For me, it’s Blaziken. I used to think this guy sucked. I preferred Sceptile and Swampert way more, and could never understand why Blaziken was so popular. I mean, I guess I understood why, but it just wasn’t for me. Something about the design just never did it for me I guess. Just felt kinda off for some reason. I even preferred Emboar over him.
It was like that for years. But more recently, it’s almost like a switch flipped suddenly, and I’ve just had this random surge of “wait a second, this dude is f*cking awesome!” out of nowhere and grown this new appreciation for Blaziken. A really cool design concept that was super well-executed: the legs are cool, the beak face is cool, the dark red color scheme blended with orange, white, and gray is cool, and the bird talon hands that shoot fire out of the forearms are probably my favorite part of the design, that for some reason never really registered in my head as being as awesome as they are.
It’s still not my favorite fire starter or Hoenn starter, but it now definitely has its seat at the table (Combusken still sucks tho).
Is there a pokemon like this for any of you?
by SensualSamuel69