The Question of the Day is a way to facilitate community discussion to help members ponder the unanswered questions of the world that are somehow relating to the hobby. Questionsj are many times open ended and up to interpretation. Feel free to post your thoughts in as much or as little detail as you’d like.
Helpful Considerations may or may not help some people focus their answer, these are blurred to not bother those who have their own ideas.
Clodsire is a new Pokemon just evolved from a regional.
I do like all of those except Arcanine though.
I’d even argue that Vulpix, Ninetales, Zorua and Zoroark are better than the originals.
As for the thread question, I think Golem would’ve been better suited to Rock/Fire with the lava in between the cracks. I think I saw fan art like that which looked incredible.
H-Growlithe should’ve evolved into a new Pokemon that looks like the Chinese stone lion- and I think there was a beta Pokemon from Gen 1/2 that already had that aesthetic.