Two Critics Rank Pokemon Designs | Pokemon Scarlet And Violet Tier List

People hated my opinions last time, so we're doing it again!

To put into context my perspective of what Pokemon designs ought to look like, see the following quote:
Sugimori: One of the biggest things to decide there is what the Pokemon eats. I think everyone must wonder about that. It's easy to imagine when it's a Pokemon like Snorlax, which eats anything, but we have a lot of Pokemon with mysterious bodies or no mouths. And so what do Pokemon based on inorganic items, like Magnemite, eat? It's the job of GAME FREAK's creative team to make sure there are proper answers for all these kinds of Pokemon. And then it's the job of us in the design team to make the ideas that the creative team came up with seem convincing.

Ghost-type Pokemon, for example, might feed on the spirit, or reap energy from the air around them. Whether or not we can think of something for a Pokemon to survive on is a huge turning point in the creation of any Pokemon. If we were going to make a Pokemon based on the motif of a car, for example, what would it eat? Would you make it able to suck up gasoline? How would it use the energy it got from-how would it use that source of power? Even if the design is based on a car, a Pokemon is a living creature, so we would work over and over how to express its "car-ness" and what its source energy should be.