It's pokemon like the popplio line that makes me wonder why the gender ratio for starters is always skewed towards males? As a kid I thought it was because of breeding but ditto exists if you wanted another starter you can get one very easily and no kid is gonna waste hours hatching multiple eggs to get a team full of one starter and if they do just let them they bought the game it's out of game freaks hands
Who gives a fuck?
>>58230428It's exactly what you said, to make it harder to breed them without knowing about Ditto.The problem is, GameFreak never let go of that archaic tradition once trading over the internet on a worldwide scale became possible starting with Gen 4, and they stubbornly refuse to let go of it despite making more and more blatantly feminine starters that are, unsurprisingly, regularly depicted as female when it comes to appearances in media such as the anime, or distributions like the Tera Raids.
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>>58230442>blatantly feminine startersThey're animals. Male peacocks aren't feminine, it's just an animal.
>>58230523Is that why every Primarina in adaptational media is female, then? And why the Tera Raid Primarina is female?
>>58230428Because the game was made for autistic children, ei: boys
>>58230523>They're animals.So which animal in real life has the compulsive need to act like a heel wrestler to entertain human children and young animals of completely different species?
>>58230523>animalsthey can literally talk
>>58230442they have a trap fetish
>>58230660and they're based for it. Screw autists who think their waifu is ruined because they're part of a species with more than one gender
>>58230539Coincidence.>>58230557Parrots.>>58230553Mexican hairless dog
>if you wanted another starter you can get one very easilyNo, you can't and it IS skewed as such for breeding (need a female to just *produce* extras, otherwise you NEED to shlep for a ditto).
>>58230436op, clearly. please pay attention
>>58230679>Coincidence. Wild coincidence that this mermaid/siren pokemon with long flowing hair, pearl hair accessories, a headband, starfish barrette, a bonnet, big eyelashes and a bra just happens to be female in every bit of media it appears in.
>>58230689Let me rephrase it then Who gives a fuck what OP thinks?
>>58230724You apparently
>>58230720In the games they're mostly male and games are media.
>>58230428This is why minor gender differences need to return. It worked well for Meganium.
>>58230428autists on 4chan crying about a male critter being feminine doesn't matter in the slightest
>>58230523>They're animals. Male peacocks aren't feminine, it's just an animal.
I like how Quaquaval went against this trend by being 87.5% male while looking like a flamboyant gay man with a fat ass. Is that better? Do you like this better? That instinctual disgust you are feeling right now is what happens when a normal woman looks at a Lopunny.
>>58230891Sometime, not always. Lots of pokemon are completely fine being genderlocked.>>58230917They why are you STILL seething here? Just hide the thread if you hate the topic.
>>58230428It's a lore-based trait meant to explain why they are rare to the point of not being available in the wild. A minority of females leads to a smaller population of organisms.
>>58231052>Is that better? Do you like this better?I actually do like this better, gen 9 did a good job making the starters look androgynous like they could easily be either gender.>>58230756>In the games they're mostly maleOnly because of the gender ratio not being changed for 26 years and everywhere else they're female so what does that tell you
>>58231450Is it a lore-based trait too when the Kalos starters have a 100% female gender ratio when picked by Shauna, and 100% male gender ratio when picked by Serena/Calem?
>>58230756And yet despite the game mechanics, they still went and presented female Primarina, Delphox and Meowscarada in the Mightiest Mark raids, because the three were designed specifically with feminine influences (Shrine maidens, sirens and catgirls).It's ALMOST as if they just *design* the creatures freely (as in they add masculine details, feminine ones or keep them androgynous) before imposing any silly esoteric game mechanics like "frequency of appearance of males and females" and present them accordingly in the lore (like the anime not once showing a male Fennekin line, Popplio line or Sprigatito line individual on-screen, despite male starters being HEAVILY skewed to being more frequent in game mechanics).
>>58231490>And yet despite the game mechanics, they still went and presented female Primarina, Delphox and Meowscarada in the Mightiest Mark raidsCoincidence
>>58231456>meowscarada clearly and obviously looks feminine, even down to the V-lines at her crotch>Quaquaval clearly looks like a male samba dancer, complete with chestless top>anon thinks they's "androgynous"Pikachu is Androgynous, to the point they went and added rounded edges to the females from Gen 4 to differentiate the two genders further and double the merch revenue from it. Meow and Quaq do not however, because their detailing is far too far removed from the opposite gender to fit snugly under "Androgynous" (female samba dancers wear bikini tops to show off as much of their glorious skin as possible, before lent starts and everyone gotta penance for 40 days).And all because they refuse to acknowledge developer intent, when they create creatures to add to their long-running kid's franchise.
