Favourite is paras and least is Pikachu

Aegislash and torracat are tied for first place. I hate wugtrio tho.

Coffing

Fuecoco & quaxly

Eevee Groudon

GF just adds another segment 😅

We were done (Dun hehe) so dirty so wanting a Dunsparce evolution for so long. I remember seeing cool mockups of Dunsparce becoming a cool European style fantasy dragon but still having the dumb Dunsparce face and ahhhh why couldn't we have had that?

Dunsparce and Shuckle got done dirty.

I think it would be cool if every Dunsparce was a Arceus larva and whenever Arceus dies it’s soul goes into one of the Dunsparce.

@@ConairHockey bro its a dunsparce

My boio Incineroar still has an action pose an amazing one at that

Yes, the dynamic poses really help. Without them, the Pokémon lose the energy and liveliness.

W dragon quest

Every pokemon should have some dynamic pose An example is hariyama Hariyama always has that pose with both palms facing the opposite direction it never gets old

One of the biggest examples of this is Hitmontop. They use to design him being on his top head and attacking with his feet. But ever since he went into 3D they had him standing up on his legs.

Thankfully in scarlet and violet his flames are out during all battles rather than just when he uses certain moves

Pokémon can be very divisive and this is a great example. I tend to like my Pokémon to be closer to natural animals. Typhlosion is what a badger ? If you saw a badger without knowing about them you’d be like oh they’re kinda cute, non threatening but at a drop of a dime they’re vicious creatures. Same with typhlosion, he’s not on 24/7 but when he’s in battle he looks intimidating. Coming from gen 1 I was disappointed in the jump to 3d. Very conflicted.

haxorus was done dirty too

3D Typhlosion would work if it was quadrupedal

@@Gloomdrake he's fixed in scarlet and violet

Right? I love buzzwole, he’s just a goofy guy. Let him live his life.

I LOVE how weird they are. SO FUN!

I'm tried of "THEY DONT LOOK LIKE POKEMON >:[" like... That's the point?

Kartana is literally my favorite Pokémon I won’t tolerate UB slander.

Best part about them? The community of ultra beast fans don't hate on each other's favorites. You can say you like stakataka because you think the name's funny, everyone is fine. You can say you don't like pheromosa because you don't like the spiky design, everyone is fine. Also, Xurkitree is cool

Hell yes, all Pokemon are fantastic! (Except for terra, they could've done better there)

People forget the "Monster" part of Pokemon, they aren't just colored animals. "Monster" can range from a yellow rat to an abomination.

Pokemon inspires me.. My parents said if i get 50K followers They'd buy me a professional camera for recording..begging u guys , literally Begging...

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@@sadistfurret4205most of them are shit and most of them have always been shit

I sometimes wonder if the desaturated color is by accident, and was just never corrected. I've done texturing for 3d models, and depending on the shader being used, the colors can end up looking washed out compared to the original texture.

​@@kruxdewdrop1220yeah, they probably didn't bother testing lighting while modelling and texturing the Pokemon, so everything looked fine until it was implemented into the scenes. And when someone at Creatures/GF asked if they could delay the release a week to fix them, the executives at TPC probably just told them to F-off...

This is because colors needed to be blown the fuck out on the 3DS to work with the 3D gimmick, and they haven't really updated many of those assets since then

I think it’s because they color picked the colors on the official art onto the Pokémon’s 3D model textures, which is unfortunate since a lot of the older artwork - especially gen 3 - used very desaturated colors possibly to mimic a watercolor effect, even though the colors in the art didn’t match their colors in the game, leading to a bunch of Pokémon looking very very lifeless and dull. Thankfully later generations like gen 5 and beyond used much more vibrant colors in their official art, so if they colorpicked from there the 3D models’ colors would pop a lot more. Possibly why all the new pokemon in Kalos or Alola or whatever look way more colorful than a Milotic in the same game for some reason. I figured this color thing out by doing a little experiment of color picking original art and 3D models together, and I found the colors were near one-to-one matches. That’s definitely, possibly, the most likely reason why a lot of the Pokémon in these games have shit colors.

