And this time, he's in the mood!

390: Chimchar

We don't have anything against Chimchar, but nothing tickling our fancy is striking us. We can enjoy a funny cartoon monkey, but even as much as we're kinda ambivalent about Aipom, it feels like a better execution of being a cartoon monkey. Chimchar is a little more grounded and resembling an actual chimp, if that's your thing, but eh. It's just a monkey that happens to be on fire.

Well, except for the fact that specifically, its butt is on fire. That's funny enough on concept alone, but then they add in the Pokedex entry that specifies this fire is lit from a bodily gas that it emits from its rear. That's right, Chimchar's butt-flame is powered by farts.

The middle evo of all time

391: Monferno

...Probably the starter middle-evo we most readily forget even exists. It ditches the whole butt-fire fart-flame thing in favor of just being another Pokemon with a flame on the end of its tail. Booooo-ring. Its face markings make it look a bit more mandrill-esque, but they even go and ditch this too when it evolves. Monferno doesn't know what it even wants to be.

Pokemon Unite isn't a true MOBA until they add this guy as playable.

392: Infernape

Infernape salvages the line a bit, with a flaming head of hair and some golden ornamental bits on it, as well as a Fire/Fighting typing. It's rather obviously calling the Monkey King, Sun Wukong to mind, and we like to think the flaming hair is a play on Dragon Ball Z's Super Saiyans, in that regard. It's still a design not for us in the slightest, but we see the appeal of it, anyway.