Board Thread:Pokemon Arena X- CAMP/@comment-4148296-20140330225447/@comment-5537612-20140401140130

I'm sorry to say, but the design is bad. It really looks like you just went and gave Gallade the super-awesome-saiyan-stuff treatment and stuck bits to it to make it look powerful, while at the same time not actually making it look more powerful. Only the limbs have changed as far as I can tell, and the feet have undergone really odd changes with no rhyme or reason to it.

About the arm scythes. I always found the elbow sword design for Gallade weird, because good luck cutting things with your elbow. There is a reason why swords are not stuck to your arms and why the tonfa (a weapon) can swing out, so that you can actually reach your target with the weapon. But alright, I can take it.

However, adding these kind of giant cresent blades to it doesn't really make it better. It looks really awkwardly clumsy, and Gallade doesn't seem to be able to profit from the change. The extra blades that the arms can apparently grow are not all that useful either, and look really bad on it as well. Not to mention that it doesn't benefit from the fact that they are scythes, which are useful in combat for being unpredictable and hitting people behind their shields.

I'd have gone for a different design. To give you a random example, extend the arm blade on one arm (primarily over the hand itself, to give it longer reach), and change the other blade into a buckler. Give it a red spike to go with the design. Extend the 'helmet' over Gallade's eyes, give it eyeholes. Add greyish teal shoulderguards.