Hey there, sorry for the week off. Ended up being busy travelling for a few days but I’m ready to kick things back off again with another nice little family of Bug Pokemon and our first of quite a few moth Pokemon: the Venonat family. Venonat is whole other kind of juvenile bug distinct from Read more

Continuing the other day’s trend of nature being really quite grim sometimes, we move onto one of the most ominous Pokemon of the entire generation. Paras starts out an innocent enough looking design, as an orange cicada nymph with a couple of mushrooms on its back, which if you didn’t know better would just look Read more

Today’s review looks at another of Kanto’s Grass/Poison lines and one of the first branching evolution families the series introduced outside of the Eevee family, with a pretty staggering contrast between the original end result and the later introduced one. While Bulbasaur had a little legwork to do to make itself into a proper starter Read more

It’s baffling to me that 26 years on, Poison/Flying is still a unique type combination. Zubat is so ubiquitous and common in this series that it’s very easy to forget that fact since it’s not like it “feels” unique when the type combination can be acquired in almost every game. Nevertheless, it remains unique to Read more

Onto another family of Pokemon that had a Baby Pokemon crudely sellotaped onto it, Jigglypuff’s family is very much a mirror of Clefairy’s in many way, right down to being a much bigger deal in early Pokemon than it is nowadays and both evolving via Moon Stone. Unfortunately, one of the ways in which it’s Read more