What do you consider the best looking/best designed Pokemon, regardless of how you feel about them

Dreepy

I've always found swadloon memorable, not sure why, bro just looks comfy

it's objectively Pikachu

>>57956313 (OP)
Torkoal

>>57956313 (OP)
He looks like that oldman cavemen Digimon

>>57956313 (OP)
If you squint you can see a hippo but I just love how it's so ambiguously monstrous otherwise

>>57956313 (OP)
it's a slightly better butterfree which is kinda meh, but it really encouraged the new wondertrade mechanic

It breaks my heart how shit she is.
I don't think it's possible to design a worse single stage mon if you tried.

>>57956441
it's not
it's decent

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>>57956441
Unown
Luvdisc
Onix

>>57956313 (OP)
to me, it's exploud. it's the essence of what makes a pokémon, distilled.

>>57956424
It was pretty good in VGC for a little.
Also somehow people don't know it works with Pokemon Go and postcards

>>57956328
Comfy bros unite

>>57956441
>Make Mega Mawile, the perfect evolution to Mawile, both design wise and gameplay wise
>... Destroy megas

>>57956313 (OP)
>Perfect monster design, borrowing traits from numerous lizards but being cartoony enough to not be generic
>Also has that authentic weird Japanese monster feel by being based of Akaname, a yokai
>It takes being a small and pink creature with smooth round edges, traits that you would typically associate with the highly marketable starters and the rest of the pink mons of gen 1 and flips them on their head by being weird and ugly and gross
>Despite being off-putting, artists can still make him look cute if so desired by adding facial expressions unlike the early seasons of the anime where it rarely emoted much like an actual reptile
Lickitung encapsulates the fun, weird, Japanese appeal of Pokémon so brilliantly.

>>57956616
I'm sad that Boomburst isn't a signature move. Buff his special attack to make him a genuine wallbreaker.

>>57956313 (OP)
>gen 3 kino
>giant spike kaiju-mon
>looming blue eyes
>3-stager evo
>steel type brickhouse
>amazing stats and movepool even for gen 3
>cutie pie 1st evo, even middle stage form looks cool

The Rock typing was a nerf, otherwise it would be on every single team.

>>57956313 (OP)
For me it's Hitmontop. I like that it's an interesting balance of humanoid and monster.

>>57956313 (OP)
Cool, goofy, and creepy at the same time.

>>57957106
It's also one of those well designed evo families where each stage is distinct, yet has an obvious continuity. The perfect balance between the middle stage just being the final, but smaller, and the "where the fuck did that come from" where the stages are barely related.

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>>57956313 (OP)
Da bois.

>>57956313 (OP)
Both of them actually

>>57958613
*all three
My bad Dehlmise, I'm sorry it won't happen again.

>>57956313 (OP)
Somehow strikes the perfect balance between badass and strangely kinda cute. Perfectly captures the vibe of something you'd see graffiti-ed on the side of a wall, or a shitty doodle you'd make in your notebook in 5 minutes or less.

...or maybe I'm just biased, who knows.

Tyranitar. Anything that could be considered a perfect design should be a stage 2. Evolution is the core of pokemon so a build up leading to a grand conclusion is vital. With T-tar you have the cut lil Larvitar as an ideal first stage. You then have pupitar as the literal mid-stage chrysalis that with enough hard work eventually becomes the beautiful butterfly that is Tyranitar. He's difficult to find meaning you have to search far and wide and reach the heights of a trainer to get him. He's a kaiju which represents early pokemon's design philosophy. He's a pseudo, a long standing part of pokemon's identity. He sees competative success thanks to his ability, unique typing, and vastly customizable movepool creating a microcosm of the competative environment in a single pokemon. He's from the era when pokemon still had soul and represents the swan song of pokemania.

Absolute peak even if he isn't my personal favorite.

>>57956313 (OP)
Scizor.
Optimal level of coolness without crossing over to edge

>>57957106
Need more mini kaiju pokemon. Groudon and tyranitar are my favs but The WALL is close behind.

>>57957106
imagine if it had steel/fighting type

Emolga is peak.

better yet, it made the electric gym the funniest shit ever.

>you think ground is good enough for this gym?
>I hope you caught a roggenrola, because this is a flying gym now

Her

I can't decide between Roserade and Blaziken.

>>57956313 (OP)
sigh...

this fucking retard lizard

>>57959998
The latter is a digimon reject tho

blends tire and elephant in a very natural looking way. Bonus points to Phanpy for being a cute build up to it and the paradoxes for expanding on Donphan's major aspects.
>>57958642
i see it
>>57959230
Scizor is basically high end sports car as a Pokemon
>>57957040
to be fair most Boomburst uses have no STAB and/or shit special attack, so Exploud is one of the best uses, though its jarring it gets beaten out by Chatot by 1 point. Exploud should have 100 special attack at the bare minimum.

>>57956366
I don't like how the stripes on Pikachu's back and tail are brown, while his ear tips are black. Should've made them the same colour.

>>57958642
>lizard that sheds its skin and wears it like baggy pants
10/10 for the concept alone

Lapras is perfection. Lapras is unparalleled.

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.

Bump

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>>57961447
The idea is great but the actual design is bad

>>57963549
No it isn't

>>57956616
Dislike how different it is from whismur. Its one of the few mons with an evolution that feels disconnected from its first stage.

>>57963659
Except its not. The evolution line all share features of sound-based objects. More cohesive than the Squirtle line who have nothing to do with tanks except the last form.

>>57963659
I think if Whismur were the same blue-grey color it'd work better.

>>57964223
Yeah, I get that its got the whole sound based thing going on. But it still feels messy and not well connected. The going from quiet to loud is cool, and the middle evolution actually works better for Whismur if it was the final stage. But Exploud just sort of feels tacked on as a final 'even bigger and louder but also angry' form. Like it has middle evolution awkwardness in it's 3rd stage. The visual line doesn't feel good, it goes from shy and scared to outgoing and happy... and then to pissed.

Never really thought of it because I'm not the biggest fan of the middle evolution, but it does work as a better end form for Whismur than Exploud.