Gyarados

Gyarados is a Water/Flying-type Pokémon from the Pokémon series. It is the final evolution of Magikarp and has a Mega Evolution known as Mega Gyarados, and appears at #130 in both the Kanto and National Pokédexes.

Gyarados are very violent Pokémon, causing destruction in their paths for seemingly no reason. A complete contrast to their pre-evolution, Magikarp, Gyarados are both powerful and intimidating, either overpowering or scaring their foes into submission. Ships that carelessly wander into their territory are destroyed, leaving nothing but a sunken wreck.

In M.U.G.E.N, Gyarados was originally created by Cyberlizard, though Seth Lee edited his version, vastly improving the functionality of the character by fixing bugs, as well as replacing its low-res sprites with hi-res ones.

Cyberlizard's Gyarados


The original version of Gyarados is a spriteswap of N64Mario's Killer Whale character, using sprites found on The Spriters Resource. While it functions normally, it has a few graphical and palette-based errors. As Gyarados is a spriteswap of Killer Whale, it plays and sounds exactly like it.

Stats

 * Life: 1000
 * Power: 3000
 * Attack: 100
 * Defence: 150

Movelist
This character does not have any special or hyper attacks.

Seth Lee's Gyarados Edit


As an edit, the character's core gameplay mechanics remain unaltered, though certain bugs have been fixed and the character has been given a complete graphical overhaul. The murky water has been coloured a deep blue, the icon to indicate where Gyarados is is now a circle with Gyarados' eye pictured inside, the log raft is now a platform shaped like a Poké Ball, and most notably, Gyarados itself has been made hi-res. Still retained from Cyberlizard's version is the noticeable gap between the water sprite and the bottom of the screen, meaning Gyarados can be seen (and thus avoided) before it reaches the surface.

Interestingly enough, other than the second palette, Seth Lee included completely different palettes to what Cyberlizard's version had.

Stats

 * Life: 1000
 * Power: 3000
 * Attack: 100
 * Defence: 150

Movelist
This character does not have any special or hyper attacks.