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>HURR DURR THE ROSTER IS SHIT
No shut the fuck up faggot
It has the 4 obligatory marketing icon mons (pikachu, charizard, lucario, mewtwo)
It has 5 very popular mons among-st casual fans (gengar, blaziken, gardevoir, garchomp, scizor)
It has 2 decently popular legendaries that are somewhat recognizable to casual fans (suicuine, darkrai)
it has 4 popular pokemon amongst more hardcore fans (weavile, machamp, sceptile, chandelure)
and it has braixen for furfags
It has covers every possible demographic with popular picks among them while covering nearly every type and without having just bipeds It's one of the best possible rosters you could assemble for a pokemon fighting game. Litterally the only flaws is libre, Empoleon and shadowtwo.
As far as the character quanitity, let's look at the character quantity for the following of the first games in each of these series:
>Street Fighter 2 (since 1 isn't really the same shit): 8
>Mortal Kombat: 7
>Tekken: 8
>KI: 10
>Virtua fighter:8
>Soul Calibur: 10
>Skullgirls:8
Pokken had on launch 16, which is, on average, a little under TWICE the amount of characters they had.