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that gen4 gays will eat anything up
worst gen of all time
This but gen (whenevery you reading this entered middle school)
nah, i love gen 4 and i don't defend shit like rhyperior. i still think most of them are great, though.
what's the problem with rhyperior? it looks like a dino-bulldoze with a drill on his head
I honestly think that Gen 4 is great EXCEPT in regard to Pokémon design.
Holy shit, those designs alone make Pokémon Platinum drop from the second best main game to the third place.
All in all, I still think the best main game is Emerald (Among other reasons, gen 3 has the best Pokémon design).
There is no such thing as "bad Pokemon design"
>hating on Honchkrow
kys
>yanmega
>roserade
>gliscor
>weavile
>froslass
>mamoswine
>porygon-Z
all good
Gliscor is cool
I like Yanmega too
Togekiss is top 5 for me
i dont like how it loses its arms completely
It's a bird you moron
most of these are fine. rhyperior, probopass and lickilicki are really the only ones that arent
some of them are sexo
shut up
what were they thinking?
what were you thinking, posting that pic for ants?
tinkaton is the greatest thing to ever come to pokemon and thus makes up for everything else including the water starter being a duck that turns into a peawiener
I don't understand why they insist on doing propmons like this. Gen 1 could be forgiven for giving things spoons and other assorted shit to hold because it was experimental to begin with. They perfected the jobmon/propmon design with Delibird and Murkrow and I don't know how they keep fricking it up. That's literally just a hammer with some splotches of paint and a bone sticking out. There's absolutely not way these little fricks were capable of making it. Braixen and Delphox were alright because they're holding plain sticks, but then you have Rillaboom's stupid fricking drum it just carries around.
this is not pokemon, glad i stopped in gen 2, my eyes are bleeding
Bleed more.
>LET'S SLAP PINK SPIKES ON DONPHAN AND CALL IT A NEW POKEMON !
>LET'S COLOR TENTACOOL BROWN AND CALL IT A NEW POKEMON !
>LET'S DRAW THE MOST SIMPLISTIC CARTOON MOUSE POSSIBLE AND CALL IT A NEW POKEMON !
>etc.
these designs are all way worse than the designs in the OP. pokemon designs in the 3D era were a mistake
Even in 3d they're ugly and I can't see them being good as 2d animated sprites either
The only good designs are tinkaton and maybe tatsugiri, everything else is trash or pandering to older gens with all the paradoxmons
I wish gen9 would be the wake up call for morons to stop buying the fricking games but we all know that's never going to happen just like it didn't happen in gen 8, or gen 7, or gen 6, pokemon is here to stay,
i wasn't using 3D by itself as a scapegoat for the designs being bad, i've seen fan made sprite art of 3D era designs and they still look bad, i just think gen 5 was the last good gen for pokemon designs which also happens to be the last 2D era gen
There are still one or two good designs each gen from 6-8 but that's miniscule compared to the sheer shit that makes up most of those entries.
I understand why people hate gen 5 but I think it's still admirable that GF actually tried something new with that generation, even though they failed with it. I bought Gen6 and it was the last gen I ever bought, what a completely forgettable experience and a perfect foreshadowing of what was to come.
and you think people stopping the buying they are to change the design philosophy? japan are the only consooming these new designs because they consoom,
i'm just gonna post a pasta I wrote before because it's accurate enough to the conversation
I used to ask this question a lot, but I think I found the answer and it's pretty damn simple.
It's because game freak is not catering to you. They're not catering to some random butthole crying about it on an anonymous basket weaving forum, they're not catering to pronoun homosexuals on twitter, they're not catering to youtube content creators trying to milk clickbait views.
