This is how pokemon should look like
>>58711675remember when people said Garchomp looked like a digimon and/or was overdesigned? now it’s one of the most popular pokemon ever
>>58711675Based and true
>>58711685Gen 3-5 focused on edgier designs that aligned with digimon's design philosophy hence why a lot of mons from that era received that sort of criticism gen 6 onwards transitioned more towards cute and silly designs that could be made into memes
>>58711675This but Lopunny, Weavile, Mienshao, and Zoroark
I still think Haxorus should have had the axe on his tail.Now he has to fight like a stupid giraffe.
>>58711685Blastoise looks like a digimon.(This is a good thing)
>digimon comparisonswe have a pseudo legendary that launches missileswhen do we get a pseudo legendary that just outright has a gun (or mulitple)
>>58711702>lumping in 3 so you can pretend 4 and 5 aren’t out of place
>>58711675wheres gastrodon and sesemitoad
>>58712623gen 3 is the only one that has developer confirmation regarding its “cooler” designs
>>58712638here
>>58712623>>58712642
>>58712650Sugimori-san...we failed you. The era of the cool pokemon has died. All that is left is cutemons or uglymons.
>>58712609Hydreigon was going to have a tank theme but was later scrapped so likely never
>>58712650>only cool johturd mons are ttar, houndoom, scizor, and heracross>all are basically unusable grim
>>58711675Pokemon is an interesting franchise because not everything looks like this. Imo, I dislike Digimon because creatures of the same level of form look too similar. Garchomp and Haxorus are cool designs partly because they exist in a world where Azumarill and Farigiraf also exist.
>>58712650Literally came to post that imagePeople who hate "edgy digimon" designs are the toddlers who were brought in for gen 2
>>58712623Theyre no more out of place than designs like Blaziken, Metagross, or Rayquaza hoennbab
>>58712675>creatures of the same level of form look too similar.This only applies to Mega digimon
>>58711702>aligned with digimon's design philosophyEven the edgiest pokemon doesn't look like Spawn or Hellboy or any other 90's American comic, which is unironically what Digimon's design philosophy was based on. No one here knows what Digimon actually look like. Cute and silly started in gen 2, gen 3 attempted to hit the breaks on that
>>58712675Imo everything has a place in the franchise outside of retarded meme designs like pic rel. Pokemon isnt a cartoony franchise like Mario or Sonic introducing designs like this is immersion breaking
>Oldest surviving Pokemon designs are spiky aggressive looking kaijuBros...
>>58712688Id argue Darkrai and Grimmsnarl are somewhat spawn coded but yeah you won't see any pokemon drawn with a ton of musculature, bulging veins, deformities, etc.
>>58712609We have a gen 1 starter that grows random canons in its final evoGen 1 also has a literal digital monster but that's besides the point
>>58712704I think proto-Tyranitar was the first pokemon design.
>>58712642and yet they’re still not as fucking retarded looking as the gen 4-5 designs. Really makes you think.
>>58712609Remoraid was originally just a gun, with Octillery a tank. They dropped that theming considerably as the designs developed.Which helps explain the random fish-turning-into-an-octopus evolution.
>>58712741Nothing in gen 3 is as popular as Garchomp. Cope.
>>58712623>>58712741
gen3 killed pokemon with blaziken
>>58712745Not even Fug?
>>58712755Honestly, the actual thing that might be as popular is Absol.
>>58712745>Nothing in gen 3 appeals as much to retarded zoomers as GarchompYeah, true.
>>58712746it's a big bait
>>58712716>GrimmsnarlI can see thatAnother thing about Digimon is that even the non "edgy" ones are drawn to look they've hit the dirt and been roughed up, another thing taken from 90's comics. Most pokemon designs are too "clean"
>>58712744>Octillery a tankThey kinda made it work in the beta by making it look natural, which is pokemon's specialty(usually)
>>58712752Why is Ken like that?
>>58711675*how Pokemon should look'How look like' doesn't make sense, ESL-kun
All of those are female btw
Female and eager for love
>>58712671>ttarfair>houndoomfair>scizoronly unusable if you have no friends>heracrossobtainable by gym 3also you forgot crobat, steelix, and donphan>>58712679im a johtoGOD and i love coolmons though
>>58711675the brain of a 13 year old
digimon WON.
>>58713569That looks like an edgy manchidren fursuit. WTF
>>58712650That’s just corporate speak. The reality is he didn’t want to make Pokémon anymore, so he tried to made gen2 pokemon lame and babyish to get pokemon to fail so he’d be free to make pedo art of his child waifu Quinty
>>58713585Sugi is the type of guy to let it slip he prefers Sega over Nintendo and talk about how sucks as an artist. He has a filter but it's not 100% tight>so he tried to made gen2 pokemon lame and babyish to get pokemon to fail It's because TPC told him to make cuter mons to get even broader appeal, and make them simpler so they're easier to turn into toys. There's another quote of the president of tpc talking about how wanted even more girls to buy pokemon stuff in the late 90's>so he’d be free to make pedo art of his child waifu Quintyrespectable
>>58711675I love Giratina.
