Scarlet/Violet model gifs ripped by Twitter user adamsb0303! 
Paldean Wooper:
And here is, somehow, the only other regional form in the game. Wooper here gets a fresh coat of paint by making this axolotl a little more mud fish-like. It gets muddy brown skin, and replaces those external gills with crossbones-shaped ones. Which is a funny visual just for having a skull and crossbones-shaped creature be Wooper of all things.
This makes it become a Ground/Poison Type, with it having poisonous mucus coating its skin! Neat! But with that being all that's different about it, there's not much to say about Wooper itself here. We've already talked about Wooper and why it works so well, so this design not changing much can be seen as a good or bad thing, and that entirely depending on whether or not you like Wooper.
In the slop. Reveling in goop. 
980: Clodsire
Then comes a new regional evolution, Clodsire, and. While Quagsire is good, we've always been a bit underwhelmed by it, simply because Wooper is just that much more endearing. So, sorry, Quagy, but Clodsire's usurped you.
Instead of going upright, Clodsire becomes much more overtly a giant salamander, plopping down on all-fours and having the same cute expression as ever. But this bog-dwelling beast is a much more endearing look. Especially when it has such amusingly stubby legs! He's just a clump of creature!
It even comes with retractable spines! They're presumably poisonous, all the Pokedex says about this is rather confusingly that it's a "risky move that puts everything on the line". Whatever that even means. (EDIT: Evidently, this feature is possibly based on the Iberian ribbed newt, a species of newt that can cause its spiky ribs to puncture through its own skin and be tipped with poison as a defense mechanism! Raw! Still a funny way to word that, though.)
But either way, they already make Clod way more fun than Quag. Not that they can't be friends! But Clodsire just feels like the evolution Wooper always deserved.
Personal Rating: 8.5/10
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