Something I started working on like last year? First one done on my laptop and second on my tablet which I'm still getting used to, different brushes, shading colour and so on, but rotating a canvas using my fingers is oddly satisfying >w> they look so different side by side even though it's supposed to be same scene...
Uses the pokeballs that he finds the coolest looking, usually fastballs.
Chimchar just seems like the best starter option for Luffy, other being Grookey but I went with a fire type. There is several monkey pokemon that could be on his team, maybe he has them in the box.
Scizor and Heracross because Luffy loves collecting bugs, plus Scizor, Clobbopus and Breloom all fight using punches. Also Breloom has a hat and a shiny version is red.
Fighting type is also fitting for Luffy.
Talonflame as a reference to red hawk move.
Zoro
Doesn't care about pokeball types so uses plain npokeballs, with the exception of cherishball that holds Kuina's Gallade. Only has 3 pokemon, cause, you know.
All three pokemon seem selfexplanatory why I picked them for Zoro? Gallade's story was here.
He easily went through rock and grass gyms with Treecko and Charcadet but got stuck at fighting gym because of Kuina.
Nami
Uses luxuryballs, probably stollen.
Found shiny Purrloin in a trash as a kid and took it home. Has a team of sneaky cats with Meowth being a lucky charm in their heist.
Castform and Wingul as a reference to her navigation skills/role in canon.
Nickit could be on the team but I thought it'd fit Karina more with the whole cat and fox dynamic. Done it here.
Usopp
Bug collector and uses netballs, probably has every bug pokemon and a few shinies in the box.
His Heracross often spars with Luffy's.
Doesn't collect badges but somehow ended up earning one in a ghost gym.
Probably has Smeargle and Kecleon in the box.
Sanji
Is a sea cook so he fishes a lot, uses lureballs, diveballs and netballs, which is funny because I forgot to give him a water type on the team let's just say he has them in a box. He feeds wild pokemon.
Blaziken is just a pokemon version of Sanji pretty much and Tsareena seems right for his team… for several reasons.
Alcremie is just one of the many food related pokemon that Sanji probbaly has.
Ninetails and Zorua mainly because Sanji assosiates with a fox for me, been thinking of Alolan Vulpix line and Hisuian Zorua line as options too, but went with fire type because of Sanji's moves and a dark type for how sneaky he usually is during story arcs.
Gardevoir as a counterpart to Zoro's Gallade.
Been thinking of giving him Skiddo because of Oda's words that Sanji's animal self would be a goat and grass types just seemed fitting with all the ingredients that grow on themselves? Maybe a flying type too.
