>>41116734Except it doesn't because none of these features are samurai-like:
>And then samurott is a quadruped, gets a beard, and has a unicorn horn shell on its head? In fact, he's not even very good as a physical attacker, since SpAtk 108 is higher than his Atk of 100, so he can't even really utilize how own exclusive move well, so he's ultimately just a weird-ass-looking bulky water with surf + icebeam for every playthrough anyways.
Still functionally better than Emboar (literally outdone by Darmanitan, which you catch Darumakka literally in route 4), or Serperior which is useless without contrary, has shit attack movepool learning only normal/grass attacks, leaving it obsoleted by any grass type, even Leavanny early on.
Literally the worst generation of starters. Johto is close, Typhlosion and Feraligatr are middling (especially without HAs, which is a feelbad when you can just grab Arcanine or Gyarados kind of easily), and Meganium is just shit, but you at least have 2 usable and cool looking starters.
>>41116769Water/Fighting would be nice for Sacred Sword, although he'd forever be outclassed by MLP-tier shit design Keldeo, anyways.
