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>Even just someone who only trains their leg muscles because they only want to run and nothing more will become bigger and heavier because of it-it is simply a consequence of development in a living being.
Exactly, and that doesn't come without cost. As many animals grow larger they get worse at things like climbing, because it is not what they are designed to do as they grow into adulthood. If flying isn't an integral part of the animal's locomotion it would likely get worse as it grows into adulthood, not better.
>but it can simply be that its juvenile body isn't accustomed to any form of flight, which is why it develops (evolves) into Dodrio in the first place.
I do not understand your stance at this point. For a long time you have been arguing that it would implicitly get better at flying like any other physical ability just because it gets stronger, yet now you state that its body does in fact have to adapt for flight to gain better flight capabilities. My question then is how is this reflected in the design? To me Dodrio doubles down on the aspects Doduo already excels at, namely sprinting and pecking. Nothing about it signals better flight capability.
An Albatross on the other hand has an enormous wingspan, it doesn't just get proportionally bigger with age, it wings gets fuck-huge.
>I brought it up in relation to the argument that the early gens didn't give flight to mons that didn't look like they'd facilitate it specifically.
Honestly at this point I don't really have anything else to say than repeat that "Doduo is stated to be a bad flyer and the logical conclusion given its basis, design, and prior evolution is that Dodrio is too, and thus not really comparable to Garchomp". This will probably be my last reply since I'm not really feeling like we're getting anywhere and only arguing in circles.
