>>45114938I elaborated on that idea a little bit here
>>45114929To put my new theory on the table
>Someone is told to make a new bug type line>They begin working on a couple ideas>They need an evolution for Venonat and/or somebody gets really attached to the Venomoth design>They program in Venomoth while they're still developing the caterpie line.This seems like a collaboration between Morimoto and Atsuko Nishida. Morimoto tends to draw whack shit, like Digglet. Atsuko Nishida tends to either make self contained lines, or finish up somebody else's mess by taking it in a bit of a different direction. The Dragonite line might be a similar story. Or it could be Sugimori, who created Dugtrio, which seems a bit more likely now that I think about it, although who the fuck designed Dewgong? On the other hand, apparently the Weedle line underwent some major changes, like being beetles (which would explain the fact that Weedle looks a bit grubbish). There's a lot of questions here that I'm curious about the answers to. There's a lot going on between Weedle and Butterfree, is what I'm saying.
>>45114966Sprite swapping isn't unheard of, but there's some other shit going on that makes me doubt your other ideas. If anything did change, it was absolutely intentional.
