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i hear the argument "dunsparce is supposed to be a joke" a lot from people defending this turd of an evolution and i really do not i understand it in the slightest, it's mostly just baseless bullshit like the "dun" is supposed to refer to "dunce" or that the tsuchinoko is a "joke" cryptid
and in regards to it's strength, sure it sucks in competitive, but it's always been perfectly usable in single-player even in it's debut gen, where game freak most definitely had little-to-no grasp on the competitive scene, and when gen 3 came around they gave the damn thing serene grace
i've never seen anyone saying mons with lower BSTs and worse abilities than dunsparce were made by game freak as "jokes"