I feel you misunderstand me. The concept of Z Moves is fine. It is the animations that bother me. That Pikachu animation that the character does is just ridiculous. It looks so stupid, like I can't take just how stupid it looks.
We actually have a lot of knowledge on how effective the Z Moves will be. We can also make educated guesses oh how the Z Moves will boost other moves based on the information we already have.
"My issue with the Dex leak is not that it was leaked, it is that this has to be the weakest Dex in terms of style and creativity. It it really bad."
So in short, Z Moves? I completely understand why they are in the game. It is the ANIMATIONS that make your character look incredibly stupid and excessively childish. I'm not opposed to the Z Moves, I just hate the animations.
The Dex appears to be incomplete with so many single stage Pokémon, a good number with terrible designs, and Ultra Beasts which are almost unanimously hated. Then we get Alolan forms, which as a Gen 1 Fanboy, I figured XY pandered to us already. The Alolan forms are about 50/50 on good changes, and terrible designs.
There are good designs like the Ninetales line, then there is stuff like the Persian and Diglett/Dugtrio which look like bad fan art. To be fair though, Ninetales just looks like really good fan art.
Oh! I see. I apologize, I get where you're coming from now.
"We actually have a lot of knowledge on how effective the Z Moves will be. We can also make educated guesses oh how the Z Moves will boost other moves based on the information we already have."
Do we really? I mean, don't get me wrong a lot of competitive players have made educated guesses about how Z-moves can be useful, but other than how we use them, or how they can be useful, it's all speculation at this point.
"My issue with the Dex leak is not that it was leaked, it is that this has to be the weakest Dex in terms of style and creativity. It it really bad."
Okay, let me disagree here. I understand that this dex is small and that people don't like that( I don't like it much either), but at this point I feel unless there is a huge outcry about it, we aren't getting too many new mons in the future. However, what I will say is that while I didn't like the small dex in X and Y and like it here because Alola is more spread out and non-linear.(Unlike Kalos where you only had small portions of places to go).
As for the designs of the Pokemon, can I ask how is this Dex lacking "creativity"? You don't need 150 Pokemon to make a good dex. Look at Gen 5. As much as I love that generation and the large amount of Pokemon in it, so many of the Pokemon go unnoticed due to there crappy moveset (Basculin), crappy ability (Archeops), or poor stat distribution(alomola). I'd rather have a small dex of really good Pokemon, rather than 100 Pokemon that are either broken or not viable in the slightest.
Also, whose to say bigger Pokedexes don't show a sign of laziness? I'll point to Gen 1. Out of all the designs we could have gotten, we got a Krab, 3 semicylinders put together(Dugtrio),
a Pokeball(which is probably the laziest design because it's just a circle), and 3 Magnemites put together. (Don't give the excuse it's just the first Gen because other games did at better job of portraying monsters
at the time in the same genre.) How is that any better than Pokemon actually functioning like real life animals and adapting to their environment in various ways? Some of the designs are weird, and I admit there are a couple I don't like, but it's obvious some time and effort went into it. (Yes, even including Alolan Dugtrio).
Pokemon are basically the equivalent of real -life animals in the games, and in real life, animals don't always look cool and edgy. Some look weird, creepy, or downright disgusting.Creating the same type of cool and edgy design for every single Pokemon would make the game boring. I understand a lot of people want this, but once in awhile there needs to be some variety. It's the same problem I had with Digimon a while back, the monsters looked cool, but after awhile, they all tended to look like the same cool/edgy factor applied over and over again( with little exceptions here and there, but not a lot).
Alola Pokemon may not be the most appealing to the majority of players, but at least they tried to give some lore to the Alolan Pokemon so it makes sense. At least we don't have Pokemon in this gen that's just a circle. I understand(as an artist myself) that everyone has there preferences, but whenever someone tells me that a newer gens design sucks, I really need proof to show me that it's any more worse than Voltorb.
"So in short, Z Moves? I completely understand why they are in the game. It is the ANIMATIONS that make your character look incredibly stupid and excessively childish. I'm not opposed to the Z Moves, I just hate the animations."
I get that, but I hope you realize that you're playing as a kid in the game, right? I get the game is for everyone, but to be fair, your character has to be at least 12 years old. And as a 12 year old kid, you still do childish things. I feel as dance moves, Z-moves exemplify that childish nature of your avatar.However, I can understand why some people don't like it and to me, I can see it being a matter of preference.
"The Dex appears to be incomplete with so many single stage Pokémon, a good number with terrible designs, and Ultra Beasts which are almost unanimously hated. Then we get Alolan forms, which as a Gen 1 Fanboy, I figured XY pandered to us already. The Alolan forms are about 50/50 on good changes, and terrible designs."
You are right that the dex is incomplete( it was actually proven in the newest trailer that the Pokedex is not complete), but I don't see why having so many single stage Pokemon is such a bad thing. It sucks they don't evolve, but I don't see people complain about Klefki or Rotom. They work fine as single stage Pokemon. Whose to say that these new Alolan Pokemon can't work as being single-staged? Many of them already have broken abilities. I don't see them struggling to much anytime soon. Also, I mentioned this above already, but "terrible design" is subjective as I have yet to see a Pokemon worse than Voltorb in this Generation.
Um....A lot of people I know don't necessarily hate Ultra Beasts, they just think they are weird. The only people I see hate Ultra Beast are the ones who think it can't be a Pokemon because it's "too different".(not that we know what they are, but right now it's uncertain to say the least).
I will definitely agree that Alola forms are 100000% Kanto pandering bullshit and I hate it, but they are optional, sobecaues I don't have to use them, I won't. However, once I complete the game, I will actually give them a chance and see if I like them. I can sort of agree with you on Alola forms being 50/50 chances of being good, but a lot of them like Alolan Muk look promising. I think Alolan Persian looks terrible too, but I don't think it's design is objectively bad(
considering inbreeding could've caused that face but enough of that) Alolan Dugtrio looks odd, but it's too funny for me to hate personally. It seems to be a reference to Pele's hair( A form of lava that kind of looks like hair) and while it's execution could've been better, I can give them props for trying a new concept.
Ninetales looks heavenly af! Sign me up :D