Absol was a main on my Gen 3 team, (even before the physical/special split) when I use to play as a child, but I always had trouble finding one, so I would get all exited whenever I found one(I was around 5 at the time), and now I'm older, I can get to understand its concept, how it's misunderstand, and how it only wants to warn those of incoming disasters, but is always blamed, + I always loved it's design, even though it's a bit simple.. and I also love the new design. Competitively, Absol had the potential to be an absolute monster, with a base attack stats of 130, sadly though, due to its lacking base speed (75 I think?) to back the attack up, it's not used often, but hopeful the new evolution will fix the speed.
Sorry I kinda went on and on... it happens sometimes