Galvantula electroweb and3/7/2023 ![]() To deal with Ground-types, Game Freak have very kindly given Galvantula something that many other Electric Pokémon would kill for: a strong Grass attack in Energy Ball. ![]() Any Grass Pokémon that comes in trying to resist Galvantula’s electrical blasts is at risk from his powerful Bug Buzz attack. Bug/Electric is unique to Joltik and Galvantula, and the two elements work well together. Galvantula isn’t a Pokémon of particularly dramatic power, but he has two specific features that make him a unique and enjoyable Pokémon to use. Galvantula also has great artwork – he’s cool and a little creepy, as spiders should be, and his bright contrasting colours give him a bold, distinctive look – and possibly the most awesome name of any of the new Pokémon it’s subjective, I know, but I just think “Galvantula” is really fun to say! I think Joltik combines his electrical powers and insectoid traits in a much more creative way than Galvantula does, which is a shame, but I’m still happy to call Galvantula well-executed and a good effort. Moreover, unlike Joltik he has competition there’s been a spider Pokémon before, and Ariados was a nicely-executed and, yes, even somewhat creative take on “this Pokémon is a spider and does spider things.” Galvantula’s ability to spin conductive silk that shocks enemies who become tangled in it is something of an obvious move, but I like that Game Freak have gone to the trouble of giving Galvantula a signature move (Electroweb) to illustrate this power it’s exactly the sort of thing I like to complain that they should do more often. Galvantula, sadly, isn’t as interesting as Joltik in that respect: he really is just a spider who happens to have electrical powers. It’s easy to imagine Joltik being major pests and dealing with them as an important part of day-to-day life in Unova. Joltik are adaptable Pokémon too those living in urban areas, instead of clinging to large Pokémon, cluster around power sockets and other man-made sources of electricity and extract energy from those, an interesting and creative example of how wild Pokémon can react to the presence of humans. Where normal ticks drain blood from their hosts, however, Joltik drains static electricity (which doesn’t seem obviously harmful it might be more appropriate to call Joltik a symbiote, depending on whether it can provide its host any benefit – perhaps by helping it to fight attackers?). Joltik is, as his name suggests, a tick he’s a parasite who normally lives by attaching himself to much larger Pokémon. Joltik’s not just an insect that happens to have electrical powers either, which would be the lazy way of interpreting the type combination the two elements actually work together. Like Volcarona, the Pokémon I’m looking at today – Joltik and Galvantula – draw much of their uniqueness from something very simple, a new type combination: Bug/Electric. So far, I’ve also looked at the bizarre but surprisingly intriguing Crustle and the awe-inspiring solar moth, Volcarona, both fun and powerful additions to the Bug-type hive. Black and White introduced Leavanny and Scolipede, who, despite not being remarkably powerful, finally banished the unfortunate cliché of Bug-types that appear early in the game, evolve quickly, peak early, and ultimately prove useless. ![]() This has been a good year for Bug Pokémon.
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