>>20736178I think you can say Lucario was shoved in considering that GF specifically designed and pushed it to be the mascot of Gen 4. Nothing wrong with that though, but it's not Gamefreak "just" responding to popularity.
That being said, yeah /vp/'s hipster attitude is hilarious. You can't say you like Charizard or Greninja without a bunch of hipsters calling you a genwunner/smogonfag/autist/underaged/whatever hip buzzword they have. A part of me wants Megazard-Omega and Megazard-Alpha to be real things just so I can watch people cry about how they've officially dropped Pokemon only for them to still buy both versions of the Hoenn remakes day 1.
Then again there was a thread yesterday where quite a few people were calling out these hipsters so maybe /vp/'s finally wising up? Probably not.
