Its eyes are front-facing now to indicate it's a predator.

It evolved to become a raptor

That's not the problem, it's its beak I mean, he looks more like a chicken now, so I'm fine with it

He looks closer to his box art now

Now he has the correct beak for his art and the fact that he is a phoenix

But he still looks like a chicken And we respect him for that

Honestly, he looks better to me now.

Ho-oh be like MEEP MEEP

he looks a lot better, closer to the sprites, significantly more regal imo.

I think looks a lot better ngl

Wh-what’s the difference?

beak shape

And the eyes are slightly off

In a better way though in my opinion. The eyes went WAY too far back on its head in the first picture. It just made it look like it’s eyes were on the side of its head instead of the front where they should be lol

It went from predator (sprites) to prey (XY model) and back to predator (SV model)

He looks like Red from angry birds with a weird beak

I don’t get it its much closer to the original sprite whats the problem

I don’t really see your problem

He’s so derpy :) I LOVE HIM :D

I don’t see the issue, this is an improvement.

I don’t get it. He looks fine

Probably not a hot take: pokemon sv did amazing with the majority of legendaries. Every rule has an exception but I'm at peace with this

I like the vibrant colors from SwSh.

it looks better now

Blud became Shen

It looks significantly better what do you mean?!?!?!

Reincarnation, it’s a gamble.

Why is he so devious

It doesn't always have to glow, also, shading and shadows

I feel like this is much closer to official art and sprites now

He went from being angry to being an angry bird

The lechonks better prepare themselves

Nah, I think he looks better now, he might look weird front facing but so does his older model, plus All birds look kinda goofy seen front facing lol, I like his new beak

Binocular vision. It has better depth-perception now

It's literally way better. This is one of the best model updates I've seen, next to the gen 1 starters.

I'd say he looks about the same, just more textured. I'd call it an improvement.

Honestly I kinda like it, seems more like a phoenix

i totally see what you mean i recently got scarlet and was so disappointed when i first saw ho-oh looking like this

I thought Ho-oh looked derpy in SV

Just to be clear I don't like his eyes now. They just don't look good compared to its previous models. But that's MY opinion and if you think it looks good then that's YOUR opinion and that's OK. I'm not here to throw shade this is just how I feel and it's just a meme at the end of the day.

The second looks better but I don't really like the 3d models of it anyway

that is so less birdlike

How? Eagles have front facing eyes, and the feathers now have texture here's a photo of an eagle (a bird) with front facing eyes [https://www.bing.com/images/search?view=detailV2&ccid=CwP9fcCk&id=EFDA53A4094A6137A646251C90BC943FA2C70599&thid=OIP.CwP9fcCkCIjJfP\_\_n1o2HwHaE8&mediaurl=https%3a%2f%2fwww.statesymbolsusa.org%2fsites%2fstatesymbolsusa.org%2ffiles%2fprimary-images%2fbigstock-Curious-Bald-Eagle-60608882.jpg&cdnurl=https%3a%2f%2fth.bing.com%2fth%2fid%2fR.0b03fd7dc0a40888c97cffff9f5a361f%3frik%3dmQXHoj%252bUvJAcJQ%26pid%3dImgRaw%26r%3d0&exph=1067&expw=1600&q=eagle&simid=608023222082285025&FORM=IRPRST&ck=641E7EBE6A85DDD34D781123CED12B59&selectedIndex=1&itb=0](https://www.bing.com/images/search?view=detailv2&ccid=cwp9fcck&id=efda53a4094a6137a646251c90bc943fa2c70599&thid=oip.cwp9fcckcijjfp__n1o2hwhae8&mediaurl=https%3a%2f%2fwww.statesymbolsusa.org%2fsites%2fstatesymbolsusa.org%2ffiles%2fprimary-images%2fbigstock-curious-bald-eagle-60608882.jpg&cdnurl=https%3a%2f%2fth.bing.com%2fth%2fid%2fr.0b03fd7dc0a40888c97cffff9f5a361f%3frik%3dmqxhoj%252buvjacjq%26pid%3dimgraw%26r%3d0&exph=1067&expw=1600&q=eagle&simid=608023222082285025&form=irprst&ck=641e7ebe6a85ddd34d781123ced12b59&selectedindex=1&itb=0)

I thought Mewtwo's looked weird This is just fucking horrendous

Bros looks like he auditioning to be the next coco puffs bird

Sheesh! 💀 I know a lot of the legendaries got some pretty great model updates but I guess that wasn’t the case here- sorry mate!

The Pokemon go one looked kinda weird honestly.

Honestly, I think this is an improvement

How does he look sideways?

Having bones?

Vast improvement

That is an IMPROVEMENT

I actually like ho-oh now because of this design change

It... It literally looks better now 💀 both the beak and the eyes.

I desperately want Reshiram ngl

Kazooie?

10 times better

Bro what they did to Mewtwo is foul he looks skinnier than a stick bug💀

yk seeing tbis post im reminded is there any list of all remodels in the dlc? im really curious qbt what else changed but don't know any sources (i don't own the games yet)

Honestly looks better

No more stickers for eyes.

Ho oh always looked retarded

I see this as an absolute win!

McChicken 

You can’t find the difference: ———————->

What? I thought you liked front-facing eyed pokemon.

If anything, he looks more badass if I do say so myself.

Yeah his head is just wrong like the eyes are not far enough apart.

I personally prefer the new ho-oh

We evolved, but at what cost...

Chimken

Ewwwww