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Old Feb 2nd, 2013, 5:35:47 PM   #3532
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Originally Posted by Fat Quark View Post
For Chespin's design, I kind of see it becoming a giant ground sloth. It might be influenced by some of the art I've seen, but it would be a prehistoric animal and a mammal. I don't think an ancient rat fits a starter pokemon, because when I hear rat I still think of your first route rattata.
I know that we already have the Slakoth line, but Slaking looks a lot more like a gorilla than a sloth in my opinion.
Chespin's name in various languages...

English: Chespin. chestnut + pin
Japanese: Harimaron. harinezumi (hedgehog) + marron (chestnut in French)
French: Marisson. marron (chestnut) + herrison (hedgehog)
German: Igamaro. igel (hedgehog) + marone (chestnut)

As you can see, you'd be very hard-pressed to argue that Chespin will evolve into anything other than a spiky hedgehog Pokemon.
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