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>“These were all designed by Atsuko Nishida. We had designed too many Grass type Pokemon, but it would have been a shame to throw them out. So rather than discard them, we made them version exclusives. The charm of Cottonee and Whimsicott is that they resemble sheep. Petilil and Lilligant were originally meant as a three-stage evolutionary line. Lilligant was designed to give the impression of an ‘extravagant princess.'”
