/vp/ — What causes this?

>>59352000 (OP)
both are dogshit designs

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>>59352000 (OP)
1. black is a cool color (except when it's the color of someone's skin)
2. this meme is intentionally reductive and dense, far more was changed than just the coloration

>>59352000 (OP)
It's like a black luxury car, it just werks

>>59352023
it barely changed

>>59352000 (OP)
Why'd they give this thing a beard and built-in swords? I'm sick of all these jobmons...

>dislike samurott for not looking enough like a big dewott
>h-samurott is considered better even though it looks even less like dewott

Don't care, buff dommy mommy Hisuian Samurott and cuddly BBW Unovan Samurott.

>>59352045
>He plays the magical monster game for realistic fauna rather than magical monsters

>>59352000 (OP)
>top is a ZU shitmon, literally worse than pre Mega Sol Meganium
>Bottom rapes OU with its sword splinters
Gee I wonder why one is more popular than the other,
real mystery

>>59352023
It's also navy, not black.

>>59352023
>except when it's the color of someone's skin
Kek based

>>59352064
>ZU shitmon
Snorlax is too but people are not ready for that conversation yet.

>>59352159
Snorlax was a monster in general 1 OU. There’s just been power creep

>>59352023
>far more
Not really.

>>59352159
>Neckbeards caring about competitive rankings.
Snorlax is goated. Screw the rankings.

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>>59352064
>worse than pre Mega Sol Meganium
Meganium without it's megastone is unranked in ZU. At least vanilla Samurott has a niche there

https://www.smogon.com/forums/threads/sv-zu-viability-rankings.3747001/

>>59352237
>Meganium without it's megastone is unranked in ZU
And its mega evolution exposed all the posers who claim that they "liked" Meganium the entire time ever since it was revealed.

>>59352022
based

>>59352426
pretty sure most people mocked Meganium’s mechanical shittiness not its design

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>>59352457
>not its design
I did
Shit looks like a dog stuck in a cone covering the entire thing that makes a long neck dinosaur unique

>>59352053
In some ways it's more like Dewott though. H-sam even got a dual wield animation.

>>59352000 (OP)
nobody would give a single shit about h.samurott if it didn't have ceaseless edge

someone post the downie redesign yawnfag likes for some indescribable reason

>>59352000 (OP)
>his gaze is better
>better colors and red patterns that decorate the seashells
>the shape of the seashells is better
>slightly thinner body
>double type instead of a bland monotype
Base Samurott is very mid; the Hisuian version gives him what he needed to make him cool (without being an exceptional design, let's not exaggerate). Even so, in both cases, he still suffers from being a biped wielding blades.

>>59352000 (OP)
>hated thing
>hated thing (hoenn dex)

>>59352000 (OP)
>>59352022
>>59352026

The original is dogshit. Hisuian looks great.

> its not fat like the OG.
> the whiskers/beard is so much better and seems less stiff
> its helmet is asymmetrical in a cool way
> its glaring at you like you have to die
> and yes, the colour scheme is vastly better.

the original look plain & derpy. new one does not

>>59352935
Still quadruped, therefore still a bad design.

>>59352945
NTA but his smaller lower body makes it seem more reasonable for him to stand and attack with swords. The thing before is that he had a posture that seemed locked into being a quadrupede.

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>>59352945

>>59352961
>samurott shill hates pokemon
checks out

>>59352953
Even gf seems to think so looking at the difference in their animations

>>59352968
What exactly defines a "pokemon"?

>>59352935
The hisuian is just the same pokemon with different shell

>>59352000 (OP)
https://youtu.be/DaOgZwk9rN8?si=1wAPN5dZorJJVbqP

>>59352457
>mechanical shittiness
Game Freak never did pay attention to how their games worked.
They're flooded with poor game design.

>>59353268
kind of but you left out the most important differences (less fat, looks less stupid in art/movement, dark-type with strong move)

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>A regional variant isn't drastically different
Yeah, they're not mega evolutions, they're cousins/variations. Why are people surprised lol

>>59353427
>>A regional variant isn't drastically different
Alolan raichu has a lot of differences compared to kantonian raichu tho?

>>59353433
Its literally just Raichu riding on its tail with psychic powers

>>59353450
>Its literally just Raichu riding on its tail with psychic powers
With cuter eyes
Different ears
Paws with actual fingers
Different looking tail
Smoother body all around

>>59352000 (OP)
Black do be cool tho.

>>59353453
>Paws with actual fingers
Purely aesthetic, doesn't do anything different from the original

>With cuter eyes
>Smoother body all around
Every regional changes eyes or body mass

>Different ears
>Different looking tail
Regionals have new typings so their most unique features get altered as result. Rapidash having non-fire mane, Sandslash's ice spines, Farfetch’d wielding heavier leeks, etc

>>59353600
>Purely aesthetic, doesn't do anything different from the original
it's still a difference. Kantonian raichu doesn't have fingers.
>Every regional changes eyes or body mass
Not all regional forms change this much alolan ninetales is almost a recolor at best
>Regionals have new typings so their most unique features get altered as result.
Therefore it's a change got it

>>59353610
>Therefore it's a change got it
Changed to better suit their new typing yes.
If Magmar had a rock type form, would its body still be covered in flames or actual rocks?

>>59353651
Base magmar wasn't covered in flames to begin with

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>>59352000 (OP)
Color is an important part of a design
Armarouge for example is way less popular than his counterpart, and I would bet it's in large part because its colors are garish. It's way too bold and plastic looking, especially the yellow.
I'm listening to a >Sonic song right now so that makes me think as well, Sonic's arms were made to be skin color to help them stand out from their body on a 2D sprite. An example of color placement being important for definition and balance.
There's whole rules around design palettes and color theories and whatnot about appealing colors. Yeah the dark blue with red accents looks a little more cohesive, especially with the red eyes and nose already existing.

Posing can also help, since in the official art there, the poor thing looks like it can barely stand. The limbs just look weird. In >>59352023 it has a kind of "prouder" stance which helps with the impression.

That said I don't really like samurott anyway lol