Alcremie is weird because it's not like Aromatisse or Slurpuff are Female only. And in terms of being a "girly" design it's more akin to, like, Ribombee. You can see the feminine in it, I guess, but I literally didn't know Alcremie was a female only species until months later lol.
The other female only fairies are at least, like, by design meant to come across as a gf a woman. (...) Alcremie....doesn't. It's just a cute little dollop of whipped cream that kinda sort of looks like it has some pigtails.
Being living whipped cream, I kind of assumed Alcremie was genderless.
Alternatively it could also just ben 3:1. Notable 3:1 Pokemon in this case are the Skitty family, Gothita family, and Oricorio; all Pokemon with a female lean though there are still male members pretty much because there's no reason there shouldn't be.
I mostly agree with your post, but I want to raise a small point of defense for Heracross. I think it does feel artificial when viewed through the lens of our knowledge that it was a change/addition that they made specifically for female Heracross. But if taken on its own terms, I think it’s not too glaring. Like, if Heracross had been designed from the beginning with the heart-shaped horn instead of the prongs, it wouldn’t look as forced. Obviously there’s no rewriting history, but personally I always look at the female horn and think of it as kind of like a shovel
Also it's likely the closest they could get to one of the main gender differences between beetles that they can. Female beetles generally do not have horns or long pincers, which makes sense as the reason males have those body parts is to specifically fight other males to breed. However they can't really just remove the horn from female Heracross, and even if they shorten the horn the prongs still would give it a masculine appearance (by beetle standards). However, by replacing the prongs with more rounded protrusions (heart-shape aside), it does "soften" the appearance getting across the desired effect (and they didn't even need to shorten the horn).
I always thought it was odd female Pinsir didn't have smaller pincers, but after writing this, I wonder if it's because all they could do was make the pincers shorter, but since Pinsir's signature trait IS the pincers diminishing them in any way would take away from Pinsir overall (and I don't think smoothing out the pincers would do anything either).
Why? And also, why aren't there any other male-only Fairy-type Pokémon?
Stereotype. While there's plenty of male fey-like creatures, they would have to pick it to become a Pokemon to start with. And unless its a mythical creature which is connected to the place the region is based on, I'd imagine Pokemon who are picked/made to be Fairy-types usually lean on the feminine (as well as possibly cutesy or graceful). There are of course exceptions, and because of those I do feel Pokemon is generally better at presenting "fairy" stuff to not
completely fall into the stereotype.
Snorlax not having slack off
If I had to guess why, it's cause they feel giving the already tanky Pokemon a 50% max recovery move would move it a bit into OP territory. Lore-wise, Snorlax nor Munchlax "slack off". When Snorlax rests, it goes into a deep sleep, it doesn't do "naps". Munchlax meanwhile is awake for a lot of the time as it's constantly eating, if I had to guess it only goes to sleep when it needs to, but otherwise its instinct is to stay awake. Hence, neither get into the right mindset that is needed to "Slack Off".
Shoutout to Smolive for being one of the few times I go "couldn't this have been monotype?" I know the normal dual types always get people in a huff, but with those I can look at them and go, you know yeah. Yeah you're a little normal. Pretty normalesque. Kinda normalish, you know? Smolive is just a green olive. I guess its a light green olive? Is the lighter color meant to indicate normalcy? Will it become more normal as it evolves? Many mysteries.
My fringe theory is that why it's Normal-type would become more obvious when it no doubt evolves into this gen's cute plant girl: it's an allusion to virgin olive oil.
Also Incineroar looks more of a fighting type than any Blaziken, Infernape or Emboar.
That's on purpose, its supposed to be a heel wrestler. Gimmicks with heel wrestlers is that, unlike what you think an actual wrestler would do and go all-in fighting, heel's tend to use dirty tricks whenever they could do make it so they DON'T have to fight as hard.
If anything you could use it as an argument that Electivire should get a physical Electric-typed signature move based on it.
I wouldn't be against that. Or rather, instead of a Signature, just make an Electric-type version of Liquidation (I would call it "Circuit Break").
On the topic of missed secondary typings, one hill that I will fucking die on is that Azelf, Mesprit, and Uxie should have been given Fairy typing, on account of, you know, being literal fairies. Their names are even based on fairy-like creatures. GameFreak seems really adverse to retconning the types of legendaries though, even if they were only single-typed to begin with.
I also think the Misdreavus family should have become Ghost/Fairy as it's at the very least partially based on a banshee which is often described as a fey as much as it is a spirit (or both).
Nihilego
>43 def
>Quad weak to EQ
Glass is right, God dang
Still beat by Kartana
> 31 SpD
> 59 HP
> Double weak to Fire
It's so paper think it's in danger of fainting from an Ember.
(I vaguely remember reading about a fanfic where Arceus cosmic retcons new Pokémon into existence every few years.)
Not sure about fanfic but I've put out there a theory I have called the "
time ripple".
Dugtrio being extremely frail but fast is part of why I love Whac, A, and Moles, because
Pikachu315111 gave awesome nicknames to their Magneton.
I would have gone with Whaq, Aie, & Moel.
IIRC Celadon City also represents part of Tokyo.
It does.