>There wasn’t any problem with its appearances, but it was omitted due to matters surrounding game balance.Its from the interview that gave the wrong horn count based on the leaks(and is the reason why most Gorochus have two horns), but this is what Sugimori recalls about it.
The world wasn't ready for a good electric except Zapdos I guess?
It might be related to their fetish about early route mons being bad statwise. Though the Nidos literally show what should be "wrong" about a Gorochu scenario.
Unless they just really hate level up Raichu. And when it was pure level up, Gorochu was a late evo anyway.
Gorochu probably also got shafted because Pikachu got a lot of benefits and focus in dev, and while the cuts tended to trend towards first stages; Pikachu probably already had his Viridian role and maybe the idea of being the mascot.
>>54000365Yeah yeah, people made a bunch of fake codebases and spreadsheets. Whatever helps you sleep at night, the leaks were all a dream.
And despite making a bunch of crap; they decided to scrub the front sprites of gen 1. Which we have multiple images of by the way; its not like that was a mystery.