Now wait, I'm going somewhere with this. Pokemon is over 25 years old at this point. The children who grew up with pokemon now have children of their own, and parents aren't concerned about their kids having deep storylines, or gameplay that isn't easily solved at surface level for kids to easily enjoy. They want something they can pick up and give to their kids to play, and they know that pokemon will always deliver on that front. It doesn't need to evolve as a game series because parents don't CARE for it to change, and in fact would rather not because parents just want to give something to their kids that's exactly what they remember it being. It's why most generational gimmicks are just that, gimmicks that barely change the core gameplay. And to capitalize on the sales every generation, there are always a hundred or so new pokemon/variants plus returning mascots, because they make more money with new pokemon instead of trying to sell you a plushie of Feebas or some other forgettable poke.
This is why the bulk of pokemon's budget goes towards marketing and merchandise, because that results in the highest net profit. You can only make so much money off $60 games with a bit more nickle and diming, but if you sell ten plushies for $20 a pop, plushies that cost a dollar to make, then you start seeing dollar signs. The games exist largely as a vehicle to drive merch. A cursory look shows that the games have only netted approximately $27 billion, while merchandise is up to at least $91 billion.
japan like simpe cute thing thats why kirby and sanrio is so popular
roserade is kino
arboliva is kino
jellicent is kino
The themes were MUSIC and FUTURE TECHNOLOGY and I think UK
Yeah I'd frick Mismagius, Roserade, Gliscor, Weavile and Porygon Z
There are only 9 pokemon in the image which I wouldn't
>It just gets fatter
In the right places.
i want Roserade to get fatter
Yanmega, Gliscor, and Porygon-Z are S tier
>What were they thinking?
“Man, a lot of Gen 2 mons were absolutely shit. Let’s give them a second chance.”
They forgot Delibird
Delibird was mad intentionally as a joke.
I see 2 or 3 bad designs. Rest are fine
Evolutions aren't bad but the pre-evolutions are worthless pokedex filler. There was no reason for them to exist other than to say they made 100 more mons.
From a living world point of view, I prefer having a "young" form.
Gen 5 was unironically peak Pokémon design
>inb4 muh ice cream and muh trash bag
holy shit this
trubbish is my favorite
>gen 5
>peak
it's consistently shit with the few good mons being VERY good, but unfortunately the generation as a whole is pretty bad
Smugleaf is good but the evos suck, other starters suck as well
Audino is okay, scolipede is okay
Krookodile is based
Maractus a cute, same with joltik and galvantula
Ferrothorn is okay
Chandelure is best gen5 waifumon
Volcarona is also good
Which is a fair few but pretty much everything else is either just mediocre, or irredeemable trash
Every bug in Gen 5 is great, opinion discarded
the leavanny line is...fine, but it doesn't do it for me
is this a list of popularity? this is a shit tier list if so.
by merchandise sold in japan
most of the mons in that category make sense in that context, especially since a lot of them are the pet analogues so they'd be popular with families
glad to see japs have some taste with things like chandelure, but then you have fricking alcreamie (is this because of cafes selling coasters with it or something?) and shit legendaries like zeraora and lunala
gen 5 has peak waif
shit tier taste
Frick you. I'd rawdog the piss out of Mienshao.
By far the shittiest and least popular designs in the series. UnovaBlack folk live in a fantasy world lol.
>Gen 5 was unironically peak Pokémon design
LMAO. Gen 5 is fricking gross and is filled with the most disgusting dogshit designs in the series.
Gen 5 is either the greatest designs or the absolute worst in the series with no inbetween. While gen 4 is my favorite I will always cherish 5 for the bug pokemon it introduced.
Roggenrola has the best name.
tbh the elmo and bart judokas are kinda brilliant and I would've liked them in the first one
I feel like this image gets blurrier every time I see it posted
Yeah thats how jpg works
I hate that I have to agree with this pic.
Unlike most poke-autists, I really liked the idea of only including new pokemon. Makes it feel fresh and unburdened by the load of 900+ past pokemon. Too bad they decided this one time to pick the most dogshit pokemon designs. Yeah there are like 10 good ones but the rest are gen 1 copypastas or turds.
