80. Mawile
Originally Nominated by: GTM
First Appeared in: Pokemon Ruby/Sapphire
Gen 3 Ranking: 15/20
Fun Fact: Mawile was mistakenly called "Mawhile" in the US Ruby Pokedex entry, but it was fixed in other English releases.
I hope I'm not the only one, but it took me forever to figure out what the hell was going on with this
In the original sprites, for some reason my brain couldn't connect that it was facing away from me. The enhanced graphics in the DS games has done wonders for it's looks and I definitely like it more than I did when I first saw it. It's also kind of cool that it was the only non-legendary pure steel type pokemon until Gen 5 when the Klink family was introduced. Unfortunately for Mawile, it kind of got the Farfetch'd treatment. A pokemon with no evolutionary family, crap stats, and overall nothing (as far as I know of) that makes it stand out in battle. It's a shame because I kind of like the design and it could go places if they gave it a chance, but it's not getting that opportunity. I suppose it's just as well though, as an evolution of it would probably just be something stupid like giving it TWO BIG MOUTHS! I'd much rather it stay in "kind of cool but I never see it in battle" status than "I hate this thing and see it every other battle because it's got good stats/moves" status--
"I won't tolerate people who have different ideas." -Team Plasma Grunt
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