>>58703129>>Crocodiles aren’t snakes yeah we know
>>Foxes aren’t dogs they are for anything apart from cladistics. Nobody cares that they aren't literal dogs. They can fill in the spot readily.
>>Badgers aren’t rats Cyndaquil is literally the fire mouse pokemon and is based on the hinezumi, a mythological fire mouse in japan.
>>Chinese Dragons look nothing like Charizarddoesn't need to look like a "chinese dragon" to fill the slot. Nobody would be so autistic as to lock them into such a tight box.
>>why aren’t the pokemon released in zodiac order when the order it the whole point of the zodiacit doesn't matter if you're using the zodiac as inspiration... it's just a list of animals that you can use to give your mons some level of thematic cohesion
>>what happens in Gen 13 when they oneveithey could have swapped to a different zodiac, retread existing ground, use animals from other related zodiacs (like the croc from the kazakh zodiac), or started on an unrelated theme
>>every-time the zodiac has been mentioned in game it has nothing to do with fire starters why would they feel the need to confirm inspiration for any given pokemon? they don't do that with any other pokemon. Only time it ever happened was when uri geller sued them over kadabra lol
>Having eyes and a brain is my proofI'll believe your claim that you have eyes
