>>56314134To understand Dundunsparce you have to understand the japanese myth of the tsuchinoko and the impact it has on japanese culture.
During elementary school, students go on field trips around the mountains using the excuse "let's find tsuchinokos!", the true reason is just exercising and connecting with nature for a change of pace, nobody truly expects to catch a tsuchinoko but it's like an ironic way to hype everybody (yeah let's catch that mythological animal!).
The appeal from the tsuchinoko is its simplicity and legend itself, it's like a small snake with fat around the middle, so what could be more rare than a regular tsuchinoko? Obviously a double tsuchinoko.
That's a punchline by itself that's not lost on japanese players, a double tsuchinoko is hilarious and memorable because not only you found a rare animal, you found a rarer version of it.
For westerners they just expected a cool dragon because they don't connect with the whole tsuchinoko concept, it's just a random piece of trivia they saw once, not something that they have a shared history like elementary school japanese students.
The tsuchinoko design is perfect, and to try to make it cooler than it is, would be honestly pretentious. Dundunsparce is a perfect Pokemon.
