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>Venusaur, Charizard and Blastoise are popular
>Typhlosion and Feraligatr are popular
>Sceptile, Blaziken and Swampert are popular
>nobody talks about the Gen 4 starters
>Serperior is popular
>nobody talks about the Gen 6 starters (this is shocking because Greninja was HUGE, Lucario tier)
>Incineroar is popular
>one chick on Twitter draws porn of the grass monkey, otherwise nobody talks about the Gen 8 starters
>Meowscarada seems the most likely to be remembered once Gen 9 isn't current anymore
What causes this? What makes a starter survive being flavor of the gen and retain their popular status? Greninja and Cinderace prove that favoritism and shilling isn't gauranteed to work.
