>>18958773I'll compare pre gym 1 pokemon
gen 1
>rattata>pidgey>weedle>caterpie>nidoran>mankey>spearow>pikachuPikachu is the only cute one, pidgey, caterpie and nidoran are neutral, and the rest look vicious.
let's skip to gen 5
>lillipup>patrat(I'll add more since this is all you get pre gym 1)
>blitzle>monkeys>munna>audino>woobat>pidovepatrat is the only one that looks like it would do you harm, and pidove is neutral. literally everything else is either smiling at you or looks like a doll to be cuddled.
>gen 6>bunnelbly>scatterbug>litleo>flabebe>skiddo>pancham>espurr>honedge>inkayexcept for honedge (because its a literal sword), these things look like they want to be your friends before they'd want to fight. I get that they saved the aggressive forms for the evolutions, but I don't get why GF feels that almost everything has to start of cute now.
I skipped gens 2 - 4 because I'm compared start to present
