First of all sorry for the long wait. I needed to wait until my red-nose came off. To make up for lost time, we’ll be looking at the next 10 Pokemon in 2 blogs today! Anyway, to start off today’s Pokemon, we have a Pokemon, who in theory, was supposedly going to Metapod’s evolution until it didn’t happen. Regardless, anything redeeming it had in looks, whether it evolved from Venonat or not, disappeared when it became whatever this is. Also, being Bug and Poison, its STAB that is supereffective against Psychic-types, the typing that was overpowered in Gen. 1, is countered by the fact that it is also weak to that type. So yeah… better luck next time, I guess.
144. Mr. Mime
We are now getting to the Pokemon that have at least ONE redeeming trait about it, at least for me anywho. Of all the Pokemon to be retconned to have the Fairy-type, he’s one of my least favorite. I just don’t really care for mimes, you actually need an Incense to hatch its pre-evolution Mime Jr. if you want to complete the Pokedex, and I just don’t use Mr. Mime at all. Most of the better Fairy-types are in other generations, such as Gardevoir. He is at least friendly-looking, and that alone keeps him from being any lower, not that it’s much of a consolation.
143. Exeggutor
Just like the Koffing/Weezing flops, this evolution of Exeggcute wasn’t much higher than Exeggcute anyway. About the only thing positive I can say about it is I do like its cry, strangely enough. Everything else about it is a no to me.
142. Gloom
It may not look it at first glance, but there IS a decent-sized gap between Gloom and Exeggutor. I do like that it can either evolve into a Vileplume or Bellossom, but mainly Gloom rounds out the Bottom 10 almost entirely because it looks so depressed all the time! I get that its name is “Gloom”, but it still glooms me that I have to look at Gloom’s overall………. gloominess when I look at this Pokemon.
141. Weedle
Weedle’s cute and all, but that’s about all it has going for it. This or Caterpie was the first Pokemon for many people that they got to evolve, but Weedle is pretty useless and just, as a whole, doesn’t really do anything for me other than evolve early.
