>>51966068I highly doubt it’s an intentional reference to Jasmine. If anything it has more in common with the professor birch scene in Hoenn. They likely wanted a scene where the ridemon trapped by a group of Pokémon (a dogmon since dogs are pack hunters and dark type since dark is the designated villian type). Houndour was just the best choice out all the dogmons that survived Dexit since the dex even means them hunitng).
