>>57234359
>people really exaggerate how much they did that in the past, youve got maybe 5-6 Unova lines to point to
>patrat expy of rattata
early route 2 stage rodent
>purrloin expy of meowth
2 stage cat found mid-game
>munna expy of drowzee
both based on the japanese trope of anteaters eating dreams
>pidove expy of pidgey
3 stage bird
>blitzle expy of ponyta
2 stage horse line
>roggenrola expy of geodude
3 stage rock line with a trade evo
>woobat expy of zubat
2 stage bat (zubat would get a 3rd stage but only in gen 2)
>drilbur expy of diglett
2 stage mole line
>audino expy of chansey
rare pure normal pink blob with massive EXP yield
>timburr expy of machop
3 stage fighting type with a trade evo
>tympole expy of poliwag
3 stage frog line
>throh and sawk expys of the hitmons
pure fighting counterparts, clearly connected but not evolutionarily (tyrogue would only be added in gen 2)
>trubbish expy of grimer
2 stage pokemon based on waste products
>emolga expy of pikachu
pikaclone trope
>foongus expy of voltorb
2 stage mimic trope
and that's excluding the more arguable instances such as Klink being an expy for the magnemite line, even then that's way more than "5 or 6"

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