>>48320580Standalone easily. There's so many things that Kleavor reminds me of
>Rockmon with blade-arms like Kabutops, specifically ax-arms like M-Garchomp>Rock hair like M-Aerodactyl or A-Graveler>humanoid limbs and face, reminiscent of Kadabra/Alakazam, Hitmonlee, maybe Conkeldurr or even Farfetch'dFor a weird agglomeration of a humanoid Rock monster with blades for arms, it sells itself short to peg it as a Scyther evo. Pokemon don't need to evolve into each other to bounce off concepts and aesthetics off each other, for example like Gen 5 being spiritual successors to older lines. Bug mons in particular are no stranger to this idea, with all these rivalries like Scyther versus Pinsir, Scizor versus Heracross, Heracross versus Pinsir versus Vikavolt, etc.
So to reduce Kleavor to being just an ax for a scythe-based mon to evolve into, the take away then just becomes, "oh then why does Scyther change in this way, where does Scyther get the rocks from" etc. Instead of, "where does this pokemon sit among all of these other pokemon it vagely is like, how does it interact with these pokemon? Rivalries? Symbiotically? Distant evolutions?"
