I crossed off the NuPokémon level designs, including humanoid mons and "it just gets bigger mons". No just because it's your bro doesn't mean it's an objectively good design.
>Charmeleon is just red Charmander with a horn>Blastoise has fucking cannons, that's super nugen>Ratatta is a purple cartoon rat>Primeape is just bigger, angry Mankey>Arcanine is a good Pokémon so Growlithe was cut>Alakazam was cut because it's just Kadabra with 2 spoons and no tail>Entire Machamp line was cut, too humanoid>Dugtrio cut because it's just 3 Diglett>Magneton ut because it's just 3 Magnemite>Ponyta cut because it's a cartoon horse that just gets bigger and becomes Rapidash, the latter kept>Grimer and Muk cut because they're just sludge with eyes, and that's super nugen>Kingler cut because it's just bigger Krabby, Krabby kept>Electrode cut because it's just upside-down Voltorb>Exeggcute and Exeggcutor cut because eggs with a face are nugen level>Hitmonlee and Hitmonchan cut for being humanoid jobmons with the latter wearing clothes, that's fucking cringe>Koffing and Weezing cut because they're like purple growths with faces and the latter is just gets an extra head>Mr. Mime and Jynx cut for being super humanoid and creepy, looks right out of gen 8>Omanyte cut because Omastar is just it but bigger, but he's good>Kabuto cut to keep the fossils balanced>Mewtwo cut because humanoid lab cat, sorry kiddo just because you liked his edgy ass in the movie because you were a retarded kid when it came out doesn't mean Mewtwo is a good design>>47650386That's because Blastoise wasn't supposed to be a starter. Wartortle had a separate evolution they cut and replaced with Blastoise which was its own distinct line.