Nominated by: Enoch Camas/ecksgem (Honey)
Defeatist pic:
What an explosion of colors!
I can't comprehend how anyone would like something as bland as Carracosta over Archeops honestly. Everything about Archeops is just much more unique: ability, stats, design (No but seriously, we didn't need another turtle), even the typing has been used fewer times. Oh well.
Anyway, Defeatist is easily Archeops' most interesting trick. Itemless Acrobatics from this guy at full HP is PAINFUL, put this guy as your starter and you can pretty much be sure that someone in the opponent's team will take a good chunk of damage, as long as you make a good guess.
Now, I think that I should love Archeops even more, but there's just something "off" about it, I can't say what exactly. I probably have to get used a bit more to the "snake head popping out of yellow body" thing. Don't get me wrong though, I love it overall, probably my favorite fossil yet.
Something a bit disappointing is that, for someone with so much color, Archeops' shiny form sure is lame. I mean, most of the time I wouldn't recognize it from the normal version if I wasn't paying attention.
They basically just switched the blue parts with the green parts and called it a day. Lazy.
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SuperNiceDog won the Guru contest super nicely!