No. 400: Bibarel

you can pretend Bibarel is looking up at this sentence if you want

Firstly, let's give some credit: There has never been a beaver Pokemon before, so Bibarel has at least one iota of creativity.

The rest, however, is shit. We've got a random band around the tail, because this is Sinnoh, and we can't let a solid block of color exist for very long without slapping some pointless color on it. Then there's just something about the face, especially the area around the eyes, that pisses me off. I want to punch it. Bibarel has a punchable face.

Finally, there's the fact that this is the goddamn evolution of Bidoof, which makes it about as important as the points on Who's Line is it Anyway. The Water sub-type makes sense, I guess, but it just feels weird. If you're planning on using Bibarel as the Water-type on your team, then you have more issues than his mediocre stats.

also, I want to take a crack at the idiots who write the Name Origin section of Bulbapedia. "Its name comes from beaver or the German-language word for the animal, Biber, and barrel. It could also refer to bib, which is similar to the pattern on Bibarel's front, or a transliteration of ビーバー biibaa, beaver, in Japanese." That's what it says about Bibarel's name, which I think is giving a lot more credit to Nintendo USA for coming up with the name than they deserve, especially since it goes on to state that "Beadaru is derived from the English word beaver and 樽 taru, barrel."

See, the Japanese name is Biidaru, or Bea(ver)-barrel. The English name? Bibarel, or Bea(ver)-bar(r)el. Holy Moly, how did they ever come up with such a witty name? I think I'm going to have a heart attack and die of wittiness.


Overall: 2/10