>>58231456>only because of [headcanon]
>>58230428They're fictional creatures and their genders are irrelevant. There are female Machamp and male Gardevoir, they don't need to follow human gender norms just like real creatures don't.
>>58231494Copium. Along with a healthy dose of gay autist. Either way, it's amusing that counting all the starter MM raidmons by gender leaves a 7:1 split. Seems the DO adhere to the ratio, just not in the way you wanted them to....
>>58230428>As a kid I thought it was because of breedingI'm fairly sure that was the intention, but now it is an archaic design choice that hasn't been scrapped despite being obsolete today.
>>58231490The anime isn't canon. Obviously some starters are designed to look more feminine or masculine, that doesn't mean they are female or male.
>>58231510>Seems the DO adhere to the ratio, just not in the way you wanted them to....?I don't give a fuck what sex the Pokemon is. It has a pink symbol instead of a blue one. So what?
>>58231513>It's totally a coincidence, but I don't actually care I swear!Really embarrassing retreat
>>58231508Yeah, but at the same point Machamp looks like a 4 armed man and rarely, if ever presented female members and Gardevoir was so feminine, they stopped recognising male gardes entirely (Wally rocking up with a Gallade in Victory rd) due to fan reception. The problem is they're designed by humans and invariably are influenced by the individual's thoughts and intents (look at Arcanine and Ninetales, one presented as overtly male in ratio, the other overtly female to the point there's rarely members of the opposite gender shown in media). The blackpill is they intentionally create things either overtly female, explicitly male or as a true androgynous creature and don't give a fuck about in-game limitations they set in the creation of new individuals of the species or line when it comes time to market them. That's why the singing seal, influenced by mythological Sirens, female soloist singers and wearing a low-cut evening gown to give a PG impression of tits has only ever been presented as female in the accompanying media and in spotlights by Game Freak.
>>58231517Yeah. It's a coincidence. Also I don't care.
I don't understand when people like Bogleech throw a fit about something like Hatterene being feminine and female only.Sure there are animals that we can unintentionally perceive as feminine due to human associations despite that not being the case. But these monsters are designed by human artists to intentionally appear feminine so it really isn't that odd when they are female locked or female heavy. Do these people somehow expect GF to provide commentary on the difference between human perception versus nature through monster design instead of a girly thing just being a girl?
>>58231512>[HEADCANON]Cute cope. However it's been soft canon since Gen 1 and hard canon since Gen 4 and distributing Ash's Pikachu for the first time.
>>58231508>They're fictional creatures and their genders are irrelevantMario is a fictional creature therefore you xer gender is irrelevant and if you ever refer to xer as a "he" I will come to your thread and shit it up
>>58231522You clearly do when you've made like 7 different posts in the same topic.
>>58231531They've also distributed VGC's player's Pokemon., hell even had the players appear in PWT.
>>58231490>(like the anime not once showing a male Fennekin line, Popplio line or Sprigatito line individual on-screenThis is just flat out not true. Firstly Lana's Popplio doesn't even have a confirmed gender, secondly multiple Fennekin and Sprigatito and their evolutions have appeared with no confirmed gender. The only ones that we have a confirmed gender for are female, but that's fucking meaningless because it's a sample size of literally 3. By this retard logic all Bulbasaurs and Squirtles are female because the only ones we've seen with a confirmed gender are females (May's Bulbasaur and Squirtle). But you're not making that argument because you know it's fucking stupid. There are very few Pokemon in the anime that have a confirmed gender at all, and almost never more than one per species. It's fucking worthless to try and draw conclusions from that.>Yeah, but at the same point Machamp looks like a 4 armed man and rarely, if ever presented female members So what? They can still be female.>and Gardevoir was so feminine, they stopped recognising male gardes entirely (Wally rocking up with a Gallade in Victory rd) due to fan reception.No they didn't. Wally has a Gallade in ORAS, sure. That doesn't change the fact that male Gardevoir exist.> The problem is they're designed by humans and invariably are influenced by the individual's thoughts and intentsThat's not a problem at all. Obviously some designs are made to look feminine or masculine. That's not the same as them being male or female. If they actually want a Pokemon to be all male or all female they can do so very easily and have plenty of times. But sometimes they make Pokemon that look masculine but can be feminine or Pokemon that look feminine but can be masculine. That's not a mistake, it's an intentional design decision. You just have some autistic hangup about accepting the existence of male Gardevoir and female Machamp.