my bigger problem with the 3D is what it limits and enables. first of all, in terms of pokemon designs, it feels like we get less texture on individual pokemon, based on what will or won't render easily in 3D. the 3D sprites can easily depict something that is smooth, or something that has a pattern mapped to that smooth object's surface... but if you want an animal to look fluffy, your options are to either round it out and imply softness with a marshmallowy silhouette, or model each individual hair tuft. in other words... you can tell that Arcanine, with all its spiky fur tufts, was designed for a game that didn't utilize 3D models. and now that the games do use 3D models, we're going to see an intentional shift away from designs with fluffy fur like Arcanine. they rendered Arcanine in 3D out of sheer obligation, but I bet it was a lot more work than rendering Yamper or Boltund. and even in cases where designs with fluffy or spiky fur are updated, like Hisuian Zoroark... the fur tends to look blobby, goopy, or rubbery... because that's the main texture that 3D models are best at conveying, for better or for worse. this is also why most bug pokemon look great in 3D... this method is great for rendering a smooth hard carapace. but where the uglyness comes into play, is with what the 3D enables. in these sprites, you now get pokemon with a lot of clutter in their designs... a lot of little floaty bits, or really weird surface-mapped patterns, or they look too goopy when the design probably shouldn't have looked that way. Galarian Weezing is a great example... I know all the stuff around it is supposed to be smog, or steam, or gas clouds, but it just looks like snot or ectoplasm to me. and then sometimes you get to certain designs, and it feels like the only reason it looks like this is because it'd be easy to rig. Maushold looks lazy to me for a lot of reasons, but this is one of them. Raticate is a pretty boring rat, but it at least has more personality than this knockoff sanrio mascot, minus the color. but then even when considering the environments in the 3D games, I think the flaw is a matter of scale. in a 3D environment, you start with a world that your character model can look out at, and see everything, as far as the eye can see, from their current position all the way to the horizon. that is a massive amount of space. in the older games, everything was top-down, so you could only see as far down the road as the edge of the screen. in terms of physical distance, you could only see a few feet ahead of yourself. and pixels are a pretty crowded visual style with which to try and depict everything. your lines are forced to be super chunky, so everything has to be stylized to look simple, and more representational. you can have more detailed portraits for, say, if you're battling a trainer, and need to see them as more detailed than their overworld sprite. but this representational aspect actually benefits the entire look of the game, but explicitly telling you that you should be assuming more detail into this world than what is literally on your screen. so basically, these mediums have inverse limitations. one gives the creator such a large blank canvas that they're struggling to figure out how to fill it all up. the other gives the creator such a small blank canvas that they're struggling to figure out how to cram everything in there. and this leaves the 3D environments feeling empty and plastic, while the 2D environments feel full to the point where they're bursting at the seams. 2D games will even resort to giving individual houses more interiority, just so they can fit more content into an area... the cave systems will be a maze that you could genuinely get lost in, or they'll have little features like the safari zone, or the trick house, or the slot machines in the gambling parlor, or pokemon contests. it's actually easier to run out of space for all your ideas. meanwhile, in the 3D era, you'll have whole cities full of facades that you can't even enter. it's just too much space to reasonably fill all the way up. so yeah... in my opinion, washed out color palette is just the cherry on top of a whole host of other issues that the move to 3D introduced to pokemon... a game that was formulated to specifically play to the strengths of a 2D medium.

Underrated point

A good example is Hitmontop. Like every other Pokémon, it’s on a two second loop, but that loop is so much more dynamic than the rest that you can’t help but like Hitmontop

I do think, they've been getting better about that in the scarlet and violet games

You could say Pokémon designs have really gone down the drain, eh?

​@@imperfectimpgotta let that joke sink in

Then it evolve into a toilet

Sinkio, I choose you!

@@harryowens9405I am really letting that one get drained in my brain

thats true but sugamori still gave the Okay for all of the designs, they had to go ast him first. That being said you are right.

Your wrong, actually they did the art but the source martial and or original art witch is mostly unchanged was done by neither

@@deeeeesp. the hell are you even saying?

