QotD: Which pokemon (not including zard, Pikachu or Eevee) has the best overall art across all their cards?

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QotD: Which pokemon (not including zard, Pikachu or Eevee) has the best overall art across all their cards?

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Bonsly. Only 4 different arts.


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Gengar and Gyarados.

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The question should exclude all of Gen1. Otherwise Mew would be the obvious winner.

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Weeeeeeeee! Look at the little guy go!

Bulbasaur also goes brazy

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Tyranitar imo

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Magneton

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I shilled ralts art in another thread




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that top-right art rlly makes me think of blanky from the brave little toaster lol.

i wish i could say quagsire but honestly the tcg has done quag dirty in my opinion. my personal fav is poliwhirl, i love how often it’s putting its arms up, like a champion boxer or like it wants uppies. it’s also so round that putting its arms down by its sides might not be comfortable :smiling_face_with_three_hearts:

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Crobat and sableye

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Thank you! I am a fan now!

Cheers!

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Have to be super biased and go with my boy Nidoking now that he has finally started getting some modern art style love (even in TCG Pocket where we finally got to see him shine in all his blue glory)!

But even his OG artwork has always been so strong and powerful especially the crystal super sayan!

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If you include language-exclusive prints, Mew is definitely at the top. Alongside these linked, don’t forget CoroCoro Shining Mew, ___'s Mew, Mew ex Play Promo, Chinese Mew ex 003/SV-P, etc.

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+ 2002 McDonalds Promo, often overlooked Mew.

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First one that comes to mind is Ninetales. Some of my favorites:

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My non-gen 1 answer: Duskull. He’s just a spooky lil’ guy.

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High key considering becoming a girafarig collector on the side, I love that the cards have a wide range of art styles represented and it also has one of the best-designed evolutions

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Two that instantly came to mind (note that I haven’t even copied all artworks):

Snorlax:

Ponyta:

Greetz,
Quuador

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I’d have to go with magikarp or psyduck

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