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Originally Posted by Quantum Heart
Popplio is not nearly the worst anything. It's not as cool as the other two but it's still cute and goofy.
I wonder how cool a team made out of torchic, piplup and rowlet would be.
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Being a horrible design and being called a horrible design are two different things. Just like every angsty pokemon player will declare Litten the coolest Pokemon even because it looks evil and is black and red. Pipplio is based on a clown, people don't like clowns. Objectively is a neat idea and very much in line with Pokemon. Doesn't mean it will be accepted as such.
Heck some still insist on the "Caterpie and Venomoth where switched" theory based entirely on Metapod's eyes despite the fact Caterpie's evolution line designs mirror a real life species butterfly perfectly.
We still have people saying how "creepy and out of place" Lavender town is in Gen 1 when in reality it's the opposite, it's the most cliche location type in video games, it would have been weird for there not to be a "haunted/spooky" area in the original games.