>>46680538Most kids look at Charmander, see he evolves into a fire breathing dragon, and pick it because it looks cool.
The contrarians then label the former as plebs and pick Squirtle to spite them.
The remaining patricians pick Bulbasaur because of how good he is at stomping gyms in his game, or his continued viability in competitive due to having diverse movesets, team roles. and abilities/forms to play with. As a result they are unjustly labeled as "that weird kid" by the others, but when everyone grows up they realize they made the right choice.