>>270841996 in the back, 2 in the front
>>27082851there's a ton of cases like this in the kanto and johto dexes, pokemon that don't logically make sense themselves or have equally nonsensical family trees. this trend seems to stop during gen 3, most pokemon having evolution patterns closer to how we would perceive evolution in real life
i wouldn't think about octillery and remoraid too hard, theyre just aquatic animals with a shooting weapon theme and suction cups
