>>43167347The good ones are the ones I like.
Anyway, as a whole I find pokemon humanoids to be pretty good, they aren't as on-your-nose as they could and they always have something animalistic or alien.
Of course, the closer they get to "people in cosplay/fursuit" the worse because usually they're pretty uninspired and so close to whatever human idea they're based on that it's hard or impossible to picture them living in the wild. Like incineroar. It has some personality to it, but it's so specific that I just can't picture it living anywhere far from man-made fighting rings even though as a wild animal it has no business being so tied to humans, unlike species like trubbish or voltorb.
I don't have a particular gripe with clothes, some real animals can make some covers for themselves or indulge in behaviour that looks like fashion. Others have such fabulous fur or feathers that they outright inspire real fashion.
So if a pokemon has elements that could only be clothes or patterns that resemble them, then it's alright as long as it blends in with the rest of the design and however it's assembled.
Throh and sawk are examples of patterns that look flagrantly like clothes, but their bodies have no business presenting anything like that, and at the same time part of those "patterns" can't not be actual clothes (mainly the torso part), and said clothes don't really match the body "underneath". Nonsensical designs that only seem okay because that's what HUMANS practicing martial arts wear. It's messy, tacky and ugly.
On the other hand there's lilligant, which is outright based on human fashion, but every element of it makes sense as a plant - the hat is a big flower, the hair and sleeves are long leaves, the skirt is a giant bud, and it all fits together (and to boot, it isn't really human-shaped).