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Least creative pokemon (in your opinion)?
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GreenSweeper
Pokemon = supr srs
Voltorb.
It's a pokeball with eyes. Need I say more?
It's a pokeball with eyes. Need I say more?
PrismaticPrincessAnna
I'll do my Lilliest
Ditto? Its just a blob, nya~
Crimson Penguin
Marchin' on
Grimer and Muk. They're just piles of purple goop with faces.
For me, the pokemon that top this list are Seel/Dewgong, Furret, Basculin, Noctowl/Hoothoot, and Electrode (they actually had to come up with the Pokeball to come up with Voltorb, so that's somewhat creative. Making Voltorb's evolution merely bigger, with eyebrows, teeth, and reversed colours takes a lot less creativity, in my opinion. I think that when Voltorb evolve, they should explode out of their red and white shells, exposing their core of pure electric energy. This core would be able to manipulate the fragments of Voltorb left over from the explosion into different shapes, allowing it to take different formes. Basically, it would be kind of like a non-legendary version of Deoxys. But, I'm not a designer for Gamefreak so whatever.).
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But he's ridiculously cute.
Moving to polls given the number of one-liner replies already and the nature of the question.
I would be inclined to say Voltorb/Electrode. Not the general idea itself as it is kinda interesting (is it a living Pokeball? Evolution to look like one?) but the whole 'flip upside down, bigger smile' thing in evolving.
I would be inclined to say Voltorb/Electrode. Not the general idea itself as it is kinda interesting (is it a living Pokeball? Evolution to look like one?) but the whole 'flip upside down, bigger smile' thing in evolving.
Masterge77
Floatzel rules!
Most devinitely Voltorb, it's just a Pokeball with eyes, Ditto is not that much different, as it's just a blob with a face.
PrismaticPrincessAnna
I'll do my Lilliest
GildedScizor
The drinking bird
Vanillish/Garbodor. Ice cream and a pile of garbage.
Klinklang's name is supposed to sound like an onomatopoeic emulation of the sound of gears hitting against each other, thereby extending the Klink line's theme beyond their designs and into their names.
Woobat/Swoobat aren't simply alterations of the name "Zubat." Woobat/Swoobat have a "love" theme, and so Woobat's name comes from "woo," which means to court somebody in order to win their love, and Swoobat's name comes from "swoon," which means feel faint, usually at the sight of somebody that you are attracted to.
Would you mind giving me the names of at least three other franchises who have designed a character after ice cream or garbage? Because if you can't, then I would say that Vanillite and Trubbish are the very definition of creative, since they are original concepts and are designed to look like things that you wouldn't expect to be used for a design.
GildedScizor
The drinking bird
Just because something is unique doesn't mean it's necessarily creative. Did you ever think the reason why other franchises don't design characters after ice cream or garbage is because their creative nous expands beyond the realms of everyday objects you find in the kitchen? Game Freak is tasked with making special creatures that no-one else could, and they've done that with Pokemon like Lapras, Tropius, Gardevoir, the list goes on. But when they start designing Pokemon where their source of artistic inspiration could have been obtained by anyone going into their freezer, picking up a frozen treat, drawing a smiley face on it and calling it a Pokemon, that's when you can tell something like Vanillish or Garbodor is uncreative.
You say that, and yet, a large portion of Pokemon are based off of everyday animals or objects. I could spend practically a whole two hours sitting here and listing all of the Pokemon that are based off of everyday things; does that make all of them uncreative? No. Where the inspiration comes from is irrelevant; it's what they do with it that determines how creative it is. Vanillite is creative because while it looks like ice cream, it is actually a mutated icicle cloaked in snow. It actually has creative background details to explain why it looks the way it does. Garbodor is the same way; it takes leftover trash and adapts it into its body, as evidenced by its pipe fingers and its garbage bag hood.
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GildedScizor
The drinking bird
*In pokedex voice*
Toiletron, the Toilet pokemon. It's body is actually composed of a dense, white, toxic paste, despite looking ceramic in appearance. When threatened, it fires its contents as a means of escape.
That took ten seconds to come up with. Yes it's based on an incredibly basic household object, but since the description and abilities justify the Pokemon, I'm sure it doesn't matter where the inspiration comes from. All glory to the incredibly creative Toiletron!
As for Pokemon being based off real animals (such as Walrein from a walrus or the like), it's pretty clear from the anime that Pokemon were designed to take on the roles of real-life animals in the Pokemon world and to have a lot of relevance to the natural world, just with Game Freak's own creative twist and that's what has appealed to a lot of people, so they kept doing it. There's very few pokemon based on objects compared to how many are based on animals and so on. But when there's Pokemon based on already man-made objects...it gives a sort of "it's been done" feeling, you know? So I think it really does matter when the inspiration comes from.