why is blaziken the hottest pokemon? i need answers
All right, let me offer my thoughts on this.
I remember when Pokémon came out. I played the original game. I felt like they made a simplified, sanetized version of Final Fantasy, essentially copying the mechanics of the Veldt from Final Fantasy VI and turning it into an entire game. I also saw episodes of the anime on TV periodically after school. I never watched it day in, day out. Furthermore, once I got to, I'd say, graduate school, I stopped being in a place where the TV would be on with Pokémon coming on every so often. I also didn't play any of the games until my daughter was born in 2015. So I missed a lot of Pokémon lore, getting it only through osmosis while doing other things.
My daughter is a big fan of Pokémon. This is largely my doing, as we play Pokémon games together (Sword and Shield, Violet, Arceus, Let's Go, Pokémon GO, Unite, a few others). She's found the anime, and she's watched all of it. Because of how much she watches it, I come in and see an episode (or part of one) every so often. I by no means have seen entire seasons, but I do know the main characters, what's happening each season, what game it's associated with, etc.
I'd seen a few episodes with May and the Pokémon coordinators, so I knew what that was about. I knew her first pokémon was Torchic. I saw pieces of episodes with him. Then pretty soon the Torchic was Combusken, which is easily one of the ugliest evolutions of a pokemon ever. I mean, look at this sin:
I mean, after this cute little guy?!
So anyway, due to the way I come across these episodes of Pokémon, I never expect to see anything specific. Like, I never saw the episode where Torchic evolved into Combusken. It's to be expected. Consequently, I never expected to see the episode wher Combusken evolved into Blaziken.
It's a tense battle between Combusken and some heel pokémon, and May is coaching him, coaxing him to give his all, and suddenly, Combusken evolves.
Tumblr. I was not able to find a screen shot of the scene, but there is a moment where Blaziken is standing in front of May, chest heaving, looking like fucking this:
In particular, we get a nice good shot of this masterpiece:
And like...it is not subtle. "Did you put your name in the goblet of fire" is subtle. This was not.
I'm not even going to pretend to understand why Blaziken is basically this:
But I know it was intentional. Someone at Pokémon HQ said, "We're losing the furries! We've got to do SOMETHING to get 'em back!" And thus Blaziken was born.
Be VERY careful when you google images of Blaziken. I can speak from some experience, as I was just trying to find a screen shot of the scene in question, and so had to do a fair bit of googling. The hole is deep. The hole is dark. Enter and you may never see the light of day again.
I'm sorry I can't be of more help, anon.
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