>>35813256I'm more in the camp that Cubone are "dead" Charmanders. Dead in the sense they can no longer evolve into Charmeleon and Charizard but still a living Pokémon.
It clearly has saurian features, they can already breed together and the skull helmet resembles a Charizard somewhat. Alola form may be less of it coming in spiritual contact with its mother and more of its latent fire genes re-awakening due to Z-Power radiation fucking with its DNA.
