>>49167643You go to the drawing board like the actual pokemon concept artists. You think to yourself, "what would make a good pokemon?" Easy examples are things like animals, all kinds of bugs, birds, mammals that haven't been done yet or could be done better. For me, I've had a couple of thoughts. Like for beetles, there's a ton of them, like a seriously baffling number. They make up 25% of ALL described animal life on this planet. With that many, there has to be a ton of niches they must fill, anatomy designs so crazy, right? And there are. A beetle that would be a perfect pokemon would be the Ironclad Beetle. This thing has unreal protection for a beetle, and even other bugs for that matter. They've been recorded surviving being stepped on, crushed, ran over by a car, etc. Their exoskeleton is extremely durable and strong, so much so that in order to display the exoskeleton, they have to drill tiny pin-shaped holes inside because you can't just stick a pin in it like other insects. I'd make it a bug/steel with insane defenses and perhaps an ability like that of rhyperior that halves super effective damage. Not too sure about a name. Would likely aim for being a single-stage but you could maybe get a second stage out of it. I think that would be a quality fakemon.
Other routes I like to go are fossils, there are so many kinds of them out there. I blame Shit/Shite for ruining our only attempt at a fossil based off of Dunkleosteus, I think that would be a really neat fossil, something along the lines of a bulky water type that has decent offensive capabilities, hell, give it strong jaw or some armor ability to pair with its actual counterpart's exceedingly strong bone crushing jaw or plated armor.
If animals aren't your forte, go to objects, think of all the items or item-like things that could be pokemon. I could branch off to adding existing forms of rotom but with different types. The possibilities for pokemon are seemingly endless.
