We now come to the neglected planned mascot for the series and our first proper Fairy type family with Clefairy’s little moonlit dance troupe. Honestly the concept of Clefairy being an intended mascot for the franchise is still a pretty wild concept and it feels very ill-fitting for the job compared to Pikachu, so I… Read more

Okay so this could maybe have been split into two articles but I felt it was better to write together to compare the separate evolution lines with a back and forth between them, especially since two of them are basically the exact same Pokemon, so strap in for a longer one. Maybe I’m just getting… Read more

Another of Kanto’s forgotten few and our first of many pure Poison types in Generation 1, Ekans is a fairly simple, archetypal snake design. For what it’s worth, I really like the strong gold and purple colour scheme, and the absence of teeth due to it being based on snakes that just consume eggs whole… Read more

So the Fearow family is the first of only a small handful of Generation 1 Pokémon that doesn’t have any sorts of added bells and whistles from more recent generations, which will leave this as a shorter review than the past few. Spearow is another simple early game bird, cast as a more aggressive foil… Read more