#003 - Venusaur

VENUSAUR

IN SHOW

May’s Bulbasaur evolved into a Venusaur. Honestly, that’s all I know about it on the show, because no other Venusaur appearance really stood out to me. Other then the giant Venusaur in the episode where Bulbasaur decided he didn’t want to evolve. It’s a pity to because I always thought Venusaur was really cool. I would like to point out though that May’s Bulbasaur was never shown as an Ivysaur which just proves my ‘Ivysaur isn’t important as an evolutionary stage’ theory, but maybe that’s just me.

REASONS WHY YOU WANT A VENUSAUR

I hate to sound like a broken record, and I know I will, but Venusaur is giant, bigger, better version of Bulbasaur that can also use solar beam. Solar beam is one of the most ICONIC moves in Pokemon history and it was designed purely for this pokemon. I mean the pokedex literally states ‘The plant blooms when it is absorbing solar energy. It stays on the move to seek sunlight.’ And the yellow version takes it one step further but talking about how it uses the energy it absorbs. In a beam. A solar beam.

REASONS WHY YOU DO NOT WANT A VENUSAUR

The problem with the first generation of pokemon games was that a lot of the pictures of the pokemon sucked, and one of the pokemon families that had it the worst was the Bulbasaur family and poor Venusaur was no exception. He looked better in Red and Blue then he ever would in the Japanese versions, but it wasn’t much better. Everything about that picture is wrong, poor guy he looks like what your grandfather might if he were a plant. He looks like he needs dentures. And then you might lose to a much better looking Charizard and how could the embarrassment levels get any higher?

IN SUMMARY

Venusaur the pokemon was badass. He was intimidating, as all three of the final evolutions of starters were, but he lost his power in the game as he looked like an old man trying to be scary. I’m sorry Grandpa, but it doesn’t matter how many times you jump out of the closet and say ‘Boo’ you are not as scary as you think you are. But you have to scream anyway and pretend to be impressed because otherwise you’ll hurt the poor thing’s feelings or he’ll leave you out of his will. But replace ‘will’ with ‘solar beam’ and ‘leave you out of it’ with ‘shoot you with a’ and that’s Venusaur. He deserved so much better.