>>55542517>rip off>steal or plagiarizeso like stealing another concept of "pokemon with a wide variety of different elemental types it can become"?
>secondly, the monkeys are them doing a unique spin on the concept.it's functionally unrelated to the concept in its current implementation. but especially back during gen 5, having pokemon with substantial form differences was a lot rarer, and would have actually served to be more unique than arbitrarily splitting it off into into six derivative pokemon with identical stats and nearly identical designs despite having the same concept
>making it a single mon with different forms is bringing it closer to eevee. you're making it more derivative.yes, that's what I was getting at, considering unova was going out of its way to create far more blatant parallels to other gen 1 pokemon
>>55542531how would it be butchering it? it would in practice just be the exact same designs but combined into two pokemon instead of
