>>58643487>comes down to the design It’s obvious game freak is full of nothing but pedos and retards who have no idea what they are doing and flat out hate making Pokemon. Nishida is one of the few people there with any talent or passion so the higher ups certainly demanded that she be the one to make the mega for shillzard. Johto starters as a whole are F-listers in Game Freak’s eyes so they just the duty of their alternate forms on some intern and just let it be the luck of the draw if they turned out even remotely decent. It’s incredible H. typhlosion is as cool as it. It’s not the mega powerup or celebration of the OG typhlosion I wanted, but it creatively reimagines typhlosion into the Hisui setting and was a good faith attempt to answer “what would the volcano Pokémon look like if the volcano it lived near was sacred.”
Even looking at H.typhlosion’s lore (REAL lore not mistranslated fanfics or memes) you can tell whoever made it had some respect for the Typhlosion family as a whole. Short version, they’re basically the good counterpart to Spiritomb.
And while we’re on the subject of Johto forms, while Mega Meganium isn’t impressive it shows a clear respect for what the original was, even if it mostly a consequence of them being overly safe with it
Meanwhile with Feraligatr, they slapped a toilet seat on its head and called it weaker than its own
baby.rs What makes toiletgatr even “better” is they posed it in which a dumb way in the same generation when fixed Typhlosion’s battle pose.
It all just raises the question why couldn’t they have just used Piplup instead of having two Johto starters?
>>58643562>please give Feraligatr a dragon type>monkey’s paws curls all its fingers except the middle one 
