>>401445591) You're talking about the same franchise where creature with screws and a literal computer model can breed with a dopefaced wad of pink primordial ooze.
2) Garbodor can stretch its arms and fire sludge from its fingers like a pistol. It may be garbage but it's resourceful garbage, also trash monsters aren't unheard of in JRPGs or monster collecting games.
3) Muk is alright but it's either a stinking pile of toxic ooze or a purifying pile of toxic ooze colored like an oil slick with poison teefs. Simple? Yes. Better? That's subjective.