>>13777553Gamefreak doesn't seem to like going with the obvious choice when it comes to Pokemon designs. It's why our first two pairs of fossils (not including Aerodactyl) were Cambrian-era invertibrates instead of, you know, dinosaurs. And when we finally do get dinosaurs, they go with a pachycephalosaurus, of all things.
And then, when they do use a particular animal or myth, that's ALL they make. How many foxes do we have now? How many butterflies?
Hell, people have been clamoring for a wolf Pokemon for, what? 15 years now? (inb4 Manectric. Bulbapedia says it's a maned wolf... but I don't see the resemblance. The mane of a maned wolf is more like a tuft of fur. If anything, with a Japanese name like Livolt, and its epic mane... it's more than likely YET ANOTHER lion Pokemon.)
