>Oshawott was mocked, turned out to be a badass samurai Pokemon
>Mudkip was mocked, became a meme and became a badass fighting fish
>Piplup was mocked, turned into fucking Empoleon
>Froakie was mocked, turned out to be the best of all the gen 6 starters + turned into the super cool ninja frog we know and love
>Popplio is being mocked right now
Fight me, owl/catfags
Mudkip was mocked where?
>>26427661
None of these are true
>oshawott was mocked, only to turn out to be the single worst designed pokemon in the franchise
FTFY
>>26427661
>>Oshawott was mocked, turned out to be a badass samurai Pokemon
Nope. Samurott's design is even worse than Oshawott's. The rest are just flat out untrue. People loved Piplup and Froakie when they were revealed.
I still can't believe that there were people who didn't love Froakie from day 1. It looks so much better than ear hair fox and cliched cute thing in green.
Also, what >>26427673 said, Mudkip was always top choice in gen 3.also Samurott sucks.
stop with the popplio memes
>>26427661
>badass samurai
Fuck off.
>Mudkip was mocked before the shitty meme
>Piplup was mocked before the anime
Literally when? Hell, Piplup was pretty leaps and bounds the most popular Sinnoh starter in the DP pre-release days.
>>26427661
>Oshawott, Piplup, Mudkip
>mocked
we call this a strawman, im pretty sure
Meanwhile, fire starters have more porn than any other starter type, are they even trying?
>became a meme
>this is somehow a good thing
![2917485-7472408189-14031[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/BWjJoCC.jpg "2917485-7472408189-14031[1].jpg")
>poppliofag trying to revise history to make his shit starter look good
>Mudkip, Piplup and Froakie
>mocked
>>26427712
>Mudkip was always top choice in gen 3
Torchic is the most popular of the Hoenn starters though.
>>26427661
>Mudkip was mocked
>badass fighting fish
>OP was dropped
>>26427661
Don't compare based Mudkip and Piplup to the designated shitting seal that is Pooplio.
Also Samurott sucks.
>>26427661
>Squirtle was never mocked
>Tododile was never mocked
>Mudkip was never mocked
>Piplup was never mocked
>Oshwott was mocked, turned into a goofy sea lion thing
>Froakie was never mocked
>Popplio was mocked, ???
>>26427723
Oh and I didn't even read the Froakie part because I was so fed up with OP's bullshit, it was never mocked, or the least popular Kalos starter like some say.I like Popplio, but man does it have shit fans. It's like trying to like Gen 5 games.
>>26427661
>Swampert
>badass
It's the ugliest starter to date aside from Delphox.
>oshawott was mocked
>dewott was cool
>artist block literally ruined the oshawott line
>>26427661
Froakie was literally the most popular of the Kalos starters since the beginning you bloody contrarian scum.
>>26427661
>Tumblr
Well that makes sense
>>26427845
>>26427661
>mudkip was mocked
>implying anyone on /vp/ was around for gen 3 leaks
I don't want Popplio to be "badass" at all, I want it to be cute and goofy
>>26427879
swampert is ugly its cool but its definetly not beautifull
>>26427869
Nah, Fennekin was for some reason. I still remember all the shitty fanart pixiv shat out on that day.
>>26427927
Swampert is majestic
>>26427993
Marshtomp and Swampert are pretty significant downgrades from Mudkip IMO
>mfw any thread defending Popplio gets swarmed with hate
>mfw op is likely master trole
>>26427924
So you want it to be shit. Good to know.
>>26428028
Only Marshtomp is
Pert is literally senior Mudkip, being quadruped and stuff
>>26428048
No, I want it to be good and unique, there are no intentionally "cute" final stages. Everyone wanting yet another "badass" starter are the ones who want it to be shit and boring.
>>26427698
Kek
This
>>26427661
>mudkip mocked
looks like someone's trying to look older than their age
>>26428055
Mudkips evo is so silly and adorable Especially swampert
>>26428083
Cute is okay for basic stage pokemon, but cute on final evos is just vomit inducing.
>>26427661
It's actually pretty even
see
>>26425573
>>26427661
I love poppliofag tears.
>>26427698
>>26427700
>>26427712
>>26427719
>>26427806
>Samurott isn't badass
>Literally an ocean's equivalent of an armored warrior that posses massive swords from it's shell armor and intimidation factor from its cry(stated from the pokedex)
No matter how much you faggots deny this, Samurott is one of those pokemon that is OBJECTIVELY badass by flavor. NOT by aesthetics(because that is subjective).
>>26427813
It looks nothing like sea lion though. It even lacks the body functionality to be a considered a pinniped.
>>26427851
Samurott saved the line though. Fuck off for wishing that Oshawott would end up as complete furbait. What it really needs is Shell Smash to be worth using as it was clearly designed to use this move but GameFreak decided to make it suck balls.
>>26428263
Samurott IS FUCKING MAJESTIC AS FUCK!
