>>46572546It fails on a number of levels for various reasons conceptually. It has the DBZ triangle animal eyes of Gen 1 mons most notably Rhydon and Nidoking. Those eyes work in Gen 1 since it was a general style and the quote "kaiju" mons had elements of animal or beast in their torso, arms or legs. This thing looks like a magical deity from a Metroid Prime game that cobbled together a bunch of rocks telekinetically to hold together a shitty vessel.
The midevo isnt even an animal but rather a rock thing emulating a minecart with wheels. It doesnt make any sense. It wants to imply itll become some choochoo train thing but it doesnt. It just becomes a Rhyperior knockoff. It doesnt know what it wants to be. Everyone made fanart of rolycoly evos that looked 10x better because the initial first evo implied a rockmon, not a "beast" mon. These look like the first few drafts of a Pokemon design but since SwSh was the most rushed games ever made in the series they just slapped together this line with no real rhyme or reason.
And even worse STILL, it seems all the effort went into designing its GMAX form instead, which actually does justice to its "big fiery coal mountain" design that it went for. I would have taken just the gmax form as a regular stage 1 evo instead of this new line because its the definition of haphazard and wasted potential.
