I remember Gen 1 Blastoise sorting feeling like a mob boss or heavy with his buffed out chest and intimidating face, looking like someone who shouldn't be messed with.

Charizard's HGSS sprite looks like it means business

I miss the sprite era of Pokémon

The thing about sprites to me was that they always had cool dynamic poses and such With the 3d models they have like A boring idle pose and then a little move animation Sprites also meant that the moves themselves had more interesting animations

I like Scraggy's sprite where it pulls up its shedding pants, it shows its personality.

Black and White remakes should have 3D models that are animated like the sprites they had back in Gen 5

It's always a good day when Mystic uploads Love your videos ❤❤❤

I really liked Hitmontop's old sprite. Where it was on it's head like well, A SPINNING TOP! It was called HitmonTOP for a reason! Why is it standing in 3D now?!

Great video, and Mystic...meet a fellow brother who loves gen II sprites. Gen II was my last generation I got to play, before losing majority of sight in my left eye. These are my favorite sprites/animation from Crystal: Suicune Raikou Heracross Mantine Chinchou/Lanturn Ampharos Aerodactyl Lugia All five Eeveeloutions(I wholeheartedly agree with your comment for Umbreon comment, and it doesn't help because in the song Born to be a Winner, you see Umbreon's intimidating red eyes, as it begins to use Hidden Power.) If they went with the above statement for both Espeon/Umbreon...that would have been awesome and terrifying, since their popularity was hyped at the time. I also like the Cyndaquil line, starmie, the Horsea line, Lapras, Dragonite, Hitmontop, and Pineco/Forrtress.

Keep up the awesome work and videos

Glad I grew up playing Japanese green version and played red and blue and in the 90s. Man being a kid back then, link battles, game sharks, so nostalgia.

Gen 3 is my favorite gen, but gen 2 has my favorite sprite art for sure. Crystal version Typhlosion is my absolute favorite

Seviper's sprite in Sapphire & Emerald looks amazing

I really love all the new sprites they gave to the Kanto and Johto pokemon in HGSS. They're some of my favorite sprites in the series alongside Crystal and BW/BW2.

Enjoying all your recent videos, Mystic, but wanting a best team Gale of Darkness. Along with No Restrictions for the Johto Remakes and Ultra Sun/Moon.

11:12 is actually pretty cool looking like it's killing something I dont really think it's ugly imo it's literal perfection

I legit want a new game with sprites.

While you should do the Worst Design Sprites of Pokemon from each Generation, I think I another video idea you should do is Best & Worst Sprites for Pokemon Trainers of Each Generations. That would be very interesting to see!

I always thought g1 Exeggcute was using its psychic powers to make the illusion of one of them being much bigger to intimidate the player.

i think heracross' animation in emerald is really cool with the way it charges at you with its horn

I like for Sprites to return in a Pokemon game and I like them to be like Gen 4 with a mix of Gen 5 animation.

Tentacruel with the arms crossed was so badass

I’m replaying Emerald (again) while watching lol

Sprites were just so much better😔😔 (Im actually playing white 2 rn 😅😅 sprites in gen 5 are my fav)

Over a decade...Man, I hardly even noticed!

Gengar looks like he came straight out of the Monsters Inc movie 😂

Can you do the 3d models since in gen 9 they really improved and prior to gen 9 gen 6's megas had really solid designs

Exeggutor's Yellow sprite was so good that they reused it in GSC.

I think GSC is the most aesthetically pleasing because each Pokemon sprite is limited to two colors and black and white. Sometimes I see artists draw Pokemon with the limited color palette and they usually look great.

the sprites and overall gen 3-5 aestetics are reason why i play mainly romhacked gen 3 games like ultra violet, that lets' you use all pokemon from kanto to hoenn in firered playthrough. Another one is pokemon Quetzal, game that lets me use every pokemon that was ever listed in pokedex. It contains every pokemon from gen 1 to gen 9 implemented into emerald story with mega evolution Z-moves and gigantamax mechanics.

I love the sprite work of Butterfree which was my first shiny and Pichu.