It's kind of the point of gen 5, since it was initially meant to work as a soft-reboot, they took the original archetypes from gen 1 and redefined them with different types or stats.
Why do people pretend like this isn't a thing in almost every gen? There's always a bunch of tropes and archetypes that get reused or recontextualized, but now because there are no previous mons in the region, suddenly everyone notices this is a thing. The only difference with the latest gens is that instead of making new designs inspired by the original ones, they just take the original one and give it a mustache or turn it into a robot.
they went on record saying they wanted gen 5 to be a soft reboot of gen 1 hence why designs and evolution lines are so similar
I just don't get why they had to repeat so many concepts from the first gen, but make the designs way worse.
Zebstrika is the same concept as Rapidash, but both of these lines have good designs.
Then you have fricking Conkeldurr and Seismitoad being godawful takes on Machamp and Poliwrath.
Vanilluxe is great
Seismitoad is not worse than Poliwrath, come on. Politoed, sure, but not "just gets bigger" Poliwrath.
Lots og good designs but at least just as much garbage, a polarizing dex.
Kino region for Dark types.
That's just what happens when you have so many designs. Gen 1 isn't exactly a shining example of monster design, as much as it gets fellated. It's not really surprising that later gens scaled back on the amount of new designs. Bug-type also got a lot of love, and Ghost has a good selection as well. Honestly I think the only mediocre or bad designs are the genies and the monkeys and maybe the muppet men. People complain about these but they're doing better than Hitmonchan at not looking like they're just wearing clothes.
>hate vanilluxe and garbador on release
>almost a decade later and i actually like them a lot more
screw you guys I fricking love Delibird
You like SHIT
You like KINO
Delibird is fine, I just wish it had an evolution.
Only until like a year or two ago I pronounced it like deli-bird because I didn't realize it was a play on words and pronounced like "delivered"
...I did not know that either.
It's not very clear is it? I'm surprised I've never heard it said out loud before.
Ambipom
Lickylicky
all the babymons
Those are the only bad ones
>What were they thinking?
"People really seem to like Pokémon that evolve and don't like the ones that don't evolve as much."
All of my IRL friends absolutely refuse to use Pokémon if they don't evolve.
Yanmega, Togekiss, Mismagius, Gliscor, Magnezone are all great.
Weavile, Tangrowth, Roserade, PorygonZ are all okay.
The rest are shit though.
Roserade vine pussy
gliscor and froslass are both 10/10, cry homosexual
still 100000 times better than the dogshit pokedex from GEN 5 , there are 157 pokemon in unova and none is popular, unovaflop kek
>Gen 5 was unironically peak Pokémon design
TOP FRICKING KEK
gen 5 fans has not right shit another dex when they get the most gabrgae designs in existence
anon are you having a stroke?
>grrr they criticize our designs!!
>I know! let's ruin old pokémon lines!
>that'll show them!
That's what the spiteful pieces of shit were thinking.
stop clogging this with Gen 5 hate or else I'm gonna flood this thread with questionable ghost Pokemon art
you better not do it!
you better do it!
Yeah?
yanmega is cool
tegekiss is silly and cool
ultra rhyhorn looks like crap
honchkrow is one of the most based motherfrickers in the game
misdrevious is kewl
monkey is lame
rose girl looks horrible
nosepass ultra is antisimetic
bat scorpion sucks
Magmar with gun is stupid
duskowl ultra looks bad
sneasel ultra looks worse
fat likitung horrible
tengela stupid
magneton ultra looks awesome
porygon z bad
ultra electibuzz is... ok
mamoswine is great
galade is bad
that ice one is horrible
all seven of those babies are epic, i love baby pokem on 🙂
you dont know their names
>bat scorpion sucks
have a nice day.
