Pokemon Fan Art Imagines Regional Variant for Furret

Highlights

• Furret, a beloved Pokemon, has been redesigned by a fan artist with an Electric-type variant called Nayuban Form. The new design features yellow stripes resembling lightning bolts and a dark-grey fur that gives it the appearance of a thundercloud.
• Regional variants, like the Nayuban Form, have become popular among fans and inspired many unofficial Pokemon designs based on a potential future Pokemon Legends game set in the Johto region.
• While The Pokemon Company has not provided any official information on the next steps for the franchise, rumors suggest that there may be Gen 5 remakes or a sequel to Pokemon Legends: Arceus set in the Unova and Johto regions. Fans are awaiting announcements on Pokemon Day.

Fans of the Pokemon franchise continue to share incredible new creature designs of their own, with one talented member of the community showing off a whole new take on Furret, an adorable and widely beloved critter among the fanbase as a whole. Originally introduced in the Gen 2 Pokemon games, Furret is quite an iconic Normal-type Pokemon, which is a particularly common choice among players who prefer to collect their own variety of Pokemon that put cuteness before raw battle stats.

Despite its common appeal to fans, Furret has become an even more recognizable face to players all around the world thanks to the “walking Furret” meme infamous among the online Pokemon community. While Furret is obtainable in most Pokemon games, including Pokemon Scarlet and Violet, the drawback to its friendly face and fluffy appearance is its rather undesirable battle stats. Players interested in crafting stronger teams for the purposes of competitive multiplayer or otherwise have countless other critters to choose from, but some fan-made designs focus on redesigning Furret practically from the ground up.

One fan artist from the Pokemon community named Abbx has created an entirely new regional variant for Furret, which was designed for the creator’s conceptual “Pokemon Blood and Tear” titles. Furret’s “Nayuban Form” boasts a vastly different physical design when compared to the original Johtonian Furret and uses the Electric type in addition to Furret’s standard Normal type. The incorporation of the Electric type is represented in the creature’s design with bright yellow stripes representing lightning bolts and dark-gray fur, which makes this form of Furret seem like its body consists of a thundercloud. The artist even shows off a shiny version of the Pokemon, which utilizes an electric-blue color scheme instead.

Though regional variants have existed within the core series of Pokemon games since Pokemon Sun and Moon, the many Hisuian forms introduced with Pokemon Legends: Arceus often featured particularly iconic designs and colors and have helped inspire fans to come up with plenty of similar concepts as well. Many creative members of the Pokemon community have more recently shown off many unofficial Pokemon designs based on a potential future Pokemon Legends game set in the Johto region, a rumored but completely unconfirmed title.

What to Expect Next for the Pokemon Franchise

While The Pokemon Company remains tight-lipped on whatever’s next for the Pokemon franchise, circulating rumors have built up some expectations among the games’ community. Though many players have been apprehensively expectant of Gen 5 remakes over the coming years, the possibility of a sequel to the popular Pokemon Legends: Arceus is on the table as well. Current rumors heavily suggest that the next games will take players back to the Unova and Johto regions somehow, though fans will have to wait until Pokemon Day for official word on what’s to come.