>>723717580
It was a cool and monstrous sort of hideous in its original game, like, you know, an alligator. Every depiction after that has fucked it up more and more. Gen 3 washed out the colors and gave it a weaker jaw. Gen 4 made it thinner, the jaw even weaker, gave it eye liner, and turned the spikes into rooster combs. Gen 5 is even thinner and more washed out. Finally the transition to 3D just fucks its shit up, makes it a blobby lardass with weirdly visible pecs (???) and the color exposure is cranked up to 1000%.

lots of mons follow this pattern. Amazing Gen 2 sprite > dogshit GBA sprites > slight decline through gen 5 > X/Y permanently JUSTS them