Get a load o’ this man! (There is a new ghost canine Pokémon referred to as Greavard) • TechCrunch

I can not feasibly write a brand new put up on TechCrunch dot com each time a brand new Pokémon is introduced. I did skip over Bellibolt, the electrical frog Pokémon that generates energy from its massive stomach. However you recognize what’s even higher than the associate Pokémon of a VTuber gymnasium chief? Greavard. So right here we’re, writing a put up to let you know about this haunting, good boy. I promise, any editor who’s studying this, I didn’t spend greater than twenty minutes on this vital replace in know-how information.

Coming to “Pokémon Scarlet and Violet,” Greavard is sort of a cross between a Litwick (the candle Pokémon that debuted in “Pokémon Black and White”) and a bearded collie, as one Twitter person delightfully illustrated for us right here:

In different phrases, Greavard is a ghost canine. In different different phrases, in line with the Pokémon Firm, Greavard is a “lovable subsurface lurker.” That’s both a extremely nice or actually horrible Tinder bio, and I can’t determine which, so don’t blame me should you scare off your future spouse.

Why “subsurface”? Based on the video, it appears like Greavard seems within the wild like slightly candle on the bottom, submerging its physique beneath the floor — possibly the title “Greavard” is meant to mix “graveyard” and “grief,” and this ghost canine is attempting to reunite with a brand new proprietor to bathe with love? Let’s not dwell on that for too lengthy. However if you strategy the shining candle, Greavard will bounce out of the bottom whereas “letting out a spooky cry that will startle most unsuspecting folks — although it doesn’t seem to do that with ailing intent,” the Pokémon Firm says.

“Greavard has such a pleasant and affectionate persona that paying it even the slightest little bit of consideration will make it so overjoyed that it’s going to comply with Trainers wherever they go. Of all of the Pokémon residing within the Paldea area, it’s identified to be particularly simple to befriend,” the press launch reads.

However in fact, as a result of Pokédex entries are haunting and horrifying, this ghost canine has some fairly darkish undertones.

“Greavard will slowly and inadvertently soak up the life-force of these round it, so it’s finest to not play with it too a lot. What’s extra, it additionally has highly effective jaws that may shatter bones. A single chew from Greavard may be grievous—so Trainers are suggested to strategy it with warning,” it says.

I don’t know what to make of that, however I’m positively catching a Greavard who will develop into finest pals with my Lechonk. I believe he’s only a good boy who wants a stomach rub within the afterlife. He can not harm me.

“Pokémon Scarlet & Violet” will likely be launched for the Nintendo Change on November 18. We performed a sneak preview of the sport and wrote about it right here.