Unfortunately, if I remember correctly, she's also very shy and doesn't like being the focus of the conversation, which probably is what leads so many people to forget that she's had a major impact when designing some popular Pokémon

She also created the best Mega Evolution design: Mega Charizard X!

People forget the "Monster" part of Pokemon, they aren't just colored animals. "Monster" can range from a yellow rat to an abomination. The robot ones are the only ones that confuse me.

​@@lello2031the "monster" part is irrelevant

Pokemon inspires me.. My parents said if i get 50K followers They'd buy me a professional camera for recording..begging u guys , literally Begging...

That being said as someone who plays other Pokemon style games that are good like Cassette Beasts, Nexomon: Exctinction, or even TemTem its obvious that the development of Pokemon has gotten lazy and the Pokemon design is often alot less inspired or alot more overcomplicated. Cassette Beasts is a solild game with new twists and amazing music. Nexmon Exctinction is a solid game with new twists and an actually good story. TemTem is just straight up almost the same quality made by someone with a fraction of the money. And the upcoming Palworld game sticks to the simple design philosophy of older Pokemon so well that when people point out lookalikes the Palworld version is often much simpler and cleaner than the thing they are comparing it too.

I first played Gen 1 so the original 151 are my favorite. I scoff at some of the newer designs (especially that fucking ice cream cone one), but I try to remember that we had ones like Jynx and Mr. Mime that were total out of left field ideas.

This is the first time I've heard of this, yeah it's a great reason, but I also definitely wouldnt mind if they delayed everything else to make their games better. That's an opinion based topic but personally for me I'd prefer them delaying it for the better

Charming limited 3D graphics

Ferrothorn was probably my favorite example of that effect, even if the camera pan kind of killed the illusion sometimes. It's just...hanging from the top of the screen by its vines, looking like it gives absolutely zero fucks about whatever you're going to try hitting it with as it swings around. That doesn't work in 3D, but it was incredibly fun to see back then.

It’s funny cause they have the tech now to do pseudo 2D with anime style shading of 3D models. Any Arc Systems game for example. Persona in a way too

@@Mirage475if you’ve played octopath traveler I think Pokémon would work perfectly in that style

I was so sad to find out Sprigatito’s line would stand up but I do have to admit Meowscarada did grow on me a lot being the starter I chose

Well why can't he be a furry? This criticism of antropomorphic designs always seems stupid to me, why is it a big deal in the first place? Because people are afraid to like an antropomorphic design?

@dnidaz2553 Because it happens a lot. Like A LOT a lot. I've seen amazing fan designs of what Meowscarada would've looked like with the consistent quaduped likeness of Sprigatito. Instead, it's another anthro design that the starters seem to fall back on a lot. It still looks great, but final anthro evolutions are overdone.

​@@K4RN4GE911I don't think they are overdone, there's plenty on both sides, the problem people seem to have is that is over represented on starters, which are the face of their games. Aside from some designs, I don't really mind how they look

If you can count quadrapod evolution starters on 2 hands and then count with 7 hands with bipedal designs then that's not even

Yeah with hyper futuristic walls and floors. Too plain imo

INVIREMENT?

Sonic fan spotted. opinion discarded.

@@MsMoonDragoon I can see omega saying that

The funny enough you mentioned baxcalibur. Because I think his design looks absolutely horrendous in 3d. But would probably look fine and older Pokemon game. Though I think I'm nitpicking at his little hand claw things not being very intimidating looking and tacked on yo the design.

maybe baxcalibur's face but the rest of his body is weird

@@andrewpauly4783it's based off of a dinosaur that had things like those

Bax has the same body as Ttar

Baxcalibur is by far the ugliest and laziest pseudo by a long shot

Charjabug is a bus and I love him >:(

Wait, is that actually real? I thought it was made up for the video XD Man, I stopped at Gen 3 XD

bruh he has a sniper, you really want him to snap his fingers

@@humorpalantaSo far none of the Pokemon are madeup

@@humorpalantaEvery Pokémon in this video, is real. Aside from the sponsored monsters from My Singing Monsters but that’s it, Vikavoot is real, Dragapult the stealth bomber ancient tetrapod ghost dragon aircraft that launches babies is real, Seel is real, Ultra Beasts are real, Pokémon is whacky as hell and I live for it With the exception of Sinksalor from Gen 17

Yeah, I agree, it seems more like each region has its own unique style as opposed to there being an overall style that’s somehow changing. I think I saw a “Did You Know Gaming” video about Gen 3, where someone said in an interview that Gen 1 and 2 Pokémon looked similar to each other, while Gen 3 Pokémon looked much different to set itself apart from those past games.

