What do I think of who?
Heh. Sorry, couldn’t resist.
Qwilfish is, quite honestly, one of the few Pokémon I have ever just forgotten about completely. Jim and I were looking through my Pokédex on Diamond a couple of years back and we found this empty spot and just stared at for about ten minutes before admitting we had no idea what the hell was supposed to go there. I don’t know that this is entirely Qwilfish’s fault. I think it’s largely because Game Freak have a tendency to hide him. He doesn’t evolve, he’s too strong to be available early, and too weak to be useful later on, so he kinda winds up being one of those random Easter Egg Pokémon that most people only go looking for because they notice an empty space in the Pokédex and can’t figure out why.
I mean, I know he’s, like, supposedly a really good (if somewhat bizarre) Spiker/Toxic Spiker on a rain team or whatever, but is there really anyone, anyone in the world, who has an empty spot on their team and their very first thought is “Qwilfish would be awesome here”?
The sad thing is that he’s actually based on a comparatively interesting fish; it’s just that Game Freak have fallen into the typical Water-type trap of simply translating a real animal into Pokémon game mechanics and then going no further with it. I don’t think he’s actually a Pokémon based on a porcupine fish at all; I think he’s legitimately just a porcupine fish. So I suppose he wins badass points for being usable at all, right?
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