Pokemon Guinea Pig
Its fur pattern is reminiscent of a chullo an andean style of hat.
Pokemon guinea pig. Fandom apps take your favorite fandoms with you and never miss a beat. Swinubs size and appearance seem to be based on a mix of a peruvian guinea pig and a wild boar piglet. It may also come from marmot the japanese name for the guinea pig. The abilities it could have is static fur coat because of their tuffs of fur and maybe analytic since they can remember complex pathways and such.
Guinea pigs arent fast so they would lose speed but they are aggressive so i think it would excel in physical attack and decent special attack. It could also possibly come from pika as it is the electric rodent pokemon of the region which originates from the concept of pikachu. Swinub also resembles the marsupial mole. Capig is based on a guinea pig.
Tepig is a quadruped pig like pokemon that is primarily orange. Both are similar in characteristics and behavior while ground hog describes swinubs type and species quite well. It may also be based on wordplay of the groundhog. Discussion and conceptualisation of the regional rodent began not long after the earliest confirmations or at least agreements on the starter pokemon designs.
Pokemon that resemble pigs.