Implying he isn't the objectively most dysfunctional starter conceived due to lack of foresight.

>make a notable design that is specifically active only when attacking
>make it so that in its dex and in any media that shows it moving has it have a "non-active" mode, meaning it's more or less seen in that mode if it's not doing anything
>its "fanbase" so anally devastated that they edited the 3d model to have fire spines... which looked retarded and goofy because it has them for no apparent reason
>the fire spines themselves are retarded due to being special snowflake in design rather than "generic fire" that you end up with shit like this (official)

Try telling me otherwise. Also maybe it's because it's Gen 2 but holy shit I have never realized it has a really autistic fanbase rivaling that of Charizard. I never noticed this before because I was a feraligatrfag.