>>14169630>>14169721>Doesn't need it anymore, Braixen was an apprentice.I keep seeing this justification, and each time it just falls flat for me. It just feels like a very flimsy, poor excuse to throw out an interesting addition to the design for no immediately apparent reason. Maybe if one of the version's Pokedex entry mentions something to that effect I'd find it easier to swallow.
>Fennekin: Eats skins, presumably to fuel its inner fire magic.>Braixen: Wields a stick to use as a focus for its fire magic.>Delphox: Some bullshit about how its magic burns really hot.>They took away the stick because it a western MageThe Western Mage wielding a staff is about as iconic a piece of imagery as you can get.
