People not liking a Pokémon design doesn't make them genwunners.

The first generation has bad designs, but all the Pokémon fit within a similar design philosphy. Most of the Pokémon from the following generations were designed with that philosophy as a standard.

Some of the new Pokémon, however, clearly don't follow those standards. For example, the new 2m tall red panda; it lacks volume and is extremely simplistic even when compared with Voltorb.

>b-but it can hug you to death that thing's HUUUGE!!
I don't care. I don't like this Pokémon. It's "backstory" or whatever won't make me like it, the main reason being that I don't like it's design.

There's definitely something that was "lost" in the design process. And it's not just these new Pokémon; the human characters look rather bland, both designwise and characterwise: the girl MC doesn't have knees; the boy MC is a child version of Calem; Hau is just comic relief and it's always with a stupid grin on his face.

So what do you think?