#028 - Sandslash

SANDSLASH

IN SHOW
Sandslash was another background pokemon, one that was often seen in the background while the heroes were walking by to show the peaceful pokemon world, or one show as an opponent’s pokemon or in a flash of a pokemon battle. The most memorable Sandslash, for me anyways, was the Sandslash that was stuck in an Onix. Somehow the poor animal had gotten lodged in their causing pain for everyone involved and a truly terrifying Onix.

WHY YOU WANT A SANDSLASH

Sandslash was definitely a step up from Sandshrew, at least in the looks department. It was much more intimidating in its picture and you could actually see how your cute little Sandshrew could actually become your tough and scary Sandslash. The pokedex picture was actually pretty good, it definitely looked like a Sandslash, though Yellow’s picture was much better.

WHY YOU DO NOT WANT A SANDSLASH

Sandslash has an identical move set to Sandshrew, other than the strange fact that Sandslash can apparently learn Sand Attack twice, and Sandshrew actually learns the same moves faster than Sandslash! Sandshrew can even learn the exact same HM’s as Sandslash so Sandslash doesn’t even have that going for him. The poor thing.

IN SUMMARY

Sandslash literally only exists for the stat bonuses. You could actually simply keep your cute and cuddly little Sandshrew forever and never even attempt to evolve it if you don’t care about stats, or are planning on boosting them with different items, because Sandslash would bring nothing else to the table but better stats and a new hair cut. It’s true that Sandlash didn’t ever really make an impression on us in the show, but we at least assumed he would be better in some way then his pre-evolution. We were horribly, horribly wrong.