Pokemon Fan Creates Regional Variant for Remoraid

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A Pokemon fan created a regional variant of Remoraid and shared the original concept online. Remoraid can become an Octillery upon reaching level 25, and it is also required for a Mantyke to evolve into Mantine.

Introduced in Pokemon's second generation, Remoraid is a Water-type that appears to be a hybrid between an archerfish and a remora, the latter of which may have been its English namesake. The piscine creature has also been described as being shaped like a gun, with its pelvic and dorsal fins positioned like a trigger and front sight, respectively. One artist has come up with a new variant of Remoraid, giving the Pokemon a more adorable design.

Posting on the Pokemon subreddit, user Poetically_Imperfect shared their concept of a Fairy/Water-type version of Remoraid called Lemoraid. Instead of looking like a gun-shaped fish, this variant of Remoraid instead has the appearance of a bright lemon with eyes and fins. Remoraid's evolution received a similar redesign when another Reddit user created a regional form of Octillery with Water and Steel attributes.

Lemoraid was created as part of a challenge to mark a YouTube subscriber milestone, and the custom Pokemon will be added to a folktale-inspired original region based in the midwestern US that Poetically_Imperfect is currently working on, the artist explained. Poetically_Imperfect, who also goes by the name Shroodledoodles, has shared other creations in the past, like a Future Paradox form of Snorlax. Named Iron Screen, the fan-made Normal/Psychic-type takes inspiration from a television screen, and community members naturally compared it to the characters of the iconic British children's series Teletubbies.

Paradox evolutions debuted in the current-generation games, Pokemon Scarlet and Violet. Future Paradox Pokemon resemble their relatives in the future, while Ancient Paradox Pokemon look like their ancient versions. Among the Paradox Pokemon are the Generation 9 mascots, Koraidon and Miraidon, both of which