>>44172468>>44174160If tangrowth had specific vines like the beta and tangela, sure. something like this
>>44174696But instead all official art has it just a blue blob because somewhere in gen4, arguably late stage 3, the design team decided detail was bad, see poor roserade, unless you're just slapping on spikes, lumps, and patterns for Muh Cool Factor (i.e. over-design, poor mega garmchomp. or any mega really. Actually, one that got hit coming AND going, poor fucking rhyperior jesus christ).
Simplify all shapes until they barely have a recognizable silhouette, then slap a cluttered paint job and some kibble on it so it doesn't look like a big blob of color.
If it was during the switch to 3d I'd blame wanting low-polycounts and making up for it with textures, but it was way too early for that, unless they were doing it for the sake of merchandise or genius sonority console spinoffs.
