>>12999544I don't think you know your game creators. Sugimori is the main pokemon designer, even to this day. Masuda started off, and continues being mainly the composer of the games, not a pokemon designer, and since gen 3 became the game director. If it wasn't for Masuda, pokemon would have stopped after Tajiri quit.
And yes, there is more than one pokemon designer. Gen 5 had 17 of them, more than any previous gen.
The undisposable one is Sugimori. The man is a national treasure. They are however building Ohmura up as his successor in my opinion, as Ohmura already draws the new human characters.