I'm still mad
as someone who loves grass and ignores this line WHAT WHERE THEY THINKING
If you don't think that this is one of the coolest mofos in the whole series then you don't know shit about pokemon
*tips fedora*
Pokemon's designs are groupable into 3 eras:
>gen 1 & 2: what if fantasy monsters evolved in a modern world
>gen 3-5: what if fantasy monsters were plopped into a modern world without being grounded
>gen 6+: what if we could make more money by cutting corners
cool! show how gen 6 designs are different from gen 5 designs.
Rounded, simplified and more generic due to being designed with 3D in mind
I don't even remember Gen 6's starters. 6, 8, and 9 are the most bottom of the barrel design generations because at least the ugly ones from 1-5 were experimental and Gen 7 had a bit of personality.
>Rounded, simplified and more generic due to being designed with 3D in mind
congrats, you just described gen 5’s designs.
>being deliberately stupid for the sake of argumentation
>I don't even remember Gen 6's starters
LOL ok Black person, greninja alone mogs the entire shitnova dex.
>Gen 5: 2 popular starters
>Gen 6: 1 popular starter
Sorry sis, chadnova wins
>>Gen 5: 2 popular starters
kek you wish Black person, shitnova starters are by far the least popular in the series. tepig is the ONLY starter not to make the top 100; see
>least popular
but enough about delphox and chesnaught
>tepig
and the other two are popular, your point?
>Swadloon
What a meme poll
>Rounded, simplified and more generic due to being designed with 3D in mind
You're right, Gen 6 designs were shit.
I'm not saying every design from the better gens is a winner but the trend is that the 3D gens have worse designs.
And the comparison you're making is based on the faulty assumption that they were trying to make Leavanny look edgy. That's like comparing Wigglytuff to Ursaring and saying "why are newer gen Normals so edgy'
why are gen 6 fans so obsessed with gen 5
Because a lot of Gen 6's criticisms at least started to manifest in black and white.
But what they don't take into account is that Gen 5 either didn't have those flaw to the same severity later gens did, or at the very least it had enough good or unique things to balance out the bad.
> Gen 5 either didn't have those flaw to the same severity later gens did
Which later gen had a legendary trio where all three are just palette swaps of eachother?
>But what they don't take into account is that Gen 5 either didn't have those flaw to the same severity later gens did
Sorry but the only game more handholding and hyper-linear than Sun and Moon is Black and White, there's no Rotom dex but there may as well be considering you get stopped by an npc every time you enter and leave a map, and the region itself is a straight line, compared to that X and Y has much more freedom for coming and going and areas off the way that you can explore without being required to do so by the story.
I'm sorry which gen was it again that had the three copy/pasted genies and the copy/pasted gears and the copy/pasted ice cream and the copy/pasted monkeys? was it the one that cut corners?
Rhyperior, Magmortor and Electivire are Big O, Big Duo and Big Fau respectively.
Weird how Porygon Z is the only good design
gen4 really was the beginning of the end
thank God bug types managed to avoid these godawful designs relatively unscathed
Bug types were okay in gen4-5 but by gen 6 you're getting MAYBE one good bug type each gen if you're lucky and the rest are dogshit, even worse than other types in those gens
they really did our type dirty throughout all of pokemon's history
>Bug types were okay in gen4-5 but by gen 6 you're getting MAYBE one good bug type each gen
This. Bug types took a fricking nosedive after Gen 5.
Buzzwole is shit. Vikavolt is okay but Charjabug is a dumb pre-evo. Golisopod is cool.
>Charjabug is a dumb pre-evo
It's a fricking pupa, what did you expect? It's at least more creative than the other pupa mons due to resembling a battery.
>It's at least more creative than the other pupa mons due to resembling a battery.
That's the issue
If creativity = randomly slapping human-related themes on animals, I'd rather have an "uncreative" design
>If creativity = randomly slapping human-related themes on animals, I'd rather have an "uncreative" design
But it is creative since the Vikavolt does a good job integrating man-made objects into beetles. Grubbin is a taser, Charjabug is a battery and Vikavolt is rail gun. It actually looks cool, not too unnatural and lets it stand out from the other beetle mons they've already done.
