User blog comment:Paul Levesque/Please stop, whether you are a user or an anon/@comment-1748472-20110825065410

Oh, come on. Even discussing about that is plain ridiculous. Even if a Champ and a Pokemon were to look alike, what's the deal? Pokemon wasn't the first medium introducing a burning monkey, a scorpion-like fantasy-creature or a god damn ice bird (seriously: How often have you seen THAT things already?) and it won't be the last. Even though you could wish for a little bit more originality here and there, you can't reinvent the wheel all the time, can you?

When creating new creatures the artists are influenced by countless factors. Pokemon might be one of them but it doesn't mean a Champ was designed with a specific Pokemon in mind. Those kids are just reading too much into it. In fact you can say that about a majority of the trivia-section. Mostly it's nothing more then ridiculous speculations pulled out of thin air.