>>53135972The lemur is neat, but I actually really like the armadillo. That would be a fun starter idea right there alone, some sort of armadillo. But this fakemon art just continues to prove to me that there's no good way to do an elephant starter, even though it's a really good idea for a water type starter. There's just no way to make it look good and feel like a proper progression that a starter would have. The base form will always end up being pretty cute, but the evolutions I feel are just really hard to make them look like both starters and satisfying final evolutions. Maybe it's just because elephants have weird body plans and you have to sacrifice too much in either direction to either make it look like an elephant or make it look like a cool Pokémon. I don't know. People need to abandon trying to make an elephant starter work. Even something like Donphan, with G Tusk as the third stage, would look really dumb as a starter. It would not fit
