>>49375100>>It’s supposed to look badThey're supposed to look incongruent. The vishes succeed at being more pleasing to the eye thanks to their proportions looking less out of wack and their color schemes being cooler. Dracozolt has its yellow torso placed right on a brighter yellow center. The small cheek markings and mouth colors do less to tie the zolts color schemes together than Dracovish's broader head stripe. In fact I'd say Arctozolt's mouth color works against its design. Arctozolt also has the nose dribble, which westerners find gross rather than cute, further making its design goals feel lost in translation. Yeah I know its a Turner design that doesn't mean it has no Japanese influences. Artovish is also fucking hysterical and I do not consider this up for debate.
Moreover, the vishes have less readable expressions, so players project a number of emotions onto them. There are probably even more factors as to why the Dracovish gets the most attention out of all the Gen 8 fossils but I think the design is near perfection with others achieving wildly varied levels of success. Dracovish has your eyes focus purely on the top and bottom of the design. You can immediately understand its appearance is supposed to be "wrong" with a still image of it and no context. The others people would have to comb over more and some might not even understand what the zolts are getting at without an explanation.
