"Animal with elemental theme" is objectively the best kind of Pokemon design. Pokemon are literally animals, and designing them after real animals makes them fit more naturally into a world's ecosystem than an objectmon. I want the Pokemon world to feel like a living, breathing place where every Pokemon has an ecological relationship with another Pokemon (Fearow feed on Rattata, Heracross and Pinsir are rivals, Slowpoke evolving when a Shellder bites its tail, etc.); not some 2D videogame map where you can find bags of trash and ice cream cones in random patches of grass with zero explanation as to why they're there.