>>45677117What makes a design appealing is its charisma, it doesn't matter if its ambiguous or more faithful to to a specific animal. Even if the quantities vary between generations, we've always had both ambiguous pokemon and pokemon that were clearly based on one animal each gen.
Abomasnow and duraludon are ambiguous animal and they are not that popular, while you have greninja or ninetales who are clearly mainly inspired by a frog and a fox respectively. Falling for this meme only forces shitty meaningless flamewars
