Kotaku | 08.04.2026 20:30Pokémon has a lot of weird gender stuff in its game design, both for things like breeding Pokémon and in the sense that it blatantly leans into some pretty heavily gendered character design for some of its monsters. Tinkaton is pink and has pigtails, so it’s obviously a girl, right? Sometimes this plays into some gender dimorphism in which certain species have different traits depending on if they’re male or female. In other cases, it can affect their evolutionary line, and that’s what happens with Gallade, a Pokémon introduced back in Diamond and Pearl.
