• polteageist (the design of this pokemon reminds me of the Portuguese tile art azulejo, and also because portugal was the first european country to introduce tea to europe)
• yamask, galarian (Its backstory reminds me of a festival from podence called caretos. Part of the festival symbolizes winter's end and the beginning of spring (similar to yamask initially being a human). The wild and noisy atmosphere reminds me of how wild/aggressive yamask gets when it’s mask is taken away or worn by a person. For the most part, I see a similarity with the mask and sorta ancient theme it has)
• dachsbun (there is a bread from portugal called pão de deus meaning bread of god. In Nov 1755 Lisbon suffered a terrible earthquake meaning there was a shortage of food. People who lacked food went from door to door asking the owners of the house for mercy, pão por Deus à porta, hence the name. If I’ve read correctly, this has become a tradition, it’s said in the bulbapedia that dachsbun is historically treasured by farming villages)
• skeledirge (I like to think this pokemon resembles el coco, there’s a lot of variations of this but I’ll talk mostly about the ones it reminds me of. In the legends it says the coco sings lullabies warning children who disobey their parents—this pokemon also sings, and opponents, upon hearing its singing will feel warm and fulfilled inside, losing their will to battle (maybe children wanting to obey their parents so they dont get eaten?). Now they’re kinda the opposite in this part because the coco eats children who disobey their parents, and skeledirge is more of a caretaker as described by bulbapedia, but I think thats still a fun similarity no? This pokemon also has very firey elements to its design (obviously cause its a fire type) but im pointing it out because in the wikipedia it says some physical descriptions of the coca could also be a pumpkin carved with a face and a candle burning in the inside, giving an idea of a skull on fire. This is very much what the design of skeledirge looks like, with the flames spitting out of its skull-like face)
• trevenant (
• spectrier (

I think Portugal would be a pokemon researcher, mostly a reference to the age of discovery, but common jobs people would have in Portugal also relate to technology/healthcare/etc