Bogleech, Your taste in Pokemon is bad and you should feel bad.

Your taste in Pokemon is bad and you should feel bad.

I notice there’s been a “30 day Pokemon Challenge” going around, and Garbodor appears to be one of the most common choices for people’s most hated pokemon ever, with some individuals completely, well, trashing him for being “ugly” with what they feel is a “stupid” concept. Sure, we’re all entitled to our opinions, but today I’m going to tell you why, if you chose Garbodor for the worst pokemon, your opinion is dumb.

REASONS GARBODOR IS AWESOME:

1) It’s the only pokemon to evolve by ripping open, spilling out its guts, and wearing its old “skin” like a Luchador mask.

2) It gives a zombie-like impression with its blank stare and exposed “bones.” A fat, amorphous, mucky zombie.

3) Speaking of zombies, Garbodor is the only pokemon to be constantly rotting.

4) It can be interpreted as a monstrous “dust bunny” from its design and from its Japanese name, Dasutodasu, seemingly a distortion of “dust to dust.”

5) It looks like it’s constantly screaming in horror, possibly at its own unnatural existence.

6) It logically completes a trio started by Muk and Weezing. Muk is a fluid mass born from polluted water, Weezing is a bag of smog created by polluted air, and Garbodor is just good old fashioned solid refuse, the kind we pile up in landfills. It’s remarkable it took them so long to do this. Now we’ve finally got all three “realms” of contamination.

7) Monsters made of living trash are classic. They’ve been in horror movies, comics, other video games and cropped up as mascots (usually villains) for environmental campaigns. It’s not an idea gamefreak just pulled out of nowhere in desperation, but an established category of monster and perfectly reasonable for Pokemon to tackle in its special way.

8) They’re called “pocket monsters,” not froo-froo huggleboobers. Some of us out there enjoy bug-eyed, ghoulish mutants and have suffered through years of weeaboo fetish fuel like Lucario and Gardevoir. If anything, Pokemon have never been “ugly” or monstrous enough, and Garbodor is finally a step in the right direction

9) the above does not mean that Garbodor isn’t also cute. You can just as easily interpret it as a horrific, oozing abomination of nature or a goofy, stinky, misunderstood oaf. He doesn’t know he’s ugly. Why are you so mean.

10) Its game sprite is clearly laying down some phat rhymes.