100. Huntail
Originally Nominated By: TheCodeisBosco
First Appeared in: Pokemon Ruby/Sapphire
Gen. 3 Ranking: 20
Fun Fact: If you look at Huntail and Gorebyss, their tails resemble the other's face
To be honest, if I had done a 649 ranking, Huntail wouldn't have been dead last, but it's bottom 20 material without a doubt. It's pretty ugly and it's evolution makes no sense. Granted I'm not a big IRL biology guy, so maybe there is some logic behind a clam becoming a big ugly eel, but I like my pokemon evolutions to sort of make sense. I'm probably also a tad bitter about this thing because of how difficult it was in RSE to get. I only ever played Emerald, but my pokedex stopped at 369 thanks to events, Lugia, Ho-Oh, Gen 2 Starters, Latias and Huntail(as you could only obtain the Deepseascale or Deepseatooth in the Gen 3 games). At least Latias, Ho-Oh and Lugia were legendary pokemon, so I could respect their rarity, and I could have got at least one of the gen 2 starters if I got Huntail and Latias, but Huntail is just another ugly trophy NU tier pokemon. I guess I could have transfered all my rare pokemon to FR or purchased a copy of Sapphire, but I had already played through FR three times to get Entei, Raikou, and Suicune, so I wasn't in much of a mood to spend that much time and/or money to get two pokemon I don't really like. I can respect a trophy pokemon when it's cute or useful, but when it's boxed and forgotten like Huntail, it should just be everywhere.
On a side note: what was Nintendo's infatuation with rare eelish pokemon in Gen 3. Huntail and Gorebyss were both pretty hard to get, and Milotic was an absolute chore. Couldn't they have varied it a little bit?
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