5th Gen Ononokusu is not a mantis!

[PiPVoda]

^^^ Well I didn't mean to repeat what you said :D, but did you read my first post in this thread? How some pokemon look nothing like the animals they're based off of, however at the same time ononokusu's head/stance do resemble a mantis's in a way? There are over 2,000 species of mantis so like I said nobody knows if it is one or not till we hear more info on it.

 

[Calder]

Its name has Mantis in it. It looks like some sorta Dino mantis. i'm excited about it.

Where is the word Mantis at in its name exactly? I thought Mantis was like Kamikiri in Japanese... and isn't Fear like Osore? I forget...

who honestly cares what it's based on?..
i just LIKE it >=O
but i sense a Front Row Seat for the Over-Used Community for it =\

Exactly it looks pretty good... Maybe it will be Steel/Dragon since we only have a Legend one of those... Bug/Dragon or Fighting/Dragon would be cool too...

Really.....

Claws.
Abdomen.
mantis-like head.

it ISN'T called mantis.

It is the Mantis-Like pokemon.

Dude.... Common sense.
It wasn't Serebii OR pokemon sunday that named it the mantis-like pokemon, or drew the sprite, okay?
The POKEMON company made it that way.
And i'll bet you that's the way it'll be in the pokedex.

Ononokusu,
The mantis-like pokemon.

How do you guys not see the claws, the head, and the mantis!?

Dude sorry but I don't see it at all... I just see a cool looking dragon with an axe on its head...

Ononokusu could be the Axehead Dragon Pokemon too you know...

 

[MistahDude]

Really.....

Claws.
Abdomen.
mantis-like head.

it ISN'T called mantis.

It is the Mantis-Like pokemon.

Dude.... Common sense.
It wasn't Serebii OR pokemon sunday that named it the mantis-like pokemon, or drew the sprite, okay?
The POKEMON company made it that way.
And i'll bet you that's the way it'll be in the pokedex.

Ononokusu,
The mantis-like pokemon.

To get this straight, it's NOT the mole-pokemon with the giant claw thing next to it's head.

NOW how can you NOT see the mantis....?!

The pokemon company never said it was a mantis. People started saying it looked like a mantis, which is does not. I even put it side by side with an actual Mantis and it shared no similarities.

If you do think its a Mantis:
Since when did a Mantis have claws or fangs?
Since when did a Mantis have a slender head?
Since when did a Mantis have a curved tail?
Since when did a Mantis have a Dinosaur body?

It has short and stubby arms, which makes me think Ononokusu is a Raptor of some sort.

 

[Calder]

Yeah I think it is a reptile it looks like a freaking lizard with an axe on it... regardless I'm using him he looks so badass xD

 

[MistahDude]

But it TOTALLY has the body-style and claws of a mantis!
Just because it is a mutant mantis pokemon doesn't mean that it can't be some sort of unique, blurry, sprited mantis!

A mantis has scythes, not claws! A mantis has a very stick like body and a very small sized head. Dinosaurs usually have large bodies, long tails, fangs, claws and slender heads. Insects have some sort of abdomen, Dinosaurs do not. A mantis has wings, Dinosaurs do not.

Here is a picture of Ononokusu compared to the Scyther (the Mantis Pokemon):

See how scyther and ononokusu look nothing alike?

Meaning of Ononokusu's name:
Ono - axe, hatchet
no - can be a possessive term?
ku - 9?
su - nest

The "ono" and "su" seem to be accurate to the creature, but I couldn't make sense of the interior of the term. Then I tried "noku", which came to mean "to get out of the way".

If you think a Dinosaur with an Axe on his head looks like a Bug you may be high on crack.

 

[Silver25]

While I agree that it doesn't look like a mantis as much as Scyther, I'll still call it the way I hear it from Serebii and Bulbapedia. "Axe-Dragon" doesn't sound like Game Freak's style but that's just my opinion. Honestly though this topic probably doesn't need an entire thread on it as it will NEVER end until the official data is released which I predict will not happen until the release date or close to it.

So what if it doesn't look like a mantis? At this point it's all about perspective and arguing like this won't go anywhere.

 

[Sylphiel]

I see a similar discussion is already taking place in this thread.

Please keep such discussions about pokemon shown in that thread to that thread, please. :)

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