>>56116604You can't use refer to Chikorita as "they" because burgers have an aneurysm whenever you use as "they" as singular even though English has no gender neutral singular pronoun to use in situations where gender is unknown or irrelevant, the English is an inconsistent hodgepodge of bullshit rules that most burgers are too lazy or to stupid to learn anyway, and they use "you" as singular and plural all the fucking time.
You can't refer Chikorita as "it" because Pokefans have an aneurysm when you a non human as "it" even though that's literally what the Pokémon franchise says you should do, also non-humans are almost always referred to as it anyways.
Therefore Chikorita has to have a gendered pronoun forced on, and since "Chikorita" sounds like a woman's name, "she" gets use despite the species being containing males and female.