>>37167933no!!! i btfo'd him with my epic reply
i also read that hippowdon was based on Bahamut(creature from islamic folklore) who is often depicted as a hippo lying in a bed of sand it created
point being that pokemon designs aren't just made innocuously and that there's actually more thought put behind them than
>"durr i wan make water lion so i gib him fishtail and make him blue" 
