>>32961768back to delphox
delphox, however, is one of those fundamentally broken pokemon. The big sticking point for me is the ear hair. There's just something disgusting about huge ear fur, no matter how much paint you slap on it ("it looks like fire though"
>>32961778stop samefagging and having total garbage taste, was black or white your first game?
or "it's kind of a witch hat?"). much like chesnaught, delphox also suffers from a bad pose in game (this guy gets it
>>32961792), looking like a large hairy dorito or a literal fursuiter in a dress. Again, like chesnaught (and samurott come to think of it), it has a cool design gimmick that we never see; the wand. Fire wand? Neato, it worked for braixen and even did a little broom thing when not in use. That's a ice idea, hammers home the mage aspect to frogadier's rougelike bandit mask. What should we do for the evolution? Let's shove it in the thing's sleeve where you'll never see it, that seems clever. It could've worked as a staff or something, maybe. Again, though, we hit an issue of appeal. Primarina, while one of the weaker water starters, goes all in with the whole "ima grill btw" shtick, and appeals to a certain demographic. Fine. Braixen seemed like it was on a one way trip to furville, but then delphox is kind of neutral. Normally you want that in a starter (see: sceptile, charizard, and empoleon, to name a few that could be easily depicted as either), but it's kind of a big jolt when you go from braixen to a sort of wizardy thing in a robe/dress. Dewott goes through a similar process. Anyway, braixen already alienated people like me who thought fennekin was cute but don't want to play verlis simulator, but then delphox alienated the people who liked braixen by trying to get back to the middle. The antiwaifu furfag people already left, it's too late. Even then, if you're going for a wizard theme, why just a wand we never see and a robe? Give it a hat, or staff, or something.