I would say gen 6's designs really hit the spot between simple and gimmicky designs. Yes, there are things like Aegislash who is a gimmick, but lots of gen 6 Pokémon are ones you couldn't tell are gimmick designs in the first place. Goodra, Pyroar, Heliolisk, Dedenne, Tyrantrum, Dragalge, and a lot more HAVE a gimmick in their design, but it's not forcing the gimmick. It took me *10 years* to learn that Dedenne was supposed to be a tooth fairy, whereas I look at Quaquavel and I go "yep, that sure is a Brazilian dancer duck".

Great observation and analysis, but the guy says in the video himself is that problem isn't that each generation has their own unique style. The problem is that most of these ideas are executed rather poorly and sort of even miss the whole concept of Pokemon. For example, the gen 8 starter's final evolutions don't look powerful creatures you're taking but literally just humans. The more humanoid, gimmick or otherworldly designs (that are not animal based)should be a MINORITY, not a majority. Other times, a lot of Pokemon look out of place with the general universe of Pokemon UNINTENTIONALLY these days. Not to mention the whole 3-d versus 2-d situation going on. Sometimes, a dynamic static pose can really save a Pokemon concept from looking too boring or basic. With the graphics of modern games looking mediocre, you can see this leak into the Pokemon illustrations or even designs themselves as now they look far too static and humanoid. When it comes to more otherwordly and weird looking Pokemon "designs" like ultra beasts, if you asked a pixel artist to draw those things, they'd probably die.

It always my head cannon that Pokémon never forgets the Youkai watch war when Youkai watch beat them on their home turf for like a year. And decided to steal Youkai watch 1-3 design philosophy and completely kicking Youkai watch out of competition.

What a bout gen 9

I din’t understand how pokemon being gimmicky is being lazy, in any case, it’s putting extra work on it

Recently even TPC has admited that maybe they should release new pokemon games every 2-3 years instead of everyyear, so there could be more hope. Personally pokemon scarlet and violet was probably the most fun i had in a while in a mainline game, but you can definitively feel the lack of time GF has to develop these games

@@Didagg I myself do enjoy a lot of the gimmicks they use for new Pokemon, I think it's more a point of how the design philosophy may have been influenced by the way the games are made.

​​@Didagg Developing a game at this scale in under 15 months is extremely difficult. You'd have to put in overtime 24/7 to ship a game like this. 100+ new pokemon plus adding new moves would be a QA nightmare. On top of the CPU limitations of the switch. I don't envy the devs at game freak in the slightest. They literally cannot afford to add new mechanics, and that hurts the game in the long run.

@@Didagg Dudunsparce...

They be making the Pokemon non binary now💀

@@CringusMcDingusIron Valiant is very binary actually

If they could get the same quality in 3D but realse them half as often would you prefer 3d, 2d or have no preferance.

@@GhostEmblem I don't have a preference, but 3D doesn't really make Pokemon better, graphics were never the reason we played the games. So them putting so much effort into something that's not as important seems like an unnecessary spending of resources they already have so little time to manage. If they could slow down and actually polish their games, I think we'd all want that, but realistically, they're not gonna slow down. They're greedy corporate business first, and game developers second.

No

True I liked b&w's 2.5D it looked great and kept the magic of the original while adding a more detail and pop to the environments

I'm not the biggest Gen 5 fan, but Gamefreak really became kings of sprite art by the end of their sprite based games. Even by Gen 3 or 4 they were probably some of the innovative sprite based graphics on a handheld. When they moved to 3D they purposefully worked their asses off to make REALLY good models and people were willing to take the slight performance issues and stiff animations in Gen 6 with a grain of salt. But, that experience must have fried their brains or muscles cause it seems like they were just like "We're DONE! No more improving and polish is a luxury!"

