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Anonymous Tue 02 Aug 2016 00:05:43 No.27486046 View View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>27486124 >>27486161 >>27486886 >>27487753

Why isn't this a Bug-type? Is it a plant that disguises as a mantis like Sudowoodo is a rock that disguises as a rock and Hawicha is a humanoid creature that disguises as a hawk? If so, why doesn't its description only talks about it being beautiful and not about this?

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 02 Aug 2016 00:08:35 No.27486124 Report

Quoted By: >>27486252

>>27486046
The original animal is a bug pretending to be a flower, so the Poke version is the other way around.

So yes, its this generation's Sudowoodo.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 02 Aug 2016 00:09:33 No.27486161 Report

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>>27486046
>Sudowoodo is a rock that disguises as a rock
wut

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 02 Aug 2016 00:12:23 No.27486252 Report

Quoted By: >>27486597

>>27486124
I was just about to say this.

Many mantises disguise themselves as plants and flowers to hide from potential prey, one particular example being the orchid mantis which Lurantis clearly takes some inspiration from. Lurantis is the concept flipped on its head though, a plant that disguises itself as a mantis, perhaps to ward of feeding herbivores from trying to eat it by looking like anything other than a flower.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 02 Aug 2016 00:25:58 No.27486597 Report

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>>27486252
Maybe it's a disguise to hunt rock types.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Tue 02 Aug 2016 00:38:37 No.27486886 Report

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>>27486046
>Lurantis isn't an orchid mantis, but a mantis orchid
>mfw

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 02 Aug 2016 00:57:41 No.27487390 Report

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Fomantis - Faux Mantis

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 02 Aug 2016 01:13:40 No.27487753 Report

Quoted By: >>27487910

>>27486046
Some orchids mimic female insects to lure in males that try to mate with the flower, pollinating it. So it's an orchid mimicking an orchid mantis (mimicking an orchid).

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 02 Aug 2016 01:21:03 No.27487910 Report

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>>27487753
Yeah in botany I learned about one that mimic wasps.

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