It looks like he was deliberately trying to hold himself back from evolving. By any chance is your Dewott afraid of evolving?

It looks like it was deliberately trying to hold back its evolution. By any chance is your Dewott afraid of evolving?

Maybe that's why it might be afraid of evolution

Evolution is scary...

Um... actually I have been aiming for a Hisuian Samurott.

But I know that I can't get a Hisuian Samurott without trying really really hard for it

I wanted to tell that to my pokemon...

That's because you might not be able to become the form that you wanted to be.

That's because it might not be able to become the form that you wanted it to be.

... That Dewott, long ago, back when Dewott was still an Oshawott, nobody had picked it for the longest time

It tried everything it could to appeal itself, until finally it was picked by Ann-san.

I will always remember its overjoyed face from that time.

That Dewott is surely trying to respond to the expectations of the Ann-san who picked it.