Pokemon Fan Art Combines Garchomp With Monster Hunter

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The art style of a title like Monster Hunter goes a long way to make the monsters and the world they inhabit feel unique, even up against the crowd of similar games. However, when it comes to fan art, sometimes artists will try to adapt well-known designs from these games into their own style or pull characters and creatures like Pokemon Diamond and Pearl's Garchomp into a whole other franchise.

This is exactly what artist Marcus Hii, also known as Xezeno online, did when transporting Garchomp from the anime-inspired Pokémon series into the more realistic style of Monster Hunter. In this case realistic specifically is pertaining to the level of detail on Monster Hunter's creatures and the influence in design from real-life creatures, not the fantastically sized weapons or living, breathing dinosaurs.

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The artist's latest piece imagines Garchomp as a Diablos-like wyvern from Monster Hunter, replacing the Pokémon's normally smooth textures with jagged scales and pointed horns. A few key aspects and proportions did have to be changed to fit the Monster Hunter style, such as a longer tail and horns made of bone instead of just more purple skin. From the look of the design, this armored, purple monster would be as tough of a fight for hunters as it is for trainers when facing off against Garchomp in Cynthia's gym in Diamond and Pearl.

This also isn't the first time that Hii has taken creatures fromthe Pokémon series and transferred them specifically into the more brutal world of Monster Hunter. Another recent piece depicting Pokemon's Vaporeon in the same style has some fans rallying again to see underwater combat return to the Monster Hunter series