>>58713569That looks based WTF
>>58711675These are meh designs from the cringe color scheme era (Gen 4 and 5)
>>58713736fyi the faggot you're replying to is the typedo schizo who goes around every thread to vomit his fanfic about how Pedo Freak has an agenda against Gen 2 because Iwata embarrassed them or whatever
>>58711685Garchomp is mostly popular because it’s stupidly overpowered
>>58713962If that's true then why does it job so hard to glaceon
>>58713962ah yes just like the very popular mons "landorus-therian", "iron bundle", "urshifu", and "calyrex", among others
>>58714037Glaceon is mostly popular because she’s stupidly overpowered and sexy
>>58713962I wonder what kind of person you have to be to think this. You really can't imagine people like the cool dragon shark thing because it's a cool dragon shark?
>>58712675Megas are meant to be shilled, the actual creativity goes in the Champion designs
>>58714062>sheYou are mentally ill.
Literally all my pokémon are female
>>58712671>>58713545Scizor and Heracross are Fisher-Price, the former being a babyfied version of its preevoTyranitar only looks savage in its Gen III sprite
>>58712704and one of them is a downgrade in those aspects
>>58712745>>58712752
>>58713742this is a good demonstration of how the Digimon design philosophy makes everything subtly unappealing
>>58713736
>>58711675As a baseline, definitely. Pokemon are meant to be battle monsters first and foremost. Its how they were conceptualized from the very beginning, and the primary identity they hold. Cute, silly, weird or even plain designs also have their place, but they exist to provide variety from what is fundamental, and that's tough/cool/fierce monsters. Dinosaurs, kaijus, dragons, beasts. Thankfully, they've kept that identity still alive.
>>58713960>typedo Take your meds sister. Game freak hating johto has been obvious long before the FreakLeak/tera leak/ whatever the fuck we’re calling it. Iwata saving gen2 from game freak’s stupidity is common knowledge (only he did more than “put kantooooooooo in the game he made the game work at all) and game freak are in unashamed pedos who even put avatars of themselves thirsting over little kids and that would have any other company blacklisted and canceled.
>>58711685
Yeesh no wonder Gen2 flopped
>>58714852Torterrabros…
>>58714906Always found this image funny, because its trying to prove a point, yet Gen1Garchomp looks lame, and Gen4Charizard looks fine.
>>58714921Gen 4 starter popularity isn't objective, but rather heavily demographics based, so the statistics swing wildly
>>58714930maybe that was the point
>>58711675This is how pokemon should look like
>>58714946It originated from a post complaining about how "overdesigned" Pokemon had become. It was meant initially, and passed around as criticism.
>>58714936Torterra should still be the most popular, its design is far and away superior to the other two
>>58714973so is Venusaur's, but here we are
>>58713736>he prefers Sega over NintendoThat's funny considering he is a mega princess peach fan
>>58712696>its ok when digishit does it
>>58715250Digimon aren't meant to be animals so yeah it is
>>58713569Fursuit evos are cringe>>58713742This however is peak
>>58714890uh oh typedo's having a meltie!
>>58714988Japs with actual good taste for once
>>58714834>goalpost moving
>>58711685They said this about Rayquaza and Deoxys initially too, but most people on this board weren’t alive to remember that period.
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>>58711702gen 3 had goofmon like ludicolo and flygon lol
>>58716077Being goofy is not the same as being cartoony Ludicolo still has normal proportions compare it to something like Incineroar which has exaggerated proportions like a looney tunes character
>>58711675dwaguns
>>58716063proof?>>58716077how is flygon a goofymon
>>58714071I wonder what kind of person you have to be to think this. You really can't imagine the thing with a bad design being disliked?seriously, imagine anyone liking it if it had like Lickilicky's stats
>>58714055yes?incineroar is also in that boatyou are not making a point
>>58711685calling it a digimon is an insult to digimonI would gladly trade betsumon for garchump
Hoennfags acting like Gen 3 wasn't the first gen to receive the "Digimon" label by prior fans due to their designs is hilarious to me.
>>58715250Well yeahBoth series go for different things and follow different logic. Digimon somehow still knows how to make monsters that live in their own environment.
>>58716017please learn the definition
>>58716063>Theyyou and the other weird kids at your lunch table weren't the world
>>58714861How bout this?
>>58716071johtardllers really were (are) a deluded bunch
>>58711675Scaley threadScaley thread
>>58716077ludicolo is one of the most semantically detailed mons in the national dex and has more features than for example Azumarill, Octillery, Jumpluff, and even Bellossom
>>58716201Flygon has similarly shitty stats and it's still liked. In fact, it's one of the most popular.You personally just have complete shit taste such that only Fisher Price garbage sates it. You're in the minority on this topic.
>>58716218Blasturd was the very first Digimon of the entire series.
>>58716201>make Garchomp ass to use>make it not associated with CynthiaI could see it becoming unpopular as a result desu
>>58716374not that guy, but you have to be huffing sharpie fumes to think Flygon is shit. It’s by far one of the more accessible dragons and its stats are great for the games it comes from
>pokemon with digimon design philosophy
>>58716208we get it, youre trans
I think garchomp's popularity is aligned to cynthia'sit's a dumb looking mon on its own
>>58716478I think it would’ve still been popular even if it wasn’t tied to Cynthia. Contrarianism aside, it looks pretty cool.
>>58716478It’s a cool bipedal shark and it’s insanely popular even outside of Sinnoh. It’s not hard to see the appeal.
>>58716492>Latiasthat movie really stuck, huh?
The two jets on its head always looked dumb to me, and the gen 4 games were my first pokemon games as a kid
Yep
>>58716389Flygon is barely usable in Gen 3 OU and only used in Gen 4 OU because the better options are banned.
>>58716356this is a good demonstration of how the Pokemon artstyle makes everything subtly appealing
>>58716203>outright lyingok