Generally my preferences are somewhere between Pokemon and Digimon (some recentish leggys often capture the feel I like).
Metagross is one of the best implementations of that middle style. When I first played Ruby, even though I wasn't actually on the internet yet, I still understood that a non-draconic pseudo-leggy was kind of a big deal (strangely it felt that way already only in Gen 3). Add to that its steel typing and whenever I battled Steven's Metagross I could FEEL the ground shaking beneath me over this absolute Protoss Dragoon slowly marching towards me and my mon.