>>41632724I think it matters. To me pokemon has always been about world building. And the biggest part of that is the pokemon species.
It's hard to imagine the starters actually living naturally in the wild when they're anthropomorphic and based on a profession.
Ex: the grookey family could have started with a stick but maybe had a few variations on tools it used like rpg classes (warrior, bard, blacksmith etc). You can now envision it in a colony with different families having different tool specialities.
Scorbunny: maybe instead of it being a soccer player it could have left trails of fire when it runs to capture prey.
Sobble: the spy aspect could have been more subtle. Maybe focus on the camoflage aspect instead of it using it's finger as a gun and it's tail as a concealed knife. The family could have been known to be hard to find because they often go invisible when humans/pokemon it doesn't know are around.
