>>33501681Similar feelings for Magneton for me, though I never actually hated it... just kind of felt 'meh'. It's now one of my favorite Electric types, though I still like Magnemite more just because I find it adorable. Though making it Electric/Steel in Gen II helped my opinion of it a lot, as well.
Dugtrio is just a badly designed Pokemon. It tries to do the same thing Magneton did, but it's just lazy since it makes no sense here where it was clever with Magneton. On top of that it's just three Digletts... who are a pretty lousy design as is.
Klinklang was an attempt to repeat the Magneton thing, but at LEAST this one tried to do something that makes sense. It's not the best design by any stretch, but adding gears to existing machinery DOES generally make that machinery bigger and better, so the concept at the very least deserves some credit. It's fun as hell to use, too.
>>33501649I've never used a Scrafty that I can think of so I can't speak for it in that regard, but I did hate it originally and grew to like it. I just hated the smug, 'punk' look it has... but after realizing it's a lizard using its shed skin as baggy clothing I found it to be very clever and well designed, even if I still don't care for its smugness much.
