Funny - it reminded me of Larvitar. Either case, it's a pseudo.
Now, to be honest... I never liked Sad Otter - I'm not going to lie about that - and although I'm warming up to it, I still don't really like it. But it doesn't matter, because his evolutions are heading in the right direction, I pray that his final form is truly a warrior/samurai. His second form is already one of my favorite 2nd forms of any generation.
Smugleaf is still a nice design in my opinion, but his evolution is not at all. Sort of the inverse of Gen III, where I disliked Trecko but loved Grovyle.
The Fire Boar is still my favorite first former, but I don't know what path the designers intend to take for it's evolutions... there's good potential, but also potential for disaster.
Also, I'm pretty sure that electric Tarantula is NOT going to be an ariados evolution, although both of the GSC bugs could use one. And that dunsparce evo from a few pages back needs to happen more than anything else.