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best of the best, design wise

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I'm just starting this thread for fun to see which Pokemon, to you, the fan, looks best in the following categories. Stats are not relevant, just the design.

CATEGORY #1- "Beauty": Pokemon chosen by you for this category must look pretty or vary in colour. For example, nominate Milotic, Meganium, Cresselia or Beautifly.

CATEGORY #2- "Cuteness": Pokemon you nominate here must be downright adorable. For example, nominate Skitty, Pichu or Cleffa.

CATEGORY #3- "Grace": Pokemon you nominate for this category can seem to be feminine or just graceful. For example, Gardevoir, Dragonair, Gorebyss or Deoxys Speed Forme.

CATEGORY #4- "Toughness": Pokemon you nominate for this category must look strong, buff and/or macho. Obvious examples are Machamp or Hitmonchamp. Other examples could include Rhyperior or Tyranitar.

CATEGORY #5- "Fearful”: Pokemon nominated for this category must look scary, evil or monstrous. They could also have big claws or fangs or have dark and angry faces. For example, Darkrai, Glalie, Gyarados or Houndoom.

CATEGORY #6- “Weird”: Pokemon nominated here must look odd, whereby it is hard to determine what real-world animal or plant they may have been based off, if any. For example, Porygon, Unown, Regirock/Regice/Registeel or Bronzong.

CATEGORY #7- “Plain Cool”: These are Pokemon you think are just cool. They may not be graceful enough to fit in the “Grace” category or scary enough to be in the “Fearful” category, but there is still something about their looks that makes them deserving of being nominated. This is also the category to pick your favourite design. I would pick Mewtwo or Hitmontop.

CATEGORY #8- “Iconic”: These are Pokemon which, to you, have become real icons of the series. These aren’t necessarily version mascots or Pokemon used a lot in Nintendo’s advertising for the series but they are Pokemon you’ll know you’ll still remember when you’re 50 (no offence to anyone on this site who is 50 or older). These are also Pokemon you think have a real classic and original design. I would pick Magnemite, Ralts or Mew.

CATEGORY #9- “Worst”: Are there any Pokemon that you particularly DON’T like? This would be a hard category for me because I think all Pokemon look good in their own way. However, I think I’d go with Regigigas as I think it looks too ‘thrown together.’ I may have not liked a Pokemon’s design the first time I saw it when a new Generation came out, but then I began to appreciate them.
 
1: Chimecho
2: azurill
3: Absol
4: aggron
5: Glalie (but it's a good thing)
6: Porygon-Z. He's on dope for sure.
7: Sceptile
8: Sceptile
9: Gallade. Froslass comes close second however.

Like that right?
 
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Toughness: Nidoking, Aggron, Feraligatr, Nidoqueen, Rhydon, Blaziken
Fearful: Beedrill, Ursaring, Steelix, Gengar, Haunter maybe Scizor, Salamence
Plain Cool: Charizard, Sceptile, Rayquaza, Marowak, Scyther, Flygon
Iconic: Pickachu, Voltorb, Charizard, Blastoise, Garchomp
Weird: Jynx, Dunsparce

Those are what i could think of real quick
 
ATEGORY #1- "Beauty": Suicune

CATEGORY #2- "Cuteness": Wooper

CATEGORY #3- "Grace": Glaceon

CATEGORY #4- "Toughness": Blaziken

CATEGORY #5- "Fearful”: Dusknoir

CATEGORY #6- “Weird”: Mr. Mime

CATEGORY #7- “Plain Cool”: Scizor

CATEGORY #8- “Iconic”: Celebi

CATEGORY #9- “Worst”: Jynx
 
CATEGORY #1
Lugia

CATEGORY #2
Meowth

CATEGORY #3
Dragonair

CATEGORY #4
Feraligatr

CATEGORY #5
Haunter

CATEGORY #6
Keckleon

CATEGORY #7
Charizard

CATEGORY #8
Meowth

CATEGORY #9
Arceus saves us from Rhyperior!
 
