>>53392177Here's a quote from Sugimori
>I was honestly pretty lost, but I managed to create about 20 or 30 different designs: some were cute, some were cool, some were slithering, and some, you couldn’t really tell what they were. Rhydon (Saidon) and Nidoking were two of the designs that survived from those first drawings.Here's another when he was asked “Who was the first Pokemon ever created?"
>Rhydon, Clefairy, Lapras, etc. Our original idea was for Pokemon to live alongside humans and assist them in useful ways. So the earliest Pokemon had well-defined functions — like ferrying people across the sea or carrying things. I also created Pokemon like Clefairy who were basically cute pets.It was early. There's no proof and never has been that it was the first.
