>>35851943yes, of course, but now when they do culturally inspired things they do it properly. ludicolo wasnt that slick but anyone that got mad at it was such an outlier that they could still use it in media without changing anything. and things like scrafty are slick enough to not cause any controversy.
i could easily see them doing some explosion-based middle eastern inspired pokemon, but it wouldnt look as obviously racist as that thing and be named fucking lizakbar. just saying its possible because now they actually know how to get away with that and not get attacked for being racist or whatever.
