Skitty is 98, my bad...
97. Bellossom
Originally nominated by: Murphiroth
First Appeared in:Pokemon Gold/Silver
Gen 2 Ranking: 19/20
Fun fact: Bellossom being a pure grass type pokemon, is the only pokemon that is single typed that evolves from a dual typed pokemon.
I've somehow gotten hate for all of my writeups so far, but I think this one is going to throw a few others over the edge. Overall, I'm not a fan of grass type pokemon. Being that I can't remember a first-time playthrough of any generation where I didn't have a water and elec type, having a grass type in my teams just seems like a waste of space. In fact, I don't even remember picking a grass starter until my third paythrough of any particular gen. Still, my general disliking of grass types aside, Bellossom is bad for a number of reasons. First of all, it looks nothing like Gloom. I like my pokemon evolutions to at least have some resemblance of logic without being so similar that it's just the same but bigger (I'm looking at you Octillery and Muk respectively), and I just don't get it when I look at Gloom and Bellossom. Vileplume you can see the progression clear as day, but Bellossom looks like Gloom's 5th cousin that it awkwardly meets at a family reunion and he's questioning whether or not the blood relation is too close for him to not bang her.
Which brings me to the next point, in Gen 2 only three pokemon had multiple evolutions. Of course there was Eevee who's job it was to do such a thing, and there was Tyrogue who was Gamefreak's apologetic retconing to tell you "Yes Hitmonchan and Hitmonlee are related." And then there's Gloom who... why the hell did this happen? I honestly think I'd like Bellossom a lot more if it was just a singular pokemon, not related to any others or evolved from something else entirely, but giving a pokemon like Gloom a second evolution just doesn't make sense unless they were so desperate to make Sunkern not evolve from a leaf stone and needed more than one pokemon to justify adding a whole new kind of stone. But even then why are we catering to ****ing Sunkern?
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