>>36393424Most likely - a large chunk of the 'mons for Gen 2 were already designed as of the original games, though most were repurposed or reworked before they were officially implemented. This does, however, explain why the Weedle line is so strange - it wasn't originally supposed to turn into a cocoon or a bee; it was supposed to evolve from a worm/maggot thing into a grub and then a cockroach, with the theme being that it was growing limbs as it leveled up. It probably wasn't going to be Poison-type, either (hence the lack of the stinger on beta Weedle's head), but Bug/Fighting.
