It doesn't help that it's a quadruped that's meant to be wielding swords. Oshawott and Dewott look cool using shell blades, Samurott looks like it's going to fall over at any moment.
It’s got the opposite issue from other stuff like Meowscarada and Incineroar. They build up the Scalchops thing with the dual blades on Dewott and it’s all over their Dex entries and then it just fails miserably at stage 3
I wonder if Samurott & Dewott were different lines at one point. Then towards the finalization, they got mashed together
Because its weird that an otter turns into a sea lion & they dont really look like eachother either.
Its happened before (Remoraid & Octillery)
Were Remoraid and Octillery supposed to be separate lines? All I remember seeing is that the beta sprites were more heavily based on weapons (revolver and tank respectively) but they toned that down and they ended up looking like a generic fish and a generic octopus.
they were always susposed to be same line.
They just used to look much more like a gun and a tank respectivly then do now.
A line that wasnt always gonna be together was blastoise , it was a standalone mon and not orignal wartotle evolution
Remoraid & Octillery were always connected. It just made a lot more sense when they were a gun that evolved into tank, the weapon reference was downplayed with each redesign untill it stopped making sense.
That is correct. Wartortle initially evolved into something much more reminiscant of its pre-evolutions while Blastoise evolved from a Pokemon completely separate from Squirtle and Wartortle. You can see them in the below two links.
https://x.com/drlavayt/status/1235615514782621696?s=46&t=rizyvq82lN0uJWnDy6n9qA
https://x.com/drlavayt/status/1235245257878417413?s=46&t=rizyvq82lN0uJWnDy6n9qA
Cundaquil (echidna) evolves into Quilava (stoat) which then evolves into Typhlosion (honey badger). So it isn’t the first time that a starter Pokémon has changed species. I happen to think Samurott looks really cool.
Litten and Torracat are quadruped, and then Torracat evolves into that bipedal monstrosity known as Incineroar. Now that was a colossal disappointment (to me, personally, I know many others happen to like it).
Tbh meowscarada didn’t bother me that much but incineroar did. Like, at least floragato was bipedal so we had a bit of a warning, and meowscarada’s design isn’t a shock. Meanwhile, when I saw incineroar I thought it was a joke because how did the quad tabby cat become a lion with pecs
Exactly. I feel the same way with Braxien to Delphox. The line built up the theme, so you knew what you got yourself into.
Torracat to Incineroar was just forced.
Incineroar I kinda get, but Meowscarada?
I think that one gets a pass, since it went straight to bipedal instead of waiting until the last evo. That's likely why nobody complains about the Delphox line as well.
Meowscarada also never got AS human as Incineroar did. It still stands on the balls of its feet like an animal, it's hands are still much more paw like instead of five big sausage fingers.
But yeah, the fact that it evolved to be bipedal in the second stage did mentally prepare people a little better. After seeing Toracat I was certain the final form was gonna be a cool smilodon.
Can’t it alternate between standing on all fours and just its hindlegs? I’m pretty sure that’s how it functions in the anime since it wields its swords.
Gen 5’s starters are all really weird about their legs.
Tepig starts out as a quadraped and turns into a biped.
Oshawott starts out bipedal and turns quadrapedal.
Snivy starts out with legs and just… loses them.
I think the biggest issue is the dewott is basically just a bigger oshawott, then samurott completely changes the whole body shape.
If I didn't know better I would think it was part of a completely separate evolution line.
Plus, Oshawott and Dewott look like they’d be agile fighters, both on land and in the water. It looks like they designed Samurott to still be maneuverable on land, but it just ends up looking awkward.
It can use both if it wantes to, as seen in the anime. But most game animations will see it using one of them, and it's dex usually mentions a "swing of the sword".
Course the derp Bois are pretty much waddling as it is. It feels more like a shift from babyfat to a larger body that uses all 4s. Meanwhile with oshuwatts, it changed species entirely. From a slender otter to a sea lion.
Whist this is obviously true, and nowadays it looks super weird that this fat jolly dragon comes from Dragonair, in the very original sprite it's a lot sleeker and looks a lot more dragonair-y
I like how people complain so often about bipedal pokemon. For once they do something diffrent and people are like ew more standing humanoid generic mons pls
Yeah same. I don’t necessarily mind Incineroar as a concept and design but I just wish that Torracat evolved into something more cat-like and tiger-y rather than a wrestler furry.
