I don't understand the hate for cross gen evolutions, they're always some of my favorite aspects when it comes to new games. That being said, Lickilicky loses the weird unknowable creepy monster appeal of Lickitung and looks more like a mascot. It doesn't make much of an impression. And with THAT being said, it doesn't change the fact that Lickitung was already some weird fucking thing that nobody liked or cared about, if there was a Pedophile Pokémon, it would be Lickitung. It and Mr. Mime would be that creepy middle-aged couple who hang out at playgrounds, with Lickitung's gender being unknowable on sight. Maybe it's Lickitung's vacant stare, its general silence, its voracious appetite and lack of consideration for everything around it. Nobody says "Lickitung is my bro". When you have a Lickitung in your party, it's not hanging around the rest of them, it's off to the side staring at wild Pidgey thinking how good it would feel on its tongue as it swallowed it. Lickitung is the obsessed pervert with an illogical fetish that dominates their way of thinking, like a guy in a fursuit, a vorefag, or an ERPer. Completely uninterested in other life unless it can be used to fulfill its weird desires, and it will attempt to use other living things for said desires without any consideration if it wants to be involved.
Lickilicky may be nothing, but at least I don't hate it relative to everything else that exists.
