Ice Fang is via the Move Reminder, in Pastoria City.
And despite the thread's topic, this conversation spawned from the
Yunsen 's notion that the early game Sinnoh pokemon are too powerful, keeping players from trying out the later pokemon. Similar to
Codraroll 's feelings on Kalos, Alola, or B2/W2. So I wasn't trying to say that Budew, Buizel, or Shinx are "the worst pokemon ever", because they aren't. They are actually quite serviceable in-game.
But I disagree that they are so powerful they make later options redundant. In Sinnoh, Starly and the starters may qualify, but Shinx, Budew, and Buizel do not. They are fine but not "OMG HAX CLOSE COMBAT 4 TEH WIN."
However, we have gotten really off topic and I'll admit most of that is my fault. To re-rail and continue my tirade of Gamefreak making cool sea creatures boring:
I don't really hate Octillery, but there's just something lazy about the design. Maybe it's the obvious color palate, maybe because it looks like a rejected Zelda octorok, maybe it's the fact that due to it's battle sprites for the longest time I thought it only had four legs (seriously, why design an octopus if you hide 6 of the legs from the camera?!). Or maybe I think it's lazy because it has lazy eyes.
Not even going to touch the fish to cephalopod issue (I get it, it's a gun-pun in Japanese). But when real world octopi can look like this:
...it's hard not to feel a little cheated.
Guess I shouldn't hate on a Gameboy Color design too much though, and to Gamefreak's credit we did get Inkay and Malamar, even if they are squids.
For now I'll just stare longingly at this sprite of Volkraken, wishing it could be real.
Le sigh.