>>719091790
pointing something out genuinely rather than falling in gen warring, gen 1 designs were being figured out for a long time and after already being in the game, just edited over themselves and redrawn as sprites, whereas modern pokemon designs get fully determined before even being modelled. among other things, that makes it a difference in terms of why scyther is kind of a generic idea of a mantis whereas lurantis is a specific mantis- lurantis had the time to be designed with the specific concept in mind, scyther was a dinosaur they were vaguely gluing mantis parts onto until they felt happy