>>58231528He probably expects Game Freak to make more buff masculine pogymans for him, because he's "so important" to the community or some horseshit. Thankfully Game Freak know male or female players, the money's the same so why not intentionally pitch at both genders to maximise income. As /vp/ shows, there's a fair few femanaons about and they get just as attracted to the sexy malemons as the boys do the sexy girlmons. And as Game Freak shows, there's women on-staff designing some these things to appeal exclusively to women (cf Intelleon, WILDLY popular with Japanese women).
>>58231528>Do these people somehow expect GF to provide commentary on the difference between human perception versus nature through monster design instead of a girly thing just being a girl?No, these simply are troons and radical feminists (mortal enemies but agree on this topic) trying to "challenge gender expectations" and "societal norms" and shit like that. I've seen this exact same type of writing ITT so many times before and, it's always them. You can see evidence of the latter here >>58231052 seething about Lopunny unprompted.
>>58231533>comparing an individual character with a single confirmed gender to an entire ficitonal species with confirmed multiple genderstry again
>>58231544>This is just flat out not true. Firstly Lana's Popplio doesn't even have a confirmed gender>"In the Ultra Guardians group missions, the females wear colorful ribbons."
>>58231538Yeah, but they haven't put them in the anime, have they? Because they only exist in the real world and the anime is the in-universe world of Pokémon from the games. This is what you don't get they see the games as games AND as part of the universe. So they can reference real world VGC heads, while still presenting the games as lore of the universe without needing to change the canon of the universe (no VGC winner being named Champion of a Region or mentioned in the anime as a trainer on the circuit).Meanwhile, I must remind you Hatchu will forever be a thing in the core paired games as Pikachu is the mascot and they always put all forms of a pokémon in alongside the base form.
>>58231544Nobody is saying shit like male Fennekin doesn’t exist. But that they are presented as female most of the time as they are feminine species. GF and TPC is playing off the perception of these monsters instead of trying to correct the playerbase to think “these are totally gender neutral”.
>>58231544Probably should watch the media you're attempting to commentate on. The writers were VERY clear in their gender presentations. You lost.
>>58231558I’m saying you using Ash’s Pikachu as proof of a shared universe between the the games and the anime instead of seeing it as a reference is just as dumb as seeing the VGC’s players appearance in the PWT as such between the games and the real world.
>>58231557>>58231562I haven't watched the anime since gen 3 because I don't have autism and just checked Bulbapedia, and the English version lists its gender as unknown. I don't know or care which is true and it's irrelevant to my point anyways.Do you think Bulbasaur and Squirtle are inherently female Pokemon because the only ones with a confirmed gender in the anime are female? Yes or no? Or does your logic only arbitrarily apply to the Pokemon you want it to?>>58231560>Nobody is saying shit like male Fennekin doesn’t existThen what the fuck is this argument even about? Obviously Delphox is a feminine design. That doesn't mean it is or needs to be female. I'm glad you agree, end of conversation.
>>58231566>I don't know or care which is true and it's irrelevant to my point anyways.then why did you bring it up?
>>58231564I'm using Word of God. Masuda said it, so I'm taking him at face value. You're the insect trying to argue word of gobshite trumping the then lead director's words on the universe. I'm just trying to explain where they're coming from, as I understand it grand (anywhere the anime goes that isn't in or mentioned in a Game Freak game is the parallel universe, it doesn't exist in the games, thus is irrelevant to the universe).
>>58231566>Then what the fuck is this argument even about? Obviously Delphox is a feminine design. Well the anon you’re currently siding with and the one who started this seemed to disagree >>58230523 :>They're animals. Male peacocks aren't feminine, it's just an animal.
>>58231569>then why did you bring it up?To point out what appeared to be blatant misinfo?
>>58231571I’m saying the evidence you provided also lines up with the real world being a “parallel world” whatever the fuck that means.
>>58231576Therefore that means that you care(pointless question mark)
>>58231566>"i don't have autism">while vehemently and autistically arguing a point which was immutableYeah, that's the issue kid - you're being an autistic faggot and arguing with no research or in-depth knowledge of the subject, beyond your overwhelming anger at Game Freak not making lovely male pokemon for you to goon to eternally.I deal in facts - that's why I said they didn't show off any female Popplio line, despite there being male members in universe because despite there being males of the species, it was drawn from feminine influences and intended to be presented as such. This pisses you off because it doesn't directly target you, for one reason or another (I'm not gay, so its feminine design doesn't scare, threaten or anger me and the fact its Sp. Attk/Def is the highest of any starter to-date and her typing made her a murder machine in the world of Alolan darks everywhere).
