Gardevoir is uglier than venusaur. Make that what you will.
In my opinion, Generation five is the best. The designs are just top notch. I especially like the Klink and Vanillite lines.
I don't see how people can honestly say the designs are hurting the franchise, when Black and White were two of the best selling Pokémon games ever. The generations are just getting better and better.
I think the Tyranitar and Gliscor in your sig would like to have a word with you...Gen 1 and Gen 3 are pretty cool.
Rest is garbage.
Uglier? Perhaps. It's really a matter of opinion but one can draw at least one observational fact. The design style has indeed changed.
I lean more toward the phrase, over designed rather than ugly. I prefer the simpler designed pokemon, ones that when you look at you could picture in the real world. Fewer and fewer pull this off for me. Some are more original than others with out being over designed but they are few. Oh and for FFS an ice-cream cone pokemon is not "creative"
I just looked Zeldainformer's discussion about pokemon designs and I just feel offended that the Pokemon design is really "hurting" the pokemon franchise. Do you think that the Pokemon designs are getting to weird or think this Pokemon design criticism is getting too far.