Gaiien Region: (\/) :3 (\/) - Scorplion and Mantigore

#046 - Scorplion
Deathstalker Pokémon
Bug/Poison-type
It is gentle and cares for its young, carrying them on its back. However, it will not hesitate to use its potent poisons to defend them.
Learnset: Poison Sting, Pin Missile, Bite, Bug Bite, Acid, Dig, Poison Fang, Vice Grip, Pinch

#047 - Mantigore
Maneater Pokémon
Dark/Poison-type
It lives deep in the desert, guarding oases and stalking opponents that come to drink. Its poison causes weakness and paralysis, and then it will strike with its claws and teeth.
Base Stats: 70/110/70/60/70/110 (490)
Ability: Keen Eye/Envenom (chance to poison the target with piercing moves)/[Miasma (activates poison-type environmental effect on switch-in)]
Learnset: Fell Stinger, Cross Poison, Sting Cross, Wing Attack, Whirlwind, Crunch, Slash, Venom Spray, Paralytic, Night Slash, Aerial Ace, X-Scissor, Poison Claw, Poison Tail, Tailstrike

Notes: Couple of cuties for you. (\/) :3 (\/) Mantigore’s original appearance in Gods and Demons was a little purple (ha) so I’d probably just finished reading a Guy Gavriel Kay novel, although the previous chapter is Discworld-y with the narrative asides.

Mantigore only has one weakness–ground–and it can fly. WTF. Luckily, flyers aren’t as uniformly immune to ground-type attacks in the Gods and Demons universe, and if you’re in the air using air-type energy to fly (which most pokemon do, being unaerodynamic as hell), air is essentially your third type. Like in Fire Emblem, being able to fly is a huge mobility advantage, but you pay for it by being exploded by arrows. Originally its ability would have been Levitate, coming off the high of gen 3 as I was, but that ability should only be for pokemon that actually float by some unseen force. I’ve instead split the flying type into air-type and pokemon-that-can-fly (which explains Doduo).

The original Mardyakhor has less of the scorpion stuff going on and a human head, but I’m okay with the place where the modern D&D-derived monster looks have taken it.

Mantigore appears in Chapter 9 of Gods and Demons 2.0.