>>52587290There's a quite a few things, but it doesn't get any special treatment that something like Charizard or Lucario get. They finally caught on to Eevee's popularity around Gen 6, but they simply just make it available to appease fans and don't do anything with it.
>Hardly marketed>Hardly appears in the anime>Horrible movepool and stats for whole 9 gens>Gen 4 includes new eeveelutions, but locks eevee out of the game until you beat the E4. Locks Glaceon until the 7th badge in Platinum.>whole 10 years, and all we've gotten was a throwaway gmaxIt isn't until Sylveon hit the stage that Eevee got any shilling at all. Sylveon's also the only competitively viable Eevee and even then it's not that good. Most of the "shilling" is because of the fans, not game freak itself. To game freak, It's just one of your standard 151 mon of gen 1. Nothing close to something like Pikachu or Charizard.