>>48437969If they all came out conventionally sleek and of typical expectancies.
It would just ruin it like any other monster catching game where they ALL turn out too cute or majestically convoluted.
Lickitung is a glutton salamander that puts on a bib and becomes a giant bottomless baby and royal gourmund.
Rhydon is a wrecking rock monster that becomes a wrecking rock monster but better and more on the nose gaining rock armor fashioned like a construction worker and tool thems into it's limbs.
Magmar leaves some of it's yokai concept behind leaning into it's red horned fire creature concept and turns to a fat greater hell demon with more black shackles and a sadistic smile.
Which is weird they get so much hate because this group holds some of the best examples of GF subtly executing humanoid features and human concepts in designs when many hate designs like gen 8 starters for just being clear cartoon animal representatives of human counterparts.
Pokemon > Pokemans
Only ones I'd truly say are lazy or bad is Tangrowth just for being bigger and Ambipom for just getting another tail.
Togekiss looks like a 50/50 design but I believe found most fans because it's a pvp beast.