Even more random Infinite Fusions! Most of these are just me spamming the 'random' button and copy-pasting whatever looks cool or cute or goofy; I'm not necessarily looking for anything specific this time around.
Let me just copy-paste the intro I did for part two:
I did a more in-depth explanation of the fusion process in the first review. Basically, the Infinite Fusion calculator has two different combinations, with one Pokemon as the body, and the other Pokemon as the head + colours, and vice-versa. But the most interesting ones are the crowdsourced custom sprites for the fusions, the bulk of which is what we'll be talking about here!
Note that I understand Infinite Fusion had a whole lot of new sprites and updates introduced recently. I'm doing with what's available during the time that I was looking for interesting designs, and some of them may be slightly outdated... but I do hope the commentary would be interesting enough!
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Torchic + Leafeon. Pretty cute fusion in general, almost gyphon-like, just minus the wings. Any bird + four-legged-mammal fusion probably would, I think, but Torchic's more adorable features mesh in pretty well with Leafeon's ears, and the general colours from Torchic just works well on this design.
Mr. Mime + Yanma! Look at this cheerful, happy motherfucker. This looks like something that would show up like, in Alice in Wonderland or James and the Giant Peach or something. Not all Mr. Mime fusions are creepy clowns. I like the six adorable elf-booties legs, and the fact that they still managed to find a logical place to put Mr. Mime's hand, which is the end of the tail.
Hoppip + Unown. Hoppip's face looks cute with anything, and... I'm a bit disappointed they didn't fuse Hoppip with one of the Unown letters that makes up Hoppip, but this 'A' Unown with Hoppip's face and leaves replacing the antennae is pretty cute.
What I love about me just spamming 'random' is that sometimes pairs of Pokemon that I wouldn't even think about might pop up. Like Krookodile and Fearow here. It's not the most interesting or innovative fusion out there, but who knew Fearow looked that great in Krookodile's colours? I like the 'sunglasses' and giant fat crocodile tail jutting out of his back as well.
The other Dodrio/Exeggcute fusion is just six decapitated Dodrio heads chittering and clustering together, but I really like this one a lot more with the Exeggcute heads all branching out of Dodrio's mass of necks. This even fits with their canonical status as seeds that dropped off from an Exeggutor tree!
A lot of Aegislash fusions are pretty boring, with the base Pokemon 'equipping' Aegislash as a sword and shield. Which... okay, Tyranitars holding swords and shields are cool on principle, but it's not exactly a 'fusion' as I envision it. And then there's this glorious Qwilfish + Aegislash fusion, where they took Aegislash's concept as a 'weapon Pokemon' and went to do the obvious thing with Qwilfish and made the whole creature into a sentient flail! I love the Aegislash eye poking out of the slit in the giant mace, too.
Oh, Gliscor + Kingler here looks wretched. Gliscor's eyes and ears on Kingler's body layout looks devilish, and Kingler's giant lower jaw being coloured black with Gliscor's teeth poking out just exudes a very cool visual. I love the very nasty, knobbly fusion of Gliscor and Kingler's claws, and having Gliscor's scorpion tail poke out from behind a body that's primarily Kingler's is just badass. Honestly, this might be one of my all-time favourites from this page.
Gible + Swinub! I like this one. You can see where the Swinub and Gible parts are from, but a combination of all the featuers really does make this look like something designed completely independently. You could see this as a robotic 'mite' monster in a futuristic setting, or like a less-mechanical version of those 'Mouse Droids' from Star Wars!
Oh yeah. This is badass! Onix's body lends to a lot of fun fusions, but the combination with Probopass uses a lot of features from Probopass without just doing the lazy thing of pasting Probopass's funny face in place of Onix's. Instead, Probopass's giant nose becomes like an eyeless upper jaw, Probopass's iron filling mustache becomes a beard, and the eyeball pokes out from inside the mouth, always a welcome, weirdly-illogical-but-cool design choice on any monster.
