>>37210160>lucario isn't popular anymore tho>tons of shilling in gen 3 before he even came out including a movie and jerking in spinoffs like PMD>tons of shilling in gen 4 when he was out including being handed one by a character dressed like a lucario and being one of the signature Pokemon of the main champion>a major selling point of gen 5's BW2 was bringing back Pokemon and Lucario was the mascot of that, with a mascot costume brought onto Pokemon Sunday to replace Zoroark and a whole anime cutscene trailer where the protagonist uses him>tons of shilling in gen 6 including an entire forced sequence where you go through a lucario tower with a lucario statue and are forced to use a lucario who can mega evolve to fight a gym leader's lucario who can mega evolve>even featured on the current Pokemon Go loading screen because they just got Gen 4 and PVP battlingThe only place where Lucario wasn't heavily featured was in Gen 7, but he's still very very much in the public eye of shillmon. Every new generation people call the new shillmon like Greninja the new Lucario rather than the new Charizard or something.
