>>43536392I am not a fan of Drizzile. I like Sobble and Inteleon, but Drizzile's design, in my opinion, has been sabotaged for forced emo wannabee and depression bullshit. Drizzile was given an emo fringe, the same stupid fringe that Gladion had, an outdated stereotype that shows how out-of-touch Game Freak's designers are to actual fringe communities. Then they deliberately soured its prominent and flashy coloration by darkening it, for no reason other than because emo = sad = dark. Sobble has bright blue skin with a sun yellow frill to show that it is cute, inviting, welcoming, and appealing to sensitive and kindhearted people. Drizzile's skin becomes dark blue, its frill becomes a purple emo fringe, the yellow parts are darkened into a diarrhea green color, and Sobble's cute, hug-me eyes are now just a black dot. It lost its cute smile and its timidity, and it became an emo stereotype. Inteleon's design is the logical progression from Sobble. It builds up on everything Sobble was, but it has a mature spy theme. Drizzile feels like the awkward middle brother between the two. Drizzile was supposed to transition Sobble into being a secret agent and a sniper; Game Freak failed to do that. Because their theme is to shock and surprise people of what a starter evolves into. That's why middle-stage starters are traditionally so different from the first stage, and why the final stage resembles the first stage but rarely resembles the middle stage. The most popular middle-stage starters are those that actually build on and are logically consistent with the first-stage, and then their design elements are changed deliberately and sensically in the final stage. Grovyle. Charmeleon. Ivysaur. Braixen. Frogadier. Bayleef. Quilava. Combusken. Dewott. But Drizzile is the most egregious example of what not to do when designing a middle starter. That's why you don't remember it, OP. Drizzile is not the logical progression from Sobble, and it does not logically lead into Inteleon.
