It knows exactly what’s lovable about these awesome monsters and represents it to its fullest. While still a pretty straightforward depiction of a classic T-Rex, I can’t help but love Tyrantrum. The big, bad, monstrous super-lizard everyone knows and loves. That feels like it’s been a common complaint I’ve had with Gen 6 Pokemon so far, haha. “That… but more.” It could’ve just used a bit more, y’know? The only thing setting it apart being some funky thigh-scales and a little bit of neck ruff. Tyrunt’s got its own merits of course! But it’s just a rather typical cartoon dinosaur. Which can be a dodgy process, having this fairly well-developed beastie but having to deliberately backpedal it to make room for a “baby” version of itself without just rendering it a lesser version of the evolved form. I feel like they must’ve designed Tyrantrum first and then developed a pre-evolution for it. So yeah, that’s a practice I’m loving, especially with it going into Gen 7 as well. In fact, I think out of the 5 Dragon lines in Gen 6, the closest we get to a traditional Dragon is Noivern, a bat. Though I do like that this, along with Dragalge, was more or less the start of the Dragon type really getting stretched to encompass many creatures that don’t necessarily have to be Dragons. Tyrunt is a cute, if plain baby Dino at least.

Does it live up to the hype? Maybe, a little bit. 6 Generations in, and five pairs of Fossil Pokemon later, we finally have an undeniable tyrannosaurus rex Pokemon. Well, you T-Rex fans have certainly waited long enough.

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