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1. Kuuga - Ultimate. Maybe the closest we have to an actual SIC design in the flesh (well, next to Shin). Never did much, but it looks damn cool.

2. Agito - Ground form. Very streamlined and classy with great colors. Burning form is a very close second, though.

3. Ryuki - standard form. Another great mix of colors, but it mostly comes down to the helmet. I love the silver helmet with the vents over the eyes.

4. Faiz - standard form. I still think Faiz has some of the best suit designs of the Heisei era. I like all three of his forms, but this one has the perfect mix of black, silver, and red accents.

5. Blade - King form. One of the best Rider suits ever, if not the very best. Beautiful design, great metallic gold, great sculpted details - this suit is perfection.

6. Hibiki - standard form. The iridescent purple is gorgeous and I love the atypical design. I like the look of his Armored Form, too, but I can't divorce it from my dislike for the part of the show it appeared in.

7. Kabuto - Rider form. I like this one for most of the same reasons I like Faiz: black, silver, and a splash of candy red. Another one of the all-time great helmets, too.

8. Den-O - Sword form. To be entirely honest, I'm not a huge fan of Den-O's suit designs. Rod and Axe are okay, but the others all have serious flaws. Sword Form is the only one I wholeheartedly like.

9. Kiva - Kiva form. Another good mix of great colors. I love the sculpting of the armor and the greave.

10. Decade - standard form. Another one of my favorite suits. Great helmet, awesome chest design, and the unique colors really make him stand out.

11. W - Joker. This is a hard one to call since his forms are all so similar. I think the all-black version is probably the most solid overall. Cyclone/Joker is a close second.

12. OOO - TaToBa. I love this suit in spite of - no, because of - the mismatched colors. Some of the monochromatic combos look more coherent, but I don't think any of them looks as good as the traffic light form.

13. Fourze - Base States. Like Den-O, Fourze is a show where I really don't care for most of the suit designs. Base State is just that one that has nothing I actively dislike on it.

14. Wizard - Flame. Wizard is a show where I like most of the suits evenly (except Land Dragon - that yellow coat just does not work). Flame pulls ahead just a little bit because, again, the combination of black, silver, and red just click for me.

15. Gaim - Kachidoki. I really love Gaim's main Orange Arms form and Kachidoki is a perfect upgrade to it - bigger, meaner, and more ornate. The only downside is that it's the form that spends the most time fiddling with the DJ Gun in close-up.

16. Drive - Type Speed. Drive is a Rider where I think each upgrade is progressively worse than the original (for the most part, at least; I do like Formula more than Technic). Type Speed is just a damn nice looking suit.