it was not. you look at anubus pal and then look at lucario and tell me that's not a AI generated rip of off lucario, or Robinquill and Decidueye. Foxparks and Vulpix. Jet ragon and Latios/Latias. Orserk and Garchomp. too many pals are way to similar to be "original" designs. the fucking creators of palworld are huge supporters of AI, so of course they would use AI to generate pals and it jsut took pokemon designs.

but no no "nInTeNdo Is BaD" mindeset infested the stooges that love 'pokemon with gunz', i mean palword.