I dislike how similar some Paradoxes are statwise to their basis.
I haven’t researched this much but certain Pokemon just fufil the same roles, main one that comes to mind is Iron Hands/Hariyama. Basically the same thing except they have 100 extra base points to work with so they bulked up its defense mainly.
Well since I was curious myself...
Great Tusk: Basically Donphan 2. Fitting, considering its design could easily pass for an evolution. But this is very unrealistic, because it got a slight speed buff.
Scream Tail: Retains the high HP but Jigglypuff/Wigglytuff are....technically....more built for attacking and soaking hits through HP. Instead Scream Tail is a fast defensive Pokemon
Brute Bonnet: Yeah kind of just been an evolution. They mostly shifted it to physical attacker, whereas Amoonguss was a technically mixed, but the defensive profile was the main thing and that's still present.
Flutter Mane: For all intents and purposes, this is just Mismagius 2
Slither Wing: Physical attacking, slower Volcarona
Sandy Shocks: Magneton/Magnezone are meant to be special attackers that take some hits, Sandy Shocks goes in to speed special attacking (in fact, its special attack is actually a little lower than Magneton)
Roaring Moon: What if Salamence was marginally bulkier and also purely a physical attacker and also extremely fast. I guess to be fair, og Salamence was something that could go mixed or special so this is more picking a role and sticking to it
Walking Wake: Iconc bulky Pokemon -> Speedy special attacker
Gouging Fire: Physical attacker with some decent bulk -> Explicitly bulky physical attacker
Raging Bolt: Fast special attacker -> Slower, strong special attacker with tweaked bulk (that HP stat!)
Iron Treads: This one is interesting statistically because it's still mostly Donphan 2 but they burned off some attack points to waste into the special stats and mostly made it faster to give it a different niche.
Iron Bundle: Delibird was so bad and had so little to work with that by definition anything Iron Bundle does is wildly different than Delibird could hope to dream
Iron Hands: Hariyama 2
Iron Jugulis: Gun to my head I thought they made this a physical attacker. It's really wild how aside from the speed buff it's just worse Hydreigon. I know that the pseudo paradoxes actually have less stat points to work with but I figured they just tweaked them differently...
Iron Thorns: Tyranitar but what if it didn't have a special half of its stats
Iron Moth: What if Volcarona but a little more but it didnt have Quiver Dance
Iron Valiant: This one's cute since its both Gardevoir & Gallade, so it goes full mixed attacker and grabs speed.
Iron Leaves: Specially bulky one -> Physically attacking one
Iron Boulder: Terrakion but its faster and ever so slightly weaker
Iron Crown: The Defensive bulky one -> Special attacking one
I guess from a design space they purposely wanted a mix of: Some played into new niches, others were basically "what if this was an actual evolution" and others are just the same but rely on their new typing/tweaked moves to make them stand out.