>>51830234fair enough, I just don't think that excuses pushing the boundaries in all the wrong ways
the less "character" mon the better; I'm fine with ones like Mewtwo or Jirachi where they're explicitly stated to be singular entities with personalities, but for implied species like Cinderace it's just stupid and really restricting to decent worldbuilding or creative interpretation
every Cinderace will have some kind of talent with fire and balls, every Cinderace will look like a soccer player no matter what- it's dumb
the humanoid-ness isn't the issue, it's the embedding of a singular group of traits into a whole species that restricts creative interpretation of individuals, regardless of how common they are or aren't
it harms the roleplay aspect by making it harder to think outside of the box for character traits (since unfitting traits will just end up uncanny on a design so obviously made for different ones)
not to even mention the base design aspects that just suck shit
Pokemon's had a proportion problem for a while now, but it's gotten really bad as of late and Scorbunny's line showcases it extremely well. Huge heads, disorted limbs (typically to emphasize hands or feet, but in Cinderace's case it's to emphasize the feet and de-emphasize the hands to an extreme extent), incorrect anatomy paired with otherwise-realistic-looking bits (huge human feet on semi-accurate rabbit legs?), gross color scheme (specifically the combination of blue and yellow in this case)-
It's just bad. There's no redeeming it, not without a lot of fundamental changes. Raboot isn't as extreme an example as Cinderace, but the atrocious hoodie shit paired with the weird headband and the very obvious """attitude"""" makes it worthy of plenty of blame
tl;dr your bestie objectively sucks but that's ok
even if I hate it and it has good reason to be hated, some people can still like the worst of things and more power to them for it