>>58231589I have never once disagreed that Primarina is feminine, obviously it fucking is. Nor do I have any problem with its design (at least the femininity of it, I do think its eyes are a bit creepy looking and I don't like the spikes on its tail) . But looking feminine =/= being female. There can be male Primarina just as there can be female Machamp and it's not a mistake or some archaic piece of game design like anons have suggested, that's my only point.
>>58231580But it's not and they don't pretend it is, is the point. The anime is and as much as that upsets you, that's the reality of the situation. Can be a disingenuous fucker all you want, it won't change the facts at hand.
>>58231576>Raid Primarina being deliberately female isn’t true. It is a mere coincidence. I swear I have no horse in this race but this blatant misinformation must be corrected.Legitimately autistic behaviour.
>>58231606Coincidental things are still true.
>>58231602> some archaic piece of game design like anons have suggestedWhy is it then, when you seem to agree that it is meant to be perceived as generally female?
>>58231608What the fuck are you blabbering about?
>>58231608Something cannot be deliberate and coincidental at the same time anon…
>>58231609I said it's meant to look feminine, I never said it's meant to be perceived as female. Those are two different things.
>>58230756In Sun/Moon, if Prof Kukui ends up with a Primarina, it will be female. If he gets a Decidueye or Incineroar, they will be male. In USUM, if Hau chooses Popplio/Primarina, it will always be female. If he ends up with a Decidueye or Incineroar, they will always be male.
>>58231620My Primarina is male.
>>58230428starters should stay like venusaur, charizard, blastoisethey started this gendered-shit evolutions from kalosbraixen looks too girly and even gets a "witch gown" when it evolves into delphoxcompare this to a fennekin which looks like it could be male or femalethen we got brionne, which evolves into a completely feminine looking sealnow popplio looks like it could be a male or a female toosame story with sprigatito, another gender-neutral looking mon that suddenly gets gendered featuresscorbunny and snivy avoid that fate because one evolves into a regal looking snake, while the other evolves into a soccer bunnygiving mons human-like characteristics is the worst shit about nu-pokemon, plus it attracts weirdos into the series
>>58231602Except when presented on-screen as part of canon materials, because they present it as Game Freak tell them to, you stupid little pissant. So if Game Freak tell them "present this as a human baby", they're going to present the new addition like a newborn (Cosmog with Ash and Lillie as its surrogate parents). Or "do not present male members of this species/line", they'll only present girls and gender-code it by only having them trained by girls and women. Like Ida and her Brionne. Can bitch all you want, but the fact remains feminine designs get presented as female most if not all the time, because they're told to do so by Game Freak.
>>58231617Yeah? No proof it was deliberate. Coincidentally true.
>>58231623>Except when presented on-screen as part of canon materialsThat's every time any Primarina appears in-game so it's almost always canonically male
>>58231622Game Freak acknowledges girls exist, shock horror. If you weren't a tagnut on the arsehole of the internet like the rest of us, one may have let you play with her pussy some.
>>58231623> "do not present male members of this species/line"Where's your source for Game Freak saying this? You must have one, right?
>>58231619>it’s meant to look girly, but not be perceived as a girlI find it hard to believe you’re not the peacock anon at this point because you’ve circled back. Again, why is it meant to look feminine if it isn’t to be perceived as female?
>>58231626Because someone had to actually program it you retard.
It isn't feminine. You just perceive it as feminine.
>>58231629No? Your playthrough of the games isn't canon, neither is mine. The STORYLINE is true, but the details differ, as Game Freak were loathe to enshrine one starter as canon, much less a whole team and individual choices. Your fault if you didn't SR for a female, I did. And got lucky a fair few times since starting to pay attention for female starters (ie after they untied it to individual strength capabilities).
>>58231631>*looks at the anime, the manga and the MM raids where Game Freak have input and influence*Can lead a tard to info, but can't make him learn.
>>58231632I'm not the peacock anon but yeah, animals are a good example. Something does not have to be female to look feminine to human eyes, like peacocks, or butterflies, or "lady"bugs. Same goes for Pokemon, Primarina looks feminine but it doesn't have to be female.>Again, why is it meant to look feminine if it isn’t to be perceived as female?Because they wanted it to look feminine. That's not the same as wanting it to be seen as female. Again, those are two different things.
