Character Sheet: The Past Paradoxes

GREAT TUSK/SCREAM TAIL/BRUTE BONNET/FLUTTER MANE/SLITHER WING/SANDY SHOCKS/ROARING MOON/WALKING WAKE/GOUGING FIRE/RAGING BOLT

The Paradox Pokemon are a . . . rather difficult concept to explain. They all mostly originate from Area Zero in the middle of Paldea, a strange zone where time distortions occur. The Paradox Pokemon inside aren’t really so much ancient and future versions of modern Pokemon, but more like . . . how those Pokemon would have developed in a world without humans, and machines that would have been built in a world without Pokemon? Something like that.

We’ll cover just the Past Paradoxes for now, starting with Great Tusk, a giant version of Donphan that pulls heavy inspiration from the mastodon.

Standard B: Megahorn

Side B: Headlong Rush

Up B: Stomping Tantrum

Down B: Earthquake

Final Smash: Ground Tera-Type Headlong Rush

Next, we have Scream Tail, a large version of Jigglypuff with wild hair that screams instead of singing. It seems mostly based on the stereotypical wild caveman archetype.

Standard B: Hyper Voice

Side B: Psychic Fangs

Up B: Play Rough

Down B: Wish

Final Smash: Normal Tera-Type Boomburst

Then, we have Brute Bonnet, a giant version of Amoonguss with hanging vines draping around its mushroom cap, seeming like a monster you might encounter deep in a prehistoric jungle.

Standard B: Sucker Punch

Side B: Giga Drain

Up B: Clear Smog

Down B: Rage Powder

Final Smash: Grass Tera-Type Solar Beam

After that, we have Flutter Mane, an ancient Misdreavus with larger wing flaps along its head that apparently takes some inspiration from various pterosaurs.

Standard B: Moonblast

Side B: Phantom Force

Up B: Astonish

Down B: Mystical Fire

Final Smash: Fairy Tera-Type Moonblast

Then, we have Slither Wing, a giant version of Volcarona with a larger, more reptilian body and wings too small to fly with.

Standard B: Bug Bite

Side B: Lunge

Up B: Whirlwind

Down B: Low Sweep

Final Smash: Fighting Tera-Type Superpower

Next, we have Sandy Shocks, an ancient Magneton with long legs and metal shavings for hair that makes it seem like something out of a Mad Max-style dystopian desert.

Standard B: Zap Cannon

Side B: Bulldoze

Up B: Magnetic Flux

Down B: Electric Terrain

Final Smash: Electric Tera-Type Electric Terrain

Then we have Roaring Moon, a version of Salamence that keeps its crescent-shaped wings normally seen only in its Mega Form, but much more wild and dinosaur-like.

Standard B: Night Slash

Side B: Dragon Rush

Up B: Fly

Down B: Dragon Breath

Final Smash: Dragon Tera-Type Dragon Rush

And finally, we come to Walking Wake, Gouging Fire, and Raging Bolt, Paradox forms of Suicune, Entei, and Raikou, and probably the main reason for the whole “alternate timeline” thing instead of just being ancient ancestors, because, you know, their backstory. Walking Wake is based on a theropod, Gouging Fire is a ceratopsid, and Raging Bolt is a long-necked sauropod respectively.

Standard B: Dragon Breath | Fire Fang | Zap Cannon

Side B: Aqua Jet | Flare Blitz | Dragon Hammer

Up B: Hydro Steam | Morning Sun | Rising Voltage

Down B: Thunder | Outrage | Burning Bulwark | Thunder

Final Smash: Water Tera-Type Hydro Pump | Fire Tera-Type Burning Bulwark | Electric Tera-Type Thunder

Most of the bonus stuff should be relatively ancient equivalents of their counterparts. Given the plot, Area Zero is probably the go-to stage for most of them.

Thanks for reading! Next up, let’s cover the Future Paradox Pokemon now.