Dissidia Poke Fantasy: Chaos Edition!
So in the previous entry, I did some brief speculation as to what Pokemon might be used by the heroes of Dissidia. Now let's go with the antagonists.
-Garland: "Can you withstand THIS!? Miserable insect."
The man who will knock you all down, Garland is a battle-obsessed nimrod who is also cursed to exist in a time loop in which he becomes Chaos and then creates himself in the future, only to return to the past and do it all over again. Here, he wields the power of the Four Fiends, and is utterly resigned to his fate - which drives him to relish the battlefield.
His team is beefy and powerful: Garchomp, Metagross, and Tyranitar. Not a lot of subtlety, just raw power.
-Emperor Mateus: "My reign is absolute!"
A cunning, strategic magical warrior, the Emperor is singularly obsessed with domination. Not content with his own Palamecian Empire, he manages to conquer both heaven and hell after his death. Not bad for a guy who looks like David Bowie.
He wouldn't use any specific Pokemon, but would take a rather Ghetsis-like attitude toward them in general. Instead, Mateus would favour tactics revolving around status-stacking (parafusion / flinch, etc.)
-Cloud of Darkness: "Unleash the shadows!"
An entity of pure Void energy that appears whenever light and darkness are too unbalanced, the Cloud of Darkness likes referring to itself in the plural, tentacles, wearing almost no clothing, and firing its lasers to destroy things.
It would favour grass types, oddly enough, and teach them how to control their vine whip and solarbeam much as it controls its own tentacles and particle beams.
-Golbez: "Guide my inner shadow! Light and dark above... TRANSCEND THE STARS!"
If FF6 God!Kefka thought that the Returners sounded like chapters from a self-help booklet, he could only imagine that Golbez sounds like ALL the motivational posters. Seriously, Golbez loves going around giving advice to people, especially his fellow FF4 natives Kain and Cecil. He fights with techno-magic such as the Babil CPU cores.
As for the sort of Pokemon he'd run, it'd be Magnezone, Electrode, and Jirachi. Their attacking options are in line with his own, plus Jirachi is chill.
-Exdeath: "TO THE SILENT BEYOND! Embrace the stillness of eternity..."
A tree housing the soul of the dark mage Enuo and several other evils, Exdeath is singularly obsessed with THE VOID and its magical properties. Seriously, he's like a cult recruiter for the cult of THE VOID or something. He's also ridiculously slow and relies on counter-attacking.
So what else would he have, but Dusclops (who sucks victims into THE VOID,) Darkrai (whose signature move is Dark VOID) and Wobbuffet (who can't attack, but can only counter?) I'd imagine that Exdeath would have Wobbuffet as his starter, after making literally no headway battling with one.
-Gilgamesh: "Just kidding... this is FAR from the strongest of swords!"
Yes, the multi-armed hero of the Big Bridge makes his appearance, wielding random weapons and on an eternal quest to get even more weapons. That's about it.
As such, his Pokemon trainer profile would resemble that of Crystal from PokeSpe: on no particular quest except to catch 'em all, for the sake of finding the strongest. On the other hand, he wouldn't have any preference in what Pokemon to use - and may not even be able to distinguish which Pokemon are in which balls after a while. Of course, he'd go with it anyway, because he's Gilgamesh.
-Kefka: "Be careful! Watch this... it's filling me up!!"
Kefka is the random psychopath we all know and love. Too ambitious to avoid scheming, yet too crazy to have coherent schemes, he just wants to watch the world burn. His attacks are magical, but quite random.
As such, he gets Pokemon that do random things: Clefairy (metronome,) Diglett (magnitude, plus he thinks it's hilarious) and Masquerain (randomly chosen because Kefka is crazy.)
-Sephiroth: "I bring you despair. Ruination to all."
Seph acts like he doesn't even want to be in Dissidia - in fact, at one point he commits suicide. This was actually to test a theory about whether he was real or just a manikin. Basically, all he does is 80% of all he does in FF7: mind-screwing Cloud. No, seriously, DFF!Sephiroth must be gay for Cloud; he even stole Firion's rose just to get Cloud's attention.
