#maschiff

The winner is Growlithe/Arcanine

Maschiff: Maschiff's shiny is pretty good. In all honesty I never quite understood why the original palette was ketchup and mustard colors, so this muted purple fits its dark-typing a lot more and is just nicer on the eyes in general. Bonus points for simplifying the palette from three colors to two.

My only issue with it is that I don't get why the nose is still orange. I guess it's to tie into Mabostiff, but Mabostiff's eyes and nose were originally colored so they stood out against its dull brown coat. With Maschiff, the nose was originally the same color as its fur, so it didn't stand out at all, making the emphasis odd. Just making it black would've felt a lot better. Also, the dark purple areas could've been a smidge darker to match Mabostiff more.

Mabostiff: While Mabostiff's shiny doesn't stand out as much from the original as Maschiff's due to it just being brown originally, the purple coloration still makes sense—and I'll give this line bonus points for being more consistent than the non-shiny line, which is a rarity.

I do think Mabostiff's shiny is the better of the two, as it has higher contrast and the gray mane becoming white is an additional nice touch. The nose and eye color doesn't bother me as much here either for the reasons I described above—they stand out on the non-shiny version as well.