Now, it's pretty clear to me that nobody really had a good idea what to do with this guy. They had the idea of a cosmic-themed, 3-stage legendary, and the final logical stage of that Pokemon is Lunala. But, always two there must be, so let's make up something else. I guess lions are cool, make him look like a mid-2000's Power Ranger animal, that's fine. What about color scheme? Is it jarring to go from gold+purple/blue to gold+white/orange? Shouldn't maybe we have alternate versions of Cosmoem and Cosmog to lead up to this at all? Nah, just stick a dumbass little plate there, almost completely invisible in the gigantic confusion that is his general facial area, it'll be fine!
Well, it's not fine. Solgaleo sticks out like a sore thumb after you just freakin' walloped that sucker with a ball-peen. Blood everywhere, nail hanging on by a thread, Mom comes in screaming, Dad's trying to tell you not to cry, and it hurts so much it's looped over the threshold and back around and it doesn't hurt at all.
See, I could handle it if they both (Lunala and Solgaleo) did their own thing, but Lunala flows so obviously from Cosmoem, Solgaleo comes off as an awkward afterthought. Homie looks kinda cool, at least he doesn't fall into the trap that so many over-designed legendaries do. And honestly, if he was just a standalone Pokemon, I'd probably be really into it.
but that is not our reality, and I don't know if I can square with how much he's clearly the non-canonical choice. Oh, and don't even get me started on the typing. It's utterly arbitrary, and I don't wanna catch anybody getting out their "actually"s and writing a comment about how supernovas are made of liquid steel or meteorites are actual metal I DON'T CARE. Psychic is already stupid enough, but alas, we have no cosmic type to fall back on, so they make do with what they can.
Overall: 3/10
Glad you know Solgaleo is trash and gave it the score it deserves. It's so lame in comparison to Lunala, it's not even funny. Bad design, typing that doesn't make any sense, and gets horseshoed in another evolutionary line.
ReplyDeleteinb4 some retard comes along saying the sun is made of steel.
Cosmog is a blob if Cosmoem was better designed this evolutionary line could be beliveable.
ReplyDeleteThis gen introduced more pokémon with arbitrary typing than usual even Lunala doesn't really make sense, both Legendary mascots should be pure cosmic-type.