Image: Tekken and Pokémon comparisons

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Description: This is an edit of an image that spread around sites like Twitter and Reddit recently.  The original image is by Twitter user Chase Toland, and the whole concept of the image exists due to a game that was recently announced as a collabration between Nintendo's Pokémon series and Namco-Bandai's Tekken series.  The name of the game is Pokkén Tournament, and from what we know so far the game will combine the titular monsters and settings of the Pokémon series with the 3D fighting gameplay of the Tekken series, but with many different mechanics so as to make it more congruent with what fans of Pokémon would expect.

The image of which I edited and expanded on is simply a crossover fantasy of what certain Pokemon might play like if the game mechanics were closer to Tekken.  The idea is that the many character archetypes and styles of martial arts represented in the Tekken series have a Pokemon that could be comparable in appearances and abilities.  As a fighting game fan I simply gave my own take on this idea and dug a little deeper based on my knowledge of the Tekken series, the hundreds of Pokémon that appear in the games, and the two characters we've seen in Pokkén Tournament.