"[DA] did it for the lulz." - Anonymous

Obviously, DA decided to temporarily replace ALL the avatars with Mudkips equipped with the infamous line/meme "so i herd u leik mudkips" - all for April Fools' Day. A pretty splendid joke on their behalf (I wonder how Nintendo of America, The Pokemon Company, and the millions of people who despise Pokemon were reacting to this).


So what is a Mudkip anyway? It is a Pokemon; more specifically a third generation of Pokemon coming from Pokemon Ruby/Sapphire/Emerald games for the Game Boy Advance (which is a portable video game console). What is the (overall) purpose of Pokemon? Persons called Trainers raise Pokemon so that they can battle other Trainers' Pokemon; the trainers that are very successful in battles are highly respected in the Pokemon world in the battling aspect (there is probably a lot more to this, though).

Mudkip is one of the three "starter" Pokemon (the other two are Treeko and Torchic). It is a water type Pokemon. Mudkip evolves into Marshtomp, which in turn evolves into Swampert. For those people who are engaged in competitive battling, Swampert is one of the most formidable Pokemon. With its dual Water and Ground typing (which makes it only weak to Grass) and a versatile move pool (i.e. it can use Earthquake and Waterfall with sheer Physical power), Swampert is powerful offensively (and perhaps defensively).
In other words, Mudkip is the Pokemon that you want to get Swampert.


For additional info on Mudkips as well as strategies and move sets for competitive battling, see Wikipedia, Serebii, Smogon, etc.

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