normal types
Gen 2: Furret, 'cos its shiny is among my favourite ones
burds
Gen 2: Hoothoot and Noctowl, because they'd be great to hang out with lmao. they're chill, unlike the other birds, but then there's Unfezant. the reason i'm not putting it here with Noctowl is because of my first playthrough of White. Detect shouldn't be on the Pokemon which is on many of the trainers' possessions.
bug things
Gen 3: Wurmple, Dustox, Beautifly, i find the concept of a frail worm turning into either something beautiful, elegant,and graceful or into something ugly and despised really relatable.
Gen 5: Scolipede looks sick af and i love it
electric possums mice
Gen 2: Azumarill
Gen 3: Plusle and Minun
Gen 4: Pachirisu
Gen 5: Emolga
Gen 6: Dedenne
because they're not pikachu
jk i love all of them.
big buff cheeto puffs
Gen 6: Goomy, Sliggoo, and Goodra. i love the change they made with Kalos' pseudo. normally these 600 base-stat monsters are scary looking, sharp-teeth, menacing-looks...(sure Dragonite smiles in his sprite but have you seen how badass he looks in the anime?)
and then there's the Goodra line. happy-go-lucky devils, waiting to destroy...
Hydreigon is second-best, though. bc i like its design.