>>55152200Grass starters are consistently the shittier ones of each trio, even in great top-tier trios like in Hoenn or Sinnoh they're usually the weaker link. The only possible way a grass starter becomes the absolute best and most popular starter in the generation is making it the most blatant furbait VGCmon possible on all accounts, which is exactly what Meowscarada is.
Cute and marketable design with easy conversion to plushie+Furbait final evolution+Competitive moveset with Libero
It's the most marketable nu-gen pokemon design created to date
