I think this line got thrown out because nobody really knew what they were doing with it. The sunfish evolves into a shark, who then evolves into a gulper eel. A Steel sub-type appears, then loses all justification. They (wisely) decided to go full anglerfish with Chinchou and Lantern, then revisit the gulper eel idea later with Huntail. Who also sucked balls, but that's another story. A story you can read in my archives! No, I won't provide a link. Go search for it yourself, ya lazy kids.
anyway yeah, Grotess is a dopey idiot who seems poorly conceived in every way. I hate him extra hard for taking the place of what could have been another cool shark, and bringing down two otherwise great designs. Open that mouth extra wide and go chew rocks, asshole.
Overall: 1/10
But how do we know that this was all one evolution line? Alternatively it could've been branched.
ReplyDeleteWould be possible, that GF scrapped that branched evolution and came back to it for gorebyss/huntail in gen 3
Deleteapparently in the data, Sunmola evolves to Anchorage at level 16, and then to Grotess at level 38. No branch.
Deleteof course, maybe that itself was just a placeholder, since the whole line ended up on the cutting room floor. "hey we got a few fish pokemon ideas", "just put them together for now, we'll sort it out later, this beta has to get out the door!" sort of thing.
But it actually works pretty well... go read bogleech's review
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