Koffing: He looks like a toxic sac of gas. The ports give the design some good texture and the skull and crossbones is pretty rad. That totally satisfied face makes the design work though. He's all "I know I'm foul, what're you gonna do about it?" I should tally how many goddamn purple pokemon there are. Still, he's good! 4/5
Weezing: Eh. As far as a merged design goes, it looks pretty decent, but the more dour, thicker lips and eyebrows don't really do it for me. I feel like I should like this design more and credit it better, but biased Andrew is biased. Weezing is just too dour. 3/5
Rhyhorn: Rock rhino is pretty rad. Lotta detail that makes it look way cooler than it's RL counterpoint and to give it that inorganic feel. The triceratops frill too. This thing looks like it'll murder you if you run into it. I will say, the big open flat, undetailed space that is it's ass is hella weird looking though. Seriously, check out the Gen 5 sprite. I feel like the shell should come down over that instead of giving us an upskirt shot. 4/5
Rhydon: And they ruined it. We're gonna take your rocky design and... shed most of it to make you a bipedal whatever. Seriously, this design is a weird corss-section of pokemon things I hate. Random biped for a quadraped. Segmentation in dumb places. Stupid, off-color horn with unnecessary spiral. And I didn't notice this until I looked at it, but why does it have like three different face frills? It honestly doesn't even look like a rock type! 1/5
Chansey: I... have honestly never known what to make of Chansey. Like, seriously, what is this thing? The design... is there, I guess? It's distinct from Jiggly and Clefairy, which is impressive, considering how little it has. The hair tentacles are there, and so's the tail, which are nice touches. The egg is weird and the stubby arms and feet are nothing. You got me. I feel I should hate this more, but maybe Gen 1 bias is in full effect? Because it doesn't really bother me. 3/5
Tangela: Why are you blue? Why do you have stupid red shoes? I feel this design would be improved if it were basically just natural, leafy vines with some eyes peering out. Possibly less derp looking eyes. As is, this is the 1/5 I forget exists all the time.
Kangaskhan: Rad, if a little weird when you actually look at it. No stupid segmentation on the different colored underbelly! Rad dinosaur build, with a few weird little... plate things that I don't really understand on it. The back spines give it more texture. Black headplate works, but those horn things are... odd. Three totally different colors all clumped together bug me. Oh, and having a rad, adorable baby version of it around in it's pouch is awesome. Good shape overall, but some really weird detail choices. Still, enough to earn 4/5
Horsea: You know, I thought I liked this design, but it turns out I don't. Dunno what it is. Underdesigned, maybe? Stupid goddamn belly segments? The face spikes are a nice touch, but yeah, Horsea just looks too much like a cartoon seahorse, I guess? The bug wing fins are kinda stupid too. 2/5
Seadra: Well, I like it more than Horsea? The tail curling to the side of the body like that looks weird. I think it would have been better if it were more S shaped, with an added curl at the bottom of the S. The "wings" are cool fins. Looking at it, I think something that bugs me about both this and it's preevo are that their heads are basically balls with tubes on them, while actual seahorses have more of snouts.
I think that would have improved both designs a lot. Also, Seadra's art is angled weird. Whatever. 3/5
Goldeen: Let's get the good out of the way. Goldeen's fins are rad, as is the coloration. And we're done. Horn looks glued on, lips are stupid, eyelids are stupid, and first you draw a bean then you're done drawing Goldeen's stupidly shaped body. Seriously though, that tail fin is AWESOME. Unfortunately, it is attached to an otherwise terrible design. 2/5
Seaking: Fuck yeah! Also rad fins, also rad colors, also stupid goddamn stupid lips and glued on horn. Look, I get nature glues bits on animals sometimes, but when you have such sick colors, you should take adcantage of them. Also maybe not always make every horn just a sharp cone. A firm improvement on Goldeen, though, and one I like a lot more than I expected. And yes, arbitrarily round is better fish shape than Goldeen. Those lips though. 3/5
Staryu: Did you know Staryu's gem thing is only attached via a single wraparound on one of it's lower left arm? I didn't. That's actually a really neat touch. Staryu is way cooler than it should be. The simple combination of starfish plus odd looking amulet is just nice looking. This is what simple designs should look like. 4/5
Starmie: Pretty awesome evo, too. The second starburst behind it and the improved gem are solid improvements. This is a displayed art thing, but I don't like the way it's "main" arms are drooping, but I think that's a non-neutral pose. Colorshift is good and, hey, it's more of a blue than a purple, so that's cool, right? 4/5.
Boy am I hype right now! I'll probably do some more after dinner! I hope they're all awesome looking!
