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>people still can't understand the "it doesn't want to" cope was to continue shilling that form as it made far more merch revenue than the evolutions
I mean, they abandoned that shit with Dawn giving her Piplup an everstone and Ash's rowlet swallowing one for Seed Bomb. It's just utterly mental how strongly the marketing impacted kids then (and which explains why it still does what it does today).