>>55870484>BECOMES popularZoomer detected, Lucario got a wave of shilling almost no Pokemon has ever received before or after, even the famous CHARIZARD grew popular organically and didn't become the face of Pokemon marketing literally months before his game came out. Before DP came out Lucario got
>an entire movie where he was the main character>tons of early promotion with the other Gen 4 ambassadors like Muchlax and Weavile, though all were in the backseat next to him>the famous LUCARIO RANK in PMD 1 where Lucario was the mostest legendariest explorer and you get a Lucario statue outside your house and your rescue badge becomes Lucario's face>one of/the only usable Pokemon in DP demosAnd then after DP released
>Lucario gets a special unique typing and amazing stats for the time, as well as a signature move>Lucario is a giftmon for the player making it literally impossible not to have >a spot in Smash Bros Brawl where he was the one and only character who debuted from the same handheld/console generation as Brawl and the most recent character in the rosterFor around a year and a half Lucario was the face of Pokemon...without his game even being out, I think that's a far cry from a game coming out and every deciding they liked a certain Pokemon and it getting promotion because of that later, i.e Chandelure and it's spots in Pokken and Unite. For over a year TCPI was basically screaming at you to USE LUCARIO LIKE LUCARIO HES THE STRONGEST AND COOLEST NEW POKEMON EVER.
This set the baseline for other shillmon and how we get shit like Protean, Lucario is the one who started the trend of shillmon having broken unique moves and/or abilties and typing.
As for WHY Lucario is like this, he was basically grown in a lab and heavily focus tested for appealing to the shonen age group, you can see this exact type of Pokemon in Cinderace and Zeraora as well, there really isn't much more to it.
