Once again, I state that I find Gen V to be an overall great collection of Pokémon but Klink and its evolutions are off-putting to those looking for reasons to start hating the franchise and call their precious Gen I the best ever. Klink, Klang, Klinklang (just like Woobat/Swoobat) are Gen V's answer to Magnemite and its evolutions. It is a fairly useable Pokémon. I did have one in my party for some time but at first glance you had to wonder "why gearsit's nothing but gears". It's not that players are uncomfortable with a random object being a Pokémon. I mean, Magnetmite was a magnet after all. Inspiration comes from everywhere. But it's the fact that Klink and company have no features that make it anything more than floating versions of something found on a garage floor. There's a slight effort to give it facial features and some life but it gets lost in its rotating movement, thus it looks like no time was put into giving this Pokémon an identity. As more Pokémon are added and those who grew up with each generation grow attached to the one before, fans can be increasingly cynical to new additions no matter what. Klink & company are the sort of Pokémon that give those cynics a sort of justification.
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