>>41236443>>41236893>>41245065You do realize Sugimori doesn't design every Pokémon, right? His contributions to the series have gone down significantly in the past few years.
HGSS were the first games he didn't illustrate and design every human character. Takao Unno designed and illustrated the Rocket admins, and while Sugimori illustrated the Kanto Gym Leaders, he didn't design them. All Pokémon up through Gen VI were also illustrated by Sugimori, but there are Pokémon from Sun and Moon onward like Salazzle that weren't even illustrated by Sugimori, which is shocking considering his Pokémon art was constant. He didn't do any art for LGPE, leaving it all to veteran TCG artist Megumi Mizutani. And most stuff from Sword and Shield is Ohmura (responsible for most character illustrations from BW and all characters from B2W2).
Sugimori has always remained consistently good. Like thinking of designs where this logic applies, you could use Gengar being short, fat, and stubby instead of overly menacing like Haunter. His favorite Gen V design of his is Zekrom, and maybe he avoided making it too cool by not giving it sharp claws or large wings.
