Friday 23 August 2013

Worst Gen V Pokemon- #10

Surprisingly, it's.....Druddigon. Here's why. It always felt like this was kind of a showdown between Druddigon and Haxorus, as the only 2 fully-evolved dragon type pokemon (Arceus excluded,) and both coming from Unova, and if you read my June post on best Unova pokemon you'll see Haxorus at a conservative 6th. That makes Druddigon the loser, and in fact Haxorus wins in my book in virtually every way: overall stats, stat distribution, movepool, overall useability, concept and most of all design. Even its name is cooler. Druddigon kinda sounds like a stroke victim saying "Dragon." Druddigon is so heavily outclassed by Haxorus that I almost wonder why they put it in there. There are two things that could have really helped. First, it looks so much like a storybook dragon that it could have had normal/dragon typing, which would be better typing in my opinion. Second, again with it being the most like a fairytale dragon (read: unoriginal and uninspired) it could have had a storyline with the knight pokemon Escavalier, which could have been interesting. But really, Haxorus is here because I wanted to draw up the list before posting and I haven't done it yet, so Druddigon being 10th is kind of a copout but it also kinda works. 9th (as properly determined) tomorrow!

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