If that's your opinion then fine, it's your opinion and I respect that, but I'm of the opinion that your opinion is ********.
Edit* Really? That's considered an actual swear on SB?
*The More You Know*
Empoleon, Infernape, and Torterra are all really cool in my opinion. But more importantly they're all objectively well designed. Not liking there designs from a personal standpoint is fine, but they are far from bad designs in general.
I don't know which Pokémon you were using, but Gen 4 had some killer stuff! Besides the starters, there was Magnezone, Froslass, Weavile, the Garchomp line, Bastiodon, Roserade, Mismagius, Lopunny, Lucario, Glaceon, Giratina, and Shaymin to name a few. All of these Pokémon are quite well designed from an objective standpoint. Gen 4 just has the same problem that every other generation has, that there will always be bad and stupid ideas for Pokémon mixed in with the good ones. But I think this list proves that Gen 4's Pokémon aren't all "dumb" by any stretch of the imagination.
I don't even really know how to respond to this one. They look exactly like you would expect a trainer in the Pokémon universe to look like. If you don't like there designs that's fine but they aren't "stupid" designs, it's not like they look like something pulled of a 14 year olds Deviantart page. They're perfectly acceptable additions to the Pokémon series main character lineup.
So again, it's your opinion, and you have every right to it, I just have a very different opinion. Also I'm a very passionate man when it comes to Pokémon, so that's why this post got a bit long-winded.