>>58231639>Your playthrough of the games isn't canonIt's the only canon that matters.
>>58231513BTFO'd
>>58231642Animals aren’t designed by humans. Primarina is. Again you’ve yet to explain why you think it is deliberately designed to look feminine if not to be perceived as female.
>>58231641And that shows Gamefreak told the anime writers and such not to make male Delphox how? Just because a male Delphox hasn't been explicitly shown doesn't mean they were told not to do so. Or do you also think they were told not to make male Squirtle?
>nigga gets steaming mad that people refer to a feminine fictional creature as a female (but xe DEFINITELY doesn't actually care)Who's calling the other autistics here again?
>>58231644Sadly Game Freak don't share that opinion, which is why they make feminine startermons.
>>58231652I don't see the connection.
>>58231551You're entire modus has just be denialism.
>>58231650 (samefag)another fucking disastrous typo let's go
>>58231648The fact they went and ended the argument by featuring a female as the Unrivalled pinnacle pokémon of its species, instead of a male, like the RNG of the game determination would probably spit out, you simpering little fuckwit. It all rolls back to developer intent and if they wanted to present males, they'd have told the anime to do so, would have set the Delphox MM raid as a 7:1 ratio gender roll on raid entry even to ensure there was males to be found by casualfags. But no, it was locked to female, just as the anime only showed females and as the manga only had females in their story. Because they were told "we want this presented as female in all appearances". Get fucked, you miserable little shitstain.
Don't they usually just call them 'it' in the show? Ash doesn't say call Pikachu a 'he'. He calls Pikachu an 'it'. Because it's an animal. Even though we know it's male because of the tail. Canonically, most trainers don't see their Pokemon as male or female. Because they're animals it's just a secondary trait, the equivalent to a checked/unchecked box on a piece of paper.
>>58231654Yeah, I know. That's why they ran this event >>58231490 though, which highlights the difference succinctly.
>>58231637>troon
>>58231661>>58231562Not really. May not outright use a male or female diminutives, but they're not shy about showing genders for those with eyes.
>>58231646>Animals aren’t designed by humans. Primarina is. Pokemon are designed to have traits and features from animals (and other things).>you’ve yet to explain why you think it is deliberately designed to look feminine if not to be perceived as female.Once again, looking feminine =/= being female. You are drawing a connection there that doesn't exist. You may as well be asking "why did they make Luxray black if not to be perceived as a dark type?". A pokemon looking feminine is often an indicator of it being a female species, but not always.. A Pokemon being black is often an indicator of being a Dark type, but not always.
>>58231660So Squirtle is a female species, because it's only been shown as female in the anime and Gamefreak must've told them to do that. Got it.
>>58231675And Primarina despite drawing influence from seals acts human-like in the anime, Incineroar has a personality, despite being based on cats big and small in its line and Lycanrocc is portrayed as a dog, despite also being a pokémon and sentient to the point of conversing with other pokémon later in the series.It's almost as if starters are presented differently to in-region pokémon (acting more humanish and thus more readily seen as friends and companions by kids) which invariably ends up acting as a male or female would, depending on the design influences.
https://youtu.be/ixr7Sj314TU?si=RNXN0gKr1T-W3KJAIn the anime there was a male Emboar who used Attract on a female Samurott. They don't mind presenting a masculine-looking sealion Pokemon with facial hair as explicitly female.
>>58231683>And Primarina despite drawing influence from seals acts human-like in the anime, Incineroar has a personality, despite being based on cats big and small in its line and Lycanrocc is portrayed as a dog, despite also being a pokémon and sentient to the point of conversing with other pokémon later in the series.It's almost as if starters are presented differently to in-region pokémon (acting more humanish and thus more readily seen as friends and companions by kids) Okay? This has nothing to do with anything.>which invariably ends up acting as a male or female would, depending on the design influences.They may act more masculine or feminine. Once again, that is not the same as acting male or female.
>>58231678Ash's squirtle is male and everyone knows that. The old blastoise with the jigglypuff in its canon was similarly so. The old anime did show off Ninetales as female, despite Game Freak not actually revealing genders until Gen 2, where they made Ninetales a 3:1 female ratio. So, you know. Disingenuous fucker, won't change facts.
>>58231689>Ash's squirtle is male and everyone knows that. The old blastoise with the jigglypuff in its canon was similarly so.Nice headcanon, but the only Squirtle with a known gender is female. Squirtle are a female species and Gamefreak specifically told the anime producers not to make male Squirtle.
