Which do you prefer?
https://strawpoll.com/polls/YVyPmvAV2nN
Ultra Beasts or Paradox Pokemon
This phonograph "reads" a rock’s rough surface and transforms it into beautiful ambient music pic.twitter.com/PYDzYsWWf8
— Surreal Videos (@SurrealVideos) March 3, 2023
UBs, 110%
UBs. They ooze creativity.
>cool, original designs that push the boundary of what a Pokemon can be
>preexisting Pokemon but a dinosaur/robot
UBs every time
>push the boundary of what a Pokemon can be
I can’t say it is good thing tho.
>t. Lamefreak
Ultra Beasts all the way. Between aliens and cavemen and super cyborgs, I'm always going to choose the fucked up aliens.
>cyborgs
That word doesn't mean what you think it means.
>push the boundary of what a Pokemon can be
this is a bad thing
The past paradoxes had some good designs, but UBs have better lore and work better in their games.
UBs have too many straight up retarded looking designs to like them. Shit like Celesteela and Buzzwole are mad goofy
>B-b-but theyre s-su-supposed to look weird!
you can look weird and cool at the same time. Necrozma looks sick, but then you've got twinkle toes Pheromosa or le heckin swole meme cockroach. A lot of UBs look weird, stupid and ugly.
>implying celesteela and buzzwole aren't cool
Jesus Christ, get some taste.
UBs at least are entirely original species. Parados mons are just "what if X pokemon but robot/uga buga"
Wait until get 11 introduced Alter Pokemon
>what if X pokemon but with different/evil personality LMAO
I miss UBs. Pokemon mixes so well with science fiction. Paradoxes are very lacluster in execution... Eh, in concept as well. If you don't count the "imagination theory", which makes it at least explainable, but unlikely to be true.
Future paradox > UBs > Past paradox
I know it'll be considered a retarded opinion but there's something weird and completely illogical about those robots that makes them kind of fascinating to me.
UBs are obviously supposed to be creepy but apart from Xurkitree, Blacephalon and maybe Celesteela I just find them goofy-looking and they feel like they're lost in the wrong game.
Ultra Beasts have a lot of awesome designs like Nihilego and Xurkitree. I still like the majority of the paradoxes, but they lose points for essentially being alternate forms.
biased because I haven't played gen 9 but Ultra beasts.
>both have 570 bst at average
you cannot make this shit up
For UBs: Poipole is 420 while its evo Naganadel is 540 tho
For Paradoxes: Roaring Moon, Iron Valiant, Walking Wave and Iron Leaves are 590 tho
Do you not know what the word “average” means?
I misread it because i was too tired today
ultra beasts easily.
I like both but I prefer paradoxes.
You keep it Pokémon-like, develop existing designs in unexpected directions, and make shitmons actually viable.
It should be mentioned that UBs are stuck with Beast Boost while paradoxes can have different abilities like Orichalcum Pulse/Hadron Engine.
>Average UB score
5/10
>Average Paradox score
7/10
Paradox > UB
>Xurkitree
>Low
REEEEEEEEEEEEE
i didn't know ultra beasts were this well liked
They are not, I think they get a lot of hate because they are new gen and the game they are from. Most of the hate has nothing to do with their design. Design wise they are hard to beat when compared to paradox forms. I think they are great but that's easy since I also like their games. I think we are all guilty of letting how we feel about the games affect how we feel about the pokemon. In the future they might release another comparable group of pokemon and people will like paradox better, who knows.
Guzzlord is cute
UBs are not reskinned versions of the existing Dex.
Paradox Pokemon only suggest Pokemon do have traditional evolutionary paths in addition to the evolution cycles that are just metamorphosis. That is, aside confirmed cases like Pikachu having regional "cousins"
Paradox forms btfo
>Interdimensional Aliens
>Fake Fossil Pokemon and Low Quality Toy Pokemon
Aliens all the way, not even a contest.
Nah, I just have to continue on this. Science Fiction in pokemon is always a good combo. That, and it can allow the franchise to fucking stretch its legs for once and take a risk instead of doing the same boring milquetoast shit. I'm not gonna piss on Paradox Pokemon because they're really inoffensive (Pokemon you know but with red bits and fangs or segmented shapes and hologram face) but I fucking love Ultra Beasts for not just breaking the mold but also being some killer looking ayys. Xurkitree is probably my favorite among them.
I do mean this, I'd rather pokemon make out-there hits and misses when it comes to new pokemon than make the same shit with a new coat of paint.