>>28178919It's because Gen V actually has some of the worst designs in the game. Now, I fuckin love me my Gen 5, it's my favorite gen, a lot of my all-time bros come out of there, but the designs that are dumb don't even have a lot of charm to them. Yeah, we can point at the pile of sludge that is Muk, but he's simple enough that he gets his design across easily, and he really embodies it. It works, if silly.
Garbador doesn't. It's a bag of trash. Cool. I can dig the concept. Trubbish is cute enough, so I can go with it. But Garbador doesn't look silly or charming for being what it is - it's a fucking mess of brown and green with weirdly colored rocks in it, it's not even some kind of identifiable trash. If it was cup lids, or parts of a burger, it'd work better. We see that it has straws for fingers, and parts of the arm. That's good! He's a pile of trash and we see the trash. So why isn't the rest of trash actually, well, trash? It doesn't work. It's a great concept that was executed well with Trubbish, but not so well with Garbador.
And the other commonly known offender is Vanilluxe. I like Vanilluxe, sort of. Not my favorite Ice 'mon, but it's cute. The problem here is the concept is hard for casuals to grasp. It's a fuckin' ice cream cone. Where things like magnets work in Gen 1 because it's very clear that it's a man-made Pokemon, it makes more sense, and it kind of floats and does it's thing and people can just as easily accept it as a robot as it's kind of technology, it's not as easy to look at a double-cone ice cream and go "oh, that makes sense to be a Pokemon, okay".
Another objectmon most casuals don't care for is Chandelure, but I've found that once you give them the "it's a Ghost, it's posessing the lamp" most people easily accept it.
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