Summary
One imaginativePokemonfan has created an interesting convergent design for Sudowoodo that gives the plant-mimicking Rock-type a more insectoid form. Every new generation ofPokemonadds new creatures to the franchise’s line-up, and later games would introduce variants for ones that already exist.Pokemon Sun and Moonintroduced the concept of convergent Pokemon, alternate versions of certain monsters that live in a particular environment. For example, Wigglet is a relative of the popular Generation One critter Digglet that lives near sandy beaches instead of dirt-filled fields.
Unsurprisingly, artisticPokemonfans have used the idea of convergent Pokemon to imagine new takes on old favorites, including already convergent creatures like the aforementioned Wiglett and the Digglet line it springs from. Other customconvergent Pokemon concepts include angelic versions of Magnamiteand its evolved form of Magneton, bird-like takes on the bat family of Zubat, Golbat, and Crobat, and even a convergent Lapras that more closely resembles a giant snail than its usual sea turtle-like design.
Reddit user Who_Else_But_Zane recently showed off their Bug-type convergent Sudowoodo design on r/pokemon, which resembles a real-life stick bug carrying leaves to help disguise itself as a plant. They asked other Reddit users in the comment section to help come up with a name for thisnew version of Sudowoodo, with some of the pitches including “Shamboo” (a play off the word “sham” and “bamboo,” which the convergent Sudowoodo’s body looks like), “Sudofasma” (inspired by the stick bug’s scientific name of “Phasmids”), and “Sudosticko.”
Pokemon’s Sudowoodo is More Than Meets the Eye
Players were introduced to Sudowoodo inPokemon Gold and Silver, where it can be encountered blocking a vital pathway like Snorlax before it. Though it looks like a tree, Sudowoodo isactually a Rock-type Pokemon, and the player can provoke it into a battle by spraying it with the Squirtbottle acquired in Goldenrod City. Sudowoodo remains a popular Pokemon to this day, and fans often share alternate designs that either change it into a different type or imagine what it would look like as a human.
As of this writing, Sudowoodo doesn’t have any regional variants or official convergent forms, leaving fans with enough room to come up withalternate versions of the Imitation Pokemon. Who_Else_But_Zane’s concept cleverly turns the rock that looks like a tree into an insect that looks like a bamboo plant, which is very fitting for a Pokemon centered around disguising itself as a piece of its environment. Perhaps Sudowoodo will gain such a convergent variant in the next mainlinePokemongame.
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