Hello, tumblr, it's been too long! Over three years, in fact! It's not that I haven't been spriting; in fact, I have. This is just a side-project for that and due to me translating things that aren't Pokemon into Pokemon, it takes a lot more mental effort than translating Pokemon into Pokemon. Also, seeing a good in for translating something without making it a big stretch (which, dgmw, are still entertaining to see, just not to do.) Anyhoo, good to be back! These four sprites are for the Mt. Lavalava boss fight. The ones on the right represent the two forms of the Lava Buds and the ones on the right represent the Lava Piranha. If this would be in a Pokemon game, I would imagine it being a gym leader with 6 Pokemon (two each of the Lava Buds). They would face you in a triple battle with the Lava Piranha in the center position. As you took out a Pokemon, it'd be replaced with the appropriate fiery version. I would make the base forms Grass-type and the fiery forms Grass/Fire-type. Even though you'd have access to (at least) 8 Pokemon by this point in the game, if you had less than 6 (less than 3, maybe?) Pokemon, you'd get a Kolorado for this fight.
Onto the sprites! I am remiss not to be able to have the vine spikes on these, but I think finding suitable source for them would prove futile. Each of these has rocks and lava from Diglett and Slugma, and bells colored from Parasect and Absol. The vines are all colored from Tropius. I left the Diglett and Slugma parts uncolored because I felt they would be suitable setting elements and not crucial to the Pokemon's design.
The Lava Buds have Bellsprout as a base. The unlit one has leaves from Oddish (colored with Tropius) and the lit one has flames (unrecolored) from Slugma.
Lava Piranha uses Weepinbell as a base. They both use vines from Victreebel and Ferrothorn, and have teeth from Mawile. The lit one gets its tongue from Lickitung and its flames from Moltres. I felt that the Slugma flames were more appropriate for the sprite-based effect for the Lava Buds, but that Moltres's were more appropriate for the in-game effect of the Piranha's.
These were a lot of fun to make and mull over and figure out solutions to problems. At one point, I wanted normal Lava Piranha to have Whiscash lips, but I couldn't make it work. I tried using kissy lips for when it uses its flame breath attack, but none are big enough. Either way, I hope you guys enjoy these!
