• Kitathalla@lemy.lol
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    6 hours ago

    I prefer the dratini->gyrados / magikarp->dragonite pipeline theory, myself, but I can gestate with this caterpie branch. The venonat->butterfree coloring and eyes do seem too coincidental. Maybe the artists that worked on each one had their favorite colors, so pokemon they did all ended up schemed similarly?

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      7 hours ago

      Ummm, actually… Based on the internal IDs, the Caterpie line was added all at once way after Venonat and later Venomoth. If there had been a readjustment or error, you’d expect these not to be in sequence (like with Wartortle losing its evolution and getting the first-design-phase Blastoise in its place). They may have decided to scrap Venonat, but then needed a prevo for Venomoth and kept it in despite the similarities to Butterfree, but having an evolutionary link between Metapod and Venomoth seems highly unlikely.

    • The Quuuuuill@slrpnk.net
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      11 hours ago

      with how rushed pokemon’s firs gen was because the studio was running out of money, i wouldn’t be surprised if this was a mistake they knew about, wanted to fix, but just had to roll with because it wasn’t the end of the world