>43
I wish Kricketune was good so I had an excuse to go DELELELEWOOOOOOO every battle
dare i say it...
all of these are winners. every one.
What would be my ideal pokemon game?
look for
>ultra easy game
>game without Grinding
>linear game
>game without exploration
>game where it is impossible to get stuck
>game where leveling up is ultra easy
>non-competitive game
>game for casual gamers
>game where you never need to use strategies
>game that is even easier than Let's Go Pikachu/Eevee
XY was the first game with the full party exp share and so it's where the exp share was the least balanced. XY is the closest thing to what you want.
Rhyhorn and Rhydon are so cool that it’s borderline criminal to design Rhyperior the way that they did. How could that possibly have been approved. It’s like missing a layup because you forgot how to run.
I can't believe gen 6 added this rounded simplified for 3D abomination, they got so fricking lazy in gen 6
There are many different types of jellyfish IRL.
Babymom a shit but I love new permanent evolutions. Better than generational gimmick temporary transformation nostalgiabait the series has suffered from since gen 6
3D was a mistake
gen 6 killed the series with these garbage designs
>gen 6
>Heatmor
The Discord raider can't even genwar properly. Go have a nice day.
Seething now time to cope
Isn't Gen 5 when that british homosexual started making pokemon? Lol
the bat, the bird with the hat, the one with the tongue, the 3d polygon, the blue tentacle and the cat with yellow israeliteel are good designs
You could tell they really cut corners in gen 6, look at how fricking lazy these designs are they, they literally just copied the models and changed the textures
I honestly can't think of any bigger cope than pretending pokemon designs stop being good at Gen 5 lol. It's by far the shittiest dex in the series, worse than everything before and after it.
>Emboar is the only third stage starter to not make it
lmao, shitnova homosexuals are so delusional
>gen 5 hating zoomie doesn't even know Meganium exists
kek
Anon, gen 5 is zoomiecentral...
And I just proved that that anon was without a doubt a zoomie too. It's all zoomies, everywhere.
togekiss, mismagius, gliscor, porygon-z and weavile are good
>AWESOME TIER-
Yanmega, Honchcrow, Roserade, Dusklops
>novel idea, poor execution tier-
porygon z, magnezone, mamoswine, manly gardevoir, froslass
>boring tier
gliscor, lickitung evo, togekiss, tangroth, mismagus, weavile
>terrible tier
magmortar, electivire
>abortion tier
nosepass, aipombom, rhyperior
>gay babby tier
allt he gay babbys
Dusknoir is my favorite 'Mon.
Electivire, Yanmega, and Honchkrow in the top 10.
Porygon-Z, Magnezone, Gliscor, and Togekiss are all great
>NOOOOOOOO YOUR NOT SUPPPOSED TO GIVE DEX FILLER SHIT MONS ACTUAL COOL LOOKING EVOLUTIONS NONONONONO
Serious question not for the schizo how did Unova devolve into such a threadkiller after how well received it was during it's pre-/release era here and on /vp/?
Worst selling mainline games. Make that as you.
Autistic people shitting everywhere and then everyone else not wanting to deal with them.
>Yanmega
>Togekiss
>Mismagius
>Gliscor
>Weavile
>Tangrowth
>Magnezone
>Electivire
>Mamoswine
>Gallade
>Mantyke
>Munchlax
These are some of my favorite designs though.
Rhyperior, Ambipom, Magmortar, and Lickitungy are the only shit ones.
Also, frick babymon haters.
As for me
baby pokemon are moronic & gay.
useless and made for little girls
Gigachad Hypno slaying pussy
I thought they were all pretty cool. Being tacked on to the bottom of the dex felt like they were all made with the intention of competitive battling, thus also being used by an older demographic. They all look capable of fighting. Now we having sushi and A FRICKING BRIDGE in the meta scene.