I couldn't see him training Pokemon, at least not in the 7 / Dissidia incarnations.
-Ultimecia: "Playtime is over! ...eternal sleep."
The time witch isn't quite as obsessed about SeeD SeeD SeeD here; she's content with trying to sow despair. Naturally, she does still want to compress time and become eternal.
She wouldn't *start* with Serebii and Dialga - that'd just be crazy! Obtaining them would be part of her plan, however. She'd have two for sure: Xatu and Beheeyem, great for seeing the timestream and for mind-screwing.
-Kuja: "Here comes the finale!"
The only reason Dissidia Kuja wants to fight is that Kefka messed with his memories. Before this, the silver-haired reaper had a plan to assist a number of Comsos warriors, but Kefka showed... surprising loyalty to the Chaos cause. Or maybe he just liked messing with Kuja (and calling him a spoony bard. No, that really happened.)
Of the cast, Kuja would be the most likely to become a Coordinator. In his extreme vanity, he'd only enter Beauty contests, and would run the most beautiful Pokemon such as Milotic and Gardevoir.
-Jecht: "ORAORAORAORAORA! One more!"
Blitz King Jecht originally fought alongside Yuna, but wound up being forced to switch factions with Tidus thanks to the Emperor's meddling. He fights because he thinks it'll help him and Tidus escape the cycle.
He'd favour athletic Pokemon with a brawly style: Machamp, Conkeldurr, and Poliwrath; Jecht's training style would involve fighting them himself because that's what a true ace would do.
-Gabranth: "BY MY SWORD! Know this PAIN!! Take your last breath... surrender now to oblivion!"
Judge Gabranth is an antagonist from FF12, and his emo-rage sounding personality reflects his role: while he's one of the Empire's most powerful and loyal soldiers, he secretly blames himself for his homeland falling to the Empire, while blaming his twin brother Basch for fleeing.
The Dissidia version only seeks to find a way to escape the cycle, but winds up trapped in a hell-like demiplane. His fighting style makes him a bit of a slow starter, since he needs to be in EX mode to do anything effective.
Because of this, I see Gabranth training Pokemon that can mega-evolve: Gyarados, Scizor, and Aggron. Angry and clad in metal.
-Garland: "Can you withstand THIS!? Miserable insect."
The man who will knock you all down, Garland is a battle-obsessed nimrod who is also cursed to exist in a time loop in which he becomes Chaos and then creates himself in the future, only to return to the past and do it all over again. Here, he wields the power of the Four Fiends, and is utterly resigned to his fate - which drives him to relish the battlefield.
His team is beefy and powerful: Garchomp, Metagross, and Tyranitar. Not a lot of subtlety, just raw power.
-Emperor Mateus: "My reign is absolute!"
A cunning, strategic magical warrior, the Emperor is singularly obsessed with domination. Not content with his own Palamecian Empire, he manages to conquer both heaven and hell after his death. Not bad for a guy who looks like David Bowie.
He wouldn't use any specific Pokemon, but would take a rather Ghetsis-like attitude toward them in general. Instead, Mateus would favour tactics revolving around status-stacking (parafusion / flinch, etc.)
-Cloud of Darkness: "Unleash the shadows!"
An entity of pure Void energy that appears whenever light and darkness are too unbalanced, the Cloud of Darkness likes referring to itself in the plural, tentacles, wearing almost no clothing, and firing its lasers to destroy things.
It would favour grass types, oddly enough, and teach them how to control their vine whip and solarbeam much as it controls its own tentacles and particle beams.
-Golbez: "Guide my inner shadow! Light and dark above... TRANSCEND THE STARS!"
If FF6 God!Kefka thought that the Returners sounded like chapters from a self-help booklet, he could only imagine that Golbez sounds like ALL the motivational posters. Seriously, Golbez loves going around giving advice to people, especially his fellow FF4 natives Kain and Cecil. He fights with techno-magic such as the Babil CPU cores.
As for the sort of Pokemon he'd run, it'd be Magnezone, Electrode, and Jirachi. Their attacking options are in line with his own, plus Jirachi is chill.
-Exdeath: "TO THE SILENT BEYOND! Embrace the stillness of eternity..."