>>58231688Has everything to do with everything. If Game Freak design a female-looking thing, slap the giftmon ratio on it, then hand it off to the anime and it turns out female in every appearance? They told the anime to do so while handing it over, meaning regardless the lore or the in-game RNG, they see it as female. And no, because starters are presented more akin to humans, they act male or female, because they're intended to be seen as more than animalistic. That includes mannerism and acts more akin to humans than akin to "acting masculine or feminine" (sounds like trannyspeak to me, that).
>>58231692Sorry faggot, but squirtle existed before you did and they OK'ed his presentation then (that's why the next was female, or did you forget M-Mewtwo-Y from that movie was also female, while the OG ME into M-Mewtwo-X like a good Boy?).
>>58231694The only Squirtle with a known gender is female. Squirtle is a female species. Gamefreak said so. Simple as that.
In-game gender ratios are canon. Anime and gift Pokemon are not canon.
>>58231675Yeah, it is designed to look feminine because it’s intended to be perceived as generally female. Same way Luxray has a cool color palette because it is meant to look cool. It is a deliberate choice.I’m tired of you constantly squirming and denying everything as mere coincidences despite the pile adding up. So instead let me ask you this, why is Primarina, a design we both agree is intentionally feminine, programmed as primarily male if not due to archaic design philosophies? What is it you actually think GF is trying to say by having a feminine design be primarily male?
>>58231698>Yeah, it is designed to look feminine because it’s intended to be perceived as generally female.It's designed to look feminine because it's intended to be perceived as generally feminine. Once again, that's not the same thing as being generally female.>So instead let me ask you this, why is Primarina, a design we both agree is intentionally feminine, programmed as primarily male if not due to archaic design philosophies? What is it you actually think GF is trying to say by having a feminine design be primarily male?That it's a fictional non-human creature and its gender is irrelevant to what is or isn't feminine. Why is Fezandipiti always male when it looks feminine? Why is Granbull mostly female when it's a strong, masculine-looking bulldog? Why do Pokemon like Lurrantis or Mabosstiff have 50/50 gender ratios despite having strongly gendered appearances? They're fictional creatures. Sometimes their gender ratio matches what you might expect from their appearance, sometimes it doesn't. That's all there is to it.
>>58231719> Why is Fezandipiti always male when it looks feminine? Because that’s how male pheasants work. It’s deliberate.>Why is Granbull mostly female when it's a strong, masculine-looking bulldog?Because the disparity between being tough looking and feminine is the whole concept behind the Pokemon, it’s deliberate. Again, are you saying Primarina is intended to be a reverse Granbull, a deliberate femboy joke on GF’s part? Is that what you actually believe?
>>58231686The dipshit in this thread doesn't care, and at this point I am sure they are just trolling and merely pretending to be stupid.
>>58230428Why did they turn a deal into a girl?
>>58231933Sailors used to confuse seals for mermaids
>>58231730NTA but I think you're just chasing confirmation bias. The entire thing is just the idea of animals/Pokemon not having the same inherent sexual/gender markers as humans and trying to paint them with our brush is kinda stupid. But if you can twist it to justify the fan-art you fap to, that goes out the window and suddenly EVERYTHING is author intent. It's like the people who say "this character is x-coded" to justify every bit of ratchet smut they make.
I think the event Primarina/etc. was female because they assumed that's what people wanted: a female one. Which is different from presenting the Pokemon as explicitly female, it just assumes that most Primarina-chasers have a preference. Which is probably true. I don't think little girls particularly care, they just want a mermaid seal that looks pretty.
>>58230428Ditto isn't available before post-game in most games
>>58231528I don't like female only cause I think genderlocking is just lame and limiting, I don't want male only designs either. If there's a cool biological niche to go along with it like Vespiquen sure (though I still wish male Combee would get some form of compensation) but otherwise just leave it be or go the route of making one gender a lot rarer.
>>58230428>why the gender ratio for starters is always skewed towards males?Nigga, it's made by Japs. Once those fellas throw shit at the wall and it sticks (in the 90's or 2000's or whenever GSC came out), they keep throwing it 'till the end of time, even if it ain't shit anymore.
>>58230428Most kids that play Pokemon are boys. We're seeing a trend of feminine starters because Game Freak is fully aware of more girls playing Pokemon. This is merely speculation of course.
>>58230436>>58230452Pathetic
