If you'll excuse the Mega Man paperbacks, I had to prop Nidorino up with the closest, solid, not-too-intrusive thing I could get my hands on, and a stack of comics works well. Nidorino has the cutest face, my God, look at him! You know, I get that part of Nidorino's appeal is that he looks, or looked rather (back in ye olde days), kind of hectic. But if all of a sudden, henceforth this became the new design for Nidorino, I wouldn't be mad. It's on its way anyway, Nidorino no longer looks as threatening as he did in his early promo art, and Bulbasaur took a dip into the fountain of youth (or the fountain of cute, as it were. Perhaps both) itself, setting some precedent. This is also probably the closest AU Nidorino might look under an official lens, too, which says a little something about his softer design.