Pokémon Sword And Shield Will Have A Dog With A Sword And People Are Flipping Out

— Míkey @ buff stuff (@vashperado) June 5, 2019

At Wednesday’s Pokémon Direct presentation, Nintendo revealed the new Gen 8 Pokémon coming to Pokémon Sword and Pokémon Shield for the Nintendo Switch. In addition to the new pocket monsters, they also announced a new battle mechanic, Dynamax. The move — which makes your Pokémon grow to enormous size — can only be used once per battle and lasts for three turns. Rather than list off all of the dry details of Wednesday’s presentation, let’s just laugh at jokes instead.

The new dog-like legendary characters Zamazenta (shield dog!) and Zacian (sword dog!) were the subjects of most of the humor, with people continuing the long-standing tradition of giving them new, more literal names:

— Alex Hirsch (@_AlexHirsch) June 5, 2019

But more importantly, there’s a dog with a sword in its mouth. Shut down everything.

— Tesseract³ (@pandagunbuster) June 5, 2019

The legendaries in Pokemon Sword and Shield without spoilers: pic.twitter.com/hTzTErcE4v

— ポケットモンスター (@PokeSchool) June 5, 2019

the new pokemon legendaries look sick tho pic.twitter.com/fvrd80Puie

— Hard Drive (@HardDriveMag) June 5, 2019

AW MAN, I can't wait! Such good doggos! #pokemon #PokemonSwordandShield pic.twitter.com/z8FX3HaQI2

— Wood // Beatemups (@BeatemupsWood) June 5, 2019

cant decide my fav legendary pic.twitter.com/Gkjys2HTqu

— CJ (@cjsonmyfeet) June 5, 2019

Literally first thing that came to mind with this Pokemon #PokemonSword pic.twitter.com/xMvzofCJGh

— Javier Flores (@Javigameboy) June 5, 2019

[pokemon spoilers]

ive been obsessed with this thing all day pic.twitter.com/5T0zdiDmIx

— Sunni Allen (@KingNeroche) June 6, 2019

SWORD DOGGO NO! #PokemonSwordandShield #PokemonSwordShield #PokemonDirect #Pokemon #Zacian #PokemonSwSh pic.twitter.com/8jdSQGNtQc

— ✨Whit✨-ウィトリー (@LadyKubu59) June 5, 2019

WHAT DO YOU HAVE pic.twitter.com/iUP19nSXGY

— shan m. (@heyshanmurphy) June 5, 2019

There was also an outpouring of love and fan art for Wooloo, the “friendly Pokémon that craves stability” and must be protected at all costs:

— yue @ AX G11 (@yueko__) June 5, 2019

extremely in love with this Pokémon design which is just "sheep" pic.twitter.com/IHFXkoGdCF

— Kate Gray (@hownottodraw) June 5, 2019

me too tbh pic.twitter.com/K88L3yr1PT

— Rt. Hon. Bison Sexhorn & Knuckles (@Brainmage) June 5, 2019

Just look at this absolute unit:

— Clover Bearclaw (@PlushClover) June 5, 2019

hello if you're not dynamaxing your pokemon for this sole purpose idk what you're doing in life pic.twitter.com/73hS8Q5R76

— Pokey @ SacAnime AA K06 (@PokeyPokums) June 5, 2019

Pokemon: "we put a wig on a sheep"

me: "yes good keep this energy"

— JuanPa (@jpbrammer) June 5, 2019

Pokemon twitter rn pic.twitter.com/0rKvpFTGE7

— Fjord (@__fjord) June 5, 2019

But Wooloo wasn’t the only absolute unit. Other characters were also looking swole:

— Cheese @ FURRYPINAS 2019 (@cheesedoggers) June 5, 2019

pic.twitter.com/Z4rq6hWLqu

— Lauren (StuDYING BUT SAVED BY SONIA) (@Nohri_) June 5, 2019

Corviknight won plenty of fans, although many called for a name change:

— Alex Hirsch (@_AlexHirsch) June 5, 2019

For your caw-nsidoration:#Pokemon #Corviknight pic.twitter.com/Qlp2Ak2Sbn

— RisingSunfish (@SunfishArt) June 6, 2019

People noted that this bird is not to be messed with:

— A Good Birb ✨ (@birbseeds) June 5, 2019

I didn’t know there were version exclusive birds! Apparently, in Pokémon Shield you get Corviknight, and in Pokémon Sword you get this unnamed one pic.twitter.com/n0TSN6rsKS

— Korviknight I.A. (@Kaleb_IA) June 5, 2019

this should be legendary pokemon pic.twitter.com/4vP9Orgb5f

— Jaya Ply (@Nikingply) June 5, 2019

twitter's reaction to corviknight #PokemonSwordShield #pokemon pic.twitter.com/CwQVpaCFfJ

— ommanyte (@ommanyte) June 5, 2019

People also noted Corviknight is seven feet tall (!) and basically an uber driver:

— iso (@blutgangs) June 5, 2019

corviknight in the pokemon direct in a nutshell pic.twitter.com/FbFC8mZvFq

— ⏳Corviknight Hours (@Dragonetta) June 5, 2019

Literally couldn’t sleep because I kept thinking about this for some reason#PokemonSwordandShield #PokemonDirect #Corviknight #Pokemon #Fanart pic.twitter.com/jpCxCCwbZV

— ɹǝןʎʞs (@skylerchui) June 5, 2019

Some Twitter users demonstrated psychic powers months in advance:

— Kendra‍☠️ (@kendrawcandraw) February 27, 2019

But overall, let’s be honest, it was all about sword dog:

— angela elle @ going to bed (@holosericahime) June 5, 2019

(Hat tip to Kotaku, GameSpot, and Polygon)