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Reviewing Gen. 7 Pokemon (Pikipek - Gumshoos)

Mar 23, 2017 by Icarus_Mark
Welcome back to me reviewing the Gen. 7 Pokemon!  Last time, I looked at the Starter Pokemon!  Now, I will be taking a look at the next 5 Pokemon introduced in Gen. 7!  For the link to the Starters, click link below:

http://www.tengaged.com/blog/Icarus_Mark/7941768/reviewing-gen-7-pokemon-the-starters

The first I will be looking at is Pikipek.  Now the thing about Pikipek is that, yes, it’s a cute Pokemon, but it’s Alola’s Pidgey, just like Hoothoot, Taillow, Starly, Pidove, and Fletchling were for Johto, Hoenn, Sinnoh, Unova, and Kalos respectively!  It terms of cuteness for these bird Pokemon, Flecthling is pretty hard to top, but Pikipek does a decent job challenging Fletchling for the cuteness crown.  Must be the pipsqueak size that does it for me, but it looks playful too, which is a nice plus.  That being said, you don’t really want it tagging along with Rowlet if you have nothing that can take of its weaknesses such as to Electric-type attacks.  Also, I just don’t see this cute little bird standing the test of time in memory.  Fletchling was seen at the beginning and ending of Pokemon X and Y, Pidove annoyed into an annoying mess, and Pidgey has the Kanto icon to its name.  What does Pikipek have?

Trumbeak – The middle stage evolution in the Pikipek, and while I could potentially see Pikipek evolving into this, it really takes a nosedive here.  It’s almost as if the designers took a stick and decided “Hey, let’s somehow turn this into a bird!” and what comes out is a jumbled avian facepalm that looks like it wants to attack you.  Granted, this is a middle stage Pokemon, so I GUESS I can give it a bit of a break, but it’s almost like Pikipek let itself go in this evolution!  A positive I will give out is that its attack can be useful, especially if you’re dealing with the Grass Trial and ripping Lurantis a new one.  However, after you defeat the Grass trial, you face Olivia, a Nihilego, and then an Alolan Raichu once you get to the 3rd island, and you ALSO have to deal with the Electric trial as the next trial.  Basically, once you’re done with Lurantis on Akala Island, you’re not going to get much use for Trumbeak until well after it evolves!  Needless to say, Trumbeak is wasted potential.

Toucannon – Trumbeak evolves into this much-better Pokemon, and at a rather early level too!  Now, one thing I find funny about this Pokemon is that its beak is really like a cannon!  No, really!  Its beak turned red when firing out of its mouth!  I find this hilarious when it uses moves like Bullet Seed.  Of course, it comes with its own signature move where it charges up its beak, and then any physical moves used against it will burn the opponent before it gets hard with that beak!  That’s a really good move they went for in Toucannon!  To be fair, this Pokemon should have been Fire/Flying, and tghat’s what bothersome to me about Toucannon!  That being said, I love the idea of having a toucan Pokemon despite failing to see how something that doesn't look like it's Zazu from The Lion King could evolve into this pleasant surprise.

Yungoos - And now we get to the Rattata of Gen. 7 with what is supposed to be a mongoose but is instead a rodent that is trying to hard to look hardcore.  What the flying fuck is with that facial expression!?  Well, I guess it's better than looking at Bidoof, but I still don't see how this is a good alternative.  This only time these rodents were ever cute was when it was Zigzagoon, and I even tolerated Sentret and Patrat!  Of course, I forgot about Bunnelby, which I think was the rodent for Kalos, but that's a tale for another time.  While it might not look like it snorted crack cocaine like Patrat, Yungoos is still a fail, and that's not EVEN mentioning that you can only evolve it during the day.  *epic eyeroll*  Thankfully, they're easy to kill so you can get along with your story that much quicker.

Gumshoos - Really?  Gum shoes?  THAT'S the name they went with?  I never knew that Pokemon could be named after something that literally sticks to your feet!  Oh, and to make matters worse, it looks like Donald Trump.  Now, the rodent have had decent evolutions before.  I actually began to appreciate Linoone a lot more after seeing Fries the Linoone basically be the main protagonist in an Emerald Nuzlocke I watched on Youtube, and Bibarel made for a good HM slave for those of you who bonded with Diamond/Pearl (I personally didn't get a chance to play any of the Gen. 4 games, so I don't even know why I'm bringing this up to be honest).  But what exactly does this Donald Trump wannabe bring to the table?  I mean, okay, they're the first totem you face if you're playing Sun like I did, but aside from that, it didn't do a lot to redeem itself.

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Comments

TOUCANNON IS SO GOOD < 33333333333
Also fuck Trumpmon
Sent by TheSexiestDude990,Mar 23, 2017
Yea, I can agree to all this lol
Sent by Boots22,Mar 23, 2017
Toucannon< 3 If I had a dollar for every yungoos I received on Wonder Trade, I'd be richer than Game Freak.
Sent by MickyBoomy9,Mar 23, 2017

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