Pokemon Fan Designs New Forms for Croagunk Line

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A skilled Pokemon fan artist recently designed some impressive new evolutions for Croagunk’s line, giving the Poison/Fighting hybrid Pokemon a cute baby form and a more fierce-looking final stage. The long-running Pokemon franchise has been a constant source of inspiration for artistic gamers since its conception, with legions of players showing off new versions of classic Pokemon or even creating new ones altogether.

Many of these imaginative Pokemon fan creations grant existing creatures a new elemental type or Paradox variant, imaging what popular Pokemon like Sableye would have looked like in the ancient past or inventing new angel-themed variants for Generation 1 Electric/Steel types Magnemite and Magneton. Baby Pokemon are another popular muse for aspiring Pokemon fan artists, who have dreamed up adorable infant versions of powerful legendaries like Pokemon Black and White’s Zekrom and Reshiram or the Generation 2 cover trio of Lugia, Ho-Oh, and Suicune.

Two of the latest Pokemon fan designs come from Reddit user PhantomLink2782, who posted pictures of their custom Croagunk line evolutions on r/pokemon. First is Crokid, a custom Baby Pokemon that evolves into Croagunk after achieving a high enough Friendship level. It indeed resembles an infant version of the Toxic Mouth Pokemon, with larger eyes, bright red cheeks, and Croagunk’s white chest stripes now lining its lower body in the form of a diaper. Croaknoxious finishes up the line, evolving from Toxicroak at level 65. It is much bulkier than its previous forms, with a larger head ridge and larger wrist blades.

The main Croagunk line that these two new fan-made evolutions are inspired by was first introduced in Pokemon Diamond and Pearl for the original Nintendo DS, where they could be found and captured in the Great Marsh of the Safari Zone and the Grand Underground. Since then, Croagunk and its evolved form Toxicroak have appeared in almost every subsequent mainline Pokemon entry, as well as the 2022