>>25206495>instantly deflecting to gen 1 I don't understand why /vp/ has to pretend g1 was bad. Just because some people who enjoyed it as kids grew out of pokemon and can fondly remember characters they grew up with over things they didn't doesn't mean you have to pretend it or its monster cast was bad.
Voltorb/electrode are designed to be trap monsters that trick the player into encounters with them. Since items look like pokeballs, their designs are sensible. Foongus is another take on the same concept.
Magnemite is a bunch of metal objects connected through electromagnetism arranged to look like a weird monster. Magneton is pretty lazy i'll give you that but Doublade does the exact same thing and it doesn't even have an excuse for it.
Both of them look a lot more like monsters than a magic floating sword does.