Pokemon Guinea Pig

It may also come from marmot the japanese name for the guinea pig.

Pokemon guinea pig. Discussion and conceptualisation of the regional rodent began not long after the earliest confirmations or at least agreements on the starter pokemon designs. Capig is based on a guinea pig. Both are similar in characteristics and behavior while ground hog describes swinubs type and species quite well. For pokemon x on the 3ds a gamefaqs message board topic titled do we have a guinea pig pokemon.

Pokemon that resemble pigs. It has oval eyes a pink nose and a thick yellow stripe on its snout. Swinub also resembles the marsupial mole. Morpeko may be a combination of morph and harapeko which is japanese for hungry or starving.

Guinea pigs arent fast so they would lose speed but they are aggressive so i think it would excel in physical attack and decent special attack. Tepig is a quadruped pig like pokemon that is primarily orange. Swinubs size and appearance seem to be based on a mix of a peruvian guinea pig and a wild boar piglet. It may also be based on wordplay of the groundhog.

The abilities it could have is static fur coat because of their tuffs of fur and maybe analytic since they can remember complex pathways and such.