Project Joseon [Fakemon]

Azumarill was swapped out for Diggersby because Diggersby would give her more type coverage in all starter choice situations (whereas Azumarill's typing may potentially be completely redundant if Kyung-ah has Hurricrane)

Team and key art update for Kyung-ah!

Your Mother - Ji-eun

The protagonist's mom is a former haenyo (female diver) who now works on a fishing trawler. She may be a little bit overworked, but as long as she can care and provide for her child, she is happy.

Pokémon Professor - Ginkgo

Prof. Hyeyoung Ginkgo is an outdoorsy researcher who is often seen doing field work to research the way people and Pokémon interact and both the positive and negative impacts on Pokémon that human activity has. The nature of her work has her out of her lab often.

Inqirin - Psychic/Dragon

Inspirations: Qilin

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Trickpalm - Psychic/Bug
Slighthand - Psychic/Bug

Inspirations: Mudang (Korean shaman), water skeeter

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Gardian - Grass/Fairy
Gogardian - Grass/Fairy

Inspirations - Temple lanterns, temple/palace garden, treehouse, golem, foliage overgrowth on manmade structures

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Dduck - Fairy
Dduckgoose - Fairy

Inspirations - Tteok (Korean rice cake), specifically songpyeon and mujigae-tteok, ducks, geese

Flashblade - Light/Fighting
Novablade - Light/Fighting

Inspirations: Seonnyeo (Korean guardian angel), orchid mantis

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Misdreavus-Joseon - Ghost/Water
Mismagius-Joseon - Ghost/Water

Inspirations: Mul-gwishin (Korean spirits that drowned in water; typically the vengeful spirits of women)

Banshriek - Ghost/Sound
Banskreem - Ghost/Sound

Inspirations - Gwishin (vengeful Korean ghosts), banshee

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Trinine - Normal

Inspirations - Jindo dog, samjokgu (Korean three-legged dog spirit)

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Its primary Achilles heel is Grass-type moves because the Sound and Light types are both weak to Grass, and therefore it has a 4x weakness to Grass and its STABs get walled by Grass-types, but it may be way too centralizing in singles regardless

it saddens me to say this but one of the pseudo-legendaries of the region, Solaria, has 97/80/100 defensive stats and 145 Sp. Atk and 138 Speed and a passive boost to its sound-based moves, there is no way that thing would be allowed in OU

Regulation L would return to Reg B format (Ultra Beasts legal) but with the full Pokedexes of the base game and DLCs, then Regulation M would be the dual restricted format

Then when hypothetical DLC drops:

DLC wave 1 Regulations E-G would return to all special Pokemon being banned, then release UBs and sub-legendaries, and then single restricted format again

And then repeat for Regulations H-K for DLC wave 2

fun discussion topic: the eligible Pokemon lists for in-game competitive regulations of the Joseon region

Regulations A-D in order would be all special Pokemon banned, Ultra Beasts legal, sub-legends legal, and then briefly single restricted format

Jowanurn - Water
Jowanhearth - Water/Fire

Inspirations: water pot, teapot, ondol heating system (a heating system invented by the Koreans to heat the floor of an entire house), Jowangshin, the Korean goddess of the hearth

Skimugi - Dragon/Ice
Glaiyong - Dragon/Ice

Inspirations: Korean dragons; the juvenile form of the dragon is called an imugi, and after it lives for a thousand years it matures into a dragon that holds a pearl that contains extraordinary power.

Dokkogre - Dragon/Fighting

Inspirations: Dokkaebi. Its arms resemble the studs on clubs, and its face resembles typical depictions of dokkaebi in Korean art.

Bullgae - Dark/Light

Inspirations: eclipses, bouncer, bulldog, the bulgae, which is a mythical dog that is said to be responsible for eclipses when they bite the sun and moon. The pattern on its belly resembles a faraway mountain with a red sky representing a lunar eclipse.

Urasma - Poison/Light
Jupithaze - Poison/Light

Inspirations: The planets Uranus and Jupiter; their Poison-typing references the methane gas composition of gas giants.

Halley - Ice/Light
Tempel - Ice/Light

Inspirations: Comet, squid, angel, shooting star/wishing star

Clambo - Ground
Grogoral - Ground

Inspirations: the long-tailed goral, which is considered an endangered species in South Korea. A population of long-tailed gorals lives in the demilitarized zone.

Zorua-Joseon - Dark/Ice
Zoroark-Joseon - Dark/Ice

Inspirations: Also a kumiho. It also takes elements of Hahoetal masks; Hahoe byeolsingut talnori is traditional masked-drama ritual theater performed at the village of Hahoe. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hahoe_b...

Vulpix-Joseon - Fire/Ghost
Ninetales-Joseon - Fire/Ghost

Inspirations: kumiho (Korean nine-tailed fox). The kumiho is a malevolent creature in Korean folklore, disguising itself as a woman to strike unsuspecting victims and eat their livers.

Swablu-Joseon - Poison/Flying
Altaria-Joseon - Poison/Flying

Inspirations: aerosol beauty products such as hairsprays and perfumes; the beauty industry is prolific in Korea, but also produces a lot of waste and pollution from empty bottles and the chemicals in cosmetics.

Falinks-Joseon - Fighting/Flying

Inspirations: Air Force fighter flight formation, KAI KT-1 Woongbi aircraft

Roadle - Ground/Steel
Metroise - Ground/Steel

Inspirations: tortoise, city block, sidewalk, road

Sewwage - Poison/Dark
Sepwitch - Poison/Dark

Inspirations: Cheukshin, the vengeful toilet goddess of Korean myth; she is said to have hair that kills people on contact, which is what inspires Sepwitch's primary mode of attacking with its tendrils of poisoned hair.