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Erase any question as to why it was created.
>Give it Mimic and Role Play
>Create a sexy version of Cute Charm with a name referencing pheromones as a Hidden Ability
>Change the pokedex entry from "Toxic Lizard Pokemon" to "Waifu Pokemon"
>Create a masculine Steel type two-stage pokemon with Heatproof (or some other resistance to fire) where only the males evolve, and imply in the pokedex entry that Salazzle evolved the Corrosion ability to seduce and poison it. Design it with shackles on the wrists and a 5% chance of carrying Destiny Knot or Macho Brace.
>Make male Salandits evolve into a separate feminine lizard pokemon called Futamander.
As a biology nerd, I like it more for the parthenogenesis idea than for the sex-goddess idea.
I'd have rather had it be a female/genderless than a female/male split so they could play up the idea of females reproducing asexually.
Male Salandit are probably supposed to represent females which don't mature sexually, but for in-game breeding mechanics would be too complicated to program that way.
Or maybe I'm wrong and they really are just supposed to represent males who succumb to the wiles of seductive females, I dunno.