>>35775868The choices they made are obvious. Most every Pokemon, barring those like Steelix or Quagsire, seem more like first-drafts than anything else. My proof lies in Houndour/Houndoom whose design remained virtually unchanged, but their ugly ass art was cleaned up before release. As for the others:
>baby PokemonToo many useless un-cute Pokemon taking up space for newer designs.
>BayleefToo different too soon. It's a grass type not a bug type.
>fire and water startersToo boring.
>legendary dogsSee above.
>Quilfish2The idea behind Quilfish2 was probably combined with Grotesque to form Lanturn. Chinchou also most likely came later, like Wooper and Sunkern.
>Manboo evolutionary lineNo clue. Might have simply been postponed for Sharpedo/Huntail while the they thought of a way to make them look cooler.
>AnimonBoth too gimicky and too simple.
>GirafarigI bet you $100 Girafarig was changed to look less intimidating. From an aesthetic point of view, proto-Girafarig was badass. It looks all cute, but it has a dark(type) side that you can only see when you use it in battle. It looks a little too evil however. My first instinctual thought when seeing it was "wow, I'm glad I didn't see this Pokemon's backside when I was a kid."
>Bell-catToo many feline pokemon? Obviously turned into that fat fuck from Sinnoh though, so it's not like it's lost forever.
>TurbanBecause Gamefreak is fucking stupid and cant see a cool Pokemon design looking them right in the face.
>GUNProbably not censorship like others say. See Forretress. It was probably just streamlined.
>Hoppip evolutionary lineOnce again too many felines.
>WeepinbellbottomjeansIt's fucking ugly as sin and too similar to Weepinbell. Next.
>BombsealI honestly think a fire/water type was too ambitious for Gamefreak.
>PlucksToo many gen1 evolutions, so it became Heracross.
>Zappy TigerGamefreak didn't discover their obsession with Pikachu clones yet.
>Ghost PandaToo unusual/gimmicky?
>WolfmanSee Turban