CATEGORY #1- "Beauty": Rapidash

CATEGORY #2- "Cuteness": Chatot

CATEGORY #3- "Grace": Delcatty

CATEGORY #4- "Toughness": Charizard

CATEGORY #5- "Fearful”: Gengar

CATEGORY #6- “Weird”: Magnezone

CATEGORY #7- “Plain Cool”: Mismagius

CATEGORY #8- “Iconic”: Ninetails

CATEGORY #9- “Worst”: LICKILICKY D<
 
Beauty - Milotic, maybe Ho-Oh
Cute - Pikachu, Torchic, Jigglypuff, Magby, maybe some other babies
Grace - Delcatty? Arceus possibly, maybe Lugia
Tough - Steelix, Graveler, Machoke, Magmar
Fearsome - none really, maybe Gengar could possibly be, along with Darkrai
Weird - most of the new GenIV evolutions, like Magmortar or Tangrowth
Cool - Deoxys, Spiritomb, Garchomp, Charizard and the likes
Iconic - Pikachu, naturally, along with Mew, Meowth and the likes
Worst - really no idea... maybe some of those weird evolutions
 
Counting the votes so far, it looks like Charizard is pulling ahead in '#7 PLAIN COOL' with 3 votes and Gengar is winning in '#5 FEARFUL' with 3 votes.
It's kind of hard to pick a winner so far with the other categories as none of them have gotten higher than 2.
 
1-"Beauty": Dragonair, Milotic, Ninetales

2-"Cuteness": Bulbasaur, Vulpix, Totodile, Chikorita, Squirtle

3-"Grace": Espeon, Lapras, Meganium

4-"Toughness": Tyranitar, Blastoise, Blaziken

5-"Fearful”: Feraligatr, Metagross, Houndoom

6-“Weird”: Porygon-Z, Bronzong, Tangrowth

7-“Plain Cool”: Venusaur, Scizor, Dragonite

8-“Iconic”: Pikachu, Charizard, Mewtwo

9-“Worst”: Infernape, Lickylicky, Magnezone, Magmortar, Electivire
 
Beauty - Starmie
Cuteness - Mantyke
Grace - Ninetales
Toughness - Miltank
Fearful - Glalie
Weird - Lickilicky
Cool - Sceptile
Iconic - Jigglypuff
Worst - Whiscash (just fugly)
 
Beauty - Ninetales, Articuno, Beautifly, Roselia, Glaceon, Cresselia

Cuteness - Shaymin, Spoink, Plusle/Minun, Azurill, Piplup, Spheal, Leafeon, Combee

Grace - Dragonair, Gardevoir, Milotic, Suicune

Toughness - Marowak, Nidoking, Salamence, Aggron

Fearful - Can't think of any...

Weird - Farfetch'd, Doduo, Sudowoodo, Unown, Snubbull, Mawile, Claydol

Cool - Flygon, Kadabra, Gyarados, Staraptor, Haunter, Xatu, Giratina, Absol, Sableye, Porygon

Iconic - Mew, Mewtwo, Charmander, Pikachu, Rattatta, Ditto

Worst - Mr. Mime, Exeggutor, Jynx, Cradily, Lickitung -_-
 
CATEGORY #1- "Beauty": Cressilia

CATEGORY #2- "Cuteness": Piplup

CATEGORY #3- "Grace": Huntail

CATEGORY #4- "Toughness": Regigigas

CATEGORY #5- "Fearful”: Beedrill

CATEGORY #6- “Weird”: Shiftry

CATEGORY #7- “Plain Cool”: Tangela

CATEGORY #8- “Iconic”: Mr. Mime

CATEGORY #9- “Worst”: Exeggcute
 
CATEGORY #1- Well, I always thought suicune was beautiful.

CATEGORY #2- Eevee

CATEGORY #3- Espeon. Why do you think mine is a girl?

CATEGORY #4- Scizor. Especially it's HGSS sprite.

CATEGORY #5- Garchomp

CATEGORY #6- Bibarel

CATEGORY #7- Mewtwo

CATEGORY #8- Zubat

CATEGORY #9- Rhyperior
 
CATEGORY #1- "Beauty": IDK

CATEGORY #2- "Cuteness": IDK

CATEGORY #3- "Grace": dragonair

CATEGORY #4- "Toughness": infernape

CATEGORY #5- "Fearful”: darkrai

CATEGORY #6- “Weird”: arseus

CATEGORY #7- “Plain Cool”: Mewtwo

CATEGORY #8- “Iconic”: meowth

CATEGORY #9- “Worst”: arseus
 
One vote per category per person from now on.
Pikachu has 4 votes in "Iconic", the most any Pokemon's got in a single category. Well, it deserves to win in that category.
 
