>>54033780>People like to shit on Gen 2 for its simple "plushie" designs,You can blame the baby pokemon for that. Not helping is that those were basically the only Gen2 Pokemon that were actively shilled during Gen 2 while pretty much everything else you had to actively search for. most Pokefan just use the first mons that are handed to them rather than try to catch them on so they'll just end up running to Gen 1 Pokemon or the Odd egg, (that's where the critgue "all the cool people are locked in KANTOOOO").
even the anime most the focus seemed to be on babies and unevolved Pokemon rather than the fully evolved "coolmons".
That begin said one of my favorites is the Phanpy line. the progression is the perfect example of a evolution that grows up with each stage being distinct. Also love how well the wheel motif if incorporated into Donphan and how sturdy it looks.
The paradoxes it spawned are cool too, unfortunately they aren't battle transformations like CHARIZARD's broken bullshit Megas, so in effect Donphons is completely obsolete in the shillmon similator called PvP anymore so even less people care about Donphan than they did before.
>>54039037> Steelix, Scizor, and Kingdra, but the glowup isn't quite as complete as CrobatAll those are excellent designs, but as for why the glowup wasn't as much: Onix and Scyther already looked complete, no one had any strong feeling about Seadra do Kingdra was just a nice bonus, meanwhile Golbat was actively hated until Crobat saved the line.
