>>51485867Sugi said he based Serperior off a female anime character, Emboar was clearly Zhu Bajie-inspiried and the creator of Samurott, while basing it off a male warrior class, also saw it as a den mother figure, to keep thepeace between the other two. So yes, Sam's ALWAYS been the ambiguous option, because women historically stick facial hair on themselves when they wanted to hide as men to fight.
That as gen 5 and every gen since has a starter aimed at little boys, one at little girls and one at both audiences. You think of them as waifuon, baramon and the shit ones, but that doesn't preclude from how they were created.
