This deviantart abomination is an actual pokemon in 2017

>this deviantart abomination is an actual pokemon in 2017

What in the world happened to this franchise?

>cartoony doggo

I haven't played Pokemon since Diamon/Pearl but what exactly is wrong with that design?

It was always shit.

Looks good.

I genuinely can't think of more than 5 Alolan designs that I like.

cute!

Looks nice, really

Its look cool but its slow speed and crap defenses/HP hurt it.

Looks like something a furry would draw.

>pokemon
>Good

>its shiny literally has sonic colors

It´s ok user
You didn´t decide, shit taste is something you born with

What's wrong with it? I like the wacky design.

Don't ask. the excuses are asinine for the most part

>sonic shiny
>terrible speed stat
Was Gamefreak taking a shot at Sega?

Absol was the original edgy deviantart furry oc

What went wrong?

The power of meme magic is amazing

>umbreon
>absol
>zoroark
All of these are just as abominable. You're just getting older, user.

disgusting. Post the version without the pentagram.

they just cant make good characters beyond a hundred, you're running out of shit to base them off of

all original pokemon are archetypal

even that polygon one and the fucking geyser thing made sense

after that it was just fucking retarded bullshit just to be different for the sake of variation

who the fuck cares its fucking pokemon i knew this all when i was fucking 11, 14 years ago and they first started going past the first 100 or 150 and went retarded

Art direction changed years ago.
The only one with a vag worth spreading is Midnight Lycanroc. The dex entry for Salandit would have made great pussy musk play but is ugly as shit. Alola Vulpix is just a reskin and the regular one is infinitely better.

Gen 1-3 were the good ones, it just exponentially cratered after that

He's pretty hot as a giant though

It seems like the opinion of anyone who's not into Pokemon anymore is that it's the first games they played or the last ones they enjoyed that are the best.
Personally, I still enjoy the designs, some of them are nonsensical yes and their design philosophies have definitely changed but I do still enjoy a lot of them.
The games themselves have taken a big hit since the 3DS era though, the only game on the 3DS that was enjoyable was X/Y. ORAS was a shit remake compared to HGSS and Sun/Moon was just boring and some of the great Pokemon designs (Lycanroc day, Primarina, etc) couldn't make up for it.