I see youre point with the Magneton, but its the magnezone evolution thats bugging me. To me, if they were gonna make magnezone look..... singular, then magnemites evolutionary line should look more like beldums ( as i said in the first post).

Yes, technically they're iron filings so we can't say it's so...farfetch'd hehe But still, we can tell Game Freak just slapped that awful moustache on it and called it a day. Then there's poor Aipom. He was a cute little monkey so... they decided to add an ugly nose and not one but two
newly designed, horribly designed tails. They also just had to raise Lickitung from the dead, bring it all the way back from Gen. I to create...Lickilicky?! Besides, of ALL the pokemon, did Nosepass, Aipom, and Lickitung really need an evolution.

Thank God they're starting with all new pokemon this generation. It wouldn't make sense to have evolved forms of old pokemon available way before we can get the old ones since we now know there's no old pokemon 'til we obtain the Nat. Dex.

Personally, I think the three you mentioned really DID need an evolution, did Rhydon need an evolution? or electabuzz? Of course not. Imo, those evolutions were ugly and unnecessary, when Game Freak could have just given them the new Abilities.

Well, even if they needed evolutions, I just think that the designs are real ugly. Not to be mean to them but they really shouldn't include evolutions if they just don't look good, no matter how bad the pokemon need an evolution.

And I agree 300% about Rhyperior and Electivire; they're just too excessive. I didn't want to use them as examples though because it seemed to me that a lot of people actually like them.

well, generally, as soon as an evo comes out, most people agree its a good idea, simply because it exists. I mean, the argument goes "without rhyperior, palmer wouldn't have his third pokemon" or stuff like that that is clearly wrong, but you can't argue against it coz everyone thinks that way. I personally have nothing wrong with really random evolutions (just so long as they don't make fourth evolution stages... no salamence or garchomp evo, thanks). I think they could've looked a bit better. Rhyperior could have kept the colour of Rhyhorn and Rhydon, at the very least. Electivire and Magmortar, pretty obvious examples of taking a Pokemon and beating it up. I don't think that every poke should have an evo or pre-evo tho, I mean Ditto and Smeargle are meant to be unique pokemon that have a certain move or ability that makes them special. What would a ditto evo do? 80 in every base stat, but only learn Transform? I suppose it would be nice to have a Smeargle with better stats...