WHIRLPOOL
+3 Kabutops
+2 Eevee
+1 Palossand
-1 Elekid
-2 Gorebyss
-3 Castform
I think Kabutops is cooler but I can't deny eevee a +2. They clearly stumbled upon the most basically 'cute' pokemon design by accident and surprised themselves with its success.
STRING SHOT
+3 Goomy
+2 Hakamo-o
+1 Goodra
-1 Jellicent
-2 Electrike
-3 Carnivine
Goomy is the most amusing first-form pseudo. He's a slug! I'm a slug fan, they're like snails but even more pathetic, having lost their shell as step 2 in some evolutionary profit??? diagram. Now they just taste bad, and animals whose defense mechanism is being kinda gross will always have a place in my heart. Carnivine on the other hand is some knockoff Jim Henson shit.
I'm am hungry I want some lasaga