>>28205703A high-class example of marketing gone out of control. Lucario is basically Pokemon's Goku, and they like to make it edgy as fuck even though it evolves by friendship to appeal to inbred kids and mentally disabled teenagers. For God's sake, 'Lucario and the Mystery Of Mew' is literally the only reason why it even got this far.
The design is fine. The movepool is fantastic. The stats are fine. The Mega is fine. It's a fine Pokemon. A good Pokemon which is reliable and won't steer you wrong. The lore about its awful, awful presence is shit. It gets handed to you in X/Y, has a 70 foot tower dedicated to it, a gigantic STATUE to its name, is the 'first ever Mega Evolved Pokemon', and you don't have to do anything special for it.
GameFreak handles marketing poorly, and would possibly be compared to EarthBound's marketing team, except instead of saying 'This game stinks', it's 'Look at this Pokemon, there are no other Pokemon like it, fuck these legendaries, USE LUCARIO'.
That's why it sucks balls.