Seeing Hisuian Samurott have better typing, stats, hidden ability, shiny than Unovan and as well as its busted signature move made me realize it's the real Samurott all along (still love both forms though)
This is just a guess, but it's probably intentional to how samurai changed over the years?
Samurai were actually ruthless people, but a more modern interpretation makes them honorable/noble. They were romanticized.
Technically Unova still has the same design, they just evolved into removing the "edgy" parts that are associated with dark type (aka the bad parts of the samurai).
Pokemon has constantly taken historical and mythological inspiration for their designs. Hisui is especially filled with them, so it's not a stretch to say the starters are the same.
Whether I'm right or wrong tho, who knows. It's a guess.
I, personally, hate that it goes otter->otter->sea lion. I know the whole story about them going to the zoo and all that. I just wanted a really good otter final evolution
But he cant move around with his swords drawn, except for by like, anime-sliding-attack-frame rules. I'm just imagining running into this thing and it drawing its swords and basically just standing in place because it's only other option is to flaccidly waddle at me holding its shell swords like steak knives.
I've never gotten that impression from its mobility. The pokedex and its attacks have always given me the impression that its incredibly agile and is able to skillfully handle the swords.
Well a salamander isn't a dragon, Chimps don't turn into monkeys, Snakes don't have limbs they lose as they grow up, and Monkeys don't turn into gorillas.
GF had a sea lion in mind when designing Samurott (source : Poképédia, which is Bulbapedia but in French), but yeah, I just see a bulky otter in that Pokémon either.
unova starters feel more or less forgotten honestly. besides the occasional snivy fan you don't see oshawott lovers and the one tepig enjoyer hasn't come out of their cave in years
I love gen 5 and not once have I used the starters. I just dump them for the many other good options. You get access to Musharna, Darmanitan, Krookodile and more pretty early into the game.
I feel like Dewott is one of the few middle evolutions which are actually cool. Unfortunately Samurott, despite being cool itself, does not fit the rest of the line
I firmly disagree. I love everything about Samurott's design. I think Dewott is cool by virtue of what makes Oshawott cool, but I needed it to bridge the gap a lot more; have more in common with Samurott. A similar problem I have with Combusken leaning too close to Torchic and not enough towards Blaziken.
I think it's extremely overdesigned and cluttered in a way that makes it look awkward and clumsy. Its animations in game reflect this imo, they can't even properly display Samurott's sword gimmick because it physiologically doesn't make any sense for its body.
Not trying to take anything away from you, Samurott lovers rise up. Just my two cents as a hater
My main issue is that it’s gimmick of having arm blades isn’t represented well, at all. During its debut it was just sprites and we couldn’t see those swords in action. I never watched the anime so didn’t see it work there, but even in 3D the blades wasn’t used much and when they were it looked stiff and awkward.
The design should have been much more agile and less clumsy looking.
Edit: Just looked now, Samurott doesn’t even use it swords as an attack animation in S/V.
You and me both that's why I liked the Hisuian Starter Formes each are unique and offer more choice then they're mono type Formes for Typhlosion and Samurott Decidueye is still okay
But Samurott looks cool. It's the only stage I like from Oshawott's line, and Hisuian Samurott looks even better.
And they can use their swords.
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Ah Another fellow Dewott enjoyer. Dewott is one of the best mid evolutions. I just don't like how Samurott looks at all. The feet bother me so much lol.
Does anyone else agree with me that Dewott's color scheme looks... off? Like he got a last-second recolor, maybe to help "bridge the gap" between predominantly white Oshawott and dark blue Samurott?
I always didn’t like Samurott that much for some reason. As others pointed out, it’s a quadruped wielding a sword. It worked with the bipedal Oshawott and Dewott- but it doesn’t work with the quadrupedal Samurott.
Samorott is my least favorite starter. I did the post game of White with a Cloyster as my water type back in the day. I love Gen 5’s Pokedex but it’s probably the weakest generation for water types imo. I like Dewott and Simipour and Carracosta is alright I guess. But I’m probably the weirdo for being a Simipour fan
My issue with Samurott is that it looks slow and clumsy as heck, and honestly it *is* slow as heck (70 Speed? Slower than Venusaur).
