I really don't hate water types. In fact, I like them quite a bit. However, there's just so many of them that there is bound to be a ton of sucky ones. Simipour is my least favorite of the Monkey trio, though I wouldn't say I particularly like any of them. They're all pretty ugly, all in the NU tier, and although you get one of them for free, the other two are low catch rate pokemon. If you're not all about catching them all, why would you even bother finding them? I understand their gimmick was to teach newbies about type advantages, which isn't a bad idea, but it's not like they routinely give us crap pokemon as starters, so why are we stuck with these crap pseudo-starters? Elemental monkeys could even be cool if you didn't give them such ugly "hair" and gave them somewhat decent stats. What's worse is that apparently either a lot of people DO like these ugly ass things, or Nintendo thought they would because every anime convention I go to has plushies of all three monkeys in a few booths. Overall, it's just a little uglier than it's fire and grass counterparts, but they're all pretty bad.
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