I think the concept of a stonehenge pokemon had a lot of promise, but the execution was horribly fumbled.
I think horse Palkia looks worse than horse Dialga. I mean they're both weird, but while horse Dialga looks like a pointy horse that's eternally choking, horse Palkia looks like they just took its top half, slapped it onto the neck of a pink horse and cut off its arms for no reason.
To be fair to Enamorus’ Therian Forme is, as @Green's Harbinger and @Dunsparce pointed out, it’s based off of Genbu in order to follow rest of the Kami quadrio.
I'm aware. I just think she still looks like shit, not because of the fact that she's a turtle/snake hybrid but because they way its presented is just hideous and they could've done a better job of making both her forms not look like shit. Even her hair in the turtle form looks lame. Even real softshells are more pleasant to look at.
As much as I love penguins, Eiscue greatly disappoints me. The Pokédex says that it's face is adored but I don't get why.
Piplup > Eiscue
It feels like something that SHOULD be adorable/work but just doesn't. It's the most basic interpretation of a "cute lil ice cube penguin aww" concept and comes across as ugly instead. Imo the "noice face" version looks a bit better.
What if Scarlet and Violet make it an even 1000?
I think Mega Evolutions are very underwhelming mechanic, it's not like they got a massive increase in stats. Especially when you OHKO your opponent when they Mega Evolve, that's just sad rather than impressive.
Oh no, there was definitely a massive stat increase. That stat increase just doesn't make frail pokemon any less frail like the mega bugs for example (except sometimes scizor).
All of Pokemon is imbalanced competitively, there's like 1,000 of them but only a fraction of them are competitively viable, and that was even true back when only 151 existed. Megas being imbalanced is no different than regular Pokemon being imbalanced, it's just an inherent quality of the games to have worthless possibilities. That extends to the move pool too, nobody uses Ember over Flamethrower.
That's more by design. They obviously didn't want your pokemon to start off strong so, they make them work with weaker moves until they get the moves they can settle on. It helps the player feel like their pokemon is growing in more than just appearance and stats.
Yeah, but if they wanted to they could make them all useful, like give a move such as Ember a higher rate of burn or something. That way it can still have a use outside of sheer power.
