>>34671109Three things went wrong in particular.
>incredibly lackluster viability in all formats including in-game resulting in being able to have fun using it a difficult task>almost all of its merch suffers from some glaring problem which makes the item fairly unappealing>rowlet and its immense popularity put too much expectation onto itIt rode off of Rowlet's success far too much and while it's still obviously very popular, a lot of its welcoming was a combination of that and being the "safe starter" since the other two were hyper masculine/effeminate. Once the initial hate for the other two died down and people started getting used to them, a portion of Decidueye's "fans" who only picked it for not being the other two were able to move onto something they actually enjoyed.
Regardless - don't take /vp/ as a measure for any of the starters this generation - it's a completely different story outside of here.
