>>42848135No, it's as early as Gen 2. No generation's designs look similar, even evolutions and pre-evos like Elekid, Smoochum Polutoed Crobat and Scizor for instance only look relatively connected to the Pokemon they were added to instead of evolutions introduced in the same gen like Golbat, Poliwrath or Slowbro.
And even Gen 2's design philosophy is distinctly different from Gen 1's.