One of the biggest problems with gen 4 was the small number of new ideas. You don't see that many new pokemon because so much of the design effort was spent on expanding old evolution lines or legendaries.
The evolutions and babies aren't all bad though, but it'd be better if they put more time into adding more new ideas as well that could enrichen the world. And some of them actually are bad.
That's Jap autism; they did it all intentionally.
Gen 4 is about creation and evolution, the first 3d-esque games, so they added a ton of evolutions to fit their theme.
Cringe. Every gen should add cross-evos, one of the better aspects of gen 9.
baby pokemon and shit pokemon/single evolution pokemon/not enough evolution pokemon are the absolute worst content they can add from a consumer perspective
>zero effort dex filler
>can add baby pokemon next gen
absolute trashfire game design, baby pokemon and single evolving should not add to the dex counter for their development goals
everything past gen 2 is fricking pile of shit someone liking or defending this should just have a nice day
Some of these are alright, but
>Magmortar
>Rhyperior
>Probopass
>Lickylicky
Objectively cannot be defended
Magmortar's arm cannons are badass.
Magmar's face already looked moronic.
I just wanna know why they changed it from a duck bill to lips
Metroid is such a cool guy, i love his arm cannon
>Probopass
>cannot be defended
Cool it with the anti-Semitic remarks!
I like his mustache
Magmortar is honestly less fug than Magmar.
Rhyperior was necessary because otherwise Rhydon was outclassed by Aggron.
Probopass is fug but then again so is Nosepass.
Lickilicky is the one I truly find offensive given how much I like Lickitung.
gen 4 is fricking ugly the legendaries are bad digimon rejects.and lucario is a renamon rip off, imagine defending this shit company stealing from other superior franchises
Suicide. Now.
unoriginal overrated series since day 1
dragon quest was always shit too
but it's nice to know that all asians still can't not steal ideas blatantly no matter the circumstance
Dragon Quest is ugly as shit tough.
holy shit
sinnoh fossils are shit too only supassed by gen 8 fossils
Rampardos is good.
Shit in battle, but good design
heatran is fugly, palkia's a dick, and the lake trio is bland as hell. but the rest of them are fine, darkrai is best mythical btw
>darkrai is best mythical btw
thats deoxys
Yanmega is fricking rad
Honckrow is kino classy
Roserade is elegant as frick
Gliscor, batman looking motherfricker is K-I-N-O
Weavile, this little homie oozes style and simplicity
Magnezone futuristic son of a b***h looking like he's about to zap your dumbass for dissing him
Mamoswine, look at them tusks, homosexual, RESPECT THEM
Gallade, motherfricker's got FRICKING ARM BLADES, how is that not cool to you?
Froslass, look how elegant she is, b***h is gonna give you the iciest bj's in town and you're gonna call her shit?
Man you're such a gay
Damn, this thread is attracting all sorts of autists.
not kanto toriyama eyes=not pokemon. shit design
Mostly, the intention was to rebalance gen 1, 2 and 3 while adamantly refusing to change the stats of older Pokemon, most of these are evolutions to gen 1, 2 and 3 mons that were stuck in a sort of 2.5 evo instead of having something on the level of Machamp, Crobat or Aggron.
The babies are mostly for egg moves.
ambimpom is one of worst thing in existence
>godlike evos
Gliscor
Froslass
Magnezone
Honchkrow
Yanmega
Porygon-Z
>good but not great
Mismagius
Weavile
Roserade
Dusknoir
>meh
togekiss
Probopass
Electivire
gallade
tangrowth
mamoswine
>shit
magmortar
rhyperior
ambipom
lickylicky
>babies
babies
Its a mixed bag, but im overall happy.
what does >babies babies mean? I like the baby mon
babies
If i had to give a judgement, design wise they are all alright, nothing really stand out as great or shit.
