Sawk and Throh were supposed to be based off of the two fighting styles Judo for Throh and Martial Arts for Sawk, and the reason they are red and blue is becuase red and blue are opposites in Japan, that is why Groundon is red and Kyogre is blue, plus a lot of Generation 5 pokemon were remakes of the generation 1 pokemon, they tried to do the Kanto region in a new light for the younger and newer fans... So actually Sawk and Throh can be remakes of Hitmonlee and Hitmonchan... Plus Sawk and Throh are not the only pokemon wearing clothes, Gardevoir,Hitmonlee, Machamp, Machoke, and others... Plus the for the name ekans is just snake backwards and seel is just seal with an "e" instead of an "a"... I could really tell that they really tried to have newer concepts and yet go off of old ideas... Plus I do not understand what was the problem with the sandile family, they were based off of crooks a lot of the pokemon found in the desert route were based off of low-life people Scrafty- Gangsters, Darumuka- Pyromaniacs and Krookadile- crooks... I am not understanding why you do not like these Pokemon, you need to give more reasons