#009 - Blastoise

BLASTOISE

IN SHOW
Gary has a Blastoise which means he must’ve originally picked a Squirtle. I don’t remember any major fights with Gary using his Blastoise, but maybe I just have selective memory. It didn’t have a personality you could cling to anyway. There were some Blastoise shown being firefighters at one point.The only Blastoise I really remember was the episode where one had a Jigglypuff stuck in its’ gun and it was asleep for most of that episode.

WHY YOU WANT A BLASTOISE

Blastoise was the first pokemon to ever, EVER, evolve human technology. There was no explanation for it. No other pokemon had it. So while Charizard was cool because he was a giant fire breathing dragon, and Venusaur was cool because he could use solar beam, Blastoise took the cake for the water cannons built into his shell. Hydro Pump was invented for this guy, and he was really the only pokemon we could ever take seriously when using it. This was the pokemon that we wanted Ash’s Squirtle to evolve into. Could you imagine a Blastoise putting on the shades? We would have even suffered the small evolution of Wartortle if Ash could’ve had this guy on his team. Like his prior form he could learn Surf and Strength, so that’s another point for him.

WHY YOU DO NOT WANT A BLASTOISE
The guns. While many children thought it was the most amazing thing in the world, we would grow up and realize that it didn’t make sense. He showed no sign of ever needing guns in any prior forms, there was no hint or clue, and how did that kind of technology just evolve into a creature. There was no way it was all natural. No one has ever properly explained the guns on Blastoise, and I doubt anyone ever will. Another issue with Blastoise; the picture. While a lot of the pictures in the pokedex are bad Blastoise’s picture is probably something the creators want forgotten as soon as possible. It’s why in other generations he looks amazing. Because while Venusaur’s took away a lot of the intimidation factor, Blastoise’s made us downright not want to work our way up to getting one because we’d have to look at it for the rest of our lives.

IN SUMMARY

As a child, Blastoise could do no wrong. We wanted that canon toting pokemon, and we wanted him bad. He wasn’t in enough episodes and we wanted Squirtle to evolve into him. He was around long enough. He showed no inclination that he did not want to evolve. We were disappointed that he didn’t. But, if you could look away from the picture or maybe just put your finger over the screen whenever you had to go through the pokedex, he was a pretty awesome pokemon to have.