With Pokémon X and Y now just under a month away, and the rate at which information about the 3DS block-busters is unveiled starting to rapidly pick up the pace, anticipation is beginning to reach fever pitch. Certainly is for me, at least - and from what I've seen online, I'm far from alone in this encapsulating excitement. So what better way to celebrate than with a dragged out list of my favourite Pokémon of all time? The question's rhetorical, so kindly refrain from answering and making me feel like a doofus. Top 10s are boring, right? Same goes for Top 20s. But what about Top 30s? Again, please refrain... The idea was that with one post per day, the magic number would lead me all the way right up to the games' day of release, but obviously I'm a little bit late now. All I can say is that somehow it'll work itself out. So here's the first entrant into my bloated list of Pokémon that mean something to me. For the record, this is almost purely design based and not influenced by in-game stats or anything to do with the trading card game. Besides, I was an idiot child and barely knew how to play... Anyway, here goes. Oh, and one final thing - this list contains only Pokémon from generations 1-5, so no new creatures from X and Y will feature. Thankfully, this means I won't have to rant about how Fennekin's evolved form (Braixen) is one of the most brutal murderings of an adorable animal I've ever seen. Instead I shall just weep, privately... Alas, I digress.
Ducklett
What better way to kick off proceedings on such a wet and miserable night? Ducklett is a duck; a small duck, I should add. That's all there is to him. I'm not going to sit here and lie about him - he's got to be one of the least imaginatively designed Pokémon out there. Conceivably, he could exist in the real world...and that's not really what the Pokémon franchise is all about. All things said and done, however, I don't care. It just so happens to the case that in real life, I've always had a soft spot for ducks. I've also always had a soft spot for light/turquoise/duck egg blue. So there we go, that's why this little fella waddles his way onto the back end of my top 30. Hardly a quacker (shoot me), but undeniably cute all the same. A little birdy tells me he might not be the only duck to make an appearance on this list...
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