>>47456440I tend to disregard /vp/'s opinion on pokémon designs, purely as I know there's very little, if any pokémon design, even the most simplest one, that gets approved and added to the canon without several revisions and reworkings. The fact is they have stuff squirrelled away from past projects they felt still can be saved or reworked to fit so saying "they should have done X" is disingenuous, they likely did try it that way and decided it wasn't working. That they have a st of rules to follow when designing starters separate from their general pokémon creation rules is another, we don't know enough about either (beyond the broad strokes) to say with certainty if they COULD do it the way anon suggests either, which is another factor people ignore. Fact is some people hate it 'cuz it''s "like a traffic cone" some hate it because "it ruined muh waifu" and others don't give a shit about any that bollocks, don't care how its design or model looks and just love it for the fact it's a Fire/Psychic floofy phox.