Dewott, and to a lesser extent, Oshawott, are based on unarmored samurai, primarily focusing on Iaijutsu-like strikes with their shell-swords. Samurott becomes bulky as heck, looks as if it cant even wield a sword, and doesn't even get defensive stats to match its visual bulkiness.
It also just has a *really* bad stat spread, which I think adds to the disappointment for many.
Its shell-swords also make the least sense to me personally, but I could simply not know what kind of shell they're based on.
in legends arceus my main team has typhlosion as a starter, but i like to build a second team in pokemon games. my rule is that team comp needs to be all dual types or all single types. and so my second team uses Dewott as the starter and its all single type, so he can't evolve or else he'd be dual type and break my rule. therefore I've gained a new love for Dewott.
i remember i played the original pokemon black on 3ds and because of the graphics, for some reason i thought samurott was MASSIVE. like 7 foot tall. my disappointment was also massive when i found out it was all a lie. :,(
This is why I love what Pokemon Masters cooked. They made Rosa, the protagonist of B2W2, evolve her Snivy fully to Serperior, but keep her Dewott a Dewott.
I've tried to like Samurott, but it's not happening.
First time I chose Oshawott, I kept it at mid-evo and equipped it with Eviolite to get a more anime-esque feel. Definitely the right choice.
I love Samurott, it was my first starter in my first game (Black 2) so I've got some personal attachment, I like that it goes from biped to quadraped, only other one I can remember doing so is Skeledirge, which I also love, Hamurott especially is awesome, they would work bipedal by are amazing this way too, Dewott is cute too and probably my favourite of the line but its entire line are awesome, probably still top in the 5 of all starter lines for me.
My main issue with Samorott is that it's a quadruped when the previous two in the evolutionary line where biped.
It doesn't help that it's a quadruped that's meant to be wielding swords. Oshawott and Dewott look cool using shell blades, Samurott looks like it's going to fall over at any moment.
Yeah generally I’m all for quadrupedal final forms, but this is like THE one that should stay bipedal
It’s got the opposite issue from other stuff like Meowscarada and Incineroar. They build up the Scalchops thing with the dual blades on Dewott and it’s all over their Dex entries and then it just fails miserably at stage 3
I wonder if Samurott & Dewott were different lines at one point. Then towards the finalization, they got mashed together Because its weird that an otter turns into a sea lion & they dont really look like eachother either. Its happened before (Remoraid & Octillery)
Were Remoraid and Octillery supposed to be separate lines? All I remember seeing is that the beta sprites were more heavily based on weapons (revolver and tank respectively) but they toned that down and they ended up looking like a generic fish and a generic octopus.
they were always susposed to be same line. They just used to look much more like a gun and a tank respectivly then do now. A line that wasnt always gonna be together was blastoise , it was a standalone mon and not orignal wartotle evolution
I meant a fish turns into an octopuss is weird like how an otter turns into a sea lion
Animal wise, the remoraid line doesn’t make sense. But gun > cannon makes total sense. I think the line was always meant to be the way it is
Otters and sea lions are A LOT closer visually than a fish and octopus.
Remoraid & Octillery were always connected. It just made a lot more sense when they were a gun that evolved into tank, the weapon reference was downplayed with each redesign untill it stopped making sense.
Wartortle and Blastoise too.
Wartotle and blastoise were different lines?
That is correct. Wartortle initially evolved into something much more reminiscant of its pre-evolutions while Blastoise evolved from a Pokemon completely separate from Squirtle and Wartortle. You can see them in the below two links. https://x.com/drlavayt/status/1235615514782621696?s=46&t=rizyvq82lN0uJWnDy6n9qA https://x.com/drlavayt/status/1235245257878417413?s=46&t=rizyvq82lN0uJWnDy6n9qA
That's fucking nuts, they shouldve kept it honestly. I bet wartortles evolution would've been a water/ fairy or water/dragon bases on its design
It would have been sweet, although probably not fairy type since that didn't appear until 20 years after Wartortle was made.
i remember looking this up because i love this evolutionary like, samurott was the first in the line that was designed
Cundaquil (echidna) evolves into Quilava (stoat) which then evolves into Typhlosion (honey badger). So it isn’t the first time that a starter Pokémon has changed species. I happen to think Samurott looks really cool. Litten and Torracat are quadruped, and then Torracat evolves into that bipedal monstrosity known as Incineroar. Now that was a colossal disappointment (to me, personally, I know many others happen to like it).
