>>51674379>Those are one and the sameHaving rounded anatomy doesn't equal being featureless, dude. Wooper has featureless nubs as extremities, Quagsire doesn't, even if both of their sets of limbs are rounded off.
> and they're also prominently featured in nu-mons therefore not a gen 2 staple.They got their start, by and large, in Johto, and its one thing that the dex is known for, for better or worse (Sugimori even stated that the Pokemon being simpler was a common sentiment going into gen 3 and that effected the design philosophy of Hoenn mons, so this isn't revisionism either).
Also say "nu-mons" as a group and comparing to just Johto's dex is fucking meaningless in the context, there are hundreds of those compared to just 100 of those in Johto. We're talking about its concentration in the gen as well as its origins as a general trend of the rest of the series
>Again, not a gen 2 staple.This one is fair
>I'm also yet to see a gen 2 mon with an overly saturated color palette with some of the puke-inducing colors being used on its facial features.I already said that the color scheme was the mains sticking point. It's why I said "Johto-like" rather than just saying "it looks like it came right out of Johto!"