I happen to like all the starters. I hope they all blow our minds on how they look and strength.
Agree with all of this except for froakie, X and Y didn't have a very good...starters
>Fennekin flashback,jpg
>>26427700
But Dewott looks great imo. This makes me even moer angry at that water horse design
>>26427661
This is why I'm waiting to see what their final forms look like. I like Litten, but after what happened to Fennekin I'm nervous for it.
Mudkip wasn't mocked until the meme that came years later, Piplup was never mocked at all, and neither was Froakie. In gen 4 Chimchar was the mocked starter because it was a monkey with fire coming out of its ass, and in Gen 6 it was Chespin for being a Oshawott re-skin.
>>26428489
Dewott is a good design on its own, but is a very badly designed middle stage. A middle stage that fails to bridge the transition to the final stage is fucking unacceptable.
>that water horse design
Are you fucking blind? Its literally an armored otter samurai.
>>26428263
It's a quadrupedal swordsman. And even if it fights underwater, the sheaths for its swords shouldn't be on its shoulders.
>>26428263
Shell smash wouldn't make sense desu senpai
The only shells on its body are its weapons
>>26428663
>Dewott is a good design on its own, but is a very badly designed middle stage. A middle stage that fails to bridge the transition to the final stage is fucking unacceptable.
That's because its evolution is so drastic that I don't know why did they decide to leave it like that
Water horse was more of an insult, I'm just bitter
>>26427661
>Badass samurai pokemon
Hah. You wish
Samurott looks more like a rejected popplio evo
>>26428674
>It's a quadrupedal swordsman
Please tell me a full-fledged quadruped that is capable of pulling off shit like pic-related(WHICH ISN'T EVEN FANART). Im waiting.
>And even if it fights underwater, the sheaths for its swords shouldn't be on its shoulders.
Are you seriously implying that its a problem for a swordsman built for aquatic combat?
>>26428263
>can't even use its own swords
>>26429089
What are you talking about? It can use it's swords just fine.
>it's another "We'll ignore the fact that dewott kills the line because we wanna fuck it" episode.
>>26428263
>OBJECTIVELY badass by flavor
Oh so you mean some completel cosmetic pokedex entry that has nothing to do with its design or anything it can actually do? Good to know you have a shallow, shit opinion.
>Samurott saved the line though.
Samurott is wasted potencial: the pokemon. What could have been a badass Water/Fightig samurai in its last stage became a stupid quadraped animal. Its basic physical shape inhibits it from doing any swordfighting.
SAMUROTT RUINED ITS LINE
>>26428663
Dewott failed to bridge the transition to the final stage because it was made to turn into garbage.
>>26427661
Huh... I remember Oshawott being made fun of at the beginning and then the concensus shifted, but not so much with the others.
>>26428663
>Dewott is a good design on its own, but is a very badly designed middle stage.
>middle stages still shares traits with oshawott making it easy to see they are related to each other
>dewott failed to bridge to the final evo
>bridge to the evo that literally jump the shark with subtle hints here and there to dewott
Senpai I don't hate samuwott or anything but let's be reasonable and not blame dewott.
>>26427661
>oshawott was mocked, only to turn out to be the single worst designed pokemon in the franchise
>Mudkip wasn't mocked at all
>Piplup wasn't mocked, perfect since the very first moment
>Froakie was praised since the beginning, turned out to be the best of all the gen 6 starters
>Popplio is being mocked right now, no one will laugh when rapellio is real
Can we just agree that all Poppliofags are nothing more than contrarian edgelords and laugh at them at sight?
>>26434807
how autistic do you have to be to hate a Pokemon that much
I've got high hopes for Popplio. I've been in the watercult since day 1 so I'm keeping with tradition and genuinely like his design because it reminds me of my dog who always seems like he's trying to make others happy.
>>26427661
People only mocked Piplup's name
time to this again
>Mudkip was mocked, became a meme and became a badass fighting fish
Mudkip wasn't mocked, sure it became a meme but nobody mocked it
>Piplup was mocked, turned into fucking Empoleon
no Piplup wasn't mocked, none of the gen 4 starters were mocked (maybe chimchar line for using fire/fighting again)
>Oshawott was mocked, turned out to be a badass samurai Pokemon
yeah Oshawott was mocked but then it got a second stage that really turned alot of people around on until they saw the final stage which was just a big disappointment for mostly everybody
>Froakie was mocked, turned out to be the best of all the gen 6 starters + turned into the super cool ninja frog we know and love
Froakie wasn't mocked, none of the gen 6 starters were mocked at first and Froakie wasn't the least popular out of the three, that goes to Chespin
why do popplio fans feel the need to do this, it's really getting annoying now adays
I am just waiting for Popplio's shittier evolutions to be revealed so I can laugh at Poppliofags for believing that something unpopular could ever be good.
>>26427661
>Oshawott was mocked, turned out to be a badass samurai Pokemon
LOL. Literally no one believes that.
More like turned into a sea cow that walks on all fours.