Kecleon + Gallade is here just because I find it looking really cool. Do I find it cooler than regular Gallade? I actually think so, but I've never been the biggest fan of regular Gallade's colour scheme. Green and purple with a yellow crown works really well to accentuate Gallade's sharp, sleek design, though I suppose it helps that Gallecleon does admittedly have minimal physical features other than those ridges on his 'hat'.
Lucario + Dewgong! I'm normally not a particularly huge Lucario fan, but this one is just glorious! I really do enjoy Lucario's design with one less colour, and keeping him black-and-white like this does make him pop out much better than his canonical colours (another reason why I like Mega LUcario a lot more). But the goofy Dewgong face and the big tail looks so hilarious here. I like him.
I just really like Fletchling + Chikorita here. It's basically just Fletchling with Chikorita's head-leaf, neck-buds and more leafy feathers in general, but the general vibe of this thing just looks so pleasant. You could just see this as an early-game bird, couldn't you? I think the only grass bid we've ever gotten is Rowlet.
WOOPER + ZAPDOS! Okay, okay, this is actually so damn cute. Now Wooper is always cute, but putting Zapdos's iconic yellow-and-black spiky feathers as Wooper's tail and hair works amazingly well. I like the cute design of using the orange from Zapdos's talons for Wooper's gills, as well.
I don't have much to say about Latias + Beedrill here other than it's pretty fucking cool. The sprite artist uses Mega Beedrill as a base, and I think that's one of the fun with Pokemon that have multiple designs -- whether it's Mega Evolutions, Regional Variants or Gigantamax forms - it allows the artists to really pick and choose what they want for their design. I like the Latias 'wings' here, which fits with the gigantic monster spear-limbs of Mega Beedrill. And, of course, the head design is a great mixture of both donors that manages to exude both 'dragon' and 'bee' well.
Nincada + Axew! This thing actually threw me on a loop because I thought this was a skeletal Celebi or something. But I really like the Nincada colours giving the vibe of something bony. The tiny fairy-like wings and the chunky foerarms are adorable, too.
Vulpix + Mareep here just looks adorable, and I appreciate that unlike the reverse fusion (which is still cute!) they tried to be a bit more creative with the anatomy, giving Mareep's fluff into Vulpix's hairdo that has blossomed into a giant afro that looks much better than Bouffalant. I like the alternating yellow/black tail on Vulpix -- the only thing here that feels 'off' is using Mareep's blue for Vulpix's underside and feet, which I don't think work quite as well.
Duskull is definitely on top of the list of a Pokemon I could make an entire article just on its own. Here are two greatones just from the random shuffling. A skull or reaper-themed monster bug isn't the most novel idea (even though bugs don'thave skeletons!) but the spriter does a great job at making Duskull's head look so wretched, Beedrill's abdomen bloated and drooping, and I love that the clear bug wings are just trailing behind like wisps. You can just see this thing just hanging out in graveyards with D&D monsters like zombies and ghosts, couldn't you?
Duskneton here looks great, too, interpreting Magneton's three orb-eyes as little ghostly POe-souls with red dot eyes, and the magnets naturally become cartoon bones. Very cool!
Hahahahaha, Gyarados + Bulbasaur! I just love the screaming hyper-beaming Gyarados face on such a squat frog body. Look at it yell. "I SHOULD BE A GIANT SEA SERPENT NOT A BABBY FROG"
Ferrothorn + Eevee looks pretty interesting, too. I like that Eevee's neck-fur looks like a bunch of hanging vines, and his head and tail has become a bit more robotic looking. Particularly like the way Ferrothorn's eyes are transplanted to Eevee's face. And, of course, the three tendrils hovering menacingly around Eevothorn's body like he's Dr. Octopus or something. Which is canonical for Sylveon, since Sylveon's ribbons are also technically tentacles!
You know, I said on my second Infinite Fusion review that I can't really find a lot of cool legendaries. Turns out the key is to mix them with Pokemon that aren't legendaries or pseudos. Latios + Pichu looks really great, but Latios's fighter jet design just really lends to fusion with Electric or Steel types. I love that they highlighted Pichu's secondary black colours a lot more, and I love the angular ears blending relatively seamlessly with the design.
