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>White 2 releases
>Catch a Mold Breaker Drilbur in the Dream World
>Name him Digger Dan
>Drilbur is absolute dog shit until its level is in the 20s and it starts learning some passable moves (and I later found out that Digger Dan had 0 HP IVs)
> Fall in to a routine of sending him out, seeing "Digger Dan breaks the mold!" and then watching him get one-shot killed by everything under the sun
>Eventually became really endearing in an underdog sort of way, I kept sending Digger Dan out because I wanted to see if he could actually fucking do something useful for once
>Becomes Excadrill and instantly shoots past the rest of my team and becomes my ace
>Transferred him everywhere I could since then, and use him as my ace in my post-game teams
The ballad of Digger Dan endeared me to Drilbur so much that just looking at this dopey little asshole warms my heart a bit. There are Pokemon whose design I like better, or are more interesting to use in-game, but none of them have sentimental value like Drilbur does.
