It should be pretty hard to screw up a scorpion, but Gamefreak managed it. his claws are ridiculously tiny, and the exact same as his tail. In fact, it looks like his tail is just another arm! That's like the OPPOSITE of what a scorpion is all about, they are 50% curled stinger tail, 50% pincer claws. Drapion messed up with both of those.
Besides that, it looks horribly unbalanced, like it should fall on its face at any second. Because for some reason it has an elongated neck/torso, balanced only by stubbly little legs. Then its mandibles turned into a mustache? Growing from the inside of the mouth? what in the actual hell happened here.
It looks too jiggity and jaggedy to be cool, and the cute accordion-fold tail, when applied to the whole damn body, is ridiculous. But to make it even worse: It drops the Bug typing when it evolves. That's the worst thing. Isn't it ostensible a scorpion, a bug? It evolves from a Bug/Poison, but it becomes Poison/Dark. It's misleading and frustrating, because X-Scissor and whatever suddenly doesn't get STAB anymore. I hate that sort of thing.
Drapion is a confused purple scrapheap of a Pokemon that makes me sick with scorn.
Overall: 1/10
i liked Drapion when Paul used it in the anime, its poison strategy really fucked with Ash's team.
ReplyDeletebut yeah, from an objective viewpoint he's a disappointment.
just realized, wtf why are it's arms on its head?!
ReplyDeleteA scorpion isn't a bug. It's an arachnid. ;)
ReplyDeleteIt still sucks.
aren't arachnid insects?
ReplyDeleteNo, they are arachnids. Google the difference.
ReplyDeleteWell in the Pokemon world the 'bug type' is really anything that can be considered 'creepy crawlies' in our world, spiders like Spinarak and Galvantula are considered 'bugs', even when they are not insects in our world. Gen 5 has millipedes as 'bugs'.
ReplyDeleteIt's a puzzle scorpion from One Piece.
ReplyDeleteFun fact: Pokemon 'spiders' like Spinarak and Gavantula have 6 legs, not 8 like Earth arachnids.
ReplyDeleteI like Drapion's typing and battle power, but its arm-face design is unbalanced and messed up. I try to like it..