>>52110699I'm generally pretty optimistic about later gen mon designs, but they've been very divisive with the starters since Gen 7 IMO. I would say since Gen 5, but Gen 6 had Greninja and Delphox (I chose the fox, calm down).
I'm especially mad because water types are my favorite starter type, and they've always failed me at the final stage -- except Primarina -- starting from Gen 4.
And I'm even MORE mad because chameleons were my favorite animal as a kid, so Intelleon had a chance to be really great for me. And ducks are some of my favorite animals now, but they fucked that up too. I'm a gay, but I'm not at all a fan of ""flamboyant"" gays, so add all those things together and I'm pretty disappointed. I really, REALLY wanted to like Quaxly, man.
Pic related. I took a quick shot at mildly redesigning Cinderace and Intelleon, if I were forced to keep their general proportions/theme. I kinda wanna take another crack at Intelleon by fixing the legs and proportions, and removing the "humanoid" aspect to it.
Anyways yes, fuck Intelleon and Quaquaval lol.