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Guess I'm a bit late to the party of sharing thoughts.
My first impressions: Woah, I didn't expect this at all, nevertheless Honedge to evolve in the first place. At first, I thought of Honedge as its own standalone, unique sort-of Pokemon. It seems like this is kind of like the "Magnemite/Klink" of this generation, but in a good way that makes a bit more sense. It's not going to be something I'll use in-game, but competitively speaking I can see this being a threatening glass-cannon. Heck, Honedge alone looked pretty deadly, maybe that's why I had the thought of it evolving in the back of my mind. Overall: meh, it's definitely not something to complain about. I'll open up to it eventually. |
zzz kinda sad doublade is the magneton/dugtrio/kink/vannilluxe of this gen. It had the potential to be better than this!
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The problem I have with Honedge and Doubledge is No Guard. Don't get me wrong No Guard is great ability....in the right hands. Ghost type doesn't benefit in any way with No Guard and Steel type is not a good attacking type. It would have to rely on a diverse movepool to be good so I hope he gets another ability.
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I'm saying it's pronounced as da blade because it sounds like the boss
I wonder how elgyem would react to this. |
I beleive there's coat of arms with three swords.
It'll be cool and more noteworthy if it's final evolution has the french iris flower design commonly seen in coat of arms in Europe, especially frances. |
Well, I definitely wasn't expecting THAT. . . siiigh.
I still hope there's going to be a Dragon Eevee in X and Y. |
Whenever I first saw Doublade, I was immediately reminded of Klink, and I'm sure I'm not the only one who thought that haha..
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Ive been reading the comments and people seem to be saying Doubledge represents a Coat of Arms. I don't agree with that at all, the coat of arms is mainly a shield and swords are not a key feature to all coat of arms designs just a few. Also the shield is usually at front.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Hyghalmen_Roll_Late_1400s.jpg/170px-Hyghalmen_Roll_Late_1400s.jpg http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/90/University_of_Plymouth_Coat_of_Arms.png/200px-University_of_Plymouth_Coat_of_Arms.png Doubledge design would most likely come from the heraldry symbol of Crossed Swords. http://www.seiyaku.com/images/cross/swords-02.pnghttp://www.seiyaku.com/images/cross/swords.png The reason I posted 2 pictures of the symbol is because its meaning is actually different depending of the direction the swords are facing. When the swords are pointing upward it basically means war time , ongoing fight or to point battlefields. When the swords are pointing downward like Doubledge's design it means end of war, resting or a memorial to a dead soldier. Memorial to the dead->Ghost type, seems to me this is the most logical meaning to the design. |
I didn't say this earlier, but when it unsheathes. It looks even more awesome to me.
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I too think it looks better when it unsheathes...funny since I liked better Honedge when it was still sheathed. |
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Wether it will get an evolution or not I don't know, still anything is possible. |
Doublade is not so bad, but seriously...WHY.PINK!
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Does anyone else think this is getting pretty tiresome? Whenever there is a new evolution coming out or a complete new Pokémon, people directly jump on it with their own selfish judgements without doing any background research about it. I'm not saying it's wrong to judge solely on the design the first time you see it, but you get the point, no?
Honedge and Doublade is pretty good example of this. Or maybe it is just Pokémon entirely that's getting older and people just want whatever reason to hate on it pure for the fun of it, that's also a possibility. I'm not saying that everyone does the exact way based on how I explain it, so don't feel attacked. |
i think there are better evos to introduce than doublade tbh, everyone starts to warm up to doublade after a while but it doesn't really get that hypetrain going.
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I like what pretty much looks like the star trek insignia in the middle of Doublade's design.
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It's design is quite cool. And yeah, it does seem to be the Magnemite type of Kalos. It kinda looks weird, but nvm I love all the Kalos region Pokémon :D
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Plain design, horrible name (Double blade-Doublade...got it?), same freakin' ability,and the hand became pink. PINK. When i first heard the new evolution was Honedge im like: they can make him a two-edged sword!! or a ****ing lighsaber or something! just not make him a magneton clone. then i saw this and im like: ****.
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I definitely wasn't expecting an evolution for Honedge but it does make sense.
