>>57693839Listen here you little fucking cunt, I am so sick and tired of you fucking conspiracy midwits spamming this shit like you're the smartest fucking person and everyone else is a sheep. A venn diagram of the traits of flat earthers and "muh butterfree mixup" conspiracy theorists would be a fucking circle.
>and yet the vast majority of evolution lines do not have consecutive index numbersNo, they fucking don't, which implies that said evolution lines were not all created simultaneously. In fact, the order in which the mons were entered can tell us a lot about the development process, such as the fact that Wartotle was originally meant to evolve into something else and Blastoise was tacked onto the line somewhere near the end of development after its original preevo was cut (something which was proven in the mega leak a few years back).
I'm tired of you fucking dipshits saying shit when you have zero concept of how game development works in the real world. If a mixup occurred like you suggested, it would have to have gotten past:
>The artists>The developers>The programmers>QAand if the issue was found, fixing it would likely be as easy as changing a pointer or two.
The worst part is, there's a very easy out for you to take. Just take the stance of "Oh well I think that the original intention was for Caterpie to evolve into Venomoth's design but at some point in development pre-implementation the team decided to switch Venomoth's and Butterfree's design for any number of reasons", at least that's kind of realistic. But then you wouldn't be able to act like a smug cunt about being so much more clever than an entire game studio, now would you?