>>35051826>But they doNo they don't. See: Mr. Mime. It's also been stated that the translation team in the earlier gens were shitters and would oftentimes make things up. See: Swift, "Ultra ball," "Comet Punch," etc.
>Says who?The fact that it doesn't have a beaver's tail, nor a poisonous stinger, nor any reference to a platypus in any of its names. It's a duck combined with a generic kaiju body.
>Even whack-a-moles look more like actual moles than Diglett does.Exactly. It's a simplified, cartoon version of a whack a mole prop. Literally a cartoon whack a mole.
>>35051851Lizards have crests. What a breakthrough.