>>107963177You're right
For the amalgamations:
Swampfire isn't as cool as Heatblast or Wildvine.
Big Chill isn't as cool as Ghostfreak and while it might be more versatile than Arctiguana, Ben's real go to "ice" alien is Diamondhead
Jetray just erases the point of Stinkfly, XLR8 and Ripjaws but when the gimmick of the show is swapping for the right hero for the right situation, having one that does everything is boring (Hence why Alien X needs such a big weakness to work)
Humongasaur (Four Arms X Waybig) is a decent concept but when everybody forgets his growing ability, he becomes blander than Fourarms since he's just a big guy. He can't do the cool attacks that Fourarms can do with his gimmick eg. the different kinds of Shockwaves
Then the ones that were nerfed:
Chromastone just shoots lazers which is boring and should've had more Diamondhead like powers.
Goop and Juryrig take two seperate sides of Upgrade which make them both worse: (Goop is just a blob, Juryrig only makes machines)
Fastrack is just a fast guy.
Rath is just boring aside from his personality.
Chamalien can only turn invisible.
Eatle is upchuck made more boring
Shocksquatch was ANOTHER electric alien
The Ultimate Gimmick worked for the show but they didn't use it enough to make the aliens interesting and some complete power changes were baffling?
But they weren't all bad. EchoEcho, Brainstorm, Alien X and Spidermonkey felt like perfect additions to Ben's arsenal and the aggregor five were widely varying degrees of interesting but atleast they were original.
