• polteageist (the design of this pokemon reminds me of the Portuguese tile art azulejo, and also because portugal introduced tea to england… and you know how tea went with england)
• yamask, galarian (Yamask retains its memories from before it became a Pokémon. This reminds me of a folk ritual from portugal, careto. Part of the festival symbolizes winter's end and the beginning of spring (yamask changing forms?) It is a wild and noisy festival similarly to how if someone were possessed by yamask upon wearing its mask or how aggressive yamask gets when its mask is taken away)

I think Portugal would be a pokemon researcher as common jobs people would have in Portugal relate to technology/healthcare/etc

I still haven’t researched a whole lot! Because I mostly based spain off of the 9th generation but a lot of the pokemon in that generation seem to be inspired by spain and im bummed because apparently paldea is inspired by iberia?? I wish Portugal got more representation… but i’ll keep searching