>>52804151It's ok in my book. It's "fire lizard" first and foremost. It has a femme fatale archetype, but it doesn't look like it has human sentience or anything like that. It would only be nu-starter tier if it had like, a bra and panties on and a riding crop in its hand. That's the tl;dr, but here's the full autistic rundown, I see these kinds of designs in tiers:
tier 1: creatures with human elements (Grafaiai, Mismagius, Salazzle, Gardevoir): incorporate human-like traits, still clearly animals or inhuman, still have outlandish designs that are separate from real-world animals. Grafaiai has weird and silly design elements like its alien eyes, it's very believable as an animal that you would see in the wild.
tier 2: furrymons, but don't follow a strict human archetype (Zeraora, Lucario). Kind of a human-animal mix. Lucario looks like a general fighter, but it doesn't scream some very clear and human-specific role like "soccer player".
tier 3: literally a REAL-WORLD animal with a HUMAN occupation (Cinderace, Inteleon): literally looks like you're training a human, it's weird. It's not a pokemon, it's someone's furry oc.
Idk how to express it better than it looks like the direct furry-ification of a person, rather than giving a weird animal some vague human-like traits to suggest an archetype.
This is all just my personal taste, but training furry oc's is weird to me. I also don't think cinderace is a bad design inherently, but I don't think it looks like a pokemon. Pokemon are supposed to be animals, and pretty outlandish.
