I didn't even include it in my list. It is a perfectly fine designed emperor penguin with some added royal features.
For the same reason
passes. If it wasn't for the drum, it would be just a gorilla with some rastafari/afro traits.
Bouffalants hair is more out of place than the hair on Rillaboom. With the only drawback being the drum, it's design is bonkers. In older gens, the drum might have been part of it's body.
I agree with your take on the alolan variant.
However, the hisuian form...
While the original one passes as an owl with the traits of Robin Hood, the Hisuian variant is just offputting to me.
Its movements are kind of wonky and it looks like a guy in traditional japanese clothing mixed with a scarecrow. The owl origin is barely resembled and it stands back behind Typhlosion and Samuratt like a weird kid that dont know where to put its limbs.
Meowscarada- Dear god, they put a cat in thigh-highs and gave it a cape and mask. And it behaves exactly like a flamboyant arguably horny showman. Kill it. Please please please.
Now listen and then laugh at me, Meowscarada passes a thousand times more than Incineroar.
I think its caused by multiple stereotypes of cats being sneaky like wizards and shit.
Puss in boots is a common trope, therefore it is almost like intended tp be like this. You seldom see Puss in wrestler suit.
Maybe i'm biased as Sprigatito would have been my go-to if i bought SV. Seeing Floragato on Gireum Reds Livestream, i was heavily disappointed it will turn into another furrybait, which it indeed turned into.
Still, Meowscarada has some redeeming qualities. The mask, the weird grass cape, the flower around its neck and the flower bomb gimmick that makes it pass as being an intended humanoid, not a forced one like with Cinderace and Quaquaval.
Like decidueye being an owl with a cape that shoots feathers, Meowscarada is a bipedal cat with the features of Zorro or the gay one from the three musketeers.
I don't know where you got the version of my list you quoted from, but I'd never let them pass.
Look at my post again on another device, they should be on the right side where they belong.
Intelleon is a guy in a suit. I know, Bongland, James Bond, Yada Yada, but thats just poorly executed. It's also obvioulsy based on Gex the gecko, but executed in the dumbest way possible.
While i don't hate it, there's nothing about the design thats creative or appealing in any way. If it would be cut from the dex forever tomorrow, i wouldn't even remember it existed.
Quaquaval on the other hand is an abhorrant abomination that screams
"trans rights for Grusha" at a faggot parade
"Kill me". Even a humanoid duck that clearly resembles donald duck could evolve into something badass, like a stronk sailor duck beating the shit out of everything in Spain. Instead, gamefreak has brought us this gay dancer
that looks like an anime version of donald in a full body suit with useless ornaments and those painful red toes (?)
If you look at every duck pokemon and Donald, from most animal, to most human-like, Quaquaval looks more human-like
than Donald Duck, who acts antropomorphic in the movies, while our flaming faggot duck only says its name.
normal duck_______Ducklett line____Psyduck line______Quaxly___Donald Duck______Quaquaval_____human
Doesn't look like a human to me, it's a buff elemental animal on two legs like blastoise, blaziken and feraligatr
The thing stretching it to me the most is the size of his head. The pre-evolutions had bigger heads, and kalos was the generation of big cartoonish heads, look at Litleo and the electric lizard, while the final forms head seems too small for it's body. Agree on the wand part.
Interesting take. Never looked at it that way.
It clearly has the mannerisms of a stoner tho.
That's a weird one. I'm still ambiguous what to think about it's design and it being so widely loved by people all over the world is off to me. Ingame, it crouches like a ninja when it does not attack, that's pretty cool.
The weird "pointing in the air" he's doing when attacking is uncanny.
I won't look up fetish art of greninja. I mean, there is fart fetish art about the bat from sonic in a bondage suit done and posted by a kiwifarms member. Not having fur doesn't disqualify a fictional character from being sexualised by perverts online. The ash greninja fusion was weird and shouldn't have happened.
Also he would have ended up limbless for living in France as a frog.
How do you see it as humanoid because of it's mannerisms? It looks like a normal crocodile that happens to be a singer.
It has this one trait you cant even see when it doesn't pull out the mike. It's clothes are not that obvious and integrated into the design like with Empoleon.
Remember the Sawk and Throw debate we had somewhat earlier this year and then imagine if the 'dirge would look like this
Chesnaught- The execution here just sucks dick. If this thing is supposed to be a glyptodon, I really can't see it. There's no reason for it to be standing this straight, nor for its arms to be this thin, and the tacked-on beard just makes things worse.
How dare you insulting mah buddy grass hedgehog, blaze it to the extreme
The limbs are not well proportioned, i give you a point on this. But the design is way more beast-like than some you made pass, like the hisuian decidueye. The pic
@Friendly Primarina posted earlier shows how it could be.
It would definitely profit from being designed as quadrupedal. I have something for da bulky fella, how it's set up to use Spiky shield is cool and the shell it has on it's back. It doesn't look tough but like a cereal mascot.
Way too monstrous to be too humanoid tho.
Primarina- I know this doesn't look too human in stature, but everything about this design screams "man-made" like neither a selkie nor a seal ever should. There's no reason for this thing to have a tied mane with pearl beads, no reason for the tiara-like protrusion from its head, no reason for it to have eyelashes and a humanoid face. Even the extremely humanoid focus on singing only gets a pass because it's literally based on creatures that use vocals to lure sailors into danger... but those creatures are also part-human, so it doesn't really defeat my point here. If they wanted to make a selkie, they should've either gone all out (like what they did with Mr Mime or Jynx in terms of human faces) or stuck closer to the animal inspiration instead of doing this weird in-between.
You know about the bull centaur trope? The design choice of a creature with a lower body of a horse like a centaur but a humanoid ox-like upper body instead of a human one. Primarina is an example of a bull centaur design, where you take a fantasy creature and add an animal or another fictional creature on top to make it more unique.
Primarina as a seal/mermaid hybrid does'nt look like a human at first sight, unlike Quaquaval and intelleon.
It's the same with Skeledirge, it's a singing animal that mimicks human gesture. I don't like the design much because i had higher hopes for Popplio, but cmon even Glameow and Purugly had features of rich human women, or look at Kricketune. Primarene has many flaws but it's not bottom tier humanoid fursuit shit like the other mons in the too human looking category.
I have nothing to add about
those are literally the exhibit A of how to mess up everything when creating a starter pokemon.
It heavily depends on how high your expectations were, how your preferences for other media are and how the first impressions you had when seeing the first form were.
Okay, thats enough autism for today.
