Which is the single worst looking Pokemon?

[dragontype]

Filthy Fairies

[omahanime]

@tonysandlin

A friend of mine pointed out that Trubbish, Muk, and Weezing represent land, water, and air pollution. I knew they all represented some type of pollution, but I never really thought of them as a trio. Simple things like this allow me to appreciate Pokemon I once disliked.

There is no redeeming that stupid horse Keldeo, though.

And Exploud is noise pollution?

[tonysandlin]

@omahanime

@tonysandlin

A friend of mine pointed out that Trubbish, Muk, and Weezing represent land, water, and air pollution. I knew they all represented some type of pollution, but I never really thought of them as a trio. Simple things like this allow me to appreciate Pokemon I once disliked.

There is no redeeming that stupid horse Keldeo, though.

And Exploud is noise pollution?

A revelation!

[richiel1991]

Jigglypuff and Marill… these ugly round balls I just want to kick

[xuzu]

Just gen 1-3, I can’t pick but one some that stand out are Hitmonchan, Jynx and Blaziken,

[killerred09]

Avalugg

[smpratte]

[hisoka107]

@smpratte

You don’t like being reminded about your car keys when seeing Pokemon.

It’s definitely up with bad Pokemon designs. Do you think more and more of the newer Pokemon generations have crappy designs? This last set had a lot of dumb Pokemon.

[KingPokemon]

The blob…Muk.

[smpratte]

@hisoka107

@smpratte

You don’t like being reminded about your car keys when seeing Pokemon.

It’s definitely up with bad Pokemon designs. Do you think more and more of the newer Pokemon generations have crappy designs? This last set had a lot of dumb Pokemon.

I will always think the 1st generation has the best design because it was the original. With that said, I think it is objectively difficult to keep things original when so many designs or ideas already exist. At least if they do things like keys, provide some sort of story/reasoning.

[e2d2]

@hisoka107

It’s definitely up with bad Pokemon designs. Do you think more and more of the newer Pokemon generations have crappy designs? This last set had a lot of dumb Pokemon.

Yes! I am not a fan of the animated inanimate objects, which are rife in the newer generations. I feel like it’s “not natural”, as my baseline comparison is always the first 150. But then I have to remind myself that “Pokemon” and “natural” doesn’t really make sense either. So I can’t tell if they really do suck, or I’m just stuck in my ways.

@smpratte I agree that backstories can help. I now have a new appreciation for Trubbish thanks to @tonysandlin

But still. Fuck vanilluxe. Like…why? (Jk guys…but seriously).

[milhouse]

I always find it interesting when people point to Trubbish or Vanilluxe and others as being stupidly designed because the concept is absurd or whatever.

Gen 1 has 2 piles of purple goo(3 with Ditto), 2 Pokeballs, a floating Magnet that turns into 3 of them stuck together, 2 literal Seals, and a pile of eggs.

I totally get that nostalgia plays a huge role and that people often like Gen 1 for its simplicity, but they cant just make the same Pokemon over and over again.

[zenard]

@milhouse

I always find it interesting when people point to Trubbish or Vanilluxe and others as being stupidly designed because the concept is absurd or whatever.

Gen 1 has 2 piles of purple goo(3 with Ditto), 2 Pokeballs, a floating Magnet that turns into 3 of them stuck together, 2 literal Seals, and a pile of eggs.

I totally get that nostalgia plays a huge role and that people often like Gen 1 for its simplicity, but they cant just make the same Pokemon over and over again.

I just wish they wouldn’t do the whole urban spin, it’s a real immersion breaker for me.

[missingno]

@milhouse

I always find it interesting when people point to Trubbish or Vanilluxe and others as being stupidly designed because the concept is absurd or whatever.

Gen 1 has 2 piles of purple goo(3 with Ditto), 2 Pokeballs, a floating Magnet that turns into 3 of them stuck together, 2 literal Seals, and a pile of eggs.

I totally get that nostalgia plays a huge role and that people often like Gen 1 for its simplicity, but they cant just make the same Pokemon over and over again.

Pollution mutation with dna
Robots designed to explode
Mewtwos genetic material
Seels with ice capabilities
Eggs with active life in em
And an ultramagnetic experiment

Garbage, Ice cream…

[milhouse]

Klefki is one of my favourite Gen 6 Pokemon, but I feel like something really simple could have made it so much more accepted and liked by the Pokemon community.

