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Why were Charizard and Venusaur chosen as the cover Pokémon for the first Pokémon games?

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WaterTypeStarter

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And why was Venusaur replaced by Blastoise as cover Pokémon in the Western versions? Is there some symbolic meaning? As well as Blastoise being on the cover of the first Japanese third version game?
 
Leonhart

Leonhart

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I assumed that Fushigibana (Venusaur) might've been replaced because it didn't look as tough or as appealing as Lizardon (Charizard) by international standards. Perhaps Nintendo of America was worried that most players would gravitate towards Red version in the West if they didn't have an equally impressive mascot for Blue version, so they went with Kamex (Blastoise) for the sake of balancing things out?

There's also the fact that the international copies of both Red and Blue used the Japanese Blue version's game engine as a basis, so perhaps the mascot changing was partially based on that as well.
 
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WaterTypeStarter

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Leonhart said:
I assumed that Fushigibana (Venusaur) might've been replaced because it didn't look as tough or as appealing as Lizardon (Charizard) by international standards. Perhaps Nintendo of America was worried that most players would gravitate towards Red version in the West if they didn't have an equally impressive mascot for Blue version, so they went with Kamex (Blastoise) for the sake of balancing things out?

There's also the fact that the international copies of both Red and Blue used the Japanese Blue version's game engine as a basis, so perhaps the mascot changing was partially based on that as well.
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Is there some symbolic reason for the choice in mascots? Or did Game Freak purely chose on whim?
 
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