16. Popplio
The Alola region’s water-type starter is joy incarnate. Popplio is a clown sea lion, and who among us hasn’t engaged in some clownery in our lives and can’t relate to that? Yes, it will get past this clown shit one day and become an absolute goddess when it becomes Primarina, but you’ve gotta respect your performing arts roots as a clown before you become a Pokémon drag queen, and this is a wonderful place to start.
