>>49181764you could drop literally any later gen mon into the original dex and none of you autismos would be able to tell the difference because you'd be equally nostalgia blind.
gen 1 had probably the least unified design philosophy of any gen, and while you can cherrypick the same small handful of """ambiguous monsters""" to deny that narrative, the fact is that the generic cartoon animals are just as common if not more egregious than other gens. you clowns just cope by blasting them through miles of mental gymnastics so that you can tell yourselves that blastoise is not a turtle because it has exactly one or two traits a real turtle doesn't have.
