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I think the Dragon-Type was added late into development. Kinda like an endgame type, if you would. Your flamethrowers and bubblebeams weren't going to do much to them. However, you only had one move and it did fixed damage. You had Ice-Types, but they were just as obscure. Hell, pure Grass-Types were rare until Gen II.
>Some Gen III Pokémon may have been intended for Gen II. Latiaken, as stated was seen with the blue-haired girl and you had Wynaut and Azurill. Now why would these two be the only Pokémon with connections to past Pokémon? Gen II was probably meant to have even more Pokémon. 100 is a small number.
>Going on that, Iwata personally compressed Gold/Silver's data. GameFreak aren't the best of coders, as seen with Gen I. With that space, they added a watered-down Kanto because they had so much space left over.
>The localizers wanted to change the designs for Gen I's Pokémon. Considering how off-put people are with newer Pokémon's designs, I can only imagine how that would have went.
>Some of concept art for Gen II showed some Pokémon. One was a Fire-Type mouse. When you take into consideration that Marill was a Water-Type, it may have been intended to make it a trio with Pikachu. Marill was also pink originally. Some other ones were Girafarig with two front bodies, a smaller Chikorita, one that looks like Hitmontop, Tyranitar, a turtle which looks like a more detailed version of Shuckle and a Pokémon named Kurusu. From its appearance, it may have been intended to be Lapras' pre-evo.
>Speaking of trios, Jynx, Electabuzz and Magmar all got pre-evos in Gen II, lined up in the same position together. Because of the controversy with Jynx, it's likely that GameFreak wanted to avoid anything to do with the line and kept it alone. Note how Magby and Elekid's lines were completed in Gen IV but not Smoochum? They also all had access to their respective elemental punch and could utilize them unlike Hitmonchan, who knew all three.