>>39723885Having good concepts and ideas =/= Good execution. Why is this so hard to understand? You can do a bunch of research and have a clever basic idea, but if the Pokemon looks like shit, then it looks like shit. And if it's a really good concept then that just makes it even more of a shame since it's a wasted execution.
Side note, I do wish we could go back to the older Pokemon design philosophies which treated Pokemon more like animals than characters with predefined personalities and human traits. The anthromorphizing in recent gens has gotten really bad and more commonplace than it should be.