Eeeeeh.
It wouldn't have sucked, but I guess it wouldn't have been a particularly successful idea to give a shonen male protagonist a pink, girly-looking pokémon as his main one.
I'm pretty sure that controlling lightning is more impressive than most of the things Clefairy can do, too. Metronome would be too random to pick up anyone's interest on the long run.
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SuperNiceDog won the Guru contest super nicely!