>>35796411Anon it wasn't intended to be a placeholder when it was made, it just ended up getting redesigned.
That's not how making a game works.
They had plenty of other sprites to use as a 'placeholder' til they gave him an actual design, for the same reason that a bunch of the gym leader overworlds in the demo are just generic trainers.
>>35796116Probably Pidgeotto, based on Falkner's final team.
