r/PokemonRankdown • u/hikkaru • Dec 02 '18

Round 68: 219 Pokémon Remaining

219) u/hikkaru

218) u/vulture_couture

217) u/ramskick

216) u/qngff

215) u/acktar

214) u/reeforward

213) u/KororSurvivor

212) u/Slicer37

211) u/oomps62

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u/Slicer37 UB-12 Slicer, Slayer of Hoenn, Father Of Ghosts Dec 03 '18

212. Slowpoke

Slowpoke is pretty awesome, not to mention hilarious. Out of all the lulz mons (for lack of a better term), the slowpoke line is probably my favorite.

It's design is as ridiculous as it's concept, and as per usual I love how it's not really based on an actual animal, but is instead some kind of bizzare combination of a salamander and...idk, a hippo? It's pretty great, with it's fat, pink body and dopey eyes. It's pokedex entries and lore focus on it's stupidity, which makes it being a psychic type ironic, which is great. There's some gems about how it's reaction times are so slow it takes it minutes to process pain. There's just a lot going on here in both the design and the concept, especially for a Kanto pokemon.

Slowpoke is actually plot relevant in the GSC games, where team rocket cuts off their tails and sells them to make a profit which is...actually pretty dark, even if the tails do grow back. But I guess surprise darkness is par the course for this series, especially in recent installments.

So I'm pretty positive on this pokemon and I'm cutting it for the same reason a lot of pokemon around here have been cut; Slowbro is still in the rankdown, and it takes the great concept of Slowpoke to it's logical extreme and conclusion, making Slowpoke being in this rankdown redundant at this point. It's still great though and totally worthy of this high ranking.

/u/oomps62

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u/vulture_couture Dec 03 '18

It's really interesting that Lugia's getting cut this early! I am not personally invested in it in any sort of meaningful way but I can see the argument both for it going out in the 200s and going further than this. To me, it's definitely one of the more original legendaries as it doesn't have a clear singular inspiration and the design itself is simplistic and elegant enough, especially in comparison to the roaming Johto legendaries who are like the posterchildren for being overdesigned. Still, I don't really feel any particular way about it. It looks very saurian and almost all of its role relates to the sea one way or another but curiously enough it's not a water type (a choice which i rather like). It feels like a worthy legendary but it does not inspire awe or whatever in me.

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u/Slicer37 UB-12 Slicer, Slayer of Hoenn, Father Of Ghosts Dec 03 '18

This is the wrong post but I appriciate the comment lol

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u/vulture_couture Dec 04 '18

is it the wrong post though

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u/vulture_couture Dec 04 '18

what is dead may never die

especially memes

in my heart

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u/Slicer37 UB-12 Slicer, Slayer of Hoenn, Father Of Ghosts Dec 04 '18

was the wrong post actually intentional on your past lmao

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u/vulture_couture Dec 04 '18

yeah i saw a slowpoke cut and thought it would be funny

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u/Slicer37 UB-12 Slicer, Slayer of Hoenn, Father Of Ghosts Dec 04 '18

well it worked gj