Not every Pokémon is as cute as Pikachu, as pretty as Dragonair, or as cool as Mega Charizard X. There are some deꦺsigns that are just lame. They are ugly or boring.
🎶This 💞decade has seen a lot of new Pokémon designs from generation five through eight. Obviously, not all designs were winners. Here are ten Water-Type designs from this decade that were not very popular.
10 Dracovish
Obviously this abomination had to get on this list. It is both Water and Dragon-Type, as it is created by combining the Fish and Drake fossils.It looks like a mistake, but has still been popular because it is actual💮ly very powerful despite its awful design.
While its design is ugly, it has an interesting backstory. The fossil Pokémon in Sword and Shield are actually based on the .
9 Skrelp
This Poison and Water-Type does actually evolve into a pretty𒉰 cool design. However, its base form is pretty uninspired. What its design is based on, the weedy sea dragon, actually l🦋ooks way cooler.
For some reason, Skrelp just looks depressed and unhappy with its existence. Its colors are also pretty dull while actual weedy sea dragons come 🍌in all sorts🃏 of cool tropical colors.
8 Mega Slowbro 🎃
Some Mega Evolutions had not so great designs. One of these was Mega Slowbro. Its design looked like a fan a🅠rt joke, but it was real. The strange part of this Mega Evolution is also that it really seems to evolve Shellder, rather than Slowbro itself.
It looks strangely like a spinning top, which we already have with Hitmontop. Overall, it was an odd choice for a Mega Evolution with a pretty unmemorable design. Ma𝓡ny trainers often forget about 🍷this Mega Evolution.
7 Binacle
Introduced in Pokémon X and Y, this Rock and Water-Type has a similar sort of idea behind Doduo's design. ꦗExcept this one is pretty ugly. Most agree that it is based on the goose barnacle, but who decided to give it one really depressed face and one really angry face? We can't decide whi♒ch one to look at because they are both not pretty.
What's strange about their design is that they actually seem to be two Pokémon sha🐠ring one rock (and the rock is not a part of their actual bodies). At least Doduos design allowed it be to seen as a single entity.
6 Barbaracle 😼
When Binacle evolves, it becomes Barbaracle, which als𝓰o gets on this list for an undesirable design. It is actually hard to tell what the artist was going for for Barbaracle's overall concept. It still has the goose barnacle bits going on, but it also has Hamsa-like hands which are popular symbols int he Middle-East and and North Africia, not France which is what Kalos is based on. It also suggests that the two Binacles formed as one, which is a true thing that happens in nature. However, it does not translate 🍃to this design which has one face and four arms with eyes in them.
5 Palpitoad
Admittedly, this Pokémon design can grow on you the more you look at it. When you first see it though, its not great. It i🐲s a middle evolution, so it is literally in an ugly teenager phase where it has grown legs but no arms.
What we don't lဣike is that it is a combination of a toad and a loudspeaker. The concept artist tried 🔴to combine speakers with toad warts and it just came out odd-looking. The adult form of this guy makes the design even worse as well.
4 ☂ 💫 Seismitoad
This combination between a toad and a loudspeaker has been called the "vibration Pokémon." Its massive, stands on two legs, 💞has giant speaker-warts all over ✃it, and has red eyes that look like they are blood-shot. Would you or someone you know want to hug this thing? No, most people would say no.
There is just something nasty about this design. Reading its dex entries only make it worse, because apparently its lumps vibrate and are great for relaxing massages. That means rubbing their warts all over you. Sorry Pokémon, but that is just seems gross and creepy.
3 Alomomola
Alomomola was introduced in the Black and White games. Its design is not very ugly, but its on this list for being boring. Its biggest issue is that its design has been mostly done before. The sunfish part of its design is unique, but it is hea𝐆rt-shaped and we already have a heart-shaped fish (and it is cuter): Luvdisc.
There are theorizes that its design could be based on Claddagh rings from Irish ♛tradition, and that is why its body is heart-shaped and its fines are like hands. While that is a nice idea, the hand-shaped fins ♒are very off-putting.
2 Chewtle
Chewtle was introduced just recently in Sword and Shield. Luckily for it, Chewtle does evolve into a cooler design than his own. However, its original design is pretty lacking. Obviously, it is based on a snapping turtle. To be blunt, its ugly. Some players might find it cute, but only ไin a face-only-a-mother-could-love way. Its head is too big to fit into its shell, which defeats the purpose of 🐻being a turtle. Its buck-teeth also look strangely human. Also, why the unicorn horn?
1 Mega Gyarados ൲ ⛎
Another Mega Evolution that disappointed us was Gyarados. Gyarados is a Pokémon that has been around since the first generation, and it deserved a better Mega Evolution design. It actually does not look that d𓆉ifferent, with only larger fins and a thicker upper body. It is disappointing since there are many creativꦬe possibilities for a super-powered angry sea dragon Pokémon. The colors and body could have changed more, but we are left with just a chubbier Gyarados it seems.