I like how scorbunny even goes thru an edgy phase (raboot)

Cool but they’re not kids they’re Pokémon

@@itsmejb things can represent other things, you learn this in 2nd grade

Trollceus

you dont even need new mechanics, imo the biggest issue is boring world design

​@@tsu08761eI agree with this. The world is very broad and deep, but they haven't been doing much with it. Arceus was the first one to take a totally different vibe because of everything it did

I mean, Scarlet & Violet had 3 seperate stories you could handle as you want, and each story was pretty damn different, so you have your story changes right there.

... why?

They're not going to stop making new pokemon because (New mon = new more unique merch)

We DO still get the occasional ones that somewhat match the old eye styles (i.e. the Goomy and Sprigatito lines [very similar eye progression to Dratini and Bulbasaur, respectively], Cramorant [simple round eyes with black dot pupils], and arguably the Charcadet line [classic angular shape that gets more angular at evolution, but with the flame as an extra detail]), and admittedly, those tend to be some of my favorite ones in newer games, even if they get anthropomorphized more often these days. Personally, I feel like those four I mentioned could have been introduced in gen 3 or 4 and still matched the art style, more or less, so maybe that's the reason I like them lol

True

Wait a second

Bro that pfp is wild

It’s Japan. You could swear it’s there lack of eyes that lead them to over extenuate them anywhere they can. (Joking about the lack of eyes, but I only need to site anime for my second point)

​@@RealSkellohow have you never seen this person, i swear half of the videos i watch have a comment from them (Also, hi round latias)

Yo it's the pfp guy !

The fusions make for some of the wildest and diverse teams.

and i BET gen 10 or 11 will have a shit fusion gimmick to capitalize on infinite fusion's success edit: i dont mean the fusion gimmick in infinite fusion is bad, what i am saying is that they are going to RUIN it tbf creating over a million custom models is... time consuming (unless they reduce the pokedex... AGAIN)... but still

@@5t0rm78 its probably gonna be something like IF, but you only have the model of one of the pokemon....except for a few gimmick pokemon that have unique fusions....oh and they ll be completely busted and every single competitive team will use them

​@@5t0rm78fusions are a thing in pokemon since gen5 idk what are you saying

@@iancastro13279 pokemon can fuse. necrozma with solgaleo and lunala, kyurem with reshiram and zekrom, calyrex with spectrier and glastrier (but i dont count those because he just rides them). infinite fusion has HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS of fusion combinations, while pokemon has SIX. what im trying to say is they're probably gonna try to add a fusion mechanic like infinite fusion's mechanic, and it's gonna suck.

I feel like that gen 3 part is correct, I didn't play gen 2 so immediately going from fire red and seeing Blaziken was super weird and it's my favorite pokemon

@@_Apollo. I base that part on an old interview I admit I can't find at the moment, where they admit Gardevoir and several other designs (Like Blaziken) in Gen III were experiments in how far they could push the humanoid look and have the fans accept it. Pokemon like Jynx, Hitmonchan, and Mr.Mime were kind of seen as oddballs even before that and raised the question of the whole clothes vs skinflaps debate about their designs. In Gen II they shied away from doing designs like that due to their reception but decided to do more in Gen III.

Not my favourite direction they went in. Although Gen 3 is my favourite, I grew up with it after all, my favouriye pokemon were more on the animalistic or fantasy side. Such as the bagon line, trapinch line, poocheyena line, absol, skarmory, aggron, etc. I basically liked every design except for a small select amount, ex luvdisc was just lazy ngl.

I like pokemon designs but not when one is a freaking tumbleweed

@@lirsavvydo you prefer the pile Kum known as muk

@robertbartley2409 Muk gets way to much flak. Slimes have always been a mainstay in rpgs. The grimer line actually provided a new take compared to the cutesy dragon quest slimes and featureless blob slimes around that time period.

