>>43732543Honestly could've jumped from ones of people's least favorite starters to one of the more popular ones had they just tweaked its design a bit. Lessen the ear hair, make the robes a bit more interesting to look at and give it a cool-looking staff.
This evo line goes from stick to a magic wand, but then in the final stage it just uses the same wand? No, it makes more sense in terms of logical progression to give it a tree branch/magic staff. Said staff could also be designed to somewhat resemble a witch's broomstick. IDK how they didn't even think to do this, this could have been a popular Pokémon. Magic is cool!
