Feebas, Milotic (SM)

Take Magikarp, put him in a microwave for a few minutes, and you get Feebas.

Location: Fishing at Brooklet Hill.

Stats, Evolutions.
Feebas is known for being fiendishly hard to find in almost every game you can get it in. In hindsight, it's not as hard in this game, merely fishing. The problem is the odds of reeling one in. There's a 1 in 100 chance (1 in 20 if the spot is bubbling) of finding Feebas. What's more, the rod being a rod might not reel anything in at all, or it might reel in an item (who the hell thought this feature was a good idea). If you find it without pulling your hair out in frustration or giving up, you deserve a medal. Now catch the thing without it fainting, you'd deserve another medal. Feebas is horridly weak. It's relatively fast, but that's it.

But wait! It gets worse. It evolves into Milotic when you trade it with a Prism Scale. Milotic is definitely not as bad, as a matter of fact, it's about as strong as Gyarados himself, but its bass base stats have been switched around. The problem is how you obtain the Prism Scale. Either you go to some fishing spots in Ula'ula and land a Prism Scale (fat chance of that) or you go to Exeggutor Island, in the late-game. Either way, wow.

Conclusion.
Look, I know that I skipped two sections, but hear me out. If you're hard to find and hard to evolve, nothing else matters. In a bad way. You've wasted a lot of effort that you could have used to beat another trial, maybe even the whole game. Even if you somehow find a Feebas and evolve it, you have to ask yourself why you chose Feebas instead of other more readily available and easier to evolve water Pokémon. In fact, you can get Magikarp, Gyarados (SM), Dewpider, Araquanid (SM), or Wishiwashi (SM) right in Brooklet Hill and save you many a hair pull trying to find Feebas, or get Wimpod, Golisopod (SM) later on (who has a bad level up movepool and doesn't get Liquidation until level 48 but is still a good option). Bottom line: Don't try to catch and evolve Feebas unless you want to go crazy.

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