The designs are looking more and more repetitive now that I think of it:
-Fire monkey looks like Chimcar
-Pokabu's second form looks like Grumpig
-water starter looks like Piplup (not to mention an otter is very close to a weasel which we get with Buizel)
-Bull seems like a useless addition when we have Tauros
-deer reminds of Stantler (though I must admit this one is far cooler looking than Stantler
-Mamepato (or whatever bird it is) looks like Starly
-The new fish are just too much (we already have too many fish)
-Tarantula pokemon reminds me too much of Ariados and being unassociated with him, I find the idea too repetitive
-new cat is based off of Glameow
I bet I could think of more... what happened to the unused species, like koala, polar bear, tiger, lion, panther, toucan, turkey, parrot, capybara, dolphin, orca, sea urchin... I could name many more. I was hoping for more originality, but I suppose I can't complain. There are still some good things about this en so far.
Oh, and please bring back Team Rocket. This new team may be pretty cool, but nothing beats Team Rocket. Any new evil team is a Rocket wanna-be or a big joke compared to them in my opinion anyway.