>>36180147its supposed to be 500 in place of the 800 we already have. Regardless, they haven't balanced the ones we've already got.
when I say "gimmicky"/"gag", I mean shit like voltorb, or sudowoodo, or the icecream or garbage pokemon; shit that only exists as a trick or a joke
I do have a set of 215 or 225 (I forget) "pokemon", but they're really more like "spirit animals/plants/objects" than "pocket monsters". Stuff like pidgey or seel or any of the other "basically just an animal" pokemon. The theme is basically just "north america". But if I focused on making them more than just animals/whatever, yeah I could do that no problem, given time.
An example of a good pokemon is arcanine. It's a big dog, basically, but it's got fire colors, and has qualities of lions (or foo lions, I guess) and tigers. It's not *just* an animal. It has an appealing design that doesn't go overboard in any way. Another pokemon I like is Poliwrath, which is basically a bipedal frog with fists/gloves and a big hypnoswirl on it's stomach; but that's objectively a bad design; it's too simple and cartoony.
In time, sure. Give me a team of developers, a few years, and tons of money, who couldn't? Gamefreak, apparently. No, they could, but they know damn well they can make big bucks shoveling out minimal-quality cashgrabs.
