>>38120503Design wise nothing really springs to mind in any generation that's truly bad, there's some underwhelming Pokemon sure although across all seven generations, Gen 1 as of late has suffered from several one-stage lines that have completely fallen off the radar like Hypno, Primeape and Kingler, while there is some number of people here who hate the Gen 4 evos to old Pokemon I think they were overall for the better, it's a shame we haven't gotten any new evos outside of Sylveon since, for one it'd buff up the numbers for Gen 6 and 7 had they done that and secondly it'd put a spotlight back on those older Pokemon.
This also extends to the newer generations, Gen 6 and even more so Gen 7 have Pokemon that are already lagging behind. Also in case some sort of why would they add in evolutions in the immediate next generation argument comes up, Gens 2, 3 and 4 all added evolutions and pre-evolutions to Pokemon from the previous ganes, even if you excuse Gen 2 because some of those might've been planned from the get go, the Gen 4 ones were almost certainly decided on later in the process, especially given a Pokemon like Nosepass who seems to have been intended to be a sort of Hoenn's Onix given Roxanne uses one as her ace alongside a Geodude.
Out of the Pokemon you outlined in your post I think; Venomoth, Weepinbell, Dewgong, Electrode, Sunflora, Corsola, Remoraid, Stantler, Plusle, Minun, Volbeat, Illumise, Castform, Wormadam, Combee & Carnivine should receive evolutionary relatives. (That's a Split-evo for Weepinbell btw).
Moltres, Groudon, Heatran, Regigigas, Cresselia and Phione obviously wouldn't get one given their legendary status although potential legendary duos/trios for Heatran, Cresselia (alongside Darkrai) and Phione would be interesting.
