I have been following along with Truegreen7's series on Youtube where he and 3 other Fakemon artists get together to design a new pokemon based on the same prompt.
This Prompt was: Convergent Evolution like the Wigglet and Toedcool lines introduced in Gen 9. Convergent species are ones who independently evolved a similar body plan and appearance to another species simply because evolution came up with the same solutions for both species because it just works.

The example I used here is he Thylacine/Tasmanian Tiger a Marsupial that came to the same body shape as a canine like a small wolf, so I used Rockruff and Midnight Lycanroc as the base for Tazruff and Thycanroc. I am thinking they should be Electric/Dark type, Dark especially so they have stab damage on Bite and Crunch, Thylacines were known to have a strong jaw. Unfortunately they are extinct now because of British colonists in Australia hunting them and then neglecting them in captivity.