Main issue is that they can stop some mons from getting more evos like pichu forever dooming pikachu line to be subpar, but in the case of gen4 babies none of them did that as Blissey is great and Roserade was alright at the time.
Gen IV was fine.
Post trainers.
no
Gen 4 was the last good gen.
It was the first bad gen. Uninspired region, shit pokemon, worst box legendaries. It was the beginning of the end.
Nope. It was the last region with no blacks, last region set in Japan, last region without foreigners designing the Pokemon, etc.
You have shit taste.
So nothing to do with the actual game. Concession accepted.
>Concession accepted.
You already lost the argument. Keep up
Gen IV is great. First bad one is XY, frick off homosexual.
Porygon-Z is incredible
Roserade is pretty cool
Mismagius, Yanmega, Weavile, Gallade, Froslass are alright
The rest exist
bros im trying to ignore the mismagius poster but their art is getting to me
Stop arguing about a children's game.
Embrace ghost witch.
I'd rather a ghost chandelier
Not a lot of cute/questionable art of it for to flood the thread with, sorry. Cool design though.
This mon is surprisingly less popular than I thought. I thought people would be all over it.
the problem is its not a edgey looking ghost type, its slower than what it appears, and it has many weaknesses compared the solgoleo (4 x weakness to ghost and dark)
Make sense, but I don't know I thought it give a feminine vibe from its design and people would just have made constant fat bat tats art of it.
they do. but with so many legendaries out now, theres no room for people to remember it
Ever since X and Y box legendaries have been given slightly gendered designs, with Xerneas, Lunala, Zacian and Miraidon all looking relatively softer and more feminine than Yveltal, Solgaleo, Zamazenta and Koraidon.
>rehsiram is not feminine
sure
Ghost designs in general have gotten much more interesting and creative, for the life of me I can't understand why the frick Gengar is so popular.
If I had to guess I'd say it's because gengar is always depicted as a childish prankster that just wants to play around and have fun, it's like the equivalent of throwing a bedsheet over your head for halloween, even if you don't have an expensive costume you can go out and enjoy it for what it is.
It's was the first ghost introduced (and the only ghost when introduced). It's also Ken Sugimori's favorite design he's made which means it gets special attention from GF a lot which makes people never forget it. Personally I think Haunter is a way cooler design but eh.
Sad. Love some fat bat tats.
because he is based
a simple evocative design. tapped into a nirvana tshirt kinda zeitgeist.
also he looks much worse in 3d so there's that
Gengar can either look really creepy or really goofy, there's no inbetween
Most pokemon could do with more contrast specially since the Gen 6 3D models came.
I do agree Gengar and others could use a special filter for effects, Chandelure, for example, got a massive upgrade once they added actual light to the fire...
Speaking of which, it's about time they design real fire instead of just "cloth fire" for lack of a better term. It can be stylized, just don't make it look like it's a fricking panel painted like fire wobbling around
>Ghost designs in general have gotten much more interesting and creative
and cofhomosexual is not an example of that lol. that might be the shittiest design in the series.
The truth is that ghost design peaked with haunter
i rather the ghost physic type
these are all great mons. except for magmortar looking frickugly and rhyperior too kinda.
but nah yeah. all of these guys are tru homies
t. gen2gay who hasn't played a retail pokemon game since hgss
I haven't cared about 'competitive' Pokemon since Gen 5, is Porygon 2 with Eviolite still better than Porygon Z?
isn't modern pokemon competitive just spamming big dumb STAB moves? seems like the only shit that would matter is having bigger numbers to spam bigger STABs
If only
that's too sexy, anon
Stats were getting out of hand and some mons needed a buff
>how do we make the best pokemon gen
Let someone other than Gamefreak handle it.
