POKEY MAN RANKING!!!!!!!!!!

That's right! Ranking Pokey Mons! Those things that they. uh. they probably do things. Anyway, rating them 1-10. Not actually ranking them, that would be pain and suffering. In this case, a 10 is this is the perfect beast and none shall come close to it, and a 1 is this beast is shit shit balls and its existence is a mistake. Needless to say, there will be a lot of my personal biases present within this ranking, I never promised to be an unbiased narrator when it came to pokey mans. Ratings will be based on a lot of things that I'll state when they become relevant. Anyway, from the top!

0001 - Bulbasaur

Look at that thing. Look at its stupid fucking face. I love this beast. I think bulbasaur is an excellent opening act, even if you ignore the fact that it's the logical one to open with given that it's the first in the pokedex. Anyway, it sets a good standard for what a lot of Gen 1 pokemon tend to be like in terms of theming, that being animal with some elemental stuff added onto it. In the case of bulbasaur, it's a frog with a bulb on it. Like. That's a beast alright. Solid like, 9/10.

0002 - Ivysaur

And just as bulbasaur set the theme of beast with some shit on it, Ivysaur sets the theme of the kind of iffy middle evolution that we'll see across a lot of pokemon as a whole. In the case of Ivysaur, the design is like, fine. It's the logical progression of bulbusaur, it makes sense for the evolution of the frog with a bulb to be a slightly bigger frog with an opening flower. But it still just feels like kind of a lazy design. 7/10.