I mean going from one sword to two seems natural, right? Luckily, this announcement did not disappoint me! Anyway, I do like the design of Doublade. The crossing of two swords on what looks like to be a small shield or plate really makes it stand out from its pre-evolution. At first, I thought it was weird that the ribbon's color changed from blue to pink but in a way, it fits. To be honest, Honedge is one of these new Pokes that I instantly liked and I'm glad it gets an evolution: that makes me want to use it more now! |
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While I know it's not the same thing you probably had in mind, but I like to think of this evolution as the "double-edged sword" metaphor or "something that has or can have both favorable and unfavorable consequences". Plus it also resembles a coat of arms if you look closely. Just my thoughts, you don't have to accept them if you don't want. *shrug* Looks like Gamefreak are making some game changing moves here. It learns Sacred Sword which was previously the signature move of the Legendary Musketeers or Keldeo, Terrakion, Virizion, and Cobalion. https://scontent-b-ord.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-frc3/1378019_519034391505607_2053615084_n.png Well I guess it's no longer a signature move. |
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You know with it having a fighting move it can take down Dark types...now I hope it's fast and it may indeed become OU ^_^. |
Late to the party here, but as strange as Doublade looks, I like it. Sheathed, it looks like a coat of arms, and it learning Sacred Sword is a nice bonus, considering that Fighting + Ghost is unresisted.
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And another thing- why are the hands pink? i guess it cant really be a male of a female buyt if it had a gender the best thing to do was to have the male version with blue hands and the female with pink. Same with the pre-evo. |
Anyone notice how it makes an X and Y shape if you look at it close enough?
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I agree there should be a steel type sword/slashing move (not counting Metal Claw). Maybe the Honedge line could have a move like Bronze Slash, and learn a stronger version like Steel Slash upon evolution to represent the evolution of sword's over the ages... |
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I do agree that a master sword would've been really neat. Shame they chose this instead. But not Ike I was gunna use it anyway. XD |
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Now this post right here defines exactly what I said yesterday about people not actually understanding the meaning of designs and just going by looks. |
We can definitely expect a trio sword 3rd evolution thingy, there wouldn't be just one I can tell you that now!! xD
But looking at it again, it's sort of not that bad. It's not good, but it's not as bad as everyones saying it is. It's just another Magneton/Dugtrio/Vannilite type thing. And omg whoever said that its representing X and Y YOU ARE A GENIUS i would of never saw this LOL.~~ |
Some of you guys suggested an evolution with a shield for Doublade so I made a quick sketch. Is this what you guys had in mind?
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If I ever wanted Doublade's evolution to have a shield, then that is exactly how I would imagine it to look. Also, I love the way that you made it have a sad face expression with the holes on its shield. (: Was it intentional?
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Also, remind me why color really means that much. I find that argument really dumb and narrow-minded. |
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Regarding if color is important or not, it really depends on the design. Sometimes (very few times) its necessary if the colorless design alone is not enough to define well the pokemon's type. Take Stunkfish for example, if the original design was the one on the right could you tell it was electric type? I sure couldn't. This doesn't happen many time tho, most of the time GF design are well enough without having to have a certain color which represents their type. http://www.serebii.net/blackwhite/pokemon/618.png http://www.serebii.net/Shiny/BW/618.png The reason GF uses the same color with so many pokemon of the same type its so people can easily categorize them. They don't have to follow this tradition if they dont want to and they have done so before with Pokemon like Gligar, Tyranitar, Groudon, etc. |
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Yeah. If Doublade does get an evolution (hopefully) it would probably have a shield of some sort. Or it could end up being three swords, with the one in the middle being giant. There's also a possibility that it could end up as a single sword Pokémon again, but just better looking overall. But Doublade looks like it could do great on it's own. It might just turn out to be like Diglett, a Pokémon that only evolves one :3
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As I look at this thing more, I'm really starting to warm up to it's design. The pink actually looks really nice to me and I'm probably the only one who thinks the name is pretty funny and clever. I'm excited to see what its third evolution is if we get one.
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I want Doublade to have a signature move that consists of two hits and is steel type like 40 each. It's evolution can then learn a move with triple slashes but are 30 each.
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I'm fairly certain like most Steel types based on objects, it's genderless. I don't think a certain color should determine a Pokemon's (or person for that matter) gender, but that could juts be me. |
Interesting thing about multiplying Pokémon is that it took a break in Gen II-IV. Coming back in Gen V...however I do find their Gen V and Gen VI multi copies more creative than Gen I...
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