A tree housing the soul of the dark mage Enuo and several other evils, Exdeath is singularly obsessed with THE VOID and its magical properties. Seriously, he's like a cult recruiter for the cult of THE VOID or something. He's also ridiculously slow and relies on counter-attacking.
So what else would he have, but Dusclops (who sucks victims into THE VOID,) Darkrai (whose signature move is Dark VOID) and Wobbuffet (who can't attack, but can only counter?) I'd imagine that Exdeath would have Wobbuffet as his starter, after making literally no headway battling with one.
-Gilgamesh: "Just kidding... this is FAR from the strongest of swords!"
Yes, the multi-armed hero of the Big Bridge makes his appearance, wielding random weapons and on an eternal quest to get even more weapons. That's about it.
As such, his Pokemon trainer profile would resemble that of Crystal from PokeSpe: on no particular quest except to catch 'em all, for the sake of finding the strongest. On the other hand, he wouldn't have any preference in what Pokemon to use - and may not even be able to distinguish which Pokemon are in which balls after a while. Of course, he'd go with it anyway, because he's Gilgamesh.
-Kefka: "Be careful! Watch this... it's filling me up!!"
Kefka is the random psychopath we all know and love. Too ambitious to avoid scheming, yet too crazy to have coherent schemes, he just wants to watch the world burn. His attacks are magical, but quite random.
As such, he gets Pokemon that do random things: Clefairy (metronome,) Diglett (magnitude, plus he thinks it's hilarious) and Masquerain (randomly chosen because Kefka is crazy.)
-Sephiroth: "I bring you despair. Ruination to all."
Seph acts like he doesn't even want to be in Dissidia - in fact, at one point he commits suicide. This was actually to test a theory about whether he was real or just a manikin. Basically, all he does is 80% of all he does in FF7: mind-screwing Cloud. No, seriously, DFF!Sephiroth must be gay for Cloud; he even stole Firion's rose just to get Cloud's attention.
I couldn't see him training Pokemon, at least not in the 7 / Dissidia incarnations.
-Ultimecia: "Playtime is over! ...eternal sleep."
The time witch isn't quite as obsessed about SeeD SeeD SeeD here; she's content with trying to sow despair. Naturally, she does still want to compress time and become eternal.
She wouldn't *start* with Serebii and Dialga - that'd just be crazy! Obtaining them would be part of her plan, however. She'd have two for sure: Xatu and Beheeyem, great for seeing the timestream and for mind-screwing.
-Kuja: "Here comes the finale!"
The only reason Dissidia Kuja wants to fight is that Kefka messed with his memories. Before this, the silver-haired reaper had a plan to assist a number of Comsos warriors, but Kefka showed... surprising loyalty to the Chaos cause. Or maybe he just liked messing with Kuja (and calling him a spoony bard. No, that really happened.)
Of the cast, Kuja would be the most likely to become a Coordinator. In his extreme vanity, he'd only enter Beauty contests, and would run the most beautiful Pokemon such as Milotic and Gardevoir.
-Jecht: "ORAORAORAORAORA! One more!"
Blitz King Jecht originally fought alongside Yuna, but wound up being forced to switch factions with Tidus thanks to the Emperor's meddling. He fights because he thinks it'll help him and Tidus escape the cycle.
He'd favour athletic Pokemon with a brawly style: Machamp, Conkeldurr, and Poliwrath; Jecht's training style would involve fighting them himself because that's what a true ace would do.
-Gabranth: "BY MY SWORD! Know this PAIN!! Take your last breath... surrender now to oblivion!"
Judge Gabranth is an antagonist from FF12, and his emo-rage sounding personality reflects his role: while he's one of the Empire's most powerful and loyal soldiers, he secretly blames himself for his homeland falling to the Empire, while blaming his twin brother Basch for fleeing.
The Dissidia version only seeks to find a way to escape the cycle, but winds up trapped in a hell-like demiplane. His fighting style makes him a bit of a slow starter, since he needs to be in EX mode to do anything effective.
Because of this, I see Gabranth training Pokemon that can mega-evolve: Gyarados, Scizor, and Aggron. Angry and clad in metal.