>>27919235My problem with Crabrawler is that it looks way too cartoony. It doesn't look like an entire species that exists in the pokemon world, it looks like a whacky villain or something. I know it's a meme, but it genuinely looks like a design from Yokai Watch; the big simple cartoon eyes, the specific expression on all of their faces, the giant exaggerated boxing gloves, and the huge fucking pompadour. I mean, if this was a design for a big brute cartoon villain and not a pokemon, it'd be good. But it simply doesn't look like a species that would come out of nature, even in a fantastical world like Pokemon.
Character design for an individual and character design for a species should be very different, but so far, this gen is full of a lot of pokemon that don't even feel like whacky fantasy creatures.
