>>16623003I agree, actually! I made it frog-based because that's just what the pokedex said it should be. An original frog starter doesn't seem very feasible to me, it's a flawed concept. Frog-turtle that doesn't look like Bulbasaur or Turtwig or a mix of the two is going to be very difficult to pull off, and it doesn't really seem worth it.
I gave designing a hopping mouse grass-starter a shot, wasn't sure if it should have arms or if its ears should be leaves or not. Maybe it needs thicker legs... I think if we make a hopping mouse starter we should drop the "aboriginal patterns" thing though, it feels like it'd make the line a bit too close to the shaman mouse for comfort.
And for the dude who wanted a tree kangaroo starter, maybe it could evolve into one of those? Hopping mouse -> ??? -> tree kangaroo