Why isn't it viewed as a top tier starter design??

Not bipedal, definitely not a humanoid-jobmon.
If you feel the starters became overdesigned with gen 3 or gen 4, this one seems to be a happy medium between the more heavier designed starters (Empoleon) and the simpler days of evolutions just being bigger versions of the previous form (Venusaur).

Is it because of a poor move pool? Did it need a second typing? Is it too attached to the hentai Pokemon scene?

In my eyes, it should be viewed as one of the clearly most popular and loved grass starters, but I'm not sure it is.

Sceptile pulls off grass-Charizard in a beautifully executed way (excellent mega evolution as well). Venusaur is classic. I can accept either or both of them over Serperior (but I think a case can be made for Serperior being better than either of them).

I really don't think anyone else is a clearly better grass starter design though. I love Chesnaught, Decidueye is cool, but they fall under the era of starter designs now all being humanoid-jobmons and I think the repetitive nature of that only makes me love Serperior's design more.

Hoping it gets a mega, regional variant or something else with Gen V attention soon to be on the horizon since its next in line for remakes.

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>Why isn't it viewed as a top tier starter design??
because its design is boring as fuck and it's horrible in-game because of its non-existent moveset

>b-but not humanoid jobmon though!
only redditor zoomers think these things are bad.

I love it. Don't care what other people think, their opinions are not as informed as mine so are irrelevant.

It was terrible in game. In-game attachment almost singlehandedly defines a Pokemon's popularity and Serperior was just awful to use.
Also Unova bad ree.
Personally I love it and the other Gen 5 starters but I wish it had smaller eyes, they shouldn't fit in its head.

sex slave jobmon

It sort of has the problem meganium has for me where it's just kind of bland
Sort of tepid color palate really barebones movepool
It definitely has more personality than something like meganium but it just doesn't stick out to me

Because it’s shit

Was great in my W2 team, and I expected it to be bad.

it's bad in competitive but it works really fucking well in-game for a regular playthrough, turns out you don't need a good movepool for Coil to be fun and effective

Great design, barely etches out of having the worst starter movepool because of Meganium, and it downright needs Contrary to make it bearable to use unlike a lot of starters that are playable out of the box. It's still my favorite Unova starter by far, but it's fucking pain using it in Unova which already hates Grass Pokemon to begin with.