The sprite indeed worse than the previous one, not because of the quality of it, but some sprites are not actually "work" on the pokemon the Lapras look too difference from the OG one, Mukrow look a bit funny ?
i don't like Nidoking sprite much, Nidoqueen have her body armor-muscle thing become like her armor in the moe sprite, but Nidoking just straight up half naked dude with an eye patch (sorry i just want both to wear armor ? )
Mega Gardevoir sprite also look bad, the front sprite is acceptable enough, but the back sprite just straight up bad, it head look so much smaller than normal Gardevoir