>>56214346Well put, really. You can't really fit Charizard as a shillmon at first since they didn't know if Red & Green would flop or not. Then years later they went in hard to salvage his popularity when the series started to move on from Kanto. Lucario took all the lessons learned from Blaziken and other non-conventional mons and synthetized it into a cool edgy mon they knew kids would immediately attach to.
