>>29826114>thorny devilnot only are thorny devils a (relatively) well known Australian lizard, the look menacing as fuck (pic is a thorny devil). little bit of information, the thorny devil lizard lives in the middle of the desert of Australia, around a place called alice springs (mostly) this means that they are uncommonly seen by people which could explain the rareness of the starter pokemon. its spikes are used and a warning sigh to other animals that might think to eat it and are its defence mechanism against said animals. now imagine when it feels threatened, flames shoot out of the thorns and its body temp. skyrockets.
typing could be either fire/dragon, fire/electric (which i would love) or fire/ground
(interesting information i want to throw in, maybe could be somewhat in the pokedex:
>The spikes all over their bodies help them get a drink of water in the dry sand country. In the mornings they rub up against dew drops on the spinifex and the mositure runs >between the spikes along grooves that run directly into their mouths. (also could be like a heatmor, using its flame like toung to eat durants, as their food mostly consists of small black ants)
i could also see this going with the fire/steel typing and having metal plating over its back but that seems too cheap
as usual, 1st evo is baby and so on, because i am uncreative and its almost 1am.
also with the ability, it could be something that halves the damage taken from ground type attacks (making them only neutral) because it lives in the sand and takes double damage from flying types, as its natural predators are flying animals such as brown falcons. this would work work really well for fire/ground (making ground netrual) and fire/electric (making flying neutral and ground only 2x)
>>29826202what?
