Pokémon: Let's Go Pikachu/Eevee - 10 Terrible Gen 1 Pokémon You Forgot You Hated

4. Wartortle

You may or may not have been on Team Bulbasaur when you first played the Pokemon games, but we should all be able to agree that it probably has the best-designed evolution line in the series.

The little frog monster gets bigger and stronger as he levels up, and the bulb on his back opens and blooms into a large flower. It’s creative, it’s fun and more than anything it makes sense.

On the opposite end of the spectrum is the Squirtle evolutionary line.

When Squirtle evolves into Wartortle, it adds a few unique features including sharpened teeth, a wispy tail and Captain America-style wings on the side of its head. When Wartortle evolves into Blastoise, however, all three of those things disappear as water cannons pop out of either shoulder.

The complete change in direction between those two makes it easy to wonder if something weird happened during the design process. Was Squirtle supposed to evolve directly into Blastoise? Was Blastoise originally imagined as some sort of winged turtle?

Your guess is as good as mine but either way, Wartortle just plain doesn’t look or feel like a proper middleground between the other two forms.