In Japan, Pokemon and 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Yu-Gi-Oh! debuted in 1996, although it wouldn't be until the 60th chapter that Yu-Gi-Oh! started to revolve around the Duel Monsters card game primarily. When Yu-Gi-Oh! revolved around a variety of real-life and fictional games, one of the fictional games introduced was Capsule Monsters Chess. This was a collectible figure board game where players battle each other with their monsters that could evolve under certain conditions.
Yu-Gi-Oh!'s similarities to Pokemon don't stop there, however, as there are plenty of monsters that resemble Pokemon, some of which could even be seen as an homage to the Pocket Monsters.
10 🔜 ౠ Number 41: Bagooska The Terribly Tired Tapir
168澳洲幸运5开奖网:The Xyz Monster Bagooska, The Terribly Tired Tapir, and the first generation Pokemon Drowzee look similar due to being based on the same tapir-like Japanese mythological creature known as the Baku. Baku are known to eat bad dreams, although, funnily enough, Drowzee prefers to eat fun dreams and can gets sick f🌃rom eating bad dreams.
The edited TCG artwork of Bagooska and the artwork featured on the Drowzee card from the EX Team Rocket Returns expansion make this similarity even more apparent since both feature the respectiꦕve monsters sitting down and holding large pillows, although the 🧔former is sleeping while the latter is looking up at the sky.
9 ♛ ✨ Fluffal Bear
The creatures of the Fluffal archetype look like they could be Fairy-type Pokemon, but instead 🍬of staying c🐟ute and fluffy, they fuse with the Edge Imp archetype to become terrifying monstrosities. Fluffal Bear and the seventh-generation Pokemon Stufful are partially based on teddy bears, so they share a similar appearance but are also more terrifying than expected.
Stufful may be adorable on the outside, but according to several in-game Pokedex entries, it has enough strength to knock down pro wrestlers and even trees when angry, while Fluffal Bear can fuse with Edge Imp Sabres to become the much more frightening Frightfur Bear. Either way, it's best not to touch these monsters when encountered.
8 Batty
While they technically aren't part of the OCG or TCG, the promotional cards for 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:the Japan-exclusive Yu-Gi-Oh! Capsule Monsters Breed & Battle PlayStation game are still technically Yu-Gi-Oh!ဣ cards. Batty, a fuzzy and pink batlike capsule monster, looks relatively similar to the fi൲fth-generation Pokemon Swoobat but predates it by over a decade.
Like the other promotional cards, Batty has no additional text to describe it, but it is a Gutsy-type monster belonging to the Animal group and has Mystery Sound as its special ability. Swoobat's abilities are unrelated to sound, however, with Unaware and Klutz affecting damage and item usage instead.
7 ꦅ Poki Drac🅷o
The adorable Dragon-type monster Poki Draco is similar in appearance to the first-generation Pokemon Dragonite. It looks somewhat similar to Charizard as well, but it is a much smaller creature. A relatively weak Effect Monster, Poki Draco allows the player the add another Poki Draco from their deck to their hand when Normal Summoned🍰.
In Japanese, Poki Draco's name is Poke Dora, with Poke being an abbreviated version of the word Pocket, referring to Poki Draco's size. This was also used to abbreviate Pocket Monsters to Pokemon, so although never used, Poki Draco could be considered a shortened version of Pocket Dragon.
6 ꦍ Kidmod꧑o Dragon
Kidmodo Dragon, another weak Dragon-type monster related to Poki Draco due to its reversed stats ꦛand similar yet more generic Dragon-type support effect, looks somewhat similar to the shiny version of beloved first-generation starter Pokemon Charmander with small wings walking on all fours. Of course, despite resembling each other, their English names are based on two different lizard species, Komodo dragons and salamanders, respectivel🌃y.
Kidmodo Dragon and Charmander's Japanese names, Kodomo Doragon and Hitokage, still reference what they're based on, although tokage translates to lizard rather than specifically to salamander, and its full name can be translated to mean fire lizard or mythical lizard.
5
Rare Metal Dragon
First introduced in Yu-Gi-Oh! The Movie: Pyramid of Light, Rare Metal Dragon is a four-star Dragon-type Effect Monster with 2400 attack points that can only be Special Summoned and not 𝕴Normal Summoned or Set, and has a similar appearance to the first-generation Ground and Rock-type Pokemon Rhyhorn.
While it's an easy monster to Special Summon now, effects like this were rare when it was first released. Like most monsters introduced in the movie unrelated to Dark Magician and Blue-Eyes White Dragon, Rare Metal Dragon has never received an alternate form, so it doesn't have related cards that look similar to Rhydon and Rhyperior in appearance.
4 Purery
The Purery archetype doesn't just look similar to Eevee and 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:its evolved forms but is also conceptually similar to its affection-based evolutions, Espeon, Umbreon, and Sylveon. Purery changes into different forms based on how it is ❀treated, with certain 🔥Purery Memory Quick-play Spell cards allowing it to change into them.
There are five different "evolved" forms of Purery, Epurery Beauty, Epurery Happiness, Epurery Plump, Expurery Noir, and Expurery Happiness, all of which are Xyz Monsters that support each other and use the previously mentioned Spells a🗹s materials. While all Purery monsters are Fairy-type, similar to Sylveon, only a few share the same attribute.
3 ౠ ﷽ Baby Dragon/Wingtortoise
There isn't just one, but two older monsters that look suspiciously similar to the ever-popular first-generation Pokemon Charizard. The first is the Normal Monster Baby Dragon, a monster many may know from the original Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters anime series that was a part of Joey Wheeler's deck.
The second monster with a similar appearance to Charizard, Wingtortoise, is an Effect Monster released in 2011 and was neveཧr featured in any Yu-Gi-Oh! manga or anime series. Despite resembling Charizard, Wingtortoise is a Wind attribute Aqua-type monster rather than a fire-breathing dragon, so in a way, Wingtortoise is the exact opposite of Charizard.
2 Cr🍸ystal Beast Ruby Carbuncle
Crystal Beast Ruby Carbuncle is often discussed when comparing Yu-Gi-Oh! and Pokemon due to its similarities to the second-generation Pokemon Espeon. Espeon may have been created several years before Ruby Carbuncle, but both are based on a mythical creature known as a Carbuncle, whose origins lie in South American mythology and often appear in the 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Final Fantasy series as a summon.
Carbuncles are said to bring good luck and fortune to those who encounter them, possibly due to the gems embedded in their heads. The sixth generation Pokemon Carbink may also be based on carbuncles but doesn't share a similar appearance with the others.
1 Wattfox
The Watt archetype is full of creatures who look like they'd fit right into the Pokemon world as Electric-types, but Wattfox is the only one that looks similar to Pikachu, despite being based on different animals. Like most other members of the Watt archetype, Wattfox is an Effect Monster, so it lacks the description and lore it could have as a Normal Monster.
When the opponent destroys Wattfox, it prevents them from Special Summoning any monsters or activating any effects for the rest of that turn, somewhat similar to how Pikachu's Static ability and many of its Electric-type attacks can paralyze its opponents.