Spin off Pokemon games? When? Mystery Dungeon gets like a new entry every 5 years or so, but besides from the strange case where it happens, there haven't been a lot of spin offs for the newer generations (DS generations come to mind since you had the Ranger series, Conquest, Rumble and etc), unless you count Arceus and Unite I guess.

​@@loren5432God, I wish we got more mystery dungeon games. I need more amo to use on the "pokemon has never been about storytelling" crowd.

Honestly I prefer the better textures. I mean realistically, the Pokemon _have_ fur and scales.

@@DeathnoteBB I think it's cool that we get to see those details and admittedly I do think the metal textures on the steel type pokemon look cool but it also looks a bit too uncanny valley to me and I just personally would prefer a more stylized art style since the issue when games go for more realism the look risk's being outdated at some point in the future.

It's like whiplash to have highly detailed textures on very simple designs, I really don't like it.

@@corenlavolpe6143it's like throwing an HD texture pack on minecraft.

gen 9 is literally the worst one... so many bad designs and i thought gen 5 was bad.

@@octoslut I thought gen 8 was worse, at least with the starter and legendary Pokémon designs... And the quality for most of that game...

​@@jonahboris6681gen 8 is definitely the generation with worse designs. Heck, its the generation that popularized boxing the starter... but gen 9 is probably the second worst, which is sad because it has very good ones, but they are a small number. I Will never forgive how they disrespected fans making gholdengo the Pokémon numer 1000

What the fuck is pokemon

@@Robinson513 idk some weeb bs

I also grew up with gen 1 but it's not like all pokemon from gen 1 were animal/creature. We got weird object pokemon Grimer/Muk, Magnaton line, Geodude line, voltorb line, Arguably Weezing line (does cancer count as an object?). They also have there weird share of anthropomorphic pokemon, such as poliwrath (why did the tadpole turn grow fists?), hitmonlee/hitmonchan, jinx, mr. mime, electabuzz, magmar, and machamp line. Pokemon always had a thing with making objects and anthropomorphic pokemon instead of just simple animals or creatures. My favorite gen is gen 3 and while I love blazekin... that's just an anthropomorphic bird.

Well that, but also they were extremely limited in what they could do as designs. It was pixelated _and_ usually black-and-white. Starting Gen 3 they had more colors to work with, making the designs more detailed.

@@archwing3441Weezing and Muk line are meant to represent the physical embodiment of air and water pollution respectively. Land pollution didn’t come until gen five with Garbodor. All designs I love by the way, but I’m a Poison type fanboy.

​@@archwing3441It's not about whether it's animals or objects. It's about how most gen 1 is "simple" designs which are basically "it's just the real animal" or "it's X but with Y". There are some variations like Mew and Mewtwo being Giygas inspirations or Exeggutor and the nidos being uniquely weird. but most of gen 1 fit the "simple" description. Gen 2 is where they started getting creative but a lot of pokemon are still simple or very barely different from the real animal like Stantler having unique horns.

Considering the lore in Gen 1, that actually is in-line with they were attempting to recreate: the real world where animals suddenly mutated into pokemon. By Gen 3, it was no longer about that as they shifted over to: AU of real world where pokémon have always existed. Most of them being super cute was just a bonus, I guess.

I agree, I never had a real problem with mon designs even when they went anthro, some do work like Mr Mime, my main issue is that they always present newer mons in lower quality and boring plain environments

Aromatisse is such wasted potential.

@@DeadlockDrago it mostly just creeps me out by looking extremely flirtatious but at the same time completely repulsive. I know there are other pokemon like that but Aromatisse creeps me out the most.

​@@supergeno128ds Personally, i like Aromatisse's colors, and i think it can get a pass because it's partially based on french cancan danses i think... But still, the more i tthink about it, the more i see it's wrongs... I mean, makimg a pokemon partially based on french cancan was already risky and kind of bad, but like seriously, they could have just made her based on perfumes, without her legs showing, or something like that... We didn't need a pokemon with a bottom-half design based on french cancan... Man, i kind of really think it's kinda bad now, like Jesus-Christ!