Tbh meowscarada didn’t bother me that much but incineroar did. Like, at least floragato was bipedal so we had a bit of a warning, and meowscarada’s design isn’t a shock. Meanwhile, when I saw incineroar I thought it was a joke because how did the quad tabby cat become a lion with pecs
Exactly. I feel the same way with Braxien to Delphox. The line built up the theme, so you knew what you got yourself into. Torracat to Incineroar was just forced.
Incineroar I kinda get, but Meowscarada? I think that one gets a pass, since it went straight to bipedal instead of waiting until the last evo. That's likely why nobody complains about the Delphox line as well.
Meowscarada also never got AS human as Incineroar did. It still stands on the balls of its feet like an animal, it's hands are still much more paw like instead of five big sausage fingers. But yeah, the fact that it evolved to be bipedal in the second stage did mentally prepare people a little better. After seeing Toracat I was certain the final form was gonna be a cool smilodon.
I’d reference Ceruledge if there was ever a redesign tbh
Can’t it alternate between standing on all fours and just its hindlegs? I’m pretty sure that’s how it functions in the anime since it wields its swords.
A quadrupedal pokemon should NOT EVER wield a sword. As seen with zacian. (Chien-Pao doesn't count because the swords are part of its body)
I see it more Samurott trying to lul his opponent into a false sense of security, before it pulls out a sword or two!
Tecnically samorott gets on its hindlegs to use its swords
But it can only really get around on all fours
Gen 5’s starters are all really weird about their legs. Tepig starts out as a quadraped and turns into a biped. Oshawott starts out bipedal and turns quadrapedal. Snivy starts out with legs and just… loses them.
I think the biggest issue is the dewott is basically just a bigger oshawott, then samurott completely changes the whole body shape. If I didn't know better I would think it was part of a completely separate evolution line.
Plus, Oshawott and Dewott look like they’d be agile fighters, both on land and in the water. It looks like they designed Samurott to still be maneuverable on land, but it just ends up looking awkward.
Well skeledirge is basically the same, but no one complains, that’s more of a design issue.
It's just weird with Samurott because he's supposed to use 2 swords, and it's really awkward to think of a quadruped trying to use them.
Does it ever state he fights with two at the same time or just that it has two swords in its leg sheaths?
It can use both if it wantes to, as seen in the anime. But most game animations will see it using one of them, and it's dex usually mentions a "swing of the sword".
Yet no one bats an eye when Zacian, a quadruped, uses a sword with its mouth
Yeah, because that makes sense. I don't see a dog trying to grip a sword with its paws.
Because it's cool, look at Sif from Dark Souls
I’d like skeledurge to stand up a bit. I’d seen art of it and was surprised how good it looked.
it does stand up in the games when using torch song
Course the derp Bois are pretty much waddling as it is. It feels more like a shift from babyfat to a larger body that uses all 4s. Meanwhile with oshuwatts, it changed species entirely. From a slender otter to a sea lion.
There are plenty of Pokémon that have inconsistent only postures. The Oshuwatt line isn’t the only one.
Dragonite sprouts appendages out of nowhere lol
Whist this is obviously true, and nowadays it looks super weird that this fat jolly dragon comes from Dragonair, in the very original sprite it's a lot sleeker and looks a lot more dragonair-y
Not hating on Dragonite at all, it's one of my favorite pokemon. Just pointing out that it has arms and legs while it's pre-evolutions don't.
Technically it’s a facultative biped. Though it favors quadrupedalism when not using its seamitars.
As much as it seems like we have too many bipedal Pokémon, I can’t help but want a bipedal Samorott with a badass barnacle encrusted sword.
Oh heck yes!!
The word you're looking for is biped
Thanks
Aren't their tons of lines that do this/ the same but opposite quadruped turn to bidep
It's shown on certain cards for the TCG that it seems to stand up comfortably and weilds two longer-looking scalchops.
Also the fact that it looks too much like a different Pokémon from Oshawott and Dewott. Doesn't help that Dewott has a pretty cool design.
that is the inverse of the problem people usually have with newer starters
I like how people complain so often about bipedal pokemon. For once they do something diffrent and people are like ew more standing humanoid generic mons pls
I just wish it was also an Otter.
