This is where Pokemon started feeling less like species of natural creatures and more like unique individual characters.
that was gen 1 with cubone, kangaskhan and my mom's jackie chan
>>59261192>Hitmons>Jynx >Mime>Machoke>Cubone>Hypno
>>59261196Kangaskhan looks like a multiplicitous monster.There is no "my mom's Jackie Chan".Nothing about Cubone's design makes it look like a one-of.
>>59261192You are completely right.
>>59261205>>Cubone>>Hypnothese don't look uniquethey look like they could conceivably belong to a species of creatures which look the same>>MachokeMachop looks like a speciesMachoke still looks animalianyou can argue that the belt is intrusive and unnatural, but that still doesn't mean it makes the mon as a whole look like it could be one member of identical but separate individuals>>Mimeis like an elf or a fairy or a gnomegnomes all look the same with their pointy hats and long beards, but there are still multiple gnomesthey aren't distinctly detailed enough to only conceivably be one person>>Jynxit's likewise like a ghost or banshee or valkyrie, where multiples exist though they look similar / the same>>HitmonsHitmonlee obviously looks like it belongs to a group of monstersAnd similarly, Hitmonchan---again, just because it looks like it's wearing clothes doesn't mean it can't be a uniform, and the clumsiness of having clothes is a separate design issue than the current one---it at least looks like it can belong to a race of humanoid monstersContrast all these with Blaziken, which looks too much like a humanoid *animal* that also has the job of a martial artist. Even if it's based on chickens that stand-up, its particular mannerisms are way too suggestive of personal habit.
>>59261226Blaziken is much more believable as a species than any of those gen 1 mons. It's just a humanoid bird, like the mythical garuda.
>>59261226>lizard fighter wearing clothes is ok>human fighter wearing clothes is ok>somehow a bird fighter who is naked isn'tThis kind of cope is why genwunners have been the butt of jokes since 2012.
>>59261192I blame Blaziken, literally a man in a fuckibg chicken suit
>>59261259fucking*
