Perfectly balanced, as all things should be.

320: Wailmer

They're just chopping the heads off sea creatures and giving them to us as Pokemon! They can't keep getting away with it!!! But for real, a whale almost felt as much a glaring omission from the past two generations as a dolphin or shark, so it's good to get one here in THE water region itself. Sorry, dolphin fans.

Wailmer is such a nice design for how simple the concept goes. It's like a whale that was the shape of a beach ball, and it sells its whaleyness perfectly with the thick fins, the ribbed chin, and the baleen smile, which is stylized to look more like a toothy grin here but we'll let it slide. The pinprick eyes also do a good job of selling the thing as large. Like, it's easy enough to look at such a chibi-ified whale like this and assume it's not that big, but the puny dots it has for eyes do a lot of work to inform that Wailmer is plenty big, actually.

mmmmmmmmmmmwwwwwwwwwwwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

321: Wailord

A meme Pokemon in the making, Wailord here is nothing but sheer goofiness in the vague shape of a whale. The former biggest-Pokemon-ever is only outsized by a kaiju-esque space alien, so we think we can give him a little slack for being one-upped recently. We feel like normally we'd be critical of the perfectly pill-shaped body, but it just adds to the comedy. Wailord is meant to resemble a blimp a bit, called the "float whale Pokemon". Wailord's casual immenseness is just sort of part of its joke, especially in the many cases across games where the guy barely fits onscreen. It COULD use a little more because it is kinda just a cartoon whale and called that a day, but Wailord's very fun for what it is.