Red/Blue Nidoking and Nidoqueen are actually a highlight for me. They’re particularly stand outs of really good quality when a lot of the sprites were still a little odd

I won't name all my favorites since that'd result in a giant list. So here's a large handful from the first five generations; Pokemon Red/Blue Haunter, Green Mewtwo, Yellow Blastoise, Yellow Charizard, Yellow Hitmonlee, Yellow Hitmonchan, Yellow Nidoqueen, Yellow Nidoking, Yellow Golem, G/S/C Haunter, G/S/C Gengar, G/S/C Muk, Silver Blastoise, G/S/C Charizard, G/S/C Espeon, G/S/C Misdreavus, Crystal Houndoom, Emerald Nidoking, Emerald Absol, Emerald Ludicolo, Emerald Sceptile, Emerald Blaziken, Emerald Flygon, Emerald Registeel, Emerald Metagross, FR/LG Charizard, FR/LG Blastoise, FR/LG Venusaur, FR/LG Sandslash, FR/LG Nidoqueen, FR/LG Alakazam, FR/LG Marowak, FR/LG Rhydon... Platinum Lucario, Platinum Giratina altered forme, Platinum Weavile, Platinum Gliscor, Platinum Toxicroak, Platinum Gallade, Platinum Garchomp, HG/SS Skarmory, HG/SS Charizard, HG/SS Steelix, HG/SS Ampharos, HG/SS Lugia, HG/SS Tentacruel, HG/SS Houndoom, HG/SS Heracross, HG/SS Ariados, HG/SS Dragonair, HG/SS Machamp, HG/SS Gyarados, HG/SS Typhlosion, HG/SS Feraligatr, HG/SS Meganium, HG/SS Suicune, HG/SS Entei, HG/SS Raikou... B/W/W2/B2 Blastoise, B/W/B2/W2 Mienshao, B/W/B2/W2 Hydregion, B/W/B2/W2 Serperior, B/W/B2/W2 Scolipede, B/W/B2/W2 Krookodile, B/W/B2/W2 Excadrill, B/W/B2/W2 Haxorus, B/W/B2/W2 Lilligant, B/W/B2/W2 Zoroark, B/W/B2/W2 Volcarona, B/W/B2/W2 Meloetta, B/W/B2/W2 Swampert, B/W/B2/W2 Tyranitar, B/W/B2/W2 Machoke, B/W/B2/W2 Glaceon, B/W/B2/W2 Leafeon, B/W/B2/W2 Espeon, B/W/B2/W2 Umbreon, B/W/B2/W2 Rayquaza, B/W/B2/W2 Muk, B/W/B2/W2 Mawile, B/W/B2/W2 Ho-oh, B/W/B2/W2 Arcanine, B/W/B2/W2 Articuno, B/W/B2/W2 Zapdos, B/W/B2/W2 Moltres, B/W/B2/W2 Mewtwo, B/W/B2/W2 Pikachu, B/W/B2/W2 Raichu, B/W Reshiram, and B/W Zekrom.

Another gen 5 sprite that you didn't mention that I ADORE is Eelektross

Favourite sprite of each gen? Gen 1 - Kingler Gen 2 - Houndoom Gen 3 - Aggron Gen 4 - Yanmega Gen 5 - Serperior

GSC will never be surpassed.

God, how much I Iove Golbat's gen 1 sprite... Mewtwo was incredibly cool, too. I remember the mindblowing feeling when I started pkm crystal and discovered the sprites were now (then) animated. I... no, stop, nostangia is killing me !

I hope the gen 5 remakes we'll eventually get had the HD2D aesthetic from some square enix games

Hey Mystic umbreon would you ever talk about an online Pokémon game it was called Pokémon duel I really love this game and I want to bring it back

Gen 5 cofagrigus was pretty sick

I had a previous vid on 1.25x and watched this after. I thought he was speaking normally. Then I realized 💀💀

The sprite-era needs a comeback for sure

Gen 2 sprites are so aesthetic

Which team could I use if I run all gen 9 starters

Green’s Gengar looks like Peter Griffin

I kinda like original Mew. It looks way more alien, which helps portraying the original intention of Pokémon being releated to space in a more paranormal sense.

Imagine how good a pokemon game would be with sprites these days. No 3D, just 2D like in the old times. I think such a game would be one of the best because they couldn't screw things up with bad graphics^^

Just gonna say, pokemon crystal had the best sprites for just about every mon in the series, they were that good.

