#023 - Ekans

EKANS

IN SHOW

Jessie had an Ekans. It was her most important pokemon, and it helped define her entire character. She was the bad girl with the snake pokemon, making her intimidating and possibly even sexy to some people. And Ekans loved Jessie. At one point they were separated on the Island of Giant Pokemon and all Ekans could think about was returning to his Jessie, and when they finally were reunited it was very emotional for the both of them. Ekans only ever wanted to make Jessie happy and this was proven when he decided to evolve because Jessie wanted him to so badly.

WHY YOU WANT AN EKANS

Anyone who loves snakes will want an Ekans. There are only 2 families of snake pokemon and Ekans comprises one half of the first family. Its evolved form Arbok is hard to catch, so if you want an Arbok your best bet is to go for the fairly common Ekans. Ekans also receives a pretty good variety of moves before it levels up so it creates a good basis for the evolution. Ekans also happens to be the very first pure poison pokemon in the pokedex so it has some pretty unique strengths without the added weakness of different types, and that hadn’t been seen yet.

WHY YOU DO NOT WANT AN EKANS

Because Ekans is the first pure poison type in the pokedex you would expect him to have a pretty good selection of poison attacks to work with. You’d be wrong. By the time Ekans evolves he will only have poison sting, unless you wait until level 38 to evolve him, and poison sting is not one of the stronger poison attacks. Catching an Ekans because you hope he will have enough poison attacks to do some severe damage to an opposing type will set you up for disappointment.

IN SUMMARY

Ekans was a loyal and worthy pokemon to Jessie, and everyone was happy when it evolved, just as they would be when their own Ekans evolved. It’s not because people don’t like Ekans either, the Ekans in the television show made it so that no one would ever think poorly of an Ekans because it had just enough character to make us root for it. But Ekans was just of no use until it evolved, and when even the character in the television show that loves it above all other pokemon agrees with that statement, you know there’s a problem.