Pokémon (Not-So) Griefing Thread - Scarlet and Violet Released with 10 Million Copies in First 3 Days in Buggy States

[thegooddoctor]

Waited for years to get a Pokemon combining my two favorite types

What i expected

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What we got

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Disgusting

Still not as bad as this:

This is still got to be the ugliest Pokemon design I’ve ever seen, I can’t actually believe it’s real, it looks like a fan made 2008 design from a 15 year old drew it. I understand that it must be extremely difficult to come up with new designs with nearly 900 different designs but they really are scraping the bottom of the barrel here. Shape up Game freak.

 

[Kuchipatchi]

Still not as bad as this:
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This is still got to be the ugliest Pokemon design I’ve ever seen, I can’t actually believe it’s real, it looks like a fan made 2008 design from a 15 year old drew it. I understand that it must be extremely difficult to come up with new designs with nearly 900 different designs but they really are scraping the bottom of the barrel here. Shape up Game freak.

I'm not saying this to be rude or edgy but that looks like a prostitute.
With the theme of love, you go with lust? You could have made a motherly look or a bride but nah, lust.

 

[Sun Zen]

Still not as bad as this:


This is still got to be the ugliest Pokemon design I’ve ever seen, I can’t actually believe it’s real, it looks like a fan made 2008 design from a 15 year old drew it. I understand that it must be extremely difficult to come up with new designs with nearly 900 different designs but they really are scraping the bottom of the barrel here. Shape up Game freak.

I refuse to believe this is real.

 

[Nauseated Courgi]

Still not as bad as this:
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This is still got to be the ugliest Pokemon design I’ve ever seen, I can’t actually believe it’s real, it looks like a fan made 2008 design from a 15 year old drew it. I understand that it must be extremely difficult to come up with new designs with nearly 900 different designs but they really are scraping the bottom of the barrel here. Shape up Game freak.

Honestly? I've seen worse. It's not the prettiest design, sure, but I still like it.

I'm not saying this to be rude or edgy but that looks like a prostitute.
With the theme of love, you go with lust? You could have made a motherly look or a bride but nah, lust.

Love and lust go hand-and-hand, IMO. Yeah, there are other cases like unconditional love, but when you're designing a creature that's based on love itself why not go for a lustful theme? Although, I do like the idea of a motherly genie (Unfortunately, that kind of design would have resulted in a shit ton of "mommy" coomer jokes and porn).

 

[ShitlordroltihS]

Grow up

 

[Massively Strong Greed]

@Nauseated Courgi is there even a single Pokémon design you dislike?

 

[Nauseated Courgi]

@Nauseated Courgi is there even a single Pokémon design you dislike?

Not really. I acknowledge that there are some pretty ugly pokemon designs, but I don't dislike them because of it. At most, I'm just indifferent to it. My hatred for a pokemon more comes from how annoying they are to fight against, online or otherwise.

For example, I hate Urshifu because of its bullshit signature move that melts through my teams when I fight a player that has one.

 

[negativlad]

All of the genies look like C-tier Yu-Gi-Oh card monsters and Gen 5 in general is the nadir of the franchise, design-wise. Most of them are serviceable (mostly ones designed by Sugimori) but this was the gen that also had Ice Cream, Muppets, Trash Bag, Snowflake, A Literal Fetus, OSHA Weasel, and whatever the fuck was going on with Swoobat. Even the worst of the gens before and after it, like Probopass and Bruxish, can't stack up to the piles of trash in 5.

 

[Massively Strong Greed]

All of the genies look like C-tier Yu-Gi-Oh card monsters and Gen 5 in general is the nadir of the franchise, design-wise. Most of them are serviceable (mostly ones designed by Sugimori) but this was the gen that also had Ice Cream, Muppets, Trash Bag, Snowflake, A Literal Fetus, OSHA Weasel, and whatever the fuck was going on with Swoobat. Even the worst of the gens before and after it, like Probopass and Bruxish, can't stack up to the piles of trash in 5.

Nothing in Gen 5 looks as fucking ridiculous as Duraludon, Blipbug, Eiscue, or Calyrex.

 

[SSj_Ness (Yiffed)]

Still not as bad as this:
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This is still got to be the ugliest Pokemon design I’ve ever seen, I can’t actually believe it’s real, it looks like a fan made 2008 design from a 15 year old drew it. I understand that it must be extremely difficult to come up with new designs with nearly 900 different designs but they really are scraping the bottom of the barrel here. Shape up Game freak.

I recently read that a lot of the designs people hate are actually made by some newer western hires, like the infamous ice cream cone Pokemon. So we're really just essentially getting offical weeb fan creations, not Sugimori/Masuda/[insert old Japs from original team] designs anymore.