CATEGORY #2- "Cuteness": Pikachu.

CATEGORY #3- "Grace": Gardevoir, Ninetails...

CATEGORY #5- "Fearful”: Gyaragos, Darkrai... Tyranitar

CATEGORY #6- “Weird”: NOSEPASS

CATEGORY #8- “Iconic”: PIKA PIIIIIIIIIIIIIkachu

CATEGORY #9- “Worst”: Nosepass... still, WTF IS WITH IT AND ITS EVOLUTION XD
 
CATEGORY #1- "Beauty": Vaporeon. <3 It is just amazingly beautiful. Flareon is a close second, and Ampharos third.

CATEGORY #2- "Cuteness": Yanma and Mareep are both incredibly adorable. :3

CATEGORY #3- "Grace": I'm going with Absol. It just has grace, and is flawless. Togekiss and Leafeon, too.

CATEGORY #4- "Toughness": Feraligatr. 'Nuff said.

CATEGORY #5- "Fearful”: Bidoof! Oh, so scary and intimidating. XD

CATEGORY #6- “Weird”: Nosepass. I never understood this guy, to be honest.

CATEGORY #7- “Plain Cool”: Ledian, Yanmega, Croconaw, Quagsire. And many more.

CATEGORY #8- “Iconic”: Mew, for obvious reasons; Dratini, for being my loving partner in several fanfics; Wooper, for plain awesomeness ^^; Eevee, because of my love for all of its evolutions; Yanma, for being adorable but somehow very underloved; Phanpy, for its role in the original Gold team right from the start; Mudkip, because i liek themz; ...so many more. I don't think I'll ever forget Pokemon. These creatures are so close to my heart. <33

CATEGORY #9- “Worst”: There is no bad Pokemon! However, I could live without Nosepass. XD
 
Gah, one vote per category is making it tough for me, since almost all of my favourites would go in the 'cute' category...

CATEGORY #1- "Beauty": Vaporeon, again. Not much to say except that it's a wonderfully elegant design.

CATEGORY #2- "Cuteness": Mawile. She won't win in this category, which is just further evidence we're not living in the best of all worlds.

CATEGORY #3- "Grace": Gardevoir. This category sort of overlaps with 'beauty', at least for me. Gardevoir deserves a place on this list, though.

CATEGORY #4- "Toughness": Machoke. Not Machamp. Somehow Machoke's design has always seemed better than Machamp's to me. Not sure why.

CATEGORY #5- "Fearful”: Misdreavus? She's not the scariest-looking Pokémon, but she's the scary-looking Pokémon I most like the design of, if you know what I mean.

CATEGORY #6- “Weird”: Porygon-Z, probably. I like all of the Porygons, actually, they're such a fun design concept. Porygon-Z deserves special mention, though, for being probably my favourite Gen 4 design.

CATEGORY #7- “Plain Cool”: Miltank. Frankly, there are a bunch of Pokémon I could put here, but Miltank is my favourite one that I haven't already assigned a category to.

CATEGORY #8- “Iconic”: Jigglypuff. Yeah, so Pikachu will win, but Jigglypuff has always been there in the background too. A perfect attendance record for the Smash Bros. games has to stand for something.

CATEGORY #9- “Worst”: I'm going with Mr Mime for this one. It's just a bothersome concept, for numerous reasons. Clowns are unpleasant, as are Pokémon which look like little humans. Honourable mentions to Voltorb and Electrode (who would be considered the laziest designs ever if they weren't part of the untouchable Gen 1) and any new evo from Gen 4 that used the "let's take a Pokémon that was supposed to be the end of its evolutionary line and just make it bigger and uglier" philosophy (see Rhyperior, Electivire, Magmortar and Lickilicky. Tangrowth gets a pass because it looks like something Pete Fowler might have drawn).

Some Pokémon that also deserve recognition are Absol, Poochyena/Mightyena, Buneary/Lopunny, Mew, Phione, Relicanth, and pretty much every Eevee, except for Jolteon. And come on, Nosepass isn't that bad. It's not pretty, but at least it's original.
 
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