>>44891036I get what you're saying, but you're forgetting it's a starter and they they play the starter designs straight for the most part.
See that's another thing, they want them to sell, to push the face of the generation. The casual retard on the street, much less the average child outside Japan won't get the wordplay (consequence of classifying animals in a now-dead language) and with hippo=water to the world, subverting it so violently by making a Fire type would end up alienating the world and leading to its rejection, harming its earning potential. But you retards don't think, you forget aside from being a kid's game we argue over, it's also being made with the aim to sell to the highest amount of kids and casuals it can and keeping the starters safe is something they're always going to do, to sell the game to that audience. Can get freaky in the middle of the dex, as always
