>>31089942>Oh am I? Prove it.Not him, but I'll offer my axe.
Compare each stage of Chikorita to each stage of the rest of the first two starter gens. It is by far the most cutesy at every stage, and the gap between it and the rest widens as it goes up in forms. Chikorita literally has a leaf ponytail.
Mechanically, Meganium is the least offensive starter of the first six.
>inb4 feminine =/= not aggressiveThis was the fucking turn of the millennium. Look at every other example of division between "Male" and "Female" Pokemon. Nidoking has higher attack stats than Nidoqueen, Tauros has higher attack stats than Miltank. The precedent is there.
Pokemon Mystery Dungeon has Chikorita as a female exclusive starter. In the anime, not only was Ash's Chikorita female, but it was stereotypically girly as well.
Pokemon tried it's absolute damndest to make sure you, the player, understood that Chikorita was feminine. Maybe it was to attract female players, maybe it was to establish that not all your fightan monsters needed to be big uggos, I dunno the reason. But the fact is that they did put in that effort.
