Yeah, I’m sort of used to the idea that I don’t need to change that page very often, because anything I’m currently working on is normally on the front page anyway. It’s only in the last couple of weeks that people have started sending me two or three questions a day and swamping everything I write. If this keeps up, I may need to rethink how the whole damn blog is organised.
Shroomish and Breloom? Well, Shroomish I don’t find particularly interesting, although he does work with the decomposition aspect of mushrooms that Paras doesn’t look at, so he’s filling a niche that needed to be filled. Breloom is crazy and awesome. I don’t know how Game Freak managed to get from a little mushroom creature to a kickboxing dinosaur (or whatever he is… I suspect he may actually be intended to resemble a kangaroo, which would make sense) but I think it’s a wonderfully creative design. They haven’t just taken an animal and converted it into a Pokémon, they’ve come up with something totally new and weird. It doesn’t hurt, either, that Poison Heal is one of the best abilities gifted to any Pokémon ever, or that Spore (which, unlike Parasect, Breloom can use effectively because, again unlike Parasect, he can actually fight) makes for a brilliant combo with Focus Punch.
Pokémaniacal 