>>18598860I did. And I'm disagreeing with your assessment.
In terms of extant Pokemon evolutionary families, few are more guilty than the Typhlosion line of "just getting bigger".
Even if it's based off of a different animal in each stage, it doesn't deviate from being a semi-bipedal tail-less mammal. That would still be excusable, if it weren't for the aforementioned total lack of new features at any point in the design's progression. Simply changing the color of the fur would've made a world of difference, as would adding smoke to Typhlosion's fiery mane.
Comparing the first and final forms in an evolutionary family
that isn't a fucking moth or butterfly should make it easy to identify both traits that carry over from the start, and novel elements that were introduced in later stages. Sticking Cyndaquil and Typhlosion side-by-side yields the almost Muk-tier result of:
>It's face looks different>It got biggerReally, a lot of Gen I and II were pretty terrible about balancing similarities and differences in consecutive forms, but the Typhlosion family is definitely one of the more egregious cases, at least in the families that Game Freak didn't just drop all pretense of making an effort in their design.
