What WOULD have been

>Entire design basis screams in your face just by looking at it
>Incidental
It's a samurai sea lion. There's literally nothing else to its design, it even has obvious karuta armor for its shell plates.

I'll keep my shadow the edgeotter thx

Imagine bara Samurott edging.

>Design basis screams in your face

>No apparent katana-feature. The sheathed blades would be mistaken as a shell plate
>No mask
>Doesn’t stand two feet like a human would
>No cloth-like feature like hakama pants
>”Helmet” is more of a actual shell stuck on it’s head than a recolored kabuto
Stay delusional. With no context only a few people would immediately notice the samurai connection.

>Stereotypical facial hair for the samurai genre
>Is clearly wearing samurai armor with a shell reskin
>Literally named Samur
>Evolves from a mon with OTHER obvious samurai traits
Oh no, you're one of those autists who has to have something directly stated or else you can't make correlations, aren't you? The implication of the design is absurdly basic and in your face, only way it could be less subtle is if it was literally just a samurai.

what part of no context do you fail to grasp?
do we also need to explain you what subtlety is?

>WOULD have
...Did the creator die or something?

>No context
I literally named the entirety of its basic-as-fuck design before moving on to the other obvious shit. The Pokemon has 2 fucking visual traits.
>Subtlety
You mean that thing Samurott doesn't have because it's literally just a sea lion samurai?

what a dense autist

I don't want literally some guy with a sword as a pokemon.

This is probably one of the worst Samurott redesigns I've ever seen.
Compared to Samurott is the king of subtlety.

That just means comparatively one is worse than the other, it doesn't mean they both can't fuck right off with how blatant and 1 dimensional they are.

I wish I was in the universe where Samurott was well designed bros

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>This design is weird and ugly helmet and color scheme
>Genuinely don't understand why some of you wanted another anthro with a job that fucking badly

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>regular samurott is great because the design makes no sense and I made up a retarded headcanon that pokemon are supposed to look like animals even though one of the first pokemon ever made is a bipedal turtle with literal tank cannons