Honestly can't say the burger analogy applies to me SV was singlehandedly my least favorite game in the series, yet the state of it and the franchise have absolutely zero effect on how I feel on the designs. There's alot of gen 9 mons I love and that's that.

There's still tons if animals designs (Dachsbun, Flamigo (bad example cause it's literally just a gen 1 pokemon with how lazy it is, even if I like it), Skeledirge, modt bugs)

You have wonderful taste.

Yeah, Generation 5’s animated sprites are exactly what I love sprites in Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey, IV, and Devil Survivor for. They're awesome!

Ironically, I think Gen 5's graphics are my least favorite. I prefer images to either remain still, or move smoothly, and Gen 5 just looks so unbearably jerky. I'd say pixel art Pokemon peaked in Gen 4, if I were to say my preferred art style.

Yeah I also preferred the animated sprites over the static png's from Gen 1 to 4 or 3D models from Gen 6 to Now, I never liked how pokemon stopped moving after doing their entrance animation in Gen 2, 3, and 4. Either have them always moving or don't have them move at all.

Nah. My hate for tweening animation is bigger than my love for gen 5 (and I really love gen 5)

@@the-sillycate Don’t let negativity overwhelm you, like the game for what you like Surely it can't be that bad, right?

I adore everything about Maushold. They are my new favorite

The Fuecoco line is so precious to me 🥹

Meowscarda fr

You can say Tinkaton, it's fine.

Annihilape is my spirit animal. It got so angry, it ****ing DIED

A fellow Lockstin & Gnoggin aficionado I see

They shoudlve made it a steel type

G-Max Intelleon, we found another 🎯🔫

I just do this fun thing called *HOMEBREWING* on my 3ds so I don’t have to sell an arm and a leg.

On it

*me glaces over the Krabby sandwhich/food from modern pokemon

Yep, maybe even have the studio have 2-5 teams that do a staggered cycle between Mainline, Maintenance & Training, Remake, and Rest & Spitball/Have Fun. Basically just doing crop rotation but with creativity/coding. Have the A team start strong with a new mainline game, putting everything into making it for ~2 years. Once it's out, have them take a slight break by just working on maintaining it and helping the B team/new hires learn. Then while the B team works on a side game like Stadium, Coliseum, or Battle Revolution, the A team works on remaking one of the older games in the new generation. And finally, as the A team burn out from 4 straight years of hard work, they come round to a break where they get to breathe and have some fun making smaller projects that while probably not cash cows themselves, allow the team to recover and get the creative juices flowing again. If you have some more teams you can even stagger it so that you get a remake and mainline game back to back, allowing you to a new mainline game every 3 years with a remake filling one of those and side projects filling the other (also means that you can either double the maintenance or remake period to allow for less rushed development while producing more games & by extension merch). Then just throw in some fun contests where members of the team are encouraged to design a new pokemon/move/mechanic/ whatever the theme you want for it and the one people like best wins a small prize for the group that designed it. Maybe small tournaments where you can only use pokemon/moves/mechanics that your group DIDN'T design. Small things like that to help make the process more fun and importantly, to help the devs associate pokemon with that fun, rather than with a 5-9 grind (plus, if you have those kinds of tournaments and design comps, you incentivise making pokemon/moves/mechanics that aren't so good that you can't play around them, but aren't so bad no-one will want to use them).

i don’t think coalossal is the issue, carkol is i fucking hate carkol

Coalossal does have something to do with it's preevo's, the only issue is that it was made in gen 8 so it's design is tied in with it's gmax form (Which makes it a giant coal mountain). It's middle stage (I forgot what it was called, been a little while since I've used it) is a coal cart, and the natural progression was a mountain of coal and a furnace. I'd say rolycoly is the outlier really

How is Coalossal comparable to golem in any way aside from being a rocky type with a 4x weakness to water and having sturdy

Idk why, but the "my knees hurt" line kept making me lose it.

Clauncher and Clawitzer were introduced in gen 6!

@@OlleLindestad huh, so they did

the children canonically love to be yeeted! xD