>Petilil and Lilligant were actually slated to have another

>>33247977
It was probably supposed to be similiar to Leavanny but less big looking

>>33247977
gender exclusive form maybe?

probably a middle stage in between. Lilligant literally could not get anymore thicc. And it has legs whereas petilil has neither.

>>33247977
What's the source on this?

>>33248880

Interview in Nintendo Dream that came out when Gen 5 was new

There was other info too:

http://pokejungle.net/2011/02/21/pokemon-design-inspirations/

>Stunfisk was originally designed with an Angler Fish in mind, but obviously turned out a bit different. It was also a water/electric type but they ended up making it a ground/electric to balance out the type spread of pokemon.

>Frillish and Jellicent had the ghost type added on at the end for the sake of adjusting what types Unova had which disappointed the designer.

etc

There was more info, I'll post them in the next post

>Tornadus, Thundurus, Landorus

Masuda [BW Director] asked for Pokemon based on Fuujin and Raijin.
They weren’t completed until well into the second half of development.
Fuujin and Raijin are very close to looking human, so they thought hard about how to make them into Pokemon.
Asura statues etc have a really strong image so they asked the designer charged with making them to make their eyes really wide open or intimidating.
At first they were the Red Demon and the Blue Demon but that clashed with Sawk and Throh.
As a result, the horns that Nageki and Dageki originally had were removed and replaced with those eyebrows.
Landorus was added later, after there was a change made to the game.
The idea is to be like the god of soil.
Tornadus and Thundurus flow from their heads backwards, while Landorus flows from left to right, so the angle in their official art is different to set Landorus apart from the other two.

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>Mienfoo & Mienshao

From the planner’s point of view, there weren’t enough Fighting-types so they ask for these to be made. Because many of the previous Fighting-types have been human-shape, when they asked for an animal-like one, they got this design that’s like a stoat.
Because, up until now, there had been no Fighting-Type that used elements of Kung-Fu, they decided to include that.

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>Deino, Zweilous, Hydreigon

At first, these incorparted an army tank motif, and the marks that look like a conveyor belt on the upper part of Zweilous’s legs are the remnants of that.
Initially, they didn’t work as designs and were basically ‘put to sleep’, however, a three-stage powerful Dragon-type family was ordered and they were resurrected.
In the second half of development, there was discussion about making them a colour that was not used much in the Pokedex, and from all the candidates, a strong looking purple was chosen.
The motif for the line are Yamata no Orochi (mythical Japanese serpent with 8 heads), but actually giving it so many heads made it a little displeasing so they gave Hydreigon one ‘real’ head, and made its arms and wings look like it had many heads when in silhouette.
The ‘heads’ of Hydreigon’s are really hands and do not hold even the slightest bit of individual brain power.

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>>33248924
>Iris was literally raised by dragons in the forest
What the fuck.

>>33248973
>The ‘heads’ of Hydreigon’s are really hands and do not hold even the slightest bit of individual brain power.
Wew, Hydreigon is ruined.

>>33249044
We knew that for a while. It was even part of its Pokedex entries.