With Pokemon Scarlet and Violet’s launch earlier this month, players have now had a chance to see many of the new Pokemon roaming across Paldea. There are plenty of great designs, but some are just plain weird. Seriously weird, in fact! For a bit of fun, let’s wrap up the 10 that really don’t make much sense.
Wiglett
This Pokemon looks almost identical to Diglett due to its eyes and nose but is a completely different Pokemon; a very strange decision because Pokemon already has Alolan Diglett as a regional variant, so Wiglett could easily be another one. Additionally, the fact that it’s a Water-type that lives underground on beaches doesn’t add up, can it even breathe underwater?
The Fix: changing Wiglett to Paldean Diglett can turn this into a normal Pokemon that happens to live near water.
Frigibax
Despite looking like Treecko, Frigibax isn’t a Grass-type, nor does it look much like its evolutions Arctibax and Baxcalibur. They’re just too spiny and sharp to resemble the squishy Frigibax, plus they look much meaner and more aggressive. Frigibax and Arctibax resemble dinosaurs, while Frigibax looks like an innocent baby Pokemon.
The Fix: Frigibax could use a tail and some spines on its head to resemble the dinosaur appearance of his evolutions.
Bramblin
The Tumbleweed Pokemon introduces a new evolution mechanic, evolving after 1,000 steps outside its Pokeball, that clashes with a design that’s missing feet. It rolls and drifts in the wind, making it difficult to predict how close it is to becoming a Brambleghast. Its eyes take a bit of getting used to as well because they’re basically just floating seeds without a mouth or nose nearby.
The Fix: give Bramblin feet, or at least larger spikes so it can take steps, it can evolve the feet away when it becomes Brambleghast.
Greavard
The candle on Greavard’s head looks too similar to Litwick, and since they’re both ghost Pokemon, they could have a relationship like Tatsugiri and Dondozo. Instead, the candle serves no real purpose and just sticks out of the ground; to make matters worse, it evolves away the candle as Houndstone in favor of a tombstone. Doesn’t it make more sense for Greavard to have a smaller tombstone before it evolves? Its name is a play on graveyard, after all.
The Fix: the candle should really be a small tombstone, or maybe flowers.