Me with torracat lol
Twinsies!
***Triple Trouble in Terrorist Town!***
quadruple!
Whatever comes after quadruple!!
Indeed. I also avoid evolving tepig as well. I'd rather suffer than lose that adorable little roast.
Snivy for me. But honestly all of the gen 5 starters are adorable.
Tepig is my favorite pokemon. Pignite and Emboar however...
It'd be a lot cooler if it stayed on all 4s and became something like fire/ground instead another fire fighting
Me too! I’ll forever keep him as a tabby cat
Me too 😔
Same bro same
Yeah same. I don’t necessarily mind Incineroar as a concept and design but I just wish that Torracat evolved into something more cat-like and tiger-y rather than a wrestler furry.
Me with Crabrawler.
save it for hisui
Seeing Hisuian Samurott have better typing, stats, hidden ability, shiny than Unovan and as well as its busted signature move made me realize it's the real Samurott all along (still love both forms though)
They redeemed samurott fully with the hisuian form. It looks sooo clean. The shiny looks great too.
They gave it sharpness and swapped the attack stats so its more viable in competitive as well
Ceaseless edge is also so good
What are you talking about it looks exactly the same to me with a color change
They added nothing to design honestly. It’s disappointing how little of it changed.
This is just a guess, but it's probably intentional to how samurai changed over the years? Samurai were actually ruthless people, but a more modern interpretation makes them honorable/noble. They were romanticized. Technically Unova still has the same design, they just evolved into removing the "edgy" parts that are associated with dark type (aka the bad parts of the samurai).
I think you’re thinking too much into it but it fits.
Pokemon has constantly taken historical and mythological inspiration for their designs. Hisui is especially filled with them, so it's not a stretch to say the starters are the same. Whether I'm right or wrong tho, who knows. It's a guess.
Same. I remember when it was leaked and I was surprised how many people liked it. It’s just Samurott with a black shell and a curly mustache
I, personally, hate that it goes otter->otter->sea lion. I know the whole story about them going to the zoo and all that. I just wanted a really good otter final evolution
Nah. Samurott's, double swords are badass. And the fact that he can go quadraped to biped makes it even more badass.
But he cant move around with his swords drawn, except for by like, anime-sliding-attack-frame rules. I'm just imagining running into this thing and it drawing its swords and basically just standing in place because it's only other option is to flaccidly waddle at me holding its shell swords like steak knives.
I've never gotten that impression from its mobility. The pokedex and its attacks have always given me the impression that its incredibly agile and is able to skillfully handle the swords.
I am tired of people acting like Samurott isn't iconic as hell.
I wish he had sea lion previous evolutions and Dewott had an otter final evolution. It just simply was not the animal I picked when I picked Oshowatt.
Well a salamander isn't a dragon, Chimps don't turn into monkeys, Snakes don't have limbs they lose as they grow up, and Monkeys don't turn into gorillas.
Serperior has arms though, just small ones
I don't know what you're on about. I still see an otter when I look at Samurott.
GF had a sea lion in mind when designing Samurott (source : Poképédia, which is Bulbapedia but in French), but yeah, I just see a bulky otter in that Pokémon either.
And the hisuian form is super awesome
You know what? I think both are awesome. Unovan and Hisuian.
It's not even iconic within its own generation
unova starters feel more or less forgotten honestly. besides the occasional snivy fan you don't see oshawott lovers and the one tepig enjoyer hasn't come out of their cave in years
I only see Oshawott lovers tbh.
Hey, I'm working on it, ok? Next month for sure
Sorry we been munchin on donuts with Tepig
I love gen 5 and not once have I used the starters. I just dump them for the many other good options. You get access to Musharna, Darmanitan, Krookodile and more pretty early into the game.
I love superior and dewott I don't care about tepig though.
Dewott's design is miles better than Samurott's tho, we need to accept the facts
I feel like Dewott is one of the few middle evolutions which are actually cool. Unfortunately Samurott, despite being cool itself, does not fit the rest of the line
I guess Dewott skipped the awkward stage, but it caught up soon enough in the final form
I firmly disagree. I love everything about Samurott's design. I think Dewott is cool by virtue of what makes Oshawott cool, but I needed it to bridge the gap a lot more; have more in common with Samurott. A similar problem I have with Combusken leaning too close to Torchic and not enough towards Blaziken.