Instead of Fairy/Steel, it should have been Ghost/Steel. The story that a Ghost has inhabited/possessed a keychain is much more believable within the Pokemon universe than it somehow being a Fairy.

[e2d2]

@milhouse

I always find it interesting when people point to Trubbish or Vanilluxe and others as being stupidly designed because the concept is absurd or whatever.

Gen 1 has 2 piles of purple goo(3 with Ditto), 2 Pokeballs, a floating Magnet that turns into 3 of them stuck together, 2 literal Seals, and a pile of eggs.

I totally get that nostalgia plays a huge role and that people often like Gen 1 for its simplicity, but they cant just make the same Pokemon over and over again.

I can totally appreciate that they need to change it up, but I think the original were more based (or seemed imo more based) on the natural world. I think there is still a lot of nature that can be mined for inspiration.

Magnets, goo, seals, and eggs all have some relation to nature. I don’t hate on the Pokemon that are thinly veiled or not veiled animal representations as much as I would on the use of inanimate objects. I could imagine a natural development of a “monster” that resembles an egg squad. But I can’t imagine a “monster” that looks like an Easter Island statue or a vanilla ice cream cone without assuming some use of human magic, rather than the idea of evolving naturally. And I say this while appreciating the whole scope of supernatural/magic Pokemon. But I would argue these variations (especially in the original 150) are still very naturalistic in terms of their lore and the supernatural properties.

I think Ditto is a great example of the creativeness of the first gen in relation to nature and the idea of evolution. Also, I always associated Voltorb/Electrode as a representation of an electron or some type of electric particle.

There’s so much of nature and what makes up the physical to world to use as inspiration that I don’t enjoy the inanimate objects as much. Take a quark or an bioluminescent sea creature as inspiration…but not a vanilla ice cream cone.

[xuzu]

I remember seeing the set of keys for the first time when I played Alpha Sapphire. I couldn’t believe it. What kind of inanimate objects can they come up with next? A ketchup bottle?

[missingno]

@e2d2

@milhouse

I always find it interesting when people point to Trubbish or Vanilluxe and others as being stupidly designed because the concept is absurd or whatever.

Gen 1 has 2 piles of purple goo(3 with Ditto), 2 Pokeballs, a floating Magnet that turns into 3 of them stuck together, 2 literal Seals, and a pile of eggs.

I totally get that nostalgia plays a huge role and that people often like Gen 1 for its simplicity, but they cant just make the same Pokemon over and over again.

I can totally appreciate that they need to change it up, but I think the original were more based (or seemed imo more based) on the natural world. I think there is still a lot of nature that can be mined for inspiration.

Magnets, goo, seals, and eggs all have some relation to nature. I don’t hate on the Pokemon that are thinly veiled or not veiled animal representations as much as I would on the use of inanimate objects. I could imagine a natural development of a “monster” that resembles an egg squad. But I can’t imagine a “monster” that looks like Stonehenge or a vanilla ice cream cone without assuming some use of human magic, rather than the idea of evolving naturally. And I say this while appreciating the whole scope of supernatural/magic Pokemon. But I would argue these variations (especially in the original 150) are still very naturalistic in terms of their lore and the supernatural properties.

I think Ditto is a great example of the creativeness of the first gen in relation to nature and the idea of evolution. Also, I always associated Voltorb/Electrode as a representation of an electron or some type of electric particle.

There’s so much of nature and what makes up the physical to world to use as inspiration that I don’t enjoy the inanimate objects as much. Take a quark or an bioluminescent sea creature as inspiration…but not a vanilla ice cream cone.

This is simply perfectly said.

[smpratte]

@milhouse

Klefki is one of my favourite Gen 6 Pokemon, but I feel like something really simple could have made it so much more accepted and liked by the Pokemon community.

Instead of Fairy/Steel, it should have been Ghost/Steel. The story that a Ghost has inhabited/possessed a keychain is much more believable within the Pokemon universe than it somehow being a Fairy.

I remember when I played the game and fought a pair of floating keys, I was like, alright, possessed keys, ghost type, I get it. Then I looked it up on bulbapedia and saw fairy…

[mini]

As a Magneton collector. I find this very negative…

But I can’t stand the new gen cards. I started collecting them last year and I hate what they have come up with.

Nosepass? Really? Wtf !