>>41765283Charizard didn't get
>a movie>a character who styles himself after it and gives you an egg of its pre-evolution>shilling in Mystery Dungeon as da best Explorer ever>a Gym Leader that worships it>a fucking shrine dedicated to it>get billed as the first Pokemon to achieve Mega Evolution because it's just so goddamned specialCharizard is bad, yes. It got two Mega Evolutions when most other Pokemon only got one, received a Gigantamax form, is used by the Galar Champion as their ace, and has been shilled very hard in recent years. Lucario, however, has been so for longer, and on far less understandable merits.
Charizard is a dragon, the archetypal fantasy animal popular with normal normal. You want to amuse people, tell them they can raise a dragon. What is Lucario's appeal? It has an anime mouth that's not attached to its muzzle and instead makes it look like it has a giant schnoz, random stripes that don't fit its form, random spikes that serve no purpose, "dreads" that are more like tear-shaped chunks of plastic bolted to its skull and disrupt its silhouette, an immobile plastic shard jutting out of its ass that doesn't remotely align with its spine, a leg build that looks like jorts, and a stance that more resembles someone's fursuit than an animal. Charizard I can fucking understand, even if it annoys me; Lucario is an ugly abomination of design that GameFreak incessantly promoted as just the coolest thing.