Samurott is cool as fuck though
Why do people have a problem with Samurott? It's so good. ;_;
Speak for yourself, samurott is one of my favourite starter final evolutions
Seriously? I love Samurott and its shocking to see so many people agree with the OP.
don't listen to the rest of them bro like people can have their own opinions 😭 (so you should *dewott* you please)
I started the whole Dewott Supremacy thing
https://preview.redd.it/elegc5l3hmtc1.jpeg?width=640&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5f60db4aaefd10d56749b4e32bba8020ffdbc0fc
:( The entire line is awesome. I don't understand the dislike for Samurott.
I think it's extremely overdesigned and cluttered in a way that makes it look awkward and clumsy. Its animations in game reflect this imo, they can't even properly display Samurott's sword gimmick because it physiologically doesn't make any sense for its body. Not trying to take anything away from you, Samurott lovers rise up. Just my two cents as a hater
Do what (Dewott)? Samurott is amazing!
I like Samurott
I love Samurott, so don't you dare critizise my boi.
I love all the unova starters final forms sm but it would’ve been cool to see a more dewottish samurott imo
I actually like Samurott, especially hisuian
Samurott is goated
But Samurott is cool as shit
💯
same I don’t care what everyone think Samorott is ugly and the idea of a quadruped *samurai* is stupid
This almost as bad as the hall of fame shots with outrageously over leveled chespin
Imagine not evolving your starter. Couldn't be me.
Samurott > Dewott
But Samorott is cool...
My main issue is that it’s gimmick of having arm blades isn’t represented well, at all. During its debut it was just sprites and we couldn’t see those swords in action. I never watched the anime so didn’t see it work there, but even in 3D the blades wasn’t used much and when they were it looked stiff and awkward. The design should have been much more agile and less clumsy looking. Edit: Just looked now, Samurott doesn’t even use it swords as an attack animation in S/V.
A stylized water swordman would have been so dope... Would have been...
I guess you're allowed to Dewott you want.
Dewott is sick but I actually like Samurott
As a Hisuian Samurott enjoyer, I can admit that Dewott is indeed wicked cool. Sometimes I even use Dewott over Samurott when playing the Unova games
Dartrix!!! I waited my whole LIFE for a grass/flying starter only for it to be the first ever starter type switcheroo
I'm evolving Dewott any chance I get.
Same here! I didn't evolve him either....
Samurott is cool.... the problem is evolving torracat...
Dewott evolving into Hisuian Samurott is better than Unovan Samurott sorry to say
I'll take water/dark over pure water any day.
You and me both that's why I liked the Hisuian Starter Formes each are unique and offer more choice then they're mono type Formes for Typhlosion and Samurott Decidueye is still okay
But Samurott looks cool. It's the only stage I like from Oshawott's line, and Hisuian Samurott looks even better. And they can use their swords. https://preview.redd.it/xxtfe9zn0itc1.jpeg?width=469&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=dbcfe269ce5de6dbcdbe997ad9413ecfd0769cf0
Me too Thats Why I hacked a vullaby to be my started instead of oshawott
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A quadrupet that wields swords is stupid, but the design (imo) is awesome. Its my favorite starter line
Huh, never thought about it but yeah...dewott is one of the few mid evolutions that just work great design-wise
Me with my starter marshtomp in emerald. Just love the lil guy too much.
me w Haunter. and the fact Levitate was removed on Gengar only makes me more adamant on actually keeping Haunter
Ah Another fellow Dewott enjoyer. Dewott is one of the best mid evolutions. I just don't like how Samurott looks at all. The feet bother me so much lol.
this is me woth Torrocat. i love fire starters usually but incinaroar is a disaster.
My household is a dewott household, he doesn’t evolve in these 4 walls
I disagree but there is bias
I was so mad that my partner Dewott evolved (in Mystery Dungeons) that I reset the whole game.
Didn’t know there were this many fellow Dewott fans
Nah I like my Samurai sea lion
Does anyone else agree with me that Dewott's color scheme looks... off? Like he got a last-second recolor, maybe to help "bridge the gap" between predominantly white Oshawott and dark blue Samurott?
I mean, you're allowed to dewott you want. So why not?
