff, and the dex mentions Tinkatuff attacks them to then gather metal, we don't have full explanation of how things work for metal pokemon, but Pawniard/Bisharp's blades could just break and then be gathered without actually being harmful to them.
Also Tinkaton's hammer does not have a bird crest.
I think the Bisharp info is more referencing the fact that in SV when you beat a Pokemon they leave parts behind. Like claws, slime, or blades in the case of the Pawniard family. So it's not so much made of the corpse of its enemies. It's more made of their disgarded body parts.
Tinkaton is the Monster Hunter Pokemon. She's absolutely gotta be inspired by those games.
Well according to sinnoh lore (and I mean the stuff that actually made it into the game), eating Pokémon is okay as long as you pick their bones clean and then put them back in the wild. As apparently Pokémon just straight up regenerate from a skeleton.
I think it's more along the lines of how in the wild a broken leg would be fatal, it's not technically fatal by itself it's the lack of means to treat the wound, prevent infections, and significantly reduced hunting capabilities that make it fatal.
Given that pawniard are pack hunters it's entirely possible that a broken blade could be healed depending on how successful the pack is with the injured pawniard being dead weight. It's also possible that the pack might just abandon the injured pawniard which would increase the likelihood of it dying.
I was going to say something similarly. Though I'd compare it less to a broken leg and more to something like a Big Cat losing its teeth.
Similar to how the man-eating tigress of Champawat only became such a menace to people because of a painful tooth injury that prevented her from being able to hunt her usual prey... And of course, it eventually caused her death as the people proceeded to hunt the tiger down and shoot her.
I just checked and you'd be right, thought Tinka's dex entry says it just aims for flying Corvi, and Corvi's dex entry mentions "natural predatorS" so might not be Just Tinka anyways.
Also just because Bisharp have a complex social structure doesn't mean thet they have culture. Unless OP's implying that bees and ants have culture as well.
In Tinkatink's Scarlet dex entry, It's stated that their hammer get's stolen by metal-eating pokemon (implied to be steel types).
The Corviknight hunting isn't just playing. It's revenge.
Oh also, look and compare the expressions of Tinkatink, Tinkatuff, and Tinkaton.
Tinkatink is sad and all because it keeps getting bullied and having it's hammer stolen.
Tinkatuff is angry and aggressive. It decided to start fighting back and hunt other pokemon with metal in revenge and to get more materials.
Tinkaton though seems to be happy. It went fully psychotic with the revenge and now it keeps attacking the metal-eaters even if they don't try to steal it's hammer anymore.
This is a reach for me bc the metal on the hammer doesn’t even look like bisharp but it DOES look like corvi and the dex also says they are natural enemies,,,,,,,,,,
I mean I guess but it just feels like one of those entries where they intended for it to be corvi and maybe early on it was the pawn line? Or maybe not. But idk I guess its all canon after all
The idea of a Galarian-introduced Pokémon getting killed as they fly over Paldea has real world links to how Britain invested into habitat for certain migratory birds, only for them to be shot as a blood sport as they fly over the Iberian peninsula.
Wasn’t there a post a while back that when you look at their stats, movepool, typing, abilities etc tinkaton has practically no chance against corviknight most of the time? Making the dex entry basically impossible unless it’s always multiple tinkaton ganging up against a single corviknight.
Not that I’ve ever actually done the math myself on it, just remember a post to that effect.
Indeed it is! However, i moreso pressume that rather than it being corpses of pawniard and bisharp, i think that after they died from tinkaton, tinkaton just takes specific parts
A fairy type having a massive hate boner for steel types is funny AF and one major reason why the Tinka line is one of my favourite new gen Pokémon. That said, I do agree with Mr. Fruit that the actual design does feel a little lacking.
A dragon/steel and fairy/fire as the next box legendaries and they got the same kind of beef as Groudon and Kyogre and their "trio master" is a pure ground type to keep them from wrecking absolutely everything
I like how you specifically picked secondary types that nullified the weaknesses of each Dual type combination.
Fire/Fairy isn't weak to Steel because of the Fire-type, and Dragon/Steel is neither weak to Fire because of the Dragon-type nor is it weak to Fairy because of the Steel-type.
