>>39661120Because I never asked for my plain old dash badger, who had been just fine for 16 years, to turn into Furry Bipedal Gene Simmons. Fuck you.
There's a good balance between the left and the right of your picture that you're completely ignoring just to support your cherry-picked argument. Pokemon that grow up and follow a natural progression while also coming into their own thematic expression, like how Garchomp becomes sleek and develops more jet plane like features, or how Sewaddle goes from a baby wrapped in cloth, to a grumpy "blanket burrito" hikkikomori, to a motherly seamstress with needle hands. People are complaining about Obstagoon for the exact same reason why people complained about Dragonair evolving into Dragonite back in the day, except Dragonite's existence didn't make GameFreak magically retcon Dratini and Dragonair into baby orange Barneys and then tell the players "THESE are the actual original Dratini and Dragonair, and you won't be able to use the gen 1 Dratini and Dragonair in these games, making games is hard haha I don't really know".
