i have a lot of pokemon in mind but i lied i cant actually remember any of them so heres 2.
and for reference
here's a picture of the line together
drizzile is... kind of a trainwreck. i know middle evolutions are supposed to be like the weird transitional stage between "uwu cute" and "murder beast" (almost reminiscent of a person's phases in middle school-- in this case, emo) but this just aint it. the colors, the pose, it just isn't working together. and oh my god those fucking mittens who designed those
colors. eugh. in theory a palette of pure cool colors (and white) should work together but its just stitched together in the most incoherent way. the purple is too close to red to be decent, and that green is absolutely fucking with me. sobble has the blue/gold color scheme! inteleon has the blue/gold color scheme! and here's drizzile, a disaster. the worst part is that you can't fix the colors without the whole thing looking weird. im not a fan of the shiny form either, but at least it has somewhat consistent colors across the line. (plus its trans flag colors. instant redemption)
the pose is just awkward. thats it.
those mitten things are just weird considering the whole "spy" theme of inteleon but at least it masks the transition from sobble's lego hands to inteleon's freakishly humanoid hands. they couldve gone full meme mode and given it fingerless gloves but, here we are
and now for the biggest downgrade in all of pokemon
typhlosion.
typhlosion has something like
quagsire (and a handful of other early mons)-- from the front theres just nothing. it's purely that cream yellow whatever color, then you have a bit of blue at the top and you're done. the fire is the main thing that draws attention. gen8 threw that nice pale yellow out in favor of Ass Yellow.
this is one of those rare cases where the gen2 sprite is WAY better than anything else. my only complaint is that the arm on the left is just a bit too long and too high. its shiny sprite is WAY better than the reworked ones. the purples look great on it compared to the weird red. (i DO like gen3's shiny though. its a nicer red.
most of the body is fine on the gen3-6 sprites but it looks like they didn't know what to do with the arms.
gen6 is just bad. where's the activity in the pose? where's the dynamic expressions? where's the fire? this sprite is a trainwreck and im sure you can see why