>>35693155Bullfucking shit.
Primarina stands on its tail like it's standing on two legs in official art, has the already-mentioned hair, jewelry, eyelashes, and its blue bottom half is actually a skirt. Decidueye wears a hoodie and its bottom half has feathers that act as pseudo-pants, not to mention the said fingers.
By contrast, it can be argued Incineroar's longer arms vs shorter hind legs and muscular body are similar to smilodons and sabertooth tigers' bodies that were built for ambushing and grappling, and not speed. Sound familiar to design and stats of what we're talking about? There's even species of ancient big cats that had plantigrade feet to boot. Wrestling for a cat pokemon at least makes as much sense as singing for a seal pokemon. And nothing about archery makes sense for an owl.
I'll say for the sake of honesty I disagree with
>>35693182 on them being less blatant than Incineroar since to me the occupations and clothing Primarina and Decidueye wear are far more blatant to me than its fire belt, which is just the latest "fire accessory" all fire starters have. At the end of the day I can put Incineroar on four legs and it can work as a pokemon-ish, exaggerated version of a sabertooth's anatomy outside the wrestling gimmick, which itself works with how big cats grapple down prey. I can't see a male Primarina, or a Decidueye hunting for prey sans archery.
>>35693248Ugly design for four legs or not It still doesn't change you're moving the goalposts. Cross's Incineroar was much more ferocious and mean-spirited than the showman Masked Royale has. Incineroar, like your Charizard example, can and have been shown to have different personalities.