They quite literally won't allow it anymore. Every time another company has gotten involved, those games always end up being some of the best regarded. Genius Sonority with >XD frick off and colosseum, Chunsoft with PMD, Niantic with Pokemon Go.
I feel like Game Freak knows how incompetent they are and are so terrified of being shown up at this point that they REFUSE to allow anyone else to touch the IP.
designs rate
digimon>
gen 1-gen 3>>
quest
watch shadowdside>>>>>>>>>>
past gen 3>
watch
>based digichad
Digimon mogs every crap from pokeshit, how embarrasing
All of those except baby Pokémon are good
the gen when stopped giving a shit to pogaymon
Circles mean based
Xs mean cringe
None means I don't care either way
>Edit: Oh, thank you. I am pretty cool. So are you!
oerdesigned trash
now that's a classic kek
megas are gay
most gen 4 evos are based
all babymons are based
Gen 1 Garchomp would look even more simplified.
Not enough spine spikes or horns for a gen 1 design.
>implying that gen4 zard doens't look cool
The white on its belly kinda ruins it for me.
Man, I really like that gen 1 Garchomp.
If you like so much, why don't you just marry it?
I don't like it in a fug sort of way. Plenty of other pokemon for that.
never played gen 4 but honchkrow is my favorite pokemon
All these evolutions are based.
You'll criticize these but not megas or gen 2 babymons (both of which are also cool).
Gallade is peak, and I'll never forgive GF for retconning his mega out of existence
The only Pokemon in this image I actively don't like are Rhyperior and Ambipom. And even then, they're like, okay.
actually the worst taste on this board, go live in the woods with no internet please
Stop getting your zingers from reddit circa 2012, moron.
Misdrevus/magius is my Buddy. The first Pokémon that called to me. Frick Pikachu, frick Charizard.
I will never understand why they decided to condemn the first pokemon ever designed to such a dogshit hideous final evo for the rest of time
gen 6 killed the series
You mean fixed?
no
gen 6 has fricking awful designs
>those fricking discs coming out of its head
jesus they really simplified the designs for 3D
While she was Alakazam's "slot" in gen 5 she is clearly a failed attempt to recapture Gardevoir.
It's like her designer was trying to insert his fetish into the game to try and generate porn but someone fricked up the design down the pipeline.
Not everything is made to be porn, anon. It's a freakishly proportioned homunculus, which isn't a bad angle for a psychic being that mostly uses mental power over physical strength.
I don't believe the original designed was going for that at all, someone was fricking with him.
>Complains about Gen 6
>Posts Gen 5 Mons
What did he mean by this
moronation
he’s making fun of the moron who claimed gen 5 designs are good and that gen 6 is to blame for simplifying and cutting corners.
In hindsight most of them were pokino or inoffensive at worst
Rhyperior is abysmal though
good shit shit great eh wtf shit
wtf eh eh eh eh shit shit
good shit shit shit eh shit
shit eh eh good eh eh eh
Rhyperior is probably the only pokemon that genuinely offends me. Rhydon is the original pokemon, the platonic ideal for a pokemon as well as being aesthetically pleasing. It deserves a better thought out branch evolution, at least. Lean into the surfing rhydon meme, make it a special attacker and give it a combo lightning rod/storm drain ability.
you guys don't like dusknoir?
Dusknoir fixes the design since I never liked Dusclops all that much. It returns to reaper from mummy.
The problem is GF refuses to re-balance Dusknoir or give it some gimmick that makes it worth using. It's power boost from clops is so small evolite just makes it useless.
good, good, bad, terrible, good, good, ok
terrible, good, bad, ok, good, bad, good
bad, good, good, good, ok, good
(row of absolutely unnecessary shit forms no one asked for or wants, Munchlax is ok tho)
Make way, best gen with best map coming through
Too much water gays need not reply
>togekiss
>roserade
>mamoswine
>frosslass
>gallade
>dusknoir
all s tier designs
Everyone who hates Rhyperior has shit taste.