>>38462313"By themselves their designs are fine but in the Pokemon universe they're ugly as fuck"
That's the entire point you dumbass, they're meant to look out of place in the pokemon world. If they look good on their own, but look weird and unnatural compared to other pokemon, that means the design was a success. Blacephalon is personally my favorite of the UB's design wise for how inhuman and weird it is, being a literal monster clown that explodes it's own head. It has two yellow dots on the sides of a perfectly spherical head as it's "eyes", it has just the right shape to be 'humanoid' but it's twisted and distorted just enough to be pleasingly horrifying, and that giant frill is both quite a great platform for the 'head' and a very nice visual design in general. Blacephalon is the perfect clown monster. It's the IT of pokemon, something eldritch and weird that's just so out of place but is all the better for it. That's why people like the UBs. Because them being so 'out of place' adds such a unique and appealing charm to them.
I'm not against 'pokemonizing' the design by making it more in line with their more traditional rules for designs, but good god the one offered here missed the entire point. This isn't Yokai-Watch, and you ruined the entire Monstrous Soul-Sucking Clown part by giving it a fucking generic anime face of all things. If you want to ruin a perfectly good design at least try to be fucking original about it and not do the most generic, boring, safe as possible shit you can think of. At least change the head into some faceless balloon or something for fucks sake.
