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Hippowdon >> Sandslash >> Donphan >>> Sandaconda > Marowak > Mudsdale >>>>>>>>> Dugtrio

Hippowdon is one of my favourites, full stop. I love the design and I used one on a sand team back in gen 4 because everyone and their dog was using Tyranitar and I wanted to be cool. Sandslash is pretty great too, but the rest are kinda meh. Big fan of ground types but I'm here for the dual typings. The mono-grounds are fairly brown and bland, like everyone else said.

I like most gen 1 designs well enough and there's not a lot of shockers, but there's something which constantly pisses me off about how uncreative Dugtrio and a few other evolutions (specifically Magneton and Dodrio) are. Magneton I can kinda understand because it works thematically? But Dugtrio is the most bland and uninspired design ever, probably in my top ten least favourite mons. Why exactly did there need to be three separate lines with their evolution basically being "stage one but now with more heads!"

Stuff like Vanillish and Deino I get (and the latter has a great design which actually changes very notably between evos!), and with Magneton it's at least thematically appropriate. But why would you take what is already possibly the simplest design in the entire series and think "let's just add two more and call it a day"?