But check out Pinsir + Regigigas here, which just look gloriously monstrous. Didn't even realize they had similar body plans! Putting lips on Pinsir's monstrous vertical slit-mouth is just a nasty, inspired choice, and we get his regular claw-mandibles... only now they're pretty small comparatively to Regigigas. I both love and hate the fact that the spriter has replaced all the eyeball-orbs on Regigigas's body with Pinsir's eyeballs. Look at this thing. It's a glorious flesh-bug titan of sorts that wouldn't look out of place in a World of Warcraft dungeon or something.
Koffing + Muk! This is a pretty simple and obvious design, and it's helped by both Koffing and Muk having the same colours and concept of filth/pollution-inspired monsters. So just sticking Koffing's tubes and part of his skull tattoo on Muk's head is obvious enough, leading to a gas-ejecting sludge monster. I really love, though, the little Koffing fangs they put on Muk's mouth here.
Noctowl + Poliwrath. This is... I don't even know how to begin to describe how hilarious I find this thing. The fact that they kept Poliwrath's spiral mouth (or I guess it's just some weird stomach tattoo in the context of this monster) but they also put in Noctowl's beak in the middle of Poliwrath's eyes. And then Noctowl's horns end up becoming like, weird anime mustache-horn things!
Lapras + Torterra here just has a pretty great design all around, shrinking Lapras's neck and treating the design as an underwater sea turtle with Lapras's features. Love that Torterra's cheek-spikes are interpreted as conical sea shells (parasitic/symbiotic ones?). Lapras and Torterra both have a shelled back already, and interpreting Torterra's shell garden as being underwater corals sprouting out of Lapras's back is pretty great.
Riolu + Heracross is just adorable. I like the many, many bug features they managed to cram into this design, since it's not just sticking Heracross's horns and wings on Riolu and calling it a day, but also turning Riolu's paws to end in Heracross's bug claws.
Alakazam + Natu is here because I giggled for almost a minute at this image. It's like... the contrast between the sharp angles and the menacing eyes and mustache of Alakazam on Natu's very round body is just so jarring. And Alakatu here is holding the two spoons close to his body. It's just cute.
I also don't have a whole ton to say about Mantine + Drifloon here. A very simple fusion, but a very pleasant one. I like that Mantine's tail is replaced with Drifloon's strings, and I like that the weird 'X' duct-tape-mouth replaces Mantine's mouth. Heck, Mantine's whole deal of being a flying manta ray does even fit with Drifloon being a balloon.
Hahahahaha, that's awesome. Mawile + Typhlosion is kind of a simple design. Mawile's monstrous horn-mouth gets transplanted in place of Typhlosion's head, with the very simple logic that Mawile's black skin (fur?) is the same colour with Typhlosion's primary fur. The flames being extremely wild is just a nice little bonus.
I am not 100% sure what the logic behind this Omastar + Bellossom fusion is, but apparently it's like a bunch of plant vines taking over the Omastar shell? It's definitely a very interesting image, and the tendrils sprouting out of where Omastar's regular shell-spikes would be and ending in Bellossom flowers is pretty neat. I'm not sure why combining a flower-fairy and a prehistoric squid would result in a mass of vines, though. I feel like this would've made a bit more sense with Tangela or Shuckle or something, but then you wouldn't have the image of the actual flowers.
Persian + Kabutops isn't a fusion that comes naturally to my head. And they arguably didn't even change that much -- they added Persian's tail and whiskers to Kabutops, and maybe changed the eyes? But Persian's colour palette on Kabutops' design, particularly the artistic license to put Persian's red gem colours on the belly and the blades, is pretty damn boss.
Beedrill + Golem here, I think, is helped by the colours they choose. On the surface, the design isn't super innovative. They pasted Beedrill's most memorable designs -- the drill hands, the bug eyes and the antennae -- on Golem. But just like Kabursian on the left, Goldrill here is helped a lot by the pretty badass colours and how drastically the bright yellow 'inner body' contrasts with the light gray rocks and drills.
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That's all the time we have today for infinite fusions. I'll probably do a couple more of these before we start going into more targeted articles where we focus on a single family line!
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