Summary
A dedicatedPokemonfan has created a piece of art that transforms new Legendary Pokemon Ogerpon into a human character that looks straight out of the popular action-RPG titleGenshin Impact. The fan-made drawing, which cleverly adapts many of Ogerpon’s defining features into a human form, is quickly gaining traction on an onlinePokemonforum.
Introduced fairly recently as part ofPokemon’s ninth generation withPokemon Scarlet and Violet’sThe Teal MaskDLC, Ogerpon is a Grass-type Legendary Pokemon that can alter its typing depending on the mask it wears. Able to swap between a pure Grass-type and dual-types Grass/Water, Grass/Fire, and Grass/Rock, trainers must defeat all four of these forms near the end ofThe Teal Mask’s main narrative ifPokemon Scarlet and Violetplayers want to catch Ogerponfor themselves.
The person responsible for creating the impressiveGenshin Impact-like human Ogerpon is a Reddit user with the handle of X-Stry, posting their work to one of the site’s leadingPokemonpages. The artist easily translates Ogerpon’s cloak-like body into clothing similar to the Festival Jinbei players acquire early on inThe Teal MaskDLC. Ogerpon’s face-framing thorny vine is transformed into a hood, with the Teal Mask itself attached to her hip. Ogerpon’s cudgel appears to be largely unchanged, backed by silhouettes of Okidogi, Munkidori, and Fezandipiti - a clever detail giventhe lore between Ogerpon and The Loyal Three.
TheGenshin Impact-inspired human version of Ogerpon is clearly a hit with manyPokemonfans, with the post breaking the triple digits in upvotes within hours of being posted. While this version of Ogerpon certainly seems to be time well spent, as the artist claims the drawing took over two hours to make, they aren’t the first fan to create this concept. Last year, anotherPokemonfan created a human form for Ogerpon. Translating the Pokemon’s cloaked body into similar clothing, this rendition has a few interesting differences, like incorporating the thorny vine into the hairstyle instead of a hood.
Making a Big (Genshin) Impact
In addition to making Pokemon intoGenshin Impactcharacters, fans have alsoturned popularGenshin Impactcharacters into Pokemon. Another Redditor came up with a whopping 14 different concepts for Pokemon and their evolutions based on variousGenshin Impactcharacters, including popular ones such as Faruzan, Wanderer, Dehya, Lyney, Lynette, and more. Such imaginative crossover art is a testament to the incredibly prolific output in both quantity and quality thePokemonfandom produces.
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