2014-03-01, 10:30 PM
Lozmaster Wrote:Uh, yeah, but that doesn't mean they have to keep making them electric types. It wouldn't kill them to use a similar design but make it be a different type.
They do it with more than just "Pikachu clones". Every generation has a template for certain "slots". You have the Pikachu-clones, the 3-stage early Bug-type clones, the early area Normal types, etc. Tons of Pokemon in each generation are just rehashes of past ones.