>>50720314Because they designed a water starter specifically for little Japanese boys and grown-up western weebs anon. A frog that turns into a ninja, with an immunity against the Psychic type, which half the half-wits of the fanbase screeched for for fucking years on end. They never wanted Delphox to be anything but the girly/cumskull starter, else they'd have done elsewise with the others in the Gen to facilitate its emergence.