>>23177926The problem is that everyone on here holds on to the belief that Unova's pokemon were straight-up Kanto-2. About 5 lines are comparable, and even then thats only down to typing, stats and movepools.
If anything, Basculin are a twist on the "small fish=crap" trope in pokemon, since they're powerful as their small fish forms, and dont need to evolve.
>Magikarp, Feebas and Basculin make a pact when they're young to become stronger, shonen style>years later, Gyarados and Milotic wait patiently in a lake>Basculin arrives>"nice facelifts, fags" 
