I have this theory Nidoran are separate pokémon because they evolve twice, no other split evolution evolves again I don't think. I'm aware they are from a time before other gender mechanics but come on or fuck off
>>27496964
They're just differen't pokemon, period. Just imagine they renamed Nidoran(female) to Nidogril or something. They're just not the same pokemon, even though they have the same name. It's retarded, but there's no way to fix it this far into the series.
>>27496964
they also have different stats, they could have fixed it gen 6 when they introduced meowstic but they didn't so cry about it
>>27496964
>>27497204
I always thought that they could collapse the two into one mon and then fill the space with Kangaskhan kid.
That way your correcting the thing, not technically creating a new mon and maintaining the 151 original mon
>>27497297
This
>>27497297
I don't get why keeping the original 151 is such sacred cow. Fuck it, condense and reorganize everything. Nidoran M/F are a single species, but different sexes. Tauros and Miltank same thing. Put babies, and cross gen evos where they belong in the Dex (Elekid->Electabuzz->Electivire should all be in order next to each other), reorganize the gen 5 legendaries so the genies, dragons, and ponies are next to each other. Put Regigigas with the other Regis, whatever.
The National Dex has needed reorganization since Gen 2