>>43088429It was a popularity poll held in Japan. They do them ever so often, but since they tend to distribute the winner, they're often rigged by players in order to get free distributions of otherwise impossible or hard to get pokemon, which explains why Arceus is in 2nd place. They've been doing these polls since the D/P/P days and the distributed pokemon had always been a Legendary/Mythical. That was the first ever time a Generic Pokemon actually won the distribution against the rigging from the players, which only made the victory even more extraordinary. They even held a Mini "Most Popular Pokemon" ceremony to give him a medal for being the most voted. The excuse from the butthurt anon was that, despite it never ocurring before, CLEARLY Greninja only won because all those players that previously rigged the polls to get those legendary pokemon decided to focus their efforts onto making sure a Greninja that they could easily get at the start of the game/At the end of the Game/ At Friend Safaris/ Wondertrading your scatterbug to get a Guaranteed Shiny Protean Froakie, would win the contest over other actually rare Pokemon. They didn't vote for it because they liked it, oh no! That's as inconceivable then as it is now.
