Do you like or dislike the designs?

[evanonline]

I'm the only person in the whole Pokecommunity forums who likes the dolphin evo.... 😭 It's a cool super hero dolphin Pokemon, like an aquatic Captain America.... 😍 What is it's stats btw? And is it worth using in a playthrough? No one talks about it because everyone thinks it looks horrendous, but l like it and is willing to use it in a playthrough. I just would love to know it's stats, because the leaks are now almost absent from social media thanks to copyright strikes...

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Its stats are good! 457 BST in its regular form, 650 (!!!) in its hero form. I'm of two minds about it, I do really like the concept and design but I've wanted a dolphin Pokemon for a long time and I was hoping for something... more straightforward than this, I guess? But the ability and gimmick is really cute. Ultimately it's grown on me.

 

[Sapphirejas]

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Yeah, I'm glad I'm not the only one who likes it! :) I love Pokemon with unique designs, and a dolphin super hero is a really unique concept for a Pokemon design. A slightly larger and regular looking evolution like Pawmi and Dunsparce would be very boring... That's why Pawmi and Dunsparce in my opinions have the worst evolutions. But I can see people who doesn't like drastic changes and more 'normal' looking Pokemon would like them :) I saw someone else on the forums who loves Pawmi's evolution line because of this. And because we have many other animalistic water types like Lanturn, Gorebyss, Lapras, Seaking etc... And I personally like humanoid Pokemon, because they have more character. Inteleon being a cool as a sniper and shooting water from it's fingertip as an example and that wouldn't work very well with an animalistic lizard Pokemon)

 

[Sweet Serenity]

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Its stats are good! 457 BST in its regular form, 650 (!!!) in its hero form. I'm of two minds about it, I do really like the concept and design but I've wanted a dolphin Pokemon for a long time and I was hoping for something... more straightforward than this, I guess? But the ability and gimmick is really cute. Ultimately it's grown on me.

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Yeah, I'm glad I'm not the only one who likes it! :) I love Pokemon with unique designs, and a dolphin super hero is a really unique concept for a Pokemon design. A slightly larger and regular looking evolution like Pawmi and Dunsparce would be very boring... That's why Pawmi and Dunsparce in my opinions have the worst evolutions. But I can see people who doesn't like drastic changes and more 'normal' looking Pokemon would like them :) I saw someone else on the forums who loves Pawmi's evolution line because of this. And because we have many other animalistic water types like Lanturn, Gorebyss, Lapras, Seaking etc... And I personally like humanoid Pokemon, because they have more character. Inteleon being a cool as a sniper and shooting water from it's fingertip as an example and that wouldn't work very well with an animalistic lizard Pokemon)

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[Palamon]

Now that I've seen all the new Pokemon I can say with confidence I only truly love a few of them. For a lot of them I like them pretty alright, but I really feel like a lot of the new Pokemon just look terrible in 3D. I won't spoil any of the leaked Pokemon, or anything, but the 3D models just look awful. And there are some Pokemon that just feel overdesigned. I do like at least half of the new creatures that we're getting but there are some that are just really bad.

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The tumbleweed Pokemon, jesus. I really do not like it. It's just a tumbleweed with eyes. How is that a Pokemon?

I remain optimistic that the 2D artwork will make them all look better. But, a lot of the new designs in 3D just aren't doing it for me yet. My definite least favorites are

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The tumbleweed and pepper Pokemon because that thing straight up look damn scary. I am not a fan of that pepper mon at all. & I'm usually cool w/"scary" Pokemon, but what will the kids playing think when they see that scary pepper monster?

It's going to take me awhile to warm up to these new Pokemon, for sure.

 

[virtualpet]

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This seems to be unpopular but most of us actually love a good chunk of the new Pokemon and had a hard time trying to narrow down a potential team of 6. There's just a handful I at least really don't like but they'll probably grow on me as I play the game. Spidops is the only one I felt disappointing by because Tarountula looks really cool, but like I think Flamigo is funny and Scovillian looks cool to me, and going through the dex leak I thought "wow that looks rad" a lot more than I felt disappointed. I'm very excited for this game!

 

[Sapphirejas]

For future reference, when discussing leaks, especially in a thread that doesn't have a spoiler warning, try to always use spoiler tags until the information is officially released.

Oh no! I'm sorry, I've forgotten to add spoiler tags... 😣

 

[Maserati777]

I'm not a huge fan.

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A lot of the designs are cartoonish and blocky. I prefer the Pokemon that resemble real animals rather then animals with crazy colors. Like the ostrich Pokemon not a fan of it. But I do like the flamingo. I don't really like the dog Pokemon this gen either.

 

[Superfox]

In all honesty? A lot of them are...not great. There are a few that I'm huge fan of and others that have grown on me. I really love Arboliva's design and I have taken a liking to Orthworm, Garganacl, Scovillain, and Baxcalibur. However, a large majority of them are stupid. Revavroom is really silly-looking and I can't help but think that they could have done better for our first Poison/Steel type. Also, I think Finizen is frickin adorable, but...why didn't it just evolve into the hero form of Palafin? Why does it evolve into a Finizen with a heart tattooed on its chest. and what in the world is Glimmet supposed to be? And idk what they were thinking with Tandemaus.

And on top of that, anyone else really disappointed in the regional bird and bug lines for this gen? Most of all...why do we only have two-stagers for these lines? The past few gens have given us great birds and bugs. Its a shame to follow up Corviknight and Orbeetle, two amazing three-stage lines with the ones we got this gen.

The only one out of them I really love is Lokix. That is a cool new Bug-type. Spidops, however, is ridiculous-looking. And again, there's no main three-stage regional bug line. Same thing for the "regional bird" Killowattrel. Why is it only two stages? They could have made a really badass looking albatross as the final stage, but chose to omit that.

 

[Latios_Enjoyer]

I like the Pokémon.
However the humans feels overall weaker then Sword and Shield.

 

[Squirtkipfan01]

Update

Now that ive seen alot of the newer mons i can comfortably say that the ones we were shown in trailers were masking the actually good ones. Alot of good mons here

 

[Iceshadow3317]

After playing the game now. Even more pokemon I have started to like. Eventually I will do a Top 10, but for the time. For those who haven't seen the pokemon yet in game, don't judge them too quickly. Because like official art, many of these pokemon look way better when you are actually playing the game and see the animations instead of a motionless image.

 

[Hands]

its a real mixed bag, I really love some of them but think others are in the top 10 worst designs in the franchise. I HATE Gimmieghoul with a passion

 

[Orion☆]

Help, I have become attached to Chien-Pao after watching a couple videos of it in action! These games already killed me from cuteness with Miraidon, and now they're doing it again with this weirdly cute snow leopard/weasel thing! It's even cuter than Sneasel and Weavile!

...Truth be told, I really wish Chien-Pao had been this Generation's pseudo-legendary line instead of a full-blown Legendary. We didn't need another Godzilla clone when Tyranitar does the job well, or yet another Dragon-type pseudo line when Salamence, Garchomp and Dragapult already changed the game in various ways. Plus, we could have had cute kitten and long teen versions of it, not to mention reserved concepts for future pseudos in the rest of the Ruinous Quartet! What a missed opportunity.

 

[Sandslash Fan]

The starters from the recent gens have been too human looking in their final forms. The water starter for GEN 9 looks horrible in the final form IMO