Howdy everyone! It's Tam here. I've recently begun playing Pokémon Moon, and I've been having a blast! To commemorate this I've started to make some imaginary Pokémon just for fun; I start by choosing one random type to work from, which I spin from a wheel; this time I got Fire, which is one of my favorite types! I have no idea how far this whole thing will reach, but for now, let's just have fun with it! Looks like I found another thing to do on Sundays!

Today's Pokémon: The Normal/Fire Type Irkifi!

Pokédex No. 001: Irkifi

Type: Normal/Fire

Species: The Heat Pokémon

Ability: Anticipation/Strong Jaw

Hidden Ability: Flame Body

Pokédex Entry No. 1:

Packs of Irkifi are known to cause heat waves during certain times of the year.

Pokédex Entry No. 2:

When it is irritated, its body can get hot enough to cause severe burns.

Base Stats:

HP: 50

Attack: 70

Defense: 55

Sp. Attack: 20

Sp. Def: 40

Speed: 45

Total: 280

When making this Pokémon, I had an idea for a line of angry beast-like Pokémon which are powered by their own rage (oddly specific). Originally intended to be a Fire/Psychic type, I found myself unable to make it look anything other than beastly, so I went with Normal/Fire instead. Irkifi is the first Pokémon in this Two-Pokémon evolution line, as it only evolves once. You can think of it as a furry, red marshmallow with legs; if you were to ask me what kind of animal it's based on, I wouldn't know! But it looks like some kind of Rabbit or Faun to me. The Rabbit part may or may not become more apparent as it evolves...

Some concept art for Irkifi's evolution line....try not to take the one on the top left seriously.

The two at the top right were the closest to what I had in my head, but I kind of realized that the design was too detailed, so I had to simplify it quite a lot. The one at the bottom left is a closer version, and the two on the bottom-right were designs for potential alternate evolutions (which I ended up leaving out). At the end of the day, I went for a smaller, more boxy shape, keeping the big ears but diminishing the arms and body; and that leaves us with Irkifi!

I will post more detailed information on this little guy's stats later on, for those of you fanatics out there.

Do you like the design, or do you think that one of the older iterations would work better? What kind of animal does Irkifi look like to you? And what imaginary Pokémon have YOU come up with? I want hear what you have to say!

That's all for now, and remember, keep creating!

MOVESET:

Moves learnt by level up:

Lv. 1 Tackle

Lv. 1 Leer

Lv. 5 Ember

Lv. 8 Pursuit

Lv. 11 Odor Sleuth

lv. 15 Headbutt

lv. 20 Fake out

lv. 23. Bite

lv. 29 Fire Fang

lv. 33 Sharpen

lv. 36 Stomping Tantrum

lv. 39 Hyper Fang

lv. 43 Crunch

lv. 46 Flare Blitz

lv. 50 Super Fang

Egg Moves:

Ice Fang

Thunder Fang

Revenge

Endeavor