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both blastoise and venusaur were designed before they were chosen to be starters, and thats why they look like pokemon
they could fit in with all the other monsters
but after a while starter pokemon became furries with jobs, and they cant be anything other than starters
like, something like sceptile and feraligatr fit in with grass and water types like tropius, gyarados, exegutor, kindra
but all the starters from gen 6 on stick out like sore thumbs, they donty look like any other pokemon, they dont fit in
