>>53845559One of my favorite new types of Pokemon.
First off, they do a great job at being a base line Pokemon, in that they almost all look like some sort of battle monster. If a Pokemon can achieve that at the very least, I'm usually happy.
Secondly, they're dinosaurs and robots, in very mysterious sense, which is just.. really cool to me. I'm perfectly fine with all the future mons just being robots too, only thing that bums me out there is that so many of them are small.
Thirdly, I'm extremely happy that Great Tusk serves a function similar to Lando. I dont hate Lando, but I'm sick of seeing it after so many years, and Great Tusk looks way the fuck cooler. Definitely became one of my favorites.
>>53845575Part of the trend behind Paradox pokemon, is that their types are intentionally bizarre in a lot of instances.
They always take one of the original mon's types as their own (with the only exception being Iron Valiant, and POSSIBLY Roaring Moon if you subscribe to the Hydreigon theory), and add a new secondary typing. Sometimes the base typing no longer makes much sense, like Rock with Iron Thorns, sometimes the new typing is super lose at best like with Slither Wings or Iron Bundle. I'd say a good half of the Paradox mons have anywhere from slightly-to-very odd typings. Notably, despite being all literal robots, only 1 of the future Paradox mons is even a Steel type.
That, in addition to a number of other oddities (Strange pokemon choices, uneven design selections between and in both groups, some being NFE mon, pokemon being connected to dinosaurs in ways that dont make sense, the strangeness of Area Zero, etc...) all add up to give the group a bit of an otherworldly feel.