I know people point out Grimer or Magnemite from the original games as a counterpoint, but they just work. Grimer is simple but charming, like Slime from Dragon Quest. Ice cream cone with faces is just uninspired trash.

 

[negativlad]

Nothing in Gen 5 looks as fucking ridiculous as Duraludon, Blipbug, Eiscue, or Calyrex.

Gen 8 is host to some real trash but I'll still take "Just a penguin with an ice cube head" over "Fetus shitting dream dust" any day.

 

[Nauseated Courgi]

Nothing in Gen 5 looks as fucking ridiculous as Duraludon, Blipbug, Eiscue, or Calyrex.

Eiscue is probably the worse offender of the four. It's probably the only design that I could say is lazy and uninspired. Blipbug is saved by its evolution and while Duraludon and Calyrex designs are ridiculous, the goofiness of their designs has charm.

Eiscue is just a normal penguin with an ice cube face. Of all the designs they could have gone with for a concept like "a penguin wearing ice" they settled on that? Not something like an ice-armored knight that protects royal figures?

I know people point out Grimer or Magnemite from the original games as a counterpoint, but they just work. Grimer is simple but charming, like Slime from Dragon Quest. Ice cream cone with faces is just uninspired trash.

But I can say the same about the Vanillish line. The ice cream theming is silly, but it works. Especially when you take the lore reasoning for its appearance into account.

 

[SSj_Ness (Yiffed)]

But I can say the same about the Vanillish line. The ice cream theming is silly, but it works. Especially when you take the lore reasoning for its appearance into account.

Sure, you could, but you'd be wrong.

 

[Kiwi & Cow]

I love how this thread basically became a shitty Pokemon designs bashing thread and I can't help, but feel that my comment indirectly started this.

Since this thread keeps bumping, I had another thing I was thinking about for a long while.

Has it been mentioned on the thread how the Pokemon starters are slowly becoming less and less authentic each generation?
Literally each time a new set of starters is revealed, they look like they were fakemons made for a rom hack or fangame, the worst examples being gen 5 and gen 7, damn they were all fucking ugly. The design for Torracat and the name given to Incineroar quite literally came from deviantart after all. Gen 9 is no different, why are they all looking like they were OCs stolen from deviantart?
Also I think this trend started from as far back as gen 4, but especially now the new starters look even more random as shit. There's no cohesive art direction at Game Freak, it's actually impressive in itself.

 

[Unyielding Stupidity]

Nothing in Gen 5 looks as fucking ridiculous as Duraludon, Blipbug, Eiscue, or Calyrex.

If you're talking shitty designs, I'm surprised you left out Stonjourner, that one's somehow worse than all of the four you mentioned combined.
It's a monumental failure on every front - the concept is dumb, the execution is terrible, it's somehow both bland and ugly at the same time, and it legitimately looks more like a D-list character from a Mario RPG than a Pokemon.

 

[Massively Strong Greed]

If you're talking shitty designs, I'm surprised you left out Stonjourner, that one's somehow worse than all of the four you mentioned combined.
It's a monumental failure on every front - the concept is dumb, the execution is terrible, it's somehow both bland and ugly at the same time, and it legitimately looks more like a D-list character from a Mario RPG than a Pokemon.

I wouldn’t say it looks ridiculous though, and there are plenty of other designs that are just objects with a face.

 

[Nauseated Courgi]

Needless to say, but Gen 8 had a lot questionable pokemon designs. At least we got pokemon like Corviknight and Centiskorch.

 

[Green's Harbinger]

I'm just glad I skipped Gen 5 and 6. ORAS and the majority of its designs were alright though.

Mega Rayquaza became a giant danger shovel.

 

[Creep3r]

Still not as bad as this:
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This is still got to be the ugliest Pokemon design I’ve ever seen, I can’t actually believe it’s real, it looks like a fan made 2008 design from a 15 year old drew it. I understand that it must be extremely difficult to come up with new designs with nearly 900 different designs but they really are scraping the bottom of the barrel here. Shape up Game freak.

I think her animal form is probably the worst thing I've ever seen.

Still not my least favorite design. That honor goes to that garbage ice cube penguin.

 

[Green's Harbinger]

I think her animal form is probably the worst thing I've ever seen.
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Still not my least favorite design. That honor goes to that garbage ice cube penguin.

I respect it commits to its whole snapping turtle/snake chimera thing as terrible as it is.

Its not nearly as dumb or redundant as horse dialga. That is the worst design they've ever made and it doesn't even commit to fully being a horse version of a 4 legged time traveling lizard.