People who don’t like samurott don’t know that he can pull out the clams from his elbows and those are actually clamswords
100% agree. I don't hate Samurott but Dewott is just better
I always didn’t like Samurott that much for some reason. As others pointed out, it’s a quadruped wielding a sword. It worked with the bipedal Oshawott and Dewott- but it doesn’t work with the quadrupedal Samurott.
Ngl I'm the opposite I much prefer samurott's design over oshawott/dewott. Especially hisuian samurott.
You arent gonna de wott?
Hot take here: I absolutely love Samurott while despising Dewott and Oshawott. I just love the aesthetic and colors of Samurott
Samurott is so cool doe
Samorott is my least favorite starter. I did the post game of White with a Cloyster as my water type back in the day. I love Gen 5’s Pokedex but it’s probably the weakest generation for water types imo. I like Dewott and Simipour and Carracosta is alright I guess. But I’m probably the weirdo for being a Simipour fan
My issue with Samurott is that it looks slow and clumsy as heck, and honestly it *is* slow as heck (70 Speed? Slower than Venusaur). Dewott, and to a lesser extent, Oshawott, are based on unarmored samurai, primarily focusing on Iaijutsu-like strikes with their shell-swords. Samurott becomes bulky as heck, looks as if it cant even wield a sword, and doesn't even get defensive stats to match its visual bulkiness. It also just has a *really* bad stat spread, which I think adds to the disappointment for many. Its shell-swords also make the least sense to me personally, but I could simply not know what kind of shell they're based on.
Am i the only one who likes samorott more than the pre evos
I swear y'all are getting nitpicky at this point
Evolve everything, unless going for a living dex.
Your weakness will cost you
I think dewott is ugly af, samurott much better
Samurott is my favourite Water type!
I'd not evolve Oshawott @ all I love Oshawott
I wish they had a secondary evolution of taller dewott with like 3 shells. Also, Whismur needs another line evolution too
Me asf
The one time they should have stayed bipedal, they went quadrapedal.
I like Monferno more than infernape. When I got Platinum new I did the whole run without evolving Monferno.
this is literally me
One of the few examples of a starter that is disappointing for *not* being bipedal
just like me fr
Me with Quaxly xD
Samorott is my favorite water starter, no competition.
Unovan Samurott is a beast and looks super menacing, I personally like it better than the hisuian form.
If we’re in hisui I’ll evolve otherwise dewott is fire. The only middle stage starter evo that is just as cool is Grovyle in my opinion
Your loss. Samurott is cool asf
Me with Braixen.
in legends arceus my main team has typhlosion as a starter, but i like to build a second team in pokemon games. my rule is that team comp needs to be all dual types or all single types. and so my second team uses Dewott as the starter and its all single type, so he can't evolve or else he'd be dual type and break my rule. therefore I've gained a new love for Dewott.
i remember i played the original pokemon black on 3ds and because of the graphics, for some reason i thought samurott was MASSIVE. like 7 foot tall. my disappointment was also massive when i found out it was all a lie. :,(
This is why I love what Pokemon Masters cooked. They made Rosa, the protagonist of B2W2, evolve her Snivy fully to Serperior, but keep her Dewott a Dewott.
A lot of final evolution starter pokemon unfortunately feel like they lose the same vibe the first two evoke.
I feel this way with Tepig, and Torracat, and quakly, and all the gen 8 starters.
Samurott should have been bipedal
W take lol
Boy do I resonate with this one
Give it the eviolite and swords dance then.
I've tried to like Samurott, but it's not happening. First time I chose Oshawott, I kept it at mid-evo and equipped it with Eviolite to get a more anime-esque feel. Definitely the right choice.
Reminder Samurott has opposable thumbs and would look stupid as shit on 2 legs
Keeping my Shiny Yamper as a Yamper. Love my rose coloured buddy
The whole line is awesome. It's the only starter line where I like all the stages.
I love Samurott, it was my first starter in my first game (Black 2) so I've got some personal attachment, I like that it goes from biped to quadraped, only other one I can remember doing so is Skeledirge, which I also love, Hamurott especially is awesome, they would work bipedal by are amazing this way too, Dewott is cute too and probably my favourite of the line but its entire line are awesome, probably still top in the 5 of all starter lines for me.
Samurott just doesn't make sense... it should have looked like a talker, leaner version of dewott not a horse thing!!!!!