Pokemon Fan Art Shows What Tentacruel Looks Like Without Tentacles

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Nintendo fans have imagined different variations of Pokemon since the initial Pokemon games were released way back in 1996, with some creating unique creatures and others changing existing ones to see what a future variant may look like. One Pokemon player has taken the basic design of the evolution of the Pokemon Tentacool and simply removed the tentacles in order to observe what it looks like without its limbs.

Reddit user Pinkfluke recently posted an edit of the official Pokemon design for Tentacruel without the tentacles that are normally covering most of the frame of the Pokemon. While both Tentacool and Tentacruel have designs that usually include these tentacles, the two Pokemon are based more heavily on real-life jellyfish than squids or octopuses. Without these tentacles identifying Tentacruel as a Water-type Pokemon, however, the Pokemon looks less like an aquatic creature and more like a wingless bug.

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Pinkfluke's Tentacruel fan art is largely unchanged from the original design other than the several tentacles missing from its body which immediately makes it look questionable given the fact that the tentacles typically compose most of the Pokemon's body. This tentacle-free look for Tentacruel makes its floating appearance more ominous as a claw extends from its face with a symmetrical one coming from its rear. Without the tentacles between these two claws, they appear more like pincers that would be familiar to Bug-type Pokemon like Anorith, Grubbin, or Pinsir rather than a Pokemon found in the ocean.

Ever since the days of Pokemon Red andBlue, Tentacruel has been the one and only evolution of Tentacool which is commonly found in water bodies