Ludendorkk
(he/him)
I believe byofrog claimed they were 1:1 and altered them to look like they were. They aren't. Don't get me wrong, you can absolutely see their inspiration, but you are allowed to make close designs to something that already exist. If TPC could sue they absolutely would.
What's your source on that? I've seen people claim that @byofrog on twitter did that, but the only thing byo did to compare the models was scale them uniformly so they could be compared despite the size differences.
The person claiming that is a notorious Pokemon community drama hound and clout chaser whose "receipts" were screenshots of that Twitter users public statements that stated the opposite of what he claimed.