If Gen 1 tentacruel isn't mentioned I'm suing

i love gen 3 gen 4 and gen 5 sprite

Gotta say, i grew up in gen and rank sun and moon as some of my favourites (in the minority i know) but yeah, me and my brothers are definitely team sprites haha

I miss when Salamence was sorta dark violet

I think charizard best sprite is definitely gen 5 he looks more menacing with that animation and pose. And from the back looks great too. I think I’d prefer gen 5 sprites as a whole there’s a lot more good than bad ones imo. I wish we did get another sprite based game based on gen 5 sprites. (FYI this is coming from a genwunner)

Nidoking has never looked as cool as he did in red/blue.

It is just my OPINION: the traditional main-series games should have kept sprites, and they should have put all the 3D energy into spinoffs like Legends: Arceus. Yes I understand legends arceus is a main series game, but it’s like main series with an asterisk.

If Black and White get a remake I would like them to be in a 2DHD style. That way we can have sprites again

I’m starting to come to the side of going 3D was a mistake for Pokémon. We all wanted 3D but I really enjoy playing the older games. For example I love ORAS but I’d much rather play gen 3 because I feel the sprites add more personality.

Gen V style sprites. I feel like that's when the art style peaked. Admittedly Gen III's art style (sprites and all) is one I will forever regard fondly, but I still feel like Gen V was the best.

Gen 1 Venesaur's salad back sprite >

2D anime character cel sprites shall be possible.

I love HGSS Gyarados

To be honest I like the golbat sprites in yellow then the red and blue golbat sprites

My opinion is that te gen 4 games is the perfect middel ground. Stopt playing after that, because it feels it is was not the same anymore

I kinda wish Gengar was a black Pokemon with a purple sheen on him, comparable to Venom from Marvel for example.

Gen 2 is when Pokemon looked the best!

Red and Blue is borderline unplayable for me with how bad the sprites are even more so the back sprites. Yellow was a huge improvement but Gen 2 improvement was game changing and my favourite

Gen 1 parasect was top teir

The sprites made Pokemons look more cool.

Go ahead and create that video on the worst from gen 1 to 5. Gen 1 has plenty to pick from with Green. Though Mewtwo in Pokemon Red/Blue is attempting to be an ape. Porygon doesn't really look correct in Pokemon Yellow. Blastoise is chubby; including his/her shell, in Red/Blue. Not to mention erroneous decisions with Kakuna, Cloyster, Koffing, Kingler, and Exeggcute in Red/Blue. Sadly generation 2 didn't really do much to fix the in-game designs of the Machop family. Skarmory has an unusual beak and the later on discarded double tail feature before Crystal. Houndoom in Pokemon Silver looked rather unusual. Smoochum is unusually mean. Raikou in Gold and Silver lacks the refinement of the Crystal sprite. Some of the gen 1 Pokemon in Ruby/Sapphire/Emerald look off. Nosepass doesn't really resemble the ones elsewhere. Swampert looks unusual in generation 3. Skarmory would look generally strange until Heart Gold/Soul Silver. Rayquaza's mouth is rather off. I feel that Platinum improved on nearly all the sprites from Diamond and Pearl. Like Gliscor, Infernape, Shinx, Drapion, and Magnezone. Sadly, though, Empoleon in Platinum is a rare exception. Heart Gold/Soul Silver has some rather good sprites. That said, Blastoise feels unusually chubby; more akin to how he/she was like in Red/Blue; though not as bad. Sadly Muk's sprite is not too good here. Generation 5 has really good sprites overall. That said, Black Kyurem doesn't seem right in sprite form. The genies in their incarnate forms look not all that good in neither artwork form nor sprite form. Eelektross looks like he/she is standing on the ground; which is not supposed to be the actual case. When it comes to shinies; shiny Weavile and shiny Espeon are really bad to look at.

Not mentioning Nidoking in gen one is blasphemous

is need a 3d one

GSC has good sprites comparatively to RBY, but it doesn't have the best sprites.

Back when Pokémon where more edgy (literally)

To me the designs of pokemon fell off at black and white. Thats why I prefer gen 2 remake over gen 5

Red and Blue were better Sprites than Yellow Imo was hideous

No love for G1 Golbat?