>>32551231>but do enough people really care about Tiger Mask and wrestling to base an "iconic" Pokemon slot to it?No, but some guy working at GF liked those things, and made a Pokemon based off of it. That design was then presented to higher ups, who then approved it.
They don't think that hard about this as hard as you think they do, Anon. What probably happens is they say "we need X water types for this new generation" and all the designers draw what comes in their minds, and approved designs are refined until we get what we get. There's no target audience for each Pokemon.
