>>13522639back in the r/b/y days Exeggutor was king
>there were no useful bug moves >psychic didn't have all the weaknesses it has today>acess to sleep powder >Goofycorrectamundo, they are MONSTERS. Some are going to look silly and outlandish. Jynx is a yamababa, and ludicolo is a culturally confused kappa, btw, don't be an uncultured white-washer look up mythos from other cultures.
Again, MON for MONSTER. I don't play games to escape, I want to see cool and interesting things in a game, not generic stuff.
The reason why serperior is crossed off on mine was because it just looks lazy design wise, I don't like it's eyes at all. Snivy line should have ended in a stegosaurus; servine grows a ton of spines just to have them done away with wtf.
My guess is they actually were going for that and it was scrapped at the last second.
Every other starter has characteristics of ancient reptiles