Every historian and pokemon trainer is aware that human dominance of the world can at best be described as incomplete, that there exist areas of remote wilderness where powerful wild pokemon call the shots and humans activities occur only with their permission. And yet it is still remarkable to think that one of the warlords of Ransei was not a human at all, nor even a legendary pokemon – well, not a legendary category pokemon, anyway, for an amazing number of legends have since attached themselves to that particular Kingambit.
Bisharp are social pokemon, and Kingambit always win their thrones in bloody clashes with their own number; once they do, however, their throne is usually stable. But no one could have that kind of confidence in the Ransei era, and the pokemon who went down in history as Minamoto Kingambit was no less willing than his human counterparts to invade rival domains. Nor was he any less brutal; indeed, with the famous assassin species of Bisharp providing most of his soldiers, Kingambit was if anything more willing to cut up enemies and bystanders alike. The most basic function of the Ransei state, expected by peasants from even warlords who had just conquered the place, was protection from wild pokemon, and Kingambit's massacres were seen as a special horror by the people of the time, in a way which Nobunaga's were not.
Time has a way of numbing the pain of warfare, and the sheer novelty of the phenomenon it represented has dramatically improved that Kingambit's reputation with modern audiences; it was, after all, a brutal time. Minamoto Kingambit is today remembered for his unique army composition, his brilliant, innovative strategies, and the shock of his defeat at the pillar hands of Yoshihiro Shimazu and his Conkeldurr.