>>39003891It's not really the designs, it's the artstyle. New mons can still be salvagable in the hand of good artists. Bad designs would be shit like klefki
Gen 3 is easily my favorite due to nostalgia but Gen 5 had by far the best games and it was the gen that brought me back to the series(having grown up with gen 2 and 3 mostly) but it's true that the art started looking off there.
