Weird Pokemon are awesome.
So, I was talking to my Pogofag friend who never actually played a real game in his life, right? And I start talking about how I can't wait until they add more Gens of Pokemon, and I show him some of the usual suspects (Vanilluxe, Garbodor, Klefki, etc.) just to trigger his genwunner faggotry and drink his tears. To my surprise, he replied with. "That's awesome! I was never much into it before, so they all look weird to me."... I began to wonder. I was that dude in gen 1 who picked Bulbasaur. Bulbasaur is, undoubtedly, the least popular Kanto starter. But old #1 himself, I think was hiding the secret to Pokemon itself. Notice we never hear this crap coming from Japan, right? "A sword Pokemon? They're really running out of ideas!" Is something only we say. "OMG, a sandcastle? Really?" Bulbasaur's Jap name translates to something like "strange isn't it?" Right? So Japanese players know not to be surprised when weird shit starts showing up. It's built in. Start of the Pokedex. But no, "I don't want a weird Pokemon! This one turns into a dragon!" How many Fakemon have you seen that are just generic fucking anime animals. Nothing strange. Pokemon=/= Elemental animals. It's more than that. It's full of Klinklang and Voltorb and Bruxish. I'm not condemning the cool Pokemon or the cute Pokemon or the tough Pokemon, because we need diversity, that's what makes this world great, and lived in, and if I wanted them all to be bizarro monster shits I could play Yokai, but FUCK am I tired of assholes taking one look at a Pokemon and shitting on it without even so much as reading it's Dex/lore/backstory, which is essentially the other half of the "design" they will claim to hate. So stand up, my friends. Stand up for the chandeliers and the teddy bears. Stand up for the trash bags and the ice cream cones. Stand up for the magnets and cherries. Stand up for the plainly designed, and the intricate. Stand up for what makes Pokemon great.
