User blog comment:Aandrew07/Discussion of the Week: Subspecies/@comment-5020152-20121021170912

1) The best roster of subspecies obviously comes from 3rd Gen.

2) The worst comes from 1st Gen. Again, this is obvious.

3) Oh, my. The best of them all - well, I can't decide! However, the best of 1st Gen would have to be Green Plesioth, just for those beautiful colors.

The best one in 2nd Gen would be Terra Shogun, followed closely by Copper Blangonga. I don't know why, but his color scheme... reminds me of something.

The best of 3rd Gen? Good Gobul Hide, that's a toughie. I'm going to have to say it's a tie between Tropical Quru and Frigid Agna.

The best of Frontier is probably Ancient Rathian or Akura Jebia. They're just so frigging awesome.

4) The worst of 1st Gen is definitely Blue Kut-Ku. It's not even a decent shade of blue!

The worst of 2nd Gen is the Rusted Daora. There's really nothing different from the original Daora besides the color.

Again, it's hard to pick the worst of 3rd Gen, but I'm going to go out on a limb and say the Black Tigrex, followed by the Crystal Jhen.

The worst of Frontier is the Red Lavasioth. What's the difference between him and the original, again?

5) Definitely.

6) A good subspecies needs to have at least a few new attacks and a different status/element.

Take 1st Gen for example. All of their subspecies had the exact same moves, exact same element/status, and lived in the exact same areas. Boooooorrrrring.

Then in 2nd Gen, the new subspecies had at least one or two different attacks, and lived in slightly different areas. They're much better overall.

But 3rd Gen? Totally new attacks, new environments... It blows my mind.