Stoutland? Are you kidding me?
Liepard is awesome! Especially the shiny one.
Stoutland is boring, every sodding trainer has one in that evolution tree.
Also, the cat pokemon haven't been as good as the dog ones, I mean Persian was rubbish, Delcatty was OK, but too rare. They needed to get a better cat and they did.
Hard to train? 4th Gym, I had a shiny at Level 50, so that's a load of tosh.