Topic: Question about tagging pokemon

Posted under General

I know that is not allowed to tag pokemon as animal species, for example, "charizard" cannot have a "dragon" tag but can use "reptile". Or Eevee cannot have the "fox" tag, but can use "canid"

But what happens if I draw certain pokemon as an specific species, for example, changing "Lugia" design as a "wyvern" , drawing it with claws, membrane wings, etc. Would it be allowed to have the "wyvern" tag?

animalitodelbosque said:
I know that is not allowed to tag pokemon as animal species, for example, "charizard" cannot have a "dragon" tag but can use "reptile". Or Eevee cannot have the "fox" tag, but can use "canid"

Dragon is generic enough to apply to pokemon like charizard. wyvern would be acceptable when a pokemon is drawn to look like a wyvern.

animalitodelbosque said:
I know that is not allowed to tag pokemon as animal species, for example, "charizard" cannot have a "dragon" tag but can use "reptile". Or Eevee cannot have the "fox" tag, but can use "canid"

But what happens if I draw certain pokemon as an specific species, for example, changing "Lugia" design as a "wyvern" , drawing it with claws, membrane wings, etc. Would it be allowed to have the "wyvern" tag?

dragon should be a general enough term to apply to things like a Charizard.

essentially, if anything looks "close enough" to a relatively normal, non-pokémon depiction of an taxonomic group then give it that tag. from what I understand this ruling was really mostly to get people to not tag stuff like pikachu as mouse because it doesn't really look like a mouse at all, not restrict you from tagging stuff how it looks.

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