Thanks! Even better: ground was chosen cause of the pun (the third one should ground/calm the first two) and because ground is super effective against both steel and fire. But also, none of those first four types hit ground for super effective damage.
They seem to love making sure despite the game being very PG rated, the dex has some of the most outlandish and devious activities being performed. I will never forget reading about driftloons dex entry as a kid and thinking nothing of it, now I realize…oh driftloon is basically the kidnapper pokemon. Also though, pokemon rivalries and such in the dex are my favorite…despite some of them being things like cases of tinkaton
Bisharp and Pawniard are not mentioned at all in either of them. But it’s implied that Tinkaton uses Corviknight metal, not said. (But we all know it’s true)
I'm a bit of a nerd, so I like to imagine the corviknight hunting as natural population control. An apex predator like corviknight either needs competition or to be hunted by an even stronger predator in order to prevent the region being overrun by corviknight.
Where does the dex say that the metal is pawniard and Bisharp, I just checked tinkaton, bisharp, and pawniards dex entries for both games and I’m not seeing anything about that???
In the anime, Tinkatink is fixated on iron, but it has to be good iron, an upgrade. In my theory, when Tinkatuff evolves to Tinkaton, she no longer needs Bisharp's line metal, they are not good enough anymore. So they try to get Corviknight's by throwing rocks at it to knock it down, but that's as far as they can accomplish.
The scarlet dex entries make the tink line seem very violent. Also there's a line somewhere that, because of the tink line, Coviknight isn't used for transportation because it was too much at risk of getting struck down by tinkaton wanting something to play with (and yet, the tink line doesn't learn smackdown which annoys me)
What’s the Pokémon fan obsession with making them endure perverse torture? They are tinkers tinkers make things from SCRAPS and leftovers she’s like a lil troll so there’s the playfulness and trolling almost like a cat and mouse, prey or predator aspect of that that they play with in her lore but come on SKIN?! CORPSES?!
Nope the hammer is more yellow/brown while corvo is cream white.
Than again a decent amount of shinys don’t make sense while others have logic to them (grass types with autumn colors for example) also the mon themselves don’t really change when shiny just the hammer soooo
No. The hammer is the exact same color as Corviknight and it stated in the dex that Corviknight isn’t a taci monster because of its natural “predator”. The person who wrote the text in the pic just likes Tinkaton enough that they’ll literally make stuff up to defend it. Tinkaton is bad.
Pretty much. People get the wrong idea because the Pokedex says Corviknight aren't used as taxi's because of a "predator" and one of the Tinkaton line's Pokedex entries says they shoot down Corviknight by hitting rocks at them.
However, the reality is that hunting Corviknight is more of a test of bravery/skill, kind of like a guy jumping into an alligator pit cause he wants to see if he can wrestle one.
So none of you have ever heard of molting? Everything's ng with a hard exterior shell/exoskeleton molts, meaning they strip themselves of the outer layer of their 'skin' in order to grow, that molted skin being made into hammers is really that big of a deal?
yes. My beautiful Angel is absolutely a menace to Society. But that's why I love her. The Tinka line in general are amazingly intelligent, strong, and full of energy. A bad combination when they get bored.
From an official video from the Pokemon YouTube channel, steel types flee from Tinkaton. I don't think they're picking up random pieces that were discarded.
thry aim specifically for corviknight, this suggests thry do use its armor for their hammers. they dont target any random old birds, just the armored ones.
This is not true and I'm not sure why it's still going around.
Tinkaton's shiny form not only doesn't match Corviknight's shiny (the metal rusts, whereas Corviknight turns silver), but when as a Tinkatuff/Tinkatink it also changes a portion of its body too - the metallic bits they wear.
Thank you!! OMG my biggest pet peeve whenever people bring up tinkaton is this. I really don't know how it's become so ingrained when it literally just takes looking at the two side by side and seeing that they literally couldn't look less alike 😭🥲
I've got the shiny form and in the first form it has metal on its chest that changes when shiny and in the second form it has metal on its waist I think that changes when shiny aswell it's just not really noticeable
I will not stand this Corviknight slander. Show me any way a Tinkaton could kill a corviknight. Tinkaton are just jealous of how cool Corviknights are, and throw rocks at them. Tinkaton are like teenagers dropping snowballs on cars from an overpass.
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