>>53393577>>53393636Regionalisation doesn't lie, my friends. Not only did they tell us what types of pokémon they chose for regionalistion in Gen 7 and 8, they also proved that whatever metric they'd used to judge them put Deciudueye bottom of the pile, or top of the list depending on the exact type of ranking criteria, to the point where it got added.
Now, I'm with you, it should by rights have been an older grass starter that's less popular. But adults online, particularly those in the west have scant effect on how Game Freak view how their brand's consumed (greninja deleted entirely from Gen 8, despite winning the 10-day poll for bot's favourite pogermans) and just because they like the owl because it didn't get shilled or it had glasses like they or because they were the school shooter-typecast student or because they can't into popular or girly 'mons and be contrarian doesn't mean it didn't actually fail to impact the audience they target with their products.
