>>48603342This one fucking sucks. Every gen has one or more that are below average.
>Gen 1Wartortle is bad, but desu, it's the best of the bad ones and I think that gives Gen 1 the best middle stages overall. Leaving the wavy squirrel parts or whatever is a cool homage to their design process and it's at least memorable.
>Gen 2Croconaw is atrocious. The colors are so ugly, the chin is bad, and the weird Tarzan thing going on its stomach is also bad. I'd say Bayleaf too, but at least the cigar things don't look particularly gay.
>Gen 3I don't think any are really that awful if you can look past Combusken being a penis. Marshtomp is just weird-looking, but I wouldn't call it a visual 0/5 either.
>Gen 4The blue mask on Monferno is ugly as fuck and Grotle is also just a really awkward middle stage that doesn't have much similarity with Turtwig or Torterra.
>Gen 5Pignite did not have to be an egg with ornaments. I get it's supposed to be a wrestler or some kind of Journey to the West reference, but it sucks.
>Gen 6Frogadier is just boring as fuck. This Gen is probably second in terms of overall best though desu, since all the traits carry over to their final stages and the themes are cool.
>Gen 7They did the owl so dirty. Its name sucks and it looks like a goth child with gross colors. Brionne is also quite ugly.
>Gen 8Raboot is the only decent one. Thwackey's colors are so fucking bad and reversing them upon evolution looks horrid. Drizzile is disgusting to look at, there's no reason it looks so much like an emo and the fucking hands are absolute trash